1665 – Jean Racine’s “Alexandre le Grand” premieres in Paris
1829 – Britain outlaws “suttee” in India (widow burning herself to death on her husband’s funeral pyre)
1889 – Explorer Henery Morton Stanley’s expedition reaches Bagamoyo in Indian Ocean
1921 – The Virginia Rappe manslaughter trial against Roscoe ‘Fatty’ Arbuckle ends in a hung jury
1927 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 2nd Symphony premieres in Moscow
1957 – 2 commuter trains collide in heavy fog killing 92 (St John’s, England)
1963 – Aldo Moro forms Italian government (1963-1968)
1978 – Pioneer Venus 1 goes into orbit around Venus
1990 – Iraq announces it will release all 3,300 Soviet hostages
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release last US hostage Terry Anderson (held 6½ years)
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd December 2018
1883 – 48th US Congress (1883-85) convenes
1908 – Edward Elgar’s 1st Symphony in A performed by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter, premieres in Manchester, England
1912 – Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece and Bulgaria sign weapons pact
1933 – As part of a famous MLB fire sale of players, Philadelphia A’s owner Connie Mack sells catcher Mickey Cochrane to Detroit for $100,000; Cochrane is immediately named Tigers manager
1946 – US government asks UN to order dictator Franco out of Spain
1958 – Indonesian parliament accepts nationalisation of Dutch businesses
1961 – Dutchman Anton Geesink becomes 1st non-Japanese judo world champion
1962 – Pravda criticizes western art
1966 – US performs underground nuclear test at Hattiesburg, Mississippi
1980 – NY Federal jury finds Reps Thompson D-NJ and Murphy, D-NY, guilty
Historical Events for 2nd December 2018
1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris
1954 – Taiwan (ROC) and US sign the Mutual Defense Treaty, preventing Mainland China (PRC) from taking Taiwan between 1955-1979
1969 – Two years after doubling its size from six to 12, the NHL announces 2 new teams would be joining the League the following year; Buffalo Sabres and Vancouver Canucks
1972 – 37th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-16 in Birmingham
1976 – Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado
1984 – Australian Test cricket spin bowler Bob Holland takes a career best 9-83 for NSW in the Sheffield Shield match against South Australia in Sydney
1988 – UN votes 151-2 (Israel and US) to move PLO debate to Geneva, Great Britain abstains
1992 – WQEW-AM radio replaces WQXR on 1560 in NYC
1997 – MCI Center opens in Washington, D.C., Wizards vs SuperSonics
2008 – Thai Prime Minister Somchai Wongsawat resigns after the 2008 Thailand political crisis
Historical Events for 1st December 2018
1641 – Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1864 – Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, TN to Saltville, VA
1959 – 12 nations sign treaty for scientific peaceful use of Antarctica
1967 – Philadelphia center Wilt Chamberlain scores 52 points in 76ers’ 133-109 win over Seattle SuperSonics; sets NBA record for 22 free throw misses
1971 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono release “Happy Xmas (War is Over)” in US
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1973 – 38th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 35-0 in Birmingham
1991 – Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
1996 – Flamboyant Australian rugby union winger David Campese ends his 15-year, 101 Test career at Cardiff Arms Park in Wales; Wallabies beat Wales, 28-19; Campese scores record 64 career tries
2007 – 3rd ACC Championship Game: #6 Virginia Tech beats #12 Boston College, 30-16
Historical Events for 30th November 2018
1891 – Pope Leo XIII’s encyclical “Rerum novarum” published
1907 – Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1937 – 3rd Heisman Trophy Award: Clint Frank, Yale (HB)
1947 – Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
1967 – People’s Democratic Republic of Yemen declares independence from the UK
1983 – Sam Shepards “Fool for love” premieres in NYC
1986 – 74th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 39-15
1990 – American actor Burt Lancaster suffers a stroke
1993 – NFL announces 30th franchise – Jacksonville Jaguars
Historical Events for 29th November 2018
1775 – Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1918 – Serbia annexes Montenegro
1947 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Toronto Argonauts win 3rd straight and 8th title; beat Calgary Stampeders, 10-9
1962 – Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year
1970 – Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Cricket’s leading run scorer (7,250)
1975 – New Zealand general election won by the National Party headed by Robert Muldoon
1995 – US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973
1995 – “Garden District” closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC
2001 – UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period
2005 – The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.
Historical Events for 28th November 2018
1720 – Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies won them stays of execution
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
1913 – Heavyweight Jack Johnson KOs Andre Spaul in Paris
1932 – Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time
1943 – FDR, Churchill and Stalin met at Tehran to map out strategy
1944 – 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
1960 – Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
1986 – Hilbert van der Duim skates 1 hour world record 39.4928 km
1995 – James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
1999 – 87th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeats Calgary Stampeders, 32-21
Historical Events for 27th November 2018
1815 – Adoption of the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland
1868 – Battle at Washita River, Oklahoma. General George A. Custer attacks group of Native American Indians, their chief Black Kettle dies in the attack
1937 – Pro-labor musical revue “Pins and Needles” opens, produced by ILGWU
1944 – US 121st Infantry regiment opens assault on Hurtgen
1965 – 53rd CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tiger-Cats defeat Winn Blue Bombers, 22-16
1977 – 65th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Edmonton Eskimos, 41-6
1982 – Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
1982 – 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn’s first win in the series in 10 years
1982 – 5th time Rangers shut-out Islanders 3-0
2004 – New Zealand’s All Blacks thump Six Nations Rugby Union Champions France 45-6 in Paris
Historical Events for 26th November 2018
1741 – French and Beiers army occupies Prague
1825 – 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1847 – Alfred de Mussets “Un Caprice” premieres in Paris
1941 – Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France
1956 – USSR single sculls winner Vyacheslav Ivanov wins Olympic gold medal in his excitement he jumps for joy, and loses his medal, it sinks
1983 – World’s greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink’s-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England
1984 – John W Mercom Jr announces New Orleans Saints are up for sale for $75 million
1985 – 23rd Space Shuttle Mission (61-B)-Atlantis 2-is launched
1992 – Sir Alec Jeffreys, British geneticist who developed widely-used techniques for DNA fingerprinting, becomes honorary freeman of the city of Leicester
2011 – 76th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 42-14 in Auburn
Historical Events for 25th November 2018
1817 – First sword swallower in US performs (NYC)
1847 – Opera “Marta” is produced (Vienna)
1911 – 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
1940 – SS Patria carrying illegal immigrants sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
1949 – “Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer” appears on music charts
1953 – Hungary beats England in soccer match, 6-3
1976 – The Band’s farewell concert at San Francisco’s Winterland Ballroom
1979 – “Most Happy Fella” closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 53 performances
1990 – 78th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Edmonton Eskimos, 50-11
2012 – 26th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Beyoncé win