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<p><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/November_21" title="November 21">November 21</a></b>: <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armed_Forces_Day_(Bangladesh)" title="Armed Forces Day (Bangladesh)">Armed Forces Day</a></b> in Bangladesh
</p><ul><li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1386" title="1386">1386</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turco-Mongol_tradition" title="Turco-Mongol tradition">Turco-Mongol</a> conqueror <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timur" title="Timur">Timur</a> <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timurid_invasions_of_Georgia" title="Timurid invasions of Georgia">captured and sacked</a></b> the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kingdom_of_Georgia" title="Kingdom of Georgia">Georgian</a> capital <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tbilisi" title="Tbilisi">Tbilisi</a> and forced King <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bagrat_V_of_Georgia" title="Bagrat V of Georgia">Bagrat V</a> to convert to Islam.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1877" title="1877">1877</a> – <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Edison" title="Thomas Edison">Thomas Edison</a> announced his invention of the <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonograph" title="Phonograph">phonograph</a></b>, a device able to record and play sound.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1950" title="1950">1950</a> – Two trains <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canoe_River_train_crash" title="Canoe River train crash">collided</a></b> near <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valemount" title="Valemount">Valemount</a>, Canada, killing 21 people; the subsequent trial brought future prime minister <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Diefenbaker" title="John Diefenbaker">John Diefenbaker</a> to greater political attention.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1961" title="1961">1961</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/La_Ronde_(restaurant)" title="La Ronde (restaurant)">La Ronde</a></b>, the first <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revolving_restaurant" title="Revolving restaurant">revolving restaurant</a> in the United States, was inaugurated.</li>
<li><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009" title="2009">2009</a> – <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Heilongjiang_mine_explosion" title="2009 Heilongjiang mine explosion">An explosion</a></b> in a coal mine in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heilongjiang" title="Heilongjiang">Heilongjiang</a>, China, killed 108 miners.</li></ul>
<p><b>Births and Deaths: </b><b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_de_Corbeil" title="William de Corbeil">William de Corbeil</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1136); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Folger_Franklin" title="Francis Folger Franklin">Francis Folger Franklin</a></b> (<abbr title="died">d.</abbr> 1736); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mollie_Steimer" title="Mollie Steimer">Mollie Steimer</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1897); <b><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jadunath_Singh" title="Jadunath Singh">Jadunath Singh</a></b> (<abbr title="born">b.</abbr> 1916)</p>
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