1889 – Gustav Mahler’s 1st Symphony premieres in Budapest and is not well received
1922 – Zoe Akins’ play “Texas Nightingale” premieres in NYC
1951 – Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
1959 – WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1964 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 9th/10th String Quartet premieres in Moscow
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1993 – 5th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 41-39 in South Bend (Boston College’s first win in the series)
2011 – 38th American Music Awards: Adele, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift win
2013 – Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony
2018 – Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 19th November 2021
1521 – Battle at Milan: Emperor Charles V’s pontifical, Spanish and German troops beat French forces and occupy Milan
1873 – James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation
1939 – Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1962 – Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1976 – Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1979 – Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1983 – Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils “a Mickey Mouse organization”
1996 – Lieutenant General Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire
1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of the Artist Without Beard” sells at auction for $71.5 million
2017 – Martin Truex Jr., driving for Furniture Row Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series by 5 points from Kyle Busch
Historical Events for 18th November 2021
1874 – National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1932 – “Flowers and Trees” receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1939 – Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
1949 – The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days
1956 – Morocco gains independence
1985 – Paul McCartney releases “Spies Like Us”
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland
1994 – “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas AandM University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.
Historical Events for 17th November 2021
1659 – Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain
1951 – Britain reports development of the world’s first nuclear-powered heating system
1956 – Syracuse fullback Jim Brown, scores NCAA record of 43 pts (vs Colgate)
1967 – Davy Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, New York
1970 – British newspaper Sun puts 1st pinup girl on page 3 (Stephanie Rahn)
1988 – Neil Simon’s “Rumors” premieres in NYC
1990 – David Crosby breaks his left leg, ankle and shoulder in a motorcycle accident in Los Angeles, CA
2004 – Kmart Corp. announces it is buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion USD and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
2005 – Italy’s choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
2013 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins record 8th consecutive Formula 1 race with victory in United States Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas
Historical Events for 16th November 2021
1491 – An auto de fe, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.
1764 – Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac
1870 – Spanish Parliament, “the Cortes” formally elects Italian Prince Amedeo Ferdinando Maria as King Amadeo I of Spain
1933 – Brazilian President Getulio Vargas declares himself dictator
1940 – World War II: In response to Germany’s leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
1969 – US President Nixon becomes first president to attend a season NFL game while in office: the Dallas Cowboys beat the Washington Redskins 41-28
1981 – President Reagan decides on a covert plan to block the Cuban aid to Nicaragua and El Salvador
1984 – 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Space Center (Florida)
2003 – 16-year old Lionel Messi makes his official debut for FC Barcelona when he comes on as a substitute in a friendly against Porto
2008 – Novak Đoković of Serbia wins his first career season-ending Tennis Masters Cup title beating Russian Nikolay Davydenko 6-1, 7-5 in the final in Shanghai, China
Historical Events for 15th November 2021
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1837 – Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system of writing
1898 – David Beatty is promoted to commander
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1946 – Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1955 – Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1961 – Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1989 – Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1993 – 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
2005 – 39th Country Music Association Award: Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson wins
Historical Events for 14th November 2021
1550 – Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
1893 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Hanneles Himmelfahrt” premieres in Berlin
1910 – 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia
1923 – Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
1938 – Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
1942 – Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
1960 – Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
1967 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as “Day of the Colombian Woman”
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile
2010 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 4 points from Fernando Alonso; Red Bull’s first Constructors title
Historical Events for 13th November 2021
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
1922 – Marc Connelly and George Kaufman’s “’49ers” premieres in NYC
1922 – George Cohan’s musical “Little Nellie Kelly” premieres in NYC
1946 – First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts
1953 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 4th String Quartet premieres
1977 – 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1985 – Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1991 – Bomb destroys Dutch Labour party politician Aad Kosto’s house in a failed assassination attempt, he survives and in a famous image finds and cuddles his cat
2016 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Strasbourg, France: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková and Barbora Strýcová beats Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 7-5 to wrap up 3-2 win and 3rd straight title
2020 – Kylie Minogue becomes the first woman to top the UK album chart over five consecutive decades with “Disco”
Historical Events for 12th November 2021
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic
1915 – Theodore William Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1947 – KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1948 – Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1973 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 14th String Quartet premieres
1979 – US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1995 – 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
2003 – Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2016 – Jackie Chan awarded honorary Oscar for his film achievements at 8th Annual Governors Awards ceremony
2019 – Disney launches its streaming service Disney+
Historical Events for 11th November 2021
308 – The Congress of Carnuntum: Attempting to keep peace within the Roman Empire, the leaders of the Tetrarchy declare Maxentius and Licinius to be Augusti, while rival contender Constantine I is declared Caesar of Britain and Gaul.
1208 – Otto van Wittelsbach chosen German king
1895 – Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
1924 – Martin Beck Theater opens at 302 W 45th St NYC
1977 – Wings release “Mull of Kintyre” and “Girl’s School”
1985 – Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools and housing
1986 – Suriname government proclaims gold purification
1987 – Boston Red Sox starter Roger Clemens wins back-to-back AL Cy Young Awards; Philadelphia Phillies starter Steve Bedrosian takes NL Award
1987 – Football striker Mark Hughes plays for Wales and Bayern Munich in 2 countries on same day; appears for Wales in 2-0 European Championship loss to Czechoslovakia in Prague, then jets to Munich for 3-2 Cup win over Borussia
2014 – 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan