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• 526 Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000
• 799 Pope Leo III, aided by Charles the Great, returns to Rome
• 1349 Jews of Augsburg Germany massacred
• 1516 Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss "eternal" peace treaty
• 1561 Lofland subjects himself on Sigismund August II of Poland
• 1573 Don Luis de Requesensy Zuniga succeeds duke of Alva as land guardian of Netherlands
• 1581 Doornik (Tournai) surrenders to Duke of Parma.
• 1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle
• 1760 French commandant Beletre surrenders Detroit to Maj R Rogers
• 1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
• 1781 Crew of slave ship Zong murder about 142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea, to claim insurance
• 1791 Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton
• 1803 Dessalines & Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent.

1813 Elias Canneman (Lib) becomes minister of Finance

1825 1st Italian opera in US, "Barber of Seville" premieres (NYC)

1830 November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.

1845 The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.

1847 Indians kill Washington state pioneers Marcus & Narcissa Whitman, and 12 others in Walla Walla Ore

1850 The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, which took over the leadership of German Confederation.

1863 Battle of Ft Sanders, TN (Ft Loudon), 8-900 casualities

1864 4th & last day of skirmishes at Waynesboro, Georgia

1864 Battle of Spring Hill, TN (Thomason's Station)

1864 Sand Creek Massacre, Colorado militia kills about 150 peaceful Cheyenne and Arapaho Indians including Cheyenne chief One-Eye

1870 Compulsory education proclaimed in England

1872 Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.

1887 US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

1890 1st US Army - US Navy football game, Score: Navy 24, Army 0 at West Point

1893 Ziqiang Institute, today known as Wuhan University, is founded by Zhang Zhidong, governor of Hubei and Hunan Provinces in late Qing Dynasty of China after his memorial to the throne is approved by the Qing Government.

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1897 1st motorcycle race (Surrey, England)

1900 General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts

1901 East 182nd Street in Bronx is paved & opened.

1910 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.

1913 5th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Tigers defeats Toronto Parkdale, 44-2

1915 Fire destroys most of the buildings on Santa Catalina Island, California.

1916 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic

1917 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims

1918 Serbia annexes Montenegro

1921 Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C

1921 Z Parenteau & Schuyler Green's musical "Kiki" premieres in NYC

1923 The Dawes Commission, chaired by the American Banker Charles Dawes, is set up to look into the German economic situation and make recommendations that the US can accept

1924 12th CFL Grey Cup: Queen's University defeat Toronto Balmy Beach, 11-3

1924 NHL's Montreal Forum opens

1926 Tris Speaker resigns as Indians manager

1926 W Somerset Maughams "Constant Wife" premieres in NYC.

1932 Cole Porters musical "Gay Divorcee" premieres in NYC

1932 France signs non-agression pact with Soviet Union

1932 USSR & France sign no attack treaty

1933 1st state liquor stores authorized (Pennsylvania)

1933 Japan begins persecution of communists

1934 Chicago Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally

1935 Michael Savage becomes 1st Labour premier of NZ.

1937 Prince Bernhard injured in auto accident in Netherlands

1938 Mayor Oud of Rotterdam forbids soccer match between Neth-Germany

1939 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)

1939 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland

1941 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16

1941 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Jap war fleet

1942 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year

1943 Partisan Tito forms temporary government in Jajce, Bosnia.

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1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery

1944 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.

1945 Yugoslavian Socialist Republic proclaimed

1946 Minister Drees begins emergency rule of old age facilities

1947 35th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats Calgary Stampeders, 10-9

1947 UN Gen Assembly partitions Palestine between Arabs & Jews

1948 "Kukla, Fran, & Ollie" debuted on NBC

1948 1st opera to be televised, "Othello", broadcast from the Met (NYC)

1948 KOB TV channel 4 in Albuquerque, NM (NBC) begins broadcasting

1949 Nationalist regime of China leaves for Taiwan/Formosa

1949 Uranium mine explosions in East Germany kills 3,700

1950 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms.

1953 American Airlines begins 1st regular commercial NY-LA air service

1953 WSIX TV channel 8 in Nashville, TN (ABC) begins broadcasting

1955 Turkish government of Menderes resigns

1956 "Bells Are Ringing" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 925 performances

1957 NY Mayor Robert Wagner forms a committee to replace Dodgers & Giants

1958 46th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 35-28

1961 Freedom Riders attacked by white mob at bus station in Miss

1961 John A McCone replaces Allen W Dulles as 6th director of CIA

1961 Mercury-Atlas 5 carries a chimp (Enos) to orbit

1962 Baseball decides to revert back to 1 all star game per year

1962 Great Britain & France decide to jointly build Concord(e)

1963 Beatles release "I Want to Hold Your Hand"

1963 Trans-Canada Airlines Flight 831: A Douglas DC-8 carrying 118, crashes after taking-off from Dorval Airport near Montreal, Canada

1964 Roman Catholic Church in US replaces Latin with English

1965 "Anya" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 16 performances

1965 Dale Cummings does 14,118 consecutive sit-ups

1966 1st NBA game at Oakland Coliseum Arena - Warriors beat Bulls 108-101

1966 SS Daniel J Morrell sinks in a storm on Lake Huron, 28 die, 1 survivor.

1969 The Beatles' "Come Together/Something" reaches #1

1969 34th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 49-26 in Birmingham

1970 Charles Ives' "Yale-Princeton" premieres

1970 Colin Cowdrey becomes Test Cricket's leading run scorer (7,250)

1971 1st pro golf championship at Walt Disney World

1971 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR.

1978 UN observes "international day of solidarity with Palestinian people," boycotted by US & about 20 other countries

1978 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

1979 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

1980 45th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 34-18 in Birmingham

1981 "My Fair Lady" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 119 performances

1981 Greg Chappell scores 201 v Pakistan at The Gabba (Brisbane)

1987 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season

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.

1987 A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115

1989 8th Largest wrestling crowd UFW U-Cosmos (60,000-Tokyo Dome)

1989 India president Rajiv Gandhi resigns

1990 "Shogun - The Musical" opens at Marquis Theater NYC for 72 performances

1990 Expos pres Claude Brochu agrees to buy club from Charles Bronfman.

1992 "Solitary Confinement" closes at Nederlander NYC after 25 performances

1992 80th CFL Grey Cup: Calgary Stampeders defeats Winn Blue Bombers, 24-10

1993 "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 40 performances

1994 Seoul, Korea, celebrated the 600th anniversary of its founding

1995 "Garden District" closes at Circle in the Sq Theater NYC.

1997 USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards

1997 OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998

2001 UN Security Council unanimously approves a resolution extending the Oil-for-Food program in Iraq for another six-month period

2005 The new Croatian Communist Party (KPH) is founded in Vukovar.

2007 The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to The Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.

2008 73rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 36-0 in Tuscaloosa, Alabama's first win in the series in seven years

2009 97th CFL Grey Cup: Montreal Alouettes defeats Saskatchewan Roughriders, 28-27

2012 30 people are killed and 100 are wounded by bombs in Hillah and Karbala, Iraq

2012 The UN votes to approve Palestine’s status change from an observer to an observer state

2012 Luiz Felipe Scolari takes over as Brazilian Football coach.

2014 79th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 55-44 in Tuscaloosa

2015 104th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats Belgium in Ghent 6-3, 7-5, 6-3, 1st win since 1936

2015 Britain Tyson Fury defeats Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko to win world heavyweight champion title (WBA, IBF, WBO) in Dusseldorf