306 – St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1813 – Prince Willem Frederik returns to Netherlands
1864 – Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
1900 – A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
1902 – American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy’s Wild Bunch gang Kid Curry Logan sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1938 – Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1988 – Kohlberg Kravis Roberts and Co. buys RJR Nabisco for $25.07 billion USD.
2003 – 92nd Davis Cup: Australia beats Spain in Melbourne (3-1)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th November 2021
1581 – Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
1825 – 1st Italian opera in US, “Barber of Seville” premieres (NYC)
1910 – The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine
1929 – Richard E. Byrd sends “My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole” (He was wrong)
1963 – LBJ sets up Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of JFK
1981 – “My Fair Lady” closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances
1987 – “Dreamgirls” closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 177 performances
1991 – TV show “Roc” has a gay wedding episode – Can’t Help Loving that Man
1992 – “Sea Gull” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 48 performances
Historical Events for 28th November 2021
1847 – Church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali in Bologna, Italy initiated with premier of Rossini’s Tantum ergo
1906 – Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after being pushed to a 20-round draw by “Philadelphia” Jack O’Brien in Los Angeles, California
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater
1931 – Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 226 in his first Test appearance v South Africa in 1st Test in Brisbane
1944 – 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1954 – KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 – KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 – LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
2017 – Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya
2018 – French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public
Historical Events for 27th November 2021
1382 – Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.
1864 – 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1912 – Albanian National Flag adopted
1924 – 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1970 – Test Cricket debut of Rodney “Iron Gloves” Marsh v England, Brisbane
1982 – 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn’s first win in the series in 10 years
1987 – Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
2006 – Ballon d’Or: Italy defender Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus/Real Madrid) is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Arsenal forward Thierry Henry
2017 – 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating plants
Historical Events for 26th November 2021
1913 – Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1944 – Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoria
1956 – Egil Danielsen of Norway sets a new world record throw of 85.71m to win the men’s javelin gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
1956 – “The Price Is Right” debuts on NBC
1960 – 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 – After 518 goals and 14 years with Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1992 – 57th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-0 in Birmingham
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
Historical Events for 25th November 2021
1744 – Austrian forces pillage and kill Jews of Prague
1937 – World’s Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1951 – 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
1953 – “Guys and Dolls” closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 1,200 performances
1969 – KC outfielder Lou Piniella is voted AL Rookie of Year
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt
1976 – Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
1979 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Edmonton Eskimos retain Championship; defeat Montreal Alouettes, 17-9; Eskimos shut out of MVP and MV Canadian awards
1990 – CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ 10th Championship: beat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11; Winnipeg’s 28 points in 3rd quarter is Grey Cup record
2020 – The New York Times names its “25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century (so far)”, with Denzel Washington at No. 1
Historical Events for 24th November 2021
1903 – George Ade’s “County Chairman” premieres in NYC
1922 – Italian parliament gives Benito Mussolini dictatorial powers “for 1 year”
1930 – Ruth Nichols sets women’s transcontinental air flight record (Mineola, NY to California), in a Lockheed-Vega
1932 – In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.
1962 – Last of Dutch military leave New Guinea
1981 – 1st air-launched cruise missile tested
1983 – “The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett published by Colin Smythe in the UK, 1st book in the Discworld series
1986 – Cards reliever Todd Worrell wins NL Rookie of Year
1991 – After going 12-0, Washington Redskins lose to Dallas 24-21
2015 – Venezuelan opposition leader Luis Díaz is shot and killed days before the country’s general election
Historical Events for 23rd November 2021
1556 – King Philip II confers with Dutch financial experts
1904 – III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis
1914 – The US Army withdraws from Mexico
1942 – Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor
1943 – 1st printing of illegal “Warheid”
1947 – French government of Schumann forms
1954 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash.
1996 – 61st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 24-23 in Birmingham
2017 – Papua New Guinea Police storm Manus Island refugee camp, forcibly removing asylum seekers
2020 – US President-elect Joe Biden introduces his new cabinet including Alejandro Mayorkas 1st Latino head of homeland security, Avril Haines 1st female director of national intelligence
Historical Events for 22nd November 2021
1886 – Victoria Street Cable Tram route begins in Melbourne, Australia
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1981 – SD Charger Dan Fouts passes for 6 touchdowns vs Oakland (55-21)
1986 – 20 year old Mike Tyson becomes youngest heavyweight champion in boxing history when he stops titleholder Trevor Berbick in round 2 at Las Vegas Hilton to earn the WBC title
1992 – Yugoslavian tennis star Monica Seles beats Martina Navratilova for the second consecutive year to win WTA Tour Championship 7–5, 6–3, 6–1 in NYC; her 3rd straight end of season title
1992 – Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
1998 – 48th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
2008 – Patrick Roy’s #33 jersey is retired by the Montreal Canadiens
2015 – Serbian tennis star Novak Đoković makes it 4 straight season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis titles beating Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 in the final in London, England
2017 – Ratko Mladic the “Butcher of Bosnia” is convicted of genocide and other atrocities during the Bosnian war and jailed for life in The Hague
Historical Events for 21st November 2021
1902 – 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1945 – General Motors workers go on strike
1955 – Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1959 – Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)
1964 – Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world’s longest
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: “I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.”
1986 – Central African Republic adopts constitution
1993 – “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
2018 – RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil