Volume 13 , Issue 47

On This Day In History (November 21)

On this date in history, Nov. 21, 1964, New York's Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. Go to article. On Nov. 21, 1904, Coleman Hawkins, the pioneering American jazz saxophonist, was born. Following his death on May 19, 1969, his obituary appeared in The Times. Go to obituary.

On This Date, 21 November 2011:

• 1789 - North Carolina became the 12th state to ratify the U.S. Constitution.
• 1922 - Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia was sworn in as the first woman to serve in the U.S. Senate.
• 1969 - The Senate voted down the Supreme Court nomination of Clement F. Haynsworth.
• 1973 - President Richard Nixon's attorney, J. Fred Buzhardt, revealed the existence of an 18 1/2-minute gap in one of the White House tape recordings related to Watergate.
• 1980 - A fire at the MGM Grand Hotel-Casino in Las Vegas killed 87 people.
• 1985 - Former U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Jay Pollard was arrested, accused of spying for Israel. (He later pleaded guilty and is serving a life sentence.)
• 1989 - The proceedings of Britain's House of Commons were televised live for the first time.
• 1991 - The U.N. Security Council chose Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt to be secretary-general.
• 1995 - The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 5,000 for the first time.

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