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Today in History: November 21

164 BC
During the Maccabean Revolt Judas Maccabeus recaptures Jerusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah

1789
North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state

1794
Honolulu Harbor discovered

1818
Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1855 Franklin Colman, a pro-slavery Missourian, guns down Charles Dow, a Free Stater from Ohio, near Lawrence, Kansas.

1917 German ace Rudolf von Eschwege is killed over Macedonia when he attacks a booby-trapped observation balloon packed with explosives.

1927 Police turn machine guns on striking Colorado mine workers, killing five and wounding 20.

1967 President Lyndon B. Johnson signs the air quality act, allotting $428 million for the fight against pollution.

1995 The Dayton Peace Agreement is initialed at Wright Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio; the agreement, formally ratified in Paris on Dec. 14, ends the three-and-a-half year war between Bosnia and Herzegovina.

2022
China reports new COVID-19 outbreaks, with 28,127 new cases, with half in Guangzhou and the municipality of Chongqing and public venues closed in Beijing and Shanghai

Born on November 21

1920 Stan "The Man" Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals.

1945 Goldie Hawn, actress, director, producer; gained public attention as part of Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In TV series in the 1960s; won Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Cactus Flower (1969).

1948 George Zimmer, businessman; founded Men's Wearhouse.

JOTD
A blind man went to a restaurant.

menu sir? asked the owner. I'm blind, just bring me one of your dirty forks, I will smell it and order. The confused owner went to the kitchen to retrieve a fork, and returned to the blind man. The blind man smelled the fork with a deep breath, yes I will have the lamb with seasoned potatoes and spring vegetables. Unbelievable, thought the owner. The blind man ate and left. Two weeks later the blind man returned. The owner, wanting to know how good his smell is, quickly went to the kitchen where his wife Brenda was cooking and said, do me a favor and rub this fork over your private part which she did. He then goes to the blind man and gives him the fork. The blind man takes it and puts it to his nose and says, oh interesting! I never knew Brenda works here!