1675 – Pope Clemens X declares Gorcumse martyrs divine
1888 – USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1922 – German Reichs Chancellor Joseph Wirth’s term ends
1954 – Egyptian President Naguib resigns, state of emergency declared
1957 – Dick Hutton beats Lou Thesz in Toronto, to become NWA wrestling champion
1964 – Lionel Bart’s musical “Oliver!”, based on Charles Dickens’ 1838 novel “Oliver Twist”, and featuring Clive Revill, Danny Sewell, and Davy Jones, closes at Imperial Theater, NYC, after 774 performances and 3 Tony Award wins
1993 – Don Shula becomes the coach with the most wins in NFL history
2008 – Eurozone officially slips into recession for the first time since its creation in 1999, pushed down by recessions in Germany and Italy
2018 – Jewellery that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva, after not being seen for 200 years
2022 – Grammy Award winner Roberta Flack reveals she is suffering from ALS (Lou Gehrig’s disease) and is no longer able to sing
Category: Historical Events
Historical Events for 13th November 2023
1565 – Pope Pius IV publishes decree Professi fidei
1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes”
1922 – Marc Connelly and George Kaufman’s revue “’49ers” premieres in NYC
1942 – Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US
1948 – “As the Girls Go” opens at Winter Garden Theater NYC for 420 performances
1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas
1952 – KLBK TV channel 13 in Lubbock, TX (CBS) begins broadcasting
1990 – Saudis ask US for rights to bid on SPR (Strategic Petroleum Reserve) crude
1993 – 7.1 seaquake east of Kamchatka
2019 – 53rd Country Music Association Awards: Garth Brooks, Maren Morris and Luke Combs win
Historical Events for 12th November 2023
1873 – Bay District Race Track in San Francisco opens
1919 – Ross and Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
1926 – The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
1952 – White Sox place Jim Rivera on 1 year probation after cleared of rape
1953 – David Ben-Gurion, resigns as Prime Minister of Israel
1965 – Venera 2 launched by Soviet Union toward Venus
1982 – KGB Chief Yuri Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union
1987 – “Teddy and Alice” opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 77 performances
1995 – 25th NYC Women’s Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:28:06
2022 – New Zealand’s Black Ferns win Women’s World Rugby Championship defeating England 34-31 at Eden Park in Auckland in front of a capacity crowd
Historical Events for 11th November 2023
1215 – 4th Lateran Council (12th ecumenical council) opens in Rome
1400 – Battle of Aleppo: Timur and his army defeat the forces of Sultan Faraj, Mameluke ruler of Egypt, 20,000 people reportedly massacred and a pyramid of their skulls built
1865 – Mary Edward Walker, the first US Army female surgeon, awarded Medal of Honor
1920 – Great Britain’s monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled
1966 – Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church (USA)
1971 – Neil Simon’s black comedy film “Prisoner of Second Avenue” premieres in NYC starring Jack Lemmon and Anne Bancroft
1987 – Boston Red Sox starter Roger Clemens wins back-to-back AL Cy Young Awards; Philadelphia Phillies starter Steve Bedrosian takes NL Award
1997 – NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War
2014 – The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
2020 – UK becomes the first European country to record over 50,000 COVID-19 related 50,000; 5fth country, after the US, Brazil, India, and Mexico
Historical Events for 10th November 2023
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1950 – Clifford Odet’s “Country Girl” premieres in NYC
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil in Khuzestan province
2020 – Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
Historical Events for 9th November 2023
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1907 – Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1950 – White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 performances
1983 – Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
2003 – A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2015 – San Diego’s SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
2018 – Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
2019 – YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul’s second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
2020 – 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm
Historical Events for 8th November 2023
392 – Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
1861 – Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky: Union Commander General William “Bull” Nelson breaks up Confederate recruiting camp
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1917 – Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1956 – NYT critic Brooks Atkinson writes of Eugene O’Neill’s latest play ‘With the production of ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ at the Helen Hayes last evening, the American theater acquires size and stature.”
1961 – Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
2009 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Reggio Calabria, Italy: Flavia Pennetta beats American Melanie Oudin 7-5, 6-2 to give the home team an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends 4-0) and their 2nd title
2014 – US President Obama authorises deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants
Historical Events for 7th November 2023
1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1900 – In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1972 – Attorney Joe Biden is elected to the US Senate, representing the state of Delaware after defeating longtime incumbent J. Caleb Boggs by just over 3,000 votes; Biden would win re-election 6 times
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1990 – New York City Opera’s limited run production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “A Little Night Music” closes at New York State, NYC, after 11 performances
2000 – Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for her novel “The Blind Assassin”
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith win
2018 – Actress Emma Thompson is made a Dame of the British Empire by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, London
2019 – Queen Elizabeth II confirms she is no longer buying clothes made with real fur
Historical Events for 6th November 2023
1528 – Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas
1906 – Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Governor beating William Randolph Hearst
1908 – Leonid Andreyev’s “Dui Nashey Zhizni” premieres in St Petersburg
1915 – Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1918 – Republic of Poland proclaimed
1935 – 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1962 – UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1962 – Edward W. Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
2009 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Santa Anita Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Man of Iron, Tapitsfly, She Be Wild, Midday, Informed Decision, Life Is Sweet
2020 – Breeders’ Cup Horse Racing, Keeneland Racetrack; Day 1 winners: Golden Pal, Fire at Will, Vequist, Aunt Pearl, Essential Quality
Historical Events for 5th November 2023
1630 – Spain and England sign peace treaty
1781 – John Hanson elected first “President of US in Congress assembled”
1873 – Due to the fallout from the Pacific Scandal, John A. Macdonald resigns as Prime Minister of Canada
1889 – Louisa Woosley first women to be ordained as a minister in any Presbyterian denomination (US Cumberland Presbyterian Church).
1967 – US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
1989 – French McLaren driver Alain Prost withdraws early in wet Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from teammate Ayrton Senna
1992 – Revival of George Kelly’s 1924 play “The Show Off”, starring Boyd Gaines and Pat Carroll, opens at Criterion Center Stage Right, NYC; runs for 45 performances
1996 – Yankees shortstop Derek Jeter is the unanimous choice as AL Rookie of the Year
2015 – Collins Dictionary name “binge-watch” the word of the year, followed by “transgender”
2022 – Alex Ovechkin scores 787th career goal for the Washington Capitals surpassing Gordie Howe of the Detroit Red Wings, for all-time NHL record for most goals scored for a single team, in 3-2 loss to Arizona Coyotes