1691 – Spanish king Carlos II names Maximilian II as Viceroy of Southern Netherlands
1914 – Walter Johnson accepts an advance from the Chicago Whales of the Federal League; Washington Senators owner Clark Griffith threatens to take Johnson to court
1963 – Boston Bruins’ right wing Andy Hebenton sets a new NHL record by playing in his 581st consecutive game in 2-2 tie with Chicago Black Hawks; reaches 630 straight games
1964 – Baseball approves a free-agent draft
1965 – San Francisco Giant Masanori Murakami, 4-1 this year, does not renew his contract signing instead with the Nankai Hawks of Osaka for $40,000
1974 – Jean-Paul Sartre visits Red Army Faction (Baader–Meinhof Gang) leader Andreas Baader in prison
1977 – Neil Simon’s play “Chapter Two” opens in NYC
1981 – Reagan Executive Order on Intelligence (No 12333) that allows CIA to engage in domestic counter-intelligence
1987 – Karlstad skates world record 10 km (13:48.51)
2018 – First successful birth resulting from uterus transplant from a deceased donor in São Paulo, Brazil
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 3rd December 2023
1586 – Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia
1929 – Boston Bruins beat the Montreal Canadiens 3-1, the first win of an NHL record 14-game winning streak, and a 22-game home winning streak
1932 – Gen Kurt von Schleicher becomes chancellor of Germany
1946 – 12th Heisman Trophy Award: Glenn Davis, Army (HB)
1964 – Police arrests 800 sit-in students at University of California at Berkeley
1967 – Final run of “20th Century Limited” famed NY-Chicago luxury train
1979 – Shadow Traffic begins broadcasting in the New York City metropolitan area.
1983 – Musical “Marilyn: An American Fable”, loosely based on life of Marilyn Monroe, starring Alyson Reed and Scott Bakula, closes at Minskoff Theatre, NYC, after 17 performances
1995 – England cricket wicket keeper Jack Russell dismisses Clive Eksteen with his record 11th catch in 2nd Test v South Africa in Johannesburg
2014 – Darren Wilson, the police officer who shot dead unarmed black teenager Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri, resigns
Historical Events for 2nd December 2023
1802 – Britain sells Suriname to the Netherlands
1913 – Vladimir Mayakovsky’s self titled tragedy “Vladimir Mayakovsky” premieres at Saint Petersburg’s Luna Park theatre
1929 – First skull of Peking man found in the caves of Zhoukoudian, 50 km outside of Peking, China. Later dated roughly 750,000 years old.
1939 – British Imperial Airways and British Airways merge to form BOAC
1954 – Taiwan (ROC) and US sign the Mutual Defense Treaty, preventing Mainland China (PRC) from taking Taiwan between 1955-1979
1975 – Laos king Sisavang Vatthana resigns, Lao People’s Democratic Republic founded (National Day)
1990 – First time 12 people in space at the same time
2014 – The World Food Programme suspends critical food aid to more than 1.7 million Syrian refugees in Jordan, Lebanon, Turkey, Iraq and Egypt because of a lack of funds
2018 – Trade war truce agreed between US President Donald Trump and Chinese President Xi Jinping at G-20 meeting in Argentina
2020 – The UK becomes the first western country to authorize a vaccine for COVID-19, the Pfizer/BioNTech vaccine
Historical Events for 1st December 2023
1913 – Flag of Greece officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece
1928 – CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Tigers win 3rd Cup with 30-0 shutout of Regina Roughriders
1973 – Davis Cup Men’s Tennis, Cleveland, Ohio: Rod Laver and John Newcombe beat American pair Stan Smith and Erik van Dillen 6-1, 6-2, 6-4 to give Australia an unassailable 3-0 lead, (ends 5-0); 23rd Cup title for Australia
1990 – 56th Heisman Trophy Award: Ty Detmer, Brigham Young (QB)
1991 – US 75th manned space mission “STS 44” Atlantis 10 lands
1999 – Rapper Jay-Z stabs record executive Lance “Un” Rivera at a night club in New York
2012 – FC Barcelona with 13 wins and a draw sets new La Liga start to Spanish football season record; Lionel Messi scores twice in 5-1 win over Athletic Bilbao; pass Real Madrid’s 1991-92 season mark
2012 – Ex-England soccer captain David Beckham leaves LA Galaxy triumphantly with a second MLS Cup winner’s medal after a 3-1 win over Houston Dynamo in Carson, CA; final game of a 6-year stint in US
2016 – Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
2016 – UN admits its peacekeepers were responsible for the cholera epidemic in Haiti in 2010 that killed 30,000
Historical Events for 30th November 2023
1909 – British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1939 – Paul Osborn’s “Mornings at 7” premieres in NYC
1967 – Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D, Eisenhower), announce their engagement
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1997 – “Eugene Onegin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
2019 – On the way to 36 in 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)
2021 – 15 year old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan
Historical Events for 29th November 2023
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
1791 – Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton
1803 – Dessalines and Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, taking over the leadership of German Confederation
1943 – US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1981 – Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “My Fair Lady” closes at Uris Theater, NYC, after 119 performances
1986 – 51st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 21-17 in Birmingham
1987 – Ranger’s Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs NY Islanders). It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal.
2017 – Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by poison in court at The Hague after 20 year prison term read out
2022 – For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census
Historical Events for 28th November 2023
1754 – Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences
1813 – Cossacks occupy Utrecht
1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, one of the genres most difficult, premieres at the New Theatre in New York City, with the composer as soloist and the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch
1955 – 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado AandM first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
1957 – “Look Homeward, Angel” play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1960 – Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
1966 – Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
1967 – 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
1975 – Wings release single “Venus and Mars/Rock Show” medley
1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States
Historical Events for 27th November 2023
1912 – Albanian National Flag adopted
1914 – 1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Lincolnshire)
1962 – 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1973 – Neil Simon’s play “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC
1980 – Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1985 – Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 – Lions’ Barry Sanders becomes NFL’s 2nd all-time rusher
2005 – First partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.
2013 – “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Historical Events for 26th November 2023
1898 – SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1914 – Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1942 – Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1954 – Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1963 – 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1967 – Browns’ Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1978 – 1st lesbian themed TV movie – “A Question of Love”
1979 – Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1984 – US and Iraq re-establish diplomatic relations
Historical Events for 25th November 2023
1357 – Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1920 – WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1951 – Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1955 – Walter Piston’s 6th Symphony, composed to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Boston Symphony, premieres, led by Charles Munch
1959 – Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer’s musical “Once Upon A Mattress”, starring Carol Burnett and directed by George Abbott, opens at Alvin Theater, NYC, after starting off-Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre, later moves to St. James
1972 – “Ambassador” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
1981 – Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1983 – Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 – Lech Wałęsa wins Poland’s first popular election
1995 – “Patti LuPone on Broadway” closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 46 performances