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November 21

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  1. 1886 CEMesopotamian · born

    Erich Ebeling, the German Assyriologist who co-founded the Reallexikon der Assyriologie and edited Babylonian ritual and religious texts, was born on this day in 1886.

  2. 1903 CEBuddhist · born

    Etienne Lamotte, the Belgian scholar renowned for his translations and studies of Buddhist texts, was born on this day in 1903.

  3. 1922 CEMesopotamian · died

    Carl Bezold, the German Assyriologist who founded the Zeitschrift fur Assyriologie, the field's first scholarly journal, died on this day in 1922.

  4. 1996 CEIslamic · died

    Abdus Salam, the theoretical physicist who in 1979 became the first Muslim scientist to win a Nobel Prize, died in 1996.

  5. 1783 CEScience

    Over Paris, Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes rose in a Montgolfier hot-air balloon, making the first free flight carrying people aloft.