What Day of the Week

November 21, 2021 is the 325^th day of the year 2021 in the Gregorian calendar. There are 40 days remaining until the end of the year. The day of the week is Sunday.

If you are trying to learn French then this day of the week in French is dimanche.

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Here’s the November calendar. You can also browse the full year monthly calendar.

Scorpio is the zodiac sign of a person born on this day. Topaz is the modern birthstone for this month. Pearl is the mystical birthstone from Tibetan origin that dates back over a thousand years.

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• 164 BC

  Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
• 235

  Pope Anterus succeeds Pontian as the nineteenth pope. During the persecutions of emperor Maximinus Thrax he is martyred.
• 1861

  American Civil War: Confederate President Jefferson Davis appoints Judah Benjamin secretary of war.
• 1894

  Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War, after which Japanese troops massacre the remaining inhabitants of the city.
• 1910

  Sailors onboard Brazil’s most powerful military units, including the brand-new warships Ship Brazilian battleship, Ship Brazilian battleship, and Ship Brazilian cruiser, violently rebel in what is now known as the Revolta da Chibata (Revolt of the Lash).
• 1920

  Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as “Bloody Sunday”. This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners.
• 1950

  Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash. Twenty-one people are killed, seventeen of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
• 1964

  The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it is the world’s longest suspension bridge).
• 1969

  The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
• 1980

  A deadly fire breaks out at the MGM Grand Hotel in Paradise, Nevada (now Bally’s Las Vegas). 87 people are killed and more than 650 are injured in the worst disaster in Nevada history.

• 1904

  Coleman Hawkins, American musician (d. 1969)
• 1914

  Henri Laborit, French physician, writer, and philosopher (d. 1995)
• 1933

  Henry Hartsfield, American astronaut
• 1940

  Freddy Beras Goico, Dominican TV host and comedian (d. 2010)
• 1946

  Jacky Lafon, Belgian actress
• 1964

  Shane Douglas, American wrestler
• 1965

  Alexander Siddig, British actor
• 1979

  Alex Tanguay, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1985

  Jesús Navas, Spanish footballer
• 1985

  Nicola Silvestri, Italian footballer

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