November 21 is:
National Adoption Day
World Television Day
164 BC – Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restored the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
Birthday of Jean Francois Marie Arouet (Voltaire), (November 21, 1694) French Enlightenment author, historian and philosopher. Author of “Candide”. Known for his wit and attacks on the established Church. He was a key figure in the European intellectual movement known as the Enlightenment.
North Carolina became the twelfth state in 1789:
- Capital: Raleigh
- Nickname: Tar Heel State
- Bird: Cardinal
- Flower: Flowering dogwood
- Tree:Pine
- Motto: To be rather than to seem
The State of North Carolina has 42 official state emblems including the state insect (European honey bee), gemstone (emerald), beverage (milk), dog (Plott hound) , vegetable (sweet potato), fruit (Scuppernong grape), folk dance (clogging), and sport (Nascar).
See our page North Carolina for more interesting facts and trivia about North Carolina.
In 1922, Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia took the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
Former First Lady Florence Harding died of renal failure on November 21, 1924, at Marion, Ohio, U.S., wife of President Warren G. Harding.
1942 – Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuted in “Tale of Two Kitties”
On Nov. 21, 1995, the Presidents of three rival Balkan states (Yugoslavia, Bosnia-Herzegovina and Croatia) agreed to make peace in Bosnia, (the Dayton Agreement) ending nearly four years of terror and ethnic bloodletting that left a quarter of a million people dead in the worst war in Europe since World War II.