Today in History - History - November 21st

1806Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England

1925Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears

200633rd American Music Award: Kelly Clarkson, Sean Paul & Rascal Flatts win

1917M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer

1989Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush

1942Hitler names fieldmarshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)

1981Olivia Newton-John's "Physical" single goes #1 & stays for 10 weeks

1959Jack Benny (violin) & Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet

1920Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna, Italy

1973Pete Rose wins NL MVP

1920Stan Musial, Donora Pennsylvania, MLB outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)

1860Tom Horn, Scotland County Missouri, American gunman and outlaw

1694Voltaire, [Francois-Marie Arouet], France, writer, essayist, philosopher and playwright (Candide) (d. 1778)

1785William Beaumont, Lebanon, Connecticut, surgeon (Father of gastric physiology), (d. 1853)

1987Actress Demi Moore weds actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas

1983Actor Ed Harris (33) weds actress Amy Madigan (33)

1942J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African Premier (1914-39), dies at 76

2011Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi author, dies at 85