1783 – Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
1887 – Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in “Study in Scarlet” by Arthur Conan Doyle
1903 – “The Great Train Robbery”, the 1st Western film, released
1912 – Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
1928 – CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
1945 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win their 6th title with a 35-0 shutout of the Winnipeg Blue Bombers
1953 – WAIM (now WAXA) TV channel 40 in Anderson, SC (IND) 1st broadcast
1982 – Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1989 – USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
2016 – Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 30th November 2019
1782 – Britain signs agreement recognizing US independence
1915 – St John Ervine’s “John Ferguson” premieres in Dublin
1924 – National Football League Championship: Cleveland Bulldogs (7-1-1) [formerly Canton] win first past the post title
1942 – German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes and sinks off Yokohama
1955 – “Pipe Dream” opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 245 performances
1956 – Jon Henricks swims world record 55.4 to win the men’s 100m at the Melbourne Olympics; rare Australian 1-2-3 with John Devitt and Gary Chapman taking the minor medals
1959 – Joe Foss named 1st commissioner of AFL
1967 – Julie Nixon and David Eisenhower announce their engagement
1974 – Most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia’s Afar Depression
2014 – Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
Historical Events for 29th November 2019
1573 – Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
1877 – US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
1961 – Following the failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion CIA Director Allen Dulles resigns and is replaced by John McCone
1962 – Great Britain and France decide to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner
1965 – Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups
1967 – Robert McNamara elected president of World bank
1969 – The Beatles’ “Come Together/Something” reaches #1
1997 – OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998
2001 – UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period
2018 – Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi
Historical Events for 28th November 2019
1569 – Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1754 – Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences
1864 – Battle of New Creek, WV (Rosser’s Raid, Ft Kelly)
1929 – Chicago fullback Ernie Nevers sets NFL record for most points scored in a single game with all 40 in the Cardinals’ 40–6 rout of Chicago Bears; Nevers has NFL record 6 touchdowns and 4 extra points
1956 – Shirley Strickland de la Hunty of Australia retains her 80m hurdles Olympic title in OR 10.7s beating German Gisela Birkemeyer by just 0.2s at the Melbourne Games
1974 – Bowie Kuhn suspends George Steinbrenner for 2 years
1993 – “Gray’s Anatomy” opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
2010 – In a classic matchup, Roger Federer wins his 5th season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6–3, 3–6, 6–1 victory over Rafael Nadal of Spain in the final in London, England
2016 – “Hamilton” sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway – $3.3 million
2017 – India’s Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film “Padmavati”
Historical Events for 27th November 2019
1926 – KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1944 – 4,000 shells detonate in RAF arms depot at Fauld, near Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire; village of Hanbury destroyed, at least 70 people killed
1951 – Cease-fire and demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea
1962 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1966 – LPGA Titleholders Championship Women’s Golf, Augusta CC: Kathy Whitworth wins back-to-back titles by 2 shots from Judy Kimball and Mary Mills
1973 – US Senate votes 92-3 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President
1973 – Gary Matthews wins NL Rookie of Year
1983 – Colombian jetliner Boeing 747 crashes in Madrid killing 181
1997 – Lions’ Barry Sanders becomes NFL’s 2nd all-time rusher
2018 – Convicted US murderer Samuel Little confirmed connected to 90 more murders of women after confessing details
Historical Events for 26th November 2019
1825 – 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1841 – 1st date in James Clavell’s novel Tai-Pan
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for “union of the people”, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
1954 – Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1963 – Explorer 18 spacecraft launched by NASA
1966 – “Walking Happy” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 161 performances
1969 – Cream’s final concert (Royal Albert Hall)
1977 – 42nd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 48-21 in Birmingham
1979 – Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
2015 – UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer, sells out in a day
Historical Events for 25th November 2019
1357 – Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
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
1925 – KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
1968 – 15th National Film Awards (India): “Hatey Bazarey” wins the Golden Lotus
1969 – John Lennon returns OBE to protest against UK’s support for Vietnam War
1970 – In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt
1973 – 3 Palestinians hijack KLM B747 above Iraq, to Dubai
1979 – Pat Summerall and John Madden broadcast a game together for the first time, a pairing that would last 22 years and become one of the most well-known partnerships in TV sportscasting history
1982 – The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldson’s Department Store.
2015 – Pope Francis begins his trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic
Historical Events for 24th November 2019
642 – Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1800 – Weber’s opera “Das Waldmadchen” premieres in Freiburg
1941 – Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
1949 – British steel and iron industry nationalised
1957 – Cleveland Browns’ fullback Jim Brown sets club record of 237 yds rushing
1965 – Marshal Mobutu Sese Seko Kuku Ngbendu becomes President of Zaire
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
2007 – 72nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-10 in Auburn
2012 – 77th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 49-0 in Tuscaloosa
2018 – Taiwanese voters vote against referendums to legalise same-sex marriage
Historical Events for 23rd November 2019
1334 – St Clemens Flood: Dike breaks at Flemish/Zeeuwse/Dutch coast
1923 – Cecil B. DeMille’s first version of “The Ten Commandments” premieres in the USA
1942 – US Coast Guard Woman’s Auxiliary (SPARS) authorized
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1989 – Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
1992 – “Someone Who’ll Watch Over Me” opens at Booth NYC for 232 performances
1993 – “Angels in America-Perestroika” opens at Walter Kerr NYC for 216 performances
1993 – “Doggystyle” debut album by Snoop Doggy Dogg is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
2004 – World of Warcraft, multiplayer online role-playing video game released, world’s most subscribed game
2018 – Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana apologize for culturally insensitive video and media posts insulting Chinese culture, cancel Shanghai fashion show
Historical Events for 22nd November 2019
1573 – The Brazilian city of Niterói is founded
1884 – T Thomas Fortune starts NY Freeman (NY Age) newspaper
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1927 – George Gershwin’s “Funny Face” premieres in NYC
1945 – Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1956 – Bill Sharman (Boston) begins NBA free throw streak of 55 games
1972 – US ends 22 year travel ban to China
1975 – Juan Carlos I proclaimed King of Spain as monarchy restored after 31 years
1985 – PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
2018 – Leaning Tower of Pisa’s tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilise it