1. 1620: The Mayflower Compact was signed by the Pilgrims aboard the Mayflower ship in Cape Cod Bay. It was an agreement to establish a form of self-government in the new Plymouth Colony.
2. 1783: In Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, made the first untethered manned hot-air balloon flight.
3. 1877: Thomas Edison announced the invention of his phonograph, a device for recording and replaying sound.
4. 1922: Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first female United States Senator. She served for only one day as a symbolic gesture.
5. 1969: The first permanent ARPANET link was established between the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) and the Stanford Research Institute (SRI). This is considered the birth of the internet.
6. 1974: The United States Department of Justice filed its final antitrust suit against AT&T. This eventually led to the breakup of AT&T's monopoly.
7. 1980: A deadly fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas, Nevada, killing 87 people.
8. 1995: The Dayton Agreement was initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
9. 2002: NATO invited Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia, and Slovenia to become members.
10. 2012: A ceasefire was announced in the Gaza-Israel conflict, ending eight days of violence.
These are just a few notable events that happened on November 21 in history. There are, of course, many more events and birthdays associated with this date.
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