21 November

The **21st o November** is the 325t day o the year (326t in lowp years) in the Gregorian Calendar, wi 40 days bidin.

## Events

* 1783 - The first flicht in the Montgolfier brithers' het-air balloon taks place ower Paris.
* 1789 - North Carolina becomes the 12t state o the Unitit States.
* 1916 - Daith o Emperor Franz Joseph I o Austrick.
* 1916 - Breetish infirmary ship *Britannic* is sunk bi a mine in the Aegean Sea, killin 30 fowk.
* 1918 - The current Banner o Estonie is adoptit.
* 1920 - 31 fowk are kilt on the first "Bloody Sunday", in Dublin, Ireland.
* 1964 - The Verrazzano Narrows Brig in New York opens. 
* 1974 - The Birmingham Pub Bombins kill 21 fowk.
* 2002 - NATO invites Bulgarie, Estonie, Latvie, Lithuanie, Romanie, Slovakie an Slovenie tae become members.
* 2004 - Ukraine's Presidential election atween Viktor Yushchenko an Viktor Yanukovych ends in controversy.
* 2005 - Israeli Prime Meenister Ariel Sharon stairts his aen Kadima Pairty.
* 2009 - A mine splosion in Heilongjiang, Fowkrepublic o Cheenae, kills 108 fowk.
* 2013 - A supermercat collapse in Riga, Latvie, kills 54 fowk.
* 2013 - Euromaidan protests stairt in Ukraine efter Preses Viktor Yanukovych abandons a deal wi the European Union ower closer links tae Roushie.
* 2017 - A bomb attack on a mosque in Mubi, Northeastren Nigerie, kills 50 fowk.
* 2017 - Robert Mugabe propales his demission as Preses o Zimbabwe efter a 37-year combined rule as Prime meenister an Preses o the kintra.

## Births

 
* 1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher, playwricht an historian (d. 1778)
* 1768 - Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher an biblical scholar (d. 1834)
* 1840 - Victoria, Princess Ryal (d. 1901)
* 1849 - Andrew Murray, 1st Viscoont Dunedin, Scots politeecian an juidge (d. 1942)
* 1854 - Pape Benedict XV (d. 1922)
* 1898 - René Magritte, Belgian penter (d. 1967)
* 1902 - Isaac Bashevis Singer, Pols-American writer (d. 1991)
* 1904 - Coleman Hawkins, American saxophonist (d. 1969)
* 1936 - Jackie McInally, Scots fitbawer (d. 2016)
* 1941 - Dr. John, American sangster (d. 2019)
* 1944 - Dick Durbin, American politeecian
* 1944 - Harold Ramis, American actor, director an producer (d. 2014)
* 1945 - Goldie Hawn, American actress
* 1948 - Michel Suleiman, 16t Preses o Lebanon
* 1950 - Tommy Craig, Scots fitbawer
* 1956 - John Holt, Scots fitbawer
* 1965 - Björk, Icelandic sangster, producer an actress
* 1985 - Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian sangster
* 1985 - Jesús Navas, Spaingie fitbawer
* 1989 - Fabian Delph, Inglis fitbawer
* 1992 - Conor Maynard, Inglis sangster

## Daiths
* 1011 - Emperor Reizei o Japan (b. 950)
* 1555 - Georg Agricola, German scientist (b. 1490)
* 1695 - Henry Purcell, Inglis componer (b. 1659)
* 1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German poet an author (b. 1777)
* 1874 - Sir William Jardine, 7t Baronet, Scots naituralist (b. 1800)
* 1916 - Emperor Franz Joseph I o Austrick (b. 1830)
* 1945 - Jimmy Quinn, Scots fitbawer (b. 1878)
* 1970 - C. V. Raman, Indie pheesicist (b. 1888)
* 1975 - Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (b. 1889)
* 1996 - Abdus Salam, Pakistani pheesicist (b. 1926)
* 2005 - Alfred Anderson, Scots Warld War I veteran (b. 1895)

## Halidays
* Airmed Forces Day (Bangladesh, Greece)
* Warld Telly Day
* The **21st o November** is the eat day o the follaein saunts:
:St. Gelasius
:St. Albert o Louvain
:St. Amelberga
:St. Digain
:St. Heliodorus
:St. Hilary
:St. Rufus o Rome
:St. Maurus

## Fremmit airtins
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