It happened on this day, November 21
Events:
235 – Pope Anteros assumes the papacy, succeeding Pope Pontian, becoming the nineteenth pope of the Catholic Church.
1248 – The city of Seville, the largest Andalusian metropolis, falls into the hands of King Fernando III of the Kingdom of Castile.
1386 – Tamerlane captures the city of Tbilisi, capital of the Kingdom of Georgia, and captures its king Bagrat V.
1789 – North Carolina ratifies the U.S. Constitution, becoming the twelfth state of the United States of America.
1877 – Thomas Edison invents the phonograph.
1931 – The first church is built in Kuwait, the “Church of Christ”. Prayers are conducted in English and Arabic and its headquarters is next to the American Hospital building.
1949 – The United Nations General Assembly approves the independence of Libya with its territorial integrity.
1991 – Egyptian Boutros Boutros-Ghali is elected secretary-general of the United Nations, becoming the first secretary-general of an Arab country.
1995 – Signing with the initials of the “Dayton Peace Agreement”, according to which the armed conflict that took place in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 came to an end.
2006 – Lebanese Minister of Industry, Pierre Amin Gemayel, is assassinated after being shot in the “Jdeideh region”.
2008 – The Russian Duma agrees to extend the presidential term from four to six years.
2011 – The Egyptian government led by Essam Sharaf submits its resignation to the ruling Supreme Council of the Armed Forces, amid a return of sit-ins in Tahrir Square and accompanying acts of violence by security forces as They try to disperse them.
2013 – Euromaidan demonstrations break out in Ukraine to protest the government's suspension of signing a partnership and free trade agreement with the European Union.
2017 – Zimbabwean President Robert Mugabe resigns from office after nearly three decades in the role.
2019 – English club Liverpool won the 2019 Club World Cup for the first time in its history after beating Brazilian club Flamengo 1-0.
2022 – 162 people were killed and at least 1,083 injured following an earthquake in West Java, Indonesia.
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Births:
1694 – Voltaire, French writer and philosopher.
1853 – Hussein Kamel, Sultan of Egypt.
1898 – René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1935 – Fairouz, Lebanese singer.
1914 – Abdul Karim Qasim, first Prime Minister of the Iraqi Republic.
1943 – Phil Bredesen, American politician.
(1945–GoldieHawnAmerican actress
1946 – Qasim Al-Malak, Iraqi actor.
1948 – Michel Suleiman, twelfth president of the Lebanese Republic.
1958 – David Rivers, Jamaican actor.
1963 – Nicolette Sheridan, British actress.
1965 – Alexander Siddig, English actor.
1967 – Ken Block, American rally driver.
1977 – Bruno Berner, Swiss footballer.
1978 – Lucia Jimenez, Spanish actress.
1979 – Vincenzo Iaquinta, Italian footballer.
1981 – Johnny Magallon, Mexican footballer.
1982 – Aarti Chhabria, Indian actress.
1985 – Jesus Navas, Spanish footballer.
1989 – Fabian Delph, English footballer.
Ali Al-Bulaihi, Saudi footballer.
1990 – Mustafa Zaghba, Algerian footballer.
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Death:
496 – Galileo I, pope of the Roman Catholic Church.
1555 – Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist.
1579 – Thomas Gresham, English economist.
1695 – Henry Purcell, English musician.
1811 – Heinrich von Kleist, German writer.
1916 – Francis Joseph I, Emperor of Austria-Hungary.
1935 – Ibrahim Hanano, Syrian national leader and one of the leaders of the Great Syrian Revolt against the French.
1970 – Chandrasekhara Raman, Indian physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1930.
1975 – Wajih Al-Khoury, Syrian writer and poet.
1992 – Kayson Phoumvihane, Prime Minister of Laos.
1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor and director.
1995 – Laila Murad, Egyptian actress and singer.
1996 – Muhammad Abdul Salam, Pakistani physicist who won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1979.
2006 – Pierre Amin Gemayel, Lebanese politician.
2013 – Osama Abdel Rahman, Saudi writer and poet.
2015 – Muhammad Ghaziri, Lebanese politician and engineer.
2016 – Yahya El-Gamal, Egyptian constitutional lawyer and politician.
2021 – Soheir El-Babli, Egyptian actress.
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Holidays and Occasions:
World Television Day.
Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh.
