1380 – King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1888 – USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1968 – U.S. premiere of film version of Morris L. West’s best seller “The Shoes of the Fisherman”
1969 – 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
1976 – Cleveland Browns’ Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
1981 – Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18
1981 – “Raise!” 11th studio album by Earth, Wind and Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1982)
1990 – Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher’s leadership of the British Conservative Party
2000 – Geddy Lee releases his first solo album, “My Favourite Headache”
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
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th November 2020
1781 – British troops occupy Negapatam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes”
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription
1920 – Hudson River freezes at Albany
1921 – US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1980 – US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1996 – Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 – 1 (35th known Mersenne prime)
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441
2008 – Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, contracts by 0.5% in the third quarter after GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter, putting it in recession for the first time in five years
2019 – South Korean girl group Blackpink are the first K-pop group to have a single reach 1 billion views on YouTube for “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du”
Historical Events for 12th November 2020
1880 – Best selling American novel “Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ” by soldier Lew Wallace is published
1909 – Mackenzie King takes his seat in the House of Commons as Minister of Labour
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power
1933 – 1st game at NFL Pitts Pirate’s Forbes Field, lose to Bkln Dodgers 32-0
1935 – Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
1952 – Philadelphia A’s pitcher Bobby Shantz wins AL MVP
1981 – 1st balloon crossing of Pacific is completed (Double Eagle V)
1986 – France performs nuclear test
1998 – Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
2014 – European Space Agency’s Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
Historical Events for 11th November 2020
1836 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru
1868 – 1st American amateur track and field meet (NYC)
1922 – Largest US flag displayed (150′ X 90′) expanded in 1939 (270′ X 90′)
1925 – Louis Armstrong and his Hot Five begin their first recording session
1926 – Future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins is released as Chicago White Sox player/manager; replaced by another future HOF’er catcher Ray Schalk
1935 – Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota
1961 – Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1987 – “Roza” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1994 – Bill Gates buys Leonardo da Vinci’s “Codex” for $30,800,000
2008 – Taylor Swift releases her 2nd studio album “Fearless” (2009 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Album of the Year 2010, American Music Awards 2009)
Historical Events for 10th November 2020
1919 – American Legion’s 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1926 – Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1946 – Communists win many seats at French parliamentary election
1955 – “Vamp” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 60 performances
1957 – Cleveland Browns’ Don Paul sets club record for longest fumble return with a 89-yard run (and TD), beating Pittsburgh 24-0
1967 – KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1978 – NY Yankees trade Lyle, Rajsich, McCall, Heath and Ramos to Texas for Righetti, Mirabella, Beniquez, Jemison and Griffin
2012 – 22nd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 21-6 in Chestnut Hill
2012 – The final US presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeat Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes
2017 – BBC removes drama from Christmas line-up after one of its stars, Ed Westwick, accused of rape by two women
Historical Events for 9th November 2020
1821 – 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1864 – 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, British Columbia to a foreign country
1956 – Lou Thesz beats Whipper Billy Watson in St Louis, to become NWA wrestling champion
1965 – 1st NY Knick game postponed (black-out) vs St Louis
1969 – “Bridge over Troubled Water” single recorded by Simon and Garfunkel
1971 – David Storey’s “Changing Room” premieres in London
1978 – North American Soccer League (NASL) realigns its 24 teams into 6 divisions
2009 – Joe Cada becomes the youngest champion of the World Series of Poker’s main event.
2015 – “Love Yourself” single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
2019 – Unprecedented 70 bush fires in New South Wales, Australia, destroys 100 homes killing three people with seven missing
Historical Events for 8th November 2020
1494 – Uprising against Piero de’ Medici in Florence Italy
1598 – Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1939 – H Lindsay and R Crouse’ “Life with Father” premieres in NYC
1954 – AL approves Philadelphia A’s move to Kansas City
1979 – The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1984 – 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1988 – Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1990 – Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1999 – Tenor Andrea Bocelli releases his “Sacred Arias” album, the world’s best-selling classical album by a single artist
Historical Events for 7th November 2020
1631 – Pierre Gassendi observes 1st ever transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1876 – Edward Bouchet is 1st African American to receive a Ph.D from a US college (Yale)
1900 – Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
1917 – [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.
1970 – Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1982 – “Your Arms are Too Short to Box” closes at Alvin NYC after 69 performances
1983 – Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1987 – Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1990 – “Little Night Music” closes at New York State NYC after 11 performances
2018 – US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
Historical Events for 6th November 2020
1861 – Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as US Confederate President
1862 – New York-San Francisco direct telegraphic link forms
1869 – 1st US college football game, players used their hands or feet, Rutgers 6 Princeton 4
1906 – Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
1918 – WWI: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
1936 – Terence Rattigan’s play “French Without Tears” premieres in London
1950 – Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1993 – Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1999 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: Cat Thief, Anees, Beautiful Pleasure, Daylami, Silic, Soaring Softly, Cash Run, Artax
2012 – Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
Historical Events for 5th November 2020
1894 – Richard Strauss’ “Till Eulenspiegel” premieres
1912 – Arizona, Kansas and Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
1946 – John F. Kennedy (Democrat, Massachusetts) elected to US House of Representatives
1950 – Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ends emergency crisis
1953 – Terence Rattigan’s “Sleeping Prince” premieres in London
1967 – US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1967 – The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
1971 – NBA’s LA Lakers starts a 33 game consecutive victory streak
1992 – “Revenge Match of the 20th century” American chess grandmaster Bobby Fischer defeats Russian Boris Spassky to win an unofficial match in Belgrade
2003 – 37th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson and Martina McBride wins