1215 – Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen
1900 – The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
1912 – CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Alerts win their only title; beat Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
1938 – Germany bans Jews being lawyers
1939 – USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
1953 – Edward Mutesa II, kabaka (king) of Buganda is deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1969 – CFL Grey Cup, Autostade, Montreal: Ottawa Rough Riders defeat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 29-11; first Grey Cup game played in its entirety on a Sunday
1996 – South African cricket opening batsman Gary Kirsten follows his 1st innings 102 with 133 in the Proteas’ 329 run 2nd Test win v India in Kolkata
2013 – 14th Rugby League World Cup: Australia beats New Zealand 34-2
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 29th November 2020
1916 – US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
1918 – Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 – Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C
1924 – NHL’s Montreal Forum opens
1943 – US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1961 – Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss
1962 – Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1989 – 8th Largest wrestling crowd UFW U-Cosmos (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
2015 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 2nd in season-ending Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix to win his 3rd overall, and 2nd consecutive World Drivers Championship by 59 points from teammate Nico Rosberg
2017 – American TV host Matt Lauer is fired from NBC’s “Today” show after an allegation of sexual misconduct
Historical Events for 28th November 2020
1843 – Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day – The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1854 – Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1925 – NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses and dies 4 months later of TB
1951 – Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
1962 – Telegraph between Netherlands and Indonesia restored
1964 – 1965 NFL Draft: Tucker Frederickson from Auburn University first pick by New York Giants
1970 – 35th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 33-28 in Birmingham
1981 – “Merrily We Roll Along” closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
1985 – 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
2018 – French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public
Historical Events for 27th November 2020
1911 – Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
1941 – Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
1945 – General George Marshall named special US envoy to China
1960 – Patrice Lumumba flees Leopoldville, Congo
1960 – Trailing 38-7 late in 3rd quarter, Buffalo Bills tie Broncos at 38-38
1972 – Yanks trade Ellis, Torres and Spikes to Indians for Nettles and Moses
1973 – Neil Simon’s play “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC
1983 – Desmond Haynes out handled the ball v India
2011 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 2nd in season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 122 points from Jenson Button
2019 – US President Donald Trump signs two bills backing Hong Kong protesters, which check the territories autonomy and ban the sale of munitions to Hong Kong police, angering China
Historical Events for 26th November 2020
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee
1950 – China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
1953 – Yamada Koun, leader of Sanbo Kyodan line of Zen, found 1st awakening
1956 – “The Price Is Right” debuts on NBC
1969 – Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1980 – Mike Schmidt is unanimous choice as NL MVP
1990 – Buffalo Bills become 6th 1st place NFL team to lose on same weekend
1990 – Premier Mazowiecki of Poland resigns
1999 – Steve Yzerman scores his 600th career goal
2017 – Presidential elections held in Honduras with allegations of electoral fraud and resulting violent protests
Historical Events for 25th November 2020
1034 – Malcolm II, King of Scots (Máel Coluim mac Cináeda) (b. 980) dies; Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethóc and Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.
1839 – Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people
1950 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts claim 9th title; shutout Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 13-0
1952 – George Meany appointed as chairman of AFL
1962 – WBJA (now WMGC) TV channel 34 in Binghamton, NY (ABC) 1st broadcast
1971 – 37th Heisman Trophy Award: Pat Sullivan, Auburn (QB)
1981 – Rollie Fingers is 1st relief pitcher to win AL MVP
1986 – Oliver North’s secretary, Fawn Hall, smuggles documents out of his office
1990 – CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: Winnipeg Blue Bombers’ 10th Championship: beat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11; Winnipeg’s 28 points in 3rd quarter is Grey Cup record
2018 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to claim his 5th Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 88 points from Sebastian Vettel; Mercedes’ 5th straight Constructors title
Historical Events for 24th November 2020
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
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