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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 21st November 2019
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
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