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Montgolfier brothers' hot air balloon
First aerial voyage with Pilâtre de Rozier and d'Arlandes, Tissandier collection
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge
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| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| World Hello Day; World Television Day; | stubs |
| 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 setion; History of ballooning has multiple issues; Pilâtre de Rozier has no footnotes; d'Arlandes has no references |
| 1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, British Columbia, Canada; the subsequent trial catapulted future Prime Minister of Canada John Diefenbaker into the political limelight. | TFA for 2011 |
| 1962 – The Sino-Indian War ended after the Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew to the prewar Line of Actual Control, returning all the territory they had captured during the conflict. | neutrality disputed |
| 1980 – Over 83 million people watched the Dallas TV episode "Who Done It" to find out "Who shot J. R.?". | Dallas has a too-long section, Who Done It is unreferenced, and Who Shot JR is short |
| 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. | no footnotes |
Eligible
- 1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Ukrainian Christians in Lwów (now Lviv).
- 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.
- 1964 – The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, 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.
- 1985 – US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for espionage after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations.
November 21: 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: The Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians in the city of Lüshunkou.
- 1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia, and Deodoro mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Lash (pictured).
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
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