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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 7th November 2025
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
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