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November 1: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Bahá'í Faith, 2016); All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); National Day in Algeria (1954); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956); World Vegan Day
Stephen of Blois
- 1141 – The Anarchy: Matilda's brief reign as the first female ruler of England ended when Stephen of Blois (pictured) regained the throne.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
- 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties.
- 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams shot Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico, one of his most famous photographs.
- 1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
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November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico
Theo van Gogh
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the executive government of France.
- 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic "high-definition" television service.
- 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence.
- 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (pictured), whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri.
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November 3: Culture Day in Japan; Independence Day in Panama (1903)
Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
- 1534 – The English Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke (pictured) was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the Monarchy of the Netherlands.
- 1898 – After several months of military stalemate between French and British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew, ending the Fashoda Incident.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a drug trafficker, a contract killer, and a leader of the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking the Susurluk scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
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November 4: Unity Day in Russia
Menelik II of Ethiopia
- 1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform.
- 1889 – Menelik II (pictured), who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and damaging or destroying millions of books and paintings.
- 1991 – Former Philippine First Lady Imelda Marcos was granted a presidential pardon by Corazon Aquino and allowed to return from exile.
- 2008 – Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)
Byford Dolphin semi-submersible oil rig
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
- 1898 – Filipinos on Negros Island revolted against Spanish rule and established the short-lived Republic of Negros.
- 1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, US, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
- 1983 – Five workers on the Byford Dolphin (pictured) semi-submersible oil rig were killed in an explosive decompression while drilling in the Frigg gas field in the North Sea.
- 2009 – Major Nidal Malik Hasan of the United States Army went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base.
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November 6: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844); Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
Portrait of George Eliot by François D'Albert Durade
- 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot (pictured), was submitted for publication.
- 1869 – In the first official American football game, Rutgers College defeated the College of New Jersey, 6–4, in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
- 1944 – The Hanford Atomic Facility in the US state of Washington produced its first plutonium, and it would go on to create more for almost the entire American nuclear arsenal.
- 1963 – Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ was appointed to head the South Vietnamese government by the military junta of General Dương Văn Minh, five days after the latter deposed and assassinated President Ngô Đình Diệm.
- 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that killed seven people.
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Last Spike ceremony for the Canadian Pacific Railway
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" (pictured) in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1916 – In the Congressional election, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatives.
- 1941 – World War II: German aircraft sank the Soviet hospital ship Armenia while she was evacuating civilians and wounded soldiers from Crimea, killing an estimated 5,000 people.
- 1991 – Professional basketball player Magic Johnson announced his retirement from the game because of his infection with HIV.
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X-ray of the hand of W. Röntgen's wife
- 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the post of Retired Emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Trần Khâm for eleven more years.
- 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
- 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (first radiograph pictured).
- 1966 – Former Massachusetts Attorney General Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing at least eleven people and injuring sixty-three others.
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November 9: Inventors' Day in Austria, Germany and Switzerland; Independence Day in Cambodia (1953); Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan
Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès
- 1799 – The coup of 18 Brumaire led by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès (pictured) and Napoleon deposed the French government, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.
- 1822 – USS Alligator engaged three piratical schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
- 1938 – Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of over 30,000 others to concentration camps.
- 1998 – With the passing of the Human Rights Act, the European Convention on Human Rights was incorporated into United Kingdom law.
- 2005 – The European Space Agency launched the Venus Express mission, the first long-term observation of the Venusian atmosphere.
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November 10: Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 TRT/06:05 UTC)
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The Hope Diamond
- 1202 – The first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the Siege of Zara, began in Zadar, Croatia.
- 1766 – William Franklin, the last Royal Governor of New Jersey, signed the charter establishing Queen's College, now known as Rutgers University.
- 1940 – A magnitude 7.7 ML earthquake struck the Vrancea region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
- 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
- 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
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November 11: Independence Day in Angola (1975) and Poland (1918); Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations; Veterans Day in the United States
Gough Whitlam
- 1778 – American Revolutionary War: British forces and their Seneca allies attacked a fort and the village of Cherry Valley, New York, killing 14 soldiers and 30 civilians.
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
- 1918 – The armistice between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France.
- 1926 – The plan for the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
- 1975 – During a constitutional crisis in Australia, Governor-General John Kerr dismissed the government of Prime Minister Gough Whitlam (pictured) and dissolved Parliament for a double dissolution election.
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Zoë Porphyrogenita
- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoë (pictured) first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- 1892 – William Heffelfinger was paid $525 by the Allegheny Athletic Association, becoming the first professional American football player on record.
- 1912 – The bodies of Robert Falcon Scott and his companions were discovered, roughly eight months after their deaths during the ill-fated British Antarctic Expedition 1910.
- 1991 – In Dili, East Timor, Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor, killing at least 250 people.
- 2006 – Although the Georgian government declared it illegal, South Ossetia held a referendum on independence, with about 99 percent of voters supporting, to preserve the region's status as a de facto independent state.
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November 13: Feast day of Saint John Chrysostom (Christianity)
Æthelred II of England
- 1002 – King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism.
- 1927 – The Holland Tunnel, connecting New York City's Manhattan with Jersey City, New Jersey, under the Hudson River, opened.
- 1966 – The Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu in response to an al-Fatah land mine incident two days earlier near the West Bank border.
- 1982 – South Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo suffered fatal brain injuries during a match with American Ray Mancini near Las Vegas' Caesars Palace, leading to significant rule changes in the sport.
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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2016)
Artist's impression of 90377 Sedna
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.
- 1941 – Second World War: After suffering torpedo damage the previous day, the British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sank as she was being towed to Gibraltar for repairs.
- 1960 – Ruby Bridges became the first black child to attend an all-white elementary school in Louisiana as part of the New Orleans school desegregation crisis.
- 1984 – Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated by an unknown gunman.
- 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna (artist's impression pictured).
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November 15: Republic Day in Brazil (1889); Shichi-Go-San in Japan
Pedro II of Brazil
- 565 – On his deathbed, Eastern Roman Emperor Justinian I informed his chamberlain that his nephew Justin II was to be his successor.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union Army General William T. Sherman began his "March to the Sea", inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
- 1889 – Brazilian Emperor Pedro II (pictured) was overthrown in a coup led by Deodoro da Fonseca, and Brazil was proclaimed a republic.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
- 1988 – The Soviet Buran spacecraft, a reusable vehicle built in response to NASA's Space Shuttle program, was launched, unmanned, on its only flight.
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November 16: Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988)
Jadwiga of Poland
- 1384 – Jadwiga (pictured) was officially crowned as "King of Poland" instead of "Queen" to reflect the fact that she was a sovereign in her own right and not merely a royal consort.
- 1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.
- 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
- 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1992 – In Suffolk, England, an amateur metal detectorist found the largest hoard of Roman gold, silver and bronze coins from the late fourth and early fifth centuries ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
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Eulsa Treaty
- 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
- 1796 – French Revolutionary Wars: French forces defeated the Austrians at the Battle of Arcole in a manoeuvre to cut the latter's line of retreat.
- 1839 – Giuseppe Verdi's first opera Oberto, Conte di San Bonifacio, was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan.
- 1905 – Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty (pictured), effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty.
- 1993 – General Sani Abacha ousted Ernest Shonekan to become chairman of the Provisional Ruling Council of Nigeria.
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November 18: Independence Day in Latvia (1918); National Day in Oman (1940)
Ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
- 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after he commanded the Pope to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Marshal Michel Ney's leadership in the Battle of Krasnoi earned him the nickname "the bravest of the brave" despite the overwhelming French defeat.
- 1865 – American author Mark Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", his first great success as a writer, was published.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin (ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church pictured).
- 1956 – In the Polish embassy in Moscow Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev said "We will bury you" while addressing Western envoys, prompting them to leave the room.
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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali
Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
- 1816 – The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad, with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in the Soviet Union's favour.
- 1985 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings between them in Geneva.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; Universal Children's Day; Arba'een (Shia Islam, 2016); Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church, 2016)
Nuremberg trial defendants
- 284 – Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee marked the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.
- 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation were defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the blockade.
- 1945 – The Nuremberg trials (defendants pictured) of 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1979 – A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
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November 21: World Hello Day; Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
"God Defend New Zealand"
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army killed more than a dozen members of the "Cairo Gang", and the Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire during a Gaelic football match in Croke Park.
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" (audio featured) became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
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November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania (1908); Independence Day in Lebanon (1943)
Angela Merkel
- 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
- 1831 – After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First Canut Revolt.
- 1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
- 1995 – Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released.
- 2005 – Angela Merkel (pictured) assumed office as chancellor of Germany, the first woman to do so.
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November 23: National Sovereignty Day in Argentina; St George's Day in Georgia; Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1955 – The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean were transferred from British to Australian control.
- 1963 – The first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television show, was broadcast on BBC television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the title role.
- 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured) won the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
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November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism); Thanksgiving in the United States (2016)
Ruby about to shoot Oswald
- 1227 – High Duke of Poland Leszek the White was assassinated during a diet of the Piast dukes.
- 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached present-day Tasmania, Australia.
- 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot (pictured) and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
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November 25: Teachers' Day in Indonesia
Albert Einstein
- 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1915 – Albert Einstein (pictured) presented his field equations of general relativity to the Prussian Academy of Sciences.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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November 26: Feast day of Sylvester Gozzolini and John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Constitution Day in India (1949); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2016)
University of Notre Dame main building
- 1161 – A Song dynasty fleet defeated Jin dynasty ships in a naval engagement on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main administration building pictured) in South Bend, Indiana, US, was founded as an all-male institution by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
- 1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon became the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years.
- 1942 – The film Casablanca, starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman, premiered at the Hollywood Theatre in New York City to coincide with the Allied invasion of North Africa and the capture of Casablanca.
- 2011 – NASA launched the Mars Science Laboratory mission from Cape Canaveral, with the Curiosity rover aboard.
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First Eddystone Lighthouse
- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, one of the most severe storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse (pictured) off Plymouth, England.
- 1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed over 60 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian Prime Minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1975 – Members of the Provisional Irish Republican Army assassinated Ross McWhirter, co-founder of the Guinness Book of Records, a few weeks after he offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for several recent high-profile bombings that were publicly claimed by the IRA.
- 2001 – The Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458 b, the first planetary atmosphere outside our solar system to be measured.
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November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912); Navy Day in Iran (1980)
John Major
- 936 – Shi Jingtang was enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
- 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
- 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith first presented his Sinn Féin policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland was illegal.
- 1925 – The country music radio program Grand Ole Opry was first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1990 – After being elected as leader of the British Conservative Party one day earlier, John Major (pictured) officially succeeded Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
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Eureka Flag
- 1729 – Natchez Indians suddenly revolted against French colonists near modern-day Natchez, Mississippi, US, killing over 240 people.
- 1847 – Oregon missionaries Marcus and Narcissa Whitman along with about a dozen others were killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Native American tribes, sparking the Cayuse War.
- 1854 – The Eureka Flag (pictured) was flown for the first time, during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia.
- 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
- 1987 – Korean Air Flight 858 exploded over the Andaman Sea after two North Korean agents left a time bomb in an overhead compartment, killing all 115 people on board.
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November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966)
King Charles XII of Sweden
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII (pictured) defeated the Russian army of Tsar Peter the Great at the Battle of Narva.
- 1864 – American Civil War: The Confederate States Army suffered its worst disaster of the war as the Army of Tennessee conducted numerous unsuccessful frontal assaults against fortified positions at Franklin, Tennessee.
- 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
- 1942 – World War II: Imperial Japanese Navy warships defeated United States Navy forces during a nighttime naval battle near the Tassafaronga area on Guadalcanal.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
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