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
Category: Historical Events
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
Historical Events for 4th November 2023
1874 – Samuel J. Tilden elected governor of New York
1939 – US allows “cash and carry” arms sales during WW II
1951 – Ryder Cup Golf, Pinehurst Resort: US wins 9½-2½; Sam Snead playing captain for US; Arthur Lacey non-playing GB skipper
1968 – Battles between Jordanian army and Al Fatah-arm forces
1970 – Genie, a 13 year old feral child found in Los Angeles, California, having been locked in her bedroom by her father for most of her life
1983 – Bomb attack on Israeli headquarter in Tyrus Lebanon, 60 killed
1989 – Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
1994 – San Francisco: First conference that focuses exclusively on the subject of the commercial potential of the World Wide Web.
2002 – Chinese authorities arrest cyber-dissident He Depu for signing pro-democracy letter to the 16th Communist Party Congress
2015 – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announces his resignation after protests over a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 32
Historical Events for 1st November 2023
1248 – Earl William II of Holland crowned as King of Germany
1938 – NL batting champion Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named National League MVP; first catcher to win award; Boston Red Sox 1st baseman Jimmie Foxx takes AL award
1945 – First issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson
1954 – KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
1985 – Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as George Bush likens Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler
1993 – The Maastricht Treaty, the Treaty on European Union comes into effect
1997 – Louisiana State University running back Kevin Faulk rushes for 212 yards and a school record 5 touchdowns in a 63-28 win at Kentucky’s Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington
2004 – “That’s What I Love About Sunday” single released by American country singer Craig Morgan (Billboard Song of the Year 2005)
2015 – New York City Marathon: Stanley Biwott of Kenya takes men’s division in 2:10:34; compatriot and defending women’s champion Mary Keitany wins easily in 2:24:25
Historical Events for 31st October 2023
1552 – Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege of Metz
1941 – Clothing factory fire in Huddersfield, England kills 49
1943 – World War II: F4U Corsair accomplishes the first successful radar-guided interception.
1957 – Yip Harburg, Fred Saidy, and Harold Arlen’s musical “Jamaica”, starring Lena Horne, opens at Imperial Theater, NYC; runs for 558 performances
1959 – Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to USA
1968 – Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game)
1978 – Iranian oil workers go on strike
1984 – Rajiv Gandhi takes office as India’s 6th Prime Minister succeeding his mother Indira Gandhi who was assassinated
1987 – American jockey Chris Antley becomes first rider to win 9 races in a day (4 at Aqueduct / 5 at The Meadowlands)
2017 – Judge on Maui, Hawaii orders man to write ex-girlfriend 144 compliments after violating protection order to send 144 nasty text messages
Historical Events for 30th October 2023
1270 – The Eighth Crusade and siege of Tunis ended by agreement between Charles I of Sicily (brother to King Louis IX of France, who had died months earlier) and the sultan of Tunis.
1502 – Vasco da Gama returns to Calicut, India for the second time.
1886 – Great Britain and Germany agree boundaries in East Africa
1894 – Daniel Cooper patents time clock
1930 – Turkey and Greece sign a treaty of friendship
1972 – The Northern Ireland Office issues a discussion document ‘The Future of Northern Ireland’; the paper states Britain’s commitment to the union as long as the majority of people wish to remain part of the United Kingdom
1993 – Toronto Maple Leafs lose 1st game of season after going 10-0-0
2015 – Polish tennis star Agnieszka Radwańska wins the WTA Finals title at Kallang. Singapore; beats Czech Petra Kvitová 6–2, 4–6, 6–3
2016 – Canada and the EU sign free trade deal after opposition by Belgium
2016 – 6.6-magnitude earthquake hits central Italy – strongest in Italy for 36 years
Historical Events for 29th October 2023
1863 – International Committee of Red Cross forms as result Geneva held conference (Nobel 1917, 1944, 1963)
1864 – Greek parliament accepts new Constitution
1929 – “Black Tuesday” Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the “Great Depression”
1939 – Golden Gate International Exposition closes (1st closure)
1945 – Getulio Vargas, President of Brazil, resigns
1955 – Belgium signs accord for 5 day work week (45 hours)
2005 – 29 October 2005 Delhi bombings kill more than 60.
2006 – Lula da Silva is elected President of Brazil defeating Geraldo Alckmin in the second round
2012 – Hurricane Sandy makes landfall in New Jersey resulting in 110 deaths and $50 billion in damage and forces the New York stock exchange to close
2022 – Twin car bombs by a jihadist group in Mogadishu, Somalia, kill 120 people