What happend on 21st November

20.11
22.11
1974

The Birmingham Pub Bombings by the IRA killed 21 people. The Birmingham Six were sentenced to life in prison for this and subsequently acquitted.

1970

Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast

1969

US President Richard Nixon and Japanese Premier Eisaku Sato agree in Washington, DC on the return of Okinawa to Japanese control in 1972. Under terms of the agreement, the US is to retain its rights to bases on the island, but these are to be nuclear-free.

1969

The first ARPANET link is established.

1967

Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."

1964

Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes.

1964

The Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge).

1962

The Chinese People's Liberation Army declared a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.

1953

Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce that the skull of the "Piltdown Man", held to be one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, was a hoax.

1942

The completion of the Alaska Highway (also known as the Alcan Highway) is celebrated (the highway was not usable by general vehicles until 1943, however).