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- 1444 Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.
- 1520 Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.
- 1556 Russian treasure ship Edward Bonaventure, carrying Ivan the Terrible's ambassador to Elizabeth 1 of England, was wrecked off Rosehearty, Aberdeenshire
- 1619 Ren Descartes has the dreams that inspire his Meditations on First Philosophy.
- 1674 Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.
- 1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
- 1766 The last Colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).
- 1775 Birth of the United States Marine Corps! OORAH! - USA
- 1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
- 1808 Osage Treaty signed
- 1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
- 1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney is wrecked thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.
- 1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
- 1865 Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.
- 1871 Explorer and journalist Henry M. Stanley locates missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone in central Africa: "Doctor Livingstone, I presume?"
- 1871 Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
- 1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
- 1898 Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
- 1910 The date of Thomas A. Davis' openning of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- 1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
- 1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
- 1919 American Legion's first national convention (Minneapolis)
- 1919 The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, MN.
- 1924 Dion O'Banion, leader of the North Side Gang is assassinated in his flower shop by members of Johnny Torrio's gang, sparking the bloody gang war of the 1920s in Chicago.
- 1926 Vincent Massey becomes first Canadian minister to USA
- 1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
- 1928 Michinomiya Hirohito is crowned the 124th Emperor of Japan, Emperor Showa.
- 1928 Playing against Army at Yankee Stadium, Notre Dame football coach Knute Rockne gives what is considered the greatest locker room speeches of all time by saying "Win one for the Gipper." The Fighting Irish would win the game 12-6.
- 1938 Kate Smith, on her weekly radio show, sings Irving Berlin's God Bless America for the first time.
- 1938 The death of the founder of the Republic of Turkey, Mustafa Kemal Atatrk
- 1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
- 1944 Ammunition ship USS Mount Hood (AE-11) exploded at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands
- 1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
- 1945 Heavy battle in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).
- 1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected President of Guatemala
- 1951 Direct long-distance dialing between the east and west coasts of the U.S. begins today with a call between the mayors of Englewood, NJ and Alameda, CA.
- 1951 Visitor posting - Tony Piasecki born. Tony is born exactly 1 year BEFORE Sandra VanOverloop! - USA
- 1952 Visitor posting - Sandy Vanoverloop is born-Grand Rapids MI. - USA
- 1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
- 1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
- 1958 The Hope Diamond was donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.
- 1959 Visitor posting - 1959 - On this day - Pauli Lappi turns 50 years old - USA
- 1963 Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
- 1968 Launch of Zond 6, 2nd unmanned circumlunar & return flight
- 1969 "Sesame Street" premieres on PBS TV
- 1969 The children's TV show Sesame Street debuts on PBS.
- 1970 Luna 17, with unmanned self-propelled Lunokhod 1, is launched
- 1970 Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 launched.
- 1971 In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine airplanes.
- 1972 Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.
- 1975 Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald & crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
- 1975 PLO leader Yasser Arafat addresses UN in NYC
- 1975 The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.
- 1975 The Edmund Fitzgerald, an ore-hauling freighter with a crew of 29, disappears without a trace on Lake Superior during a storm.
- 1975 UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
- 1975 United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution was repealed in December 1991 with Resolution 4686).
- 1976 Utah Supreme Court OKs execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
- 1978 Israel's top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
- 1979 CP Rail no. 54 suffers a hot axle box and derails 24 cars containing dangerous commodities, in Mississaugua, Ont. Almost a quarter of a million people were evacuated for periods of up to five days.
- 1980 Dan Rather refuses to pay his cabbie, CBS pays the $12.55 fare
- 1982 Leonid I Brezhnev Soviet first sect, dies of a heart attack at 75
- 1982 Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev dies at age 75.
- 1982 The Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens to visitors in Wahsington, D.C.
- 1984 Number one hit on UK music charts - Chaka Khan - I Feel For You
- 1984 Sudie Bond actress, dies at 56 of a respiratory ailment
- 1985 Pelle Lindbergh Philadelphia Flyer's goalie, dies in drunk driving accident
- 1986 River Rhine (Germany) polluted by chemical spill
- 1988 China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
- 1988 NY's MTA announces it may replace tokens with credit card type passes
- 1989 Germans begin punching holes in the Berlin Wall
- 1989 Guerrillas battle with government forces in El Salvador
- 1989 Visitor posting - Celeste Cheri Wallace was born at 1:11am, 7pounds 11ounces
- 1989 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped great word processor but not windows!
- 1990 Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag & Marcel Coudari)
- 1990 Visitor posting - Nisha Caywood born - USA
- 1991 Marty Glickman broadcasts his 1,000th football game
- 1995 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces.
- 1997 WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).
- 1998 "The Legend of Mulan" becomes the first commercially available DVD to include a DTS audio track
- 2001 Visitor posting - Ram Praneeth's birthday
- 2004 Visitor posting - Julianna Chloe Turknett was born at 5:00pm. She was 21" long & 6 lbs 13oz to William Jay Turknett & Tiffany Victoria Summey Turknett - USA
- 2006 Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj assassinated in Colombo.
- 2006 Visitor posting - Tyler was born - USA
- 2007 Por qu no te callas? incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chvez.
- 2008 Visitor posting - Isabelle Caitlin Onyxdragon Born 11/10/2008 at 4:48 pm 20 inches long 7 lbs-1.2 oz. in perfect health
- 2009 A conservation group warns that the koala could be extinct within 30 years.
- 2009 A power failure at Itaipu causes a massive blackout, affecting 15 states of Brazil and, briefly, the entire country of Paraguay; chaos is reported in major cities such as São Paulo.
- 2009 Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 release date - Xbox 360
- 2009 Former President of French Polynesia Gaston Flosse is arrested as part of a corruption investigation.
- 2009 Game Developer Infinity Ward released their new title Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2.
- 2009 John Allen Muhammad, mastermind of the 2002 Beltway sniper attacks, is executed in Virginia.
- 2009 Prosecutors begin cross examining former Liberian President Charles Taylor at his war crimes trial.
- 2009 Sesame Street's 40th anniversary - USA
- 2009 South and North Korean naval ships fire on one another after a North Korean ship crossed the disputed Northern Limit Line in the Yellow Sea. The vessel later returned "wrapped in flames" after the incident.
- 2009 Thailand's ousted Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra arrives in Cambodia to take up his new appointment as economic adviser to the Cambodian government.)
- 2009 Visitor posting - Matt and Niki Franclemont's 1 year anniversary!!! - USA
- 2010 Visitor posting - Maxx Mendez Born - USA
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