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On November 21, -164: Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)

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Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)

Judas Maccabaeus or Maccabeus, also known as Judah Maccabee, was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He was an early leader in the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire, taking over from his father around 166 BCE, and leading the revolt until his death in 160 BCE.

People

Born on November 21

Liz 2004– South Korean singer (born 2004)
Rico Lewis 2004– English footballer (born 2004)
Rizky Ridho 2001– Indonesian footballer (born 2001)
Isabel May 2000– American actress (born 2000)
Matt O'Riley 2000– English-Danish footballer (born 2000)
Jaelin Howell 1999– American soccer player (born 1999)
Ognjen Ilić 1998– Serbian cyclist (born 1998)
Vangelis Pavlidis 1998– Greek footballer (born 1998)
Reo Hatate 1997– Japanese footballer (born 1997)
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Chris Chiozza 1995– American basketball player (born 1995)
Vladislav Gavrikov 1995– Russian ice hockey player (born 1995)
Andreas Johnsson 1994– Swedish ice hockey player (born 1994)
Saúl Ñíguez 1994– Spanish footballer (born 1994)
Wyatt Teller 1994– American football player (born 1994)
Almaz Ayana 1991– Ethiopian long-distance runner (born 1991)
Lewis Dunk 1991– English footballer (born 1991)
Peni Terepo 1991– Tonga international rugby league footballer
Dani King 1990– British cyclist (born 1990)

People

Died on November 21

Alice Brock American artist, author and restaurateur (1941–2024)
Lou Cutell American actor (1930–2021)
Jean-Pierre Schumacher French trappist monk (1924–2021)
David Cassidy American actor and musician (1950–2017)
Hassan Sadpara Pakistani mountaineer, adventurer
Gil Cardinal Canadian filmmaker
Ameen Faheem Pakistani politician
Bob Foster American boxer
Anthony Read English television producer, screenwriter, script editor and author
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Joseph Silverstein American violinist and conductor
John H. Land American soldier and politician (born 1920)
Robert Richardson British Army general (1929–2014)
John Egerton American writer (1935–2013)
Fred Kavli Norwegian-American businessman and philanthropist
Dimitri Mihalas Greek-American astronomer and astrophysicist at Los Alamos National Laboratory
Vern Mikkelsen American basketball player (1928–2013)
Bernard Parmegiani French composer
Tôn Thất Đính South Vietnamese military officer and politician (1926–2013)

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  1. -164 Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event that is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.)

    Jewish priest who led the Maccabean Revolt

    Judas Maccabaeus or Maccabeus, also known as Judah Maccabee, was a Jewish priest (kohen) and a son of the priest Mattathias. He was an early leader in the Maccabean Revolt against the Seleucid Empire, taking over from his father around 166 BCE, and leading the revolt until his death in 160 BCE.

  2. 235 Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope.

    Head of the Catholic Church from 235 to 236

    Pope Anterus was the bishop of Rome from 21 November 235 until his death on 3 January 236.

  3. 1386 Timur of Samarkand captures and sacks the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, taking King Bagrat V of Georgia captive.

    Turco-Mongol conqueror (1320s–1405)

    Timur, also known as Tamerlane, was a Turco-Mongol conqueror, first ruler of the Timurid dynasty, and the founder of the Timurid Empire, which ruled over modern-day Afghanistan, Iran, and Central Asia. He was undefeated in battle and is widely regarded as one of the greatest military leaders and tacticians in history, as well as one of the most brutal and deadly. Timur is also considered a great patron of the arts, for he interacted with scholars and poets such as ibn Khaldun, Hafez, and Hafiz-i Abru.

  4. 1620 Plymouth Colony settlers sign the Mayflower Compact (November 11, O.S.)

    English colonial venture in America (1620–1691)

    Plymouth Colony was the first permanent English colony in New England, founded in 1620, and the third permanent English colony in America, after Newfoundland and the Jamestown Colony. It was settled by the passengers on the Mayflower at a location that had previously been surveyed and named by Captain John Smith. The settlement served as the capital of the colony and developed as the town of Plymouth, Massachusetts.

  5. 1676 The Danish astronomer Ole Rømer presents the first quantitative measurements of the speed of light.

    Scientist in the field of astronomy

    An astronomer is a scientist in the field of astronomy who focuses on a specific question or field outside the scope of Earth. Astronomers study astronomical objects, such as stars, planets, moons, comets and galaxies, by some combination of observation and the application of astrophysical models. Examples of topics or fields astronomers study include planetary science, solar astronomy, the origin or evolution of stars, or the formation of galaxies.

  6. 1783 In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent d'Arlandes make the first untethered hot air balloon flight.
  7. 1789 North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state.
  8. 1851 Mutineers take control of the Chilean penal colony of Punta Arenas in the Strait of Magellan.
  9. 1861 American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin Secretary of War.
  10. 1877 Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
  11. 1894 Port Arthur, China, falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War; Japanese troops are accused of massacring the remaining inhabitants.
  12. 1900 Claude Monet's paintings shown at Gallery Durand-Ruel in Paris.
  13. 1902 The Philadelphia Football Athletics defeat the Kanaweola Athletic Club of Elmira, New York, 39–0, in the first-ever professional American football night game.
  14. 1905 Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
  15. 1910 Sailors on board Brazil's warships including the Minas Gerais, São Paulo, and Bahia, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
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  1. 1916 World War I: Mines from SM U-73 sink HMHS Britannic, the largest ship lost in the war.
  2. 1918 The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
  3. 1918 The Parliament (Qualification of Women) Act 1918 is passed, allowing women to stand for Parliament in the UK.
  4. 1918 A pogrom takes place in Lwów (now Lviv); over three days, at least 50 Jews and 270 Ukrainian Christians are killed by Poles.
  5. 1920 Irish War of Independence: On "Bloody Sunday" in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army (IRA) assassinated a group of British Intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
  6. 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator.
  7. 1927 Columbine Mine massacre: Striking coal miners are allegedly attacked with machine guns by a detachment of Colorado state police dressed in civilian clothes.
  8. 1942 The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (however, the highway is not usable by standard road vehicles until 1943).
  9. 1944 World War II: American submarine USS Sealion sinks the Japanese battleship Kongō and Japanese destroyer Urakaze in the Formosa Strait.
  10. 1945 The United Auto Workers strike 92 General Motors plants in 50 cities to back up worker demands for a 30-percent raise.
  11. 1950 Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
  12. 1953 The Natural History Museum, London announces that the "Piltdown Man" skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized hominid skulls ever found, is a hoax.
  13. 1954 People's Action Party, an eventual dominative political party in Singapore, was established.
  14. 1959 American disc jockey Alan Freed, who had popularized the term "rock and roll" and music of that style, is fired from WABC radio over allegations he had participated in the payola scandal.
  15. 1961 "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving restaurant in the United States.

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