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- 0741 St Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1095 On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.
- 1443 Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
- 1520 After navigating through the South American strait, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
- 1520 Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing Pacific Ocean
- 1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespere and Anne Hathaway pay a 40 bond for their marriage license.
- 1582 William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a 40-pound bond for their marriage license in Stratford-upon-Avon.
- 1660 At Gresham College, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
- 1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
- 1785 The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
- 1795 US pays $800,000 anda frigate as tribute to Algiers andTunis
- 1814 The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
- 1821 Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins the Great Colombia.
- 1843 Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
- 1853 Olympia established as capital of Washington Territory
- 1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to the CSA
- 1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time: the New Zealand general election.
- 1895 America's first auto race starts; 6 cars, 55 miles, winner averages 7 MPH
- 1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.
- 1905 Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Fin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
- 1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
- 1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pa
- 1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
- 1918 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania.
- 1919 Britain's House of Commons ceased being the exclusive domain of men when the first woman in British history was elected to a seat in Parliament
- 1919 Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit as a British MP, although not the first to be elected that was Countess Markiewicz.
- 1919 US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British Parliament
- 1920 Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
- 1922 Capt Cyril Turner (RAF) gave first skywriting exhibition (NYC). Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
- 1925 Famed NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses in a game and dies of TB 4months later
- 1925 The country variety show Grand Ole Opry makes its radio debut on station WSM.
- 1929 Adm Richard E Byrd makes first South Pole flight
- 1929 Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all the points in this game as the Cardinals defeat the Chicago Bears 40-6.
- 1929 Ernie Nevers scores all 40 pts for Chicago Cards vs Bears (NFL record)
- 1942 Nearly 500 die in a fire that destroyed Coconut Grove nightclub in Boston MA
- 1942 Roll out of the first B-24 Liberator made in Ford's Willow Run plant.
- 1942 The first production Ford bomber, the B-24 Liberator, rolled off the assembly line at Ford's massive Willow Run plant in Ypsilanti, Michigan
- 1942 World War II saw the U.S. government ask its people to make a truly noble sacrifice--forgoing coffee. The government put the pinch to caffeine addicts across the nation, announcing coffee rationing to help aid the war effort.
- 1943 FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
- 1943 World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss war strategy.
- 1944 Albania is liberated by the Albanian partisans.
- 1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premiers on TV
- 1950 Visitor posting - Ron Cutter was born - USA
- 1958 Chad becomes an autonomous republic within the French community
- 1958 Chad, the Republic of the Congo, and Gabon become autonomous republics within the French Community.
- 1958 Congo and Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
- 1958 George "Punch" Imlach becomes coach of NHL's Toronto Maple Leafs
- 1958 Visitor posting - Radio DJ Deb of "Shannon In the Morning & Deb" was born - USA
- 1960 Mauritania becomes independent of France.
- 1960 Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
- 1963 Beatles "She Loves You" returns to #1 on UK record chart
- 1963 First million copy record prior to release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"
- 1964 Mariner 4 launched; first probe to fly by Mars
- 1964 Vietnam War: National Security Council members agree to recommend that U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of bombing in North Vietnam.
- 1965 President Elect Ferdinand Marcos of the Philippines states that he will send troops to South Vietnam, in response to President Lyndon Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam.
- 1965 Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippines President Elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
- 1966 Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
- 1968 John Lennon is fined œ150 for unauthorized drug possession
- 1970 Number one hit on UK music charts - Dave Edmunds - I Hear You Knockin'
- 1972 Los Angeles Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
- 1974 Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
- 1974 John Lennon performs on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York City with Elton John, as a result of losing a wager that his song "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night" (which Elton also played and sang on) would hit #1 on the pop chart (on November 11). This would also be Lennon's final concert appearance.
- 1975 As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
- 1975 East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.
- 1975 Wings release "Venus and Mars/Rock Show" medley
- 1979 Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes in Antarctica killing 257
- 1979 The Mount Erebus disaster: An Air New Zealand DC-10 crashes into Mount Erebus on a sightseeing trip, killing all 257 people on board.
- 1981 Bear Bryant wins his 315th game to out distance Alonzo Stagg andbecome college football's winningest coach
- 1982 Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
- 1983 9th Space Shuttle Mission-Columbia 6-is launched
- 1984 Visitor posting - Jorge I. Molina born - Puerto Rico
- 1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States.
- 1986 NBC’s Ahmad Rashad heard the acceptance of his marriage proposal from Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of the Detroit Lions-New York Jets football game.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Amilia Vanessa C. is born - Cote D'Ivoire (Ivory Coast)
- 1986 Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for first time
- 1987 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
- 1988 Picasso's "Acrobat and Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
- 1988 Visitor posting - Julie Steven is born - United Kingdom
- 1988 Visitor posting - Rachel Leann Brewer was born. - USA
- 1989 Visitor posting - charulatha born teddy is my favourite pet doll - India
- 1990 Lee Kuan Yew steps down as the Prime Minister of Singapore, with Goh Chok Tong succeeding him.
- 1990 Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation to H.M. Queen Elizabeth II and leaves Downing Street for the last time. John Major is elected her successor.
- 1992 Visitor posting - Kiyosha Littleton is born - USA
- 1992 Visitor posting - Breion Thomas born - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Xenobia Brown is born - USA
- 1994 In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium.
- 1994 Voters in Norway reject European Union membership (see Norwegian EU referendum, 1994).
- 1997 First public appearance of Kosova Liberation Army(UK), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group fighting for freedom of Kosovo.
- 1997 Netscape disputes browser figures by countering Dataquest's estimates that said that Microsoft was gaining ground in the browser market.
- 1997 Online music retailer CDNow filed for an IPO on this day in 1997
- 1998 The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
- 2000 Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze.
- 2004 Male Poo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2008 Visitor posting - The day my life changed forever... I met Michael Woods.... my future husband and father to our beautiful children ! - USA
- 2009 A Chinese court hears the first civil lawsuit by a parent whose child fell ill during last year's tainted milk scandal.
- 2009 A second day of voting in national and presidential elections in Namibia takes place.
- 2009 At least 73 people die as a ferry sinks in Lake Mai-Ndombe in the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
- 2009 Japan launches its fifth spy satellite on the H-IIA rocket from the Tanegashima Space Center.
- 2009 Pakistan's National Reconciliation Ordinance, issued by former President Pervez Musharraf in October 2007 to provide several thousand politicians (including current President Asif Ali Zardari) amnesty from charges of political corruption, expires.
- 2009 Protesters and police clash at a demonstration protesting a meeting of the World Trade Organization in Geneva, Switzerland.
- 2009 Russia's prosecutor general opens a criminal case into the 2009 Nevsky Express bombing which killed at least 26 people yesterday.
- 2009 Sri Lanka's former army chief Sarath Fonseka announces he will run for President in the presidential election next year.
- 2009 The Government of Ireland promises more money to the flood relief fund as ongoing flooding worsens in some counties, including Clare, Galway and Offaly.
- 2009 The death toll in a ferry accident in southern Bangladesh rises to 33.
- 2009 Three people are killed and four injured after a Zimbabwean cargo plane catches fire at Shanghai Pudong International Airport.
- 2013 Thanksgiving day - US - (always last Thursday of November)
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