On this day... November 21:

On this day...

November 21:  Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing KingBagrat V to convert to Islam. 1918 – Polish troops and civilians began a three-day pogrom against Jews and Ukrainian Christians in Lwów (now Lviv, Ukraine). 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city ofLüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians. 1964 – The Verrazano–Narrows Bridge (pictured), connectingStaten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time. 1974 – Explosives placed in two central pubs in Birmingham, England, killed 21 people and injured 182 others, and eventually led to the arrest and imprisonment of six people who were later exonerated.