11-20-2013, 07:29 PM
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November 21st
1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dasha, Czech Porn actress.
1979 ~ The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was attacked by a mob and razed.
1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit.
1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created using only computer-generated imagery.
1996 ~ Death of Abdus Salam, awarded one third of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979.
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