1688 – General strategist John Churchill meets William III
1897 – Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
1905 – Moshav Hertzlia forms in Israel
1947 – John Steinbeck’s novel “Pearl” published
1956 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos make it 3rd consecutive Championships; defeat Montreal Alouettes for 3rd straight year, 50-27
1964 – Rebellion ends in Zaire
1977 – France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
1983 – “The Colour of Magic” by Terry Pratchett published by Colin Smythe in the UK, 1st book in the Discworld series
2013 – 40th American Music Awards: Taylor Swift and Justin Timberlake win
2019 – Taylor Swift wins six awards at American Music Awards including Artist of the Year and Artist of the Decade
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd November 2020
1834 – Hector Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy” premieres
1869 – The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
1911 – Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, renamed Letterman General Hospital
1953 – KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1963 – LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
1977 – “Jesus Christ Superstar” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 performances
1984 – Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 and Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)
2003 – Presidents Cup Golf, Fancourt Hotel and CC: US and International team tie, 17-17; after 3 tied playoff holes between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, captains and players decide Cup to be shared
2008 – 97th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Mar del Plata (3-1)
2019 – Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Historical Events for 22nd November 2020
1683 – Purcell’s “Welcome to All the Pleasures” premieres in London
1714 – King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1918 – Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1918 – Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1927 – Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls
1960 – French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1991 – NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
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 2020
1813 – Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1848 – Alfred de Musset’s “Andre del Sarto” premieres in Paris
1934 – “Uiver” returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1938 – Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
1974 – Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford’s veto
1992 – Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
1998 – 63rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-17 in Birmingham
2004 – 56th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kurt Busch wins
2019 – WHO says Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, in world’s largest and fastest-moving epidemic
Historical Events for 20th November 2020
1719 – Sweden and Hannover sign for peace Treaty of Stockholm
1934 – Lillian Hellman’s “Children’s Hour” premieres in NYC
1947 – UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1951 – Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
1990 – US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1995 – “Racing Demon” opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 performances
2000 – 52nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Labonte wins
2013 – US President Barack Obama posthumously awards civil rights activist Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2017 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces that coalition talks to form a government have collapsed
2018 – Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Historical Events for 19th November 2020
1850 – Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1909 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1942 – Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
1959 – “Rocky and His Friends” debuts on ABC
1984 – NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1987 – France performs nuclear test
1995 – “Sacrilege” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1997 – McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
2018 – Ivanka Trump sent “hundred” of emails from her personal account about government business according to Washington Post report
Historical Events for 18th November 2020
1477 – First English dated printed book “Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton
1776 – Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1803 – Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1833 – Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1894 – Richard Outcault’s early comic strip “Origin of a New Species” published in World
1984 – The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
1985 – Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1994 – “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
2000 – 65th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 9-0 in Tuscaloosa
2003 – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional
Historical Events for 17th November 2020
1659 – Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain
1734 – John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY colonial governor; later acquitted
1958 – KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1974 – Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages
1997 – Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
2003 – Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2008 – “Twilight”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres in Los Angeles
Historical Events for 16th November 2020
1835 – Extracts from Letters to Henslow, a collection of letters written by Charles Darwin during his voyage on the Beagle, is published
1918 – Hungarian People’s Republic declared
1922 – Pope Pius XI calls on Belgian people to unite
1926 – NY Rangers 1st game, beat Montreal Maroons 1-0
1984 – 14th Shuttle Mission (51A) -Discovery 2- lands at Kennedy Center
1988 – President Reagan meets with Jerusalem’s mayor Teddy Kollek
1997 – 47th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
1997 – “1776” closes at Criterion Theater NYC
2017 – Cambodian court rules to dissolve the country’s main opposition party Cambodia National Rescue party (CNRP)
2018 – Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago
Historical Events for 15th November 2020
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1938 – Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1959 – Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood)
1959 – Cleveland Browns’ halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1966 – Gemini XII (Lovell and Aldrin) returns to Earth
1974 – Ringo Starr releases “Goodnight Vienna” and “Only You” in UK
1980 – Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
1987 – Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
2000 – New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
2012 – The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter