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- 1666 Samuel Pepys reports on first blood transfusion (between dogs)
- 1732 The first US professional librarian, Louis Timothee, hired in Philadelphia
- 1832 The first streetcar (horse-drawn) (John Mason) debuts in NYC; fare 12c
- 1834 William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 years 4 months
- 1851 "Moby Dick," by Herman Melville, published
- 1862 American Civil War: President Abraham Lincoln approves General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the Confederate capital at Richmond, Virginia, leading to the Battle of Fredericksburg.
- 1863 Bedford Forrest is assigned to command of West Tennessee
- 1863 Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
- 1881 Charles J Guiteau went on trial for President Garfield's assassination
- 1889 NY World's Nellie Bly (Liz Cochrane) begins 72 day world trip
- 1889 Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
- 1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation
- 1906 Roosevelt becomes first US President to visit a foreign country (Panama)
- 1910 Aviator Eugene Ely performs the first take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in a Curtiss pusher.
- 1918 Czechoslovakia becomes a republic.
- 1918 Republic of Czechoslovakia created with T.G. Masaryk as President
- 1922 BBC begins domestic radio service from 2LO at Marconi House
- 1922 The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
- 1923 Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
- 1935 FDR proclaims the Philippine Islands a free commonwealth
- 1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas Venezuela
- 1940 During WW II, German planes destroyed most of Coventry, England
- 1940 World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
- 1941 HMS ARK ROYAL foundered in tow in 30 miles east of Gibraltar by 1 torpedo on the 13th from German U-81.
- 1948 Prince Charles born
- 1952 First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express.
- 1957 The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
- 1959 Kilauea's most spectacular eruption (in Hawaii)
- 1959 Visitor posting - bill joyner is born - USA
- 1963 Number one hit on UK music charts - Gerry & The Pacemakers - You'll Never Walk Alone
- 1963 Visitor posting - Brenda Sue born - USA
- 1967 The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman".
- 1969 Apollo 12 launched for 2nd manned Moon landing
- 1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV
- 1970 Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University football team.
- 1971 His Holiness Shenouda III is consecrated as the 117th Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
- 1973 Britain's Princess Anne marries commoner, Capt Mark Phillips
- 1975 Spain abandoned the Spanish Sahara
- 1975 Spain abandons Western Sahara.
- 1977 Egypt President Sadat repeats willingness to visit Israel to Cronkite
- 1978 Visitor posting - Joshua Moores born - USA
- 1979 Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the hostage crisis.
- 1979 Visitor posting - Arienne was born in Akron, OH - USA
- 1981 2nd Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 2-returns to Earth
- 1981 Number one hit on UK music charts - Police - Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic
- 1981 Old Dutch Windmill in Golden Gate Park repaired and working again
- 1981 VIA cuts nearly 20% of its services.
- 1982 Lech Wasa, the leader of Poland's outlawed Solidarity movement, is released after eleven months of internment near the Soviet border.
- 1984 Astronauts aboard "Discovery" pluck a 2nd satellite from orbit
- 1984 NASA launches NATO-3D
- 1984 Visitor posting - Britney was born in beautiful London, England!!!
- 1986 SEC imposes a record $100 million penalty against Ivan Boesky
- 1987 Number one hit on UK music charts - T'Pau - China In Your Hand
- 1989 CP Rail commences cabooseless train operations.
- 1990 After German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
- 1990 Michael Heseltine contests Thatcher's leadership of the party
- 1991 American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
- 1991 Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
- 1991 In Royal Oak, Michigan, a fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
- 1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premiers on FOX TV
- 1991 Visitor posting - 4:28 am Bryan D'Amico is born - USA
- 1993 Don Shula of the Miami Dolphins sets an NFL record of 325 wins as a coach. He would finish his career with 347 wins.
- 1993 Visitor posting - Christy Bergin was born on this day - United Kingdom
- 1994 Visitor posting - Chex Mix is born in Mexico
- 1995 A budget standoff between Democrats and Republicans in the U.S. Congress forces the federal government to temporarily close national parks and museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Born in Omaha, Nebraska. - USA
- 1996 Visitor posting - James Smith was born Hastings England - United Kingdom
- 1997 Visitor posting - Dino Prijic was born - USA
- 1997 Visitor posting - Gabriel Rosario born - USA
- 2000 Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of open source development.
- 2001 War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul.
- 2002 Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.
- 2003 Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
- 2009 A Peruvian court orders the arrest of two Chilean military officers on charges of spying, causing a diplomatic row between the two countries.
- 2009 A fire at a shooting range in Busan, South Korea kills 10 people including two Japanese tourists and injures six others.
- 2009 At least 11 people are killed and 24 injured after a bomb explodes in Peshawar, Pakistan.
- 2009 More than 1,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrate outside the offices of U.S. firm Intel in Israel in protest at work taking place at the site on the Jewish Sabbath.
- 2009 New Zealand qualify for the 2009 FIFA World Cup for the first time since 1982, by defeating Bahrain in a playoff billed as "the biggest sporting event ever staged in New Zealand" and the country's most attended football match ever.
- 2009 Russian authorities in Perm detain three homeless males on charges of murder, cannibalism and the unlawful selling of body parts to a kebab shop.
- 2009 Several people are killed and dozens injured after an express train crashes near Jaipur, India.
- 2009 Slovenia signs an agreement with Russia to allow the South Stream gas pipeline to Europe pass through the country.
- 2009 Sweden returns 22 skulls stolen by Swedish scientists from indigenous cemeteries in Hawaii during the 19th century.
- 2009 The Ogaden National Liberation Front, a separatist Somali rebel group in the southeast of Ethiopia, says it has begun a new offensive.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Matthew N met Brianna B - USA
- 2009 The Papal ban on discussion of the ordination of women priests is challenged by Willie Walsh, Bishop of Killaloe during his address to the Association of European Journalists in Dublin.
- 2009 The United Nations chief of the Food and Agriculture Organization completes a 24 hour hunger strike in Rome, Italy, ahead of a UN summit next week.
- 2009 The body of veteran Slovenian mountaineer Tomaž Humar is located in the Himalayas days after going missing whilst climbing Langtang Lirung.
- 2009 Thousands of protesters demonstrate in Taipei, Taiwan, against imports of certain U.S. beef products.
- 2009 Two Saudi soldiers are killed and five wounded killed in fighting with Houthi rebels in northern Yemen.
- 2009 U.S. evangelist Tony Alamo is sentenced to 175 years in prison for taking underage girls across several states for sexual intercourse.
- 2010 Important Islamic date - Hajj: November 14 - November 17, 2010
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