Coronation of Charles VI
1380 Eleven-year-old Charles VI is crowned King of France at Reims Cathedral
Siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier
1429 Joan of Arc and Charles d’Albret liberate the heavily fortified town of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier after a siege
Coronation of Christian II
1520 Danish Norwegian King Christian II crowned King of Sweden
Siege of Hulst
1645 Prince Frederick Henry conquers Hulst, the last major siege of the Eighty Years’ War
- 1646 Massachusetts uses the death penalty for denying that the Holy Bible is God’s word
- 1675 Storm hits Western Europe: flood in Amsterdam
- 1737 The Teatro di San Carlo in Naples is inaugurated
- 1771 Carlo Goldoni‘s prose comedy “Le Bourru Bienfaisant” premieres in Paris
- 1845 First nationally observed uniform election day in the United States, the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November
- 1846 American inventor Benjamin Palmer from Meredith, New Hampshire, patents the artificial leg
- 1852 Count Camillo Benso di Cavour becomes the prime minister of Piedmont-Sardinia, which soon expands to become Italy
- 1854 Lighthouse built on Alcatraz Island, San Francisco Bay
- 1861 University of Washington founded in Seattle
- 1864 Battle at Reynoldsburg Island near Johnsonville, Tennessee: Confederate troops bombard Union supplies and fleet destroying four gunboats
- 1864 Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
- 1866 Kingdom of Italy annexes Venetia
- 1867 90 kegs of powder used to get rock from Telegraph Hill, San Francisco, for seawall
- 1873 Dentist John Beers of San Francisco patents the gold crown
- 1874 Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York
- 1875 Massachusetts Rifle Association is founded in Boston
- 1875 Passenger Steamship “Pacific” collides with sailing vessel “Orpheus” off Cape Flattery, Washington, 236 die
- 1875 Tonga adopts constitution
Brahms Symphony No. 1
1876 Johannes Brahms‘ 1st Symphony in C premieres in Karlsruhe, Grand Duchy of Baden
Refrigerating Apparatus
1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus [1]
- 1879 James Ritty invents the first cash register to prevent his bartenders from stealing money from the till at his bar in Dayton, Ohio
- 1886 Edward MacDowell’s orchestra suite “Ophelia” premieres
- 1889 Players League begins, declaring independence from baseball’s NL
- 1890 Alexander Borodin’s opera “Prince Igor” debuts at Mariinsky Theatre, St. Petersburg, Russia
- 1890 Great Britain proclaims Zanzibar as a protectorate
- 1890 Prince of Wales opens first underground station at Stockwell, South London
- 1893 British South Africa Company troops under Dr Jamesons occupy Bulawayo, Matabeleland
- 1903 Harvard Stadium, the first stadium built specifically for American football, holds its first game
- 1903 Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama
- 1905 Dock strike against importing grain elevators in Rotterdam
- 1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music opens in NYC
- 1909 Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari‘s opera “Il Segreto di Susanna” (Susanna’s Secret) is first produced in Munich, Germany
Nicholas II Visits Wilhelm II
1910 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
- 1910 Start of South Africa’s 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
- 1911 France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco & Congo
- 1914 Vogue holds its first model show, “Fashion Fete,” in New York City
- 1918 The Allied armistice with Austria-Hungary, signed 3 November, goes into effect
- 1919 US Army hires Canadian inventor-gun designer John C. Garand for the Springfield Armory in Springfield, Massachusetts
- 1921 Japanese Prime Minister Hara Takashi is assassinated by a right wing fanatic in Tokyo
Brown Shirts Established
1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA (the “Brown Shirts”) is formally established by Adolf Hitler
1922 Howard Carter discovers the intact tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in Egypt
- 1924 California legalizes professional boxing (illegal since 1914)
Coolidge Elected President
1924 Calvin Coolidge is elected to a full term as President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate John W. Davis
- 1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson one of the first two women elected US governor (of Texas) [See also Nellie Tayloe Ross, of Wyoming]
- 1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross one of the first two women elected US governor (Wyoming) [See also Miriam (Ma) Ferguson, of Texas]
Murder of Arnold Rothstein
1928 American gangster Arnold Rothstein is shot at a business meeting for reputedly refusing to pay gambling debts (dies 6th November)
- 1928 Jose Moncada elected president of Nicaragua
- 1928 Titanic Thompson participates in a high-stakes poker game that leads to the murder of Arnold Rothstein
- 1929 John L. Balderston’s play “Berkeley Square” starring Leslie Howard premieres in NYC
Antarctic Polar Expedition
1929 Richard E. Byrd, Laurence McKinley Gould and their polar expedition team begin a 2½ month, 1500-mile dog-sledge journey into the Queen Maud Mountains. The first exploration of the interior of Antarctica.
- 1930 Legendary New Zealand-Australian racehorse Phar Lap wins the Melbourne Cup with the shortest odds ever offered
- 1931 Jean Genet‘s play “Judith” premieres in Paris
Reichstag Arson Trial
1933 Bulgarian communist Georgi Dimitrov defends himself and the ideology of communism against Hermann Goering and his Nazi accusers on charges of setting the Reichstag on fire
- 1933 Young Park (1) in the Bronx named in honor of James Young
- 1934 After posting 7 straight shutouts to start the NFL season, Detroit Lions beat Pittsburgh, 40-7 at University of Detroit Stadium; scored upon for the first time of the season; rush for NFL single game record 426 yards
- 1939 The first air-conditioned automobile (Packard) is exhibited in Chicago, Illinois
- 1939 US allows “cash & carry” arms sales during WWII
- 1940 Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
- 1942 13th day of battle at El Alamein: Afrika Korps draws back
- 1944 German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
- 1944 RAF bombs Dinteloord (Netherlands), 54 killed
- 1946 United Nations Educational, Scientific, & Cultural Organization (UNESCO) formed
Will Rogers Stamp
1948 American humorist Will Rogers is commemorated by the US Postal Service on a 3-cent stamp
T. S. Eliot Wins Nobel
1948 American-born British poet T. S. Eliot wins Nobel Prize for literature
- 1949 “One Man’s Family” premieres on TV in the US, after running as a radio show since 1932
- 1950 Indonesian troops reconquer Ambon
- 1950 US troops vacate Pyongyang, North Korea
- 1951 NY Giants & NY Yanks score back-to-back TDs on kickoff returns
- 1951 Vijay Merchant scores 154 v England in his last Test Cricket innings
- 1952 Earthquake & flood strike Kamshatka-South America
Inauguration of Pope John XXIII
1958 Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli crowned as Pope John XXIII
- 1958 Belgian minority government of Gaston Eyskens resigns
- 1958 Democrats win US congressional election
- 1959 Ernie Banks, Cubs shortstop, wins 2nd consecutive NL MVP
Rattle Your Jewelry
1963 John Lennon utters his famous quip at a Royal Variety Performance at the Prince of Wales Theatre in London: “For our last number, I’d like to ask your help. Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry”
- 1964 American pianist and composer Terry Riley and musicians premiere his work “In C” at Tape Music Center, San Francisco; the piece is often cited as the first minimalist masterpiece [1]
- 1965 Lee Breedlove sets the female land speed record in Utah (308.56 mph)
- 1966 Flooding of Arno River (Florence, Italy) destroys countless art works, kills 113
Pink Floyd Debut
1967 British rock band Pink Floyd make US live debut, sharing bill with Big Brother & The Holding Company, and singer-songwriter Richie Havens, at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California
- 1968 Battles between Jordanian army & Al Fatah-arm forces
Wichita Lineman
1968 Capitol Records releases “Wichita Lineman”, the 12th album by Glen Campbell (Billboard Album of the Year, 1969)
O’Neill Meets Wilson
1968 Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks on Northern Ireland; Wilson states no change of constitutional position of Northern Ireland possible without consent of its people
- 1968 WRDU (now WPTF) TV channel 28 in Raleigh-Durham, NC (NBC) 1st broadcast
- 1968 WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1970 Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California, having been locked in her bedroom by her father for most of her life
Committee on Human Rights
1970 Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov forms Human Rights Committee
- 1972 “I Can See Clearly Now” single by Johnny Nash begins a 3-week run on the top of the charts
- 1972 Bangladesh adopts constitution
- 1972 Kings score 3 goals within 45 seconds against Islanders
- 1973 Mark Medoff’s stage drama “When You Comin’ Back, Red Ryder?” opens at the Circle Repertory Company, NYC
- 1973 NFL New Orleans Saints enjoy the team’s 1st shutout victory, 13-0 over the Buffalo Bills
Mikita Scores #1,000
1973 NHL Chicago Black Hawks center Stan Mikita registers his 1,000 NHL career point in 5-3 loss to the Minnesota North Stars at the Met Centre, Bloomington, Minnesota
- 1973 The Netherlands introduces the first car-free Sunday in response to the oil crisis, resulting in deserted highways that are solely used by cyclists and roller skaters
- 1973 Thousands commemorate former Greek premier Georgios Papandreou
1st Free Agent Reentry Draft
1976 1st mass-market free-agent reentry draft, Reggie Jackson, Joe Rudi, Gullett, Tenace, Fingers, Baylor, Grich & McCovey, available
- 1977 UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
- 1978 3rd annual reentry free-agent draft, Pete Rose, Tommy John, & Darrell Evans, available
- 1978 Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran University
- 1978 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (12-0-3)
- 1978 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
1979 500 Iranian students loyal to Ayatollah Khomeini seize the US Embassy in Tehran, taking 90 hostages for 444 days
- 1980 Islanders start 15 game undefeated streak (13-0-2)
- 1980 Libyan invasion in Chad
Reagan Elected President
1980 Republican candidate Ronald Reagan is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Democrat US President Jimmy Carter by a landslide
- 1980 Sadaharu Oh, 40, professional baseball’s all-time home run king with 868, retires
- 1981 Beth Henley’s “Crimes of the Heart” premieres in NYC
- 1981 Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining
- 1981 Dr George Nichopoulas is acquitted of overprescribing addictive drugs for Elvis Presley
- 1982 Ruud Lubbers becomes Dutch premier
- 1983 Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
Hearts and Bones
1983 Warner Bros. Records releases “Hearts and Bones”, the sixth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon
- 1983 Washington Capitals first NHL overtime victory beating Vancouver 5-4
- 1984 Funk-rocker Prince opens his “Purple Rain” tour featuring his new band ‘The Revolution’ with the 1st of seven shows at the Joe Louis Arena in Detroit, Michigan
- 1984 Nicaragua holds first free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%
- 1985 “Edge of Darkness” first airs on BBC Two, featuring Bob Peck and Joanne Whalley
- 1987 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
- 1987 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
- 1987 NBA announces four new franchises: Charlotte and Miami for 1988, and Minneapolis and Orlando for 1989
- 1988 First NBA game at Charlotte Coliseum – Hornets lose to Cavs, 133-93
1989 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- 1989 First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
- 1989 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
- 1989 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
- 1990 Ayrton Senna retires with gearbox trouble during the season-ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; wins by 7 points from Alain Prost; McLaren-Honda wins Constructors title for 3rd straight year
- 1990 Iraq says it is preparing for a “dangerous war”
- 1990 US Secretary of State James Baker visits American troops in Saudi Arabia
Imelda Marcos Returns from Exile
1991 Imelda Marcos returns from exile to the Philippines and was arrested the next day for tax fraud and corruption and soon released on $6,400 bail
- 1991 Mid East peace conference ends in Madrid Spain
- 1992 NY Giants announce they will quit WNEW Radio after 32 years for WOR
- 1992 NY Jets announce they are moving from WABC to WFAN radio
- 1993 Bolivia becomes a member of the Berne Convention copyright treaty
- 1993 Elton John is awarded $518,700 by Sunday Mirror for a false report on his diet
PM Jean Chretien
1993 Jean Chretien is appointed the Prime Minister of Canada by Governor General Ray Hnatyshyn
- 1994 San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
- 1994 Soyuz TM-20 lands in Kazakhstan
- 1994 United Center in Chicago opens – Bulls beat Charlotte Hornets, 89-83
- 1995 KeyArena opens in Seattle, Supersonics beat the LA Lakers 103-89
“Spice” Album Release
1996 British girl group the Spice Girls release their debut album “Spice”, goes on to sell 23 million copies
Come On Over
1997 Mercury Nashville Records releases “Come On Over”, the 3rd studio album by country music singer Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 1999)
- 2001 53rd Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Sex and the City, James Gandolfini & Edie Falco win
- 2002 Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
Shock’n Y’all
2003 “Shock’n Y’all” 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
- 2003 Former HealthSouth CEO Richard Scrushy becomes the first person indicted under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. He was eventually acquitted.
- 2003 Most powerful solar flare observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded
- 2004 12 French soldiers, 3 UN personnel and hundreds of civilians die during the Côte d’Ivoire civil war.
- 2008 American “Deftones” bassist Chi Cheng (38) suffers serious injuries in an automobile crash in Santa Clara, California, as a seatbelt-less passenger, dying 4-1/2 years later
1st African-American Elected President
2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
- 2012 Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
- 2012 Syrian rebels capture a major oil field in Deir ez-Zor Governorate
- 2014 Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
- 2014 The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
- 2014 Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction
War in Donbas
2014 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orders army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat a potential Russian-backed separatist offensive
- 2014 US midterm elections see Republicans retain the house and regain control of the Senate
PM Justin Trudeau
2015 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women
Highest Paid Musician
2015 Katy Perry is the highest paid musician of the year, earning $135 million, according to Forbes Magazine
- 2015 Plane crashes after take-off from Juba international airport, South Sudan, killing 37, 1-year-old survives in father’s arms
- 2015 Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announces his resignation after protests over a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 32
- 2016 Paris Agreement on climate change becomes effective
- 2017 Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Hariri resigns in a shock TV broadcast from Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, amid concerns he is being forcibly detained
- 2017 Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara opens in Jakarta with items from the collection of Indonesian tycoon Haryanto Adikoesoemo
- 2017 Saudi Arabia arrests 11 princes and other ministers on corruption charges, including billionaire investor Prince Alwaleed bin Talal
- 2017 Scottish champions Celtic sets new all-time British record (63) for matches undefeated in all domestic football competitions beating St. Johnstone, 4-0 at McDiarmid Park
- 2018 Camila Cabello wins four awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao, Janet Jackson accepts the Global Icon award
- 2018 Death toll from week-long storm in Italy rises to 29 with death of nine people in floods in Casteldaccia, Sicily
- 2018 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd fastest men’s time in history; Kenya’s Mary Keitany captures her 4th women’s NYC crown in 2:22:48
- 2019 Largest mass commutation in US history when 462 non-violent inmates are freed from Oklahoma prisons as part of state prison reforms
- 2019 Major investigation finds unsafe lead levels in 11 Canadian cities between 2014 and 2018 mostly due to antiquated pipes
- 2019 Nine members of a US Mexican Mormon family, including six children, shot and killed in attack by criminal gang in Northern Mexico
Tigray War
2020 Ethiopian PM Abiy Ahmed orders military offensive and state of emergency in northern region of Tigray, amid fears of a civil war
- 2021 Albino activist Overstone Kondowe is sworn in as Malawi’s first MP with albinism [1]
- 2021 COP26 climate pledges, if kept, could help limit global warning to 1.8 °C (above pre-industrial averages) according to the International Energy Agency [1]
- 2021 WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month [1]
- 2022 Astronomers announce the discovery of the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away and 10 times bigger than the Sun [1]
Live at the Bon Soir
2022 Columbia Records releases album “Barbra Streisand – Live At The Bon Soir”, recorded in an NYC nightclub in November 1962
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