Wikipedia:Selected anniversaries/November 21

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 * 1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
 * 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
 * 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
 * 1922 – Rebecca Latimer Felton became the first woman to serve in the United States Senate, albeit for only one day.
 * 1945 – Manzanar, a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
 * 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
 * 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge (pictured), connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
 * 1970 – Vietnam War: American forces raided the North Vietnamese Sơn Tây prison camp in an attempt to rescue 61 American POWs who were thought to be held there.
 * 1974 – Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
 * 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the King", which had been the traditional anthem since 1840.
 * 2012 – A remote-controlled bomb exploded on a bus in Tel Aviv, Israel, injuring at least 28 people on board.
 * 2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.
 * Born/died this day: |Columbanus |d|615| Anne de Xainctonge |b|1567| Henry Purcell |d|1695| Hetty Green |b|1834| James Hogg |d|1835| Alexander Berkman |b|1870| Joe Darling |b|1870| Stan Musial |b|1920| Victor Chang |b|1936| Leopold Berchtold |d|1942| Michael Strahan |b|1971 | Annie |b|1977