Events
1862 -
American Civil War:
President Abraham Lincoln approves
General Ambrose Burnside's plan to capture the
Confederate capital at
Richmond, Virginia, leading to the
Battle of Fredericksburg.
1889 - Pioneer woman
journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the
world in less than 80 days. She completed the trip in seventy-two days.
1910 -
Aviation pioneer Eugene Ely performs the first
take-off from a ship in
Hampton Roads, VA. He took off from a makeshift deck on the
light cruiser USS Birmingham in a
Curtiss pusher.
1918 -
Czechoslovakia becomes a
republic.
1921 - The
Communist Party of Spain is founded.
1922 - The
British Broadcasting Company (BBC) begins
radio service in the
United Kingdom.
1923 - Kentaro Suzuki completed his ascent of
Mount Iizuna1940 -
World War II: In
England, the city of
Coventry is heavily
bombed by
German Luftwaffe bombers.
Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
1941 -
World War II: The
aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks due to
torpedo damage from
U 81 sustained on
November 13.
1952 - First regular
UK singles chart published by the
New Musical Express.
1959 - Clutter family murdered in rural Kansas, which inspired the
Truman Capote novel,
In Cold Blood.
1965 -
Vietnam War:
Battle of the Ia Drang begins - the first major engagement between regular
American and
North Vietnamese forces.
1967 -
Pisces, Aquarius, Capricorn & Jones Ltd.,
The Monkees' fourth album, is released.1967 - The
Congress of Colombia in conmemoration of the 150 years of the death of
Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as: "Day of the Colombian Woman".
1969 -
Apollo program:
NASA launches
Apollo 12, the second
manned mission to the surface of the
Moon.
1970 -
Southern Airlines Flight 932 crashes in the
mountains near
Huntington,
West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the
Marshall University football team.1970 - The solo album 'Barrett' by former
Pink Floyd frontman
Syd Barrett is released.
1971 -
Mariner program:
Mariner 9 reaches
Mars, becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another
planet.1971 -
His Holiness Shenouda III was concescrated as the 117th
Patriarch of Alexandria and the See of
St. Mark, the Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church.
1972 - The
Dow Jones Industrial Average closes above 1,000 (1,003.16) for the first time.
1973 - In the
United Kingdom,
Princess Anne marries
Captain Mark Phillips, in
Westminster Abbey.
1975 -
Spain abandons
Western Sahara.
1979 -
Iran hostage crisis: US President
Jimmy Carter issues
Executive order 12170, freezing all
Iranian assets in the
United States in response to the
hostage crisis.
1982 -
Lech Wałęsa, the leader of
Poland's outlawed
Solidarity movement, is released after eleven
months of
internment near the
Soviet border.
1990 - After
German reunification, the (extended) Federal Republic of Germany and the Republic of Poland sign a treaty confirming the
Oder-Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
1991 - American and
British authorities announce
indictments against two
Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the
Pan Am Flight 103.1991 -
Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to
Phnom Penh after thirteen years of
exile.1991 - In
Royal Oak, Michigan, a
fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a
shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing
suicide.
1995 - A
budget standoff between
Democrats and
Republicans in the
U.S. Congress forces the
federal government to temporarily close
national parks and
museums and to run most government offices with skeleton staffs.
1997 - 14-year-old
Reena Virk is beaten and then murdered by fellow teenagers
Kelly Ellard and
Warren Glowatski.
2000 -
Netscape Navigator version 6.0 is launched following two years of
open source development.
2001 -
War in Afghanistan:
Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital
Kabul.
2002 -
Argentina defaults on an $805 million
World Bank payment.2002 - The
US House of Representatives votes to not create an
independent commission to investigate the
September 11 attacks.
2003 -
Asteroid 90377 Sedna is discovered.
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