Today is 21 November and this happened on this date in the past:
1️⃣ The first crewed hot-air balloon flight was made by Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, marquis d'Arlandes, traveling from the Château de la Muette across the Bois de Boulogne on the edge of Paris in a balloon made by Joseph-Michel and Jacques-Étienne Montgolfier. This happened on 21 November 1783.

2️⃣ The Continental System, a blockade designed to close the entire European continent to British trade, was proclaimed on 21 November 1805 when Napoleon issued the Berlin Decree.

3️⃣ On Bloody Sunday on 21 November 1920, the Irish Republican Army killed 11 Englishmen suspected of being intelligence agents, and the Black and Tans took revenge the same afternoon, attacking spectators and players at a Gaelic football match in Croke Park, Dublin, killing 12 and wounding 60.

4️⃣ On this day in 1922, Rebecca Ann Felton of Georgia was sworn into office, becoming the first woman seated in the U.S. Senate; Felton, who was appointed to the seat, served only two days.

5️⃣ The horror classic Frankenstein, based on a stage adaptation of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's 1818 novel, was released in the United States, and it helped make the hulking monster, who was portrayed by Boris Karloff, one of the most recognizable characters in film history.

6️⃣ A peace agreement, known as the Dayton Accords, was reached by the presidents of Bosnia, Croatia, and Serbia, ending the Bosnian War. This happened on this day in 1995.

7️⃣ On 21 November 2002, a North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) summit meeting in Prague extended an official invitation to become new alliance members to Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia.

8️⃣ On this day in 2017, after some 37 years as leader of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe resigned from office as the parliament began impeachment proceedings against him.

9️⃣ On this day in 1620, 41 male passengers on the Mayflower, prior to landing at Plymouth, Massachusetts, signed the Mayflower Compact, by which they agreed to abide by the laws of the new government they would establish.

🔟 These people were born on this day: French philosopher and author Voltaire (1694), Belgian artist René Magritte (1898), Icelandic musician Björk (1965), American football player Troy Aikman (1966) and American baseball player Ken Griffey, Jr. (1969).

Voltaire

René Magritte

Björk