1919 – The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the “Black Sox” scandal.
768 – Charlemagne and his brother Carloman I are crowned Kings of The Franks
1192 – Richard I of England, the Lion Heart, leaves Jerusalem in disguise
1200 – 12-year-old French noblewoman Isabella of Angoulême is crowned Queen consort of England to King John in Westminster Abbey
1290 – Last of 16,000 Jews expelled by King Edward I leave England
1410 – Earliest mention of Prague’s astronomical clock, the world’s oldest still in operation, built by Mikuláš of Kadaň and Jan Šindel
1446 – The Hangul (Korean) alphabet is first published in Korea by King Sejong the Great
1597 – Eighty Years War: Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange with English support captures Breevoort, Netherlands from the Spanish
1635 – Roger Williams, founder of Rhode Island, was banished from Massachusetts because he had spoken out against punishments for religious offenses and giving away land that belonged to the Indians. Williams had founded Providence, Rhode Island as a place for people to seek religious freedom.
1665 – Due to the Great Plague of London, the British Parliament meets at the University of Oxford rather than the Palace of Westminster
1668 – Mass society storms palace of “heretics” Spanish governor Jose de Paternina
1701 – The Collegiate School of Connecticut was chartered in New Haven. The name was later changed to Yale.
1776 – A group of Spanish missionaries settled in what is now San Francisco, CA.
1779 – Siege of Savannah (Georgia) during American Revolutionary War: Continental Army General Casimir Pulaski is wounded by grapeshot (a type of cluster munition), dies two days later
1781 – The last major battle of the American Revolutionary War took place in Yorktown, VA. The American forces, led by George Washington, defeated the British troops under Lord Cornwallis.
1824 – Slavery is abolished in Costa Rica
1845 – Eminent and controversial Anglican priest John Henry Newman leaves Anglican Church of England and is received into the Roman Catholic Church
1865 – First US underground pipeline for carrying oil is laid in Pennsylvania
1858 – Mail service via stagecoach between San Francisco, CA, and St. Louis, MO, began.
1872 – Aaron Montgomery started his mail order business with the delivery of the first mail order catalog. The firm later became Montgomery Wards.
1874 – General Postal Union Created, The precursor the Universal Postal Union, a specialized agency of the United Nations, was formed after 22 countries signed the Treaty of Bern. The treaty regulated international mail and postage. 4 years later, in 1878, the union changed its name to the Universal Postal Union to reflect the growing international membership of the group.
1888 – The public was admitted to the Washington Monument for the first time.
1914 – During World War I, German forces captured Antwerp, Belgium.
1919 – The Cincinnati Reds won the World Series. The win would be later tainted when 8 Chicago White Sox were charged with throwing the game. The incident became known as the “Black Sox” scandal.
1926 – NBC (National Broadcasting Corporation) forms
1930 – Aviator Laura Ingalls landed in Glendale, CA, to complete the first solo transcontinental flight across the U.S. by a woman.
1936 – The first generator at Boulder Dam began transmitting electricity to Los Angeles, CA. The name of the dam was later changed to Hoover Dam.
1940 – St. Paul’s Cathedral in London was bombed by the Nazis. The dome was unharmed in the bombing.
1941 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt approves an atomic program that would become the Manhattan Project
1962 – Ugandan independence, Uganda gained independence from British rule. The country had become a British protectorate in 1894, 32 years after the first European, British John Hanning Speke set foot in the country. Milton Obote became the first prime minister of an independent Uganda.
1963 – Hurricane Flora ravages Cuba & Haiti, kills 6,000
1968 – 2,000 students from Queen’s University Belfast try to march to Belfast City Hall in protest against ‘police brutality’, but blocked by loyalists led by Ian Paisley; leads for formation of student civil rights group People’s Democracy
1970 – Khmer Republic established, The Khmer Republic was formally established under the leadership of General Lon Nol and Prince Sisowath Sirik Matak. These two leaders took power earlier in took power in a coup against Prince Norodom Sihanouk
1974 – Race riot in Boston due to “bussing”
1975 – Andrei Sakharov was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. The Soviet scientist is known as the “father of the hydrogen bomb.”
1980 – 1st consumer use of home banking by computer by United American Bank in Knoxville, Tennessee
1983 – Rangoon, Burma (now Yangon, Myanmar) bombing: North Korean agents attempt to assassinate South Korean President results in 21 deaths, including 9 South Korean government officials; presidential advisors and security team members; and 3 reporters
1983 – Helen Moss joined the Brownies at the age of 83. She became the oldest person to become a member.
1986 – U.S. District Judge Harry E. Claiborne became the fifth federal official to be removed from office through impeachment. The U.S. Senate convicted Claiborne of “high crimes and misdemeanors.”
1989 – Penthouse Magazine’s Hebrew edition hits newsstands
1991 – Bush declares “total confidence” in nominee Clarence Thomas
1994 – The U.S. sent troops and warships to the Persian Gulf in response to Saddam Hussein sending thousands of troops and hundreds of tanks toward the Kuwaiti border.
1995 – Saboteurs tinkered with a stretch of railroad track in Arizona. An Amtrak train derailed killing one and injuring a hundred.
2001 – Second mailing of anthrax letters from Trenton, New Jersey in the 2001 anthrax attack
2009 – NASA launched the Lunar Crater Observation and Sensing Satellite (LCROSS). On November 13, it was announced that water had been discovered in the planned impact plume on the moon.
2012 – Assassination Attempt on Malala Yousafzai, The Pakistani education activist was shot at and injured while going back home from school. Malala survived the attack and has since gone on to become one of the leading voices for the education of girls in the world. In 2014, at the age of 17, she received the Nobel Peace Prize along with Kailash Satyarthi, making her the youngest recipient of the prestigious award.
2014 – Gatwick, Heathrow and JFK airports enhance screening for the Ebola virus
2019 – Nearly 1 million people in northern California have their power cut by Pacific Gas and Electric to prevent wildfires amid high winds
2019 – Turkey launches airstrikes on Kurdish forces in Northern Syria after US President Donald Trump announces decision to pull back US forces
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
