TUESDAY, Nov. 21, 2023

1783 — Pilstre de Rozier & Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight

1789 — North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state

1794 — Honolulu Harbor discovered

1818 — Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine

1824 — First Jewish Reform congregation established, Charleston, SC

1871 — Moses Gale patents a cigar lighter

1877 — Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention

1933 — First U.S. ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service

1934 — Yanks buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals

1935 — First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)

1953 — "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax

1964 — World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)

1990 — Signing of Declaration of "End of Cold war" in Paris