EVENTS
● 498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.
● 1220 - Pope Honorius III (pope from 1216) crowned Holy Roman Emperor Frederick in St. Peter's, on the promise that Frederick would uphold the rights of the Church, and promote a crusade.
● 1633 - Irish Catholic Cecil Calvert, 27, sent two ships (the Ark and the Dove) from Ireland to establish a colony in America as a refuge for fellow Catholics. His work later earned Lord Calvert the nickname, "Colonizer of Maryland."
● 1699 - A treaty was signed by Denmark, Russia, Saxony and Poland for the partitioning of the Swedish Empire.
● 1718 - Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") is killed when a boarding party led by Lieutenant Robert Maynard cornered him aboard his ship and killed him. He was shot and stabbed more than 25 times..
● 1830 - Charles Grey, 2nd Earl Grey became Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
● 1831 - Revolt of the silk workers in Lyon, France escalates, as workers seize arms and take on the military. Approximately 100 die and 263 on the military side wounded, 69 dead and 140 wounded on the civilian side.
● 1842 - Mount St Helens in Washington, erupts. IMAX is on hand to rend an enormous 3-D sketch.
● 1849 - Austin College was chartered in Texas at Huntsville under Presbyterian sponsorship. In 1876 the school campus was moved to Sherman, TX.
● 1864 - American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Confederate General John Bell Hood invades Tennessee in an unsuccessful attempt to draw Union General William T. Sherman from Georgia.
● 1873 - American lawyer Horatio G. Spafford's four daughters drowned when their passenger ship, while crossing the Atlantic, collided with another and sank. The following month, as his own ship passed over the spot of the earlier tragedy, Spafford penned the words to the enduring hymn, "It is Well With My Soul."
● 1880 - Vaudeville actress Lillian Russell makes her debut at Tony Pastor's Theatre in New York City.
● 1899 - The Marconi Wireless Company of America was incorporated in New Jersey.
● 1906 - The International Radio Telegraphic Convention in Berlin adopted the SOS distress signal that means "Save Our Souls."
● 1909 - New York female garment workers call for general strike, leading to the "Uprising of the 20,000." The International Ladies Garment Workers Union strike against sweatshop conditions, also called the "Girl's Revolt," wins support of other workers and the women's suffrage movement in their persistence and unity in the face of police brutality and rigged courtrooms. Judge tells arrested pickets - "You are on strike against God." First mass strike in the U.S. by women.
● 1909 - Helen Hayes appeared on stage for the first time. She was a member of the cast of "In Old Dutch."
● 1910 - Arthur F. Knight patented a steel shaft to replace wood shafts in golf clubs.
● 1916 - Jack London, socialist, novelist, dog-lover, sailor on horseback, dies by his own hand. A suicide at 40, in Santa Rosa, California.
● 1917 - In Montreal, Canada, the National Hockey Association breaks up (on November 26 it was replaced with the National Hockey League).
● 1919 - Lum Williams and two others shot for cross-racial labor organizing, Bogalus, Alabama.
● 1922 - Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
● 1928 - In Paris, "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel was first performed publicly.
● 1930 - Nation of Islam founded by Prophet Elijah Mohammed. He claims Islam had been lost and is now found.
● 1935 - The China Clipper takes 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).
● 1936 - Spain - Over 500,000 attend the funeral of the anarchist Durruti in Barcelona.
● 1940 - World War II: Following the Italian invasion, Greek troops advance into Albanian soil and liberate Korytsa.
● 1942 - World War II: Battle of Stalingrad - General Friedrich von Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded.
● 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 meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan
● 1943 - Lebanese Independence Day. Lebanon gains independence from France.
● 1950 - The lowest scoring game in the NBA was played. The Fort Wayne Pistons (later the Detroit Pistons) defeated the Minneapolis Lakers (later the Los Angeles Lakers) 19-18.
● 1961 - The film, "A Man for All Seasons", opened in New York City.
● 1963 - ASSASSINATION: In Dallas, Texas, United States President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (JFK) is assassinated and Texas Governor John B. Connally is seriously wounded. Later the same day, suspected gunman Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested and United States Vice-President Lyndon Baines Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States.
President Kennedy, Jackie, and Texas Governor John Connally and Mrs. Connally in the Presidential limousine shortly before the assassination.
● 1963 - Death of C.S. Lewis, 65, Anglican scholar, novelist and Christian apologist. Well-known for his children's classic, "The Chronicles of Narnia" (1950_56), Lewis also penned other Christian classics, including "The Screwtape Letters" (1943) and "The Great Divorce" (1946).
● 1963 - Death of Aldous Huxley, British pacifist author of "Brave New World," Hollywood. His last request, which was granted, was for an injection of LSD.
● 1963 - Sexpert and film comedian Mae West dies.
● 1963 - Pres. John F. Kennedy assassinated by an associate of Fox Mulder's father.
● 1963 - Just a plain successful day for death.
● 1967 - UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted by the UN Security Council, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab-Israeli peace settlement. The resolution called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured in 1967 and called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
● 1967 - Blacks riot on north side of Chicago.
● 1968 - The Beatles release the double-album The Beatles, commonly known as The White Album.
● 1971 - Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy; Five teenagers and their female instructor die in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.
● 1972 - Vietnam War: The United States loses its first B-52 Stratofortress of the war. This goes largely unnoticed because of the Cuban ban lifting below.
● 1972 - U.S. President Richard M. Nixon lifted a ban on American travel to Cuba. The ban had been put in place on February 8, 1963.
● 1972 - Circumpolar peoples from Alaska, Canada, Greenland, Norway, and Sweden meet in Copenhagen to demand self-government and control over Arctic land and resources.
● 1972 - Talks begin toward a Conference on Security and Co-operation in Europe, Helsinki, Finland.
● 1974 - The United Nations General Assembly grants the Palestine Liberation Organization observer status.
● 1975 - Juan Carlos I is declared King of Spain following the death of Gen. Francisco Franco.
● 1975 - "Dr. Zhivago" appeared on TV for the first time. NBC paid $4 million for the broadcast rights.
● 1977 - British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service, since stopped because of an inability to maintain safe maintenance on the aging fleet of planes.
● 1982 - Wimmin's Fire Brigade launch Molotov Cocktails at Red Hot Video porn shops in Vancouver, Canada.
● 1983 - The Bundestag approved NATO's plan to deploy new U.S. nuclear missiles in West Germany.
● 1984 - Fred Rogers of PBS' "Mr. Rogers' Neighborhood" presented a sweater to the Smithsonian Institution.
● 1985 - Anne Henderson-Pollard was taken into custody a day after her husband Jonathon Jay Pollard was arrested for spying for Israel.
● 1985 - 38,648 immigrants became citizens of the United States. It was the largest swearing-in ceremony.
● 1985 - 143 surviving Kickapoo Indians on the Texas/Coahuila (Mexico) border are given U.S. citizenship, ending a 140-year U.S. refusal to allow the Kickapoo to live legally on their land. Combined with item before this proves just how screwed up the American view of immigration and citizenship is.
● 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 - An Iranian surface-to-surface missile hit a residential area in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad, wounding 20 civilians.
● 1988 - The South African government announced it had joined Cuba and Angola in endorsing a plan to remove Cuban troops from Angola.
● 1988 - In Palmdale, California, the first prototype B-2 Spirit stealth bomber is revealed.
● 1989 - In West Beirut, a bomb explodes near the motorcade of Lebanese President Rene Moawad, killing him less than three weeks after taking office.
● 1990 - British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, having failed to win re-election to the Conservative Party leadership on the first ballot and her cabinet refuses to back her in a second, announced her resignation.
● 1990 - U.S. President Bush, his wife, Barbara, and other congressional leaders shared Thanksgiving dinner with U.S. troops in Saudi Arabia.
● 1993 - Mexico's Senate overwhelmingly approved the North American Free Trade Agreement.
● 1993 - American Airlines flight attendants ended their strike that only lasted four days.
● 1994 - Inside the District of Columbia's police headquarters a gunman opened fire. Two FBI agents, a city detective and the gunman were killed in the gun battle.
● 1994 - In northwest Bosnia, Serb fighters set villages on fire in response to a retaliatory air strikes by NATO.
● 1995 - Life sentence for Rosemary West; Britain's most prolific female serial killer, Rosemary West, is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
● 1996 - The first Tomb Raider game is released in the UK.
● 1997 - Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel; The lead singer of Australian rock band INXS and partner of British television star Paula Yates, is found dead in Sydney.
● 1998 - Seven thousand march on School of the Americas at Fort Benning, outside Columbus, Georgia; 2,319 arrested for symbolic trespass.
● 1998 - CBS's "60 Minutes" aired a tape of Jack Kevorkian (Dr. Death) giving lethal drugs in an assisted suicide of a terminally ill patient. Kevorkian was later sentenced to 25 years in prison for second-degree murder.
● 1999 - Wayne Gretzky is inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame, his number 99 permanently retired by the NHL.
● 2000 - Amid the Florida recount battle, Republican vice-presidential candidate Dick Cheney was hospitalized with what doctors called a very slight heart attack.
● 2002 - In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest.
● 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
● 2003 - England defeats Australia to win England's first Rugby World Cup. England's rugby team wins the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail-biting final in Sydney.
● 2004 - The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine: tens of thousands of demonstrators jammed downtown Kiev, denouncing Ukraine's presidential runoff election as fraudulent and chanting the name of their reformist candidate, Viktor Yushchenko.
● 2005 - Microsoft’s Xbox 360 is released in North America.
● 2005 - Ted Koppel hosted his final edition of ABC News' ''Nightline'' and retires after hosting the show for over 26 years, begun during the Iranian hostage crisis.
● 2005 - Jose Padilla, a U.S. citizen in Navy custody, was charged with supporting terrorism, but the indictment did not mention the alleged "dirty bomb" plot that had prompted his three-year detention.
● 2005 - Merkel becomes German chancellor; Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democrats, is sworn in as Germany's first woman chancellor.
BIRTHS
● 1428 - Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, English nobleman; powerful during Wars of the Roses (d. 1471)
● 1458 - Jacob Obrecht, Dutch composer (d. 1505)
● 1515 - Marie of Guise, Queen of James V of Scotland and regent of Scotland (d. 1560)
● 1564 - Henry Brooke, 11th Baron Cobham, English conspirator (d. 1610)
● 1602 - Elisabeth of France, Queen of Philip IV of Spain (d. 1644)
● 1635 - Francis Willughby, English biologist (d. 1672)
● 1643 - Robert Cavelier de La Salle, French explorer of North America (d. 1687)
● 1710 - Wilhelm Friedemann Bach, German composer (d. 1784)
● 1721 - Joseph Frederick Wallet DesBarres, Swiss-born Canadian statesman (d. 1824)
● 1722 - Hryhori Skovoroda, Ukrainian poet (d. 1794)
● 1744 - Abigail Adams, Wife of John Adams and American first lady (1797-1801) (d.1818)
● 1767 - Andreas Hofer, Tyrolian patriot (d. 1810)
● 1787 - Rasmus Christian Rask, Danish linguist (d. 1823)
● 1808 - Thomas Cook, British travel entrepreneur (d. 1892)
● 1819 - George Eliot, British novelist (d. 1880)
● 1830 - Justin M'Carthy, Irish politician and historian (d. 1912)
● 1849 - Christian Rohlfs, German artist (d. 1938)
● 1852 - Paul-Henri-Benjamin d'Estournelles de Constant, French diplomat, Nobel laureate (d. 1924)
● 1856 - Heber J. Grant, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (d. 1945)
● 1868 - John Nance Garner, U.S. Vice President (1933-41) for FDR’s first two terms (d. 1967)
● 1869 - André Gide, French writer and Nobel laureate (d. 1951)
● 1877 - Endre Ady, Hungarian poet (d. 1919)
● 1884 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (d. 1953)
● 1890 - Charles de Gaulle, French World War II resistance leader and president (1958-69) (d. 1970)
● 1893 - Harley J. Earl, automobile designer (d. 1969)
● 1897 - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
● 1898 - Wiley Post, American aviator; made first solo flight around the world (d. 1935)
● 1899 - Hoagy Carmichael, American composer (d. 1981)
● 1899 - Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
● 1901 - Joaquin Rodrigo, Spanish composer (d. 1999)
● 1902 - Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque, French general
● 1902 - Sir Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Rhodesia (d. 1990)
● 1902 - Joe Adonis, American crime boss (d. 1971)
● 1904 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel laureate (d. 2000)
● 1913 - Benjamin Britten, British composer (d. 1976)
● 1917 - Andrew Fielding Huxley, British scientist, Nobel laureate
● 1918 - Claiborne Pell, Former U.S. senator, D-R.I.
● 1921 - Rodney Dangerfield, American comedian (d. 2004)
● 1921 - Brian Cleeve, Irish broadcaster (d. 2003)
● 1923 - Arthur Hiller, Canadian film director
● 1923 - Gunther Schuller, American composer and conductor
● 1924 - Geraldine Page, American actress (d. 1987)
● 1926 - Lew Burdette, Baseball player
● 1932 - Robert Vaughn, American actor
● 1935 - Michael Callan, Actor
● 1936 - James Burke, British writer
● 1939 - Allen Garfield, Actor
● 1940 - Terry Gilliam, American/British comedian and director
● 1941 - Tom Conti, British actor
● 1941 - Jesse Colin Young, Singer
● 1942 - Guion S. Bluford, Astronaut
● 1943 - Billie Jean King, American tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1946 - Aston "Family Man" Barrett, Jamaican musician (The Wailers Band)
● 1947 - Valerie Wilson Wesley, American author
● 1949 - Richard Carmona, former surgeon general
● 1950 - Lyman Bostock, baseball player (d. 1978)
● 1950 - Steve Van Zandt, American Actor-musician (E Street Band, ''The Sopranos'')
● 1950 - Tina Weymouth, American musician (Talking Heads, Tom Tom Club)
● 1950 - Paloma San Basilio, Spanish singer
● 1956 - Richard Kind, Actor (''Spin City,'' ''Mad About You'')
● 1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis, American actress
● 1958 - Lee Guetterman, baseball player
● 1958 - Horse McDonald, Scottish singer/songwriter
● 1958 - Jason Ringenberg, Rock singer (Jason & the Scorchers)
● 1960 - Bruce Payne, English actor
● 1961 - Mariel Hemingway, American actress
● 1961 - Randal L. Schwartz, American computer programmer
● 1962 - Victor Pelevin, Russian writer
● 1963 - Scoop Jackson, American sports journalist
● 1964 - Stephen Geoffreys, Actor
● 1966 - Charlie Colin, Rock musician
● 1966 - Nicholas Rowe, Actor
● 1966 - Richard Stanley, South African director
● 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, American actor
● 1967 - Boris Becker, German tennis player and Hall of Fame member
● 1967 - Bart Veldkamp, Dutch-born speed skater
● 1967 - Mark Ruffalo, Actor
● 1970 - Stel Pavlou, British novelist
● 1974 - David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater
● 1976 - Ville Valo, Finnish singer (HIM)
● 1976 - Torsten Frings, German footballer
● 1977 - Michael Preston, English footballer
● 1977 - Luciana Duvall, Romanian actor, performer, singer as a drag queen
● 1978 - Karen O, American singer (Yeah Yeah Yeahs)
● 1981 - Seweryn Gancarczyk, Polish football player
● 1982 - Aiyegbeni Yakubu, Nigerian footballer
● 1983 - Corey Beaulieu, American Guitarist (Trivium)
● 1984 - Scarlett Johansson, American actress
● 1986 - David Pasqualini, French pianist
DEATHS
● 1318 - Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
● 1594 - Martin Frobisher, English explorer
● 1617 - Ahmed I, Ottoman Sultan (b. 1590)
● 1694 - John Tillotson, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1630)
● 1697 - Libéral Bruant, French architect
● 1710 - Bernardo Pasquini, Italian composer (b. 1637)
● 1718 - Blackbeard (Edward Teach), British pirate
● 1758 - Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
● 1774 - Robert Clive, 1st Baron Clive, British general (b. 1725)
● 1783 - John Hanson, American Continental Congressman (b. 1715)
● 1794 - John Alsop, American Continental Congressman (b. 1724)
● 1875 - Henry Wilson, United States Vice President (b. 1812)
● 1886 - William Bliss Baker, American painter (b. 1859)
● 1900 - Arthur S. Sullivan, British composer (b. 1842)
● 1916 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
● 1917 - Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
● 1919 - Francisco Moreno, Argentine explorer (b. 1852)
● 1932 - William Walker Atkinson, American author (b. 1862)
● 1943 - Lorenz Hart, American lyricist (b. 1895)
● 1944 - Arthur Stanley Eddington, English astrophysicist (b. 1882)
● 1946 - Otto Georg Thierack, German jurist (b. 1889)
● 1953 - Syed Sulaiman Nadvi, Pakistani religious scholar and biographer of Muhammad (b. 1884)
● 1955 - Shemp Howard, American actor (b. 1895)
● 1956 - Theodore Kosloff, Russian-born choreographer (b. 1882)
● 1963 - John F. Kennedy, 35th President of the United States (b. 1917)
● 1963 - C. S. Lewis, Irish author (b. 1898)
● 1963 - Aldous Huxley, British author (b. 1894)
● 1967 - Pavel Korin, Russian painter (b. 1892)
● 1980 - Norah McGuinness, Northern Irish painter (b. 1901)
● 1980 - Mae West, American actress and writer (b. 1893)
● 1981 - Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, Nobel laureate (b. 1900)
● 1986 - Scatman Crothers, American actor (b. 1910)
● 1986 - William Bradford Huie, American writer (b. 1910)
● 1988 - Luis Barragán, Mexican architect (b. 1908)
● 1989 - Rene Moawad, President of Lebanon (b. 1925)
● 1989 - C.C. Beck, American Cartoonist (b. 1910)
● 1992 - Sterling Holloway, American voice actor (b. 1905)
● 1993 - Anthony Burgess, British author (b. 1917)
● 1996 - Mark Lenard, American actor (b. 1924)
● 1997 - Michael Hutchence, Australian singer (b. 1960)
● 1998 - Stu Unger, Professional poker player (b. 1953)
● 2005 - Bruce Hobbs, American jockey (b. 1920)
HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES
● Roman Catholic:
● St. Cecilia, virgin/martyr/music patron
● St. Tigridia
● St. Devniolin
● St. Lucretia
● Sts. Mark & Stephen
● St. Maurus
● Russian Orthodox Christian Menaion Calendar for November 9 (Civil Date: November 22)
● Martyrs Onesiphorus and Porphyrius of Ephesus.
● St. Matrona, abbess of Constantinople.
● St. Theoctiste of the isle of Lesbos.
● Martyr Alexander of Thessalonica.
● Martyr Anthony of Apamea.
● St. John the Short of Egypt.
● Saints Eustolia and Sosipatra of Constantinople.
● St. Simeon Metaphrastes.
● St. Onesiphorus the Confessor of the Kiev Caves.
● Saints Euthymius and Neophytus the Serbians of Mt. Athos.
● St. Nectarius Kephalas, Metropolitan of Pentapolis.
● Greek Calendar:
● Martyrs Narses and Artemonos.
● St. Helladius, monk.
● Icon of the Most Holy Theotokos "She Who is Quick to Hear".
● Lebanon - Independence Day (from France, 1943)
● Astrology: usually the first day of sun sign Sagittarius
● Guinea : Portugese Aggression Anniversary
● Arab world: Id ai-Adha
● These Holidays are only applicable on a given "day of the week"
● Bern Switzerland : Onion Market Day-autumn festival ( Monday )
● US : National Children's Book Week Begins ( Monday )
● US : Thanksgiving ( Thursday )
Click on this LINK to see original Wikipedia list with many having links with details.
Additional facts taken from:
On this day in the New York Times
The BBC’s Take on the day
On This Day Website
Geov Parrish's this Day in Radical History, things that happened on this day that you never had to memorize in school.
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