Events
2333 BC - The 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. 1283 -
Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of
Gwynedd in
Wales, becomes the first person executed by being
hanged, drawn and quartered.1574 - The Siege of
Leiden is lifted by the
Watergeuzen.
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 - British Captain
James Cook anchors in Alaska.
1795 - General
Napoleon Bonaparte first rises to national prominence being named to defend the French
National Convention against armed counter-revolutionary rioters threatening the three year old revolutionary government.
1849 - American author
Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in
Baltimore, Maryland under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his
death.
1863 -
Thanksgiving Day declared as the fourth
Thursday in
November by
President Abraham Lincoln.
1873 -
Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the
Modoc War.
1908 - The
Pravda newspaper founded by
Leon Trotsky,
Adolph Joffe,
Matvey Skobelev and other Russian exiles in Vienna.
1918 - King
Boris III of Bulgaria takes the throne.
1929 - The
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to
Kingdom of Yugoslavia, "Land of the South Slavs".
1932 -
Iraq gains independence from
Britain.
1935 -
Italy invades
Ethiopia under
General de Bono.
1942 -
Spaceflight: First successful launch of a V-2 /
A4-rocket from
Test Stand VII at
Peenemünde,
Germany: the first man-made object to reach space.
1952 -
United Kingdom successfully tests a
nuclear weapon.
1953 -
Petrobras is founded by the Brazilian government.
1955 -
Captain Kangaroo debuts on
CBS. 1955 -
The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on
ABC.
1957 -
Allen Ginsberg's
Howl and Other Poems is ruled not obscene.
1962 -
Project Mercury:
Sigma 7 launched from
Cape Canaveral, with
Astronaut Wally Schirra aboard for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
1981 - The
Hunger Strike by
Irish Republican Army prisoners at the Maze jail in
Belfast ends after seven months and 10 deaths.1981 - The
Communist Party of Namibia is founded at a conference in
Angola.
1985 -
Space Shuttle Atlantis flies its maiden voyage. (
STS-51-J)
1990 -
Re-unification of
Germany. The
German Democratic Republic ceased to exist and its territory became part of the
Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the
European Community, which later became the
European Union. Now celebrated as
German Unity Day.
1993 -
Battle of Mogadishu: In an attempt to capture officials of warlord
Mohamed Farrah Aidid's organisation in
Mogadishu, Somalia, 18
US Soldiers and about 1,000 Somalis are killed in heavy fighting.
1995 -
O.J. Simpson found not guilty of the murders of his ex-wife Nicole and her friend Ronald Goldman.
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