1567 – Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1942 – US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
1965 – Manneke Pis statue stolen in Brussels
1990 – Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari)
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1996 – 46th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
2019 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Perth: French pair Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia beat Ash Barty and Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4, 6-3 to clinch a 3-2 victory
2023 – The Beatles’ single “Now and Then” hits #1 on the British singles chart, a record 54 years after their last #1 single
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Today in History for 10th November 2025
Historical Events
1955 – James Mundy and John La Touche’s musical comedy “Vamp” opens at Winter Garden Theater, NYC; runs for 60 performances
1968 – Portuguese socialist Mário Soares released from banishment in Sao Tomé under new regieme of Marcello Caetano
1971 – US table tennis team arrived in China
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
1989 – Bulgarian Communist party president Todor Zhikov (78) resigns
Famous Birthdays
1888 – Hugh Wakefield, British actor (The Man Who Knew Too Much, Blithe Spirit), born in Wanstead, England (d. 1971)
1929 – W. E. B. Griffin [William Edmund Butterworth], American best-selling author (Clandestine Operations, The Lieutenants), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 2019)
1930 – Gene Conley, American baseball pitcher (4 x MLB All Star; Boston/Milwaukee Braves, Philadelphia Phillies) and basketball forward (NBA C’ship 1959–1961; Boston Celtics), born in Muskogee, Oklahoma (d. 2017)
1959 – Frank Maudsley, English rock bassist and vocalist (Flock Of Seagulls), born in Liverpool, England
1987 – Jessica Tovey, Australian actress (Belle Taylor in “Home and Away”), born in Sydney, Australia
Famous Deaths
1779 – Joseph Hewes, American merchant/signer (Declaration of Independence), dies at 49
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 54
1966 – Steven Nagy, American bowler (first televised perfect game [300], 1954; ABC Hall of Fame 1963), dies at 53
1998 – Mary Millar, British stage and screen actress (Keeping Up Appearances, The Phantom of the Opera on the West End), dies at 62
2006 – Jack Palance [Vladimir Palahniuk], American actor (City Slickers, Contempt, Batman), dies of natural causes at 87
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2025
1802 – Thomas Girtin, English artist, watercolorist and etcher (“The White House, Chelsea”), dies in his painting room at 27 from suspected asthma, consumption, or ossification of the heart
1906 – Leon Vanderkindere, Belgian historian and mayor of Ukkel, dies at 64
1968 – Gerald Mohr, American radio and screen actor (The Angry Red Planet; The Sniper; Foreign Intrigue), dies of a heart attack at 54
1977 – Gertrude Astor [Eyster], American silent and sound screen character actress (The Strong Man: Hell Bound), dies of a stroke on her 90th birthday
1977 – Fred Haney, American MLB baseball player, 1922-29 (Detroit Tigers and 3 other teams), manager, 1939-41 and 1953-59 (Milwaukee Braves and 2 other teams), and executive, 1961-68 (Los Angeles Angels), dies of a heart attack at 81
1978 – Otto Siegl, Austrian composer, dies at 82
2005 – Avril Angers, British stand-up comedian and actress (Coronation Street, The Family Way), dies at 87
2020 – Amadou Toumani Touré, Mali politician, President of Mali (2002-12), dies at 72
2022 – Roland Guillas, French soccer midfielder (9 caps; ASSE Saint-Étienne, FC Grenoble, FC Rouen, FC Bordeaux, FC Lorient), dies at 86
2024 – Judith Jamison, American dancer and choreographer (artistic director of the Alvin Ailey Dance Theater), dies at 81
Historical Events for 9th November 2025
1904 – First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes, when Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II for 5 minutes and 4 seconds, covering 2.75 miles (4.4 km)
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1969 – “An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte “, music special with arrangements by Michel Legrand, premieres on NBC-TV
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
1999 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes a few minutes after leaving Uruapan Airport en route to Mexico City, killing 18 people
2009 – TV comedy “Miranda,” written by and starring Miranda Hart and Tom Ellis, premieres on BBC Two in the UK
2015 – “Love Yourself” single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
2019 – YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul’s second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
Today in History for 9th November 2025
Historical Events
1965 – Several US states and parts of Canada are hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 hours in the Northeast Blackout
1965 – San Francisco Giants outfielder Willie Mays named NL MVP
1991 – Joint European Torus (JET) scientists in Culham England successfully harness nuclear fusion to produce the first large amount of controlled fusion power
2007 – Alicia Keys releases her 3rd studio album “As I Am” (Grammy Award Best Female RandB Vocal Performance 2008, 2008 Billboard Album of the Year)
2014 – Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
Famous Birthdays
1837 – Gerrit Jan van Heek, Dutch textile manufacturer and politician, born in Enschede, Netherlands (d. 1915)
1921 – Ivo Rudolph Jarosy, German-British film scholar and exhibitor, born in Berlin (d. 1996)
1921 – Viktor Chukarin, Ukrainian gymnast (Olympic gold USSR 4 x 1952, 3 x 1956), born in Krasnoarmeyskoye, Ukraine (d. 1984)
1944 – Bill Hendon, American politician (Rep-R-NC, 1981-83, 85-87), born in Asheville, North Carolina
1959 – Sito Pons, Spanish motorbike racer, born in Barcelona, Spain
Famous Deaths
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1641 – Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Cardinal of the Holy Catholic Church and military commander during the Thirty Years’ War, dies at 32
1932 – Nadezhda Alliluyeva, Russian woman who was the 2nd wife of Soviet leader Joseph Stalin, commits suicide at 31
1993 – Stanley Myers, English television and film composer (The Deer Hunter), dies of cancer at 63
2024 – Lou Donaldson, American bebop jazz saxophonist (“Blues Walk”), and bandleader, dies at 98
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2025
618 – St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
1773 – Friedrich Wilhelm, baron von Seydlitz, Prussian general, dies at 52
1833 – Maximilian Stadler, Austrian pianist and composer and Benedictine monk, dies at 85
1877 – Amalie Auguste of Bavaria, Queen consort of Saxony (1854-73), dies at 75
1979 – Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of French President Charles de Gaulle, dies at 79
1995 – Country Dick Montana [Daniel McLain], American rock drummer and vocalist (The Beat Farmers – “Happy Boy”), dies on stage during a performance in Whistler, British Columbia, Canada at age 40
1998 – Rumer Godden, English author (Thursday’s Children), dies at 90
2006 – Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist, dies at 65
2010 – Jack Levine, American social realist painter, dies at 95
2021 – Margo Guryan, American jazz and pop pianist, songwriter, and singer (“I’m on My Way to Saturday”; “Take a Picture”), dies at 84
Historical Events for 8th November 2025
1838 – Victor Hugo’s tragic play “Ruy Blas” premieres in Paris
1920 – Rupert Bear by illustrator Mary Tourtel first appears in the Daily Express newspaper in the UK
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1972 – Stock Exchange Tower, the new 26-story home of the London Stock Exchange opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1974 – British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
2008 – John Key leads the National Party to victory in New Zealand’s general election, defeating Prime Minister Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition after nine years government
2018 – Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day
Today in History for 8th November 2025
Historical Events
1837 – Mount Holyoke Seminary in Massachusetts, the first US college for women, is founded
1873 – Ciro Pinsuti’s opera “Il mercante di Venezia”, based on William Shakespeare’s “The Merchant of Venice” is first performed, at the Teatro Comunale di Bologna, Italy
1937 – The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude (“The Eternal Jew”) opens in Munich.
1962 – Canada’s government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
2017 – Louvre Abu Dhabi is inaugurated, largest art museum on Arabian peninsula
Famous Birthdays
1657 – Thomas Bullis Jr., English organist and composer, baptized in Ely, England (d. 1712)
1934 – Doc Green, American pop baritone vocalist (The Drifters – “Under the Boardwalk”; “Up on the Roof”), born in New York City (d. 1989)
1951 – Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general, intelligence officer and war criminal, known as “the Blond Angel of Death”, born in Mar del Plata, Argentina
1965 – Mike Peluso, American NHL left wing (NJ Devils), born in Pengilly, Minnesota
1974 – Matthew Rhys, Welsh actor (The Americans, Brothers and Sisters), born in Cardiff, Wales
Famous Deaths
1805 – Francois-Thomas de Baculard d’Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1952 – Claude Carter, South African cricket spin bowler (19 Tests, 28 wickets, BB 6/50; Natal, Transvaal), dies at 71
1994 – Michael O’Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1998 – Lonnie Pitchford, American blues musician, dies at 43
2000 – Brian Boydell, Irish composer, dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 7th November 2025
1859 – Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, German kappelmeister and composer, dies at 61
1958 – Florence Walrath, American adoption agency founder (The Cradle), dies at 81
1975 – John Carmel Heenan, British clergyman, Catholic Cardinal (Archbishop of Westminster, 1963-75), dies of a heart attack at 70
1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1926-28), dies at 80
1984 – George Mathews, American stage and screen character actor (The Eve of St. Mark; Glynis – “Chick”), dies of heart disease at 73
2000 – Ingrid, Queen Mother of Denmark, Wife of King Frederik IX, ruler of Denmark (1947-72), dies at 90
2004 – [Harold] Howard Keel, American actor, singer (Seven Brides for Seven Brothers; Kiss Me Kate), and president of the Screen Actors Guild (1958-59), dies of cancer at 87
2006 – Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2007 – Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
2023 – Federico Sacchi, Argentine soccer central defender (15 caps; Newell’s Old Boys, Racing Club, Boca Juniors), dies at 87
Historical Events for 7th November 2025
1742 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia proclaims her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Peter III) her heir
1909 – Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1914 – German Chinese concession of Kiaochow Bay and its center at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces
1916 – Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
1921 – Ed Wynn’s musical revue “The Perfect Fool” premieres in NYC
1997 – “Bean” film directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean opens in the US
2012 – 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2018 – He world’s oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old is discovered in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Indonesian Borneo