- 969 Byzantine troops occupy Antioch (in modern Syria)
- 1449 Christian I is crowned King of Denmark in the Church of Our Lady, Copenhagen, establishing the House of Oldenburg (still rules the Danish throne today)
Battle at Brustem
1467 Battle at Brustem: Duke of Burgundy Charles the Bold defeats Prince-Bishopric of Liège near Sint-Truiden, modern-day Belgium
- 1516 Battle of Yaunis Khan: Turkish forces under the Grand Vizier Sinan Pasha defeat the Mameluks near Gaza
- 1531 Battle of Amba Sel: Imam Ahmad ibn Ibrahim al-Ghazi defeats the army of Lebna Dengel, Emperor of Ethiopia, and gains control of the southern part of Ethiopia
- 1538 The first university in the Americas, the Universidad Santo Tomás de Aquino, is established in Santo Domingo
- 1595 Battle of Giurgiu: Sigismund Báthory of Transylvania defeats the Turks
Court Lutenist
1612 British King James I appoints musician Robert Dowland court lutenist
- 1646 First Protestant church assembly for American Indians established in Massachusetts
- 1664 The Duke of York and Albany’s Maritime Regiment of Foot, later known as the Royal Marines, is established
- 1680 St. Mary’s Church is consecrated at Fort St. George, Madras, now the oldest British building in India
Gulliver’s Travels
1726 “Gulliver’s Travels” by Jonathan Swift is published by Benjamin Motte in London
- 1790 New York gives up claims to Vermont for $30,000
Cotton Gin
1793 Eli Whitney applies for a patent for his cotton gin machine, used to pull cotton fibers from the seed [1]
Sense and Sensibility
1811 First known purchase of Jane Austen‘s novel “Sense and Sensibility” by the Prince Regent (later George IV), who is a fan
Clara Wieck’s Debut
1828 Clara Wieck, age 9, makes her official debut in a piano recital at the Gewandhaus concert hall in Leipzig, Germany
- 1834 Battle of Pinjarra occurs in the Swan River Colony in present-day Pinjarra, Western Australia; British colonists kill 14 to 40 Aboriginal people
- 1835 Battle of Concepción: rebels led by James Bowie and James Fannin defeat Mexican troops at Mission Concepción, 2 miles (3.2 km) south of what is now San Antonio, Texas
- 1846 Pioneers suffer a blizzard in the Sierra Nevada; 42 die
- 1848 The railroad between Barcelona and Mataró, the first in Spain, opens
French Magic
1856 French Magician Jean-Eugène Robert-Houdin performs for Algerian Marabouts in Algeria to discredit the influence of religious leaders and convince them that French magic is the stronger
- 1858 R. H. Macy & Co opens its first store on 6th Avenue in New York City with gross receipts of $11.06
- 1863 Battle at Wauhatchie, Georgia: 865 killed or injured
- 1864 Battle of Wauhatchie, Tennessee
- 1864 Second Battle of Fair Oaks, Virginia, ends with 1554 casualties
- 1864 Second Battle of Newtonia (American Civil War), Newton County, Missouri
- 1867 Maimonides College in Pennsylvania is first Jewish college in the US
- 1882 Athletics reveal $22,000 profit in their first season in the American Association
1886 Statue of Liberty is dedicated by President Grover Cleveland and is celebrated with the first confetti (ticker tape) parade in New York City
Pathetique
1893 Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky conducts the first performance of his Symphony No. 6 in B minor, “Pathetique,” in St. Petersburg, Russia, 9 days before his death
- 1900 II Summer (Modern) Olympic Games in Paris end after five months; no opening or closing ceremonies are held
- 1904 St. Louis police try a new investigative method: fingerprints
- 1906 Belgian-British “Union Minière du Haut Katanga” mining company created in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo
Daily Telegraph Affair
1908 The English Newspaper the Daily Telegraph prints an interview with Germany’s Emperor Wilhelm II, who characterises himself as personally friendly to Britain but suggests the German people are hostile, causing uproar in both countries
An Alpine Symphony
1915 Richard Strauss‘ tone poem “Eine Alpensinfonie (An Alpine Symphony)” premieres in Berlin
Republic of Czechoslovakia
1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia is created with Tomáš Masaryk as its first president
- 1918 Tomáš Massaryk claims independence for Czechoslovakia
Prohibition Established
1919 The Volstead Act is passed by Congress, establishing a nationwide ban on alcohol, despite President Woodrow Wilson‘s veto
- 1921 Governor Lynn Frazier loses to Ragnvald A. Nestos by just over 4,000 votes (1.8%) in the first American gubernatorial recall election held in North Dakota
- 1921 Royal Theatre Tuschinski opens in Amsterdam, Netherlands
Fascists March on Rome
1922 30, 000 Italian fascists conduct the “March on Rome,” leading to the assumption of power by Benito Mussolini
- 1922 First US coast-to-coast radio broadcast of a football game
- 1924 French-Russian trade agreement is signed
Taung Child
1924 Miner M. de Bruin discovers the infant fossil skull, “Taung child,” in a lime quarry in Taung, South Africa; paleoanthropologist Raymond Dart identifies the fossil as a new hominin species, Australopithecus africanus
- 1924 White Sox beat New York Giants 8-4 in Dublin, with fewer than 20 fans in attendance
- 1927 KLM airmail plane “Homing Pigeon” arrives back in Amsterdam after the first special round-trip flight to the Dutch East Indies
- 1928 Indian freedom fighter Lala Lajpat Rai is injured leading silent protest against visiting British commission in Lahore; he dies of his injuries November 17
- 1928 Indonesian child protection laws enforced in Bahasa Indonesia
- 1929 Dow Jones Industrial Average plummets 38.33 pts (13%) to 260.64
- 1934 Brooklyn Dodgers and Pittsburgh Pirates play the first of only four penalty-free games in NFL history; Dodgers win 21-3 at Ebbets Field, Brooklyn
- 1935 Sidney Kingsley’s play “Dead End” premieres in New York City
The Roaring Twenties
1939 Warner Bros releases the gangster film “The Roaring Twenties,” directed by Raoul Walsh and starring James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart
- 1940 Empress of Britain sunk by a German U-boat two days after it was bombed off the west coast of Ireland with the lost of 49 lives, making it the largest Allied ship sunk in WWII [1]
- 1940 Greece successfully resists Italy’s attack
- 1940 Meeting between Adolf Hitler and Benito Mussolini in Florence, Italy
How Green Was My Valley
1941 “How Green Was My Valley,” based on the novel by Richard Llewellyn, directed by John Ford, and starring Walter Pidgeon and Maureen O’Hara, premieres in New York (Best Picture 1942)
- 1942 Sixth day of the Battle of El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery
- 1942 Train crashes into bus, killing 16 and injuring 20 in Detroit, Michigan
- 1943 German submarine U-220 sunk by US aircraft in the Atlantic
- 1944 Russia and Bulgaria sign a weapons pact
- 1946 German rocket engineers begin work in USSR
- 1948 Flag of Israel is adopted
- 1949 Georges Bidault becomes the President of the Council of Ministers (premier)
1951 Juan Manuel Fangio of Argentina wins Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship by winning the Spanish Grand Prix at Pedralbes in an Alfa Romeo by 6 points from Alberto Ascari of Italy
- 1951 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1953 Bud Grant of CFL Winnipeg Blue Bombers intercepts a record 5 passes
- 1953 Red Barber resigns as Dodger sportscaster to join Yankees
- 1954 Major league owners vote down sale of A’s to a Philadelphia syndicate
- 1954 N. Richard Nash’s play “The Rainmaker” premieres in New York City
- 1955 Egypt and Saudi Arabia sign defense treaty
- 1957 WMVS TV channel 10 in Milwaukee, WI (PBS) begins broadcasting
Pope John XXIII Inaugurated
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is elected Pope, taking the name of John XXIII
- 1958 Pete Runnels wins Comeback Player of the Year (average goes from .230 to .322)
- 1959 American Football League awards Buffalo Bills franchise to Ralph C. Wilson
- 1959 Jean Genet‘s play “Les Negres” premieres in Paris
- 1961 “Fiorello!,” starring Tom Bosley, closes at the Broadhurst Theatre in New York City after 796 performances and a Pulitzer Prize
- 1961 Ground broken on the Municipal (Shea) Stadium in Queens, New York, home of the New York Mets until 2008
1962 Cuban Missile Crisis: US President John F. Kennedy receives a letter from Soviet Leader Khrushchev suggesting agreement
- 1962 NY Giants quarterback Y. A. Tittle passes for 7 touchdowns vs. Washington Redskins in a 49-34 win
- 1962 Radio Moscow reports nuclear missiles in Cuba deactivated
- 1962 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- 1965 The Gateway Arch, 630 ft (192 m) tall, is completed in St. Louis, Missouri
- 1966 Belgian runner Gaston Roelants sets a new world record in the one-hour run, covering 20,664 m (12.84 mi)
- 1970 NBA Cleveland Cavaliers lose to San Diego 110-99 in their first home game
- 1970 The US and USSR sign an agreement to discuss joint space efforts
Happy Xmas (War is Over)
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono record the single “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in New York City
1971 The British Parliament debates the European Communities principle of membership and votes 356 to 244 in favour of joining, requiring a new law to be drafted and a later final vote on joining
- 1971 The United Kingdom becomes the sixth nation to have a satellite in orbit with the launch of Prospero
- 1973 Elmore Smith of Lakers blocks 17 shots in a game, setting an NBA record
- 1973 Indian Institute of Management Bangalore, designed by architect B. V. Doshi, is inaugurated by Prime Minister Indira Gandhi
- 1974 First time two Islanders score a hat trick in the same game: MacMillan and Westfall
- 1974 Luna 23 is launched and lands on the Moon
- 1974 US performs a nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- 1975 Calvin Murphy (Houston) begins NBA free throw streak of 58 games
- 1975 Cleveland Metroparks assume operating responsibilities for the Zoo in Cleveland, Ohio
- 1975 Venezuela and foreign oil companies agree on nationalization as of January 1, 1976
- 1976 Billy Martin named AL Manager of Year (NY Yankees)
- 1978 Bobby Orr scores his last career NHL goal against Detroit Red Wings
- 1978 Don Ritchie runs world record 100 km in 6:10:20
- 1978 NBC’s premiere of Kiss’s acting debut in “Kiss Meets The Phantom of the Park” TV film
- 1979 Dick Howser, the best Yankees manager by win-loss percentage (.636), returns to New York, replacing Billy Martin
- 1979 USSR performs a nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeastern Kazakhstan
- 1981 Edward M. McIntyre is elected as the first Black mayor of Augusta, Georgia
- 1982 Spain’s socialists win, and communists lose elections
- 1985 Cricketer Ravi Ratnayeke takes 8-83 for Sri Lanka against Pakistan
- 1986 Stanley E. Hubbard’s KOB sells the company’s Albuquerque, New Mexico, radio stations KOB-AM and KOB-FM; the stations change their call signs to KKOB
- 1986 The centennial of the Statue of Liberty’s dedication is celebrated in New York Harbor
- 1988 Jurors award $147,000 to Tacoma parishioner, who was seduced by her minister
- 1988 Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen donates $10 million to the University of Washington library
- 1992 Lee Jang Rim predicted that today would be the end of the world, causing believers to sell their belongings and leave their jobs
- 1993 Cleveland Metroparks lease Brookside Park from Cleveland for 99 years
- 1993 Dutch Antilles government of Liberia-Peters resigns
Merry Christmas
1994 Columbia Records releases “Merry Christmas,” the fourth studio album by American singer-songwriter Mariah Carey, featuring a mix of new and traditional holiday songs, including the best-selling single “All I Want for Christmas is You”
- 1994 Japanese space probe Sakigake passes Earth for the third time
- 1996 Apple Records releases The Beatles “Anthology 3” (double CD; triple LP), the last of a three-part series of rare recordings and outtakes by the Beatles; the set covers the years 1968-70; the album tops the Billboard charts in the US and peaks at No. 4 in the UK
- 1996 Goa upset Karnataka to win their first Ranji Cricket Trophy game
- 1997 NBA announces the hiring of Dee Kantner and Violet Palmer as the first women to officiate in a major league all-male sports league
- 1998 An Air China (Mainland China) jetliner is hijacked by a disgruntled pilot Yuan Bin and flown to Taiwan
- 2005 Plame affair: Lewis Libby, Vice President Dick Cheney’s chief of staff, is indicted in the Valerie Plame case and resigns later that day
- 2006 Funeral service for the peace of the executed at Bykivnia forest, outside of Kyiv, Ukraine, with reburial of 817 Ukrainian civilians (out of some 100,000) executed by Bolsheviks at Bykivnia in the 1930s and early 1940s
- 2007 “Bee Movie” premieres in the US and the UK
- 2008 In the UK, 500,000 mortgage holders are left in negative equity after house prices drop 15% since the previous summer
- 2009 NASA successfully launches the Ares I-X mission, the only rocket launch for its later-cancelled Constellation program
- 2009 The Peshawar bombing kills 117 and wounds 213
- 2012 15 people are killed and 33 injured by a series of Baghdad car bombings
- 2012 Syrian ceasefire collapses and 128 people are killed in ongoing civil war violence
- 2015 Research indicating the plague dates back to the Bronze Age in skeletons 5,783 years old is published by a University of Copenhagen team in “Cell”
- 2015 Third Republican presidential candidates debate run by CNBC in Boulder, Colorado
- 2015 World Heath Organization ranks tuberculosis alongside HIV as the world’s deadliest infectious diseases, killing 1.2 million in 2014
How Far I’ll Go
2016 Disney Records releases Alessia Cara‘s single “How Far I’ll Go” from the film “Moana”
- 2016 Ross Sea Region Marine Protected Area is established off Antarctica as the world’s largest marine protected area at 598,000 square miles (2.06 million square kilometers), larger than Mexico [1]
- 2017 Twin car bomb attacks in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill at least 27; Islamist militant group al-Shabab claim responsibility
2018 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 4th in the Mexican Grand Prix at Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez to win his fifth Formula 1 World Drivers’ Championship
- 2018 Michael D. Higgins is re-elected president of Ireland
- 2018 Political crisis in Sri Lanka after President Sirisena sacks Prime Minister Ranil Wickramasinghe and the cabinet, and suspends parliament for two weeks with one man killed in protests
- 2019 Country of Georgia is hit by a massive cyber attack, affecting 2,000 websites, TV channels, and government departments
- 2019 EU agrees to another Brexit extension to January 31, 2020
- 2019 Landslide after heavy rains in Bafoussam, Cameroon, buries at least 42 people
- 2020 15th-century medieval manuscript “The Book of Lismore” returns to Ireland after donated by Chatsworth Settlement to University College Cork
2020 French President Emmanuel Macron announces France will enter a new four-week lockdown on October 30 in a televised address
- 2020 Global COVID-19 cases increased by a record 500,000 for the first time, rising 25% in less than two weeks, according to Reuters
- 2020 Hurricane Zeta makes landfall in the US near Cocodrie, Louisiana, as a category 2 storm
- 2020 New coral reef 500 m (1,640 ft) high, taller than the Empire State Building, is discovered north of Australia’s Great Barrier Reef
- 2020 Tanzania reelects President John Magufuli, with opposition parties calling the vote fraudulent
- 2020 Typhoon Molave strikes Vietnam, triggering heavy rain and landslides and leaving more than 60 people dead
- 2021 Largest-ever drug bust in Asia made by police in Laos with 55 million methamphetamine tablets and 1.5 tonnes of crystal meth discovered in beer crates [1]
Facebook Becomes Meta
2021 Mark Zuckerberg announces Facebook will change its corporate name to Meta amid increased public scrutiny over leaked internal documents
- 2021 One of the world’s largest floor mosaics is unveiled after restoration at Hisham’s Palace (660-750 AD) by Palestinian authorities in Jericho, West Bank [1]
- 2021 Researchers announce the name of a new human ancestor, Homo bodoensis, from Africa, dating to the Middle Pleistocene about half a million years ago, as a direct ancestor of modern humans [1]
Attack on Paul Pelosi
2022 Hammer-wielding intruder attacks Paul Pelosi, 82-year old husband of US Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, at their California home
- 2022 Swedish engineers in Linköping produce the world’s first anatomically correct female crash dummy, as previous female dummies were just scaled-down versions of the male figure [1]
- 2022 Tropical Storm Nalgae strikes and makes landfall in Virac, the Philippines, and goes on to kill 112 people in the country [1]
- 2023 10th Rugby World Cup, Stade de France: South Africa become first to win four World Cups and second to go back-to-back after a gripping 12-11 win over New Zealand; MVP: Springboks flanker Pieter-Steph du Toit
- 2024 FIFA Ballon d’Or: Spain and Man City midfielder Rodri wins men’s award from Real Madrid pair Vinicius Jr and Jude Bellingham; Barcelona’s Aitana Bonmati wins back-to-back women’s awards
- 2024 UK records its lowest-ever fertility rate of 1.44 children per woman in 2023, with 591,072 births in England and Wales, the lowest in 172 years [1]
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