Daily Calendar for Saturday, November 21, 2026

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Voltaire (writer) – 1694
William Beaumont (surgeon) – 1785
Sir Samuel Cunard (merchant and shipowner who founded the first regular Atlantic steamship line) – 1787
Rene Francois-Ghislain Magritte (painter) – 1898
Stan Musial (baseball player) – 1920
Marlo Thomas (actress) – 1937
Goldie Hawn (actress) – 1945
Lorna Luft (actress & singer) – 1952
Nicolette Sheridan (actress) – 1963
Reggie Lewis (basketball player) – 1965
Troy Aikman (football player) – 1966
Ken Griffey, Jr. (baseball player) – 1969
Jena Malone (actress) – 1984

The Mayflower Compact, a preliminary plan of government for the Pilgrims, was signed in the cabin of the Mayflower near what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts – 1620
North Carolina became the 12th state – 1789
HMHS Britannic sank – 1916
William C. Bullitt became the first U.S. ambassador to the U.S.S.R. – 1933
Tweety Bird debuted – 1942
President Harry Truman became the second U.S. president to ride underwater in a submarine. (Theodore Roosevelt was the first.) – 1946
HMCS Labrador achieved the first circumnavigation of North America in a single voyage – 1954
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge between Brooklyn and Staten Island, the the world’s longest suspension bridge, formally opened – 1964
3.8 earthquake near Northglenn, Colorado – 1965
Deadly fire at MGM Grand Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada – 1980
After a summer of asking, Who shot J.R.?, viewers tuned in to see J.R.’s mistress, Kristin Shepard, holding the smoking gun – 1980
Jonathan Jay Pollard arrested for spying – 1985
Race car driver Jimmie Johnson set a NASCAR record by winning his fifth consecutive NASCAR championship – 2010