308 Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul
Barbarossa Claims Northern Italy
1158 Emperor Frederick I Barbarossa declares himself ruler of North Italy
- 1417 Oddo Colonna elected as Pope Martinus V
Columbus Sights Leeward Islands
1493 Explorer Christopher Columbus sights the island of Saba in the Leeward islands, but does not land
- 1500 Treaty of Granada: France & Aragon divide the Kingdom of Naples
- 1572 Duke of Alva’s son Don Fredrik begins siege of Haarlem
- 1606 Turkey and Austria sign the Treaty of Zsitva-Torok
1620 Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA [N.S. Nov 21]
Wentworth is Impeached
1640 Thomas Wentworth, Earl of Strafford, impeached by the House of Lords on the evidence of John Pym, and imprisoned in the Tower of London; he was later executed.
- 1647 Massachusetts passes first compulsory school attendance law in the American colonies
- 1648 Dutch & French agree to divide St Maarten, Leeward Islands
- 1671 Dutch States-General forbids importation of French wine
- 1673 Second Battle of Khotyn in the Ukraine, Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski. defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets of Kazimierz Siemienowicz were successfully used.
Integral Calculus
1675 German mathematician Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of the function y = f(x)
- 1714 A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
Jacobite Army Invades
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie‘s Jacobite army invades England in an attempt to restore the House of Stuart to the British throne
Mohawk Leader Visits London
1775 Mohawk military leader Joseph Brant goes to London to solicit more support from the government and to persuade the Crown to address past Mohawk land grievances in exchange for their participation as allies in the impending war
Battle of Dürenstein
1805 Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein – 8,000 French troops attempt to slow the retreat of a vastly superior Russian and Austrian force
First Gotham – NY Association
1807 Washington Irving‘s Salmagundi periodical, the first to associate the name “Gotham” with New York City, is published
Union Troops Destroy Rome
1864 US Civil War: Union General Sherman‘s troops destroy Rome, Georgia
- 1865 Mary Edwards Walker, the first female US Army surgeon, is awarded the Medal of Honor
- 1865 Thomas William Robertson’s play “Society” premieres in London
- 1865 Treaty of Sinchula is signed in which Bhutan ceded the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.
- 1868 1st American amateur track & field meet (NYC)
Allies Win Battle of Avay
1868 War of the Triple Alliance: Allied victory in the Battle of Avay leaves 3,000 Paraguayan soldiers dead, 600 wounded and the road to Asunción open
- 1887 Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies (b. 1855), Albert Parsons (b. 1848), Adolph Fischer (b. 1858) and George Engel (b. 1836) are executed.
- 1887 Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
- 1889 Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA
- 1890 D. McCree patents a portable fire escape that could be attached to businesses and homes, allowing individuals to escape fires
- 1895 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
- 1896 Jules Vandenpeereboom becomes Belgium’s minister of War
- 1896 Samuel Pierpont Langley’s Number 6 “heavier-than-air” aircraft model flies over 1,500 m (5,000 ft)
- 1899 Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones’ “Floradora” premieres in London
- 1905 High Commissioner Prince George declares amnesty for all leaders of the insurrection that has been disturbing Crete during the recent months – but which never gained mass support
- 1906 Ethel Smyth’s “Standrecht” premieres in Leipzig
- 1909 Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
- 1909 J M Synge’s “Tinker’s Wedding” premieres in London
- 1911 In the 11/11/11 cold wave, many cities in the U.S. Midwest break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through
- 1911 Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control
- 1918 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
- 1918 Emperor Charles I of Austria-Hungary abdicates
1918 World War I Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, with hostilities ending at 11 a.m., “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”
- 1919 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political and business views
- 1920 Great Britain’s monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled
- 1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey in London, and at the Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier
1921 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier at Arlington National Cemetery
- 1925 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
- 1925 Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five
1925 Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session at Okeh Records in Chicago
- 1925 Night of Kersten – Prime Minister Hendrikus Colijn’s Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
- 1926 Future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins is released as Chicago White Sox player/manager; replaced by another future HOF’er catcher Ray Schalk
- 1926 U.S. Route 66 is established from Chicago, Illinois, to Santa Monica, California, spanning 2,448 miles (3,940 km)
- 1928 KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
- 1928 WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
- 1928 WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
- 1928 WOL-AM in Washington, D.C. begins radio transmissions
Holiday’s First Hit
1933 Billie Holiday‘s second song and first hit, “Riffin’ the Scotch”, is released
- 1934 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
- 1935 Explorer II balloon sets an altitude record of 72,395 feet (22,066 meters) over South Dakota
- 1937 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)
- 1937 Nobel prize for physics awarded to American Clinton Joseph Davisson and Briton George Paget Thomson “for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals”
- 1938 Kristallnacht: German authorities fine Jewish population of Germany and Austria 1 billion Marks, blaming the community for inciting the violence against them [1]
- 1940 Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
- 1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto
- 1940 Thousands of Paris students lay a wreath at the Grave of the Unknown Soldier
- 1940 Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle (“Jeep”)
- 1941 Czech premier General Eliasj arrested by Nazis
- 1942 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
- 1942 Germany completes its WWII occupation of France
- 1942 Jews in the Free Zone of France ordered to wear a yellow star of David
- 1942 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
- 1942 Transport #45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
Second Battle of El-Alamein
1942 WWII: British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel‘s German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal
- 1943 New York Yankees pitcher Spud Chandler wins AL MVP; St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Stan Musial wins NL MVP
- 1943 US air raid on Rabaul, Papua New Guinea
- 1944 New York Rangers beat Detroit Red Wings, 5-2 to end NHL record 25 game winless streak (0-21-4)
- 1946 New York Knicks play their first Basketball Association of America (BAA) home game at Madison Square Garden, losing 78-68 to the Chicago Stags in overtime
Gentlemen’s Agreement
1947 “Gentlemen’s Agreement” directed by Elia Karan and starring Gregory Peck and Dorothy McGuire premieres in New York City (Best Picture 1948)
- 1949 WTTV TV channel 4 in Bloomington-Indianapol, IN (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1957 Demolition begins on cable car barn at California & Hyde, San Francisco
Great Balls of Fire
1957 Sun Record’s release single “Great Balls of Fire” by Jerry Lee Lewis; sells a million copies in first ten day
- 1958 AL announces Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
- 1959 Seals Stadium, a minor league baseball park and temporary home of MLB Giants) in San Francisco, California demolished
- 1960 Record New York Knicks’ crowd for the third Madison Square Garden venue on 49th Street, NYC; 18,499 see Knicks beat Syracuse Nationals, 112-108
- 1961 “Catch-22” by Joseph Heller is published by Simon and Schuster in New York
- 1961 Adulterous couple ride a dung cart through Staphorst, Netherlands
- 1961 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd
- 1961 Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
- 1962 Kuwait’s National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait
1963 Brian Epstein and Ed Sullivan sign a three-show contract for appearances by The Beatles
- 1966 NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12
- 1968 John Lennon and Yoko Ono appear nude on cover of “Two Virgins” album
- 1968 Maldives (in Indian Ocean) becomes a republic
- 1968 Ron Hill sets a world record for the 10-mile run with a time of 46:44 at Leicester, England
Get Back
1969 Apple Records releases single “Get Back” by ‘The Beatles with Billy Preston‘ in UK
- 1969 Jim Morrison arrested on an airplane by the FBI for drunkenness
- 1970 Baltimore Oriole Boog Powell wins AL MVP
- 1971 Man-made earthslide at Kawasaki Japan, kills 15
- 1972 Dow Jones Industrial Average moves above 1,000 for 1st time
- 1972 US Army turns over Long Bihn base to South Vietnamese army
Callas’ Final Appearance
1974 Operatic soprano Maria Callas makes her final public appearance in Sapporo, Japan
- 1975 Angola gains independence from Portugal (National Day)
- 1975 Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam is removed from office by Governor-General Sir John Kerr, the first elected Prime Minister removed in Australian history
- 1975 James Bay and Northern Quebec Agreement (the first “modern treaty”) signed between Quebec government and Grand Council of the Crees of Quebec and the Northern Quebec Inuit Association [1]
PM Malcolm Fraser
1975 Liberal leader Malcolm Fraser sworn in as caretaker Prime Minister of Australia after sacking of the Whitlam Government by Governor General John Kerr
- 1977 Wings release “Mull of Kintyre” & “Girl’s School”
- 1978 Maumoon Abdul Gayoom becomes president of Maldives
- 1979 Boston Court issues occupancy permit for Cambridge Buddhist Center
- 1980 Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
- 1980 NY Islanders’ future Hockey Hall of Fame right wing Mike Bossy scores 4 goals in 6-6 tie against visiting Minnesota North Stars
- 1982 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia makes the first officially “operational” shuttle mission
- 1982 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
- 1982 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Baltimore Orioles manager
- 1983 Australian cricket wicketkeeper/batsman Wayne Phillips scores 159 on Test debut vs Pakistan at WACA, Perth
- 1983 First US cruise missiles arrive in the United Kingdom
Reagan’s Legislature Address
1983 President Reagan became 1st US President to address Japanese legislature
- 1985 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
- 1985 First AIDS-themed TV movie “An Early Frost” screens in the US on NBC
- 1985 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing
- 1986 Houston’s Astro Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young Award
- 1986 Suriname government proclaims gold purification
- 1987 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
- 1988 Oldest known insect fossils (390 million years old) are reported in the journal Science
- 1989 Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting “we want reforms”, in a sign of the revolution to come
- 1990 California Angel Chuck Finley & Seattle Mariner Randy Johnson combine to pitch a no-hitter in exhibition game between US & Japanese all-star teams
- 1992 The Church of England approves the ordination of female priests
A Polish Requiem
1993 Krzysztof Penderecki conducts premiere of his revised version of “A Polish Requiem” in Stockholm, Sweden
John Paul II Hospitalized
1993 Pope John Paul II is hospitalized for two days for a fractured shoulder
Gates Buys da Vinci’s Codex
1994 Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex” for $30,800,000, making it the most expensive manuscript ever sold at the time
- 1994 Progress M-25 launched to space station Mir
- 1996 Atlanta Braves starting pitcher John Smoltz wins NL Cy Young Award; Pat Hentgen of the Toronto Blue Jays claims AL Award
- 1997 CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002
- 1997 NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War
- 1997 WNBA announces franchises in Detroit (Shock) and Washington D.C. (Mystics) would join the League as expansion teams for the 1998 season
- 1999 Last upside-down date until January 1, 6000
- 2000 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a funicular railway catches fire in an alpine tunnel near Kaprun, Austria
- 2001 Foreign journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton, and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack by Taliban troops on the convoy they are traveling with
Closer
2003 Josh Groban releases his second album “Closer”; it goes to #1 on US charts and becomes his biggest seller
- 2004 New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington
Abbas Replaces Arafat
2004 Yasser Arafat‘s death from unidentified causes is confirmed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Mahmoud Abbas is elected PLO chairman shortly after
- 2006 New Zealand war memorial monument unveiled by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army
- 2008 RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) sets sail from Southampton, England on her final voyage to Dubai
Fearless
2008 Taylor Swift releases her second studio album “Fearless” (Billboard Album of the Year, 2009; Grammy Album of the Year, 2010, American Music Awards, 2009)
- 2012 12 people are killed by a magnitude 6.8 earthquake in Burma
- 2013 100 people are killed in a tropical cyclone in the Puntland region, Somalia
- 2013 4 people are killed and 8 are injured after a building catches fire in Mumbai, India
- 2013 Novak Đoković claims back-to-back ATP World Tour Finals tennis titles with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the final in London, England
- 2014 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
- 2014 An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
- 2014 Samsung Lions beat Nexen Heroes, 11-1 in Game 6 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul to win the Korean Series
- 2014 The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
- 2014 The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
- 2014 The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
- 2015 Flawless 12 carat Blue Moon Diamond sells for $48.4 million at auction in Geneva
- 2015 Montreal begins a controversial dumping of raw sewage (2.1bn gallons) into the St Lawrence River
- 2017 Largest Singles Day sales ever – Alibaba says its sales alone were $25.3 billion
- 2017 Nationalist march in Warsaw, Poland, draws 60,000, to coincide with country’s independence day
- 2018 Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths
2018 On centenary of WWI Armistice Day French President Macron urges world to reject Nationalism in speech to under Arc de Triomphe in Paris
- 2019 Arctic blast brings record low temperatures for November to the US Midwest including Kansas, Wisconsin, Michigan and Illinois
- 2019 More than 120 bush fires in Australia cause the country to declare state of emergency in two states with a catastrophic threat issued for Sydney region
- 2019 Transit of Mercury across the sun, closer than any other transit this century
- 2019 Violent day in Hong Kong as protests continue with person set alight and another shot amid general strike
- 2020 All Hong Kong’s pro-democracy lawmakers resign after China passes resolution allowing for removal of four of their colleagues
- 2020 Shane Bieber of the Cleveland Indians (AL) and Cincinnati Reds starter Trevor Bauer (NL) take Cy Young Award for best pitchers in MLB
- 2020 UK becomes the first European country to record over 50,000 COVID-19 related deaths; fifth country to hit the mark, after the US, Brazil, India, and Mexico
- 2021 Near-earth asteroid Kamo`oalewa, the size of a ferris wheel, very likely a fragment of the moon, according to a new study [1]
Winter Dance Party Poster
2022 Advertisement poster for ill-fated “Winter Dance Party” concert featuring Buddy Holly, The Big Bopper, and Ritchie Valens on February 3, 1959 – the day they died in a plane crash – sells at auction for $447K [1]
Only The Strong Survive
2022 Columbia Records releases Bruce Springsteen‘s 21st studio album “Only The Strong Survive”, his covers of American 60s and 70s R&B and soul songs
- 2022 Cypto currency FTX, founded by Sam Bankman-Fried files for bankruptcy, amid accusations of financial mismanagement and criminal misconduct [1]
- 2023 Icelandic town of Grindavík on Reykjanes peninsula evacuated after thousands of earthquakes and rising magna point to an imminent eruption [1]
- 2023 Kimba, an escaped circus lion, roams the streets of the Italian seaside town of Ladispoli for five hours before being recaptured [1]
Pro-Palestine March
2023 Over 300,000 attend pro-Palestinian march in London, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza, with Mayor Sadiq Khan accusing Home Secretary Sue Braverman of stirring up violence by right-wing protesters [1]
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