Today in history: Napolean stops trade with Europe,Netherlands sign treaty.

• 164 BC During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah
• 235 St Anterus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
• 695 Pope Sergius names Willibrord as Archbishop Clemens of Friezen
• 1272 Following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England.
• 1317 Frederik of Sierck/Zyrick becomes bishop of Utrecht
• 1620 Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass
• 1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, [O.S. Nov 11]
• 1654 Richard Johnson, a free black, granted 550 acres in Virginia
• 1696 J Vanbrughe's "Relapse or Virtue in Danger" premieres in London
• 1729 Netherlands signs Treaty of Seville
• 1759 Battle at Maxen: Prussian army surrenders to Austrians
• 1783 Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis d'Arlandes make 1st manned free balloon           flight in a Montgolfier balloon
• 1794 Honolulu Harbor discovered
• 1806 Decree of Berlin: Emperor Napoleon I bans all trade with England
• 1813 Stettin surrenders to allied armies
• 1818 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
• 1824 First Jewish Reform congregation forms, Charleston, SC
• 1834 HMS Beagle anchors at Bay of San Carlos, Chile
• 1837 Thomas Morris of Australia skips rope 22,806 times
• 1847 Steamer "Phoenix" is lost on Lake Michigan, kills 200
• 1848 Alfred de Musset's "Andre del Sarto" premieres in Paris
• 1848 Cincinnati Turngemeinde founded
• 1849 Friedrich Hebbel's "Der Rubin" premieres in Vienna
• 1852 Duke U, founded in 1838 as Union Institute chartered as Normal College
• 1864 -22] Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia
• 1865 Shaw University forms in Raleigh NC
• 1871 Moses F Gale patents a cigar lighter (NYC)
• 1871 The first human cannonball, Emilio Onra, is shot.
• 1876 Skirmish between HM Stanley's expedition & natives
• 1877 Tom Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph) - first machine to play and record sound
• 1880 Henry Stanley & Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
• 1895 Start of Sherlock Holmes "Adventure of Bruce Partington Plans" (BG)
• 1901 Richard Strauss' opera "Feuersnot" premieres in Dresden
• 1902 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
• 1902 Baseball's Philadelphia Athletics & Phillies form pro football teams, joining Pitts Stars in 1st attempt at a National Football League
• 1902 The Canadian government appoints a commission to consider revising, classifying, and consolidating the many public statutes passed over the years
• 1905 1st game ever played in the Australian Tennis Open
• 1906 China prohibits the opium trade
• 1914 Billy Mallett of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game
• 1914 British army conquers Bazra
• 1916 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.
• 1918 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
• 1918 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia Poland
• 1918 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
• 1920 Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos" premieres in Prague
• 1935 First commercial crossing of Pacific by plane (China Clipper)
• 1935 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris
• 1937 Dmitri Shostakovitch's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad
• 1938 -24] Belgian king Leopold III visits Netherlands
• 1938 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia & declared them German citizens
• 1940 Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
• 1941 German troops occupy Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia.

• 1943 7 Belgian ministers in London criticise King Leopold III for surrendering to Germany
• 1944 Personnel & executive staff of Philips demonstrate for more food
• 1945 Benjamin Britten's 2nd String quartet in C premieres
• 1945 General Motors workers go on strike
• 1946 Georgi Dimitrov elected premier of Bulgaria
• 1946 Harry Truman becomes 1st US president to travel in a submerged sub
• 1946 "Best Years of Our Lives", directed by William Wyler and starring Fredric March and Dana Andrew premieres in New York (Best Picture 1947)
• 1947 Bill Longson beats Lou Thesz in St Louis, to win National Boxing Association world heavyweight title
• 1949 Bill Veeck sells Indians for $22 million
• 1952 1st US postage stamp in 2 colors (rotary process) introduced
• 1952 Dodgers pitcher Joe Black wins NL Rookie of Year
• 1953 WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
• 1953 Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax.
• 1955 Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
• 1955 KTVO TV channel 3 in Ottumwa-Kirksville, IA (ABC) begins broadcasting
• 1956 Don Newcombe, wins NL MVP & 1st-ever Cy Young Award
• 1964 "Zizi" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
• 1964 Pope Paul VI signs 3rd sitting of 2nd Vatican council
• 1964 World's longest suspension bridge "Verrazano Narrows" opens (NYC)
• 1965 1st freighter arrives in Ashdod Port Israel
• 1965 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
• 1966 Dutch government of Zijlstra forms
• 1967 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
• 1967 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
• 1968 Cin trades shortstop Leo Cardenas to Twins for pitcher Jim Merritt
• 1968 Supremes & The Temptations release "I'm Gonna Make You Love Me"
• 1969 KXIX (now KVCT) TV channel 19 in Victoria, TX (ABC) 1st broadcast
• 1969 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
• 1970 NY Knicks 1st game against Cleve Cavalier, Knicks win 102-94 at Madison Square Garden
• 1970 17th National Film Awards (India): "Bhuvan Shome" wins the Golden Lotus
• 1971 NY Rangers scores a NHL record 8 goals in 1 period
• 1971 Richard Baker becomes teacher of SF Zen Center
• 1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army
• 1972 Red Sox Carlton Fisk wins AL Rookie of Year, Mets Jon Matlack wins NL
• 1973 US President Richard Nixon's attorney, J Fred Buzhardt, reveals presence of 18½ minute gap in a White House tape recording related to Watergate
• 1974 Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford's veto
• 1974 Birmingham pub bombings: 21 civilians killed when bombs explode at two pubs in Birmingham, England (deadliest attack in England during "the Troubles")
• 1975 Linda McCartney drug charges in US are dropped
• 1978 Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
• 1979 Crowd at Islamabad, Pakistan attack US embassy, 1 dies
• 1980 Dallas' "Who Shot JR?" episode (Kristen) gets a 53.3 rating (83 mill) in the US
• 1980 Fire at MGM Grand Hotel in Las Vegas kills 84
• 1980 Gene Michael named 25th Yank mgr, replacing Dick Howser, who resigns.

• 1983 "Doonesbury" opens at Biltmore Theater NYC for 104 performances
• 1986 Central African Republic adopts constitution
• 1986 Suriname army leader Desi Bouterse massacres Moiwana village
• 1987 Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Epitome, Ferdinand, Miesque, Sacahuista, Success Express, Theatrica, Very Subtle at Hollywood

• 1992 Jan Karlsson swims world record 50m butterfly (23.80 sec)
• 1992 Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
• 1992 Louise Karlsson swims world record 50m freestyle (31.19 sec)
• 1992 Oregon Sen Bob Packwood issues apology for unwelcome sexual advances
• 1992 Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Tish Johnson for the second time
• 1993 "Cinderella" closes at New York State Theater NYC after 14 performances.
• 1993 Neo-fascists MSI win 36% of municipal elections in Rome
• 1994 1st-class cricket debut of Andrew Symonds (Queensland v NSW, SCG)
• 1995 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
• 1995 Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
• 1995 New double Beatle CD released with new song "Free as a Bird"
• 1996 "Rehearsal" opens at Criterion Theater NYC
• 1996 A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
• 1998 63rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-17 in Birmingham
• 1999 Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, departs from Cuba with his mother
• 1999 51st NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Jarrett wins
• 2002 NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
• 2004 The second round of the Ukrainian presidential election is held, unleashing massive protests and controversy over the election's integrity.
• 2004 Island of Dominica hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. Damage concentrated in the north and town of of Portsmouth. Also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
• 2004 The Paris Club agrees to write off 80% (up to $100 billion) of Iraq's external debt.
• 2004 92nd CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Argonauts defeats BC Lions, 27-19
• 2004 56th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kurt Busch wins
• 2006 Anti-Syrian Lebanese Minister and MP Pierre Gemayel is assassinated in suburban Beirut.
• 2012 An Israel and Hamas ceasefire is negotiated
• 2012 Chelsea Manager Roberto Di Matteo is sacked and replaced by Rafael Ben
• 2013 31 people are killed by a truck bomb in northeaster Iraq
• 2013 The Alabama parole board grants posthumous pardons to three members of the Scottsboro boys
• 2013 54 people are killed after the roof of a supermarket collapses in Riga, Latvia
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