NOVEMBER 21 IN HISTORY

EVENTS ON 21st NOVEMBER IN HISTORY

• 1789 – North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
• 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
• 1918 – Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
• 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
• 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.
• 1964 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge opens to traffic. (At the time it is the world's longest suspension bridge.)
• 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
• 1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
• 1989 - TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
• 1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific..
• 1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.
• 2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
• 2004 - The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.