1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
2333 BC – State of Gojoseon (Modern-day Korea) founded by Dangun Wanggeom during the reign of the Chinese Emperor Yao
42 BC – First Battle of Philippi: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight an indecisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
1264 – Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen
1272 – Beauvais cathedral in France is completed (choir and transept), designed to be the largest French Gothic cathedral ever built
1283 – Dafydd ap Gruffydd, Prince of Gwynedd, Wales, becomes the first person executed by being hanged, drawn and quartered
1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor
1739 – The Treaty of Nissa is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian-Turkish War, 1736-1739.
1778 – Captain James Cook anchors at Alaska
1793 – A warrant is issued for the arrest of French mathematician and philosopher Marquis de Condorcet forcing him into hiding
1849 – Edgar Allen Poe seen in public for the last time, The Baltimore, Maryland-based American poet and author, best known for his poem The Raven was found sick and delirious on the streets and taken to Washington College Hospital, where he died a few days later. He was 40 years old at the time of his death.
1863 – U.S. President Lincoln declared that the last Thursday of November would be recognized as Thanksgiving Day.
1873 – Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
1893 – The motor-driven vacuum cleaner was patented by J.S. Thurman.
1901 – The Victor Talking Machine Company was incorporated. After a merger with Radio Corporation of America the company became RCA-Victor.
1906 – W.T. Grant opened a 25-cent department store.
1913 – US Federal income tax signed into law (at 1%) by President Woodrow Wilson
1922 – Rebecca L. Felton became the first female to hold office of U.S. Senator. She was appointed by Governor Thomas W. Hardwick of Georgia to fill a vacancy.
1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes officially changed its name to the Kingdom of Yugoslavia.
1932 – Iraq was admitted into the League of Nations leading Britain to terminate their mandate over the nation. Britain had ruled Iraq since taking it from Turkey during World War I.
1941 – Adolf Hitler stated in a speech that Russia was “broken” and they “would never rise again.”
1941 – All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS
1941 – Nazis blow up 6 synagoges in Paris
1942 – The Office of Economic Stabilization was established by U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt. He also authorized controls on rents, wages, salaries and farm prices.
1944 – During World War II, U.S. troops broke through the Siegfried Line.
1952 – Britain became the third nuclear power in the world when they successfully detonated their first atomic bomb. The U.S. and Russia were the only other nuclear powers.
1955 – “Captain Kangaroo” premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain!
1957 – Allen Ginsberg’s Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene
1963 – Hurricane Flora hits Haiti; about 5,000 die & 100,000 injured
1968 – The proposed civil rights march in Derry, Northern Ireland, is banned from the area of the city centre and the Waterside area; the banning order is issued under the Public Order Act by William Craig, then Home Affairs Minister
1974 – Watergate criminal trial begins for five advisors and aides of President Nixon
1974 – Frank Robinson took over the management position of the Cleveland Indians baseball team. He was the first black manager in major league baseball.
1981 – Irish Nationalist in Maze Prison in Belfast, Northern Ireland called off their hunger strike. The strike had lasted 7 months and ten people had died.
1984 – US government shuts down due to lack of agreement over passage of bills
1988 – The space shuttle Discovery landed safely after its four-day mission. It was the first American shuttle mission since the Challenger disaster.
1989 – Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails
1989 – East Germany suspended unrestricted travel to Czechoslovakia in an effort to slow the flow of refugees to the West.
1989 – Art Shell became the first African-American head coach in the modern NFL when he took over the Los Angeles Raiders.
1990 – The Berlin Wall was dismantled eleven months after the borders between East and West Germany were dissolved. The unification of Germany ended 45 years of division.
1990 – Iraqi President Saddam Hussein made a visit to Kuwait since his country had seized control of the oil-rich nation.
1993 – Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord Mohamed Farrah Aidid’s organization in Mogadishu, Somalia, 18 US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
1994 – The headquarters of the Haitian pro-army militia was raided by U.S. soldiers.
2003 – Ray Horn, of the duo “Siegfried & Roy,” was attacked by tiger during a performance. Roy survived the attack after being dragged offstage. The tiger, a 7-year-old male named Montecore, was debuting in his first show.
2006 – North Korea announced that it would conduct a nuclear test as a key step in the manufacture of atomic bombs that it viewed as a deterrent against a U.S. attack. A date for the test was not announced.
2006 – The Dow Jones industrial average closed at a new high ending the day at 11,727.34. Earlier in the session, the Dow had risen to 11,758.95. Both previous records had been set on January 14, 2000.
2008 – Former NFL star O.J. Simpson found guilty of charges of kidnapping and armed robbery
2008 – The $700 billion bailout bill for the US financial system is signed by President George W. Bush
2012 – 34 people are killed by a series of bombings in Aleppo, Syria
2014 – 83 million accounts are compromised after a cyber attack on JP Morgan Chase & 9 other financial institutions
2015 – US airstrike hits Doctors Without Borders hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing around 19
2017 – US President Donald Trump visits Puerto Rico after it was devastated by hurricane Maria
2018 – 259 people have died taking selfies since 2011 according to study in “Journal of Family Medicine and Primary Care”
2018 – First exomoon, moon outside the solar system, discovered 8,000 years away (size of Neptune) by astronomers at Columbia University
2021 – Pandora Papers investigation reveals secret wealth of 30 current and former world leaders including Jordan’s King Abdullah II, Czech PM Andrej Babis and former UK PM Tony Blair
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
