Today in History

November 21

1783 - The first manned balloon sails over Paris for 25 minutes.

1962 - China agrees to a ceasefire on India-China border.

1976 - Syrian army completes its final phase of occupation of Lebanon. 1977 - The supersonic Concorde airliner takes off on its first flight from London to New York City.

2005 - The Dubai Gold and Commodities Exchange is opened.

2006 - Lebanese minister Pierre Gemayel is gunned down in a carefully orchestrated assassination.

2013 - DubaiSat 2, the UAE’s second earth imaging satellite, is launched into orbit successfully.

2017 - Robert Mugabe resigns as Zimbabwe’s president, ending four decades of rule.