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November 21
1783 - With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilatre de Rozier made the first free flight in a balloon, reaching a peak altitude of about 3,000 feet and traveling about 5 1/2 miles in 20 minutes.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state.
1877 - Inventor Thomas Edison unveiled the phonograph.
1920 - The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
1922 - Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Senator (though she only served for one day.)
1927 - Picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
1969 - For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth.
1973 - President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and was given a life sentence; he was released on parole in 2015.)
1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1990 - Junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six felony counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to ten years in prison. (Milken served two.)
1991 - Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen as the next secretary-general of the United Nations.
1992 - A three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.; 26 people were killed.
1995 - The presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that lever more than 250,000 dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II.
1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2001 - A 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of inhalation anthrax, the last of five people killed in the anthrax attacks.
2002 - NATO invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2005 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the hardline Likud with the intention of forming a new party.
2007 - Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
2009 - The Senate voted 60-39 to open debate on health care legislation.
2009 - The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, reported that hackers had broken into a server at its Climatic Research Unit. (The hackers posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online, stoking debate on whether some scientists had overstated the case for man-made climate change.)
2009 - The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance was auctioned off for $350,000 (plus $70,000 in taxes and fees) at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York’s Times Square.
2010 - Debt-struck Ireland applied for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks.
2014 - After a three-day onslaught that dumped a historic 7 feet of snow on the Buffalo, New York, area and killed at least 12 people, the sun came out, but so did predictions of flooding caused by rain, temperatures up to 60 degrees and blocked catch basins.
2018 - President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts publicly clashed over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts rebuking the president for denouncing a judge hearing a migrant asylum challenge as an “Obama judge.”
Birthdays
27 - Megan Mace (singer)
32 - Sam Palladio (actor/singer)
34 - Carly Rae Jepsen (singer)
35 - Jena Malone (actress)
35 - Lindsey Haun (actress/singer)
36 - Brie Bella (professional wrestler)
36 - Nikki Bella (professional wrestler)
36 - Cameran Eubanks (reality star)
44 - Jimi Simpson (actor)
45 - Kelsi Osborn (country singer)
46 - Marina de Tavira (actress)
47 - Rain Phoenix (actress)
48 - Michael Strahan (football player/TV host)
50 - Ken Griffey Jr. (baseball player)
53 - Troy Aikman (football player/sportscaster)
54 - Bjork (singer/actress)
56 - Nicollette Sheridan (actress)
63 - Cherry Jones (actress)
67 - Lorna Luft (actress/singer)
74 - Goldie Hawn (actress)
75 - Earl Monroe (basketball player)
78 - Juliet Mills (actress)
80 - Rick Lenz (actor)
82 - Marlo Thomas (actress)
85 - Laurence Luckinbill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 21
1925 - Red Grange plays in his final game at the University of Illinois and then signs with the Chicago Bears.
1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1959 - Major League Baseball lifted its ban on inter-league trades.
1964 - The Detroit Red Wings began a streak of 47 straight wins when leading after two periods.
1971 - The New York Rangers score an NHL record eight goals in one period.
1982 - The NFL resumed its season following a 57-day players' strike.
2004 - The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game against the Detroit Pistons.
1783 - With the Marquis d'Arlandes, Pilatre de Rozier made the first free flight in a balloon, reaching a peak altitude of about 3,000 feet and traveling about 5 1/2 miles in 20 minutes.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state.
1877 - Inventor Thomas Edison unveiled the phonograph.
1920 - The Irish Republican Army killed 12 British intelligence officers and two auxiliary policemen in the Dublin area; British forces responded by raiding a soccer match, killing 14 civilians.
1922 - Georgia's Rebecca Felton was sworn into the U.S. Senate, becoming the first female U.S. Senator (though she only served for one day.)
1927 - Picketing strikers at the Columbine Mine in northern Colorado were fired on by state police; six miners were killed.
1967 - President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Air Quality Act.
1969 - For the first time since 1930, the U.S. Senate rejected a Supreme Court nominee, Clement Haynsworth.
1973 - President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and was given a life sentence; he was released on parole in 2015.)
1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
1990 - Junk-bond financier Michael R. Milken, who had pleaded guilty to six felony counts, was sentenced by a federal judge in New York to ten years in prison. (Milken served two.)
1991 - Egypt's Boutros Boutros-Ghali was chosen as the next secretary-general of the United Nations.
1992 - A three-day tornado outbreak that struck 13 states began in the Houston area before spreading to the Midwest and eastern U.S.; 26 people were killed.
1995 - The presidents of three rival Balkan states agreed to make peace in Bosnia, ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that lever more than 250,000 dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II.
1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.
2000 - The Florida Supreme Court granted Democrat Al Gore's request to keep the presidential election recount going.
2001 - A 94-year-old Connecticut woman died of inhalation anthrax, the last of five people killed in the anthrax attacks.
2002 - NATO invited seven former communist countries to join the alliance: Slovenia, Slovakia, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania and Bulgaria.
2005 - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon broke away from the hardline Likud with the intention of forming a new party.
2007 - Officials announced the recall of more than a half-million pieces of Chinese-made children's jewelry contaminated with lead.
2009 - The Senate voted 60-39 to open debate on health care legislation.
2009 - The University of East Anglia, in eastern England, reported that hackers had broken into a server at its Climatic Research Unit. (The hackers posted hundreds of private e-mails and documents online, stoking debate on whether some scientists had overstated the case for man-made climate change.)
2009 - The shimmering, white glove Michael Jackson wore when he premiered his trademark moonwalk dance was auctioned off for $350,000 (plus $70,000 in taxes and fees) at the Hard Rock Cafe in New York’s Times Square.
2010 - Debt-struck Ireland applied for a massive EU-IMF loan to stem the flight of capital from its banks.
2014 - After a three-day onslaught that dumped a historic 7 feet of snow on the Buffalo, New York, area and killed at least 12 people, the sun came out, but so did predictions of flooding caused by rain, temperatures up to 60 degrees and blocked catch basins.
2018 - President Donald Trump and Chief Justice John Roberts publicly clashed over the independence of America’s judiciary, with Roberts rebuking the president for denouncing a judge hearing a migrant asylum challenge as an “Obama judge.”
Birthdays
27 - Megan Mace (singer)
32 - Sam Palladio (actor/singer)
34 - Carly Rae Jepsen (singer)
35 - Jena Malone (actress)
35 - Lindsey Haun (actress/singer)
36 - Brie Bella (professional wrestler)
36 - Nikki Bella (professional wrestler)
36 - Cameran Eubanks (reality star)
44 - Jimi Simpson (actor)
45 - Kelsi Osborn (country singer)
46 - Marina de Tavira (actress)
47 - Rain Phoenix (actress)
48 - Michael Strahan (football player/TV host)
50 - Ken Griffey Jr. (baseball player)
53 - Troy Aikman (football player/sportscaster)
54 - Bjork (singer/actress)
56 - Nicollette Sheridan (actress)
63 - Cherry Jones (actress)
67 - Lorna Luft (actress/singer)
74 - Goldie Hawn (actress)
75 - Earl Monroe (basketball player)
78 - Juliet Mills (actress)
80 - Rick Lenz (actor)
82 - Marlo Thomas (actress)
85 - Laurence Luckinbill (actor)
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Today in Sports History - November 21
1925 - Red Grange plays in his final game at the University of Illinois and then signs with the Chicago Bears.
1934 - The New York Yankees purchased the contract of Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco of the Pacific Coast League.
1959 - Major League Baseball lifted its ban on inter-league trades.
1964 - The Detroit Red Wings began a streak of 47 straight wins when leading after two periods.
1971 - The New York Rangers score an NHL record eight goals in one period.
1982 - The NFL resumed its season following a 57-day players' strike.
2004 - The NBA suspended Indiana's Ron Artest for the rest of the season following a brawl in the stands during a game against the Detroit Pistons.