1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
1902 – “Heart of Darkness” by Joseph Conrad is first published in one volume (previously serialized) by William Blackwood in Edinburgh
1906 – C. W. Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland, in record cricket innings by an Australian
1951 – Lefty O’Doul’s all-stars, including Joe DiMaggio and Billy Martin, lose 3-1 to Pacific League all-star team (Japan)
1952 – False fingernails 1st sold
1968 – Bob Gibson edges Pete Rose to win NL MVP
1979 – British newspaper “The Times” resumes publishing after 1 year
1993 – Pakistani minister of Foreign affairs Faruk Leghari elected president
2001 – US President George W. Bush orders that the Strategic Petroleum Reserve be filled to capacity over the next few years
2014 – Indian cricket batsman Rohit Sharma sets new world ODI record of 264 runs off 173 balls against Sri Lanka at Eden Gardens in Kolkata
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 12th November 2022
954 – Lotharius becomes King of France
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic
1904 – 9th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 29-5 in Birmingham
1925 – US and Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1931 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto – Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1951 – “Paint Your Wagon” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances
1981 – 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.
2012 – Joe Sakic, Mats Sundin, Pavel Bure and Adam Oates are inducted into the Hockey Hall of Fame
2019 – Disney launches its film and television streaming service Disney+
Historical Events for 11th November 2022
1714 – A highway in Bronx is laid out, later renamed East 233rd Street
1813 – Dresden surrenders to allied armies
1899 – Stuart/Rubens/Boyd-Jones’ “Floradora” premieres in London
1909 – Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii
1928 – WMT-AM in Cedar Rapids IA begins radio transmissions
1940 – Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
1942 – Germany completes its WWII occupation of France
1989 – Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting “we want reforms”, in a sign of the revolution to come
2014 – The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
2014 – Samsung Lions beat Nexen Heroes, 11-1 in Game 6 at Jamsil Baseball Stadium, Seoul to win the Korean Series
Historical Events for 10th November 2022
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1975 – UN General Assembly approves resolution equating Zionism with racism
1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1981 – Ernest Thompson’s “West Side Waltz” premieres in NYC
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
1986 – Bangladeshi Constitution restored
1990 – John Hughes’ film “Home Alone” directed by Chris Columbus and starring Macaulay Culkin premieres in Chicago
1998 – “Star Trek: Insurrection” film directed by Jonathan Frakes and starring Patrick Stewart and Jonathan Frakes premieres
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2013 – Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
Historical Events for 9th November 2022
1330 – Battle of Posada, Wallachian voievode Basarab I defeats the Hungarian army in an ambush
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1925 – Robert A. Millikan confirms the existence of cosmic rays from outer space in a speech to the National Academy of Sciences at Madison, Wisconsin
1950 – Phillies skipper Eddie Sawyer selected as Manager of Year
1962 – Catharina Lodders of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1965 – 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1971 – John List kills family and moves to Colorado
1980 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1984 – Most shots in a NY Islander game (88 – Isles 45, NY Rangers 43)
2013 – 8 people are killed by a gunman in Cali, Columbia
Historical Events for 8th November 2022
392 – Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
1322 – Pope John XXII names John van Diest as Bishop of Utrecht
1620 – Battle of White Mountain, Prague – 1st major victory of the Catholic Habsburgs over the Protestant Alliance in The Thirty Years’ War
1933 – US President FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1956 – Biblical drama film “The Ten Commandments”, directed by Cecil B. DeMille, starring Charlton Heston and Yul Brynner opens in the US
1962 – Canada’s government orders the nickel changed back to round shape
1979 – ABC broadcasts “Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage” with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to “Nightline”)
1987 – 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia, the first woman to lead an African country
2013 – At least 6,000 people are killed after Typhoon Haiyan, tied with Typhoon Meranti as being the strongest storm ever recorded at landfall, hits the Philippines
Historical Events for 7th November 2022
1861 – Battle of Belmont, fought in Mississippi County, Missouri begins, first combat test for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, Union victory (US Civil War)
1885 – Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1917 – British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
1942 – Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world hour record 45.798km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
1984 – STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 – Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota’s Palace of Justice
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith win
2009 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 2 winners: Pounced, California Flag, Dancing In Silks, Vale of York, Goldikova, Furthest Land, Conduit, Zenyatta
2015 – Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
2020 – Kamala Harris makes US history as the 1st woman and 1st woman of color to be elected to the vice presidency (date election called)
Historical Events for 6th November 2022
355 – Roman Emperor Constantius II proclaims his cousin Julian as Caesar
1153 – Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda)
1864 – Battle of Droop Mountain, West Virginia (Averell’s Raid)
1935 – 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1943 – Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1950 – Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1976 – Benjamin Hooks elected to succeed Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1988 – Steve Jones wins 19th NYC men’s marathon (2:08:20); Grete Waitz wins record 9th women’s title
1997 – “Proposals” opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
2016 – New York City Marathon: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea wins men’s race in 2:07:51; defending women’s champion Mary Keitany wins her 3rd NYC crown in 2:24:26
Historical Events for 5th November 2022
1883 – Battle at El Obeid Sudan: Mahdi’s army destroys Egyptian army
1911 – Italian forces take Tripoli and Cyrenaica, declaring suzerainty over Ottoman-controlled Libya
1932 – Benito Mussolini frees 16,000 convicts
1942 – Pro-British Clandestine Radio Diego Suarez’s final transmission
1944 – German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
1955 – Date returned to in “Back to the Future” by Marty McFly
1983 – NY Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1996 – Bill Clinton is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Bob Dole
1997 – 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year
2012 – Widespread flooding in Nigeria kills 363 people and displaces 2.1 million
Historical Events for 4th November 2022
1631 – Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1864 – Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
1968 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister Terence O’Neill meets British Prime Minister Harold Wilson for talks on Northern Ireland; Wilson states no change of constitutional position of Northern Ireland possible without consent of the its people
1977 – UN Security council proclaims weapon embargo against South Africa
1989 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate John McCain
2014 – Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orders army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
2015 – Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women
2017 – Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nusantara opens in Jakarta with items from the collection of Indonesian tycoon Haryanto Adikoesoemo
2017 – Scottish champions Celtic sets new all-time British record (63) for matches undefeated in all domestic football competitions beating St. Johnstone, 4-0 at McDiarmid Park