Because I haven't done a meme in a while...

[slashtacular]

Sausaged from pianorayk:

Wikipedia your birthday and pick 4 events, 3 births, 2 deaths, and 1 holiday:

On November 21:

Events:

1. 1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to full general and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
2. 1877 - Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
3. 1905 - Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass-energy equivalence formula E = mc².
4. 1964 - The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opens to traffic (at the time it was the world's longest suspension bridge).

Births:

1. 1694 - Voltaire, French philosopher (d. 1778)
2. 1924 - Christopher Tolkien, British author
3. 1979 - Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player

Deaths:

1. 1695 - Henry Purcell, English composer
2. 1958 - Mel Ott, American baseball player (b. 1909)

Holiday:

1. World Hello Day