✱ Things that happened on November 21 ✱

November 21 is International Television Day.

• 1694 ▸ The majestic writer and philosopher Voltaire was born.
• 1694 ▸ Death of the British composer Purcell.
• 1782 ▸ The "Black Code" is adopted by Switzerland. This edict re-establishes the aristocracy, strengthens security and restricts freedom of the press.
• 1783 ▸ First trip in a hot air balloon
• 1806 ▸ By a decree signed in Berlin, Napoleon I organized the "Continental Blockade" against England.
• 1831 ▸ Revolt of the "Canuts" in Lyon. (Canuts= silk workers working on weaving machines)
• 1916 ▸ Death of the Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary François-Joseph 1st.
• The Britannic, the largest liner ever built until that time, sank in the Aegean Sea after striking a mine.
• 1922 ▸ Maria Casarès's birthday, actress.
• 1935 ▸ Alexeis Grigoryevich Stakhanov is named "Hero of the work of the USSR". Having extracted 227 tons of coal in 6 hours, this miner will serve as an example for Soviet propaganda. But we'll find out later on that his records were false.
• 1974 ▸ In England, two IRA attentats attacks on two pubs in Birmingham killed 21 people.
• 1985 ▸ Death of writer Henri Vincenot.
• 1988 ▸ The body of the actress Pauline Lafont, disappeared on August 11, is found.
• 1995 ▸ Peace agreement on Bosnia signed in Dayton.
• 2004 ▸ The "Orange Revolution" in Kiev, Ukraine, the rigged election of pro-Russian candidate Viktor Yanukovych as President of the Republic throws the opposition into the street.
• 2006 ▸ The assassination of Lebanese industry minister Pierre Amine Gemayel, son of former president of the Republic Amine Gemayel.
• 2017 ▸ At the age of 93, in order to avoid his dismissal, Robert Mugabe was forced to resign as President of the Republic of Zimbabwe, a post he held from 1987 to 2017.
• 2018 ▸ November 21 is the 325th day of the year in 2018, and presentat is celebrated there. and Gelase.