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1904 Motorized omnibuses replace horse-drawn cars in Paris.

1906 In San Juan, President Theodore Roosevelt pledges citizenship for Puerto Rican people.

1907 Cunard liner Mauritania sets a new speed record for steamship travel, 624 nautical miles in a one day run.

1911 Suffragettes storm Parliament in London. All are arrested and all choose prison terms.

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

1918 The last German troops leave Alsace-Lorraine, France.

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

1934 A New York court rules Gloria Vanderbilt unfit for custody of her daughter.

1934 Cole Porter's musical Anything Goes premieres at New York's Alvin Theatre.

1949 The United Nations grants Libya its independence by 1952.

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

1970 U.S. planes conduct widespread bombing raids in North Vietnam.

1985 US Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard arrested for spying and passing classified information to Israel; he received a life sentence on Nov. 1, 1987.

1986 The Justice Department begins an inquiry into the National Security Council into what will become known as the Iran-Contra scandal.

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.

2006 Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel assassinated in Beirut.




Born on November 21
1920 Stan "The Man" Musial, Hall of Fame baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals.

Quote of the day
Do not take life too seriously. You will never get out of it alive. Elbert Hubbard