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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 14th November 2023
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
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