| 2012 | U.S. voters hold their 2012 presidential election, with Democratic President Barack Obama projected to defeat Republican opponent, Governor Mitt Romney |
| 2012 | Britain's MP Nadine Dorries is suspended from the Conservative Party after deciding to become the first politician to appear on a reality TV series |
| 2011 | In Washington, D.C., thousands protest the proposed Keystone XL pipeline project, which would carry Alberta oil sands crude through six U.S. states to Gulf Coast refineries |
| 2011 | Over 45,000 runners participate in the New York City marathon; Geoffrey Mutai and Firehiwot Dado win the mens and women's races |
| 2010 | U.S. President Barack Obama arrives in India on a tour to promote U.S. exports |
| 2010 | Swiebodzin, Poland announces the world's biggest statue of Jesus, called Christ the King, is completed |
| 2009 | U.S. Commerce Department imposes high anti-dumping tariffs up to 99% on imports of Chinese tubular goods |
| 1997 | "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 76 performances |
| 1997 | San Francisco Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year |
| 1996 | Los Angeles Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1995 | Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt |
| 1995 | Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians |
| 1994 | 24th New York City Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37 |
| 1994 | 25th New York City Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21 |
| 1994 | Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan |
| 1994 | Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup |
| 1993 | Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44) |
| 1993 | Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavywgt boxing title |
| 1993 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat, Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter |
| 1991 | "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin New York City for 32 performances |
| 1991 | Grand duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St. Petersburg |
| 1991 | Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii |
| 1991 | Maximus 2.0 BBS released |
| 1991 | Robert M. Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA |
| 1991 | Russian president Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party |
| 1990 | Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame |
| 1990 | Braves Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year |
| 1990 | Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages |
| 1990 | Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected |
| 1988 | 18th New York City Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07 |
| 1988 | 19th New York City Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20 |
| 1988 | Japan and MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7) |
| 1988 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1988 | Steve Jones wins New York men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title |
| 1986 | Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young |
| 1986 | Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill |
| 1986 | Reverend Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern |
| 1985 | 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB |
| 1985 | Exploratory well at Ranger Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil |
| 1985 | M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia |
| 1985 | Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards AFB California |
| 1984 | President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D) |
| 1984 | Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award |
| 1983 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament |
| 1983 | Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California |
| 1983 | Tor Bay Buccaneers James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings |
| 1983 | Turkey Turgut zals Moederland party wins elections |
| 1982 | Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager |
| 1981 | Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award |
| 1981 | Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1979 | Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran |
| 1978 | Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government |
| 1978 | Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule |
| 1977 | "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater New York City after 43 performances |
| 1977 | 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation |
| 1977 | 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga |
| 1976 | Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP |
| 1976 | Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years |
| 1975 | "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater New York City for 51 performances |
| 1975 | 1st appearance of Sex Pistols |
| 1974 | Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award |
| 1973 | Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on New York City |
| 1973 | Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit |
| 1971 | "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 7 performances |
| 1971 | U.S. performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians |
| 1970 | Boog Powell wins AL MVP |
| 1970 | Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1969 | 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Baltimore and Denny McLain, Detroit) |
| 1968 | Nixon elected 37th President of U.S., defeating Hubert Humphrey |
| 1968 | Students of San Francisco State Counsel go on strike |
| 1967 | Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curaeao, kills 15 |
| 1967 | U.S. launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9 |
| 1966 | 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC) |
| 1966 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1966 | Lunar Orbiter 2 launched |
| 1964 | WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote |
| 1962 | Edward M. Kennedy 1st elected Senator |
| 1962 | Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts |
| 1962 | Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more |
| 1962 | Saudi Arabia proclaims abolishing slavery |
| 1962 | U.N. General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa |
| 1961 | U.S. government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith |
| 1958 | AL announces that Kansas City will play AL record 52 night games in 1959 |
| 1958 | Belgium government of Eyskens and Lilar forms |
| 1958 | Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ |
| 1957 | "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 45 performances |
| 1957 | Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France |
| 1956 | Holland and Spain withdraw from Olympics, protest Soviets in Hungary |
| 1956 | President Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E. Stevenson (D) |
| 1955 | 11th Ryder Cup: U.S., 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch and CC California |
| 1955 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1953 | French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy |
| 1953 | Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Baltimore Orioles |
| 1953 | Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres |
| 1952 | Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres |
| 1950 | Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as Vice President/General Manager of Pittsburgh Pirates |
| 1950 | Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea |
| 1950 | King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India |
| 1949 | Greeks civil war ends |
| 1945 | HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators |
| 1943 | Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula |
| 1943 | Soviet forces reconquer Kiev |
| 1943 | Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost" |
| 1942 | Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews |
| 1942 | Sukarno and Mohammed Hatta finds Ampat Serangkai |
| 1941 | Einsatz group kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine |
| 1941 | Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor |
| 1941 | USA lends Soviet Union $1 million |
| 1940 | Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected president |
| 1939 | WGY-TV (Schenectady, New York), 1st coml TV station, begins service |
| 1939 | WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, New York (CBS) 1st broadcast |
| 1938 | 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game |
| 1936 | RCA displays TV for press |
| 1936 | Terence Rattigans "French Without Tears," premieres in London |
| 1935 | 1st test flight of British Hurricane aircraft |
| 1935 | English prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott |
| 1935 | Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane |
| 1934 | NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0 |
| 1932 | German election - KPD defeats NSDAP |
| 1928 | Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds |
| 1928 | Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E. Smith (D) for president |
| 1928 | Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor |
| 1924 | Stanley Baldwin becomes Prime Minister of England |
| 1923 | Col Jacob Schick patents 1st electric shaver |
| 1923 | U.S.S.R. adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks" |
| 1922 | King George V proclaims Irish Free state |
| 1919 | 1st Dutch radio program: Soiree Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel" |
| 1918 | Republic of Poland proclaimed |
| 1918 | Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns |
| 1917 | Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace |
| 1917 | New York state allows women to vote |
| 1915 | 1st military flight in Netherlands East Indies (Tandjong Priok) |
| 1915 | Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government |
| 1913 | Mohandas K. Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa |
| 1911 | Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico |
| 1910 | SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage |
| 1908 | Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1906 | Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected New York Governor beats William Randolph Hearst |
| 1903 | USA recognizea independence of Panama |
| 1900 | Battle at Bothaville: general-major Charles Knox beats Boers |
| 1900 | President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan |
| 1897 | Peter Pan opens in New York at Empire Theater |
| 1888 | Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes |
| 1885 | U.S. Mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close |
| 1884 | British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea |
| 1884 | Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game |
| 1883 | NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race |
| 1879 | Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day |
| 1878 | Henrik Ibsens "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo |
| 1871 | Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa |
| 1871 | President Grant re-elected |
| 1869 | 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4) |
| 1865 | Maastricht-Venlo railway in Netherlands opens |
| 1864 | Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid) |
| 1862 | NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms |
| 1861 | Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president |
| 1860 | Abraham Lincoln, born in Kentucky, Representative-R-Illinois 1847 - 1849, elected 16th president 1861 - 1865 |
| 1850 | 1st Hawaiian fire engine |
| 1850 | Yerba Buena and Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use |
| 1844 | Spain grants Dominican Rep independence |
| 1813 | Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain |
| 1792 | Battle at Jemappes: French army beats Ausrtrians |
| 1676 | King Carlos II of Spain becomes of age (at 15) |
| 1657 | Brandenburg and Poland sign unity of Bromberg |
| 1632 | Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies |
| 1572 | Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia |
| 1534 | Zealand hit by heavy storm |
| 1153 | Treaty of Wallingford signed |
| 355 | Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain |
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