| 2012 | Inquiries into the September 11, 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya increase as the only surviving witness of the attack, Walid Faraj, has yet to be interrogated |
| 2012 | Protestors in Iran clash with riot police during their demonstration against the collapse of the rial, the country's currency |
| 2011 | Sprint Nextel reportedly pays $20 billion for the exclusive rights to Apple's next mobile cell phone |
| 2011 | Helle Thorning-Schmidt introduces the new coalition government, officially becoming Denmark's 41st and first female Prime Minister |
| 2010 | An audio recording by Al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden says Muslim nations haven't done enough to support relief efforts in flood-hit Pakistan |
| 2010 | Archaeologists at a site on the Egypt-Gaza border unearth parts of a possible hidden city believed to be over 2,000 years old |
| 2008 | President George W. Bush signs the 700 billion dollar TARP program into law |
| 1997 | Carolina Hurricanes 1st home game vs Pitts Penguins |
| 1997 | Gordie Howie, 69, plays in 7th decade, with IHL'S Detroit Vipers |
| 1997 | Japan's maglev train breaks world speed record at 280.3 mph |
| 1997 | Vancouver Canucks beats Mighty Ducks, 3-2 in Japan |
| 1996 | Thunderdome in Tampa Bay renamed Tropicana Field |
| 1995 | 1st 1st-class match at Hurstville Oval, Sydney (NSW vs. W Prov) |
| 1995 | O. J. Simpson found not guilty in murder of Nicole Simpson and Ron Goldman |
| 1994 | Fernando Henrique Cardoso elected president of Brazil |
| 1994 | Gary Larson, announces he is retiring from doing "Far Side" cartoon |
| 1993 | "White Liars/Black Comedy" closes at Criterion New York City after 38 performances |
| 1993 | Battle at TV station Ostankino/Moscow townhall, about 25 killed |
| 1993 | Boris Yeltsin declares state of emergency in Moscow |
| 1993 | Evangelist Tammy Faye Bakker (52) weds Roe Messner (58) |
| 1993 | Harry Belafonte performs in Tivoli Copenhagen |
| 1993 | Indians play their last game at Cleveland Stadium, Chicago wins 4-0 |
| 1993 | Somali General Aidids arm forces kill 18 U.S. Rangers |
| 1993 | Giants need to beat Dodgers to force a playoff game with Braves for NL West title, but Dodgers destroy Giants 12-1, Giants end year 103-59 |
| 1992 | Atlanta Braves win franchise record 98th game (old record 95 in 1957) |
| 1992 | LeVar Burton weds Stephanie Cozart |
| 1992 | Madonna premieres her "Erotica" video on MTV |
| 1992 | Sinead O'Connor rips up a picture of Pope John Paul II on SNL |
| 1992 | Toronto Blue Jays win AL East title |
| 1991 | 25th Country Music Association Award: |
| 1990 | East Germany and West Germany merge to become Germany |
| 1990 | George Brett becomes 1st to lead league in batting in 3 decades |
| 1990 | Tiger Cecil Fielder becomes 11th, to hit 50 home runs (& 51st) |
| 1990 | Florida record store owner Charles Freeman is found guilty of obsenity, for selling 2 Live Crew rap records |
| 1989 | Panamanian Defense Force attempted coup of Manuel Noriega fails |
| 1988 | 26th Space Shuttle Mission, Discovery 7 returns to Earth after 4-days |
| 1988 | Criterion Center Theater opens at Broadway between 44th and 45th Streets New York City |
| 1988 | Lebanese kidnappers release Mithileshwar Singh (held for 30 months) |
| 1987 | Benito Santiago ends longest catcher/rookie hitting streak at 34 |
| 1987 | Michael Pruffer of France skis 135.26 MPH at Portillo, Chile |
| 1987 | U.S.S.R. performs underground nuclear test |
| 1986 | Baltimore loses assuring Orioles of their 1st last-place finish |
| 1986 | Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off NC, 3 die |
| 1985 | 21st Shuttle Mission (51J)-Atlantis 1-all-military flight launched |
| 1985 | Falkland Islands (Islas Malvinas) adopts constitution |
| 1985 | Pope John Paul II declares Titus Brandsma divine |
| 1985 | South Georgia and South Sandwich Islands adopts constitution |
| 1983 | Paul McCartney and Michael Jackson release "Say, Say, Say" in the United Kingdom |
| 1982 | Cox 4 rowing record set at 12:52 for 99 miles (Geneva, Switzerland) |
| 1982 | Milwaukee whips Baltimore 10-2 to win AL East championship |
| 1982 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Inamori Golf Classic |
| 1982 | Record 11,763 start a 186 mile cross-country race near Stockholm |
| 1982 | Scott Weiland runs Detroit marathon backwards in less than 5 hours |
| 1981 | Brewers (since 1970) and Expos (1969) clinch their 1st-ever postseason |
| 1981 | Irish Nationalist at Maze Prison near Belfast end 7-month hunger strike |
| 1981 | Mike Weaver beats Quick Tillis in 15 for heavyweight boxing title |
| 1980 | 4 dies in attack on synagogue in Paris |
| 1978 | Gold hits record $223.50 an ounce in London |
| 1977 | "Comedy with Music (Victor Borge)" opens at Imperial New York City for 66 performances |
| 1977 | Indira Gandhi arrested |
| 1976 | Hank Aaron singles in his last at bat and drives in his 2,297th run |
| 1976 | Helmuth Kohl's CDU wins German parliament election |
| 1975 | George Harrison releases "Extra Texture" album in the United Kingdom |
| 1975 | Ireland AKZO director Tiede Herrema kidnap |
| 1974 | Frank Robinson becomes baseball's 1st black manager with the Cleveland Indians |
| 1974 | Pele retires as soccer player |
| 1973 | Willi Stoph succeeds Walter Ulbricht as East German party leader |
| 1972 | Indians set a team record for lowest team batting avg .234 |
| 1972 | Spaceflight 71-2 launched; 1st flexible substrate photovoltaic flown |
| 1972 | Steve Carlton wins 27th game for Phillies |
| 1972 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1972 | Baltimore Roric Harrison is last AL pitcher to homer until interleague play 25 years later |
| 1971 | Billie Jean King became 1st female athlete to win $100,000 |
| 1970 | "Coco" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater New York City after 333 performances |
| 1970 | Baseball umpires call their 1st strike |
| 1970 | WAPT TV channel 16 in Jackson, MS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1968 | Howard Sacklers "Great White Hope," premieres in New York City |
| 1968 | Military coup overthrows President Fernando Belaunde Terry in Peru |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | KGSC (now KICU) TV channel 36 in San Jose, California (IND) begins |
| 1967 | King Boudouin inaugurates world's biggest floodgate (Antwerp) |
| 1967 | William Knight sets X-15 speed rec of 7,297 KPH/4,534 MPH/Mach 6.72 |
| 1966 | Marshal Arturo da Costa e Silva elected president |
| 1965 | Cubs tie major league record of 3 triple plays in a season |
| 1965 | Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Mickey Wright Golf Invitational |
| 1965 | Whitey Ford notches #232 to become Yankees winningest pitcher |
| 1964 | Yankees clinch their 5th straight pennant, and 29th in club's history |
| 1963 | "Here's Love" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 338 performances |
| 1963 | Hurricane hits Haiti; about 5,000 die and 100,000 injured |
| 1962 | "Stop the World, I Want to Get Off" opens at Shubert New York City for 886 performances |
| 1962 | Dodgers set major league-record season attendance of 2,755,184 |
| 1962 | Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched into Earth orbit |
| 1961 | "Dick Van Dyke Show" premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1961 | "Mr Ed" premieres |
| 1961 | "Sail Away" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 167 performances |
| 1961 | KMED (now KTVL) TV channel 10 in Medford, OR (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | "Flair" (CBS' answer to Monitor) premieres on radio with Dick Van Dyke |
| 1960 | Janio Quadros elected president of Brazil |
| 1960 | San Francisco's White House department store 1st to accept BankAmericard |
| 1960 | Yankees win 8-7, ending season on a 15 game win streak, and record 193 home runs |
| 1959 | 13th NHL All-Star Game: Montreal beat All-Stars 6-1 at Montreal |
| 1957 | Willy Brandt elected mayor of West Berlin |
| 1956 | Sal Maglie and Dodgers defeat Yankees 6-3 in opening game of World Series |
| 1955 | "Captain Kangaroo" premieres on CBS-TV, Good Morning, Captain! |
| 1955 | "Mickey Mouse Club" premieres |
| 1955 | Juscelino Kubitschek de Oliveira becomes President of Brazil |
| 1955 | Soviet battleship "Novorossiisk" strikes WW II mine in Baltic Sea |
| 1955 | WDBJ TV channel 7 in Roanoke, Virginia (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1955 | WTVS TV channel 56 in Detroit, MI (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | "Father Knows Best" premieres |
| 1954 | KFVS TV channel 12 in Cape Girardeau, MO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | 10th Ryder Cup: U.S. wins 6 -5 at Wentworth, England |
| 1953 | 7th NHL All-Star Game: All-Stars beat Montreal 3-1 at Montreal |
| 1953 | KGGM TV channel 13 in Albuquerque, New Mexico (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st British nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| 1952 | 1st video recording on magnetic tape, LA, Ca |
| 1952 | Great Britain performs nuclear test at Monte Bello Is Australia |
| 1951 | Bobby Thomson home run - Giants win pennant defeating Dodgers |
| 1950 | 1st black lead (Ethel Waters) on TV (Beulah) |
| 1950 | Indonesian army opens assault on Ambon, South Moluccas |
| 1950 | Baseball rules Phils lefty Curt Simmons cannot play in World Series despite his being on furlough from Army |
| 1949 | WERD, 1st black-owned radio station, opens in Atlanta |
| 1948 | Columbia U reports discovery of uranium in Belgian Congo |
| 1948 | NFL becomes 1st sport televised as sport of week |
| 1947 | "Under the Counter" opens at Shubert Theater New York City for 27 performances |
| 1947 | 1st telescope lens 200" (508 cm) in diameter completed |
| 1947 | WMAL (now WJLA) TV channel 7 in Washington, D.C. (ABC) begins |
| 1947 | With only 1 out to go, Yank Floyd Beven gives up a double breaking his World Series no-hit bid, it scored 2 runs and he lost game |
| 1946 | Cards beat Dodgers 8-4 at Ebbets Field to win NL playoffs 2-0 |
| 1945 | Elvis Presley's 1st public appearance, he is 10 |
| 1945 | Tigers and Cubs meet in World Series for 4th time |
| 1945 | World Federation of Trade Unions forms; CIO a member |
| 1944 | 1st broadcast of Radio Herrijzend Netherland |
| 1944 | RAF bombs West Kapelse |
| 1943 | British 8th army lands at Termoli, East Italy |
| 1943 | Operations begin at PETA Java, defending (Japanese) fatherland |
| 1942 | Franklin D. Roosevelt forms Office of Economic Stabilization |
| 1942 | Launch of 1st A-4/V-2 rocket to altitude of 53 miles (85 km) |
| 1942 | New York Yankees Frank Crosetti shoves ump Bill Summers in World Series, he is fined $200 and suspended for 1st 30 days of 1943 season |
| 1941 | Adolf Hitler says Russia is "broken" and would "never rise again" |
| 1941 | All elderly Jewish men of Kerenchug Ukraine, are killed by SS |
| 1941 | Nazi's blow up 6 synagoges in Paris |
| 1940 | France Vichy government proclaims end to Jewish status |
| 1940 | Reds beat Tigers ending NL's 10-game World Series losing streak |
| 1940 | U.S. forms parachute troops |
| 1939 | Lemmer-Urk Dike closes |
| 1936 | Yankees set new attendance record of 64,842 in 3rd game of World Series |
| 1935 | Italy invades Ethiopia |
| 1933 | Gustave "Staf" de Clerq forms Flemish National Covenant |
| 1932 | Iraq gains full independence from Britain, joins League of Nations |
| 1929 | British Labour government recovers diplomatic relations with U.S.S.R. |
| 1929 | Julius Curtius succeeds Stresemann as German foreign minister |
| 1929 | Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes changes name to Yugoslavia |
| 1928 | French sun "Ondine" sinks returning to Toulon, drowning 42 |
| 1926 | 1st congress of Paneuropabeweging opens in Vienna |
| 1926 | Violet Percy runs female record marathon (3:40:22) |
| 1924 | King Hussein of Hedzjaz abdicts throne |
| 1923 | Germany's Stresemann resigns |
| 1922 | 1st facsimile photo send over city telephone lines, Washington, D.C. |
| 1922 | Rebecca Felton of Georgia becomes 1st woman in Senate |
| 1920 | Browns 1st baseman George Sisler gets his record 257th hit of season |
| 1920 | NFL (then American Pro Football Association) plays 1st games |
| 1919 | Reds Adolfo Luque is 1st Latin player to appear in a World Series |
| 1919 | Serbian, Croatian and Slavic parliment accord for 8 hour work day |
| 1918 | Boris becomes king of Bulgaria |
| 1918 | Czar Ferdinand I of Bulgaria does distance of throne |
| 1918 | Selwyn Theater opens at 229 W 42nd St. New York City |
| 1913 | Federal Income Tax signed into law (at 1%) |
| 1906 | SOS adopted as warning signal by 1st conference on wireless telegraphy |
| 1906 | U.S. regime names Charles Magoon, governor of Cuba |
| 1906 | William Vaughan Moody's "Great Divide," premieres in New York City |
| 1904 | France and Spain sign treaty for Morocco Independence |
| 1904 | Giants Christy Mathewson strikes out then record 16 Cards |
| 1904 | Mary McLeod Bethune opens Daytona Normal and Industrial School |
| 1900 | Edward Elgar/Cardinal Newmans oratorium premieres in Birmingham |
| 1899 | J. S. Thurman patents motor-driven vacuum cleaner |
| 1890 | Captain Guillaume of Kerckhoven marches into Boma Congo |
| 1872 | Bloomingdale's department store in New York opens |
| 1863 | Lincoln designates last Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day |
| 1862 | Battle of Corinth, Mississippi |
| 1862 | Skirmish at Bardstown, Kentucky |
| 1833 | Composer Hector Berlioz marries actress Harriet Smithson |
| 1789 | Washington proclaims 1st national Thanksgiving Day |
| 1778 | Captain Cook anchors at Alaska |
| 1735 | France and Emperor Karel VI sign peace accord |
| 1691 | English and Dutch army occupies Limerick Ireland |
| 1657 | French troops occupy Mardyke |
| 1605 | Chinese uprising on Philippines, Tondo/Quiapo massacre |
| 1574 | Fleet under Admiral Boisot seize Spanish |
| 1569 | Battle of Montcontour: Duke of Anjou beats Huguenots |
| 1430 | Jews are expelled from Eger Bohemia |
| 1264 | Comet said to predict death of Pope Urban IV is last seen |
| 1247 | Willem II of Holland elected Roman Catholic German emperor |
| 1143 | Cardinal Guido elected Pope Coelestinus II |
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