1742 – Empress Elizabeth of Russia proclaims her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Peter III) her heir
1909 – Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1914 – German Chinese concession of Kiaochow Bay and its center at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces
1916 – Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
1921 – Ed Wynn’s musical revue “The Perfect Fool” premieres in NYC
1997 – “Bean” film directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean opens in the US
2012 – 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2018 – He world’s oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old is discovered in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave in Indonesian Borneo
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 6th November 2025
1429 – Boy king Henry VI, aged seven, is crowned King of England at Westminster Abbey
1918 – Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
1936 – RCA displays TV for press
1938 – The three DiMaggio brothers, Joe, Vince, and Dom, play together for the first time in a charity all-star game in California
1943 – Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1967 – Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1985 – M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1995 – Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians
Historical Events for 5th November 2025
1862 – Battle at Barbee’s Crossroads, Virginia: 51 casualties
1881 – French government-Ferry resigns
1886 – British Open Men’s Golf, Musselburgh Links: David Brown beats fellow Scot Willie Campbell by 2 strokes
1895 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1919 – Ir à Steringa Idzerda begins hosting “soirée-musical” on Dutch radio
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for an unprecedented third term, defeating Republican candidate Wendell Willkie
1983 – NY Rangers and Quebec Nordiques both score in 1st 14 secs of 3rd period
1988 – Cornell confirms a graduate student is the source of a major computer sabotage known as the Morris Worm, initially created as an experiment but spreading rapidly due to a programming error
Historical Events for 4th November 2025
1631 – Ferdinand of Austria installed as land guardian of South Netherlands
1645 – Prince Frederick Henry conquers Hulst, the last major siege of the Eighty Years’ War
1957 – 2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched
1958 – Belgian minority government of Gaston Eyskens resigns
1978 – Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran University
1980 – Libyan invasion in Chad
1995 – KeyArena opens in Seattle, Supersonics beat the LA Lakers 103-89
2014 – Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction
Historical Events for 3rd November 2025
1783 – John Austin, a footpad turned murderer, is the last to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows
1942 – 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1948 – 2nd NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1; Gordie Howe’s first of 23 All-Star appearances
1954 – Max Born and Walter Bothe win Nobel Prize for Physics
1970 – Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1993 – Greg Maddux becomes first pitcher since Sandy Koufax to win the National League’s Cy Young Award in successive MLB seasons and the first in successive seasons with different teams; Cubs 1992, Braves 1993
1997 – Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra becomes 6th player to be unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year; leads AL in hits (209), triples (11), multi-hit games (68); also sets AL rookie-record with 30-game hitting streak
2019 – Delhi reaches worst pollution levels of the year, over 900 AQI, with authorities declaring public health emergency
Historical Events for 2nd November 2025
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1898 – French government of Dupuy forms
1920 – Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate James M. Cox
1960 – New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris beats teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP Award, 225-222; second-closest vote ever
1977 – Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life dating back some 3.5 billion years, which they name Archaea
1992 – First test flight of Airbus A330
1995 – “Sacrilege” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
2023 – Apple Records release the last Beatles song “Now and Then” as a double A-sided single, backed with their first “From Me To You”; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology
Historical Events for 1st November 2025
1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1956 – Delhi becomes a union territory of India
1968 – MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain is named unanimous AL Cy Young Award winner after finishing MLB season, 31-6 for World Series winning Tigers
1970 – Fire at Club Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146, as all emergency exits were padlocked
1972 – 1st gay themed TV movie – “That Certain Summer”
1987 – New York City Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins men’s race, 2:11:01; English runner Priscilla Welch women’s champion, 2:30:17
2012 – Acid is poured over a 15-year-old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
2018 – Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment
Historical Events for 31st October 2025
1924 – World Savings Day is established during the first International Savings Bank Congress (World Society of Savings Banks) in Milan, Italy, to promote the importance of saving
1959 – USSR and Egypt sign contracts to build the Aswan High Dam
1967 – Nguyễn Văn Thiệu takes oath of office to become the first President of the Second Republic of South Vietnam
1988 – Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia
1991 – Palestinians attend the US Middle East peace talks in Madrid, Spain
2016 – MIT Engineers announce they have engineered spinach plants to detect explosive materials in groundwater and send an email alert via a connected system
2017 – John Kelly, White House Chief of Staff’s comments in a TV interview that “the lack of an ability to compromise led to the Civil War” draws criticism
2020 – England beats Italy 34-5 in Rome to clinch 29th Six Nations Rugby Championship; halfback Ben Youngs becomes the second England player to earn his 100th test cap
Historical Events for 30th October 2025
1866 – Jesse James’ gang robs bank in Lexington, Missouri ($2000)
1888 – John J. Loud patents the ballpoint pen
1894 – Daniel Cooper patents the time clock
1956 – Dodgers sell Ebbets Field to a real estate group; they agree to stay until 1959, with an option to stay until 1961
1970 – Northern Ireland Prime Minister James Chichester-Clark meets with British Home Secretary Reginald Maulling to discuss matters related to reforms and security
1975 – King Juan Carlos I assumes power in Spain
1983 – The first democratic elections are held in Argentina after seven years of military rule
2011 – Czech tennis player Petra Kvitová beats Victoria Azarenka of Belarus 7–5, 4–6, 6–3 in the WTA Championship decider in Istanbul, Turkey
Historical Events for 29th October 2025
1591 – Giovanni A. Facchinetti is elected as Pope Innocent IX
1709 – England and the Netherlands sign the anti-French First Barrier Treaty (“Barrieretraktaat”)
1920 – Ed Barrow is appointed general manager of the New York Yankees
1924 – Musical revue “Dixie to Broadway” opens at Broadhurst Theater
1954 – Colonel Gamal Abdel Nasser disbands the Muslim Brotherhood
1964 – The Star of India sapphire and other jewels are stolen from the American Museum of Natural History in New York
1967 – Expo 67 closes in Montreal, Canada
1969 – Tom Seaver is voted National League Cy Young Award