Today's selected anniversaries: 21st November 2024

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 Today's selected anniversaries: 21st November 2024

1959:

American disc jockey Alan Freed, who popularized the term rock and roll, was fired from WABC-AM for his role in the payola scandal.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alan_Freed

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verrazzano-Narrows_Bridge

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.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_pub_bombings

2009:

An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2009_Heilongjiang_mine_explosion

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