1857 – First American Chess Congress is won by Paul Morphy; beats Louis Paulson, 6-2 for a tournament record of 14 wins, 3 draws and 1 loss
1883 – Toronto Argonauts defeat Ottawa FC 9-7, for 1st ORFU Championship
1942 – Philip Barry’s “Without Love” premieres in NYC
1950 – After 9 years, Cleveland Indians fire manager Lou Boudreau
1958 – Bertolt Brecht’s play ” The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui” premieres in Stuttgart, West Germany
1990 – Chandra Shekhar becomes 8th Prime Minister of India
2014 – “Uptown Funk” single released by Bruno Mars (Billboard Song of the Year 2015, Grammy Record Of The Year, Grammy Song of the Year 2016)
2014 – Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom by Barack Obama
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2020 – Word of the year is “Lockdown” according to Collins English Dictionary
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 9th November 2021
1541 – Queen Catherine Howard (Henry VIII’s fifth wife) confined in Tower of London
1912 – Ottoman garrison surrenders Thessaloniki / Salonika to the Greek army (OS Oct 27)
1922 – Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
1953 – Cambodia (aka Kampuchea) gains independence from France, within the French Union
1967 – Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
1985 – “News” closes at Helen Hayes Theater NYC after 4 performances
1992 – Prix Goncourt awarded to Patrick Chamoiseau for “Texaco”
1996 – Evander Holyfield upsets Mike Tyson in 11th-round knockout in Las Vegas to regain WBA heavyweight boxing title; second boxer, after Muhammad Ali, to win a heavyweight title 3 times
2004 – 38th Country Music Association Award: Kenny Chesney, Martina McBride and Keith Urban wins
2009 – Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker’s main event.
Historical Events for 8th November 2021
1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Privileges, guaranteed religious freedom for the colony in Pennsylvania
1900 – Theodore Dreiser’s novel “Sister Carrie” is published
1942 – Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
1957 – Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1966 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1984 – STS 51-A (Discovery), the 14th Space Shuttle mission launches
1988 – 900 die as earthquake hits China
1992 – “Solitary Confinement” opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 performances
1994 – Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
2018 – Woolsey Fire starts near Thousand Oaks, California with Malibu and Calabasas evacuated, kills three
Historical Events for 7th November 2021
1861 – Battle of Belmont, fought in Mississippi County, Missouri begins, first combat test for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, Union victory (US Civil War)
1907 – Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.
1944 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
1956 – Suez Crisis ends with a ceasefire as the United Nations Emergency Force is established at instigation of Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their second album “Wedding Album” in UK
1990 – “Little Night Music” closes at New York State NYC after 11 performances
1992 – 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
2017 – Extreme smog in Delhi, India, leads Indian Medical Association to declare “a state of medical emergency”
Historical Events for 6th November 2021
1844 – Spain grants Dominican Republic independence
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1955 – Ryder Cup Golf, Thunderbird Ranch and CC: US wins 8-4; Chick Harbert captains Americans to 7th consecutive event victory
1958 – Belgium government of Eyskens and Lilar forms
1968 – The film “Head” starring the Monkees opens in New York.
1971 – “Great Harp” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1973 – James Bond film “Man With the Golden Gun” starring Roger Moore begins filming
1994 – Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1999 – Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2013 – 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
Historical Events for 5th November 2021
1499 – Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). Breton-French-Latin dictionary written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc was first Breton and French dictionary
1530 – St Felix Flood ravages Dutch coast and destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands
1862 – Battle at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1882 – Bedřich Smetana’s “Má Vlast” premieres at Žofín Palace, Prague
1957 – Mrs Nellie McGrail wins $574,658 on a 2½ cent soccer pool ticket
1979 – Iran government of Bazargan resigns
1987 – “Into the Woods” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 764 performances
1995 – André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PM’s wife locks the door.
1997 – 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year
2011 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Afleet Again, Wrote, Amazombie, Regally Ready, Caleb’s Posse, St Nicholas Abbey, Hansen, Court Vision, Drosselmeyer
Historical Events for 4th November 2021
1864 – Confederate assault on Johnsonville, Tennessee
1875 – Tonga adopts constitution
1934 – After posting 7 straight shutouts to start the NFL season, Detroit Lions beat Pittsburgh, 40-7 at University of Detroit Stadium; scored upon for the first time of the season; rush for NFL single game record 426 yards
1944 – German troops reconquer Schmidt Hurtgenwald
1944 – RAF bombs Dinteloord (Netherlands), 54 killed
1951 – Ryder Cup Golf, Pinehurst Resort: US wins 9½-2½; Sam Snead playing captain for US; Arthur Lacey non-playing GB skipper
2001 – Baseball World Series: Arizona beats New York Yankees, 3-2 in Game 7 at Bank One Ballpark, Phoenix for Diamondbacks’ first title; co-MVP: Arizona pitchers Randy Johnson and Curt Schilling
2012 – Bishop Tawadros appointed as the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church
2014 – Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
2017 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Del Mar Racetrack; Day 2 winners: Caledonia Road, Stormy Liberal, Bar of Gold, Wuheida, Roy H, World Approval, Good Magic, Talismanic, Gunrunner
Historical Events for 3rd November 2021
1655 – England and France sign military and economic treaties
1918 – Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1930 – Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1937 – Howie Morenz Memorial Game, Montreal Forum: NHL All-Stars beat Montreal All Stars, 6-5
1943 – P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
1970 – US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1994 – Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
2007 – Navy beats Notre Dame 46-44 in triple overtime, ending the Fighting Irish’s NCAA Football-record winning streak against the Midshipmen at 43 games; last Navy win over Notre Dame, 35-14 in 1963
2013 – 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand
2018 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Shamrock Rose, Stormy Liberal, City of Light, Sistercharlie, Roy H, Expert Eye, Monomoy Girl, Enable, Accelerate
Historical Events for 2nd November 2021
1712 – Suriname government gives French hijacker Jacques Cassard, ƒ682,800
1749 – English Ohio Trade Company forms first trading post
1889 – North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes 40th state in the United States
1917 – In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
1948 – US President Harry Truman is re-elected in an upset victory over Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
1963 – “Tambourines to Glory” opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
1985 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Aqueduct Racetrack; winners: Cozzene, Life’s Magic, Pebbles, Precisionist, Proud Truth, Tasso, Twilight Ridge
1993 – Christie Todd Whitman (R) elected 1st woman governor of New Jersey
2003 – US sitcom “Arrested Development” Premieres created by Mitchell Hurwitz, starring Jason Bateman, Porta de Rossi, Michael Cera and an ensemble cast on Fox
2019 – 9th Rugby World Cup, Yokohama: South African fly-half Handré Pollard lands 6 penalties and 2 conversions as Springboks beat favourites England, 32-12 for their 3rd title
Historical Events for 1st November 2021
1865 – Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens
1916 – Broadway theatre owner and producer Harry H. Frazee and Hugh Ward buy MLB club the Boston Red Sox for approximately $700,000 from Joseph Lannin
1918 – Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
1922 – Mustafa Kemal Ataturk takes Constantinople from Mehmed VI, proclaiming the Republic of Turkey and bringing an end to the Ottoman Empire
1942 – 10th day of battle at El Alamein
1950 – Celtics’ forward Chuck Cooper becomes first African American to play in the NBA in Boston’s 107-84 loss at Fort Wayne Pistons; future Hall of Famer Bob Cousy also debuts for Celtics
1956 – Karnataka (then known as Mysore State) is formed from the merge of Kannada-speaking regions in India
1987 – New Zealand All Blacks create a rugby union international world record score when they beat Japan, 106-4 at the National Stadium in Tokyo
2017 – Boiler explosion at a NTPC government-run coal-fired power plant in Rae Bareli, India, kills 29
2020 – Slovakia completes testing two-thirds of its population for COVID-19 using quick antigen tests, 1.06% test positive out of 3.625 million