The November 21st is the 325e Jour of the Année (326e in the event of Leap year) of the Gregorian Calendrier. There remain 40 days before the end of the year.
Events
1 to 1900
XXe century
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1913 :
- Twenty-two manuscripts of Leon Tolstoï are destroyed on order of the justice of Saint-Pétersbourg.
- In Sainte-Marie, in Beauce, fire destroys more than one hundred fifty houses.
- 1916 :
- With Schönbrunn: François-Joseph, emperor of Austria and king of Hungary, dies in quatre-vingt-six years. It reigned on Danubian monarchy since 1848.
- the ship hospital HMHS Britannic, a twin of the Titanic, runs up against an underwater mine in Aegean Sea: 33 people perish in the shipwreck.
- 1918 : With Brussels, returned triumphal of Albert Ier in his country.
- 1920: In Ireland, the WILL GO keep silent fourteen British agents. This day of violence bears the name of Bloody Sunday.
- 1933 : Newfoundland becomes colony of the British Crown .
- 1935 : In Soviet Union, a large press campaign makes known in the world dazzled the “heroic facts” of a minor of the basin of Donets: Alexeï Stakhanov managed to extract, the six hours space, 102 then 227 tons of coal of the same seam, the work of an average minor being five times less. This “exploit” was made possible by the new organization - taylorist - work. It opens the way with performances stimulated by a reward system. But the October 15th 1988, the Komsomolskaya Pravda reveals that the “hero” had been made help by two comrades.
- 1938 : The Germany appendix the Czechoslovakian territory of the Sudètes.
- 1956 : The General meeting of the United Nations condemns the Soviet intervention in Hungary.
- 1958 : The general de Gaulle is elected president of the French Republic.
- 1962 : The China accepts a Cessez-le-feu on the border sino-Indian.
- 1963 : The Concile Vatican II authorizes the local language in the catholic Liturgie, in the place of the Latin .
- 1967 : Violent student's riots in Egypt.
- 1974 : Bombs of the WILL GO make blackjacks died in two pubs of Birmingham.
- 1975 : The governments of Hanoï and Saigon agree to amalgamate quickly to ensure the unification of the Vietnam.
- 1976 : The Syrian army completes the first phase of its occupation of the Lebanon.
- 1977 : A Cyclone makes 3.000 dead in the South-east of the India, where whole villages are swept by a tidal wave.
- 1979 : Two weeks after that of Iran, the embassy of the the United States in Pakistan east taken by Moslem militants.
- 1983 : General strike in Bolivia following the advertisement of economic austerity measures.
- 1991 :
- the Egyptian Deputy Prime Minister Boutros Boutros-Ghali is elected by the Safety advice of UNO at the position of secretary general of the United Nations.
- Gerard d' Aboville supplements the first crossing with the oar of the Pacifique, that is to say 10.135 km in 134 days, between the Japan and the State of Washington.
- 1995 : The presidents Serb, Croatian and Bosnian initial with Dayton (the United States) the peace agreement concluded for Bosnia-Herzégovine at the conclusion three weeks from talks.
- 2000 : With Barcelona, the former minister for Health Ernest Lluch is killed by gunners of the ETA.
XXIe century
Births
- 1694 : François Marie Arouet known as Voltaire, writer, philosopher and academician French. († May 30th 1778)
- 1804: Benjamin Disraeli, statesman and British Prime Minister
- 1840: Victoria Adelaide, royal princess, girl of the Queen Victoria
- 1852: Francisco Tárrega, Spanish guitarist
- 1854: Giacomo della Chiesa, future pope Benoit XV († January 22nd 1922)
- 1898: Rene Magritte, Belgian painter
- 1924: Christopher Tolkien, editor of part of works of his/her father J.R.R. Tolkien
- 1933: Henry W. Hartsfield, Jr, American astronaut
- 1941: John Hough, British realizer
- 1943: Jacques Laffite, racing driver
- 1945: Goldie Hawn, American actress
- 1948: Daniel Guichard, singer French
- 1963: Nicollette Sheridan, American actress
- 1965: Björk, singer and Icelandic actress
- 1973: Ines Sastre, French actress .
Death
Celebrations
- Christian Festival of the Presentation of the Virgin to the Temple
- Festival of Christ King (Catholic church)
- international Day of the Television
Catholic and orthodoxe saints of the day
See too
Beats-smg: Lapkristė 21
Be-X-old: 21 лістапада
Fiu-vro: 21. märtekuu päiv
Nds-nl: 21 november
Simple: November 21
Zh-yue: 11 月 21 號