^B{^#!16!21 November^N! Feast day of St Geasius, pope, and St Albert of Louvain.
^B{1783^B} Franτois de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandres made the first human flight when they lifted off from the Bois de Boulogne, Paris, in a hot-air balloon built by the Montgolfier brothers. ^B{1918^B} The German High Seas Fleet surrendered to the Allies. ^B{1934^B} Cole Porter's ^I{Anything Goes^I} was first performed in New York. ^B{1953^B} The discovery of the Piltdown Man skull by Charles Dawson in Sussex, England, in 1912 was finally revealed as a hoax. ^B{1974^B} In Birmingham, 20 people were killed and 200 injured by IRA bomb explosions. ^B{1990^B} Leaders of NATO and Warsaw Pact member states signed the Charter of Paris and a treaty on Conventional Forces in Europe, bringing an end to the Cold War.
^B{^I{^#!14!Born ^N}Voltaire, French philosopher and writer, ^B{1694^B}; Harpo Marx, US comedian, ^B{1888^B}; RenΘ Magritte, Belgian painter, ^B{1898^B}; Coleman Hawkins, US jazz saxophonist, ^B{1904^B}; Natalia Makarova, Russian ballerina, ^B{1940^B}; Goldie Hawn, US film actress, ^B{1945^B}.
^B{^I{^#!14!Died ^N}Henry Purcell, English composer, ^B{1695^B}; James Hogg, Scottish novelist and poet, ^B{1835^B}; Franz Josef I, Emperor of Austria, ^B{1916^B}; James Hertzog, South African politician, ^B{1942^B}; Venkata Raman, Indian physicist, ^B{1970^B}.
