1863 – Skirmish at Danville, Mississippi
1939 – Oil refinery fire kills 500 and destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela
1964 – Detroit Red Wings Gordie Howe sets NHL record 627th career goal
1966 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title
1970 – Marshall U football team wiped out in DC-9 air crash at Kenova, West Virginia, killing 75
1976 – “Don’t Step on My Olive Branch” closes at Playhouse NYC after 16 performances
1990 – James Worthy is arrested in Houston and charged with two counts of solicitation of prostitution
2008 – Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999, pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy
2009 – The National Statistical Service of Greece states that the country has been in recession since the beginning of the year
2016 – “Moana” animated Disney film directed by Ron Clements and John Musker with voices by Auli’i Cravalho and Dwayne Johnson premieres in Los Angeles
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th November 2018
1642 – Battle at Turnham Green outside London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1849 – Peter Burnett elected first governor of California
1918 – Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
1921 – US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1937 – NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1967 – Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shoots dead 13 people, in the Aramoana Massacre
1996 – “Three Sisters” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 – Padres third baseman Ken Caminiti is 4th unanimous winner of NL MVP
2016 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Strasbourg, France: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková and Barbora Strýcová beats Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 7-5 to wrap up 3-2 win and 3rd straight title
Historical Events for 12th November 2018
295 – Origin of Era of Ascension
1914 – Turks sultan Jamal Pasja declares a German holy war
1924 – Yeshivah Slobodka opens a branch in Chevron
1931 – Maple Leaf Gardens opens in Toronto – Chic Blackhawks beat Leafs, 2-1
1938 – Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1941 – WOV-AM and WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
1953 – US district Judge Grim, rules NFL can black out TV home games
1987 – Ulla Weigerstorfer of Austria, 20, crowned 37th Miss World
1996 – Toronto’s Pat Hentgen wins AL Cy Young Award
2017 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Minsk, Belarus: American pair Shelby Rogers and Coco Vandeweghe beats Aryna Sabalenka and Aliaksandra Sasnovich of Belarus 6-3, 7-6 to wrap up 3-2 win and record extending 18th title for the US
Historical Events for 11th November 2018
1836 – Chile declares war on Bolivia and Peru
1918 – Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
1926 – Eddie Collins is released as White Sox manager
1953 – Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as Baltimore Orioles manager
1961 – Congolese soldiers murder 13 Italian UN pilots
1966 – NASA launches spaceship Gemini 12.
1966 – Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA)
1975 – Australian Prime Minister Gough Whitlam removed from office by Governor General Sir John Kerr – 1st elected PM removed in 200 yrs
1980 – Crew of Soyuz 35 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 37
1982 – 5th space shuttle mission: Columbia makes the first officially “operational” shuttle mission
Historical Events for 10th November 2018
1544 – Flemish painter Jan Matsys banished from Antwerp for religious beliefs
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
1940 – Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
1959 – Corinne Rottschaeffer of the Netherlands elected Miss World
1963 – Gordie Howe takes over NHL career goal lead at 545
1975 – Ore ship Edmund Fitzgerald and crew of 29 lost in storm on Lake Superior
1991 – Martina Navratilova ties Chris Evert with 157 pro tennis tournament wins
1993 – Slovakian government of Vladimír Mečiar forms
2013 – Spaniard Marc Márquez wins the 2013 MotoGP World Championship to become its youngest ever winner at 20
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
Historical Events for 9th November 2018
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gamelsdorf.
1580 – Spanish troops land in Ireland
1858 – 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1907 – The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday.
1922 – Frederick Soddy wins the 1921 Nobel Prize in Chemistry (announced in 1922 due to a technicality)
1925 – German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)
1944 – Walcheren purged of Nazi troops
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 performances
1968 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1990 – New democratic constitution is issued in Nepal.
Historical Events for 8th November 2018
1520 – Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the execution of around 100 people.
1598 – Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1864 – Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1940 – RAF bombs Munich, Adolf Hitler promises “an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished”
1941 – The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1946 – Jean-Paul Sartre’s “La Putain Respecteuse” premieres in Paris
1959 – Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba’s Nes Destour party wins every seat
1987 – Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1988 – Vice President George H. W. Bush is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Michael Dukakis
2013 – 27th Soul Train Music Awards: Miguel, Tamar Braxton win
Historical Events for 7th November 2018
1665 – 1st edition of “London Gazette” published as “The Oxford Gazette”
1820 – James Monroe re-elected US president
1900 – In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
1912 – The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven’s Fidelio.
1916 – Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative
1931 – Chinese People’s Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
1970 – “Purlie” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1981 – France performs nuclear test
1996 – “3 Sisters” opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
2004 – War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day “state of emergency” as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
Historical Events for 6th November 2018
1862 – NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1865 – Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1883 – NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1888 – Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1935 – 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1946 – Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) holds his first Mass as newly ordained Catholic priest in Wawel Cathedral’s crypt
1956 – Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson
1977 – “Hair” closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1988 – Japan and MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
2002 – 36th Country Music Association Award: Alan Jackson and Martina McBride wins
Historical Events for 5th November 2018
1630 – Spain and England sign peace treaty
1895 – US state Utah accepts female suffrage
1925 – Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
1927 – 10th PGA Championship: Walter Hagen beats Joe Turnesa for 4th consecutive PGA title at Cedar Crest, Texas
1930 – Nobel for literature awarded to Sinclair Lewis for “Babbitt”
1940 – Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Washington Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
1944 – German troops blow-up Heusden North Brabant city hall, 134 die
1987 – Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
1993 – 1st NBA game in Alamodome, San Antonio Spurs beat Warriors 91-85
2015 – Japan’s 1st officially recognized same-sex couple union – Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Matsuhara in Tokyo