| 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 |
