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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 24th November 2018
1862 – M Levy publishes Gustave Flaubert’s “Salammbo”
1923 – Radio Belgium’s 1st transmission
1926 – KVI-AM in Seattle WA begins radio transmissions
1950 – US infantry division conquers Chonju Korea
1970 – 36th Heisman Trophy Award: Jim Plunkett, Stanford (QB)
1985 – NBC miniseries “Mussolini: The Untold Story” starring George C. Scott premieres in the US
1989 – Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days, a record
1989 – Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
2012 – The continued NHL lockout results in all games to December 14 being cancelled
2016 – International research team publishes discovery of 1,500 new viruses found in invertebrates
Historical Events for 23rd November 2018
1584 – English parliament expels Jesuits
1852 – Just past midnight, a sharp jolt likely caused by heavy rains causes Lake Merced, California, to drop 30 feet (9m)
1903 – Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners’ strike.
1950 – Howard Swanson’s “Short Symphony” premieres
1991 – Sam’s Town Bowling Invitational won by Lorrie Nichols
1991 – Sacramento Kings ends NBA’s longest road losing streak at 43 games
1996 – 61st Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 24-23 in Birmingham
2014 – 41st American Music Awards: One Direction, Sam Smith and Katy Perry win
2014 – British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit to clinch his second World F1 Drivers title 67 points from team mate Nico Rosberg
2017 – Papua New Guinea Police storm Manus Island refugee camp, forcibly removing asylum seekers
Historical Events for 22nd November 2018
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1851 – Opera “La Perle Du Brésil” is produced (Paris)
1899 – -23] Battle at Willow Grange, Natal (British vs Boer army)
1942 – Adolf Hitler orders Rommel’s Africa Korps to fight to the last man
1943 – RAF begins air bombing of Berlin
1945 – Jim Benton, Cleveland end, gains 303 yards (NFL record)
1963 – American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas
1989 – Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
2002 – In Nigeria, more than 100 people are killed at an attack aimed at the contestants of the Miss World contest
2015 – Kyle Busch driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Historical Events for 21st November 2018
1729 – Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
1759 – Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
1918 – The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
1920 – Mussolini’s squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna, Italy
1944 – Personnel and executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
1964 – Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world’s longest
1967 – Phillip and Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
1973 – US President Richard Nixon’s attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
1980 – Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
1999 – Repeat of previous year’s final, but different result; American tennis star Lindsay Davenport beats Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2 for the WTA Tour Championship at Madison Square Garden, NYC
Historical Events for 20th November 2018
1637 – Peter Minuit and 1st Swedish immigrants to Delaware sail from Sweden
1759 – -22] Battle in Bay of Quiberon, British beat French
1943 – U-538 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1952 – George Axelrod’s “Seven Year Itch” premieres in NYC
1983 – “Terms of Endearment” from the book by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984)
1990 – Oakland’s Rickey Henderson wins AL MVP
1992 – Home crowd favourite Boris Becker claims his 2nd ATP Tour World Championship tennis title beating American Jim Courier 6–4, 6–3, 7–5 in the final in Frankfurt, Germany
1995 – “Beatles’ Anthology, Vol 1” released
2008 – After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997.
2014 – Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes
Historical Events for 19th November 2018
615 – Pope Deusdedit [Adeodatus I] elected to succeed Boniface IV
1863 – US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; “Four score and seven years ago…”
1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1940 – First major German air raid on Birmingham – about 440 bombers kill 450
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.
1972 – Willy Brandt’s SPD wins West German election
1972 – Leader of the Irish Republican Army (IRA) Seán MacStiofáin is arrested in Dublin
1987 – France performs nuclear test
2005 – 70th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-18 in Auburn
2006 – Roger Federer captures his 3rd Tennis Masters Cup title with a comfortable 6–0, 6–3, 6–4 win over American James Blake in the final in Shanghai, China
Historical Events for 18th November 2018
1718 – Voltaire’s “Oedipe” premieres in Paris
1805 – 30 women meet at Mrs Silas Lee’s home in Wiscasset, Maine, organizes Female Charitable Society, first woman’s club in America
1872 – Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
1911 – Britain’s first seaplane flies
1912 – Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
1941 – Mussolini’s forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia
1966 – US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays
1994 – “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
1997 – Metallica release the album “ReLoad”
2015 – 2 female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano, Nigeria, killing 15 and injuring over 100
Historical Events for 17th November 2018
1842 – Fugitive slave George Latimer captured in Boston
1862 – Confederate Secretary of War George B Randolph resigns
1863 – Abraham Lincoln begins 1st draft of his Gettysburg Address
1956 – USSR performs atmospheric nuclear test
1959 – De Beers firm of South Africa announces synthetic diamond
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1984 – Golden State Warrior scores 59 points losing to NJ Nets 124-110
1985 – NBC’s premiere of controversial TV thriller “Hostage Flight”
1991 – Detroit Lion Mike Utley is paralized in a game vs LA Rams
2015 – Actor Charlie Sheen confirms that he is HIV-positive