1434 – River Thames in London freezes over
1954 – Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
1958 – Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
1971 – A woman is killed after members of the Irish Republican Army carry out an attack on British soldiers in Strabane, County Tyrone
1972 – Taoiseach Jack Lynch meets with British PM Edward Heath in London to give Irish approval to Attlee’s paper saying new arrangements should be ‘acceptable to and accepted by the Republic of Ireland’
1979 – “Salem’s Lot”, American two-part miniseries based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King, concludes in the United States
2014 – “Take Your Time” single is released by Sam Hunt (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
2020 – COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day
2021 – Sweden’s first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 23rd November 2023
1834 – “Harold in Italy”, symphonic work for orchestra and viola by Hector Berlioz, premieres and at the Paris Conservatoire; Chrétien Urhan soloist, with Narcisse Girard conducting
1890 – General elections in Italy won by the Left group headed by Francesco Crispi
1913 – Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers
1914 – The US Army withdraws from Mexico
1923 – Germany’s Gustav Stresemann’s government falls to the SPD
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 – European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1991 – Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season, and 15,031 yards for career
2003 – Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections
2014 – Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Championship title after defeating Vishy Anand
Historical Events for 22nd November 2023
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1862 – Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
1906 – Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1930 – Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1930 – 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1944 – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1992 – Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
2003 – 68th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-23 in Auburn
Historical Events for 21st November 2023
1849 – Friedrich Hebbel’s play “Der Rubin” premieres in Vienna
1916 – HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people
1933 – 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 – NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1946 – Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1953 – WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 – “Zizi” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1980 – “Hi Infidelity” 9th studio album by REO Speedwagon is released
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
2020 – Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge
Historical Events for 20th November 2023
1805 – Ludwig van Beethoven’s “Fidelio”, his only opera, premieres at Vienna’s Theater an der Wien
1886 – Sherlock Holmes’s first story “A Study in Scarlet” is accepted by publisher Ward and Lock with payment of £25
1901 – Dramatic opera “Grisélidis” by Jules Massenet, Armand Silvestre and Eugène Morand premieres the Opéra-Comique in Paris, France
1915 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Hamilton Tigers win 2nd title; beat Toronto Rowing Association, 13-7
1917 – 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
1929 – Salvador Dali’s first one-man show
1993 – Winnie Mandela’s driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg
1994 – New Vaudevillian revue “The Flying Karamazov Brothers Do the Impossible” opens at Helen Hayes Theater, NYC, for a limited run of 50 performances
2009 – The Mexican government declares its economy technically out of recession after 2.93% GDP growth in the third quarter of 2009; Mexico had been in a severe economic crisis for over a year prior to its economic rebound
2022 – UN COP27 summit agrees to establish fund to help poor and vulnerable countries with climate change, with committee to be made up of representatives from 24 countries
Historical Events for 19th November 2023
1523 – Florentine Giulio de’ Medici chosen as Pope Clement VII – rules until 1534
1794 – Jakobin Club forms in Paris
1794 – Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain
1881 – A meteorite lands near the village of Großliebenthal, southwest of Odessa, Ukraine
1940 – Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
1983 – Robert Whitney (79) conducts his final concert, leading the Louisville Orchestra at the opening of the Whitney Concert Hall at the Kentucky Center for the Performing Arts in Louisville, Kentucky
1995 – “Sacrilege” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1996 – Space Shuttle STS 80 (Columbia 21), launches into space
2000 – Swiss tennis star Martina Hingis wins WTA Tour Championship at Madison Square Garden, NYC; beats Monica Seles, 6–7, 6–4, 6–4
2010 – “Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 1” the 7th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling is released worldwide
Historical Events for 18th November 2023
1105 – Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1307 – William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son’s head
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1667 – Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC
1755 – Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths reported
1912 – Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
1943 – 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1959 – Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1976 – Spain’s parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1989 – Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
Historical Events for 17th November 2023
1774 – First City Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry formed at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, one of the oldest US military units still in service
1929 – Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
1959 – William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
1973 – Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1980 – WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
1993 – General Sani Abacha leads a military coup against Ernest Shonekan’s transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
1996 – Time White and T. Assebework discover the first fossils of 2.5 million year old Australopithecus garhi, an ancestor on the human family tree, in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2008 – “Twilight”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres in Los Angeles
2018 – Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured
Historical Events for 16th November 2023
1856 – Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1907 – Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1920 – 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1950 – UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1984 – Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1989 – Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacuría and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army – one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war
1996 – “Into the Whirlwind” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
2020 – Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
2021 – Guanyu Zhou confirmed as China’s first F1 driver, racing for Alfa Romeo in 2022
2022 – U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval on lab-grown meat, chicken grown from animal cells made by Upside Foods
Historical Events for 15th November 2023
1715 – Barrier Treaty, Austria cedes area to Netherlands
1777 – Articles of Confederation, the first constitution of the United States, is approved by the Continental Congress
1898 – British naval officer David Beatty promoted to commander after Sudan Campaign
1899 – Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal
1921 – KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions
1922 – British General Election: Conservative party wins a majority under Andrew Bonar Law
1939 – The first unemployment compensation law, under the Social Security Act, that of the District of Columbia, was approved for grants by the Social Security Board
1961 – Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1967 – Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
2019 – Pakistan becomes the 1st country to introduce a vaccine against typhoid, targeting 10 million children