TODAY IN HISTORY

TODAY IS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2018 ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY:

1620 - The Mayflower reached Provincetown, MA. The ship discharged the Pilgrims at Plymouth on December 26, 1620.

1783 - The first successful flight was made in a hot air balloon. The pilots, Francois Pilatre de Rosier and Francois Laurent, Marquis d’Arlandes, flew for 25 minutes and 5 miles over Paris.

1789 - Convict James Ruse is provisionally granted land at Parramatta to establish a working farm.

1929 - Spanish surrealist Salvador Dali had his first art exhibit.

1953 - British Natural History Museum authorities announced that “Piltdown Man” was a hoax.

1963 - U.S. President John F. Kennedy and his wife, Jacqueline, arrived in San Antonio, TX. They were beginning an ill-fated, two-day tour of Texas that would end in Dallas.

1989 - The proceedings of Britain’s House of Commons were televised live for the first time.

1994 - NATO warplanes bombed an air base in Serb-held Croatia that was being used by Serb planes to raid the Bosnian “safe area” of Bihac.

1995 - France detonated its fourth underground nuclear blast at a test site in the South Pacific.

1999 - China announced that it had test-launched an unmanned space capsule that was designed for manned spaceflight.

2002 - NATO invited Latvia, Estonia, Lithuania, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.