| 2012 | The film 'Chinese Zodiac' featuring martial arts star Jackie Chan, will be the last film made by the action star |
| 2012 | A fire breaks out in the Tamweel Tower, one of about 80 towers built or still under construction in the Jumeirah Lake Towers, Dubai |
| 2011 | An investigation into the death of American actress Natalie Wood is reopened by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department after fresh information surfaces; Wood drowned in 1981 |
| 2011 | U.S. company Hewlett-Packard adds Ralph Whitworth from Relational Investors to it's corporate-government activists on its board of directors |
| 2010 | HIP 13044 b, a planet that was formed in another galaxy, is discovered in the Helmi Stream |
| 2010 | China announces its plan to use its own uranium resources to meet growing demands for nuclear power |
| 2009 | The 2009 Corruption Perceptions Index reports declares Somalia the most corrupt, New Zealand is least corrupt, among 180 countries |
| 2004 | Clinton Library opens in Little Rock Arkansas, containing 2 million photographs and 80 million documents |
| 1997 | Arizona Diamondbacks and Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft |
| 1997 | FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash |
| 1997 | Mavericks' A C Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games |
| 1997 | Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000 |
| 1997 | Willem de Kooning painting, "Two Standing Women," sold for $4,182,500 |
| 1996 | Eappens hire Louise Woodward as nanny, later she's charged with murder |
| 1995 | Jacqueline Aguilera Marcano, 19, of Venezuela, crowned 45th Miss World |
| 1995 | Sam's Town Bowling Invitational won by Michelle Mullen |
| 1994 | "Star Trek VII - Generations," premieres |
| 1993 | 27 killed at prison in Morazan, El Salvador |
| 1993 | Black and white leaders in South Africa approve new democratic constitution |
| 1993 | NAFTA passes House of Representatives |
| 1993 | North-Siberia record cold for November (-55 degrees C) |
| 1993 | Pearl Jam lead singer Eddie Vedder arrested for public drunkiness |
| 1993 | WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution |
| 1992 | "Malcolm X" with Denzel Washington premieres in US |
| 1992 | Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Las Vegas, Nevada on KXTE 107.5 FM |
| 1991 | France deports Marlon's daughter Cheyenne Brando to Tahiti |
| 1991 | Moslem Shites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland |
| 1991 | Auburn men's basketball team was placed on 2 yr probation for recruiting violations and is not eligble for post-season play in 1991-92 |
| 1990 | "Fiddler on the Roof" opens at Gershwin Theater New York City for 241 performances |
| 1990 | 1st Solheim Cup: U.S. beats Europe 11 -4 at Lake Nona CC FLA |
| 1990 | NFL New York Giants beat Det Lions 20-0, to run 1990 record to 10-0 |
| 1990 | Saddam offers to free an estimated 2,000 men held in Kuwait |
| 1989 | Penn is 1st to restrict abortions after Supreme Court gave states the right to do so |
| 1987 | 31 die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest subway station |
| 1987 | Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair |
| 1987 | Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st from last-place club ever to win an MVP |
| 1986 | Roger Clemens wins AL MVP |
| 1985 | Dwight Gooden (NL) and Bret Saberhagen (AL) win Cy Young |
| 1985 | Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport |
| 1985 | Howard Stern radio show returns to New York City WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons |
| 1985 | Paul McCartney releases "Spies Like Us" |
| 1984 | "3 Musketeers" closes at Broadway Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1984 | 72nd CFL Grey Cup: Win Blue Bombers defeats Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 47-17 |
| 1984 | Browns set team records for most sacks (11) |
| 1984 | Flyers' Ron Sutter fails on 11th penalty shot against Islanders |
| 1984 | New Jersey Devils shutout New York Rangers 6-0 |
| 1982 | Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World |
| 1981 | Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins his 2nd consecutive NL MVP |
| 1980 | "Heaven's Gate" premieres |
| 1980 | Despite missing 45 games, George Brett wins AL MVP |
| 1980 | Honduras and El Salvador signs peace (after "soccer war" 1969) |
| 1979 | Ayatollah Khomeini charges U.S. ambassador/embassy espionage |
| 1978 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 years of dictatorship |
| 1976 | Yankees sign free agent Don Gullett |
| 1975 | Black-Panther leader Eldridge Cleaver returns to U.S. |
| 1975 | Calvin Murphy (Houston) ends NBA free throw streak of 58 games |
| 1973 | Greek regime calls emergency crisis due to mass protests |
| 1971 | China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor PRC |
| 1970 | Joe Frazier KOs Bob Foster in 2 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1970 | Johnny Bench wins NL MVP |
| 1970 | Linus Pauling declares large doses of Vitamin C could ward off colds |
| 1970 | Netherlands and Albania form diplomatic relations |
| 1970 | Russia lands self propelled rover on Moon |
| 1968 | Military coup in Mali, President Keita ousted |
| 1967 | British government devalues pounds from U.S. equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40 |
| 1966 | Sandy Koufax announces his retirement, due to arthritic left elbow |
| 1966 | U.S. RC bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays |
| 1966 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1965 | Twins SS Zoilo Versalles is named AL MVP |
| 1964 | Baltimore Oriole Brooks Robinson wins AL MVP |
| 1964 | J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as "most notorious liar" |
| 1963 | Bell Telephone introduces push button telephone |
| 1963 | England's Dartford-Purfleet tunnel under Thames opens |
| 1963 | King Hassan II opens 1st parliament in Morocco |
| 1961 | "Gay Life" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 113 performances |
| 1961 | "Kwamina" closes at 54th St. Theater New York City after 32 performances |
| 1961 | John F. Kennedy sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam |
| 1961 | U.S. Ranger 2 launched to Moon; failed |
| 1960 | Charlie Finley, makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels |
| 1960 | Copyright office issues its 10 millionth registration |
| 1959 | Washington Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1958 | 1st true reservoir in Jerusalem opens |
| 1958 | Indians minority stockholders sell their stock to William Delay |
| 1957 | Tunisia refuses Russian weapons |
| 1956 | Morocco gains independence |
| 1955 | Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight |
| 1954 | Yankees trade Woodling, Byrd, McDonald, Triandos, Miranada and Smith to Orioles for Turley, Larsen and Hunter as part of an 18 player deal |
| 1953 | Anti-Revolutionary Party (ARP) accept female suffrage |
| 1951 | "See it Now" premieres on TV |
| 1951 | British troops occupies Ismailiya Egypt |
| 1951 | Former Cubs 1st baseman and future TV star of Rifleman Chuck Connors is 1st player to oppose the major league draft |
| 1950 | South Korea President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions |
| 1949 | NL batting leader (.342) Jackie Robinson wins NL MVP |
| 1945 | Arnold Schonberg's Prelude for orchestra and mixed choir, premieres |
| 1943 | 1st U.S. ambassador to Canada, Ray Atherton, nominated |
| 1943 | 444 British bombers attack Berlin |
| 1943 | U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean |
| 1942 | Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | British troops open attack on Tobruk, North-Africa |
| 1941 | Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss," premieres in New York City |
| 1941 | Mussolini's forces leave Abyssinia/Ethiopia |
| 1940 | George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb |
| 1939 | Netherlands KNSM passenger ship Simon Bolivar hits German mine, 86 die |
| 1936 | Germany and Italy recognized Spanish government of Francisco Franco |
| 1936 | Main span of Golden Gate Bridge joined |
| 1932 | "Flowers and Trees" receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon |
| 1932 | 1st tie for Best Actor Academy Award Wallace Beery and Fredric March |
| 1930 | Musical "Smiles" with Bob Hope/Fred Astaire premieres in New York City |
| 1930 | Sjostakovitch' opera "The Nose," premiers in Lenningrad |
| 1929 | Dr. Vladimir K Zworykin demonstrates "kinescope" |
| 1929 | Large quake in Atlantic breaks Transatlantic cable in 28 places |
| 1929 | Stalin routes troops to Manchuria |
| 1928 | Walt Disney's Mickey Mouse debuts in New York in "Steamboat Willie" |
| 1926 | Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico |
| 1922 | Turkish National Assembly nominates Abdul Medjid kalief |
| 1920 | Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1919 | H Tierney and J McCarthy's musical "Irene," premieres in New York City |
| 1918 | Brussels free Stofnar |
| 1918 | Latvia declares independence from Russia |
| 1916 | General Douglas Haig finally calls off 1st Battle of the Somme in Europe |
| 1913 | Lincoln Deachey performs 1st airplane loop-the-loop (San Diego) |
| 1912 | Albania declares independence from Turkey |
| 1911 | Britain's 1st seaplane flies |
| 1911 | Opera "Lobetanz" 1st American performance |
| 1909 | U.S. invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya |
| 1906 | Langdon Mitchells "New York Idea," premieres in New York City |
| 1905 | George Bernard Shaws "Major Barbara," premieres in London |
| 1905 | Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway |
| 1903 | Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives U.S. exclusive canal rights in Panama |
| 1902 | Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt |
| 1899 | Trumper scores 208 in 185 minutes (1 five 25 fours) NSW vs. Qld |
| 1894 | 1st newspaper Sunday color comic section published (New York World) |
| 1894 | 1st comic strip "Origin of a New Species," by Richard Outcault |
| 1893 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Providentissimus Deus |
| 1889 | Oahu Railway begins public service in Hawaii |
| 1883 | Antonin Dvorak's "Husitska," premieres |
| 1883 | Standard time zones forms by railroads in U.S. and Canada |
| 1874 | National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland |
| 1865 | Mark Twain publishes "Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" |
| 1852 | State funeral of duke of Wellington (London) |
| 1835 | Charles Darwin travels to Tahiti |
| 1833 | Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven |
| 1805 | 30 women meet at Mrs. Silas Lee's home in Wiscasset Maine, organizes |
| 1805 | Female Charitable Society, first woman's club in America |
| 1804 | Palver Purim 1st celebrated to commemorate miraculous escape |
| 1803 | Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French |
| 1793 | Louvre officially opens in Paris |
| 1787 | 1st Unitarian minister in U.S. ordained, Boston |
| 1776 | Hessians capture Ft. Lee, New Jersey |
| 1755 | Worst quake in Mass Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths report |
| 1745 | Bonnie Prince Charlies troops occupy Carlisle |
| 1742 | Prussia and England sign anti-French military covenant |
| 1738 | France and Austria sign peace |
| 1718 | Voltaires "Oedipe," premieres in Paris |
| 1667 | Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC |
| 1626 | St-Petruskerk in Rome, initiated |
| 1497 | Vasco da Gama reached the Cape of Good Hope |
| 1494 | French king Charles VIII occupies Florence |
| 1477 | 1st English printed book "Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers" |
| 1424 | Storm flood ravages Dutch coast |
| 1421 | Holland/Zealand dikes break in storm, 1000s killed |
| 1421 | Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing est 10,000 in Netherlands |
| 1307 | William Tell shoots apple off his son's head |
| 1210 | Pope Innocent III excommunicates Roman Catholic Emperor Otto IV |
| 1105 | Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I |
| 794 | Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto |
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