799 - Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland
1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1581 - Doornik surrenders to duke of Parma
1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupy Carlisle
1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1813 - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 - Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle inWalla Walla Ore
1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed inOlomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia
1863 - Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities
1864 - 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1900 - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der arnë Heinrich," premieres in Vienna
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1913 - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings onSanta Catalina Island , California
1916 - Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C
1921 - Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki," premieres in NYC
1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1924 - NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1926 - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 - Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres in NYC
1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934 - Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1934 - English King George V weds princess Marina of Greece/Denmark
1935 - Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1939 - Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1941 - 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1942 - US rations coffee
1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946 - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
1947 - 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC
1948 - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (NYC)
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950 - National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
1952 - 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
1953 - WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1956 - "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances
1957 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants
1958 - 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
1960 - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 - John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 - Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde
1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 - "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1966 - 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101
1349 - Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
1516 - Treaty of Freiburg] French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
1561 - Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland
1573 - Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1581 - Doornik surrenders to duke of Parma
1596 - King Philip II devalues Spanish currency
1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlies army moves into Manchester & occupy Carlisle
1760 - French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
1775 - Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1781 - The crew of the slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea in order to claim insurance.
1803 - Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
1812 - Napoleon's Grand Army crosses Berezina River in retreat from Russia
1813 - Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance
1825 - 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)
1830 - November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1845 - The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847 - Indians kill Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, 11 settle in
1850 - The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in
1863 - Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities
1864 - 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia
1864 - Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)
1864 - Colorado militia kills 150 peaceful Cheyenne Indians
1870 - Compulsory education proclaimed in England
1872 - Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877 - Thomas Edison demonstrates hand-cranked phonograph
1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii
1890 - 1st Army-Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point
1893 - Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.
1897 - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)
1900 - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
1901 - East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened
1902 - Gerhart Hauptmanns "Der arnë Heinrich," premieres in Vienna
1910 - The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1913 - 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2
1915 - Fire destroys most of the buildings on
1916 - Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin
1916 - US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 - Coldest day in Nov in Netherlands -14.0°C
1921 - Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki," premieres in NYC
1924 - 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3
1924 - NHL's Montreal Forum opens
1926 - Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager
1926 - W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife," premieres in NYC
1929 - Lt Cmdr Richard E Byrd sends "My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole" (He was wrong)
1932 - Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee," premieres in NYC
1932 - France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union
1932 - USSR & France sign no attack treaty
1933 - 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)
1933 - Japan begins persecution of communists
1934 - Chic Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally
1934 - English King George V weds princess Marina of Greece/Denmark
1935 - Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ
1937 - Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands
1938 - Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany
1939 - Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
1939 - USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
1941 - 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
1941 - Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet
1942 - US rations coffee
1943 - Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce Bosnia
1943 - U-86 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1943 - US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1944 - Albania liberated from Nazi control (Natl Day)
1944 - John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
1944 - The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1945 - Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed
1946 - Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities
1947 - 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
1947 - UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews
1948 - "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC
1948 - 1st opera to be televised, "Othello," broadcast from the Met (NYC)
1948 - KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting
1949 - Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa
1949 - Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700
1950 - National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
1951 - 1st underground atomic explosion, Frenchman Flat Nevada
1951 - Winston Churchill re-elected British premier
1952 - 40th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 21-11
1952 - Pres-elect Eisenhower visits Korea to assess war
1953 - American Airlines begins 1st regular coml NY-LA air service
1953 - WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting
1955 - Turkish government of Menderes resigns
1956 - "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances
1957 - NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants
1958 - 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28
1960 - 26th Heisman Trophy Award: Joe Bellino, Navy (HB)
1961 - Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1961 - John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA
1961 - Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit
1962 - Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1962 - Great-Britain & France decide to jointly build Concorde
1963 - Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
1963 - LBJ sets up Warren Comm to investigate assassination of JFK
1963 - Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada
1964 - Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English
1965 - "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances
1965 - Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1966 - 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101
1967 - British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1968 - John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 - Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1970 - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
1971 - 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with NY Yankees
1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract
1978 - UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at Gabba
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad
1987 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC 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
1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
1989 - 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1990 - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
1990 - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1991 - TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, v Australia at the Gabba
1992 - "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 perfs
1992 - 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
1993 - "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1995 - "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
1997 - USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards
2005 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
2007 - The Armed Forces of thePhilippines
2007 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast ofMartinique . This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad .
1967 - Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1968 - John & Yoko release their 1st album "Two Virgins" in UK
1969 - Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1
1970 - Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton," premieres
1970 - Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Crickets' leading run scorer (7,250)
1971 - 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World
1971 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 - Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp’s Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
1975 - Pres Ford requires states to provide free education for handicapped
1976 - Free agent Reggie Jackson signs 5 year pact with NY Yankees
1976 - NY Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to 5-year contract
1978 - UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries
1978 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1981 - "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances
1981 - Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at Gabba
1982 - USSR performs underground nuclear test
1983 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1984 - Javed Miandad completes twin Test Cricket tons, v NZ, Hyderabad
1987 - "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC 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
1987 - A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 155.
1989 - 8th Largest wrestling crowd (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
1989 - India president Rajiv Gandhi, resigns
1990 - "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1990 - Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman
1990 - UN Security Council sets Jan 15th military deadline against Iraq
1991 - TV show "Roc" has a gay wedding episode - Can't Help Loving that Man
1991 - Test Cricket debut of Javagal Srinath, v Australia at the Gabba
1992 - "Sea Gull" opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 perfs
1992 - 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10
1993 - "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 perfs
1994 - Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding
1995 - "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
1995 - CNN/fn, the financial network by Turner Enterprises, launched
1997 - USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards
2005 - The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
2007 - The Armed Forces of the
2007 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of
