1983 – A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist.
43 BC – The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (“”Octavian””, later “”Caesar Augustus””), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
0783 – Asturian queen Adosinda was put in the monastery of San Juan de Pravia, where she lived out the rest of her life, to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus
1476 – Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1648 – Pope Innocent X condemns Peace of Westphalia; the treaty that ended the Thirty Years’ War recognising Dutch Republic’s Independence and Catholic and Lutherans as equal
1688 – King James II escapes back to London
1703 – Bristol England damaged by hurricane, Royal Navy loses 15 warships
1716 – The first lion to be exhibited in America went on display in Boston, MA.
1778 – British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789 – A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended by President George Washington and approved by Congress.
1805 – Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct, carrying the Llangollen canal 126 feet above the River Dee. Longest aqueduct in the UK and highest canal aqueduct in the world.
1832 – Public streetcar service began in New York City.
1859 – Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens’ “A Tale Of Two Cities” is published in literary periodical “All the Year Round”
1861 – At Wheeling, a convention adopts a constitution for new state West Virginia”
1865 – “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1901 – Italy and Britain sign an agreement fixing the frontier between their colonies of Eritrea and Sudan in East Africa
1917 – NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly votes for “”union of the people””, declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia.
1922 – Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
1939 – Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
1940 – The Nazis forced 500,000 Jews of Warsaw, Poland to live within a walled ghetto.
1941 – Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
1942 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing to begin December 1.
1943 – The HMS Rohna became the first ship to be sunk by a guided missile. The German missile attack led to the death of 1,015 U.S. troops.
1944 – Heinrich Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz & Birkenau crematoria
1949 – India’s Constituent Assembly adopted the country’s constitution The country became republic within the British Commonwealth two months later.
1950 – Korean War: Troops from the People’s Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
1965 – France became the third country to enter space when it launched its first satellite the Diamant-A.
1966 – World’s first tidal power station opens on the Rance River in Brittany, France and was inaugurated by French president Charles de Gaulle. Today, it is one of the largest tidal power stations in the world.
1969 – Lottery for Selective Service draftees bill signed by President Nixon
1973 – Rose Mary Woods, told a federal court that she was responsible for the 18-1/2 minute gap in a key Watergate tape. Woods was U.S. President Nixon’s personal secretary.
1975 – Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme was found guilty by a federal jury in Sacramento, CA, for trying to assassinate U.S. President Ford on September 5.
1977 – ‘Vrillon’, representative of the ‘Ashtar Galactic Command’, takes over Britain’s Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM
1979 – The International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China after a 21-year absence.
1982 – Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by the Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
1983 – A Brinks Mat Ltd. vault at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed by gunmen. The men made off with 6,800 gold bars worth nearly $40 million. Only a fraction of the gold has ever been recovered and only two men were convicted in the heist.
1985 – The rights to Richard Nixon’s autobiography were acquired by Random House for $3,000,000.
1986 – U.S. President Reagan appointed a commission headed by former Sen. John Tower to investigate his National Security Council staff after the Iran-Contra affair.
1988 – The U.S. denied an entry visa to PLO chairman Yasser Arafat, who was seeking permission to travel to New York to address the U.N. General Assembly.
1990 – Soviet President Mikhail S. Gorbachev met with Iraqi Foreign Minister Tariq Aziz at the Kremlin to demand that Iraq withdraw from Kuwait.
1991 – Condoms are handed out to thousands of NY High School students
1992 – The British government announced that Queen Elizabeth II had volunteered to start paying taxes on her personal income. She also took her children off the public payroll.
1995 – Two men set fire to a subway token booth in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. The clerk inside was fatally burned.
1997 – The U.S. and North Korea held high-level discussions at the State Department for the first time.
1998 – British Prime Minister Tony Blair made a speech to the Irish Parliament. It was a first time event for a British Prime Minister.
2003 – The U.N. atomic agency adopted a resolution that censured Iran for past nuclear cover-ups and warning that it would be policed to put to rest suspicions that the country had a weapons agenda.
2004 – Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China
2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.
2011 – The Mars Science Laboratory/Curiosity spacecraft launched from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL. The Mars rover Curiosity landed on the floor of Gale Crater on August 6, 2012.
2012 – 10 children are killed and 15 people are injured after a Syrian government Jet drops a cluster bomb on a playground
2017 – Factory explosion in Chinese port city Ningbo kills at least 2, injuries 30, flattens buildings
2018 – Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have made the first genetically edited baby
2020 – Turkey gives life sentences to 337 military officers and others involved in 2016 coup
2022 – Rare public protests held in various Chinese cities over the governments restrictive COVID-19 policies, after 10 people die in an apartment fire in Urumqi, Xinjiang
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
