Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 21
This is a list of selected November 21 anniversaries that appear in the "On this day" section of the Main Page. To suggest a new item, in most cases, you can be bold and edit this page. Please read the selected anniversaries guidelines before making your edit. However, if your addition might be controversial or on a day that is or will soon be on the Main Page, please post your suggestion on the talk page instead.
Please note that the events listed on the Main Page are chosen based more on relative article quality and to maintain a mix of topics, not based solely on how important or significant their subjects are. Only four to five events are posted at a time and thus not everything that is "most important and significant" can be listed. In addition, an event is generally not posted this year if it is also the subject of the scheduled featured article, featured list or picture of the day.
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Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon -
First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes, Tissandier collection -
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Pierre Amine Gemayel -
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| World Television Day | stub |
| 1783 – The first successful untethered flight by humans in a hot air balloon was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes in Paris. | Hot air balloon has unreferenced section; History of ballooning has multiple issues; Pilâtre de Rozier has no footnotes; d'Arlandes has no references |
Eligible
- 1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Ukrainian Christians in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine).
- 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia, Canada; the subsequent trial catapulted future Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker into the political limelight.
- 1962 – The Sino-Indian War ended after the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a ceasefire and simultaneously announced its withdrawal from the disputed area.
- 1964 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge (pictured), connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 1970 – Vietnam War: American forces began Operation Ivory Coast, raiding the Son Tay prison camp in Son Tay, North Vietnam, in an attempt to rescue about 70 American POWs that were thought to be held in there.
- 1974 – Explosives placed in two central pubs in Birmingham, England, killed 21 people and injured 182 others, and eventually led to the arrest and imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
- 1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store in Río Piedras, San Juan, Puerto Rico, killed 33 people and wounded 69 others when the building collapsed.
- 2006 – Lebanese politician Pierre Amine Gemayel, a vocal critic of Syria's military presence in and political domination of Lebanon, was assassinated in Jdeideh.
November 21: World Hello Day; Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army killed more than a dozen members of the "Cairo Gang", and the Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire during a Gaelic football match in Croke Park.
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" (audio featured) became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.