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November 1: Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)

The Columbus

1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen, he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
1824 – The disposable ship Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany, Western Australia.
1956 – The Indian states Kerala, Andhra Pradesh, and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
1972 – Elvis on Tour, a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.

Lie Kim Hok (b. 1853)
Peter Ostrum (b. 1957)
Fred Thompson (d. 2015)
Lady Elizabeth Shakerley (d. 2020)

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November 2

Crew of Expedition 1

1880 – James A. Garfield was elected as president of the United States; the election is the closest to date by popular vote margin.
1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1994 – A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
2000 – As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.

John J. Loud (b. 1844)
William Pūnohu White (d. 1925)
Gao Qifeng (d. 1933)
Shah Rukh Khan (b. 1965)

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November 3: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2025); Culture Day in Japan

Godzilla film poster

1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp.
1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) nationwide in Japan.
1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.

Andrew Báthory (d. 1599)
Bert Jansch (b. 1943)
Anna Wintour (b. 1949)
Kim Yong-nam (d. 2025)

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November 4: National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy

Yitzhak Rabin

1780 – Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
1924 – In a special election in Wyoming, Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie, who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
2010 – In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.

Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
Antoine Le Maistre (d. 1658)
Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908)
Elsie MacGill (d. 1980)

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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries; Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2025)

Meir Kahane

1556 – At the Second Battle of Panipat, forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.
1854 – Crimean War: Despite being severely outnumbered, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians in present-day Inkerman, Ukraine.
1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
1944 – World War II: Allied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
1990 – Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.

James Clerk Maxwell (d. 1879)
Vivien Leigh (b. 1913)
Edward Tatum (d. 1975)
Eliud Kipchoge (b. 1984)

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November 6: Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden

Collegium Novum of the Jagiellonian University

1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train.
2012 – Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.

Stanisław Staszic (bap. 1755)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1893)
Ida Lou Anderson (b. 1900)
Hilda Braid (d. 2007)

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November 7

Sidney Lanier Bridge collapse

680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
1825 – Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.
1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.
1972 – A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.
1987 – Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.

Maldeo Rathore (d. 1562)
Thomas Brassey (b. 1805)
Emanuele Luigi Galizia (b. 1830)
Ri Ul-sol (d. 2015)

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November 8

King Christian II

960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
1520 – After his coronation as king of Sweden, Christian II (pictured) gave the order to execute nearly 100 people, mostly noblemen, despite promises of general amnesty.
1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.

Nyaungyan Min (b. 1555)
Subroto Mukerjee (d. 1960)
Dorothy Kilgallen (d. 1965)
Tom Anderson (b. 1970)

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November 9

Flag of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic

1822 – USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
1913 – A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured), which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
1985 – At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
2019 – The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century".

Johannes Narssius (b. 1580)
Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (d. 1854)
Bob Gibson (b. 1935)
Charles de Gaulle (d. 1970)

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November 10

Announcement in the Wilmington Messenger on November 9, 1898

1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath.
1898 – White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre,(newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 M_w struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.

Władysław Umiński (b. 1865)
Richard Burton (b. 1925)
Halina Reijn (b. 1975)
Klaus Roth (d. 2015)

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November 11: Armistice Day (known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations and Veterans Day in the United States); Singles' Day in China and Southeast Asia

Ian Smith

1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein.
1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto.
1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith (pictured), unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.

Arsacius of Tarsus (d. 405)
George S. Patton (b. 1885)
Jeanne Demessieux (d. 1968)
Francisco Blake Mora (d. 2011)

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November 12

The Battle of Posada

1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted).
1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam, a key figure in Iran's missile program.

Auguste Rodin (b. 1840)
Liu Shaoqi (d. 1969)
Anne Hathaway (b. 1982)
Stan Lee (d. 2018)

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November 13

Nevado del Ruiz

1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: American forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.

Dorothea Erxleben (b. 1715)
Moshe Pesach (d. 1955)
Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1989)
Giovanni Reyna (b. 2002)

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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Dobruja Day in Romania

Eugene Burton Ely taking off from USS Birmingham

1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680, the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932, chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.

Fanny Mendelssohn (b. 1805)
Claude Monet (b. 1840)
Mary Greyeyes (b. 1920)
Neil Heywood (d. 2011)

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November 15

William Tecumseh Sherman

655 – Penda of Mercia and Æthelhere of East Anglia were defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in Yorkshire, England.
1864 – American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
1908 – As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
1922 – Fountain of Time, in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
2000 – Edoardo Agnelli, son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.

Johannes Kepler (d. 1630)
Eugénie Hamer (b. 1865)
Howard Baker (b. 1925)
Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (d. 2024)

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November 16

Andrew Doria

1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Dutch fort on Sint Eustatius fired The First Salute to an American brig (pictured), marking the first international recognition of the American flag.
1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel, a Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba", was hanged for high treason.
1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.

Ælfric of Abingdon (d. 1005)
Charles-Antoine Campion (b. 1720)
Clark Gable (d. 1960)
Hannah Hampton (b. 2000)

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November 17

14th Dalai Lama

1592 – Sigismund III Vasa, who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father John III as King of Sweden.
1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg.
1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.
2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.

Zanobi Strozzi (b. 1412)
Bernardo Bellotto (d. 1780)
Ng On-yee (b. 1990)
Rikard Wolff (d. 2017)

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November 18

Susan B. Anthony

1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County" was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain.
1872 – American suffragist Susan B. Anthony (pictured) was arrested and later fined $100 for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
2011 – The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.

Thomas of Bayeux (d. 1100)
Asa Gray (b. 1810)
Wilma Mankiller (b. 1945)
Billie Eilish (b. 2001)

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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)

Ronald Reagan (left) and Mikhail Gorbachev in Geneva

1863 – American Civil War: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines massacred 25 people in the town of Haditha.
2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.

Nicolas Poussin (d. 1665)
Jean-Antoine Nollet (b. 1700)
Mikhail Kalinin (b. 1875)
Rosalynn Carter (d. 2023)

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November 20: Transgender Day of Remembrance; Sigd in Israel (2025)

1820 – The American whaleship Essex sank 2,000 nautical miles (3,700 km) west of the western coast of South America after it was attacked by a sperm whale, an event which inspired the novel Moby-Dick by Herman Melville (pictured).
1917 – First World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line.
1985 – Windows 1.0, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public, was released.
1990 – Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.
2003 – Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 31 people, including consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer.

Theoktistos (d. 855)
Clytus Gottwald (b. 1925)
Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1925)
Cri-Zelda Brits (b. 1983)

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November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh

Manzanar

1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
1945 – Manzanar (pictured), a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
1980 – A fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, killing 85 people and injuring 650 others.
2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.

Henry Purcell (d. 1695)
James Hogg (d. 1835)
Joe Darling (b. 1870)
Carly Rae Jepsen (b. 1985)

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November 22

King Juan Carlos I of Spain

1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
1910 – The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I (pictured) was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
1995 – Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.

Antipope Felix II (d. 365)
Émile Lemoine (b. 1840)
Tina Weymouth (b. 1950)
Kim Young-sam (d. 2015)

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November 23

Flag of the Dutch East India Company

1635 – Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa: Soldiers from the Dutch East India Company (flag depicted) razed the village of Mattou, now part of modern-day Tainan, Taiwan.
1700 – A papal conclave, which had been deadlocked due to concerns over how a successor would respond to the impending death of Charles II of Spain, ended with the election of Clement XI.
1733 – African slaves in the Danish West Indies began an insurrection in one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
1980 – An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing at least 2,483 people, injuring more than 7,700 and leaving 250,000 homeless.
2007 – MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.

Eadred (d. 955)
El Lissitzky (b. 1890)
Anne Burns (b. 1915)
Elisabeth Leonskaja (b. 1945)

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November 24: Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism)

Eugene O'Neill Theatre

1643 – Thirty Years' War: Holy Roman Empire, Bavarian and Spainish forces led by led by Franz von Mercy defeated the French army in Germany led by Marshal Josias von Rantzau in the Battle of Tuttlingen.
1918 – The Podgorica Assembly convened in Montenegro, with the intention of uniting with the Kingdom of Serbia.
1925 – The Eugene O'Neill Theatre (pictured) opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
1950 – The "Great Appalachian Storm", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.

Ismail II (d. 1577)
Esther Applin (b. 1895)
William F. Buckley Jr. (b. 1925)
Pat Morita (d. 2005)

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November 25: Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)

Johan Ferrier in 1975

1510 – Adil Shahi–Portuguese conflicts: Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer Goa.
1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito, one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters, who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
1970 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima and a member of his militia publicly committed ritual suicide.
1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president.

Hu Zongxian (d. 1565)
Maurice Denis (b. 1870)
Thomas A. Hendricks (d. 1885)
Alexis Wright (b. 1950)

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November 26: Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949)

Explosion on HMS Bulwark

1835 – Texas Revolution: Texian forces attacked a Mexican pack train, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass.
1914 – A large internal explosion destroyed HMS Bulwark near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
1942 – A riot involving infantrymen, military police, and local law enforcement officers killed three people in Phoenix, Arizona.
2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.

William Derham (b. 1657)
Adam Mickiewicz (d. 1855)
Shelley Moore Capito (b. 1953)
Rachel Roberts (d. 1980)

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November 27: Thanksgiving in the United States (2025)

Alfred Nobel

1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities founded CARE with the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
1950 – Korean War: The Chinese People's Volunteer Army launched multiple attacks against United Nations forces, beginning the Battle of Chosin Reservoir.
1989 – A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203, killing all 107 people on board, excluding Gaviria, who was not on the flight.
2020 – Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.

Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (b. 1635)
Rachel Brooks Gleason (b. 1820)
George Moscone (d. 1978)
Ciputra (d. 2019)

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November 28: Black Friday in the United States (2025); Bukovina Day in Romania

Coat of arms of the Royal Society

1470 – Đại Việt emperor Lê Thánh Tông launched a military expedition against Champa, beginning the Champa–Đại Việt War.
1660 – Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society (coat of arms pictured).
1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
1925 – Grand Ole Opry, the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.

Esther Wheelwright (d. 1780)
Henry Hazlitt (b. 1894)
Richard Osman (b. 1970)
Leslie Nielsen (d. 2010)

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November 29: Liberation Day in Albania

Eureka Flag

1854 – An estimated crowd of more than 10,000 demonstrators swore allegiance to the Eureka Flag (pictured) as a symbol of defiance, in advance of the Eureka Rebellion in Ballarat, Australia.
1890 – The National Diet of Japan (pictured in session), a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met in Tokyo.
1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in Mandatory Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
2007 – During their trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes mutinied and seized a conference room in The Peninsula Manila in Makati.

Claudio Monteverdi (d. 1643)
C. S. Lewis (b. 1898)
Abdullah Cevdet (d. 1932)
Janet Smith (b. 1940)

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November 30: Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)

Damage from the 2018 earthquake

1803 – An expedition led by Francisco Javier de Balmis departed A Coruña, Spain, with the aim of vaccinating millions in South America and Asia against smallpox.
1935 – A college football game between the SMU Mustangs and the TCU Horned Frogs became the first game in Texas to be broadcast nationally on radio.
1979 – The Wall, a rock opera and concept album by the English band Pink Floyd, was first released.
2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first black archbishop in the Church of England.
2018 – A magnitude 7.1 earthquake hit Anchorage, Alaska (pictured), causing 117 injuries.

William-Adolphe Bouguereau (b. 1825)
Eugenia Washington (d. 1900)
Henry Taube (b. 1915)
Shane MacGowan (d. 2023)

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