November 21: What happened on this day in history?
November 21 is a very significant day in world history. So, what important developments took place in Turkey and around the world today? What were the events that went down in history on November 21? Here are the details...
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1783 - In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes performed the first flight in a hot air balloon.
1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state of the USA.
1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte was promoted to the rank of general.
1877 - Edison announced that he had invented the phonograph (sound recording device).
1905 - Albert Einstein's article titled "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", in which he expressed the relationship between energy and mass with the famous equation E=mc2, was published in the journal "Annalen der Physik".
1919 - The liberation of the city of Mardin.
1938 - Atatürk's remains were brought to his temporary resting place at the Ethnography Museum with a ceremony.
1955 - The Baghdad Pact was established with the participation of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Pakistan, and the United Kingdom.
1969 - The first ARPANET link was established between processors at the University of California and SRI.
1980 - A fire at a hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, killed 87 people and left more than 650 injured.
1982 - President Kenan Evren thanked the public in Fatsa, where 95% of the voters cast "YES" votes in the 1982 Turkish constitutional referendum.
1985 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev met in Geneva. The summit resulted in a decision to reduce strategic nuclear weapons by 50 percent.
1990 - The Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE) treaty was signed in Paris.
1996 - A propane explosion at a shoe store and the business center where it was located in San Juan, the capital of Puerto Rico, killed 33 people.
1996 - Thousands of people in Zagreb protested to prevent the closure of the opposition radio station, Radio 101.
2002 - At the NATO summit in Prague, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia were invited to join the alliance.
2002 - In Nigeria, where the Miss World pageant was to be held, about 100 people were killed and around 500 were injured in clashes sparked by an article published in a newspaper about the Prophet Muhammad.
2009 - An explosion at a coal mine in the city of Hegang in China's Heilongjiang province killed 104 people.