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November 21

3 sourced moments from November 21 in history: The Mayflower reached the New World (1620); Humans first flew free in a Montgolfier balloon over Paris (1783); and The first permanent ARPANET link, the internet's ancestor, went live (1969).

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3 things happened on November 21

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1969 Technology · The Internet

The first permanent ARPANET link, the internet's ancestor, went live

On November 21, 1969, a permanent ARPANET link between UCLA and Stanford Research Institute marked the internet's quiet beginning.

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1783 Technology · Transportation

Humans first flew free in a Montgolfier balloon over Paris

On November 21, 1783, two Frenchmen drifted across Paris in a Montgolfier balloon, the first humans to fly untethered.

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1620 History · Modern

The Mayflower reached the New World

After a battering 66-day Atlantic crossing, a single weathered ship dropped anchor off Cape Cod and changed American history.

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