1984 – A bronze statue titled “Three Servicemen,” by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
694 – Spanish King Egica accuses Jews of aiding Muslims/sentenced to slavery
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France
1494 – Piero the Unfortunate of the de’ Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses his power and flees the state
1520 – Height of the Stockholm Bloodbath – King Christian II of Denmark, Norway and Sweden executes Swedish nobles
1526 – Jews are expelled from Pressburg (Bratislava), Hungary, by Maria of Hapsburg
1541 – Queen Catherine Howard (Henry VIII’s fifth wife) confined in Tower of London
1620 – After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)
1729 – Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville
1764 – Mary Campbell, a captive of the Lenape during the French and Indian War, is turned over to forces commanded by Colonel Henry Bouquet.
1813 – General Andrew Jackson, responding to a plea for assistance from White Stick Creek Indians at Fort Leslie, drives off the attacking force of Red Stick Creek Indians at Talladega, Alabama
1851 – Kentucky marshals abduct abolitionist minister Calvin Fairbank from Jeffersonville, Indiana, and take him to Kentucky to stand trial for helping a slave escape.
1857 – The “Atlantic Monthly” first appeared on newsstands and featured the first installment of “The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table” by Oliver Wendell Holmes.
1862 – US General Ulysses S. Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1872 – A fire destroyed about 800 buildings in Boston, MA.
1888 – Jack Ripper’s 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed
1906 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt left for Panama to see the progress on the new canal. It was the first foreign trip by a U.S. president.
1916 – Ammunitions ship explodes at Bakaritsa harbour, near Archangel, Soviet Union, approx. 600 killed, 800 injured
1918 – Germany’s Kaiser Wilhelm II announced he would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.
1923 – Beer Hall Putsch’s second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die and Adolf Hitler flees
1932 – Riots between conservative and socialist supporters in Switzerland kill 12 and injure 60.
1935 – United Mine Workers president John L. Lewis and other labor leaders formed the Committee for Industrial Organization.
1938 – Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or “Night of Broken Glass.”
1942 – Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
1946 – US President Harry Truman ends wage/price freeze
1953 – The U.S. Supreme Court upheld a 1922 ruling that major league baseball did not come within the scope of federal antitrust laws.
1961 – The Professional Golfer’s Association (PGA) eliminated its “caucasians only” rule.
1963 – In Japan, about 450 miners were killed in a coal-dust explosion.
1963 – In Japan, 160 people died in a train crash.
1965 – The great Northeast blackout occurred as several states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of power failures lasting up to 13 1/2 hours.
1967 – Rolling Stone Magazine makes its debut
1967 – A Saturn V rocket carrying an unmanned Apollo spacecraft blasted off from Cape Kennedy on a successful test flight.
1971 – John List kills family & moves to Colorado
1973 – Fire at Taiyo department store, kills 101 & injures 84 (Kumamoto Japan)
1976 – The U.N. General Assembly approved ten resolutions condemning the apartheid government in South Africa.
1979 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages “without delay.” Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.
1979 – False alarm of a Soviet ballistic missile attack by US NORAD system after technician fails to code a test properly
1980 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein declares holy war against Iran
1981 – The Internation Monetary Fund approved a $5.8 billion load to India. It was the highest loan to date.
1984 – A bronze statue titled “Three Servicemen,” by Frederick Hart, was unveiled at the site of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, DC.
1985 – Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
1989 – Communist East Germany opened its borders, allowing its citizens to travel freely to West Germany.
1992 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin, visiting London, appealed for assistance in rescheduling his country’s debt, and asked British businesses to invest.
1994 – Darmstadtium created for the first time, The heavily radioactive element with an atomic number of 110 and symbol Ds, was created at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, the city after which the element is named.
1998 – A federal judge in New York approved the richest antitrust settlement in U.S. history. A leading brokerage firm was ordered to pay $1.03 billion to investors who had sued over price-rigging of Nasdaq stocks.
1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom, already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
2004 – U.S. First Lady Laura Bush officially reopened Pennsylvania Avenue in front of the White House to pedestrians.
2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing at least 60 people.
2012 – 25 people are killed and 62 injured after a train carrying liquid fuel bursts into flames in Burma
2014 – Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
2014 – United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State
2018 – Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of “gross mismanagement”, threatens to withhold funding
2018 – Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
2019 – India’s Supreme Court rules in favor of Hindus over Muslims in dispute over who has right to holy site in city of Ayodhya
2020 – Peru’s Congress votes to impeach and oust President Martín Vizcarra on corruption charges
2020 – US Attorney General William Barr controversially approves federal investigations into voter fraud for the US elections
2021 – EU accuses Belarus leader Alexander Lukashenko of “inhuman, gangster-style approach” to thousands of migrants massing on their border with Poland in freezing conditions
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
