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- 1650
- In the Maryland Palatinate, Charles County is separated from St. Mary’s County.
- 1859
- The Chicago, Detroit & Canada Grand Trunk Junction Railway is completed in Michigan.
- 1909
- Sacred Heart Church is consecrated in Peterborough, Ontario.
- 1922
- Detroit annexes part of Greenfield Township, Michigan, thereby moving from the Central Time Zone to the Eastern Time Zone.
- 1938
- Nazi Germany annexes the Sudetenland.
- 1954
- The Manzanita Speedway is reconfigured in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 1958
- Chuansha, Qingpu, Nanhui, Songjiang, Fengxian, and Jinshan counties in Suzhou Prefecture, Jiangsu, are transferred to Shanghai.
- 1962
- The Line of Actual Control between China and India is set near Gogra.
- 1996
- In Vietnam, Nam Định city doubles in size with the addition of territory to the west of the city.
- 2021
- The English Bay Barge is stranded on Sunset Beach in Vancouver.
- 2023
- Cilembang bus station closes after 37 or so years in operation in Cilembang, Indonesia.
This is a selection of establishments and disestablishments on November 21, based on OpenHistoricalMap data, that automatically appears on the OpenHistoricalMap page on November 21 of each year. This list highlights important changes in the world, as well as more mundane events that demonstrate the project's ambitious tendency toward micromapping history.
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