Events1034 -
Máel Coluim mac Cináeda,
King of Scots dies.
Donnchad, the son of his second daughter
Bethóc and
Crínán of Dunkeld, inherits the throne.1120 - The
White Ship sinks in the
English Channel, drowning
William Adelin, son of
Henry I of England.1177 -
Baldwin IV of Jerusalem and
Raynald of Chatillon defeat
Saladin at the
Battle of Montgisard.1491 - The
siege of
Granada, last
Moorish stronghold in
Spain, begins. 1542 -
Battle of Solway Moss. The English army defeats the Scottish.1667 - A deadly
earthquake rocks Shemakha,
Caucasia, killing 80,000 people.
1703 - The
Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the
British Isles, reaches its peak intensity and maintains it through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale.
1758 -
French and Indian War:
British forces capture
Fort Duquesne from
French control.1758 -
Pittsburgh,
Pennsylvania is founded.
1783 -
American Revolutionary War: The last
British troops leave
New York City three months after the signing of the
Treaty of Paris.
1795 -
Partitions of Poland:
Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last
king of independent
Poland, is forced to
abdicate and exiled to
Russia.
1809 -
Benjamin Bathurst, a British
diplomat, mysteriously disappeared (or more likely murdered) in
Perleberg.
1826 - The
Greek frigate Hellas arrives in
Nafplion to become the first
flagship of the
Hellenic Navy.
1839 -
Cyclone slams
India with high winds and a 40 foot
storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland , taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the
disaster.
1863 -
American Civil War:
Battle of Missionary Ridge - At
Missionary Ridge in
Tennessee,
Union forces led by General
Ulysses S. Grant break the
Siege of Chattanooga by routing
Confederate troops under General
Braxton Bragg.
1864 -
American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the
Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down
New York City.
1867 -
Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1874 - The
United States Greenback Party is established as a
political party consisting primarily of
farmers affected by the
Panic of 1873.
1876 -
Indian Wars: In retaliation for the
American defeat at the
Battle of the Little Bighorn,
United States Army troops sack
Chief Dull Knife's sleeping
Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the
Powder River.
1885 - Death of Mother Mary of the Immaculate Conception, CIC, first of the
Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Louisiana), the second indigenous congregation of women in the
Archdiocese of New Orleans.
1905 - The Danish
Prins Carl arrives in
Norway to become
King Haakon VII of Norway1913 -
Panama becomes a signatory to the
Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
1918 -
Vojvodina, former
Austro-Hungarian crownland, proclaims its secession from this state to join the
Kingdom of Serbia1926 - The worst, deadliest
tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates
Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in
Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.
1936 - In
Berlin,
Germany and
Japan sign the
Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the
Soviet Union against either nation.
1940 - First flight of the
deHavilland mosquito and
Martin B-26 Marauder.
1941 -
Finland joined the
Anti-Comintern Pact.
1943 - Statehood of
Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the
Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia.
1944 -
World War II: A
German V-2 rocket hits a
Woolworth's store in
Deptford, UK, killing 160 shoppers. 1944 -
World War II:
Battle of Peleliu - At
Peleliu,
Palau, the
American forces led by the general officer
William H. Rupertus defeat the
Japanese army led by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa.
1947 -
Red Scare: The "
Hollywood Ten" are
blacklisted by
Hollywood movie studios. 1947 -
New Zealand ratifies the
Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the
United Kingdom.
1950 - The "Storm of the Century", a violent
snowstorm, paralyzes the
northeastern United States and the
Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm.1950 - The
People's Republic of China joins the
Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the
Yalu river border to fight
United Nations forces.
1952 -
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play
The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in
London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running
play in history.
1958 -
French Sudan gains
autonomy as a self-governing member of the
French Community.
1960 - The
Mirabal sisters of the
Dominican Republic are
assassinated .
1963 - President
John F. Kennedy is buried at
Arlington National Cemetery.
1970 - In
Japan, author
Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic
suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
1973 -
Greek President
George Papadopoulos is ousted in a military
coup led by Lieutenant General
Phaidon Gizikis.
1975 -
Suriname gains independence from the
Netherlands.
1980 -
No Más Fight:
Sugar Ray Leonard regains the
WBC world welterweight
boxing title in a bout against
Roberto Duran.
1984 - 36 top musicians gather in a
Notting Hill studio and record
Band Aid's
Do They Know It's Christmas in order to raise money for
famine relief in
Ethiopia. 1984 - A
KCR train derails between
Sheung Shui and
Fanling, Hong Kong.
1986 -
Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General
Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to
Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist
Contra rebels in
Nicaragua.1986 - The
King Fahd Causeway was officially opened in the
Persian Gulf.
1987 -
Supertyphoon Nina pummels the
Philippines with
category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
1988 - German politician
Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the
Bundestag.
1992 - The
Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the
Czech Republic and
Slovakia from
January 1, *
1993.
1994 -
Sony founder
Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as
CEO of the company.
1996 - An
Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects
Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers.
2000 -
2000 Baku earthquake took place.
2002 - Reported assassination attempt on
Turkmen president
Saparmurat Niyazov.
2003 - The U.S. Court of Appeals (7thCir) issued its opinion in Assessment Technologies v. Wiredata, a copyright infringement case.
2005 -
Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens
Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against
Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by
Soviet-controlled forces, are released.
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