- 2333 BC State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao
Victory in Battle
52 BC Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia
- 382 Roman Emperor Theodosius makes a treaty with the Visigoths, granting them lands between the Lower Danube and the Balkans in return for military service
- 1143 Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II
- 1247 Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor
- 1264 Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
- 1272 Beauvais cathedral in France is completed (choir and transept), designed to be the largest French Gothic cathedral ever built
- 1283 Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered
- 1430 Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia
- 1569 Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots
- 1574 The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen and the forces of Admiral Boisot
- 1605 Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre
- 1657 French troops occupy Mardyke
- 1683 The Qing Dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
- 1691 English & Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland
Event of Interest
1735 France and Holy Roman Emperor Charles VI sign peace accord
- 1739 The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
Event of Interest
1778 Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska
- 1789 Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day on Nov 26
Event of Interest
1793 A warrant is issued for the arrest of French mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet forcing him into hiding
- 1835 Staedtler Company founded by J.S. Staedtler in Nuremberg, Germany
Event of Interest
1849 American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his death.
- 1862 -10] Battle of Corinth, Mississippi
- 1862 Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky
Event of Interest
1863 US President Abraham Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day
- 1872 Bloomingdale's department store in NY opens
- 1873 Modoc tribe Chief Kintpuash (also known as Captain Jack), the only Native American leader ever charged with war crimes, hanged by US Army at Fort Klamath, Oregon
- 1884 British Open Men's Golf, Prestwick GC: Jack Simpson wins in windy conditions by 4 strokes from fellow Scots Douglas Rolland and Willie Fernie
- 1885 British Open Men's Golf, St Andrews: Bob Martin wins his second Championship by 1 stroke from fellow Scot Archie Simpson
Event of Interest
1888 Explorer Fridtjof Nansen and his team complete first known crossing of Greenland interior, arriving in Godthaab
Music History
1900 Edward Elgar and Cardinal Newman's oratorium "The Dream of Gerontius" premieres in Birmingham, England
- 1904 France & Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence
- 1904 Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal & Industrial School
- 1904 New York Giants pitcher Christy Mathewson strikes out 16 Cardinals in a 3-1 Giants victory over St. Louis; new MLB record; finishes the game in 1 hour, 15 minutes
- 1906 US regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba
- 1906 William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
1908 Pravda newspaper founded by Leon Trotsky, Adolph Joffe, Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna
Event of Interest
1913 US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson
- 1919 Cuban Dolf Luque becomes first Hispanic player to appear in Baseball World Series; pitches 1 inning of relief in Cincinnati Reds' 3-0 defeat to Chicago White Sox at Comiskey Park
- 1919 Serbian, Croatian and Slavic Parliament passes an accord for an 8 hr work day
- 1920 American Pro Football Association (later the NFL) plays 1st full round of games; Dayton Triangles beat Columbus Panhandles, 14-0 in first official game at Triangle Park, Dayton
- 1920 St Browns 1st baseman George Sisler collects his 257th hit of the season to set MLB record that lasts until the 21st century.; Browns beat White Sox, 16 - 7
- 1922 1st facsimile photo sent over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C.
- 1922 Governor of Georgia names Progressive writer Rebecca Felton (87) to fill unexpired term in US Senate; she becomes 1st woman in Congess, oldest person (at the time), and shortest termed as she served only 24 hours in Novemberrgia Governor Hardwickbecomes 1st woman in Senate [1]
- 1924 King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne
- 1926 1st congress of Pan European Movement (Pan-Europese Beweging) opens in Vienna
- 1926 English long distance runner Violet Piercy sets first recognised female marathon record in 3:40:22 on the Polytechnic Marathon course between Windsor and London
- 1928 French submarine "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42
- 1929 British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with USSR
Event of Interest
1929 Julius Curtius succeeds Gustav Stresemann as German foreign minister
- 1929 Kingdom of Serbs, Croats & Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia
Music Premiere
1929 William Walton's Viola Concerto premieres during the Proms at the Queen's Hall, London; composer Paul Hindemith is soloist with the Henry Wood Symphony Orchestra conducted by Walton
- 1932 Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
- 1933 Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant
- 1935 Italy invades Ethiopia, starting the Second Italo-Ethiopian War
- 1936 NY Yankees set new attendance record of 64,482 in Game 3 of World Series at Yankee Stadium; 66,669 following day Game 4; win series v NY Giants, 4-2
- 1939 Lemmer-Urk Dike closes
- 1940 Cincinnati Reds' win Game 2 of the Baseball World Series, 5-2 v Detroit Tigers at Crosley Field; snap 10-game losing streak for NL going back to Game 6 in 1937; Reds win series, 4-3
- 1940 France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status
- 1940 US forms parachute troops
Film Premiere
1941 "The Maltese Falcon" directed by John Huston and based on Dashiell Hammett's 1929 novel of the same name, starring Humphrey Bogart and Mary Astor, premieres in New York City
Event of Interest
1941 Adolf Hitler says Russia is "already broken and will never rise again" in a broadcast to the German people
- 1941 All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
- 1941 Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris
- 1942 Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km)
- 1942 NY Yankees shortstop Frank Crosetti shoves umpire Bill Summers in Game 3 of the Baseball World Series; he is fined $250 & suspended for first 30 days of 1943 season
- 1942 Triple Crown winner Whirlaway, ridden by George Woolf wins the Jockey Club Gold Cup at Belmont Park to become the first thoroughbred to amass more than $500,000 in lifetime earnings
- 1943 British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy
- 1943 Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland
- 1944 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland
- 1944 RAF bombs West Kapelse
- 1945 Detroit Tigers and Chicago Cubs meet in Baseball World Series for the 4th time; Hank Borowy pitches a 6-hit shutout as Cubs win Game 1, 9-0 at Briggs Stadium; Detroit wins series, 4-3
Music History
1945 Elvis Presley's 1st public performance, at age of 10, singing "Old Shep" in youth talent contest Mississippi-Alabama Fair and Dairy Show, in Tupelo, Mississippi; contest is broadcast over WELO Radio, he wins fifth prize - $5.00 in fair ride tickets
- 1945 World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member
- 1947 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed
- 1947 Manning Sherwin and Harold Purcell's musical "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 27 performances
- 1947 WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins
- 1948 Columbia University reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo
- 1949 WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta
- 1950 Ethel Waters becomes 1st Black lead actress on TV sit-com (Beulah)
- 1950 Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas
- 1950 Philadelphia Phillies choose not to request MLB rule on eligibility of star left-hander Curt Simmons to play in World Series despite being on furlough from Army; Phillies swept, 4-0 by NY Yankees
- 1951 CBS-TV airs the first coast-to-coast telecast of a prize fight; Australian light-heavyweight Dave Sands outpoints American Carl 'Bobo' Olson in 10 rounds at Chicago Stadium
- 1951 Shot Heard 'Round the World': Bobby Thomson hits 3-run homer off Ralph Branca of the Brooklyn Dodgers, bottom 9th inning, 1 out, to give New York Giants dramatic 5-4 playoff win and NL pennant at the Polo Grounds
- 1952 1st British nuclear test during Operation Hurricane at Monte Bello Island, Australia, UK becomes the world's third nuclear nation
- 1952 1st video recording on magnetic tape in Los Angeles, California
- 1953 7th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: All-Stars beat Montreal Canadiens, 3-1
- 1953 KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, NM (CBS) begins broadcasting
Sports History
1953 NY Yankees legendary center fielder Mickey Mantle hits a grand slam off Russ Meyer; Bronx Bombers hold on to win, 11-7 v Brooklyn Dodgers in Game 5 of Baseball World Series; NY wins series, 4-2
- 1953 Ryder Cup Golf, Wentworth: San Snead wins 6 of 7 matches to lead US to 6th consecutive Cup win, 6½-5½ over Great Britain
- 1954 "Father Knows Best" premieres
- 1954 KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
- 1955 "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres
- 1955 Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil
- 1955 Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea
- 1955 WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, VA (CBS) begins broadcasting
- 1955 WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1956 Sal Maglie pitches a complete game as Brooklyn Dodgers beat NY Yankees, 6-3 in Game 1 of Baseball World Series at Ebbets Field; Yankees win series, 4-3
Event of Interest
1957 Allen Ginsberg's Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene
Election of Interest
1957 German statesman Willy Brandt is elected mayor of West Berlin (1957-1966)
NHL All-Star Game
1959 13th NHL All-Star Game, Montreal Forum, Montreal, QC: Montreal Canadiens beat All-Stars, 6-1
Radio Premiere
1960 "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke
- 1960 Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil
- 1960 New York Yankees beat rival Boston Red Sox, 8-7 at Yankee Stadium, ending season on 15 game winning streak & MLB record 193 HRs
- 1960 San Francisco's White House department store is the 1st to accept BankAmericard
- 1960 US sitcom "The Andy Griffith Show" premieres in CBS (runs till 1968)
Television Premiere
1961 "The Dick Van Dyke Show" created by Carl Reiner, starring Dick van Dyke and Mary Tyler Moore premieres on CBS-TV
- 1961 KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting
Music Premiere
1961 Noël Coward's musical "Sail Away", starring Elaine Stritch, opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 167 performances
- 1961 TV sitcom "Mr Ed" premieres on CBS
- 1962 "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert NYC for 886 performances
- 1962 SF Giants (103-62) beat rivals LA Dodgers (102-63), 6-4 in season ending NL pennant decider; Dodgers set MLB record season attendance 2,755,184
- 1962 Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit
- 1963 Hurricane Flora hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
- 1963 Meredith Wilson's musical "Here's Love", based on the film "Miracle on 34th Street", opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 338 performances
- 1964 NY Yankees beat Cleveland Indians, 8-3 to clinch Bronx Bombers 5th consecutive AL pennant, and 29th in club's history
Baseball Record
1965 Cubs lose season finale 6-3 to Pirates; Ernie Banks-Don Kessinger combine to tie MLB record of 3 triple plays in a season
- 1965 Dual Melbourne Cup winning Australian jockey Pat Glennon rides French colt Sea Bird to victory in the Prix de l'Arc De Triomphe to claim an impressive double after the thoroughbred's English Derby win
Sports History
1965 Whitey Ford notches win #232 in season ending 11-5 victory v Boston Red Sox; becomes Yankees' winningest pitcher
- 1966 Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president
- 1967 Belgian King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate in Antwerp
- 1967 KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, CA (IND) begins
- 1967 William J. "Pete" Knight sets highest speed ever recorded by a crewed, powered aircraft flying USAF/NASA's X-15 at 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72
- 1968 Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope" premieres in NYC
- 1968 Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaúnde Terry in Peru
- 1968 The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister
- 1968 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
Musical Finale
1970 André Previn and Alan Jay Lerner's musical "Coco", inspired by the life of Coco Chanel, and starring Katharine Hepburn, closes at Mark Hellinger Theatre, NYC, after 329 performances, and 2 Tony Awards
- 1970 First umpires strike in MLB history lasts one day during League Championship Series; AL and NL presidents recognise newly-formed MLB Umpires Association; negotiate labor contract
- 1970 WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting
Sports History
1971 American tennis star Billie Jean King becomes first female athlete to win $100,000 in prize money in a single year; wins the $4,000 Virginia Slams Tournament in Phoenix, Arizona
Sports History
1971 US Formula 1 Grand Prix at Watkins Glen, New York: French driver François Cevert wins the race, his Tyrell-Ford teammate Scotsman Jackie Stewart finishes to claim his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 29 points over Swede Ronnie Peterson
Sports History
1972 Future Baseball Hall of Fame left-handed pitcher Steve Carlton wins 27th game as Philadelphia beats Cubs, 11-1 at Wrigley Field; almost half Phillies 59 season wins
- 1972 Roric Harrison homers as Baltimore beats Cleveland, 4-3; last AL pitcher to homer until MLB inter-league play 25 years later
- 1972 Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown
- 1972 USSR performs nuclear test
Event of Interest
1973 Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader
Contract of Interest
1974 39-year old Frank Robinson becomes MLB’s first African-American manager when he signs as player-manager for Cleveland Indians; agrees to 1-year contract estimated at $180,000
Sports History
1974 Future Basketball Hall of Fame guard Jerry West (“Mr. Clutch”) retires after 14 NBA seasons with the LA Lakers; West has 25,192 career points; averages 29.1 ppg in 153 playoff games
- 1974 Watergate criminal trial begins for five advisors and aides of President Nixon
Album Release
1975 Apple Records releases George Harrison's sixth studio album, "Extra Texture" in UK
- 1975 Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap
Sports History
1976 Future Baseball Hall of Fame right fielder Hank Aaron singles in his last MLB at-bat & drives in his 2,297th run as Milwaukee Brewers lose, 5-2 v Detroit Tigers
- 1976 Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election
Event of Interest
1977 Indira Gandhi arrested
Music History
1977 Victor Borge's "Comedy with Music" opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 66 performances
Boxing Title Fight
1981 After a year's inactivity, American boxer Mike Weaver outpoints countryman James 'Quick' Tillis in 15 rounds in Chicago to retain his WBA heavyweight title
- 1981 Irish Nationalists at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike
- 1981 Milwaukee Brewers and Montreal Expos clinch their first-ever postseason appearances; Brewers beat Detroit, 2 - 1, for AL East title; Expos defeat NY Mets, 5 - 4, for NL East second playoff spot
- 1982 Center fielder Robin Yount homers twice as Milwaukee whips Baltimore, 10-2 at Memorial Stadium to win the Brewers only AL East Championship
Music Single
1983 Parlophone releases Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson's duet single "Say, Say, Say" (from Paul's "Pipes of Peace" album) in UK
Beatification
1985 Pope John Paul II beatifies Titus Brandsma
- 1985 South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution
- 1985 Walter Polovchak becomes a "free man" upon turning 18
- 1986 Baltimore loses 6-3 to Detroit Tigers, assuring Orioles of club's first ever last-place finish in AL East standings
- 1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die
- 1986 TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, was officially opened.
- 1987 Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile
- 1987 San Diego catcher Benito Santiago's MLB rookie record 34-game hitting streak ends as Padres snap 9-game losing streak with a 1-0 victory v LA Dodgers
- 1987 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1988 26th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-day excursion
- 1988 Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway bet 44th & 45th Sts NYC
- 1988 Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months)
- 1988 WBMW-FM, Washington, D.C. changes calls to WJFK & begins airing Howard Stern
Hall of Fame
1989 Darryl Sittler, Vladislav Tretiak, and Herbie Lewis are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame as players, along with builders Alan Eagleson and Father David Bauer
Sports History
1989 Oakland Raiders promote 42 year old Art Shell as the first African-American to be an NFL head coach in modern times; takes over from Mike Shanahan
Coup d'état
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
- 1990 Detroit 1st baseman Cecil Fielder becomes 11th player in MLB history to hit 50 HRs in a season; 50th & 51st in 10-3 win v NY Yankees at Yankee Stadium
- 1990 Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obscenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records
Sports History
1990 Kansas City 3rd baseman George Brett becomes first in MLB history to win a batting title in 3 different decades; goes 1 for 1 in Royals, 5-2 loss v Cleveland to win AL batting title with .329 average; AL batting champion 1976, 80
- 1990 Reunification of East and West Germany. West German flag is raised above the Brandenburg Gate on the stroke of midnight.
Country Music Association Awards
1991 25th Country Music Association Award: Garth Brooks, Tanya Tucker & Vince Gill win
- 1992 Atlanta Braves end season with 1-0 victory v San Diego Padres at Atlanta-Fulton County Stadium for franchise record 98th MLB win (old record 95 in 1957)
Ostankino Tower
1993 Battle at TV station Ostankino, Moscow townhall, about 25 killed
- 1993 Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Army Rangers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
Event of Interest
1993 Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow
- 1993 Cleveland Indians play their final MLB game at Cleveland Stadium; lose 4-0 to Chicago White Sox Chicago
Theatrical Finale
1993 Peter Shaffer's stage comedy twin-bill "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at the Criterion Theater, NYC, after 38 performances
Music History
1993 World music singer Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Gardens in Copenhagen, Denmark
- 1994 Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil
Film & TV History
1994 Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "The Far Side" cartoon
