21 November in history

5 events that happened on 21 November, from 1620 to 1995.

  1. ✦ Anniversary of the day

    1620 CE 406 years ago

    Mayflower passengers sign the Mayflower Compact

    Anchored off Cape Cod, 41 male passengers of the Mayflower signed a compact binding themselves into a 'civil body politic'. The agreement became an early landmark of self-government by consent in English America.

  2. 1783 CE 243 years ago

    Two Frenchmen make the first free flight in a balloon

    Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes rose from the Bois de Boulogne in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon and drifted about 9 kilometres across Paris in 25 minutes, the first untethered human flight.

    Paris

  3. 1877 CE 149 years ago

    Edison announces his phonograph

    Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that recorded sound on tinfoil and played it back. It was the first device able to reproduce the human voice.

  4. 1920 CE 106 years ago

    Bloody Sunday in Dublin

    Michael Collins's IRA squad killed 14 men, mostly British intelligence officers, in Dublin that morning. In the afternoon, Crown forces fired on the crowd at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, killing 14 civilians.

  5. 1995 CE 31 years ago

    The Dayton Agreement is initialled, ending the Bosnian War

    After three weeks of talks at an air base in Ohio, the leaders of Bosnia, Croatia and Serbia initialled a peace agreement. The war had killed about 100,000 people, including some 8,000 at Srebrenica.

    Serbia

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