About November 21
November 21, 2024 is the 326th day of the year 2024 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining until the end of this year. The day of the week is Thursday.
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Scorpio is the sun sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.
According to the lunisolar Chinese calendar, there are 69 days remaining before the start of the next Chinese New Year.
What Happened On November 21
- 164 BC –Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
- 1620 –Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).
- 1861 –American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
- 1894 –Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
- 1916 –World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.
- 1920 –Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as “Bloody Sunday”. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
- 1950 –Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
- 1962 –The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
- 1969 –The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
- 1970 –Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast – A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
- 1972 –Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic.
- 1974 –The Birmingham Pub Bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.
- 1977 –Minister of Internal Affairs Allan Highet announces that 'the national anthems of New Zealand shall be the traditional anthem “God Save the Queen” and the poem “God Defend New Zealand”, written by Thomas Bracken, as set to music by John Joseph Woods, both being of equal status as national anthems appropriate to the occasion.
- 1980 –A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.
- 1986 –Iran-Contra Affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua.
- 1996 –Antonio Salinass in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
- 2004 –The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq’s external debt.
- 2004 –The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
- 2004 –The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election’s integrity.
- 2009 –A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 108.
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