November 21 is the 325th day of the year (326th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining until the end of the year. This date is slightly more likely to fall on a Monday, Wednesday or Saturday (58 in 400 years each) than on Thursday or Friday (57), and slightly less likely to occur on a Tuesday or Sunday (56).
NATIONAL STUFFING DAY
NATIONAL STUFFING DAY
1272 — Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
1654 — Richard Johnson, a free black, is granted 550 acres of land in Virginia Colony.
1776 — In what proved a fateful decision on this day in 1776, Continental Commander in Chief General George Washington writes to General Charles Lee in Westchester County, New York, to report the loss of Fort Lee, New Jersey, and to order Lee to bring his forces to New Jersey.
1783 — French physician Jean-François Pilatre de Rozier and François Laurent, the marquis d' Arlandes, make the first untethered hot-air balloon flight, flying 5.5 miles over Paris in about 25 minutes. Their cloth balloon was crafted by French papermaking brothers Jacques-Étienne and Joseph-Michel Montgolfier, inventors of the world's first successful hot-air balloons.
1864 — Legend holds that on this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln composes a letter to Lydia Bixby, a widow and mother of five men who had been killed in the Civil War. A copy of the letter was then published in the Boston Evening Transcript on November 25 and signed "Abraham Lincoln." The original letter has never been found.
1877 — The American inventor Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.
1902 — Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining the Pittsburgh Starsin the first attempt at a founding a National Football League.
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1916 — On this day in 1916, with World War I in full swing, the popular monarch Franz Josef of Austria dies at the age of 86, after reigning for 66 years.
1931 — On November 21, 1931, the University of Southern California surprises Notre Dame with a last-minute game-winning field goal at the new Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. The victory won USC the national championship and was, according to that year’s Trojan yearbook, "the biggest upset since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow knocked over that lantern."
1941 — On this day in 1941, Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production, asks for 30,000 Soviet prisoners of war to use as slave laborers to begin a massive Berlin building program.
1864 — Legend holds that on this day in 1864, President Abraham Lincoln composes a letter to Lydia Bixby, a widow and mother of five men who had been killed in the Civil War. A copy of the letter was then published in the Boston Evening Transcript on November 25 and signed "Abraham Lincoln." The original letter has never been found.
1877 — The American inventor Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a way to record and play back sound.
1902 — Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining the Pittsburgh Starsin the first attempt at a founding a National Football League.
1916 — On this day in 1916, with World War I in full swing, the popular monarch Franz Josef of Austria dies at the age of 86, after reigning for 66 years.
1931 — On November 21, 1931, the University of Southern California surprises Notre Dame with a last-minute game-winning field goal at the new Notre Dame Stadium in South Bend. The victory won USC the national championship and was, according to that year’s Trojan yearbook, "the biggest upset since Mrs. O’Leary’s cow knocked over that lantern."
1941 — On this day in 1941, Albert Speer, Adolf Hitler's chief architect and minister for armaments and war production, asks for 30,000 Soviet prisoners of war to use as slave laborers to begin a massive Berlin building program.
1953 — Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
1964 — The world's longest suspension bridge, the "Verrazano Narrows", opens (NYC).
1967 — Gen. William Westmoreland, commander of U.S. Military Assistance Command Vietnam, tells U.S. news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
1975 — A Senate committee issues a report charging that U.S. government officials were behind assassination plots against two foreign leaders and were heavily involved in at least three other plots. The shocking revelations suggested that the United States was willing to go to murderous levels in pursuing its Cold War policies.
1989 — The law banning smoking on most domestic airline flights signed is by President George H. W. Bush.
2004 — The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
TODAY'S BIRTHS
1694 – Voltaire, French historian, playwright, and philosopher (d. 1778)
1768 – Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (d. 1834)
1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
1948 – George Zimmer, American businessman, founded Men's Wearhouse
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