1785 – Church of England organizes in New England
1798 – Beginning of a 5 day New England Blizzard that covers thousands of houses and kills hundreds
1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins first draft of his Gettysburg Address
1953 – St Louis Browns officially become the Baltimore Baseball Club Inc
1960 – New MLB Washington franchise is awarded to Elwood Quesada
2001 – 66th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-7 in Auburn
2013 – 50 people are killed after a Boeing 737 aircraft crashes in Kazan, Russia
2021 – Garbiñe Muguruza becomes first Spanish player to win WTA Finals defeating Estonian Anett Kontaveit 6–3, 7–5 in Zapopan, Mexico
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 16th November 2025
1839 – US diplomat John Lloyd Stephens and British artist Frederick Catherwood first reach the ruins of the Maya city of Copan (modern Honduras)
1925 – American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
1973 – Skylab 4 launched into Earth orbit
1978 – Major Indoor Soccer League holds its 1st draft
1990 – Former Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega claims the US denied him a fair trial
1995 – Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery
2008 – 60th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jimmie Johnson wins
2013 – Sachin Tendulkar plays his very last cricket match before retiring in Mumbai’s Wankhede Stadium against the West Indies
Historical Events for 15th November 2025
1679 – English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill
1715 – Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1813 – Tax revolt in Amsterdam
1939 – Nazis begin mass murder of Warsaw Jews
1944 – Surprise attack on office of Nethche Bank
1955 – Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1969 – Janis Joplin, accused of vulgar and indicent language in Tampa, Florida
1983 – 75th hat trick in NHL New York Islander franchise history, scored by Mike Bossy
Historical Events for 14th November 2025
1939 – Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1965 – US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam
1965 – KCST TV channel 39 in San Diego, CA (NBC) begins broadcasting
1985 – Brewers release 39-year-old pitcher Rollie Fingers
1993 – “Kentucky Cycle” opens at Royale Theater NYC for 34 performances
2012 – Discovery of CFBDSIR 2149-0403, the closest rogue planet to Earth, located a mere 100 light-years away
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
2024 – Elton John and Jake Shears’ musical “Tammy Faye”, based on the life of televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker, opens at the Palace Theatre, NYC; runs for 29 performances
Historical Events for 13th November 2025
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece adopted
1921 – US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1965 – “Skyscraper” opens at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC for 248 performances
1985 – Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000 in the town of Armero
1987 – Sonny and Cher perform together for the final time, singing “I Got You Babe” on ‘Late Night with David Letterman’ (NBC)
1987 – 1st condom commercial on British TV
1988 – Brazilian McLaren driver Ayrton Senna finishes 2nd in the season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to win his first Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins title by 3 points from Alain Prost
2017 – First Barbie doll to wear a hijab, modeled on Olympic fencer Ibtihaj Muhammad unveiled in New York
Historical Events for 12th November 2025
1614 – Treaty of Xanten: Guliks-Kleefse War victory ends
1921 – Washington Conference for Limitation of Armaments
1943 – Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands
1953 – US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1984 – Paul McCartney releases single “We All Stand Together”
1995 – 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
2022 – Two vintage aircraft crash in midair at the Wings Over Dallas WWII Airshow, killing all six people
2024 – Actor and director John Krasinski is named People Magazine’s “Sexiest Man Alive” for 2024
Historical Events for 11th November 2025
1750 – First collegiate secret society in the United States, the F.H.C. Society (Flat Hat Club), is formed at Raleigh Tavern in Williamsburg, Virginia
1924 – Palace of Legion of Honor dedicated in San Francisco
1925 – City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I
1928 – KXO-AM in El Centro CA begins radio transmissions
1942 – -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
1959 – Seals Stadium, a minor league baseball park and temporary home of MLB Giants) in San Francisco, California demolished
1985 – First AIDS-themed TV movie “An Early Frost” screens in the US on NBC
2003 – Josh Groban releases his second album “Closer”; it goes to #1 on US charts and becomes his biggest seller
Historical Events for 10th November 2025
1567 – Battle at St-Denis: French government army vs Huguenots
1942 – US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
1965 – Manneke Pis statue stolen in Brussels
1990 – Lebanon releases 2 French hostages (Camille Sontag and Marcel Coudari)
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
1996 – 46th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins
2019 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Perth: French pair Kristina Mladenovic and Caroline Garcia beat Ash Barty and Samantha Stosur of Australia 6-4, 6-3 to clinch a 3-2 victory
2023 – The Beatles’ single “Now and Then” hits #1 on the British singles chart, a record 54 years after their last #1 single
Historical Events for 9th November 2025
1904 – First airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes, when Wilbur Wright flies the Wright Flyer II for 5 minutes and 4 seconds, covering 2.75 miles (4.4 km)
1953 – Supreme Court rules Major League baseball exempt from anti-trust laws
1969 – “An Evening with Julie Andrews and Harry Belafonte “, music special with arrangements by Michel Legrand, premieres on NBC-TV
1984 – Vietnam Veterans Memorial (“3 Servicemen”) completed
1999 – TAESA Flight 725 crashes a few minutes after leaving Uruapan Airport en route to Mexico City, killing 18 people
2009 – TV comedy “Miranda,” written by and starring Miranda Hart and Tom Ellis, premieres on BBC Two in the UK
2015 – “Love Yourself” single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
2019 – YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul’s second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
Historical Events for 8th November 2025
1838 – Victor Hugo’s tragic play “Ruy Blas” premieres in Paris
1920 – Rupert Bear by illustrator Mary Tourtel first appears in the Daily Express newspaper in the UK
1953 – Salazar’s party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1972 – Stock Exchange Tower, the new 26-story home of the London Stock Exchange opened by Queen Elizabeth II
1974 – British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
2008 – John Key leads the National Party to victory in New Zealand’s general election, defeating Prime Minister Helen Clark and her Labour-led coalition after nine years government
2018 – Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day