This day in #history 2111
NOVEMBER 21st
1789 – North Carolina ratifies constitution , becomes 12th US state
1791 – Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander- in -Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1794 – Honolulu Harbor discovered
1877 – Tom Edison announces his “talking machine” invention ( phonograph)
1946 – Harry Truman becomes 1 st US president to travel in a submerged sub
1986 – Central African Republic adopts constitution
2012 – Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is
sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben
FAMOUS BIRTHDAYS
1694 – Voltaire, [Francois- Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d . 1778 )
1948 – George Zimmer , American entrepreneur
FAMOUS DEATHS
1942 – J . B. M . Hertzog [Barry Hertzog] , South African Premier (1914 -39) , dies at 76
2010 – David Nolan , American politicial activist ( b.
1943)
.FAMOUS WEDDING
1987 – Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas