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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 14th November 2020
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
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)