1917 – Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer
1933 – 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1946 – Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
1962 – The Chinese People’s Liberation Army declares a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War.
1976 – “Rocky” directed by John G. Avildsen and starring Sylvester Stallone premieres in New York (Best Picture 1977)
1980 – “Hi Infidelity” 9th studio album by REO Speedwagon is released
1999 – Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2004 – Roger Federer of Switzerland wins back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a 6–3, 6–2 victory over Australian Leyton Hewitt in the final in Houston, Texas
2004 – 56th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kurt Busch wins
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 20th November 2019
1862 – Confederate armies of Mississippi and Kentucky merge as Army of Tennessee, under General Braxton Bragg
1915 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tigers win 2nd title; beat Toronto Rowing Association, 13-7
1931 – Commercial teletype service begins (ATandT)
1943 – U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1970 – UN General Assembly accepts membership of People’s Republic of China
1975 – Ronald Reagan announces candidacy for Republican nomination for US President
1981 – Burundi adopts its constitution
1981 – Ringo Starr releases “Stop and Smell Roses” album
1990 – US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
2006 – 58th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins
Historical Events for 19th November 2019
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1861 – Julia Ward Howe committed “Battle Hymn of the Republic” to paper
1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score and seven years ago…”
1873 – James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation
1905 – The steamer “Hilda” sinks in the English Channel (100 people drown)
1940 – First major German air raid on Birmingham – about 440 bombers kill 450
1950 – US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1960 – Mickey Vernon is hired as 1st manager of new Washington team
1973 – New York stock market takes sharpest drop in 19 years
1996 – The 12.9 km Confederation Bridge, joining Borden-Carleton, Prince Edward Island and Cape Jourimain, New-Brunswick is completed and becomes the longest bridge over ice covered waters in the world
Historical Events for 18th November 2019
1787 – First Unitarian minister in US ordained, Boston
1939 – Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
1963 – Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania
1976 – Spain’s parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1982 – Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
1984 – NBC premiere of the first part of fact based crime mystery “Fatal Vision”, based on Joe McGinnis’ novel about Jefferey MacDonald and the 1970 murders of his then-pregnant wife and two children
1985 – Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
1985 – Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1992 – Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas NV on KXTE 107.5 FM
1997 – Mavericks’ A C Green ties Randy Smith’s NBA record of 906 cons games
Historical Events for 16th November 2019
1801 – First edition of New York Evening Post
1907 – 12th Iron Bowl: Auburn and Alabama tie 6-6 in Birmingham
1908 – Arturo Toscanini begins conducting NY’s Metropolitan Opera
1939 – Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail
1941 – German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
1944 – US 9th division and 1st Army attacks at Geilenkirchen
1957 – Celtic Bill Russell sets NBA record of 49 rebounds beat Philadelphia 111-89
1957 – “Copper and Brass” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 36 performances
1989 – South African President F. W. de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
2003 – 55th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Matt Kenseth wins
Historical Events for 15th November 2019
1926 – ATandT sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
1936 – Nazi-Germany and Japan sign Anti-Komintern pact
1937 – First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
1969 – An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States
1973 – Egypt and Israel exchange prisoners of war
1974 – Ringo Starr releases “Goodnight Vienna” and “Only You” in UK
1979 – In Parliament Sir Anthony Blunt, art advisor to the Queen, exposed as 4th man in Soviet spy ring. He was then stripped of his knighthood and fellowship of Trinity College, Cambridge
1983 – 75th hat trick in Islander history-Mike Bossy
2011 – “Take Care” 2nd studio album by Drake is released (Grammy Award Best Rap Album 2013)
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 2019
1698 – Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir
1755 – Henry Fox appointed British ‘Secretary of State for the Southern Department’
1834 – William Thomson enters Glasgow University at 10 yrs 4 months
1940 – During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
1960 – 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech)
1976 – Cleveland Browns’ Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
1984 – NASA launches NATO-3D
1985 – Holmfriour Karlsdottir of Iceland, 22, crowned 35th Miss World
2012 – “The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn – Part 2”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Bill Condon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, is released
2013 – Boston gangster Whitey Bulger is sentenced to two consecutive life terms plus five years for his crimes
Historical Events for 13th November 2019
1868 – American Philological Association organized in NY
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription
1930 – WA Drake’s “Grand Hotel” premieres in NYC
1952 – False fingernails 1st sold
1961 – Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the KGB.
1984 – Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award
1997 – “Lion King” opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC
2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada
2005 – French tennis star Amélie Mauresmo beats countrywoman Mary Pierce 5–7, 7–6, 6–4 for the season ending WTA Tour Championship at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
2018 – Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
Historical Events for 12th November 2019
1775 – General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1920 – Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power
1955 – 1st West German officers sworn in
1965 – Ferdinand Marcos elected 10th President of Philippines
1978 – “Platinum” opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 33 performances
1980 – Baltimore’s Steve Stone wins AL Cy Young Award
1990 – “The Body Bag Game” – after Eagles coach Buddy Ryan threatens beating Redskins so badly “they’ll have to be carted off in body bags” the Eagles defense score 3 touchdowns winning 28–14, knocking 8 Redskins out of the game
1998 – Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol.
Historical Events for 11th November 2019
1887 – Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal starts at Eastham.
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
1925 – Robert A. Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
1928 – WGL-AM in Ft Wayne IN begins radio transmissions
1985 – Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
1987 – “Roza” closes at Royale Theater NYC after 12 performances
1993 – Pope John Paul II hospitalized for 2 days for fractured shoulder
2013 – Novak Đoković claims back-to-back ATP World Tour Finals tennis titles with a 6-3, 6-4 win over Spaniard Rafael Nadal in the final in London, England
2014 – The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
2018 – Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths