132151 | November 21 | Event | 1927 – Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of state police dressed in civilian clothes. |
132152 | November 21 | Event | 1942 – The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by general vehicles until 1943). |
132153 | November 21 | Event | 1945 – The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise. |
132154 | November 21 | Event | 1950 – Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea. |
132155 | November 21 | Event | 1953 – The British Natural History Museum announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax. |
132156 | November 21 | Event | 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC-AM radio for refusing to deny allegations that he had participated in the payola scandal. |
132157 | November 21 | Event | 1962 – The Chinese People's Liberation Army declares a unilateral ceasefire in the Sino-Indian War. |
132158 | November 21 | Event | 1964 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. (At the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge.) |
132159 | November 21 | Event | 1964 – Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. |
132160 | November 21 | Event | 1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing." |
132161 | November 21 | Event | 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Satō agree in Washington, D.C., on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under the terms of the agreement, the U.S. is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are |
132162 | November 21 | Event | 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI. |
132163 | November 21 | Event | 1970 – Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast: A joint United States Air Force and Army team raids the Sơn Tây prisoner-of-war camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there. |
132164 | November 21 | Event | 1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur. |
132165 | November 21 | Event | 1972 – Voters in South Korea overwhelmingly approve a new constitution, giving legitimacy to Park Chung-hee and the Fourth Republic. |
132166 | November 21 | Event | 1974 – The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted. |
132167 | November 21 | Event | 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 "God Defend New Zealand", by Thomas Bracken (lyrics) and John Joseph Woods (music), both being of |
132168 | November 21 | Event | 1979 – The United States Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan, is attacked by a mob and set on fire, killing four. |
132169 | November 21 | Event | 1980 – A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally's Las Vegas). Eighty-seven people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history. |
132170 | November 21 | Event | 1983 – US military campaign in Granada ends. |
132171 | November 21 | Event | 1985 – United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison. |
132172 | November 21 | Event | 1986 – Iran–Contra affair: National Security Council member Oliver North and his secretary start to shred documents allegedly implicating them in the sale of weapons to Iran and channeling the proceeds to help fund the Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
132173 | November 21 | Event | 1992 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes before ending on the 23rd. |
132174 | November 21 | Event | 1995 – The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The agreement is formally ratified in Paris, on December 14 that same year. |
132175 | November 21 | Event | 1996 – Humberto Vidal explosion: Thirty-three people die when a Humberto Vidal shoe shop explodes. |
132176 | November 21 | Event | 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members. |
132177 | November 21 | Event | 2004 – The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, giving rise to massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity. |
132178 | November 21 | Event | 2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island sustains the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed. |
132179 | November 21 | Event | 2004 – The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt. |
132180 | November 21 | Event | 2006 – Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut. |