November 21
Today in America's Present Past
1654 | Freeman Richard Johnson granted 550 acres in Virginia.
1729 | Founder Josiah Bartlett was born.
1785 | Surgeon William Beaumont was born.
1787 | POTUS: Andrew Jackson admitted to the bar age 20.
1847 | The steamer “Phoenix” sunk on Lake Michigan, killing 200.
1789 | Statehood: North Carolina granted statehood.
1817 | Indian Wars: The Seminole War starts.
1834 | Entrepreneur Hetty Green was born.
1855 | Civil Rights: Wakarusa War occurs.
1860 | Outlaw Tom Horn was born.
1897 | Activist Mollie Steimer was born.
1907 | Journalist Jim Bishop was born.
1924 | First Lady Florence Harding died.
1926 | SCOTUS: Justice Joseph McKenna died.
1927 | Civil Rights: Columbine Mine Massacre, Serene, Colorado.
1931 | Film: “Frankenstein” debuted.
1940 | Navy Seal and author Richard Marcinko was born.
1945 | Actress Goldie Hawn was born.
1945 | General Alexander Patch died.
1948 | Entrepreneur George Zimmer was born.
1959 | TV: Entertainer Jack Benny and Vice-President Richard Nixon play a duet.
1959 | Boxer Max Baer died.
1961 | “La Ronde,” the first revolving restaurant in the US, opens atop the 23-floor Ala Moana Tower in Honolulu, Hawaii.
1962 | Musician Steven Curtis Chapman was born.
1963 | POTUS: Democrat President Kennedy travels to Dallas for intra-Party meetings.
1974 | Congress: Overrides President Ford’s Veto of amendments to the Freedom of Information Act.
1976 | Film: “Rocky” debuted.
1989 | POTUS: Republican President Bush signs legislation banning smoking on domestic flights.
2013 | Civil Rights: Alabama posthumously pardons three members of the Scottsboro boys.
2015 | Actress Sofia Vergara wed Joe Manganiello.