Talk:November 21

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November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh

La Ronde in 1973

1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital Tbilisi and forced King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
1877 – Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a device able to record and play sound.
1950 – Two trains collided near Valemount, Canada, killing 21 people; the subsequent trial brought future prime minister John Diefenbaker to greater political attention.
1961 – La Ronde (pictured), the first revolving restaurant in the United States, was inaugurated.
2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.

William de Corbeil (d. 1136)
Francis Folger Franklin (d. 1736)
Mollie Steimer (b. 1897)
Jadunath Singh (b. 1916)

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Goldie Hawn[edit]

Goldie Hawn is sometimes reported as born in 1945 and sometimes in 1946 ! Both in famous and serious sources. If someone could get this information from the source, it would be nice...

Removed[edit]

1990 - The Super Famicom is released in Japan.
1992 - Sonic the Hedgehog 2 is released for the Mega Drive in Japan
1994 - Donkey Kong Country is released for the Super Nintendo in the United States

Trivial. --mav 02:21, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

1794 - Honolulu Harbor discovered.

Could not be confirmed outside of 'this day in history'-type websites (very bad source). --mav 02:21, 21 Nov 2003 (UTC)

Moved[edit]

1620 - The Mayflower reaches Cape Cod.

Nope - it was November 11 since the Julian calendar was being used at that time.

ARPANET link[edit]

Although this page states the first link as going live on November 21st, the Arpanet page states "The first ARPANET link was established on 29 October 1969, between the IMP at UCLA and the IMP at SRI.". Someone is wrong! --AlisonW 10:20, 21 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

the rooftop collapse[edit]

It happens to be engrish at it's best Leebo13 (talk) 23:12, 20 November 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Zimbabwe[edit]

I thought I should add the section about Robert Mugabe’s resignation as Zimbabwe’s president, as soon as possible.

Although I can appreciate it might have waited until things calmed down a little, I felt getting it onto the page would be a good thing.

Cuddy2977 (talk) 19:21, 21 November 2017 (UTC)[reply]

Removing "1676 – The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light."[edit]

Can't find a source for this. --189.217.85.41 (talk) 15:13, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

You did not look for it, apparently daily.jstor.org. Kleuske (talk) 15:16, 17 November 2022 (UTC)[reply]

Add the Zolitūde Shopping Centre Collapse[edit]

I thought that it should be added because it happened on the 21st of November Raivo RJ (talk) 18:39, 26 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]

@Raivo RJ - Is there a wiki article specifically about this event, and do you have a citation for it, as per WP:DOYCITE? If yes to both questions, then feel free to add it. Kiwipete (talk) 04:33, 27 January 2023 (UTC)[reply]