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- 1110 Syrian harbor city Saida (Sidon) surrenders to Crusaders
- 1154 Adrian IV elected Pope. The only Englishman to become pontiff, Nicholas Breakspear was a member of the family which until recent years brewed beer in Henley-on-Thames, Oxfordshire.
- 1197 Crusaders wound Rabbi Elezar ben Judah
- 1489 Battle of Baza - Spanish army captures Baza from Moors
Suleiman Occupies Bagdad
1534 Ottoman SultanSuleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
- 1563 Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years
The First Thanksgiving
1619 Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas
Alexandre le Grand
1665Jean Racine's tragedy "Alexandre le Grand" premieres at the Palais Royal Theater in Paris
- 1674 Father Marquette builds first dwelling in what is now Chicago
- 1676 Battle of Lund: A Danish army under the command of King Christian V of Denmark engages the Swedish army commanded by Field Marshal Simon Grundel-Helmfelt
- 1680 Hen in Rome lays a uniquely patterned egg, later believed to have predicted the arrival of the Kirch/Newton "Great Comet of 1680"
- 1682 First General Assembly in Pennsylvania (Chester)
Churchill Switches Allegiance
1688 GeneralJohn Churchill (later 1st Duke of Marlborough) changes allegiance fromJames II to William of Orange
First Issue of The Observer
1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published, the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world
James Monroe
1816James Monroe is elected to become the 5th President of the United States, defeating Rufus King of the Federalist Party
- 1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
- 1832 French army begins bombing citadel of Antwerp
- 1833 American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia
- 1836 Whig party holds its first national convention, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
- 1843 Manila paper (made from sails, canvas and rope) patented in Massachusetts
Das Paradies und die Peri
1843Robert Schumann's oratorio "Das Paradies und die Peri" premieres in Leipzig
James Knox Polk
1844James Knox Polk elected 11th US President
- 1851 President Louis Napoleon Boaparte's forces crush an attempted coup d'etat in France
- 1864 Battle of Waynesborough (Brier Creek), Georgia
- 1864 Romanian Jews are forbidden to practise law
- 1867 Former Minnesota farmer Oliver Hudson Kelley founds the Order of the Patrons of Husbandry (better known today as the Grange)
Tweed Escapes Jail
1875 Influential New York politician William MagearTweed "Boss Tweed" of Tammany Hall escapes from jail where he was being held for embezzlement (flees to Spain but later recaptured)
- 1881 The first edition of the Los Angeles Times newspaper is published
- 1889 Explorer Henery Morton Stanley's expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
- 1899 56th Congress (1899-1901) convenes
- 1899 Webb Hayes, son of US President Rutherford Hayes, receives medal of honor
- 1901 Anne Russell's play "'Girl and the judge" premieres in New York
Alfred Balfour Resigns
1905 British Prime MinisterArthur Balfour resigns after three years in office
- 1906 Alpha Phi Alpha, first Black Greek Letter Fraternity, forms
- 1908 Haiti's president General Alexis Nord flees from military coup
- 1908 The world's ten leading maritime nations attend a Naval Conference in London; they agree on rules for blockade, convoys, and seizure of contraband
- 1909 Oldest still-operating NHL franchise is officially established as J. Ambrose O’Brien and Jack Laviolette create the “Club de Hockey Canadien,” known today as the Montreal Canadiens
Johnson and the Federal League
1914Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League; Washington Senators ownerClark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
- 1915 Frank Friday Fletcher is first US admiral to receive Congressional Medal of Honor
Ford's Peace Ship
1915Henry Ford's peace ship, Oscar II, sails for Europe 'to get the boys out of the trenches by Christmas'
- 1915 Ku Klux Klan receives charter from Fulton County, Georgia
- 1915 Panama-Pacific International Exposition closes in San Francisco
Wilson Sails for Versailles
1918 US PresidentWoodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France
- 1920 1st Pro football playoff game Buffalo-7, Canton-3 at Polo Grounds, NYC
- 1921 American Professional Football Association Championship, Cubs Park, Chicago: Chicago Staleys beat Buffalo All-Americans, 10-7 in de facto championship game after teams tied in standings
- 1921 The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle ends in a hung jury
- 1922 Lucille Atcherson, becomes first woman legation sect-US foreign service
- 1923 WEAF radio begins broadcasting Eveready Hour (variety show)
Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony
1927Dmitri Shostakovich's 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
Ellington at the Cotton Club
1927Duke Ellington opens at the Cotton Club in Harlem, NYC
Kurt von Schleicher
1932 Kurt von Schleicher succeedsFranz von Papen as Reich Chancellor of Germany
- 1933 Jack Kirkland's play "Tobacco Road" premieres in NYC, became the longest-running play of its time
- 1935 1,200 at St Joseph's College (Philadelphia) enroll in anticommunism class
- 1941 Nazi ordinance places Jews of Poland outside protection of courts
- 1942FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration
- 1942 First US citizenship granted to an alien on foreign soil (James Hoey)
- 1942 Holocaust: In Warsaw, Zofia Kossak-Szczucka and Wanda Filipowicz set up the Żegota organization
- 1942 US bombers strike Italian mainland for first time in WW II
Clubs May Sign Negros
1943 MLB CommissionerKenesaw Mountain Landis announces that any baseball club may sign Negro players
- 1943 Second Cairo Conference:FDR, Winston Churchill and Turkish President İsmet İnönü meet (till Dec 6)
- 1943 Yugoslavian resistance forms provisionary government under Dr Ribar
- 1944 Germans destroy Rhine dikes, Betuwe flooded
- 1945 11th Heisman Trophy Award: Doc Blanchard, Army (FB)
- 1945 Senate approves US participation in United Nations
- 1947 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
- 1948 SS Kiangya hits mine in Whangpoo River, China, sinks killing 2,750
- 1949 Bob Gage ties NFL record of a 97 yard touchdown run
- 1949 Duncan Stewart, 2nd British Governor of Sarawak is fatally stabbed in the streets of Sibu by Malay student Rosli Dhoby with help from Morshidi Sidek with the goal of helping neighbouring Indonesia to take over British Sarawak
The Pied Piper
1951Aaron Copland's andJerome Robbins' ballet "The Pied Piper" premieres in New York City
- 1951 Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government
- 1951 Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, killing 500 people
- 1952 Walter P. Reuther chosen chairman of the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) in the US
- 1954 The first Burger King fast-food restaurant opens in Miami, Florida
- 1956 22nd Heisman Trophy Award:Paul Hornung, Notre Dame (QB)
- 1956 American diver Pat McCormick wins the 3m springboard gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics with 142.46 points; later wraps up the women's double when she takes the 10m platform gold
Million-Dollar Quartet
1956 An impromptu recording session by the "Million-Dollar Quartet" -Elvis Presley,Carl Perkins,Jerry Lee Lewis, andJohnny Cash - takes place at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee
- 1956 Australian swimmer Murray Rose sets world record 4:27.3 to claim the 400m gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; Rose later also wins 1,500m gold
- 1957 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John's, England)
- 1957 First edition of "Chase's Annual Events" published
- 1958 American pilots Bob Timm and John Cook take off from Las Vegas, Nevada in "The Hacienda", their modified Cessna 172, in an attempt to break recently set airplane flight endurance record; effort succeeds almost 65 days later[1]
- 1958 Dahomey (Benin), Ivory Coast become autonomous within French Community
- 1958 Finnish government of Fagerholm resigns
Ernie Davis
1961 1962 NFL Draft:Ernie Davis, University of Syracuse RB #1 pick by Washington Redskins
Patterson vs. McNeeley
1961Floyd Patterson KOs Tom McNeeley in 4 for heavyweight boxing title
MOMA's Upside Down Matisse
1961 NY's Museum of Modern Art hangsHenri Matisse's picture "Le Bateau" the right side up, after stockbroker Genevieve Habert notices it is displayed upside down, the first of 116,000 people in 47 days to notice[1]
- 1961 Smallest NY Knick, 49th St Madison Square Garden crowd-1,300 (snowstorm)
- 1961 Tanganyika becomes 104th member of UN
Contraceptive Pill
1961 The female contraceptive 'pill' becomes available on the National Health Service in Britain
- 1961 WXGA TV channel 8 in Waycross, GA (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1962 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1963 Boston Bruins' right wing Andy Hebenton sets a new NHL record by playing in his 581st consecutive game in 2-2 tie with Chicago Black Hawks; reaches 630 straight games
- 1963 PopePaul VI closes second session of 2nd Vatican Council
- 1964 Baseball approves a free-agent draft
- 1964 Commissioner's office given full powers in baseball disputes
- 1964 Test Cricket debut of Ian Chappell, v Pakistan MCG, 11, 0-49, 0-31
- 1964 The Beatles release "Beatles For Sale", their fourth studio album in the UK
- 1965 2 passenger planes collide above Danbury, Connecticut, 4 die
- 1965 2nd NY Knicks game postponed (due to death of opponent 76ers' owner)
Gemini 7
1965 NASA launches Gemini 7 withFrank Borman andJim Lovell - later the focus of the first crewed space rendezvous
Masanori Murakami
1965 San Francisco GiantMasanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
- 1966 KETS TV channel 2 in Little Rock, AR (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 Military Working Dog "Nemo" saves the life of his handler Airman Robert A. Throneburg during the Vietnam War, surviving a gunshot wound to the nose
- 1968 Following a civil rights march in Dungannon, Northern Ireland, there is a violent clash between Loyalists and those who are taking part in the march
- 1970 Unemployment in US increases to 5.8%
- 1971 McGurk's Bar bombing: the UVF explode a bomb at a Catholic-owned pub in Belfast, killing fifteen Catholic civilians and wounding seventeen others; this was the highest death toll from a single incident in Belfast during 'the Troubles'
Music Concert
1971 Montreux Casino, in Montreux, Switzerland, burns down to the ground after a fan fires a flare gun during concert byFrank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention; incident inspires rock band Deep Purple's song "Smoke on the Water"
- 1971 The Indian Navy attacks the Pakistan Navy and Karachi
- 1971 The UN Security Council calls an emergency session to consider the deteriorating situation between India and Pakistan
- 1974 Dutch DC-8 charter crashes in Sri Lanka killing 191 Muslim pilgrims
Sartre Visits Baader in Prison
1974Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction (Baader–Meinhof Gang) leaderAndreas Baader in prison
- 1975 6 South Molukkans occupy Indonesian consulate in The Hague, 1 dead
Jean-Bédel Bokassa
1977Jean-Bédel Bokassa crowns himself Emperor of the Central African Empire in a lavish ceremony costing US$20 million - one third of the nation's budget
- 1977Neil Simon's play "Chapter Two" opens in NYC
- 1977 NFL's 5,000th game, Cincinnati beats KC 27-7
- 1978 Dianne Feinstein is named as San Francisco's 1st female and Jewish mayor after the assassination of George Moscone, then elected for two full terms
Pieter Menten
1978 Dutch war criminalPieter Menten freed
Led Zeppelin To Disband
1980 Two months after death of drummerJohn Bonham, Led Zeppelin announces they will disband
- 1981 "Falcon Crest" premieres on CBS-TV
- 1981 According to South Africa, Ciskei gains independence. Not recognized as an independent country outside South Africa.
- 1982 48th Heisman Trophy Award: Herschel Walker, Georgia (RB)
- 1982 China adopts its constitution
- 1982 Police and racist demonstrators clash in Antwerp
- 1983 NJ Devils 1st shut-out, beating Minnesota North Stars 6-0
- 1983 US jet fighters strike Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon
- 1984 Hezbollah militants hijack a Kuwait Airlines plane, killing four passengers.
Mitterrand Receives Jaruzelski
1985 French PresidentFrançois Mitterrand receives Polish leaderWojciech Jaruzelski
- 1985President Reagan appoints Vice Admiral John Poindexter as security adviser
- 1986 US launches its Fleet Satellite Communications System (Fltsatcom-7)
Lendl's 3rd ATP
1987 Defending championIvan Lendl of Czechoslovakia wins 3rd straight season-ending ATP Masters Grand Prix tennis title by defeatingMats Wilander of Sweden 6–2, 6–2, 6–3 in the final at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- 1987 Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
- 1988 Actor Gary Busey critically injured in motorcycle crash
- 1988 Edmonton center Jimmy Carson becomes just the third player to score 6 NHL hat tricks before the age of 21 in the Oilers 10-6 win over the New York Rangers
Eddie Murray
1988 Orioles trade veteran 1BEddie Murray to the Dodgers
- 1988 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1989 NBC's premiere of "Howard Beach: Making A Case for Murder", based on December 1986 murders of black youths by white youths in New York City
- 1990 An Iraqi official reports that Iraq will withdraw if it can retain control of the Rumailah field and keep Bubiyan and Werbah islands; also says that demands that the Palestinian issue be treated separately would not be surmountable
- 1990 Due to Persian Gulf crisis gas hits $1.60 per gallon price in NYC
- 1990 Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
- 1991 Country music mother and daughter act The Judds "farewell" concert at Murphy Center in Murfreesboro, Tennessee; later re-unions and "farewells" in 2000, 2010, 2015, and 2021
- 1991 Muslim Shi'ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
- 1991 Pan American World Airways ceased operations
- 1991 Patricia Bowman testifies that William Kennedy Smith raped her
US Troops to Somalia
1992 US PresidentGeorge H. W. Bush orders 28,000 US troops to war-torn Somalia
- 1993 A truce is concluded between the government of Angola and UNITA rebels.
Dan Jansen
1993Dan Jansen skates world record 500m (35.92 sec)
- 1993 Johann Koss skates world record 5K (6:35.53)
Kennedy Center Honors
1994 Kennedy Center Honors ceremony held for actorKirk Douglas, singerAretha Franklin, composerMorton Gould, theater producer-director Harold Prince, and folk singer-songwriterPete Seeger, in Washington D.C.
- 1995 Atherton (185*) bats for 643 minutes to save Johannesburg Test
- 1996 NASA's 1st Mars rover launched from Cape Canaveral
- 1996 Orlando Magic tie NBA record of fewest points scored since inception of 24 second clock losing to Cleveland Cavalier, 84-57
- 1997 "Diary of Anne Frank" opens at Music Box Theater NYC
- 1997 NBA suspends former Golden State Warriors guard Latrell Sprewell for 1 year for attacking coach P.J. Carlesimo
- 1997 Nizar Hamdoon warns that Iraq will not allow oil to flow during a third six-month phase of the UN's oil-for-food sale until the UN approves an aid distribution plan
- 1998 The Unity Module, the second module of the International Space Station, is launched
Marike de Klerk
2001 Marike de Klerk, ex-wife of former President F.W. de Klerk is murdered at her home in Cape Town
- 2005 Tens of thousands of people in Hong Kong protest for democracy and call on the Government to allow universal and equal suffrage
Pope John Paul II
2005 U.S. debut of the first part of two-part TV biopic miniseries "PopeJohn Paul II" on CBS
- 2006 An adult giant squid is caught on video by Kubodera near the Ogasawara Islands, 1,000 km (620 miles) south of Tokyo
Ballon d'Or
2007 Ballon d'Or: Milan's Brazilian midfielderKaká is named best football player in the world; first year in which players from clubs outside the UEFA federation eligible for nomination
- 2009 Montreal Canadiens retire Hall of Fame center Elmer Lach's jersey (No. 16), as part of team's centennial celebration
Sports History
2011Pedro Martínez officially announces his retirement from professional baseball
- 2012 29 people are killed by a mortar attack in Bteeha, Syria
- 2012 Typhoon Bopha makes landfall in the Philippines, killing at least 81 people
- 2013 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Las Vegas, Nevada: 4 consecutive titles for Europe after an 11-2 thrashing of US; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
- 2013 Xavier Bettel becomes Luxenberg's first openly gay Prime Minister
- 2014 Mosconi Cup nine-ball pool, Blackpool, England: Team Europe beats US, 11-5 for 5th straight title; MVP: Niels Feijen (Netherlands)
Peter Pan Live!
2014 NBC airs musical "Peter Pan Live!" starring Allison Williams andChristopher Walken; substantially revised from the earlierMary Martin productions
- 2014 The United Nations warns that the world is on course for the warmest year since records began
- 2014 Ukraine and Pro-Russian rebels agree to cease fire in the eastern war zone, beginning December 9
- 2014 US authorities promise a "fair" investigation into the death of African American Eric Garner, after a white New York City police officer held him in a choke-hold faces no charges
- 2015 Floods in Chennai and Tamil Nadu state, India start receding after a month of heavy rainfall, leaving more 260 dead and thousands stranded
- 2016 Austria elects liberal independent Alexander Van der Bellen as President, after original vote in May annulled
- 2016 Tens of thousands march throughout Brazil against a vote to undermine anti-corruption investigations
- 2016 Venezuela issues new higher-value notes after currency falls 60% in 1 months against the US dollar
- 2017 New York Giants fire head coach Ben McAdoo and manager Jerry Reese after a 2–10 start
- 2017 New York's Metropolitan Opera suspends conductor James Levine after allegations of sexual misconduct
- 2017 Thomas fire begins and spreads to city of Ventura, California
Trump Scales Back Parks
2017 US PresidentDonald Trump scales back Utah National Parks - Bears Ears National Monument (85%), Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument (50%)
- 2017 US Supreme Court allowsPresident Trump's travel ban to come into effect for 6 mostly Muslim countries
- 2018 Attempts to establish mob council in Sicily thwarted when 46 members of the mafia arrested including Settimio Mineo
- 2018 First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
