11-21-2004, 03:57 AM
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November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer.
1783 ~ In Paris, Jean Rozier and François Laurent made the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 100m, distance: 9 km).
1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate.
1877 ~ Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound.
1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established.
1974 ~ The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people.
1985 ~ United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested for spying (he was caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison).
1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
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