1974 – First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast.
48 BC – Pompey the Great is assassinated on orders of King Ptolemy of Egypt after landing in Egypt
235 – Pope Pontian becomes the first Pope to abdicate from the role, for St. Anterus
365 – Roman usurper Procopius bribes two legions passing by Constantinople, and proclaims himself Roman emperor
935 – Saint Wenceslas is murdered by his brother, Boleslaus I of Bohemia
995 – Members of Slavník’s dynasty – Spytimír, Pobraslav, Pořej and Čáslav are murdered by Boleslaus’s son, Boleslaus II the Pious.
1066 – England was invaded by William the Conqueror who claimed the English throne.
1106 – Battle at Tinchebrai: English King Henry I beats his brother Robert, Duke of Normandy in Normandy
1528 – Spanish fleet sinks in Florida hurricane; about 380 die
1542 – Explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo discovers California, at San Diego Bay, naming it San Miguel and claims it for Spain
1644 – Knights of Malta attack Ottoman convoy of ships that include Chief Black Eunuch and pilgrims for Mecca, killing or selling all into slavery, brings about the Cretan War a year later
1687 – The Turks surrendered Athens to the Venetians.
1701 – Divorce legalized in Maryland
1767 – VOC government bans importation of South-East Asian slaves into the Cape because they are considered dangerous (not observed)
1779 – American Revolution: Samuel Huntington is elected President of the Continental Congress, succeeding John Jay
1781 – During the Revolutionary War, American forces began the siege on Yorktown, VA.
1787 – The U.S. Congress voted to send the new Constitution of the United States to the state legislatures for their approval.
1789 – In the U.S., the first Federal Congress passed a resolution that asked President George Washington to recommend to the nation a day of thanksgiving. Several days later Washington issued a proclamation that named Thursday, November 26, 1789 as a “Day of Publick Thanksgivin.” The fixed-date for Thanksgiving Day, the fourth Thursday of November, was established on December 26, 1941.
1850 – The U.S. Navy abolished flogging as a form of punishment.
1850 – U.S. President Millard Fillmore named Brigham Young the first governor of the Utah territory. In 1857, U.S. President James Buchanan removed Young from the position.
1868 – Opelousas Massacre at St Landry Parish, Louisiana (200 blacks killed)
1887 – Yellow River or Huáng Hé floods in China, killing between 900,000 and 2 million people, one of the deadliest natural disasters in history
1901 – Guerrilla’s assault unarmed US soldiers at breakfast in Balangiga ,Philippines, 44 killed; the abandoned town is burned in retaliation
1906 – US troops reoccupy Cuba, stay until 1909
1920 – 8 Chicago White Sox baseball players are indicted by a grand jury, charged with fixing 1919 World Series; infamous “Black Sox scandal”
1924 – The first around-the-world flight was completed by two U.S. Army planes when they landed in Seattle, WA. The trip took 175 days.
1928 – UK passes the Dangerous Drugs Act outlawing cannabis.
1939 – During World War II, Germany and the Soviet Union agreed upon a plan on the division of Poland.
1940 – Bud Brennan, a fan at Memorial Stadium, races out of stands & attempts to tackle Tom Harmon at 3-yard line, Harmon easily evades Brennan
1944 – Nazi forces begin killing civilians in the Italian village of Marzabotto
1950 – The United Nations admitted Indonesia.
1958 – Guinea votes for independence from France
1961 – Dissolution of the United Arab Republic, A coup in Damascus led to the dissolution of the United Arab Republic, which was a short-lived union between Syria and Egypt.
1967 – The first mayor of Washington, DC, Walter Washington, took office.
1971 – Hungarian cardinal József Mindszenty after 15 years refuge in US Embassy in Budapest is allowed to leave the country
1971 – UK passes the Misuse of Drugs Act banning the medicinal use of cannabis.
1972 – Communist China and Japan agreed to re-establish diplomatic relations.
1973 – ITT Building in New York City bombed to protest ITT’s involvement in the September 11 1973 coup d’état in Chile.
1974 – First Lady Betty Ford underwent a mastectomy to remove a lump in her breast. https://fordlibrarymuseum.tumblr.com/post/178953194016/betty-ford-was-discharged-from-bethesda-naval
1978 – Heavy fighting occurred in Lebanon between Syrian peacekeeping troops and Lebanese Christian militiamen.
1980 – Carl Sagan’s Cosmos: A Personal Voyage Makes its Debut
1981 – Joseph Paul Franklin, avowed racist, sentenced to life imprisonment for killing 2 black joggers in Salt Lake City
1985 – Riots in Brixton, London, rompted by police shooting of Dorothy Groce by police
1991 – In response to U.S. President Bush’s reduction of U.S. nuclear arms Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev promised to reciprocate.
1993 – Gas field in Caracas explodes, 53 killed
1995 – Israel and PLO Sign the Oslo II Accords, The Interim Agreement on the West Bank and the Gaza Strip, also known as the Taba Agreement, divided Gaza and West Bank into 3 areas, and gave limited control over some of these areas to the Palestinians. The Accord, which was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and PLO Chairman Yasser Arafat, also called for Palestinian elections.
1997 – The 103rd convention of the Audio Engineering Society (AES) was held in New York City, NY. The official debut of the DVD format was featured.
2008 – Falcon 1 is launched, Falcon 1, the first privately supported and funded spacecraft, was launched into space on its fourth attempt by SpaceX.
2009 – The military junta leading Guinea, headed by Captain Moussa Dadis Camara, sexually assaulted, killed and wounded protesters during a protest rally in a stadium called Stade du 28 Septembre.
2013 – 27 villagers are killed by Boko Harem in northeast Nigeria
2015 – NASA scientists announce the discovery of flowing water on Mars
2019 – Elon Musk unveils SpaceX spacecraft Starship, designed to travel to Mars and the solar system and land back on earth
2020 – COVID-19 recorded global death toll passes 1 million with over 33 million known cases (Johns Hopkins)
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
