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Historical Events
on November 21st
- Lead Story
- Millions tune in to find out who shot J.R.,1980
- American Revolution
- Washington orders General Lee to New Jersey,1776
- Automotive
- Holland Tunnel appears on the cover of Time,1927
- Civil War
- Judah Benjamin becomes Confederate secretary of war,1861
- Cold War
- Congressional report charges U.S. involvement in assassination plots,1975
- Crime
- Oliver North starts feeding documents into the shredding machine,1986
- Disaster
- Britannic sinks in Aegean Sea,1916
- General Interest
- Men fly over Paris,1783
- Edison's first great invention,1877
- Israeli spy arrested in United States,1985
- Hollywood
- Rocky premieres,1976
- Literary
- Voltaire's birthday,1694
- Music
- Ella Fitzgerald wins Amateur Night at Harlem's Apollo Theater,1934
- Old West
- Tom Horn is born in Missouri,1860
- Presidential
- Lincoln allegedly writes to mother of Civil War casualties,1864
- Sports
- USC ends Notre Dame winning streak,1931
- Vietnam War
- Westmoreland tells media the communists are losing,1967
- U.S. force raids Son Tay prison camp,1970
- World War I
- Emperor Franz Josef of Austria dies,1916
- World War II
- Nazi chief architect requests POWs to labor for a new Berlin,1941
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