- 722 Boniface is consecrated bishop by Pope Gregory II
Cnut Claims Throne
1016 King of Denmark, Cnut the Great [Canute], claims the English throne after the death of Edmund Ironside
Order of the Golden Fleece
1431 The first chapter of the Order of the Golden Fleece, established by Philip the Good in 1430, meets at Saint-Pierre’s Collegiate Church in Lille, Duchy of Burgundy
1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot) is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria, stating that beer should be brewed from only three ingredients: water, malt, and hops
- 1523 Amsterdam bans the assembly of heretics
England Reconciles with the Catholic Church
1554 The Kingdom of England formally reconciles with Pope Julius III and the Roman Catholic Church
Battle at Narva
1700 Battle of Narva: Swedish forces under King Charles XII defeat the Russian army
Copley Medal
1753 Benjamin Franklin receives the Godfrey Copley medal “on account of his curious Experiments and Observations on Electricity”
- 1782 The Treaty of Paris is drafted, a step towards US independence
Death Penalty First Abolished
1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making Tuscany the first state to abolish the death penalty; November 30 is now commemorated as Cities for Life Day
- 1787 Spanish Governor-General José Basco y Vargas resigns and leaves the Philippines
- 1803 Spain transfers its power over the Louisiana Territory to France
- 1804 The Senate begins preparations for an impeachment trial of Supreme Court Justice Samuel Chase
- 1813 Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands after exile in Britain
- 1824 Ground is first broken at Allanburg for the building of the original Welland Canal
- 1829 First Welland Canal opens for a trial run five years to the day from the groundbreaking
- 1838 Mexico declares war on France
- 1854 Rebellion of miners at Eureka Stockade at Ballarat in Victoria who swear allegiance to the Southern Cross Flag, angry at the colonial government – landmark event in Australian labor relations [1]
- 1861 Harper’s Weekly publishes a poem called “The Picket-Guard” attributed to ‘E,B.”; the poet is later identified as Ethel Beers, and the title “All quiet along the Potomac tonight” [1]
- 1863 Confederate troops vacate Fort Esperanza, Texas
- 1864 Battle of Franklin, Tennessee: Confederate attack fails, 7,700 casualties
- 1864 Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
- 1866 Work begins on the first US underwater highway tunnel in Chicago
- 1868 Statue of King Charles XII of Sweden dedicated at the King’s garden in Stockholm
- 1872 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow
1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann discovers the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae in modern Greece, known as “the Mona Lisa of prehistory”
- 1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
- 1900 The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
- 1902 American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang Kid Curry Logan sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor
- 1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
- 1908 The US Secretary of State and Japan’s ambassador to the US exchange notes in what becomes known as the Root-Takahira Agreement: they affirm support for an independent China with an ‘open door’ policy and for the status quo in the Pacific
People’s Budget
1909 British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George‘s ‘People’s Budget’, which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act, designed to stop the unelected house from overruling the will of the elected house.
- 1915 St John Ervine’s “John Ferguson” premieres in Dublin
- 1916 Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- 1922 First speed test of the first genuine Japanese aircraft carrier Hōshō
- 1923 Dutch Catholic minority government of Wilhelm Marx forms
- 1924 French and Belgium troops withdrawn from their occupation of the Rurh
- 1924 The first transatlantic radio photo facsimile is transmitted, when a photograph of President Calvin Coolidge is sent from New York to London via the Radio Corporation of America (RCA)
Bradman’s Test Debut
1928 Australian cricket legend Don Bradman makes an inauspicious Test debut; scores 18 and 1 vs England in 1st Test in Brisbane; dropped to 12th man for 2nd Test
- 1931 His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
- 1933 CCC Camps are established in Cleveland Park District
- 1936 London’s Crystal Palace (built 1851) destroyed by fire
- 1937 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
- 1938 Fascist coup in Romania fails
- 1938 Germany bans Jews being lawyers
Mannerheim Defends Finland
1939 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Finnish armed services as Soviet forces invade and bomb Helsinki
- 1939 Paul Osborn’s “Mornings at 7” premieres in NYC
- 1941 101-year-old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
Hirohito Discusses War Plans
1941 Japanese Emperor Hirohito consults with admirals Shimada and Nagano
- 1942 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
- 1942 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
- 1942 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama
- 1942 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)
- 1944 Biggest & last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched
- 1947 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- 1948 Baseball’s Negro National League disbands
- 1948 Player-manager Lou Boudreau is selected American League MVP
- 1948 Soviets set up a separate municipal government in East Berlin
- 1949 Chinese Communists capture Chongqing
- 1949 KOTV TV channel 6 in Tulsa, Oklahoma (CBS) begins broadcasting
Grotewohl Urges Reunification
1950 East German Prime Minister Otto Grotewohl calls for German reunification in a letter to West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer, stressing that details should be a German affair not guided by outside nations
- 1950 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb
Robinson Accuses Yankees of Bias
1952 Jackie Robinson accuses the NY Yankees of racial bias on national television
- 1953 Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
- 1953 French parachutist under Colonel De Castries attacks Dien Bien Phu
- 1954 20th Heisman Trophy Award: Alan Ameche, Wisconsin (FB)
- 1954 Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama, in the first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
- 1954 John Strydom succeeds D. F. Malan as premier of South Africa
- 1955 Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
- 1955 Thriller novel “The Talented Mr Ripley” by Patricia Highsmith is published in the US
Patterson vs. Moore
1956 At 21 years, 10 months, 3 weeks, and 5 days, Floyd Patterson becomes the youngest world heavyweight boxing champion by knocking out Archie Moore in the 5th round in Chicago, becoming the first Olympic gold medalist to win a professional heavyweight title
Cuthbert Wins Sprint Double
1956 Australian Betty Cuthbert takes Olympic sprint double when she runs OR equalling 23.4s to win the 200m gold medal at the Melbourne Games; beats Christa Stubnick in repeat of 100m final 4 days earlier
- 1956 Gert Fredriksson of Sweden wins his 2nd straight K-1 10,000m canoeing gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; last time event held in the Summer Olympics; also wins 3rd consecutive K-1 1,000m gold
- 1956 Jon Henricks swims world record 55.4 to win the men’s 100m at the Melbourne Olympics; rare Australian 1-2-3 with John Devitt and Gary Chapman taking the minor medals
- 1956 Milt Campbell sets Olympic record total of 7,937 points to upset fellow American and world record holder Rafer Johnson, and win the decathlon gold medal at the Melbourne Games
- 1956 The first use of videotape on TV for a broadcast of “Douglas Edwards with the News”
Assassination Attempt on President Sukarno
1957 Assassination attempt on Indonesian President Sukarno, kills 8
- 1958 1st US guided missile destroyer launched – the Dewey at Bath Iron Works, Maine
- 1958 WKBW TV channel 7 in Buffalo, NY (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1959 1960 NFL Draft: Billy Cannon from LSU first pick by Los Angeles Rams
- 1959 Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
- 1960 French Senate condemns building own nuclear weapons
- 1960 Tad Mosels “All the Way Home” premieres in NYC
- 1961 Billy Williams of the Chicago Cubs is voted NL Rookie of Year
- 1961 USSR vetoes Kuwaits application for UN membership
- 1963 Martin Walser‘s “Überlebensgross Herr Krott” premieres in Stuttgart
- 1964 USSR launches Zond 2 towards Mars; no data returned
- 1966 Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
- 1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland
- 1967 British troops leave Aden and the rest of the Federation of South Arabia (FSA) ending British colonial rule; National Liberation Front (NLF) assumes power and renames the state as the People’s Republic of South Yemen
- 1967 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
- 1967 Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D, Eisenhower), announce their engagement
- 1967 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
McCarthy Runs for President
1967 Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam war platform
- 1967 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War
Marches in Armagh
1968 A Northern Ireland Civil Rights Association march in Armagh is stopped by Royal Ulster Constabulary because of the presence of a Loyalist counter demonstration led by Ian Paisley and Ronald Bunting
- 1969 American singer-songwriter Neil Diamond makes his only appearance on “The Ed Sullivan Show”, singing “Sweet Caroline” and “Holly, Holy”
- 1969 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Brian’s Song
1971 Emmy and Peabody Award-winning TV movie “Brian’s Song”, about the friendship of Chicago Bears football teammates Brian Piccolo and Gale Sayers (based on Sayers’ autobiography) premieres on ABC, starring James Caan and Billie Dee Williams
- 1971 The government of the Republic of Ireland states that it will take the allegations of brutality against the security forces in Northern Ireland to the European Court of Human Rights
- 1972 BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
- 1972 Illegal fireworks factory explodes killing 15 in Rome, Italy
- 1973 Firestone Professional Bowling World Tournament of Champions won by Jim Godman
- 1974 20th time Islanders shut-out (3-0 vs Canucks)
- 1975 Dahomey renamed People’s Republic of Benin
- 1976 42nd Heisman Trophy Award: Tony Dorsett, Pittsburgh (RB)
- 1978 France performs nuclear test
The Wall
1979 Pink Floyd‘s album “The Wall” is released and sells six million copies in two weeks
- 1979 Ted Koppel becomes anchor of late nightly news on Iran “America Held Hostage” (ABC)
- 1979 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- 1980 Uruguay’s new constitution rejected by referendum
- 1981 Cold War: In Geneva, representatives from the United States and the Soviet Union begin to negotiate intermediate-range nuclear weapon reductions in Europe (the meetings ended inconclusively on December 17)
- 1981 NY Yankee Dave Righetti wins AL Rookie of Year Award
- 1981 South Africa anti-apartheid advocate Bulelani Ngcuka arrested
Thriller
1982 “Thriller,” the sixth studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
- 1982 NASA STS-6 space shuttle vehicle moves to launch pad
- 1982 Ottumwa, Iowa, is declared the “Video Game Capital of the World” by Mayor Jerry Parker
- 1982 US Navy submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
- 1982 USSR performs nuclear test
- 1983 Denver Nuggets coach Doug Moe, hoplessly behind, advises team to let Blazers break their scoring record
- 1983 Police free kidnapped beer magnate Alfred Heineken in Amsterdam
- 1983 Radio Shack announces Tandy Model 2000 computer (80186 chip)
- 1983 Raúl Alfonsín wins Argentine presidential election
- 1983 Sam Shepards “Fool for love” premieres in NYC
Lendl First to Make $10m
1986 American-based Czech tennis star Ivan Lendl is first player to make over $10 million in career earnings
- 1987 Afghanistan’s Constitution adopted
- 1988 Cyclone lashes Bangladesh, Eastern India; 317 killed
- 1988 France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
- 1988 Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25 billion
- 1988 NYC furrier sues Mike Tyson for $92,000 for non payment of purchase
- 1988 Soviets stop jamming Radio Liberty for the first time in 38 years
- 1988 UN General Assembly (151-2) censures US for refusing PLO’s Arafat visa
- 1989 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb
- 1990 American actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
- 1991 FIFA Women’s World Cup Final, Tianhe Stadium, Guangzhou, China: Michelle Akers scores twice as US beats Norway, 2-1
- 1991 Rob Pilatus, 27, of disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli attempts suicide
- 1991 San Diego State’s Marshall Faulk is 1st freshman to capture national rushing and scoring titles
- 1992 Intercity-train derailed at Village chief, 5 die
- 1993 NFL announces 30th franchise – Jacksonville Jaguars
- 1994 Cruise ship Achille Lauro destroyed by fire at Somalia, 4 die
- 1994 First Beatles album in 25 years, “Live at the BBC,” is released in Britain
- 1994 Man Mohan Adhikari is sworn in as the first communist Prime Minister of Nepal
- 1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm
- 1996 South African cricket opening batsman Gary Kirsten follows his 1st innings 102 with 133 in the Proteas’ 329 run 2nd Test win v India in Kolkata
- 1997 “Eugene Onegin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
- 1998 Deutsche Bank announces a US$10 billion deal to buy Bankers Trust, thus creating the largest financial institution in the world
- 1999 British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merge to form BAE Systems, Europe’s largest defence contractor and fourth largest aerospace firm in the world
- 1999 In Seattle, Washington, United States, protests against the WTO meeting by anti-globalization protesters catch police unprepared and force the cancellation of opening ceremonies
Barefoot Contessa
2002 Ina Garten‘s cooking TV show “Barefoot Contessa” premieres on the Food Network
- 2004 Department of Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge resigns
- 2004 Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Central Java, Indonesia, killing 26
Jeopardy Champion Finally Loses
2004 Longtime “Jeopardy!” champion Ken Jennings from Salt Lake City, Utah, finally loses, leaving him with $2,520,700, television’s all-time biggest game show haul
Breakaway
2004 RCA releases “Breakaway”, Kelly Clarkson‘s 2nd studio album; wins 2 Grammy Awards and becomes her best selling album to date with over 12 million units sold
- 2005 John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York
- 2005 The Boston Bruins trade captain Joe Thornton to the San Jose Sharks
Grandma Moses
2006 American folk artist “Grandma” Moses’ 1943 painting “Sugaring Off” sells for a record $1.3 million for the artist, by Christie’s in New York
- 2006 South Africa’s Civil Union Act of 2006 legalizes same-sex marriage, becomes fifth country in the world and first in Africa to do so
Clinton Office Hostage Crisis
2007 Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg enters campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with suspected bomb and holds three people hostage for 5 hours
- 2009 Canada begins its recovery from the recession; economic growth is at 0.4% after 14 months of economic stagnation
José Mujica Elected
2009 José Mujica is announced as the winner of the runoff election in Uruguay held the day before and named president-elect
- 2012 32 people are killed and 14 injured in an Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane crash in Congo
- 2014 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
- 2014 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
- 2015 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, or COP21, begins in Paris
Francis Urges Peace in Africa
2015 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui’s PK5 district in the Central African Republic
- 2016 UNESCO adds Belgian beer to its Cultural Heritage List
- 2017 Def Jam founder Russell Simmons steps down from his companies after allegations of sexual misconduct
- 2017 Disney announces it has cast Chinese actress Liu Yifei to play Mulan in the upcoming live-action film
- 2017 World’s longest recorded rainbow lasts for 8 hours and 58 minutes in Taipei’s Yangmingshan Mountain Range
- 2018 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska
- 2018 Marriott Hotels reveals a massive data breach with 500 million guests affected in one of the largest-ever company hacks
- 2019 Australian cricket batsman David Warner smashes 335 not out in the 2nd Test against Pakistan; second-highest Test score by an Australian (Matt Hayden 380); highest Test score at Adelaide Oval
- 2019 Gun battle between suspected cartel and security forces at Villa Unión city hall, northern Mexico, kills 21
- 2019 On the way to 36 in the 2nd Test against Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run tally of 6,996 Test runs; he becomes the fastest batsman to 7,000 in terms of innings (126)
- 2020 Australia condemns a fabricated photo of an Australian soldier threatening an Afghan child with a knife on a Chinese official’s Twitter, representing a new low in the two countries’ relationship
- 2020 DeepMind’s AlphaFold AI program achieves a scientific breakthrough by accurately predicting the 3D structures of proteins from their amino acid sequences, a task that had challenged scientists for 50 years
- 2020 Los Angeles County begins three-week stay-at-home order for 10 million people to combat COVID-19 surge
- 2020 Newly discovered rock art is announced in the Serranía La Lindosa, Colombian Amazon, dating back 12,600 to 11,800 years ago, with thousands of paintings of now-extinct Ice Age animals [1]
- 2021 15-year-old student shoots four dead and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan
Barbados becomes a Republic
2021 Barbados becomes a republic, removing Queen Elizabeth II as the head of state in a ceremony where Sandra Mason is sworn in as the first president, with Rihanna declared a national hero
Josephine Baker Honored
2021 Josephine Baker becomes the first Black woman inducted into the Panthéon in Paris, France’s highest honor
Spotify Most Streamed
2022 Harry Styles‘ single “As It Was” is the most-streamed song globally on Spotify in 2022, with Bad Bunny as the most-listened-to artist [1]
- 2022 Prince and Princess of Wales, William and Catherine, arrive in Boston for a US royal visit the same day a former lady-in-waiting resigns amid a racism controversy [1]
- 2022 UNESCO announces new additions to its Intangible Cultural Heritage list, including the French Baguette, oral traditions of calling camels in the Middle East, and tea practices in China [1] [2]
Hakeem Jeffries Replaces Pelosi
2022 US House Democrats elect Hakeem Jeffries as the first Black House Minority leader, replacing Nancy Pelosi [1]
- 2023 Russia’s Supreme Court labels LGBTQ+ ‘movement’ an extremist organization, effectively outlawing it [1]
- 2023 The United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28) opens in Dubai with nations pledging a draft resolution for a $400 million fund to help countries most affected by climate change [1]
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