This Day In History.

November   21
1995 --  Israel grants jailed US spy Jason Pollard, citizenship

1993 --  Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome

1973 --  Pres Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate

1969 --  US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1965 --  USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1963 --  JFK flies to Texas

1946 --  Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub

1940 --  Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands

1938 --  Nazi forces occupy western Czech & declared them German citizens

1935 --  1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1933 --  1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

1924 --  British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with USSR

1920 --  Mussolinis squad begins terror

1918 --  Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland

1877 --  Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)

1871 --  The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot

1865 --  Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC

1864 --  -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia

1852 --  Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College

1794 --  Honolulu Harbor discovered

1789 --  North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state

1787 --  Andrew Jackson admitted to bar

1654 --  Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia

1620 --  Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod

1620 --  Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

1492 --  Pinta under Martín A Pinzón separates from Columbus' fleet