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- 0498 After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected Pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected Pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
- 0845 : the first King of all Brittany Nominoe defeats the Franc king Charles the Bald at the battle of Ballon near Redon. No more toll will be taken on Brittany. It becomes an independant state during seven centuries.
- 1718 Blackbeard the Pirate killed on North Carolina shore
- 1718 Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard.
- 1809 Peregrine Williamson of Baltimore patents a steel pen
- 1830 Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1831 The opera "Robert Le Diable" is produced (Paris)
- 1842 Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts
- 1851 The opera "La Perle Du Br‚sil" is produced (Paris)
- 1880 Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell made her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
- 1884 T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
- 1886 Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
- 1890 Charles DeGaulle born
- 1898 The opera "Iris" is produced (Rome)
- 1899 Hoagy (Hoagland) Carmichael (songwriter: Stardust)
- 1906 International Radio Telecommunications Com adopts "SOS" as new call for help
- 1910 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
- 1914 Lew Hays (founder of PONY League baseball for youngsters)
- 1917 In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association broke up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).
- 1917 NHL founded with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators andQuebec Bulldogs
- 1917 National Hockey Association disbands
- 1921 Rodney Dangerfield (Jacob Cohen) ("I Don't Get No Respect": comedian, actor: Caddyshack, Easy Money, Back to School, Natural Born Killers, The Dean Martin Show)
- 1922 Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opened the tomb of Tutankhamun.
- 1922 Library Ave in the Bronx named
- 1923 Arthur Hiller (director: The Americanization of Emily, Author! Author!, Man of La Mancha, Plaza Suite, The Silver Streak)
- 1923 Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
- 1924 England orders Egyptians out of Sudan
- 1924 Geraldine Page (Academy Award-winning actress: The Trip to Bountiful [1985])
- 1926 Lew (Selva Lewis) Burdette, Jr. (baseball: Milwaukee Braves)
- 1927 Carl Eliason of Sayner, Wisconsin, was granted the first patent ever given for a snowmobile design on this day.
- 1928 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel, first performed publicly, in Paris
- 1932 Pump patented that computes quantity and price delivered
- 1932 Robert Vaughn (actor: The Man from U.N.C.L.E.)
- 1935 China Clipper (flying boat) took off from Alameda, CA, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight
- 1935 The China Clipper took off from Alameda, California in an attempt to deliver the first airmail cargo across the Pacific Ocean (the airplane later reached its destination, Manila, and delivered over 110,000 pieces of mail).
- 1940 Philip Murray succeeds founder John L. Lewis as president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- 1940 Terry Gilliam (actor: Monty Python series, And Now for Something Completely Different, )
- 1940 World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advanced into Albanian soil and liberated Korytsa.
- 1941 Tom Conte (actor: American Dreamer, The Norman Conquests series, The Quick and the Dead, Saving Grace)
- 1943 Billie Jean King (Moffitt) (tennis: 20 Wimbledon titles)
- 1943 FDR, Churchill and Chiang Kai-shek meet to discuss ways to defeat Japan
- 1943 Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gained independence from France.
- 1943 World War II: War in the Pacific U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan (see Cairo Conference)
- 1950 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills NY
- 1950 Greg The Bull' Luzinzki (baseball: Philadelphia Phillies, Chicago White Sox)
- 1958 Jamie Lee Curtis, actress born
- 1961 Mariel Hemingway (actress: Delirious, Falling from Grace, Lipstick, Personal Best, The Suicide Club, Superman 4: The Quest for Peace)
- 1963 John F. Kennedy assassination: In Dallas, Texas, US President John F. Kennedy was killed and Texas Governor John B. Connally was seriously wounded by an assassin, identified as Lee Harvey Oswald, who was later captured and charged with the murder of police officer J. D. Tippit. That same day, US Vice-President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
- 1963 The Beatles release their album With The Beatles
- 1965 D.N. Aidit, head of the Communist Party of Indonesia is captured and killed by the Indonesian military in the after math of the G30S coup attempt.
- 1967 BBC unofficially bans "I am the Walrus" by the Beatles
- 1967 Boris Becker (tennis: youngest Wimbledon Men's Champ. [17 years old])
- 1967 Number one hit on UK music charts - Long John Baldry - Let The Heartaches Begin
- 1967 Silver hits record $2.17 an ounce in New York
- 1967 UN Sec council passes resolution 242-Israel must give back occupied land
- 1968 Beatles release "The Beatles," (White Album)in UK, their only double album
- 1972 Chuck Thacker, a computer scientist at Xerox PARC, started designing the Alto computer, designed to improve the quality of machine-human interactions
- 1975 Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
- 1975 Juan Carlos proclaimed king of Spain
- 1975 Number one hit on UK music charts - Billy Connolly - D.I.V.O.R.C.E.
- 1977 British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
- 1977 First three nodes of the ARPAnet are connected, in what would eventually become the Internet.
- 1977 Regular Concorde passenger service between NY and Europe begins
- 1980 Georgia tanker at Pilottown La, spills 1.3 million gallons of oil after an anchor chain caused a ship to leak
- 1985 Columbia moves to the Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-C
- 1985 Lee Iacocca, the CEO of the Chrysler Corporation, presided over the largest swearing-in ceremony for new U.S. citizens in American history
- 1985 Microsoft signed an agreement with Apple, allowing Microsoft to copy visual characteristics of Apple's Macintosh in its Microsoft Windows software.
- 1986 Boxing: Mike Tyson knocks out Trevor Berbick in the second round, becoming the youngest world heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years and 4 months.
- 1986 Mike Tyson KOs Trevor Berbick to win WBC heavyweight title
- 1986 Visitor posting - My Cupcake Carvelle "Sibusiso Allan" born on this day - jk - South Africa
- 1986 Wayne Gretzky, Edmonton, became 13th NHLer to score 500 goals
- 1987 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom
- 1988 In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
- 1988 In the presence of members of Congress and the media, the B-2 "stealth" bomber is shown publicly for the first time at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
- 1988 Stealth Bomber unveiled in public
- 1989 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn and the Moon
- 1989 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
- 1989 In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him.
- 1989 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
- 1990 George Bush visits US troops in Saudi Arabia during Thanksgiving
- 1990 Margaret Thatcher resigns as the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
- 1990 Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, resigns after eleven years in Britain's top office
- 1992 Visitor posting - Name: Londa born - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Pauline B. is remembered, a kind, beautiful woman of Hawaii.
- 1994 Visitor posting - The awesome Joshua S. was born :D - USA
- 1995 Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
- 2002 In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Christopher Zuk marries Jennifer Jones in Pennsylvania, USA
- 2002 Visitor posting - Leanne Kelly was born in Tipperary. My pet is called Rocky - Ireland
- 2003 In Tbilisi, Georgia, opponents of President Eduard Shevardnadze seize the parliament building and demand the president's resignation.
- 2003 The Heritage Classic, the first outdoor hockey game in the history of the NHL, is played in Edmonton, Alberta
- 2004 The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine, resulting from the presidential elections.
- 2005 Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.
- 2006 Visitor posting - One Abigail Elizabeth Eve Sampel Born to Clayton E and Joni B Sampel A great Beautiful Day - USA
- 2009 A 400lb bomb partially explodes outside the headquarters of the Policing Board in Belfast, Northern Ireland. In another incident, three men are arrested after a shooting incident involving PSNI officers in the border village of Garrison, County Fermanagh.
- 2009 An Algerian court acquits Abdulli Feghoul, who had been detained at Guantanamo Bay detention camp without trial for almost seven years.
- 2009 An Indonesian ferry carrying over 200 passengers sinks off the cost of Sumatra.
- 2009 At least seven people are killed and more than 55 injured in a bombing in Assam, northeastern India.
- 2009 Azerbaijan-Armenia negotiations in Munich: Azerbaijan and Armenia hold talks on the Nagorno-Karabakh conflict. Azerbaijan has warned that the meeting of presidents in Munich will be "decisive" and that its troops are ready to take the territory by force unless there is a breakthrough in negotiations.
- 2009 Debate is stoked over whether scientists have overstated the case for man-made climate change after computer hackers break into a server at University of East Anglia, the well-respected climate change research center. (Wall Street Journal) (Washington Post)
- 2009 Efren Peñaflorida, who started a "pushcart classroom" in the Philippines to provide education to poor children, is named the 2009 CNN Hero of the Year.
- 2009 Former Iranian Vice President Mohammad-Ali Abtahi who was sentenced to six years imprisonment in connection with the June election protests is released on bail.
- 2009 Jeong Nam-gyu, one of South Korea's most prolific serial killers, commits suicide in his cell on death row.
- 2009 Romanians go to the polls for the first round of the presidential election and to vote on proposed parliamentary reform. (
- 2009 The United States Senate votes to allow a debate on the healthcare reform bill. The debate is to begin on November 30, 2009. (The Guardian)
- 2009 The number killed in an explosion in Heilongjiang province, China rises to 92.
- 2009 Three Royal National Lifeboat Institution crew members are located "in good condition" after their boat capsizes off County Wexford in Ireland.
- 2012 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
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