- 530 Boniface II begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 530 Discorus begins his reign as Catholic anti-Pope
- 530 St Felix IV reign as Catholic Pope ends
- 1236 The Lithuanians and Semigallians defeat the Livonian Brothers of the Sword in Battle of Šiauliai.
- 1499 Switzerland becomes an independent state
- 1504 Settled engagement of Karel of Luxembourg & Claudia the Beaujeu
- 1528 Remaining crew of Spanish Narváez Expedition depart Florida in 5 crude boats destined for Texas, by sailing along the coast, a course disrupted by storms that carry them out to open Gulf of Mexico waters; boats land on barrier islands in early November [1]
- 1529 Cardinal Thomas Wolsey stripped of office as Lord Chancellor of England
- 1586 Battle at Zutphen: Dutch army, assisted by the English, against the Spanish
Historic Event
1598 Playwright and poet Ben Jonson is indicted for manslaughter as the result of a duel
- 1656 All female jury hears case of Judith Catchpole, accused of killing her child (acquit her) in Patuxent County, Maryland
Salem Witch Trials
1692 Last people hanged for witchcraft (8) in the US, 19 hanged overall, with six other deaths during Salem witch trials
Historic Event
1735 Robert Walpole becomes the first British "Prime Minister" (actually First Lord of the Treasury) to live at 10 Downing Street
Historic Event
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army returns to Edinburgh
Royal Coronation
1761 Coronation of King George III of the United Kingdom and Queen Charlotte
- 1772 1st Partition of Poland is ratified by Austria, Prussia and Russia
Historic Publication
1773 Benjamin Franklin publishes a hoax letter "An Edict by the King of Prussia" in the Public Advertiser, criticising Britain's colonial policies in the American colonies
Historic Event
1792 French First Republic formed by the National Convention, stripping the French king of his powers
Historic Event
1817 John Quincy Adams becomes US Secretary of State
Scientific Discovery
1832 During his HMS Beagle voyage Charles Darwin discovers a large number of fossils at Punta Alta in Argentina
Historic Event
1862 US President Abraham Lincoln issues preliminary Emancipation Proclamation, threatening to free all enslaved people in the rebel southern states if those states fail to re-join the Union by January 1, 1863 [1]
- 1864 Battle of Fisher's Hill, Virginia - General Early Retreats to Brown's Gap
- 1864 Sheridan sets up camp in Harrisonburg, Virginia
Victory in Battle
1866 War of the Triple Alliance: Decisive battle of Curupayty results in a Paraguayan victory and heavy losses for Argentinian and Brazilian forces
- 1868 Race riots in New Orleans, Louisiana
Music Premiere
1869 Richard Wagner's opera "Das Rheingold" (the 1st piece of his "Ring" cycle) premieres in Munich, Germany
Historic Event
1877 Rudolf Virchow delivers an anti-Darwinian speech to the Congress of German Naturalist and Physicians, Munich where he speaks against the teaching of the theory of evolution in schools
Historic Event
1896 Queen Victoria surpasses her grandfather King George III as the (then) longest reigning monarch in British history
- 1905 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia (10 blacks & 2 whites killed)
- 1905 US Open Men's Golf, Myopia Hunt GC: Willie Anderson wins his 3rd consecutive Open title, and his record 4th overall, 2 strokes ahead of runner-up Alex Smith
- 1906 In New Zealand Domestic workers call for a 68-hour working week
- 1906 Race riot in Atlanta Georgia, kills 21
- 1908 Bulgaria declares independence from the Ottoman Empire (Turkey)
- 1910 Saskatchewan Rugby Football Union forms with an initial 9 team competition
- 1910 The Duke of York's Cinema opens in Brighton. It is still operating today as the oldest continually operating cinema in Britain
Sports History
1912 Philadelphia second baseman Eddie Collins becomes only player in MLB history to steal 6 bases in one game for a second time as A's beat St. Louis Browns, 8-2
- 1913 Coal mine explosion kills 263 at Dawson, New Mexico
Theater Premiere
1913 George M. Cohan's play "Seven Keys to Baldpate" premieres in NYC
- 1913 The first batch of Indian passive resisters, consisting of 12 men and 4 women (including Mrs. Kasturba Gandhi) are arrested at Volksrust and imprisoned in Pietermaritzburg, South Africa
- 1914 1 German submarine sinks 3 British ironclads, 1,459 die
Historic Event
1914 Louis Botha, premier of the Union of South Africa, assumes command of the armed forced after having dismissed General Beyers because of his resistance to aiding British in the war against Germany
- 1915 Boston Red Sox ask Boston Braves for use of Braves Field (10,000+ capacity) for Baseball World Series against Philadelphia Phillies
- 1915 Southern Methodist University (Dallas, Texas) holds its 1st class
- 1915 Xavier University, 1st Black Catholic College in US, opens in NO LA
- 1919 -Jan 20] Steel strike in the US
- 1920 Chicago grand jury convenes to investigate charges that 8 White Sox players conspired to fix the 1919 World Series
Music Premiere
1921 Music Box Theater opens at 239 W 45th Street, NYC; Built by theatrical producer Sam H. Harris for Irving Berlin's musical revue "The Music Box", written specifically for the venue
- 1921 The League of Nations accepts membership of independent Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania
- 1922 US Congress passes the Cable Act, under which an American women who marries an 'alien' will not lose citizenship; neither will a women marrying an American automatically become a citizen
- 1925 New York left fielder Ben Paschal hits 2 inside-the-park-home runs as the Yankees score an 11-6 home victory over Chicago White Sox
- 1926 Belgian crown prince Leopold and Swedish Princess Astrid get engaged
Boxing Title Fight
1927 "The long count" - in a famous boxing rematch, Gene Tunney beats Jack Dempsey by 10-round unanimous decision at Soldiers Field, Chicago to retain world heavyweight title; crowd 104,943; gate $2,858,660
- 1927 Yanks Earle Coombs hits 3 triples
- 1931 Coalition Government forms in New Zealand to combat the Depression (their lack of success led to the election of the First Labour Government in 1935)
- 1932 Hungarian government of Károlyi falls
- 1934 An explosion takes place at Gresford Colliery in Wales, leading to the deaths of 266 miners and rescuers
- 1935 Boston Braves lose NL record 110th game of year en route to 115
- 1937 Date celebrated as the first International Hobbit Day and the birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins
- 1937 Forest fire kills 14 and injures 50 in Cody, Wyoming
- 1937 Spanish Civil War: Peña Blanca is taken; the end of the Battle of El Mazuco.
- 1941 British signal officer Bill Hudson lands in Montenegro
- 1943 British dwarf submarines attack German battleship Tirpitz
- 1943 Destroyer HMS Itchen torpedoed and sinks
- 1943 Destroyer HMS Keppel sinks U-229
- 1944 Boulogne reoccupied by the Allies
Historic Event
1944 President Jose P. Laurel declares the Philippines under martial law in 1944 through Proclamation No. 29
- 1944 US troops land on Ulithi atoll, western Pacific
- 1946 Canadian woman Evelyn Dick charged with butchering her husband in Hamilton, Ontario
- 1947 Brooklyn Dodgers clinch NL pennant as Chicago defeats St. Louis Cardinals in second game of a double header
- 1949 WFMY TV channel 2 in Greensboro-High Point, NC (CBS) 1st broadcast
Historic Event
1950 Omar Bradley promoted to rank of 5-star general in the United States Army
Britain's First-Ever TV Ad
1955 Commercial television begins in the UK with the launch of ITV, soon airs the 1st advert on UK TV, for Gibbs SR toothpaste
- 1955 On BBC radio Grace Archer is killed in a barn fire on Brookfield Farm - the BBC denies this was to spoil the launch of rival network ITV
- 1957 Duke Snider's 39th & 40th home runs are last hit at Ebbets Field
- 1957 Western "Maverick" premieres on ABC television starring James Garner
- 1958 KTVK TV channel 3 in Phoenix, AZ (ABC) begins broadcasting
- 1958 US nuclear submarine USS Skate remains 31 days under the Pole (record)
- 1959 Chicago White Sox clinch AL pennant
- 1960 Mali (formerly French Sudan) declares independence from France
- 1961 Antonio Albertondo (Argentina) completes 1st "double" crossing swim of English Channel in 43 hrs 10 min at 42.
- 1961 MLB Baltimore Orioles Jim Gentile ties record of 5 grand slams in a single season
- 1961 Polish composer Krzysztof Penderecki's "Threnody to the Victims of Hiroshima" premieres at Warsaw Autumn Festival,Andrzej Markowski conducting Krakow Philharmonic
- 1963 Czechoslovakian premier Viliam Široký deposed by Josef Lenart
- 1964 "Man from U.N.C.L.E." premieres starring Robert Vaughn and David McCallum on NBC-TV: open channel D
- 1964 Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick's musical "Fiddler on the Roof" with Zero Mostel opens at Imperial Theater NYC for 3242 performances
- 1965 India and Pakistan cease-fire goes into effect, ending the Indo-Pakistani War
Theater Premiere
1966 Edward Albee's play "Delicate Balance" premieres in NYC (Pulitzer Prize for Drama 1967)
- 1966 KMEB TV channel 10 in Wailuku, HI (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 Only 413 show up at a Yankee Stadium game
- 1966 Orioles beat A's 6-1 to clinch their 1st AL pennant
- 1966 Surveyor 2 crashes on the Moon, and all contact with it is lost
- 1967 Phillies release pitcher Dallas Green, their future manager
- 1967 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
Historic Event
1968 Ceremony to mark relocation of ancient Egyptian Abu Simbel temples, honoring Ramesses II after rebuilt 200 meters inland away from Aswan Dam
- 1968 Iraq adopts constitution
- 1968 KMTC (now KDEB) TV channel 27 in Springfield, MO (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1968 Minnesota Twins utility César Tovar pitches a hitless inning & plays all 9 positions in a 2-1 win over Oakland A's at Metropolitan Stadium
- 1969 "Music Scene" debuts on ABC-TV
- 1969 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
Baseball Record
1969 SF Giant Willie Mays, becomes second player to hit 600 home runs
Historic Event
1970 US President Richard Nixon requests 1,000 new FBI agents for college campuses
Historic Event
1973 Henry Kissinger sworn in as America's 1st Jewish Secretary of State, succeeds William Rogers
- 1973 Ryder Cup Golf, Muirfield: US beats Great Britain & Ireland, 19-13; first time 'Ireland' included in team name
Assassination Attempt
1975 Second assassination attempt on US President Gerald Ford by Sara Jane Moore fails in San Francisco
- 1975 World Football League folds
Television Debut
1976 TV dama "Charlie's Angels" starring Farrah Fawcett, Kate Jackson and Jaclyn Smith debuts
- 1977 Minn Twin Bert Blyleven no-hits California Angels, 9-0
- 1977 Preston Jones' "Texas Trilogy" premieres in NYC
- 1977 West German Red Army Faction terrorist kills policeman in Utrecht
Summit of Interest
1978 Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin returns home after Camp David summit
Contract of Interest
1980 John Lennon and Yoko Ono sign a recording contract with Geffen Records
Appointment of Interest
1981 Sandra Day O'Connor appointed to US Supreme Court
- 1982 Duleep Mendis completes twin cricket tons for Sri Lanka v India
- 1982 San Francisco's cable cars made a final run before closing down for 20-month
Television Premiere
1982 Sitcom "Family Ties starring Michael J. Fox premieres on NBC
- 1983 NASA launches Galaxy-B
Music Concert
1983 The Everly Brothers reunite after 10 years apart in concert at the Royal Albert Hall, London
- 1983 USSR performs underground nuclear test
- 1983 Zhu Jianhau (China) sets high jump record at 7'9 3/4"
- 1985 37th Emmy Awards: "Cagney & Lacey", "The Cosby Show" and Tyne Daly win
Sports History
1985 Billy Martin's right arm is broken by pitcher Ed Whitson
Farm Aid Concert
1985 First Farm Aid benefit concert, Champaign, Illinois; organized by Willie Nelson, Neil Young and John Mellencamp; performers included Bob Dylan, Tom Petty, Billy Joel, B.B. King, Hoyt Axton, Joni Mitchell, Rickie Lee Jones, and Emmylou Harris [1]
The Sinking of the Rainbow Warrior
1985 French Prime Minister Laurent Fabius appears on TV to confess "Agents of the DGSE sank this boat [Rainbow Warrior]. They acted on orders.”
- 1985 St Louis Cardinals set an unusual streak record by winning 9 of 10 games, each pitched by a different man
- 1985 The Plaza Accord was signed in New York City.
- 1986 35 countries signs disarmament accord in Stockholm
- 1986 India v Australia Test Cricket at Madras finishes in a tie
Sports History
1986 LA Dodger Fernando Valenzuela is 1st Mexican to win 20 games
Baseball Record
1987 Boston Red Sox Wade Boggs ties AL record of 200 hits for 5 straight seasons
- 1987 Dow-Jones index rises record 75.23 points
- 1987 NFL players go on strike for 24 days (2nd regular-season strike)
- 1988 American swimmer Janet Evans sets a world record 4:03.85 to win the 400m freestyle gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; 3rd gold medal of the Games (400m I/M, 800m)
- 1988 American swimmer Matt Biondi wins the blue ribband 100m freestyle gold medal in Olympic record 48.63 at the Seoul Games; beats countryman Chris Jacobs & Stéphan Caron of France
- 1988 Canada begins production of a $5 silver Maple Leaf bullion coin
- 1988 South Korean coaches attack NZ referee after disputing his decision, Olympic Korean boxer stages a 67 minute sit-in
- 1988 Soviet gymnast Vladimir Artemov wins individual all-round gold medal at the Seoul Olympics; follows his teams all-round victory; wins 4 gold for the Games
Television Debut
1989 "Baywatch" starring David Hasselhoff and Pamela Anderson debuts on NBC
- 1989 IRA bomb kills 10 Royal Marines bandsmen in Kent
- 1989 MLB St. Louis Cardinals outfielder Leon Durham suspended for 60 days due to drugs
Baseball Record
1990 Andre Dawson steals his 300th base & is only player other than Willie Mays to have 300 HRs, 300 steals & 2,000 hits
- 1990 Saudi Arabia expels many Jordanian & Yemeni envoys
- 1991 ABN & AMRO Dutch banks merge
- 1991 California University makes Dead Sea Scrolls public
- 1991 Harry Gant wins NSACAR Goody's 500
Sports History
1993 Nolan Ryan, 46, pitches his last game
- 1993 STS-51 (Discovery) lands
Historic Event
1993 Supreme Soviet dismisses President Boris Yeltsin
- 1993 Ukrainian Prime Minister Leonid Kuchma resigns due to the "slow pace of reform"
Television Debut
1994 "Friends" TV sitcom created by David Crane and Marta Kauffman debuts on NBC, starring Jennifer Aniston, Courteney Cox, Lisa Kudrow, Matt LeBlanc, Matthew Perry and David Schwimmer
- 1994 Rasmussen government in Denmark resigns
- 1995 E-3B AWACS crash outside of Elmendorf AFB, Alaska after multiple bird strikes to two of the four engines soon after takeoff; all 24 on board killed
- 1996 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, St. Pierre Hotel & CC: US retains Cup; beats Europe 17-11; in expanded format US wins 10 of 12 singles matches in final day blowout
- 1997 American sportcaster Marv Albert pleads not guilty to sexual assault charges
- 1997 Bentalha massacre in Algeria; over 200 villagers killed
Music Release
1997 Elton John releases "Candle in the Wind 1997", a tribute to Diana, Princess of Wales in the US
Television Debut
1999 "The West Wing" created by Alan Sorkin and starring Martin Sheen, Rob Lowe and Richard Schiff, debuts on NBC
Country Music Association Awards
1999 33rd Country Music Association Award: Shania Twain, Martina McBride and Tim McGraw win
Emmy Awards
2002 54th Emmy Awards: The West Wing, Friends, Michael Chiklis and Allison Janney win
- 2002 Solheim Cup Women's Golf, Interlachen CC: US regains Cup 15½-12½; Rosie Jones gains winning point in her 3 & 2 victory over Karine Icher
- 2003 David Hempleman-Adams becomes the first person to cross the Atlantic Ocean in an open-air, wicker-basket hot air balloon.
Television Debut
2004 "Lost" created by J.J. Abrams and starring Matthew Fox and Evangeline Lilly debuts on ABC in the US
Baseball Record
2004 SF Giants outfielder Barry Bonds was intentionally walked 4 times in a 9-inning game (MLB record) for the second time (1 May 2004)
Film & TV History
2004 Teen noir series "Veronica Mars" created by Rob Thomas and starring Kristen Bell premieres on UPN in the US
- 2006 A German maglev train crashes, killing 23.
- 2006 Hezbollah claims "Divine Victory" over Israel in a massive demonstration in Beirut.
- 2006 The F-14 Tomcat retires from the United States Navy
Television Premiere
2009 Crime drama "NCIS LA" starring Chris O'Donnell, LL Cool J, and Daniela Ruah premieres on CBS
- 2012 7 pedestrians are killed by a drunk driver who hit a bus stop at 200km an hour in Moscow
