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Events

• 1918 (108 years ago) The Flag of Estonia, previously used by pro-independence activists, is formally adopted as the national flag of the Republic of Estonia.
• 1954 (72 years ago) People's Action Party, an eventual dominative political party in Singapore, was established.
• 1961 (65 years ago) "La Ronde" opens in Honolulu, the first revolving restaurant in the United States.
• 1985 (41 years ago) United States Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard is arrested for spying after being caught giving Israel classified information on Arab nations. He is subsequently sentenced to life in prison.
• 1995 (31 years ago) The Dayton Agreement is initialed at the Wright-Patterson Air Force Base, near Dayton, Ohio, ending three and a half years of war in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
• 2002 (24 years ago) NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
• 2004 (22 years ago) The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
• 2013 (13 years ago) Massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor Yanukovych suspended signing the Ukraine–European Union Association Agreement.

Births

• 1694 (332 years ago) Voltaire, French writer and philosopher (died 1778)
• 1768 (258 years ago) Friedrich Schleiermacher, German theologian, philosopher, and scholar (died 1834)
• 1854 (172 years ago) Pope Benedict XV,
• 1898 (128 years ago) René Magritte, Belgian painter (died 1967)
• 1903 (123 years ago) Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American novelist and short story writer, Nobel Prize laureate (died 1991)
• 1945 (81 years ago) Goldie Hawn, American actress, singer, and producer
• 1965 (61 years ago) Björk, Icelandic singer-songwriter
• 1985 (41 years ago) Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer

Deaths

• 1555 (471 years ago) Georgius Agricola, German mineralogist, philologist, and scholar (born 1490)
• 1695 (331 years ago) Henry Purcell, English organist and composer (born 1659)
• 1811 (215 years ago) Heinrich von Kleist, German poet and author (born 1777)
• 1844 (182 years ago) Ivan Krylov, Russian poet and playwright (born 1769)
• 1916 (110 years ago) Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria (born 1830)
• 1970 (56 years ago) C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1888)
• 1996 (30 years ago) Abdus Salam, Pakistani-English physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1926)
• 2000 (26 years ago) Emil Zátopek, Czech runner (born 1922)

All 394 events, births and deaths of November 21