On this day in history
November 21
MesopotamianBuddhistIslamicScience
- 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.
- 1903 CEBuddhist · born
Etienne Lamotte, the Belgian scholar renowned for his translations and studies of Buddhist texts, was born on this day in 1903.
- 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.
- 1996 CEIslamic · died
Abdus Salam, the theoretical physicist who in 1979 became the first Muslim scientist to win a Nobel Prize, died in 1996.
- 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.