1926 – KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1954 – Andrew Schwartz and Dorothy Fields’ musical “By the Beautiful Sea”, starring Shirley Booth, closes at the Theatre, NYC, after 270 performances
1977 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Montreal Alouettes beat Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6; record Grey Cup crowd 68,318; game referred to as the ‘Ice Bowl’; Dan Sweet record 23 points
1978 – San Francisco Mayor George Moscone and Supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former Supervisor Dan White at City Hall
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1986 – Europa TV, a project of five European public service broadcasters ceases operations after exhausting its budget
1991 – Cuban poet and journalist María Elena Cruz Varela is sentenced to two years in prison for calling for the democratization of Fidel Castro’s regime as leader of the group Critirio Alternativo (Alternative Criteria)
2000 – Norway opens the Laerdal Tunnel, linking Oslo and Bergen, the world’s longest road tunnel at 15.3 miles (24.6 kilometers)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 26th November 2025
1791 – First US cabinet meeting, held at George Washington’s home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest aqueduct in the UK and the highest canal aqueduct in the world, carrying the Llangollen Canal 126 feet above the River Dee
1894 – King Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki signs accord with France
1940 – Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
1953 – KBOI (now KBCI) TV channel 2 in Boise, ID (CBS) begins broadcasting
1966 – 1st major tidal power plant opens at Rance estuary, France
1990 – US proposes addition to UN resolution that would require Iraq’s withdrawal from Kuwait by January 1
1996 – Baseball owners approve interleague play, 26-4
Historical Events for 25th November 2025
1185 – Pope Lucius III (Ubaldo Allucingoli) reigned 1181-85, dies and is replaced by Umberto Crivelli (Pope Urban III)
1659 – Michiel de Ruyter conquers Danish city Nyborg
1949 – “Texas, Li’l Darlin'” opens at the Mark Hellinger Theater in New York City for 293 performances
1960 – CBS ends last 4 radio soap operas (Ma Perkins, Right to Happiness, Young Dr Malone and 2nd Mrs Burton) and cancels 4 other series
1980 – Military coup d’état in the Republic of Upper Volta overthrows the civilian government and abolishes the constitution in what is now Burkina Faso
1996 – Disneyland Main Street Electrical Parade ends after 24 years
2001 – CFL Grey Cup, Olympic Stadium, Montreal: Calgary Stampeders claim their 5th Championship in team history; beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 27-19
2018 – Historic north Californian Camp Fire declared 100% contained with 85 dead, 249 missing, covering 153,000 acres with 14,000 homes burnt
Historical Events for 24th November 2025
1744 – John Carteret resigns as British Secretary of State for the Northern Department
1930 – Ruth Nichols sets the women’s transcontinental air flight record from Mineola, New York, to California in a Lockheed Vega
1951 – British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
1964 – 30th Heisman Trophy Award: John Huarte, Notre Dame (QB)
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
1970 – 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
1996 – American Pete Sampras wins his 3rd ATP Tour World Championship tennis titles with a classic 3–6, 7–6, 7–6, 6–7, 6–4 victory over defending champion Boris Becker in Hanover, Germany
2019 – Data leaked from Chinese high-security Muslim Uighur security camps, housing 1 million people, show systematic brainwashing in western Xinjiang region
Historical Events for 23rd November 2025
1783 – Annapolis, Maryland, becomes US capital (until June 1784)
1897 – Portable pencil sharpener patented by American inventor John Lee Love
1931 – Nationally Crisis Committee forms in The Hague
1954 – For the first time, the Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above the peak it reached just before the 1929 crash
1963 – Following the protocol after Abraham Lincoln’s death, JFK’s body lies in repose in the East Room of the White House and viewed by officials and heads of state
1976 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1980 – National Black Independent Party forms
2017 – Brazilian footballer Robinho sentenced to nine years in prison for rape in Italy
Historical Events for 22nd November 2025
1862 – Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
1914 – Indian troops take Basra in Mesopotamia
1945 – Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “The Day Before Spring” opens at National Theater, NYC; runs for 167 performances
1956 – Boston shooting guard Bill Sharman hits 10 free throws in Celtics 101-78 over Philadelphia Warriors at Philadelphia Civic Center
1972 – US ends 22 year travel ban to China
2015 – 43rd American Music Awards: Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, One Direction and Luke Bryan win
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
2018 – The Leaning Tower of Pisa’s tilt is reduced by 4 cm in a 20 year project to stabilize it
Historical Events for 21st November 2025
1902 – 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1924 – British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin cancels Labour contract with USSR
1925 – Red Grange plays his final University of Illinois game and signs with the Chicago Bears
1938 – Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
1979 – Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
1993 – “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
1995 – Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
1995 – Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 5,000 for 1st time
Historical Events for 20th November 2025
1616 – Bishop Richelieu becomes French minister of Foreign affairs and War
1941 – German “auxiliary cruiser” (armed merchant raider) Kormoran sinks near Australia
1981 – Charles Fuller’s stage drama “A Soldier’s Play”, featuring Denzel Washington and Samuel L. Jackson, opens at Theater Four, NYC; runs for 468 performances, wins Pulitzer Prize
1990 – Saddam Hussein announces plans to release German hostages
1995 – Diana, Princess of Wales, admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
2004 – 69th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 21-13 in Tuscaloosa
2005 – 57th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Tony Stewart wins
2013 – Retired Washington Post journalist and editor Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony
Historical Events for 19th November 2025
1905 – The steamer “Hilda” sinks in the English Channel (100 people drown)
1919 – US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary
1942 – Joseph Goebbels visits “German Theatre in the Netherlands”
1969 – Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat arrives in Israel
1983 – Robert Whitney (79) conducts his final concert, leading the Louisville Orchestra at the opening of the Whitney Concert Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky
1994 – Aishwarya Rai, 21, of India, crowned 44th Miss World
2023 – Brazil records its highest-ever temperature – 44.8C (112.6F) in Araçuaí, Minas Gerais state
Historical Events for 18th November 2025
1105 – Maginulf is elected Antipope Sylvester IV
1494 – French King Charles VIII occupies Florence
1750 – The original Westminster Bridge across the River Thames in London is opened in a midnight ceremony
1958 – 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens
1959 – “Ben-Hur” directed by William Wyler and starring Charlton Heston premieres in New York City (Academy Awards Best Picture 1960)
1970 – Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon
1997 – FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
2012 – Brad Keselowski driving for Penske Racing finishes 5th in the Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead Miami Speedway to clinch the Nascar Sprint Cup