1956 – Frank Robinson (NL) and Luis Aparicio (AL) voted Rookie of the Year
1956 – Australian women’s 4 x 100m relay team of Norma Croker, Betty Cuthbert, Fleur Mellor and Shirley Strickland de la Hunty run world record 44.65 to win the gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics; Cuthbert’s 3rd gold of the Games
1958 – Our Lady of Angels School fire kills 92 students and 3 nuns in Chicago, Illinois
1967 – Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points in 76ers’ 133-109 win over Seattle SuperSonics; sets NBA record for 22 free throw misses
1971 – Chicago Cubs release longtime star and future Hall of Famer Ernie Banks, ending his 19-year MLB career; announce Banks will serve as a coach on manager Leo Durocher’s staff; Banks finishes with 512 home runs and 1,636 RBI
1976 – Angola admitted to the UN
1984 – American tennis icon Chris Evert wins her 1,000th career professional match; beats Pascale Paradis of France 6-1, 6-7, 6-2 in the round of 16 at the Australian Open; Evert goes on to win the event
1994 – Ernesto Zedillo is inaugurated as president of Mexico
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th November 2025
1864 – Battle of Honey Hill, South Carolina (Broad River) 96 dead, 665 wounded
1952 – 17th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 21-0 in Birmingham
1955 – Argentine government disbands Peronistic party
1963 – Martin Walser’s “Überlebensgross Herr Krott” premieres in Stuttgart
1966 – Barbados gains independence from Great Britain (National Day)
1979 – Pink Floyd’s album “The Wall” is released and sells six million copies in two weeks
1988 – France performs nuclear test at Fangataufa Island
1991 – Rob Pilatus, 27, of disgraced pop duo Milli Vanilli attempts suicide
Historical Events for 29th November 2025
1890 – First US Army-Navy football game played at West Point: Navy 24, Army 0
1945 – Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia is proclaimed
1962 – Great Britain and France decide to build the Concorde supersonic airliner jointly
1968 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their first album “Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins” in the UK
1969 – The Beatles’ single “Something” / “Come Together” reaches #1
1976 – The New York Yankees sign free agent Reggie Jackson to a five-year, $3.5 million contract
2021 – British socialite and former girlfriend of Jeffrey Epstein, Ghislaine Maxwell, is found guilty of sex trafficking in a federal court in Manhattan
2023 – Nepal registers its first same-sex marriage in its western Lumjung district, after becoming the second Asian country to legalize it five months earlier
Historical Events for 28th November 2025
1569 – Duke of Alva forces Bishop of Haarlem Nicolaas van Nieuwland to resign due to the clergyman’s alcoholism
1899 – Second Boer War: Battle of Modder River (Cape Colony), British Lord Methuen defeats Boer forces of Piet Cronjé and Koos de la Rey
1982 – CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos’ record 5th straight Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
1987 – South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 passengers
1993 – Richard Baer’s stage play “Mixed Emotions,” starring Harold Gould and Katherine Helmond, closes at the John Golden Theatre in New York City after 48 performances
1993 – CFL Grey Cup, McMahon Stadium, Calgary: Edmonton Eskimos defeat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 33-23; Sean Fleming lands record equalling 6 field goals
2022 – 50 million birds are killed in a record-breaking outbreak of avian flu across the US, according to the Department of Agriculture, amid similar outbreaks elsewhere around the world
2023 – 41 Indian construction workers are successfully rescued after 41 days trapped in a collapsed tunnel in Uttarakhand, India
Historical Events for 27th November 2025
1926 – KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1954 – Andrew Schwartz and Dorothy Fields’ musical “By the Beautiful Sea”, starring Shirley Booth, closes at the Theatre, NYC, after 270 performances
1977 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Montreal Alouettes beat Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6; record Grey Cup crowd 68,318; game referred to as the ‘Ice Bowl’; Dan Sweet record 23 points
1978 – San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White at City Hall
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1986 – Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget
1991 – Cuban poet and journalist María Elena Cruz Varela is sentenced to two years in prison for calling for the democratization of Fidel Castro’s regime as leader of the group Critirio Alternativo (Alternative Criteria)
2000 – Norway opens the Laerdal Tunnel, linking Oslo and Bergen, the world’s longest road tunnel at 15.3 miles (24.6 kilometers)
Historical Events for 26th November 2025
1791 – First US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct in the UK and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, carrying the Llangollen Canal 126 feet above the River Dee
1894 – King Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki signs accord with France
1940 – Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1953 – KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 – 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1990 – US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1
1996 – Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
Historical Events for 25th November 2025
1185 – Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85, dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli (Pope Urban III)
1659 – Michiel de Ruyter conquers Danish city Nyborg
1949 – “Texas, Li’l Darlin'” opens at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City for 293 performances
1960 – CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone and 2nd Mrs Burton) and cancels 4 other series
1980 – Military coup d’état in the Republic of Upper Volta overthrows the civilian government and abolishes the constitution in what is now Burkina Faso
1996 – Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade ends after 24 years
2001 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Calgary Stampeders claim their 5th Championship in team history; beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-19
2018 – Historic north Californian Camp Fire declared 100% contained with 85 dead, 249 missing, covering 153,000 acres with 14,000 homes burnt
Historical Events for 24th November 2025
1744 – John Carteret resigns as British Secretary of State for the Northern Department
1930 – Ruth Nichols sets the women’s transcontinental air flight record from Mineola, New York, to California in a Lockheed Vega
1951 – British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
1964 – 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (QB)
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
1970 – 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
1996 – American Pete Sampras wins his 3rd ATP Tour World Championship tennis titles with a classic 3–6, 7–6, 7–6, 6–7, 6–4 victory over defending champion Boris Becker in Hanover, Germany
2019 – Data leaked from Chinese high-security Muslim Uighur security camps, housing 1 million people, show systematic brainwashing in western Xinjiang region
Historical Events for 23rd November 2025
1783 – Annapolis, Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1897 – Portable pencil sharpener patented by American inventor John Lee Love
1931 – Nationally Crisis Committee forms in The Hague
1954 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash
1963 – Following the protocol after Abraham Lincoln’s death, JFK’s body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House and viewed by officials and heads of state
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – National Black Independent Party forms
2017 – Brazilian footballer Robinho sentenced to nine years in prison for rape in Italy
Historical Events for 22nd November 2025
1862 – Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
1914 – Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
1945 – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “The Day Before Spring” opens at National Theater, NYC; runs for 167 performances
1956 – Boston shooting guard Bill Sharman hits 10 free throws in Celtics 101-78 over Philadelphia Warriors at Philadelphia Civic Center
1972 – US ends 22 year travel ban to China
2015 – 43rd American Music Awards: Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, One Direction and Luke Bryan win
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
2018 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa’s tilt is reduced by 4 cm in a 20 year project to stabilize it