November 30 Events

2010 At an auction in Dublin, a handwritten poem written by Nobel laureate Seamus Heaney sells for 4,800 euro
2010 After facing heavy flooding and mudslides, the President of Venezuela declares a state of emergency in the state of Falcon
2005 First human face transplant is performed in France
1997 "Eugene Onegin," closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City
1997 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps U.S. in Gothenburg (5-0)
1994 Beatles' 1st album in 25 years, Live at BBC, is released in Britain
1994 Cruiser Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
1994 Man Mohan Adhikary sworn in as 1st communist premier of Nepal
1993 NFL announces 30th franchise - Jacksonville Jaguars
1993 President Clinton signs Brady Gun Control Bill
1992 David Boon's 14th Test Cricket century, 111 vs. WI at Brisbane
1992 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
1991 1st world championship of women's soccer, U.S. defeats Norway 2-1
1991 93 cars and 11 truck accident near San Francisco during a dust storm, 17 die
1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of Milli-Vanilli attempts suicide
1991 San Diego State's Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
1990 Actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1990 Bush proposes U.S. - Iraq meeting to avoid war
1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
1988 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1988 New York City furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty; 1st time in 38 yrs
1988 U.N. General Assembly (151-2) censures U.S. for refusing PLO's Arafat visa
1987 Afghanistan Constitution adopted
1986 "Flamenco Puro" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 40 performances
1986 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
1986 Ivan Lendl is 1st tennis player to earn over $10 million, lifetime
1983 6th Emmy Sports Award presentation
1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
1983 Raul Alfonsin wins Argentine presidential election
1983 Sam Shepards "Fool for love," premieres in New York City
1983 Denver Nugget coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advise team to let Blazers break their scoring record
1982 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
1982 U.S. submarine Thomas Edison collides with U.S. Navy destroyer in So China Sea

November 29 Events

2010 Pablo Picasso's electrician reveals 271 previously unknown works by the artist, claiming they were gifts
2010 Indonesia's Mount Bromo spews ash, forcing the closure of a nearby airport
2009 Pirates from Somalia capture the Maran Centaurus, a Greek-owned oil tanker, off the coast of Somalia
1997 USAir Arena closes, hosting Washington Wizards
1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Sq Theater New York City
1995 CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1993 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 40 performances
1992 "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 48 performances
1992 "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander New York City after 25 performances
1992 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
1991 TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, vs. Australia at the Gabba
1990 "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater New York City for 72 performances
1990 Expos President Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
1990 U.N. Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1989 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1989 India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1987 "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater New York City after 177 performances
1987 75th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 38-36
1987 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1987 Joe Montana of 49ers completes NFL record 22 consecutive passes
1987 Korean Air jetliner disappears off Burma, all 115 lost
1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
1987 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs Isles) It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal
1984 Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, vs. New Zealand, Hyderabad
1983 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1982 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1981 "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 119 performances
1981 Greg Chappell scores 201 vs. Pakistan at Gabba
1979 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 U.N. observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by U.S. and about 20 other countries
1978 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1976 Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with New York Yankees
1975 Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 President Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1970 Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1970 Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
1969 Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1968 John and Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1966 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101

November 28 Events

2010 Wikileaks releases 250,000 classified documents and sensitive national security information sent by U.S. embassies; the U.S. condemns the unauthorized disclosure
2010 Turkey's historic Haydarpa a Terminal is damaged in a fire in Istanbul
1997 Final episode of "Beavis and Butt-head," on MTV
1995 James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union
1993 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 13 performances
1993 "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater New York City after 48 performances
1993 81st CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 33-23
1993 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as Britain's PM, replaced by John Majors
1989 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 per year Oak A's contract
1989 Romanian gymnast Nadia Comaneci flees to Hungary
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
1986 Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1986 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-New York Jets football game
1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission Columbia 6 is launched
1982 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater New York City after 772 performances
1982 70th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
1982 71st Davis Cup: USA beats France in Grenoble (4-1)
1981 "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater New York City after 16 performances
1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg and become college football's winningest coach
1979 "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater New York City for 63 performances
1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on Antarctica kills 257
1979 Los Angeles Dodger Rick Sutcliffe wins NL Rookie of Year
1978 44th Heisman Trophy Award: Billy Sims, Oklahoma (RB)
1978 Reds fire manager Sparky Anderson after 9 years
1976 64th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 23-20
1975 Democratic Republic East-Timor proclaimed
1975 Test Cricket debut of Michael Anthony Holding, WI vs. Australia Brisbane
1975 Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley
1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years

November 27 Events

2010 Britain's Labor Party leader Ed Miliband launches a review of the British Labor Party, calling upon activists to help make it the 'People's Party' once again
2010 Icelanders vote for the creators of a new constitution after functioning with an edited version of the Danish constitution since 1944
1997 Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher
1994 82nd CFL Grey Cup: British Columbia Lions defeat Baltimore Stallions, 26-23
1994 Fire in disco in Fuxin, North-China, 233 killed
1994 Julio Maria Sanguinetti elected president of Uruguay
1993 Boon completes his 18th Test Cricket century (106 vs. New Zealand, Hobart)
1993 India defeat West Indies in Bengal Jubilee Cricket Final, Kumble 6-12
1993 Lisa Hanna, 18, of Jamaica, crowned 43rd Miss World
1992 Howard Stern Interview premieres on E! Network
1992 Part of Vienna Hofburg destroyed by fire
1991 "Peter Pan" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 48 performances
1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela sentenced to 2 years (Cuba)
1991 Undertaker beats Hulk Hogan to become new WWF champ
1990 Britain's conservatives chose John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher
1989 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 George Harrison releases "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"
1989 Luis Alberto Lacelle elected president of Uruguay
1989 U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
1988 76th CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Blue Bombers defeats BC Lions, 22-21
1987 "Les Miserables," opens at Theatre Royal, Sydney
1987 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset England
1985 Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1985 Republic of Ireland gains consultative role in Northern Ireland
1983 71st CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 18-17
1983 Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 185
1983 Desmond Haynes out handled the ball vs. India
1982 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
1982 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 vs. England)
1980 Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1979 1st day-night one-day cricket international, Australia vs. WI at SCG
1978 Colombian Avianca Airlines Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 183
1977 "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" closes at Imperial New York after 66 perf
1977 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6
1976 Amy Alcott wins LPGA Colgate-Far East Golf Championship
1976 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1975 Red Sox's Fred Lynn is 1st rookie to win MVP (AL)
1974 Cardinals outfielder Bake McBride wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year
1973 Neil Simon's "Good Doctor," premieres in New York City
1973 Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald R Ford as Vice President
1972 Pierre Trudeau forms Canadian government
1972 Yankees trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses
1971 Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1970 Carl Morton (18-11 for last-place Expos), receives NL Rookie of Year
1970 George Harrison releases 3 album set "All Things Must Pass"
1970 Pope Paul VI wounded in chest during a visit to Philippines by a dagger-wielding Bolivian painter disguised as a priest
1970 Test Cricket debut of Rodney "Iron Gloves" Marsh vs. England, Brisbane
1967 Beatles release "Magical Mystery Tour"
1967 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
1966 In highest-scoring NFL game, Washington Redskins defeat New York Giants 72-41
1966 Uruguay adopts constitution
1965 15,000 demonstrate against war in Vietnam in Washington D.C.
1965 1st French satellite launched, France becomes 3rd nation in space
1965 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
1962 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1962 Sumner Arthur Long's "Never Too Late," premieres in New York City
1962 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1961 Gordie Howe becomes 1st to play in 1,000 NHL games
1961 KHAW TV channel 11 in Hilo, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1960 CBS radio cancels "Have Gun Will Travel"
1960 Dr. Felix Houphouet-Boigny becomes president of Ivory Coast
1960 Gordie Howe becomes 1st NHLer to score 1,000 points
1960 Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville Congo
1960 Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1958 U.S.S.R. abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1957 Army withdraws for Little Rock Ark, after Central HS integration
1956 F Goodrich and A Hackett's "Diary of Anne Frank," premieres in Netherlands
1954 "By the Beautiful Sea" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 270 performances
1954 42nd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 26-25
1953 Indians 3rd baseman Al Rosen is unanimously named AL's MVP
1952 KTBC TV channel 7 in Austin, Texas (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 1st missle to intercept an airplane, White Sands, New Mexico
1951 Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon Korea
1950 Red Sox sign shortstop Lou Boudreau as a player to 2-year contract
1950 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
1948 36th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 12-7
1948 Honda 1st opens in America
1947 Joe DiMaggio wins his 3rd MVP, beating Ted Williams by 1 vote
1946 English soccer team beats Netherlands, 8-2
1945 General George C. Marshall named special U.S. envoy to China
1945 Hannie Buy buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1945 Trial against NSB-leader Mussert begins
1945 Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft re-buried in presence of Queen Wilhelmina
1944 3,500-40,00 ton explosive, explodes in Staffordshire, 68 killed
1944 U.S. 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1943 31st CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Flying Wildcats defeat Winn Bombers, 23-14
1943 Conference of Teheran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)
1942 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ

November 26 Events

2010 Hezbollah members are indicted for killing Lebanon�s former prime minister, Rafiq Hariri, in a car bombing
2010 Authorities searching two homes near Escondido, California, find the largest cache of homemade explosives ever discovered in the U.S.
2008 Mumbai terrorist attacks kill over 195 people over four days
1997 Washington Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
1996 Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
1996 Colbert, Floyd and Irwin win Wendy's Senior 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1996 Couples, Davies, Sheehan and Sorenstam win Wendy's Lady's 3 Tour Golf
1996 Couples, Love and Stewart win Wendy's Men's 3 Tour Golf Challenge
1995 33rd Tennis Fed Cup: Spain beats USA in Valencia Spain (3-2)
1995 Dolphins quarterback Dan Marino sets NFL record with 343rd touchdown pass
1995 New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs vs. India in Nagpur ODI
1993 Political campaigners James Carville (49) and Mary Matalin wed
1991 Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students
1990 1st Billboard Music Awards: Janet Jackson wins
1990 Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 Matsushita purchases MCA for $6.6 billion
1990 Mikhail Gorbachev tells Iraq to get out of Kuwait
1990 Premier Mazowiecki of Poland, resigns
1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigned, ends his reign longest-serving PM
1989 77th CFL Grey Cup: Saskatchewan defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40
1989 Comores coup under Bob Benard
1989 Luis Alberto Lacalle becomes President of Uruguay
1989 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
1988 Alexander Volkov, Sergei Krikalev and Jean-Loup Chretien launch
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1985 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1985 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1985 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
1984 After 518 goals and 14 years with Mont Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1984 John W Mercom, Jr. announces NO Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1984 Kim Hughes tearfully resigns as Australian cricket captain
1984 U.S. and Iraq regain diplomatic relations
1983 Heathrow Airport, robbed of 6,800 gold bars worth $38.7

November 25 Events

2010 An area in Alaska, twice the size of the United Kingdom, is protected by the U.S. Government; the area is considered a critical habitat for polar bears
2010 A new species of ancient crocodile, Khoratosuchus jintasakuli, is identified by a fossil in Thailand
2009 A Pakistan court charges seven suspects involved in the 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai
1997 U.S. telephone tech Richard Bliss, arrested for spying in Russia
1996 After 24 years, Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade, ends
1995 "Patti LuPone on Broadway" closes at Walter Kerr New York City after 46 performances
1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters falls
1993 Failed bomb attack on Egyptian premier Atef Sedki, 1 dead
1990 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
1990 Lech Walesa wins in Poland's 1st popular election
1990 NFL's New York Giants and San Francisco 49ers after winning their 1st 10 games both
1990 Sri Lanka all out 82, Venkatapathy Raju (I) 6-12 off 17 lose, Phil Eagles beat Giants 31-13 and L.A. Rams beat 49ers 28-17
1989 David Boon scores 200 vs. New Zealand at cricket WACA
1988 Chuck Berry pays $250 fine to resolve New York City assault charges
1988 Convention on exploitation of Antarctic mineral resources signed
1988 U.S. and Soviet chess grand masters Donaldson and Akhmilovskaya wed
1988 Widespread earthquake hits NE U.S., Canada; no damage reported
1987 Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England at Lahore
1987 India all out for 75 vs. West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
1986 A's Jose Canseco wins AL Rookie of Year
1986 Iran-Contra affair erupts, President Reagan reveals secret arm deal
1986 Oliver North's sect, Fawn Hill, smuggles documents out of his office
1985 White Sox shortstop Ozzie Guillen, is named AL Rookie of Year
1984 Julio M Sanguinetti wins Uruguay presidential election
1984 William Schroeder, is 2nd to receive Jarvik-7 artificial heart
1983 Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1983 Soyuz T-9 returns to Earth, 149 days after take-off
1983 Syria and Saudi Arabia announce cease-fire in PLO civil war in Tripoli
1983 World's greatest robbery 25,000,000 pounds of gold, Heathrow, England
1981 Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1981 Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
1980 Coup in Burkina abolishes constitution
1980 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1980 Imran Khan scores his 1st Test Cricket ton, 123 vs. WI Lahore
1980 Sugar Ray Leonard defeats Duran regains WBC welterweight championship
1980 Upper-Volta military coup under Col Saye Zerbo, president Lamizana flees
1979 "Most Happy Fella" closes at Majestic Theater New York City after 53 performances
1979 67th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 17-9
1979 American Airlines DC-10 crashes on takeoff from Chicago, kills 275
1979 Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
1979 Pittsburgh gains 606 net yards against Cleveland, winning 33-30
1977 David Steed balanced stationary on a bike for 9 hours 15 minutes
1977 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1977 Thomas Hearns KOs Jerome Hill in 2 rounds in his 1st pro fight
1976 O. J. Simpson gains 273 yards for Buffalo vs. Detroit
1976 The Band's farewell concert at SF's Winterland Ballroom
1976 Viking 1 radio signal from Mars help prove general theory of relativity
1975 Netherlands grants Suriname independence (National Day)
1975 Portuguese leftist officers occupy 4 airbases
1974 Irish Republican Army is outlawed in Britain following deaths of 21
1974 Rangers' Mike Hargrove wins AL Rookie of Year
1973 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1973 61st CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 22-18
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
1973 Maximum speed limit cut to 55 MPH as an energy conservation measure
1972 "Ambassador" closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City after 9 performances
1971 "Dan Cooper" jumps with $200,000 out of plane over Washington
1971 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (quarterback)
1970 Yankees catcher Thurman Munson wins AL Rookie of Year
1969 John Lennon returns OBE to protest UK's support for Vietnam War
1969 KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1967 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater New York City after 463 performances
1967 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
1966 Cincinnati infielder Tommy Helms is voted NL Rookie of Year
1966 Jimi Hendrix Experience makes its London debut at Bag O' Nails Club
1965 Congo military coup under General Mobutu, President Kasavubu overthrown
1963 John F. Kennedy laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery
1962 WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, New York (ABC) 1st broadcast
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1960 "Amos 'n' Andy" made its last broadcast on CBS radio
1960 1st atomic reactor for research and development, Richland Wa
1960 CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr. Malone and 2nd Mrs. Burton) and cancels 4 other series
1959 "Once Upon a Mattress" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 460 performances
1958 Senegal becomes an autonomous state in French Community
1957 President Eisenhower suffers a mild stroke, impairing his speech
1955 Race segregation forbidden on trains and buses between U.S. states
1955 Walter Piston's 6th Symphony, premieres
1953 "Guys and Dolls" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 1200 performances
1953 Earthquake/tsnunami strike Honshu Japan
1953 Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1952 Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap," premieres in London
1952 George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1952 Only win ever for NFL's Dallas Texans (11-1) beats Bears 27-23
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock Ala
1951 Cleveland Browns penalized a record 209 yards against Chicago Bears
1951 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1950 "Tickets, Please" closes at Coronet Theater New York City after 245 performances
1950 38th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 13-0
1950 U.N. gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
1949 "Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer" appears on music charts
1949 Ted Williams, wins AL MVP
1948 Ft. Funston's 16-inch coastal guns removed
1948 KING TV channel 5 in Seattle, WA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1947 Future Queen Elizabeth marries Prince Philip in Westminster Abbey
1947 New Zealand acedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
1944 32nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal HMCS defeat Hamilton Flying Wildcats, 7-6
1943 U-600 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1942 National Organization for Aid to Underground, LO, forms
1941 German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
1941 Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player/manager
1940 Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1940 University of Michigan retires Tom Harmon's #98
1940 Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
1937 World's fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1936 Germany and Japan sign anti-Komintern pact
1935 Resident Institution for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
1933 1st Soviet liquid fuel rocket attains altitude of 261' (80m)
1930 690 earthquake shocks recorded in 1 day (Ito Japan)
1930 Sporting News picks Bill Terry as NL MVP and Joe Cronin as AL MVP
1929 Belgium government Jaspar falls
1925 KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1922 Archaeologist Howard Carter enters King Tut's tomb
1922 Japanese crown prince Hirohito appointed prince-regent
1920 1st Thanksgiving Parade in Philadelphia
1920 WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1913 Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in White House
1912 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Ill
1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
1911 3rd CFL Grey Cup: University of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
1908 Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (U.S.) in MSG marathon by 60 yards
1902 Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna
1899 Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1897 Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
1894 Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis
1884 John B Meyenberg of St. Louis patents evaporated milk
1867 Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1867 U.S. Congress commission looks into "impeachment" of President Andrew Johnson
1864 Confederate plot to burn New York City, fails
1864 Confederate retreat at Sandersville, Georgia
1863 Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee
1847 Opera "Marta" is produced (Vienna)
1841 35 Amistad survivors return to Africa
1834 Delmonico's, one of New York's finest restaurants, provides a meal of soup, steak, coffee and half a pie for 12 cents
1817 1st sword swallower in U.S. performs (New York City)
1805 Opera "Thais" 1st American performance
1792 Farmer's Almanac 1st published
1783 Britain evacuates New York City, their last military position in US
1766 Pope Clement XIII warns On dangers of anti-Christian writings
1758 Britain capture Ft. Duquesne (Pittsburgh) from French
1744 Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague
1715 1st English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1688 Princess Anne flies from London to Nottingham
1659 Michiel de Ruyter conquerors Danish city Nyborg
1500 Governor De Bobadilla of Santo Domingo captures Columbus
1357 Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1277 Giovanni Gaetano Orsini elected as Pope Nicolas III
1185 Umberto Crivelli replaces Lucius III as Pope Urban III
1165 RC German emperor Frederik I Barbarossa visits Utrecht
1120 English royal yacht "White Ship" leaves in storm

November 24 Events

2010 University students in England and Wales protest the government's plan to increase tuition fees and make higher education funding cuts
2010 Ireland presents its 15 billion euro austerity package to secure a financial bailout from European Union and the International Monetary Fund
1997 "Street Corner Symphony," opens at Brooks Atkinson New York City for 79 performances
1996 "Juan Darien - A Carnival Mass," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City
1996 CFL Grey Cup: Toronto beats Edmonton, 43-37 at Hamilton
1996 Karrie Webb wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1996 Mashonaland defeat Matabeleland to win the Logan Cricket Cup
1996 Mohammad Wasim scores 109 on Test Cricket debut, Pakistan vs. New Zealand Lahore
1996 Rookie Karrie Webb wins LPGA Tour Championship
1995 Ireland votes to end 70-year-old ban on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
1993 Brady bill passes establishing 5-day waiting period for handgun sales
1993 End of world, according to Ukrainian sect White Brotherhood
1992 Boeing 734 crashes into mountain in China, kills 141
1991 1st International flight from Long Island's MacArthur Airport (to Mexico)
1991 79th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 36-21
1991 After going 12-0, Washington Redskins lose to Dallas 24-21
1991 Monica Seles, sets female tennis record winning $2,457,758 in a year
1991 Rachmon Nabijev elected President of Tadzjikistan
1991 U.S. 75th manned space mission "STS-44" Atlantis 10 launched
1989 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
1989 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
1989 Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty age 16 years 214 days, a record
1987 Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang in China PR
1986 "Smile" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 48 performances
1986 Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
1986 Wrestler John Tatum charged with possession of marijuana
1985 73rd CFL Grey Cup: BC Lions defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 37-24
1985 Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
1983 PLO exchanges 6 Israeli prisoners for 4,500 Palestinians and Lebanese
1983 Test Cricket debut of Richie Richardson, WI vs. India Bombay
1982 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
1982 Yasuhiro Nakasone succeeds Zenko Suzuki as premier of Japan
1981 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
1980 Ronald Reagan, Jr. marries Doria Palmieri
1979 Kings' Charley Simmer fails on 8th penalty shot against Islanders
1979 U.S. admits troops in Vietnam were exposed to the toxic Agent Orange
1977 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1977 Miami Bob Greise passes for 6 touchdowns vs St. Louis (55-14)
1976 NBA Atlanta Hawks end a 28 game road losing streak
1976 Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award
1975 "Boccaccio" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 7 performances
1974 62nd CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 20-7
1974 Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev signs SALT-2-treaty
1974 Jane Blalock wins LPGA Lady Errol Golf Classic
1973 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1972 U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test
1971 Braves catcher-infielder Earl Williams, wins NL Rookie of Year
1971 Dan "DB" Cooper parachutes from a Northwest AL 727 with $200,000
1971 Prison rebellion at Rahway State Prison, New Jersey
1970 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (quarterback)
1969 Apollo 12 returns to Earth
1969 West German President Heinemann visits Netherlands
1969 Lt William L Calley, charged with massacre of over 100 civilians in My Lai Vietnam in March 1968, ordered to stand trial by court martial
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Louise Suggs Golf Invitational
1966 1st TV station in Congo, Kinshasa (Zaire)
1966 400 die of respiratory failure and heart attack in killer New York City smog
1966 The Beatles began recording sessions for "Sgt Pepper"
1965 Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu, becomes President of Zaire
1964 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (quarterback)
1964 Cards' 3rd baseman Ken Boyer is voted NL MVP
1964 For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington D.C. permitted to vote
1964 Rebellion ends in Zaire
1963 1st live murder on TV-Jack Ruby shoots Lee Harvey Oswald
1962 Last of Dutch militia leave New-Guinea
1960 Wilt Chamberlain pulls down 55 rebounds in a game (NBA record)
1958 Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1957 Cleveland Browns' fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yards rushing
1956 "Pajama Game" closes at St. James Theater New York City after 1063 performances
1956 44th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 50-27
1955 1st test flight of Fokker's F-27 Friendship
1954 Air Force One, 1st U.S. Presidential airplane, christened
1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria
1953 Dodgers sign Walter Alston to a 1-year pact as manager for 1954
1952 Agatha Christie's "Mousetrap" opens in London (still running)
1951 "17" closes at Broadhurst Theater New York City after 180 performances
1951 "Music in the Air" closes at Ziegfeld Theater New York City after 56 performances
1951 39th CFL Grey Cup: Ottawa Rough Riders defeats Saskatchewan, 21-14
1951 British auto manufacturers Austin/Moris Motors merge
1950 "Guys and Dolls" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 1200 performances
1950 U.N. troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
1950 U.S. infantry division conquerors Chonju, Korea
1949 Britain nationalizes it's steel and iron industry
1949 Syracuse Nationals beat Anderson Packers, 125-123 in 5 OTs
1948 Ireland votes for independence from UK
1948 WAVE TV channel 3 in Louisville, Kentucky (NBC) begins broadcasting
1947 John Steinbeck's novel "Pearl" published
1947 Un-American Activities Committee finds "Hollywood 10" in contempt because of their refusal to reveal whether they were communists
1944 U.S. bombers based on Saipan, begin 1st attack on Tokyo
1942 Field Marshal Erich von Manstein arrives in Starobelsk
1942 French collaborator earl De Brinon establishes "African Falanx"
1941 "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, rest exterminated
1941 Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1941 U.S. troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
1938 Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon," premieres in New York City
1938 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
1936 Noel Coward's "Tonight at 8:30," premieres in New York City
1936 Pacifist/anti fascist writer Carl Von Ossietzky sent to concentration camp, award Nobel Peace Prize
1935 King George II returns to Greece after 12 years
1934 CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia beats Regina, 20-12 at Toronto
1934 SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven," premieres in New York City
1930 1st woman pilot on a transcontinental air flight Miss Ruth Nichols (Mineola, New York to California), in a Lockheed-Vega, took 7 days
1926 KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1925 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
1925 Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St. New York City
1924 1st Dutch airplane (Fokker's F-7) reaches Batavia (Java)
1923 Radio Belgium's 1st transmission
1922 Italian parliament gives Mussolini dictatorial powers "for 1 year"
1918 Bela Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
1915 Serbian leader flees to Albania
1914 Benito Mussolini leaves Italy's socialist party
1914 Dutch Overseas Trustmaatschappij (NOT) forms
1905 Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel
1903 Clyde Coleman of New York City patents automobile electric starter
1903 George Ade's "County Chairman," premieres in New York City
1897 Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1896 1st U.S. absentee voting law enacted by Vermont
1887 Victorien Sardou's "La Tosca," premieres in Paris
1880 Southern University forms
1874 Joseph F. Glidden patents barbed wire
1871 National Rifle Association organized in New York City
1869 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
1863 Battle of Chattanooga, Columbia and Lookout Mountain begins in Tennessee
1862 M Levy publishes Gustave Flauberts "Salammbo"
1861 Luik-Vise-Maastricht railway opens
1859 Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"
1835 Texas Rangers, mounted police force authorized by Texas Prov Government
1832 South Carolina passes Ordinance of Nullification
1800 Weber's opera "Das Waldmadchen," premieres in Freiburg
1759 Destructive eruption of Vesuvius
1715 Thames River freezes
1703 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner in Philadelphia
1688 General strategist John Churchill meets Willem III
1655 English Lord Protector Cromwell bans Anglicans
1643 Battle at Tuttlingen: Beiers army under General Mercy beats France
1642 Abel Janzoon Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)
1639 1st observation of transit of Venus occured (only 2, record event)
1628 John Ford's "Lover's Melancholy," premieres in London
1601 Earl Mauritius ceases siege of De Bosch due to strict monarchy
1587 Battle at Auneau: Henri de Guise wins
1542 Battle at Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James
1434 Thames River freezes
1105 Rabbi Nathan ben Yehiel of Rome completes Talmudic dictionary
642 Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
496 Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius I as Catholic Pope

November 23 Events

2010 For the first time in ten years, Burmese pro-Democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is reunited with her son
2010 An additional 23 soldiers from the Bangladesh Rifles are sentenced to imprisonment for mutiny in February 2009
1997 Annika Sorenstam wins ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1997 Jana Novotna (Czechoslovakia) beats Mary Pierce (France) in Chase Tennis Champ
1996 Irebe Skliva, 18, of Greece, crowned 46th Miss World
1993 "Angels in America-Perestroika" opens at Walter Kerr New York City for 216 performances
1992 "Someone Who'll Watch Over Me" opens at Booth New York City for 232 performances
1992 10,000,000 cellular telephone sold
1991 A day before he dies, Freddie Mercury, 45, confirms he has AIDS
1991 Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1991 Martin Lopez-Zubero swims world record 200m backstroke (1:56.57)
1991 Sacramento Kings ends NBA's longest road losing streak at 43 games
1991 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols
1991 Brigham Young Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season and 15,031 for career
1990 Model Cheryl Tiegs marries actor Tony Peck
1990 Test Cricket debut of Saeed Anwar (Pak vs. WI), scores 0 and 0
1989 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1989 Xenophobia Zolotas sworn in as premier of Greece
1988 France performs nuclear test
1988 Wayne Gretzky scores his 600th NHL goal
1988 Yankees sign free agent 2nd-baseman Steve Sax to 3-year contract
1985 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijack Egyptair jet in Malta
1985 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
1984 Limited-over International cricket debut for Wasim Akram, vs. New Zealand
1984 Test Cricket debut of David Boon age 23 and Bob Holland age 38 (v WI)
1984 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1984 Boston College quarterback Doug Flutie passes (472 yards), including game ending 48 yard touchdown (Hail Mary Pass) to end game and beat Miami 47-45
1983 Soyuz T-9 lands
1983 U.S.S.R. leave weapon disarmament talks
1982 Challenger moves to Vandenberg AFB and mated for STS-6
1982 FCC drops limits on duration and frequency of TV ads
1982 New York Islanders and Minnesota North Stars play to an 8-8 tie
1980 4,800 die in series of earthquakes that devastated southern Italy
1980 68th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 48-10
1980 National Black Independent Party forms
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1977 "Jesus Christ Superstar" opens at Longacre Theater New York City for 96 performances
1977 European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1976 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1976 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1975 63rd CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Montreal Alouettes, 9-8
1975 Bob Thomas of Chicago Bears kicks 55-yard field goal
1975 Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Greater Ft. Myers Golf Classic
1974 60 Ethiopia government officials executed
1971 China People's Republic seated in United Nations Security Council
1971 Danny Murtaugh, manager of world champ Pirates, announces retirement
1970 KNCT TV channel 46 in Belton/Killeen, Texas (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" closes at Booth New York City after 36 performances
1968 Milwaukee Bucks make their 1st NBA trade, giving Bob Love and Bob Weiss to Chicago Bulls for Flynn Robinson
1966 Chicago outfielder Tommie Agee is voted AL Rookie of Year
1965 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern California (RB)
1965 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1964 "Bajour" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 232 performances
1964 Beatles release "I Feel Fine" and "She's a Woman"
1964 Vatican abolished Latin as official language of Roman Catholic liturgy
1963 "Doctor Who," the long-running British sci-fi series debuts in England
1963 "Tambourines to Glory" closes at Little Theater New York City after 24 performances
1963 Horatio Alger Society founded
1963 John F. Kennedy's body, lay in repose in East Room of White House
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for John F. Kennedy)
1962 Dodgers shortstop Maury Wills is named NL's MVP
1960 Dodgers outfielder Frank Howard is voted NL Rookie of Year
1960 Tinseltown dedicated its Walk of Fame on Hollywood Blvd
1960 Tiros 2, a weather satellite is launched
1959 "Fiorello!" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 796 performances
1955 British transfer Cocos (Keeling) Is in Indian Ocean to Australia
1953 KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft. Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1953 WJBF TV channel 6 in Augusta, Georgia (ABC) begins broadcasting
1950 Howard Swanson's "Short Symphony," premieres
1948 Dr. Frank G Back (New York City) patents lens to provide zoom effects
1947 French government of Schumann, forms
1947 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
1946 "Gypsy Lady" closes at Century Theater New York City after 79 performances
1946 34th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 28-6
1946 French Navy fire in Haiphong Vietnam, kills 6,000
1945 Most U.S. wartime rationing of foods, including meat and butter, ends
1944 U.S. 7th army under General Patch conquers Straatsburg
1943 1st printing of illegal "Warheid"
1943 British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operation
1943 U.S. forces take control of Tarawa, Gilbert Island and Makin from Japanese
1943 Phils owner William D. Cox is permanently banned from baseball for having bet on his own team
1942 3rd and 5th Romanian army corp surrenders
1942 Coast Guard Woman's Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1942 Colonel General Von Paul asks Hitler to surrender
1942 German 4th and 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 Japan bombs Port Darwin, Australia
1942 Poon Lim set adrift for 133 days after his boat is torpedoed
1942 Russian 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
1942 Steward Poon Lim begins floating in a raft 133 days
1941 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
1940 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
1940 Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
1939 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1937 Clifford Odets' "Golden Boy," premieres in New York City
1937 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men," premieres in New York City
1936 1st issue of Life, picture magazine created by Henry R Luce
1936 Life magazine hit newsstands
1931 Nationally Crisis Committee forms in Hague
1930 New York Giant Hap Moran runs 91 yards for a TD from a scrimmage
1926 Noel Coward's "This Was a Man," premieres in New York City
1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP and KPD
1923 Germany's Stresemann government falls to SPD
1921 President Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital
1909 7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec)
1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti
1904 3rd Olympic games close in St. Louis
1903 Enrico Caruso U.S. debut (Metropolitan Opera House, New York) in "Rigoletto"
1899 1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF)
1899 Battle at Belmont, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers
1897 Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
1897 Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
1892 Battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed
1892 P de Coubertin launches plan for Modern Olympic Games
1889 Debut of 1st jukebox (Palais Royale Saloon, San Francisco)
1887 Notre Dame loses its 1st football game 8-0 to Michigan
1887 Opera "Trumpeter of Sackingen" 1st American production (New York City)
1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1876 Columbia, Harvard and Princeton form Intercollegiate Football Association
1871 Railway bridge over Dutch Deep opens
1868 Louis Ducos du Hauron patents trichrome color photo process
1864 Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1863 Battle of Chattanooga and Orchard Knob, Tennessee begins
1863 Patent granted for a process of making color photographs
1852 Just past midnight, a sharp jolt causes Lake Merced to drop 30' (9m)
1848 Female Medical Educational Society forms in Boston
1835 Henry Burden patents Horseshoe manufacturing machine (Troy New York)
1834 Hector Berlioz's "Harold in Italy," premieres
1832 French take Antwerp in liberation of Belgium
1783 Annapolis Maryland, becomes U.S. capital (until June 1784)
1765 People of Frederick County Md refuse to pay England's Stamp tax
1744 English premier John Carteret resigns
1705 Nicholas Rowe's "Ulysses," premieres in London
1700 Cardinal Francesco Albani elected Pope Clemens XI
1584 English parliament throws out Jesuits
1577 Water Geuzen under Captain Slope enter Amsterdam
1556 King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1334 St. Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome

November 22 Events

2010 Germany holds its first pirate trial in 400 years, placing ten Somalia�s on trial for attacking a German ship
2010 A stampede occurs in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, during the Khmer Water Festival celebrations, killing at least 339 people
2005 XBox 360 video game is released by Microsoft
2005 Ted Koppel's last show as host of Nightline
1998 ITT LPGA Tour Championship
1996 O. J. Simpson takes stand as hostile witness in the wrongful death lawsuit filed against him, saying it is "absolutely not true"
1995 Rosemary West, found guilty in England, of killing 10 women
1993 "Laughter on the 23rd Floor" opens at Richard Rodgers New York City for 320 perf
1992 Sandra Volker swims world record 50m backstroke (28.57 sec)
1992 Washington Post reports Ore Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1991 New York Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
1990 George Bush visits U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia
1990 Margaret Thatcher announces her resignation as British Prime Minister
1990 Dr. Amos Sawyer installed as interim President of Liberia
1989 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and Moon
1989 Kirby Pucket signs record $3,000,000 per year Minnesota Twins contract
1989 U.S. 63rd manned space mission STS-33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
1987 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick in 2 for heavyweight WBC boxing title
1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
1985 Columbia moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-61-C
1985 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become U.S. citizens
1985 PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
1984 Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr Rogers? Neighborhood" presents a sweater to Smithsonian Institution
1982 Columbia returns to Kennedy Space Center via Kelly AFB, Texas
1981 "Marlowe" closes at Rialto Theater New York City after 48 performances
1981 69th CFL Grey Cup: Edmonton Eskimos defeats Ottawa Rough Riders, 26-23
1981 Browns' quarterback Brian Sipe sets club record by being intercepted 6 times
1981 San Diego Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1981 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between New York and Europe begins
1976 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
1976 Comic strip "Cathy," by Cathy Guisewhite, debuts
1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
1974 Test Cricket debut of Gordon Greenidge and Viv Richards, at Bangalore
1974 U.N. General Assembly recognizes Palestine right to sovereignty
1972 Belgium government of Eyskens resigns
1972 Flyers start Islanders on 15 game winless streak
1972 Pitts Penguins set NHL record for scoring fastest 5 goals (2:07)
1972 U.S. ends 22 year travel ban to China
1971 "Only Fools Are Sad" opens at Edison Theater New York City for 144 performances
1969 Isolation of single gene announced by scientists at Harvard
1968 1st interracial TV kiss, Star Trek-Kirk and Uhura
1968 Beatles release "Beatles," (White Album) their only double album
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles
1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
1967 U.N. Sec council passes resolution 242 - Israel must give back occupied land
1967 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1966 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (quarterback)
1965 "Man of La Mancha" opens at ANTA Washington Square Theater New York City for 2329 performances
1965 Bob Dylan weds Sara Lowndes
1965 Muhammad Ali TKOs Floyd Patterson in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1964 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1964 WITF TV channel 33 in Harrisburg-Hershey, Pennsylvania (PBS) begins broadcasting
1963 Beatles release their 2nd album "With the Beatles" in UK
1963 Lyndon Baines Johnson sworn in as 36th U.S. president
1961 Frank Robinson is 1st to win MVPs in both major leagues
1961 St. Louis Hawk Bob Pettit sets NBA record, hitting 19 of 19 free throws
1961 Producers Albert Broccoli and Harry Saltzman announce expensive publicity campaign to make Sean Connery (James Bond) a star
1960 French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1959 AFL's 1st draft - New York Titans choice George Izo, quarterback, Notre Dame
1959 Boston Patriots enters AFL
1957 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1957 Miles Davis Quintet debuts a jazz concert at Carnegie Hall in NY
1957 Simon and Garfunkel appear on "American Bandstand" as "Tom and Jerry"
1956 16th modern Olympic games opens in Melbourne
1956 Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1955 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1955 RCA Victor's best investment paying $25,000 to Sun Records and Sam Philips for rights to Elvis Presley, a truck driver from Tupelo Miss
1954 Humane Society forms
1952 A's Harry Byrd selected AL Rookie of Year
1950 7,021 see lowest NBA score, Ft. Wayne Pistons 19, Minneapolis Lakers 18
1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
1945 "Day before Spring" opens at National Theater New York City for 167 performances
1945 Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1944 Duke of Cornwalls Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1943 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
1943 Lebanon declares independence from French administration
1943 RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1943 U.S. troops land on Abemada, Gilbert Island
1942 General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
1942 Hitler orders Rommels African corps to fight to last man
1941 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German sub Atlantis
1941 New Zealand troops conquer Ft. Capuzzo Libya
1940 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
1936 19th PGA Championship: Denny Shute at Pinehurst CC Pinehurst NC
1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
1934 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
1932 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered
1931 Ferde Grofe's "Grand Canyon Suite," premieres
1930 1st Irish Sweepstake run
1930 1st U.S. football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1930 Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1929 Bradman scores 157 for NSW against the MCC at cricket SCG
1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, 1st performed publicly (Paris)
1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner Wisc)
1927 George Gershwin's "Funny Face," premieres in New York City
1927 Neil Simon Theater (Alvin) opens at 250 W 52nd St. New York City
1926 Imperial Conference ends-giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
1925 Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1922 British Labour party selects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1922 Library Ave in Bronx named
1922 Wilhelm Cuno forms new German government
1919 15,000 men are cremated at Domela Newenhouse, Amsterdam
1919 Labor conference committee in U.S. urges 8-hour work day and 48-hour week
1918 Bathe: grand duke Frederik II resigns
1918 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
1918 Marshal J Pilsudski becomes 1st president (dictator) of Poland
1918 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators and Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1914 Ypres Belgium burned by German bombing
1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
1905 British, Italian, Russisan, French and Austria-Hungary fleet attack Lesbos
1899 Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1898 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1884 T Thomas Fortune starts New York Freeman (New York Age) newspaper
1872 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo," premieres in Prague
1864 Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties
1864 Union General O Howard orders plunderers, shot to death
1861 Battle of Ft. McRee, FL
1851 Opera "La Perle Du Bresil" is produced (Paris)
1842 Mount St. Helens in Washington, erupts
1831 Opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
1794 Strasbourg Alsace-Lorraine, prohibits circumcision and wearing of beards
1714 King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1707 Prince Johan Willem Friso sworn in as viceroy of Friesland
1699 Treaty of Preobrasjensku Denmark/Russia/Saksen/Poland divide Sweden
1683 Purcells "Welcome to All the Pleasures," premieres in London
1675 English king Charles II adjourns parliament
1542 Spain delegates "New Laws" against slavery in America
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope
1346 Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements
1221 Frederik II Hohenstaufen crowned Roman-German Emperor
498 St. Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II
365 [Felix II] ends his reign as Catholic Pope

November 21 Events

2010 President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad rejects Iran's successful family planning program and urges young Iranian girls to marry at age 16
2010 Jimmy Johnson becomes the first driver ever to win five straight NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championships
2004 Ukraine re-elects Prime Minister Viktor Yanukovich. but the election results were thrown out after large protests about the way the election was conducted
1996 "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater New York City
1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
1995 Israel grants jailed U.S. spy Jason Pollard, citizenship
1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"
1994 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland vs. NSW, SCG)
1993 "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 14 performances
1993 "Cyrano - The Musical" opens at Neil Simon Theater New York City for 137 performances
1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)
1992 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1991 Poet Maria Elene Cruz Varela arrested in Cuba
1990 Michael Milken is sentenced to 10 years for security law violations
1989 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by President Bush
1989 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
1987 Actress Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis
1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood
1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution
1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
1983 "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater New York City for 104 performances
1983 New York Ranger Ron Greschner marries model Carol Alt
1981 400,000 demonstrate in Amsterdam against cruise missiles
1981 Olivia Newton-John's "Physical," single goes #1 and stays for 10 weeks
1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill)
1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns
1980 It is revealed Kristen shot J.R. Ewing on "Dallas"
1980 John and Yoko pose nude for photographer Allan Tannenbaum
1980 MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas in fire; 84 die
1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack U.S. embassy, 1 dies
1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
1977 1st flight of Concorde, London to New York
1977 Orioles 1st baseman Eddie Murray wins AL Rookie of Year
1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in U.S. are dropped
1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
1973 Pete Rose wins NL MVP
1973 President Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18 minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
1972 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
1971 New York Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of San Francisco Zen Center
1970 New York Knicks 1st game against Cleveland Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at MSG
1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, Texas (ABC) 1st broadcast
1969 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 Cincinnati trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
1968 Supremes and Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
1968 Yoko Ono suffers a miscarriage
1967 Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1966 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel
1965 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1964 "Something More!" closes at Eugene O'Neill Theater New York City after 15 performances
1964 "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater New York City for 49 performances
1964 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (New York City)
1963 John F. Kennedy flies to Texas
1960 Bob Scheffing signs to manage Tigers after Casey Stengel turns it down
1959 Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1956 Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP and 1st-ever Cy Young Award
1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1955 KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 "Pitdown Man," discovered in 1912 proved to be a hoax
1953 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft. Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1952 1st U.S. postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
1949 Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million
1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St. Louis, to become wrestling champ
1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st U.S. president to travel in a submerged sub
1945 Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C, premieres
1945 General Motors workers go on strike
1944 Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1943 7 Belgian ministers in London sentence King Leopold III
1942 Tweety Bird, aka Tweety Pie, debuts in "Tale of Two Kitties"
1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
1938 Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declared them German citizens
1937 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad
1935 1st commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
1935 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura," premieres in Paris
1934 "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1934 New York Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from San Francisco Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1933 1st U.S. ambassador to U.S.S.R., W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1925 Red Grange plays final University of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
1924 British premier Baldwin cancels Labor contract with U.S.S.R.
1922 Rebecca L. Felton sworn in as 1st female U.S. Senator
1920 Karel Capek's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
1920 Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
1917 M Gorki calls Lenin a blind fanatic/unthinking adventurer
1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
1914 British army conquerors Bazra
1906 China prohibits opium trade
1905 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics and Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot," premieres in Dresden
1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans"
1880 Henry Stanley and Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph)
1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition and natives
1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (New York City)
1871 The 1st human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot
1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
1849 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin," premieres in Vienna
1848 Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto," premieres in Paris
1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
1824 1st Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
1818 Russia's Czar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
1789 North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th U.S. state
1787 Andrew Jackson admitted to bar
1783 Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st free balloon flight
1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1729 Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1696 J Vanbrughes "Relapse or Virtue in Danger," premieres in London
1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims in Cape Cod
1492 Pinta under Martin A Pinzon separates from Columbus' fleet
1317 Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as archbishop Clemens of Friezen
496 St. Gelasius I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
235 St. Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope

November 20 Events

2010 NATO nations reach an agreement to begin handing over Afghanistan's security to the Afghanistan military by 2014
2010 The Governor of the Central Bank of Iran, Mahmoud Bahmani, resigns
2009 An ethnic conflict over fishing rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo kills 100 people, displaces 50,000
2003 British consulate and bank bombed in Istanbul murdering 27
1997 "Ivanov," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 51 performances
1997 Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose defenseman Marty McSorley
1997 Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to Kansas City Royals
1997 Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played
1997 New York Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
1995 "Beatles' Anthology, Vol 1" released
1995 "Racing Demon" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater New York City for 48 performances
1995 FDA approves new therapy for use as an initial AIDS treatment, 3TC
1995 Princess Di admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
1995 STS-74 (Atlantis 15), lands
1994 "Flying Karamzov Brothers..." opens at Helen Hayes New York City for 50 performances
1994 "Shadow Box" opens at Circle in Sq Theater New York City for 49 performances
1994 Kosmos 2294/2295/2296 launches
1994 Patti Davis weds Paul Hayeland
1993 Jakovlev-42 crashes into mountain at Ohrid Macedonia, 116 killed
1993 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Robin Romeo
1993 Winnie Mandela's driver/bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1992 Queen Elizabeth's home Windsor Castle catches fire
1991 Atlanta Braves Terry Pendleton wins NL MVP
1990 Oakland's Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1990 Sacramento Kings last NBA win on the road for over a year
1990 Thatcher fails to defeat Heseltine's bid for party leadership
1990 U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1989 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
1988 "Les Miserables," opens a Bus and Truck tour in Tampa
1986 Afghanistan President Babrak Karmal flees
1986 UN's WHO announces 1st global effort to combat AIDS
1985 New York Yankee Don Mattingly easily wins AL MVP
1984 McDonald's made its 50 billionth hamburger
1984 Mets pitcher Dwight Gooden wins NL Rookie of Year
1983 "Marilyn: An American Fable" opens at Minskoff New York City for 16 performances
1983 100 million watch ABC-TV movie "Day After," about nuclear war
1983 Cleveland Browns shutout Patriots 30-0
1983 New York Giants Butch Woolfolk ties NFL record of 43 attempts rushing
1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts Saturday Night Live
1981 Anatoly Karpov, U.S.S.R. retains world chess championship
1981 Burundia adopts its constitution
1981 El Salvador guerrilla group FMLN opens "limited offensive"
1981 Ringo releases "Stop and Smell Roses" album
1980 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year for the Oakland A's
1980 Steve Ptacek in Solar Challenger makes 1st solar-powered flight
1980 UA withdraws $44 million movie "Heaven's Gate" for reediting
1979 Sji'ieten occupies great mosque of Mecca, 100s killed
1979 U.S.'s 1st artificial blood transfusion occurs at University of Minnesota Hospital
1977 Egyptian President Sadat became 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1977 Steve Largent begins NFL streak of 177 consecutive game receptions
1977 Walter Payton (Bears) rushes for NFL-record 275 yards
1976 George Harrison appears on Saturday Night Live
1976 Judy Rankin wins LPGA Colgate-Hong Kong Golf Open
1975 Ronald Reagan announced candidacy for Republican nomination for president
1974 Rangers' Jeff Burroughs wins AL MVP
1974 The U.S. files antitrust suit to break-up AT&T
1971 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1970 U.N. General Assembly accepts membership of China PR
1969 Alcatraz Island off SF, is seized by militant Native Americans
1969 Gundappa Viswanath scores 137 on Test Cricket debut vs. Australia Kanpur
1969 Pele scores his 1,000th soccer goal
1969 San Francisco Giant Willie McCovey edges Tom Seaver as NL MVP
1968 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1967 U.S. population reaches 200 million
1967 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
1967 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
1966 "Cabaret" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 1166 performances
1966 Clifford Ann Creed wins LPGA Success Golf Open
1966 Dallas sacks Pittsburgh quarterbacks an NFL record 12 times
1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage
1965 "Pickwick" closes at 46th St. Theater New York City after 56 performances
1965 U.N. Security council calls for boycott of Rhodesia
1965 WCNY TV channel 24 in Syracuse, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th/10th String Quartet premiers in Moscow
1962 Mickey Mantle wins AL MVP
1962 U.S.S.R. agrees to remove bombers from Cuba, and U.S. lifts blockade
1961 WPLG TV channel 10 in Miami, Florida (ABC) begins broadcasting
1959 U.N. adopts Universal Declaration of Children's Rights
1959 WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1957 Morton Wishengrad's "Rope Dancers," premieres in New York City
1955 Kripal Singh scores 100 on Test Cricket debut, India vs. New Zealand
1955 Polly Umrigar scores India's 1st Test Cricket double century, 223 vs. New Zealand
1954 KTRK TV channel 13 in Houston, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 Scott Crossfield in Douglas Skyrocket, 1st to break Mach 2 (1,300 MPH)
1952 Cubs slugger Hank Sauer wins NL MVP
1952 George Axelrods "7 Year Itch," premieres in New York City
1952 Prague show trial against 14 communists (9 Jewish) begin
1951 Snowdonia becomes a National Park in Wales
1949 Jewish population of Israel reaches 1,000,000
1948 U.S. balloon reaches height of 42.7 km (record)
1947 "Meet the Press" makes network TV debut on NBC
1947 1st permanent TV installed on seagoing vessel (New Jersey)
1947 Britain's Princess Elizabeth, marries Duke Philip Mountbatten
1947 Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Mediator Dei
1947 U.N. General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1946 Lillian Hellman's "Another Part of the Forest," premieres in New York City
1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany
1945 Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 9th Symphony under J Mravinski premieres
1945 Queen Wilhelmina opens parliament in Hague
1944 1st Japanse suicide submarine attack (Ulithi Atol, Carolines)
1944 Amsterdam: Vondelpark closed because of kappen of trees
1944 Prince Bernhard establishes staff in Breda
1943 U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 U.S. forces land on Tarawa and Makin Atoll in Gilbert Island
1942 26th Russian Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
1942 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
1942 Hitler names Field Marshal Erich von Manstein becomes commanding
1942 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
1942 Soviet army offensive, 1 million Russians breach German lines
1941 Admiral Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1941 German Q/pirate ship Kormoran sinks near Australia
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1940 Hungary joins 3 Power pact
1938 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over U.S. radio (by Father Coughlin)
1934 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's home run, Japan beats U.S. 1-0
1934 Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour," premieres in New York City
1934 New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui and Gutt (3 bankers)
1934 Tornoto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in 1 period
1932 Earthquake at Uden Netherlands
1931 Commercial teletype service begins (AT&T)
1929 1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on U.S. radio
1929 Salvador Dali's 1st one-man show
1928 Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0
1928 WGH-AM in Newport News Virginia begins radio transmissions
1923 Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal
1922 Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in New York City
1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to U.S. president Woodrow Wilson
1919 1st municipally owned airport in U.S. opens (Tucson Az)
1917 1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)
1917 Ukrainian Republic declared
1915 7th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Rowing, 13-7
1914 U.S. State Department starts requiring photographs for passports
1911 Gustav Mahlers "Tie Song of the Erde" premieres in Munich
1910 Revolution broke out in Mexico, led by Francisco I Madero
1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game
1906 George Bernard Shaws "Doctor's Dilemma," premieres in London
1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
1901 Opera "Griselidis" is produced (Paris)
1894 U.S. intervenes in Bluefields, Nicaragua
1890 Pope Leo XIII encyclical On slavery in missions
1889 Gustav Mahlers 1st Symphony
1888 William Bundy patents timecard clock
1873 Rival cities of Buda and Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary
1866 1st national convention of Grand Army of Republic (veterans' org)
1866 Howard University founded (Wash, DC)
1866 Pierre Lalemont patents rotary crank bicycle
1865 Howard University forms in Washington D.C.
1862 Armies of Mississippi/Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee
1862 Confederate army of Tennessee, organizes under General Braxton Bragg
1852 Charles Reade/Tom Taylor's "Masks and Faces," premieres in London
1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay
1829 Jews expelled from Nikolayev and Sevastopol Russia
1817 1st Seminole War begins in Florida
1815 2nd Peace of Paris: France and allies
1815 Russia, Prussia, Austria and England signs Great Alliance
1805 Beethoven's "Fidelio," premieres in Vienna
1795 Curacao government forbids slave work on Sunday
1789 New Jersey is 1st state to ratify Bill of Rights
1780 Britain declares war on Holland
1759 Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1755 English minister William Pitt Sr resigns
1719 Sweden and Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockholm
1637 Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1616 Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs/War
1583 Duke of Parma conquerors Aalst
1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine
1520 Friesland hit by heavy hail storm
1431 1st meeting of Order of Guilder Flies
1347 Roman tribunal Coke di Rienzo beats nobles
1342 Pope Clemens VI names John IV of Arkel as bishop of Utrecht
1272 Edward I proclaimed King of England
1168 Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope

November 19 Events

2010 The Dalai Lama, Tibet's spiritual leader, says cultural genocide is happening as a result of the Chinese law requiring Mandarin as the language of instruction in Tibetan schools
2010 Many nations urge lower fishing rates on the Atlantic bluefin tuna; quota limits on the critically endangered fish are discussed by major fishing nations in Paris
2008 Claudia Castillo has a successful trachea transplant from stem-cell created organ
1997 "Eugene Onegin," opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City
1997 "Old Neighborhood," opens at Booth Theater New York City
1997 STS-87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
1996 "God Said, Ha!," opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 22 performances
1996 "Sex and Longing" closes at Cort Theater New York City
1996 Albert Belle, signs record five-year, $55 million with White Sox
1996 Space Shuttle STS-80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
1995 "Beatle Anthology" premieres on ABC-TV
1995 "Sacrilege" closes at Belasco Theater New York City after 21 performances
1995 "School for Scandal" opens at Lyceum Theater New York City for 23 performances
1995 83rd CFL Grey Cup: Baltimore Stallions defeats Calgary Stampeders, 37-20
1995 Keelin Curnuck, 23, Ms Venus Swimwear 1994, crowned Miss New York USA
1995 Suicide bomber blasts into Egyptian embassy in Islamabad, kills 16
1994 Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
1994 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson
1993 Algerian Moslem fundamentalists uprising, 27 killed
1993 Curaeaose vote to remain part of Dutch Antilles
1992 "3 From Brooklyn" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 45 performances
1991 Baltimore Orioles shortstop Cal Ripken wins his 2nd AL MVP
1990 Greyhound files reoganization plan so they can be traded publically
1990 Iraq announces it will free all German hostages
1990 Pittsburgh's Barry Bonds wins NL MVP
1989 U.S. beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
1988 LA Law's Corbin Bernsen marries actress Amanda Pays
1987 France performs nuclear test
1986 Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1986 Tina Howe's "Coastal Disturbances," premieres in New York City
1985 Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport," premieres in New York City
1985 President Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for 1st time
1984 Liquid gas tank in Mexico City explodes; 334 die
1984 New York Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1983 Edmonton Oilers beat New Jersey Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils "a Mickey Mouse organization"
1980 CBS TV bans Calvin Klein's jean ad featuring Brooke Shields
1979 Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1978 Gavaskar gets twin cricket tons for India for 2nd time
1977 Egyptian president Sadat visits Israel
1977 Canuck's Ron Sedlbauer fails on 3rd penalty shot against Islanders
1977 Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1977 Libya drops diplomatic relations with Egypt
1976 George Harrison releases "This Song"
1976 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1975 Reds 2nd baseman Joe Morgan is named NL MVP
1973 Elections in Suriname, premier Sedney's PNP doesn't win a chair
1972 "Ambassador" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 9 performances
1972 "Dear Oscar" closes at Playhouse Theater New York City after 5 performances
1972 Gershwin Theater (Uris) opens at 1633 Broadway New York City
1972 KFIZ TV channel 34 in Fond du Lac, WI suspends broadcasting
1972 Willy Brandts SPD wins West German election
1970 Golden Gate Park Conservatory becomes a California state historical landmark
1970 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1969 Apollo 12's Conrad and Bean become 3rd and 4th humans on Moon
1969 WENY TV channel 36 in Elmira, New York (ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 Mali military coup, president Modibo Keita flees
1968 Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1967 Mickey Wright wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1966 Mad Dog Vachon beats Dick The Bruiser in Omaha, to become NWA champ
1965 ABC radio begins weekly "Vietnam Update" report
1965 Kellogg's Pop Tarts pastries created
1963 Worst Canadian air disaster kills 118 in Montreal
1962 Fidel Castro accepts removal of Soviet weapons
1962 KOET (now KULC) TV channel 9 in Ogden, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1962 SN Behrman's "Lord Pengo," premieres in New York City
1962 Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1961 Houston George Blanda passes for 7 touchdowns vs New York Titans (49-13)
1960 Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1959 "Rocky and His Friends" debuts on ABC
1959 Ford cancels Edsel
1958 First 2 F-27 Fokker's Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
1957 Antonin Novotny appointed president of Czechoslovakia
1955 KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 U.S. Supreme Court rules (7-2) baseball is a sport not a business
1953 U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon visits Hanoi
1952 North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1952 Spain joins UNESCO
1951 Roy Campanella named NL MVP on his 30th birthday
1951 U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1950 U.S. General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1949 Prince Rainier III coronation as 30th ruling Prince of Monaco
1948 Belgian government of Spaak, forms
1947 200" mirror arrives at Mount Palomar
1946 Bradman scores 119 South Australia vs. Victoria, 183 minutes, 8 fours
1943 U-536 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1942 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Niederlanden"
1942 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
1940 Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1940 German air raid on Birmingham fails
1939 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1933 Women allowed to vote in Spain (helps right wing)
1932 Joe Kershalla scores 71 points in a college football game
1932 Shaft and Thyssen demand Hitler become German chancellor
1928 1st issue of Time magazine, Japanese Emperor Hirohito on cover
1926 British mine strikes after 28 weeks ends
1923 Bela Bartok's "Tancsuite," premieres
1922 Demonstration for a French Language University in Ghent
1919 U.S. Senate rejects Treaty of Versailles and League of Nations
1911 New York receives 1st Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1910 Ferenc Moln rs "Tester," premieres in Budapest
1909 Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1906 London selected to host 1908 Olympics
1903 Carrie Nation attempts to address Senate
1896 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Sussex Vampire"
1895 Frederick E. Blaisdell patents the pencil
1894 1st mushroom on a stamp (China 1 and 5 Ap)
1894 Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1893 1st newspaper color supplement (New York World)
1887 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Dying Detective"
1879 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
1874 William Marcy "Boss" Tweed, of Tammany Hall (New York City) convicted of defrauding city of $6M, sentenced to 12 years' imprisonment
1863 Lincoln delivers his address in Gettysburg; "4 score and 7 years..."
1861 Julia Ward Howe committed "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
1850 Lord Tennyson becomes British poet laureate
1837 Floridsdorf-Deutsch Wagram railway in Austria opens
1824 Storm causes St. Petersburg flood, killing 10,000
1794 Jakobonen Club forms in Paris
1794 Jay Treaty, 1st U.S. extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1700 Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians
1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England
1621 Rabbi Isaiah b Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1620 Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast
1544 Pope Paul III opens council of Trente
1523 Giulio de' Medici chosen as Pope Clemens VII
1521 Battle at Milan: Emperor Karel V's/pontifical/Spanish/German troops beat France and occupy Milan
1493 Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage
1367 League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV
1302 Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree "Unam sanctam"
615 Pope Deusdedit/Adeodatus I elected to succeed Boniface IV
498 Anastasius II ends his reign as Catholic Pope
461 St. Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope

November 17 Events

2010 A construction site in London reveals a Roman settlement filled with ancient artifacts and human remains
2010 Alaska's State Senator Lisa Murkowski becomes the first write-in candidate to successfully win an election since 1954
1997 Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
1997 Islamist terrorists murder 60 tourists at Luxor in Egypt
1996 "Present Laughter" opens at Walter Kerr Theater New York City
1996 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational
1994 "Sunset Boulevard" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 977 performances
1994 3rd Germany government of Kohl forms
1994 Irish government of Reynolds resigns
1993 "Grand Night For Singing" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 52 performances
1993 Antonov AN-124 flies in South Iran against mountain: 17 killed
1993 U.S. House of Representatives approve Nafta
1992 "Gypsy Passion" opens at Plymouth Theater New York City for 55 performances
1992 Blue Jay Nigel Wilson is 1st pick of Marlins in expansion draft
1992 Dateline NBC airs a demonstration show General Motors trucks, blowing up on impact, later revealed NBC rigged test
1992 Erling Kagge begins successful exploration at South pole
1991 "Brigadoon" closes at New York State Theater New York City after 12 performances
1991 1st TV condom ad aired (FOX- TV)
1991 Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs Los Angeles Rams
1989 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year Kansas City Royal contract
1988 Linda Petursdottir of Iceland, 18, crowned 38th Miss World
1988 Neil Simon's "Rumors," premieres in New York City
1987 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
1986 "Oh Coward!" opens at Helen Hayes Theater New York City for 56 performances
1985 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM in New York
1985 New York Jets best offensive production beating Tampa Bay 62-28
1984 Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to New Jersey Nets 124-110
1984 Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1983 "La Tragedie de Carmen" opens at Beaumont Theater New York City for 187 performances
1983 Harm Wiersma retains checkers world championship
1983 Philadelphia Flyers win 13th straight NHL game
1982 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
1981 "1st" opens at Martin Beck Theater New York City for 37 performances
1981 NBA New York Knick Bill Cartwright, ties record of 19 of 19 free throws
1980 John Lennon releases "Double Fantasy" album in the United Kingdom
1979 Daniel Okrent sketches out 1st draft rules for Rotisserie Baseball
1979 Khomeini frees most black and female U.S. hostages
1979 New York Stars (WBL) home opener at MSG in New York City
1979 On a flight to Austin, TX, Daniel Okrent sketches out the first
1978 Gerald Lascelles (under English princess Mary) weds Elizabeth Colvin
1977 Bernard Pomerance's "Elephant Man," premieres in London
1977 Egyptian President Sadat formally accepts invitation to visit Israel
1977 Miss World Contest - Miss U.K. wears $9,500 platinum bikini
1976 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC
1974 Bonnie Bryant wins Bill Branch LPGA Golf Classic
1974 Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1973 Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1973 Teri Garr plays role of a stripper on "The Nurse"
1973 President Nixon tells AP "...people have got to know whether or not their President is a crook. Well, I'm not a crook"
1972 Juan Peron returns to Argentina
1970 British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on pg 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1970 Russia lands Lunokhod 1 unmanned remote-controlled vehicle on Moon
1969 SALT-discussions open in Helsinki Finland
1968 "Zorba" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 305 performances
1968 John Kander/Fred Ebbs musical "Zorba," premieres in New York City
1968 KHNE TV channel 29 in Hastings, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1968 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Pensacola Ladies' Golf Invitational
1968 NBC cuts to show "Heidi," misses Raider's rally to beat Jets, 43-32
1967 Beatles Ltd and Apple Music Ltd swap names
1967 French author Regis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
1967 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
1966 Leonids meteor shower peaks (150,000+ per hour)
1965 General Meeting of United Nations refuses admittance of China PR
1965 William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1964 British Labour Party installs weapon embargo against South Africa
1963 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mary Mills Miss Gulf Coast Golf Invitational
1962 "Little Me" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 257 performances
1962 "Nowhere to Go, But Up" closes at Winter Garden New York City after 9 performances
1962 President Kennedy dedicates Dulles International Airport outside Washington D.C.
1962 Simon/Coleman/Leigh's musical "Little Me," premieres in New York City
1962 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1960 New Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
1959 De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1959 Giants slugger Willie McCovey wins NL Rookie of Year
1959 William Shea shows proposed New York City stadium with transparent roof
1958 KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1957 WBOY TV channel 12 in Clarksburg, WV (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting
1956 Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
1956 U.S.S.R. performs atmospheric nuclear test
1953 St. Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1948 Britain's House of Commons votes to nationalize steel industry
1945 "Girl from Nantucket" closes at Adelphi Theater New York City after 12 performances
1945 New world air speed record 606 mph (975 kph) set by HJ Wilson of RAF
1941 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
1940 Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
1939 German U-boat torpedoes passenger ship
1939 Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May," premieres in New York City
1938 Italy passes their own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
1937 Britains Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
1936 Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy become overnight success on radio
1934 Lyndon B. Johnson marries Claudia Alta Taylor
1933 U.S. recognizes U.S.S.R., opens trade
1932 German government of von Papen, resigns
1931 Bradman scores 135 NSW vs. South Africa, 128 minutes, 15 fours
1930 Musical "Sweet and Low" with Fanny Brice premieres in New York City
1929 Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico
1929 Stalin throws Nicolai Bucharin out of Politburo
1928 Boston Garden officially opens
1928 Notre Dame finally lost a football game after nearly 25 years
1927 Tornado hits Washington D.C.
1926 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St. Pats 4-1
1922 Turkish sultan Mehmed VI flees to Malta on British warship
1918 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
1917 Lenin defended "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
1914 U.S. declares Panama Canal Zone neutral
1913 1st U.S. dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Ct
1913 Panama Canal opens
1904 George Cohans musical "Little Johnny Jones," premieres in New York City
1894 Daily Racing Form founded
1889 Union Pacific begins daily through service, Chicago-Portland and SF
1888 St. Tsjaikovsky's 5th Symphony premieres in Petersburg
1884 Cops arrest John L Sullivan in 2nd round for being "cruel"
1877 Gilbert/Sullivans operette "Sorcerer," premieres in London
1875 Amer Theosophical Society founded by Mme Blavatsky and Col Olcott
1874 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire and sinks off Auckland, New Zealand
1869 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race (13K Paris-Rouen)
1869 Suez Canal (Egypt) opens, links Mediterranean and Red seas
1866 Opera "Mignon" is produced (Paris)
1863 Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
1862 Confederate Secretary of War George B. Randolph resigns
1858 Origin of Modified Julian Period
1853 Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1842 Fugitive slave George Latimer, captured in Boston
1842 Opera "Linda di Chamounix" is produced (London)
1839 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Oberte Conti Di," premieres in Milan
1820 Antarctica discovered by Nathaniel B. Palmer on the 'Hero', a 47 foot sloop
1800 Congress held 1st session in Washington D.C. in incompleted Capitol building
1800 John Adams is 1st President to move into the White House
1796 Battle of Arcole-Napolean I's French forces beat Austrians in Italy
1785 Church of England organizes in New England
1734 John Zenger, arrested for libel against New York col gov; later acquitted
1558 Elizabeth I ascends English throne upon death of Queen Mary
1555 William of Orange becomes member of Council of State
1511 England and Spain sign anti-French covenant
1278 680 Jews arrested (293 hanged) in England for counterfeiting coins

November 15 Events

2010 The U.S. announces it will provide an additional $500 million to aid Pakistan to help rebuilding efforts after major floods ravaged the country
2010 In Prague, scientists exhume the remains of 16th century astronomer Tycho Brahe, in an effort to solve the mystery of his sudden death
2009 Kosovo holds its first local election since declaring independence from Serbia
2006 Al Jazeera launches Al Jazeera English
1999 Next transit of Mercury visible in North America
1997 19th ACE Cable Awards: HBO wins 32 awards
1997 William Shatner (66) weds Norine Kidd
1996 "Into the Whirlwind" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater New York City for 2 performances
1995 "Master Class" opens at Golden Theater New York City for 601 performances
1995 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
1994 "Glass Menagerie" opens at Criterion Theater New York City for 57 performances
1994 6.7-8.1 earthquake strikes Philippines, killing 45
1994 Helmut Kohl elected German chancellor (341-340 votes)
1994 Nepal Communist party Dutch Communist Party-UML wins election
1993 Howard Stern radio show premieres in Myrtle Beach, South Carolina on WYAV 104.1 FM
1992 Cuban Ilyushin IL-18 flight to Puerto Plata crashes, 34 die
1992 Praveen Amre scores century on Test Cricket debut (103 vs. SA, Durban)
1991 Dow Jones avg drops 120.31 points (5th largest dive)
1991 Ricky Pierce (Seattle) begins NBA free throw streak of 75 game
1990 President Bush signs Clear Air Act of 1990
1990 Producers confirm that Milli Vanilla didn't sing on their album
1990 U.S. 68th manned space mission STS-38 (Atlantis 7) launches into orbit
1989 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater New York City for 497 performances
1989 Aaron Sorkin's "Few Good Men," premieres in New York City
1989 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1989 France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island
1989 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis and Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
1989 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
1988 91 m radio telescope dish at Green Bank, WV collapses
1988 Dodgers outfielder Kirk Gibson wins NL MVP Award
1988 PLO proclaims State of Palestine, recognizes Israeli existence
1988 Soviet space shuttle makes unmanned maiden flight (2 orbits)
1987 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
1987 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
1987 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
1987 New York Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
1987 U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R.
1986 2nd time Saturday Night Live uses a time delay (Sam Knison hosts)
1983 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus proclaimed
1982 Funeral services held in Moscow's Red Square for Leonid I Brezhnev
1981 "Camelot" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 48 performances
1980 Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany,
1979 ABC-TV announces it would broadcast nightly specials on Iran hostage
1979 British government identifies Sir Anthony Blunt as 4th man in Soviet spy ring
1978 183 die as Icelandic Airlines DC-8 crashes in Colombo, Sri Lanka
1978 Harold Pinter's "Betrayal," premieres in London
1978 Pirates outfielder Dave Parker wins NL MVP
1977 President Jimmy Carter welcomes Shah of Iran
1976 Syrian army conquerors Beirut
1975 Miss Teenage America Pageant
1974 Ringo releases "Goodnight Vienna" and "Only You" in UK
1973 Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war
1972 Circle-in the-Square Theater opens at 1633 Broadway New York City
1972 Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1972 White Sox Dick Allen wins AL MVP
1971 Intel advertises 4004-processor
1969 1st Jackson Five record to enter top 100 (I Want You Back)
1969 1st commercial ad on English TV: Birds-Eye Peas on ATV (Midland)
1969 250,000 peacefully demonstrate in Washington D.C. against Vietnam War
1969 Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Fla
1969 Wendy's Hamburgers opens
1968 1st date in controversial Jim Bouton baseball diary "Ball Four"
1967 Boston's Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
1967 Michael Adams in X-15 reaches 80 km
1967 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, Florida (IND) begins broadcasting
1966 Gemini XII (Lovell/Aldrin) returns to Earth
1965 Craig Breedlove sets land speed record (600.601 mph-966.57 kph)
1964 Ajax soccer star Johan Cruijff debuts against GVAV
1964 KBYU TV channel 11 in Provo, UT (PBS) begins broadcasting
1964 Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA San Antonio Civitan Golf Open
1964 Mickey Wright shoots a 62, lowest golf score for a woman pro
1964 Sudan Premier Ibrahim Abbud resigns
1962 Don Drysdale wins Cy Young Award
1961 Comet C/1961 T1 (Seki) approaches within 0.1019 AUs of Earth
1961 Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1961 U.N. bans nuclear arms
1960 Elgin Baylor of NBA Los Angeles Lakers scores 71 points vs New York Knicks
1960 USS George Washington, 1st sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched
1959 Cleveland Browns' halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Washington 31-17
1957 U.S. sentences Soviet spy Rudolf Ivanovich Abel to 30 years and $3,000
1956 "Li'l Abner" opens at St. James Theater New York City for 693 performances
1956 Elvis Presley's 1st film "Love Me Tender," premieres in New York City
1955 Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1954 1st regularly scheduled commercial flights over North Pole begins
1953 WIBW TV channel 13 in Topeka, KS (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1953 WRBL TV channel 3 in Columbus, Georgia (CBS) begins broadcasting
1951 Cricket 1st-class debut of Hanif Mohammad, Pak XI vs. MCC, Lahore
1951 New York Yankee Gil McDougald wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 Arthur Dorrington is 1st black man in organized hockey, Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
1949 KRON TV channel 4 in San Francisco, California (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 WSAZ TV channel 3 in Huntington-Charleston, NV (NBC) 1st broadcast
1948 William Lyon Mackenzie King retires as Prime Minister of Canada
1947 Bradman scores his 100th 100, 172 vs. Indians at the SCG
1947 Soccer team GVVV forms in Veenendaal
1946 Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1945 The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of
1944 Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1941 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
1941 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
1940 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
1940 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington and AC Seagulls
1940 New York Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
1939 Anti-German demonstrations in Czechoslovakia
1939 Franklin D. Roosevelt lays cornerstone of Jefferson Memorial in Washington D.C.
1939 Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1939 Social Security Administration approves 1st unemployment check
1938 1st telecast of an unscheduled event (fire), W2XBT, New York
1938 Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1937 1st congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1936 Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1935 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
1934 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C. Urey (deuterium)
1932 Walt Disney Art School created
1926 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
1926 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (New York City)
1924 Dutch Christian Radio Society (NCRV) forms
1922 British Conservative wins election/Labour 2nd party
1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania begins radio transmissions
1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
1920 Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
1920 League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty)
1914 Italian socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia
1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins
1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade
1903 Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague
1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
1901 James J. Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal
1889 Dom Pedro II, Emperor of Brazil, deposed; republic proclaimed
1887 British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1884 Colonization of Africa orgainized at International conference in Berlin
1882 British HMS Flirt destroys village of Asaba Niger
1881 American Federation of Labor (AFL) founded (Pittsburgh)
1870 Bathe becomes member of Noordduitse Union
1869 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
1864 1st U.S. mines school opens in basement of Columbia University, New York
1864 Union Major General Sherman burns Atlanta
1849 1st U.S. poultry show opens in Boston
1845 Opera "Maritana" is produced (London)
1837 Isaac Pitman introduces his steno system
1835 HMS Beagle and Charles Darwin reach Tahiti
1832 Felix Mendelssohn's "Reformation," premieres
1827 Creek-indians lose all their property in US
1826 Dutch Business Me gets monopoly on opium trade in Java/Madura
1824 Series of fires kills 10 (Edinburgh Scotland)
1813 Allied troops occupies Groningen
1813 Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1806 1st U.S. college magazine, Yale Literary Government, publishes 1st issue
1806 Explorer Zebulon Pike sights Pikes Peak (Colorado)
1791 1st Catholic college in U.S., Georgetown, opens
1777 Articles of Confederation adopted by Continental Congress
1763 Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania and Maryland
1727 New York General assembly permits Jews to omit phrase "upon the faith of a Christian" from abjuration oath
1715 Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1688 Prince Willem III's army lands at Torbay England
1679 English house of Commons accept Exclusion Bill
1660 1st kosher butcher (Asser Levy) licensed in New York City (New Amsterdam)
1583 Gelders Earl Willem of the Bergh flees
1577 Sir Francis Drake aboard Pelican travels from Chile to Washington
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives at Cuzco
1532 Pope Clemens VII tells Henry VIII to end relationship with Anna Boleyn
1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco
1492 In Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of using black magic
1491 6 Jews and 5 Conversos accused of killing Christians in La Guardia Spain
1491 Anna van Bretagne becomes devoted to end "la guerre folle"
1348 Rudolph of Oron claims Jews have confessed to poisoning wells
1316 Jan I becomes king of France, dies 4 days later
1315 Battle at Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austrian