November 21 - Water

Water

This Day In History

1620

Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.).

1783

In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.

1877

Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

1905

Albert Einstein's paper Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content? is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².

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.

Famous Birthdays

1567

Anne de Xainctonge, French saint (d. 1621)

1643

René-Robert Cavelier de LaSalle French explorer (d. 1687)

1694

Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)

1729

Josiah Bartlett, American signer of the Declaration of Independence (d. 1795)

1787

Samuel Cunard, Canadian-born shipping magnate (d. 1865)

1818

Lewis H. Morgan, American anthropologist (d. 1881)

1852

Francisco Tárrega, father of modern classical guitar (d. 1909)

1898

René Magritte, Belgian surrealist painter (d. 1967)

1902

Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish American author, Nobel laureate (d. 1991)

1924

Christopher Tolkien, British author

1944

Harold Ramis, American actor, director, and writer

1955

Rev. Fr. Peter Noel Lamont, Chief of the Name and Arms of Lamont
1965
Alexander Siddig, British actor