Events
1002 - English king
Ethelred ordered killing of all
Danes in England, known today as the
St. Brice's Day massacre.1642 - At the
Battle of Turnham Green of the
First English Civil War the Royalist forces withdrew in face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take
London.
1775 -
American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col.
Ethan Allen attack
Montreal defended by British General
Guy Carleton. Allen and his troops were disorganised and soundly defeated; however, U.S. Brigadier General
Richard Montgomery's force entered Montreal unopposed.
1841 -
James Braid first sees a demonstration of animal magnetism, which leads to his study of the subject he eventually calls
hypnosis.
1851 - The
Denny Party lands at
Alki Point, the first settlers of what will become
Seattle, Washington.
1887 -
Bloody Sunday clashes in central
London1909 -
Collier's magazine accuses U.S.
Secretary of the Interior Richard Ballinger of questionable dealings in
Alaskan coal fields.
1916 -
Prime Minister of Australia William Morris Hughes is expelled from the
Labor Party over his support for
conscription.
1941 -
World War II: The
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by
U 81, she sinks on
November 14.
1942 - World War II:
Naval Battle of Guadalcanal - U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an intense, close-quarters surface naval engagement during the
Battle of Guadalcanal 1950 - General
Carlos Delgado Chalbaud is assassinated in
Caracas.
1954 -
Great Britain defeated
France to capture the first ever
Rugby League World Cup in
Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators.
1956 -
United States Supreme Court declared
Alabama and
Montgomery laws requiring segregated buses illegal; this ended the
Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1961 -
Vladimir Yefimovich Semichastny succeeds
Aleksandr Nikolayevich Shelepin as head of the
KGB.
1965 - The
SS Yarmouth Castle burns and sinks 60 miles off
Nassau with the loss of 90 lives.
1969 -
Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters in
Washington, DC stage a symbolic "March Against Death."
1970 -
Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph
tropical cyclone hits the densely populated
Ganges Delta region of
East Pakistan (now
Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night (this is regarded as the
20th century's worst natural disaster).
1971 - The American space probe,
Mariner 9, has become the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
1982 - A
boxing match held in
Las Vegas, Nevada ends when
Ray Mancini defeats
Kim Duk Koo. Kim's death on
November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. 1982 - The
Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated in
Washington D.C. after a march to its site by thousands of
Vietnam War veterans.
1985 - The volcano
Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a
glacier, causing a
lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries
Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.1985 -
Xavier Suarez is sworn in as
Miami's first Cuban-born mayor.
1990 - The
World Wide Web first began.
1994 - Voters in
Sweden decide to join the
European Union in a
referendum.
1995 - A truck-bomb explodes outside of a US-operated
Saudi Arabian National Guard training center in
Riyadh, killing five
Americans and two
Indians. A group called the Islamic Movement for Change claims responsibility for the attack.
2001 -
Doha Round: The
World Trade Organization ends a four-day ministerial conference in
Doha,
Qatar. 2001 -
Philippine House Speaker
Manuel B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of impeachment against
Philippine President Joseph Estrada.2001 -
War on Terrorism: In the first such act since
World War II, US President
George W. Bush signs an
executive order allowing
military tribunals against any foreigners suspected of having connections to terrorist acts or planned acts on the
United States.
2002 -
Iraq disarmament crisis:
Iraq agrees to the terms of the
UN Security Council Resolution 1441. 2002 - The oil tanker
Prestige sinks off the
Galician coast and causes a huge
oil spill.
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