November 21
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- 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 1894 - Mutoscope patented in the United States.
- 1962 - Lounge music, The Carnegie Hall concert "New Brazilian jazz"
- 1969 - James Brown's "Funky Drummer" recorded in the United States
Penny dreadful Sweeney Todd Todd first appeared in a penny dreadful called The People's Periodical, in issue 7, dated November 21, 1846. The story in which he appeared was called "The ...
Jacques de Vaucanson (February 24, 1709-November 21, 1782) was a French engineer and inventor who is credited with creating the world's first true robots, ...
Births
- 1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
- 1895 - Marcel Brion, French intellectual and connoisseur of the fantastique. (d. 1984)
- 1898 - René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
- 1937 - Ingrid Pitt, British actress (The Vampire Lovers)
- 1965 - Björk, Icelandic singer
Deaths
- 1811 - Heinrich von Kleist, German writer (b. 1777)
- 1811 - Henriette Vogel, lover of Heinrich von Kleist (b. 1780)
- 1835 - James Hogg, Scottish writer (The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner) (b. 1770)
- 1922 - Iwan Bloch, Berlin dermatologist, sexologist and Sade connoisseur (b. 1872)
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