Events 764 -
Tibetan troops occupy
Chang'an, the capital of the Chinese
Tang Dynasty, for fifteen days.1028 - Future
Byzantine empress Zoe marries
Romanus Argyrus according to the wishes of the dying
Constantine VIII1439 -
Plymouth, England, becomes the first town incorporated by the
English Parliament.1555 - The English Parliament re-establishes
Catholicism.
1793 -
Jean Sylvain Bailly, first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1847 - Sir
James Young Simpson, British physician, is the first to use
chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1893 - The treaty of the
Durand Line was signed between present day
Pakistan and
Afghanistan and which has gained international recognition as an international border between the two sister-nations.
1905 - (November 12 &
13)
Norway holds
referendum in favour of
monarchy over
republic.
1912 - The frozen bodies of
Robert Scott and his men are found on the
Ross Ice Shelf in
Antarctica.
1918 -
Austria becomes a republic.
1920 -
Italy and the
Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes sign the Treaty of Rapallo.
1922 -
Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority, Inc., was founded on the campus of Butler University in
Indianapolis, Indiana.
1927 -
Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving
Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the
Soviet Union.1927 - The
Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first
Hudson River vehicular
tunnel linking
New Jersey to
New York City.
1933 -
Hugh Gray takes the first known photos of the
Loch Ness Monster.
1934 - The musical
Babes in Toyland debuts, featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy as comic relief (see
Laurel and Hardy).
1936 - In
California, the
San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1938 -
Hermann Göring announces
Nazi Germany plans to make
Madagascar the "
Jewish homeland", an idea that actually was first considered by 19th century journalist
Theodor Herzl.
1941 -
World War II: Temperatures around
Moscow drop to -12 °
C and the
Soviet Union launches
ski troops for the first time against the freezing
German forces near the city.1941 - A
Soviet cruiser "
Chervona Ukraina" was destroyed during the
battle of Sevastopol1942 - World War II: The
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal between
Japanese and
American forces begins near
Guadalcanal, will last for three days.
1944 - World War II: The
Royal Air Force launches 29
Avro Lancaster bombers in one of the most successful precision bombing attacks of war and sinks the
German battleship Tirpitz, with 12,000 lb
Tallboy bombs off
Tromsø,
Norway1946 - A branch of the Exchange National Bank in
Chicago opens the first ten
drive-up teller windows.
1948 - In
Tokyo, an international
war crimes tribunal sentences seven
Japanese military and government officials to death, including General
Hideki Tojo, for their roles in
World War II.
1969 -
Vietnam War:
My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist
Seymour Hersh breaks the
My Lai story.
1970 - The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached
Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now -infamous
exploding whale incident
1971 - Vietnam War: As part of
Vietnamization, US President
Richard M. Nixon sets
February 1,
1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000
American troops from
Vietnam.
1979 -
Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in
Tehran, US President
Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all
petroleum imports into the
United States from
Iran.
1980 - The
NASA space probe
Voyager I makes its closest approach to
Saturn and takes first images of its rings.
1981 - The 2nd shuttle mission of Columbia 2. It was the 1st time a spacecraft was launched twice.
1982 - In the
Soviet Union,
Yuri Andropov becomes the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding
Leonid I. Brezhnev.1982 -
Lech Wałęsa,
Solidarity leader, is released from a
Polish prison after eleven months.
1990 - Crown Prince Akihito is formally installed as
Emperor Akihito of Japan, becoming the 125th
Japanese monarch.1990 -
Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the
World Wide Web.
1991 -
Dili Massacre,
Indonesian forces opened fire on a crowd of student protesters in
Dili,
East Timor.
1993 - Decree of
President of Kazakhstan "About introducing
national currency of Republic of Kazakhstan" was issued.1993 - The first
Ultimate Fighting Championship is held in Denver, Colorado.
1996 - A
Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh
Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near
New Delhi, killing 349. See
New Delhi Air Crash.
1997 -
Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the
1993 World Trade Center bombing.
1998 -
Daimler-Benz completes a merger with
Chrysler to form
Daimler-Chrysler.
1999 -
Düzce earthquake in
Turkey with a magnitude of 7.2 on the
Richter scale.
2001 - In
New York City,
American Airlines Flight 587, an
Airbus A300 on its way to the
Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from
John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.2001 - 2001 Attack on Afghanistan:
Taliban forces abandon
Kabul, the capital of
Afghanistan, ahead of advancing
Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 -
Occupation of Iraq: In
Nasiriya,
Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the
2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 - The former Soviet republic of
South Ossetia holds a
referendum on independence from
Georgia.
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