On This Day in History November 21, 2018

Historical Events 1620  Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, [O.S. Nov 11] 1791  Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to 1st Lieutenant and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. 1818  Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine 1906  China prohibits the opium trade 1970  General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup 1971  Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army 2017  Robert Mugabe's resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe's parliaments during impeachment proceedings More Historical Events Famous Birthdays Björk 53rd Birthday Carly Rae Jepsen 33rd Birthday Tom Horn (1860 - 1903) Voltaire (1694 - 1778) More Famous Birthdays Famous Deaths Anne McCaffrey (1926 - 2011) J. B. M. Hertzog (1866 - 1942) More Famous Deaths November 21st: Bare Bones of the Great Ape-Man Hoax On this day the Piltdown Man skull, which had been hailed as the missing link proving an evolutionary relationship between man and apes, was revealed as a hoax.