Page 2: Historical Events In November - 21

1783  A Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d'Arlandes, 500ft above Paris on November - 21.   

1783  On this day in history pilstre de Rozier &Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight   

1783  Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight on November - 21.   

1785  On November - 21 william Beaumont, surgeon (studied digestion)   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to the bar   

1787  On November - 21 andrew Jackson admitted to bar   

1787  Samuel Cunard, founder (1st regular Atlantic steamship line) on November - 21.   

1789  On November - 21 north Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state   

1791  On November - 21 colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.   

1794  On this day in history honolulu Harbor discovered   

1806  On this day in history decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England   

1811  Heinrich W von Kleist, German playwright, dies at 34 on this day in history.   

1813  On this day in history stettin surrenders to allied armies   

1813  William Russell, composer, dies at 36 on this day in history.   

1817  Richard Brooke Garnett, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1863 on November - 21.   

1817  On this day in history richard B Garnett, killed during Pickett's Charge, Brig Gen   

1818  Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine on this day in history.   

1824  On November - 21 jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC   

1824  1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC on November - 21.   

1828  On November - 21 william McComb, Brig General (Confederate Army), died in 1918   

1829  Peter A de Genestet, Dutch vicar/poet on November - 21.   

1831  John Franklin Miller, Bvt Mjr Gen (Union volunteers), died in 1886 on this day in history.   

1834  On November - 21 hMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile   

1834  On this day in history henrietta (Hetty) Green, financier (Witch of Wall Street)   

1837  Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times on this day in history.   

1840  On this day in history victoria, Empress of Germany/Queen of Prussia   

1847  Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200 on this day in history.   

1848  Cincinatti Turngemeinde founded on this day in history.   

1848  On this day in history alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris   

1849  On November - 21 friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna   

1851  On November - 21 desire J Mercier, Belgian philosopher/cardinal   

1852  On November - 21 duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College   

1852  On November - 21 francisco Tarrega y Eixea, composer   

1853  On this day in history hussain Kamil, sultan of Egypt (1914-17)   

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1495  John Bale, England, bishop/anti-catholic playwright (Kynge Johan) was born on this day in history.   

1561  On November - 21 birth of carolus Scribani, Italian/Flemish jesuit/author   

1567  Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621) was born on November - 21.   

1637  On November - 21 birth of catharina Questiers, Dutch poetess (Friend of Abandoned Child)   

1645  Johann Lohner, composer was born on November - 21.   

1683  On November - 21 birth of johann Michael Muller, composer   

1692  Carlo Fragoni, Italy, poet was born on this day in history.   

1694  Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (. 1778) was born on this day in history.   

0496  On November - 21 death of pope Gelasius I   

1361  On November - 21 death of philip I, Duke of Burgundy (plague) (b. 1346)   

1481  On this day in history ikkyu Sojun, Zen head of Daitokuji temple, dies in Kyoto, Japan at 87   

1555  On November - 21 georg Agricola, [Bauer], German mineralogist (zinc), dies at 61   

1566  On November - 21 death of annibale Caro, Italian poet (b. 1507)   

1579  On this day in history death of thomas Gresham, English merchant and financier   

1580  On this day in history death of willem Van Hoorn, baron of Heze, governor of Brussels, executed   

1610  On November - 21 benedict van Canfield, [William Fish], English missionary, dies