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Hong Kong pro-democracy activists
- Forty-five pro-democracy activists (some pictured) are sentenced under the Hong Kong national security law for their participation in the 2020 pro-democracy primaries.
- The National People's Power, led by Anura Kumara Dissanayake, wins the Sri Lankan parliamentary election.
- Samantha Harvey wins the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital.
- Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
On this day...
November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
Alan Freed
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the Chinese city of Port Arthur, the Japanese army began a massacre of the city's soldiers and civilians.
- 1959 – American disc jockey Alan Freed (pictured), who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
- 1964 – The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.
- 1974 – Bombs exploded in two pubs in central Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and leading to the imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
- Voltaire (b. 1694)
- Hetty Green (b. 1834)
- Milka Planinc (b. 1924)
- Catherine Bauer Wurster (d. 1964)
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