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November 1: All Saints' Day (Western Christianity); National Day in Algeria (1954); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956); World Vegan Day
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Athenagoras I
- 1141 – The Anarchy: Matilda's brief reign as the first female ruler of England ended when Stephen of Blois regained the throne.
- 1876 – The Colony of New Zealand dissolved its nine provinces and replaced them with 63 counties.
- 1928 – The current 29-letter Turkish alphabet was introduced, replacing the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
- 1948 – Athenagoras I (pictured) was elected as the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights.
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November 2: All Souls' Day (Western Christianity); Day of the Dead in Mexico
Arthur Balfour
- 619 – Emperor Gaozu allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur Balfour (pictured) issued the Balfour Declaration, proclaiming British support for the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
- 1965 – American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War.
- 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, the largest pay-TV broadcaster in the United Kingdom and Ireland.
- 1995 – Former South African Minister of Defence Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987.
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November 3: Culture Day in Japan; Independence Day in Panama (1903)
Hungarian postage stamp of Laika
- 644 – Umar, the second Caliph in Sunni Islam after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Piruz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika (pictured on stamp) the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
- 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers' Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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November 4: Unity Day in Russia
City & South London Railway locomotive
- 1847 – Scottish physician James Young Simpson discovered the anaesthetic qualities of chloroform.
- 1890 – London's City and South London Railway (locomotive pictured), the first deep-level underground railway in the world, opened, running a distance of 5.1 km (3.2 mi) between the City of London and Stockwell.
- 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time.
- 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated by Yigal Amir while at a peace rally at the Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
- 2008 – Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected President of the United States.
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November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)
George B. McClellan
- 1138 – Lý Anh Tông was enthroned as emperor of Đại Việt at the age of two, starting a 37-year reign.
- 1862 – American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removed George B. McClellan (pictured) as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1943 – World War II: An unknown aircraft dropped four bombs on Vatican City, which maintained neutrality during the war.
- 1990 – Ultra-Zionist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
- 1995 – André Dallaire was thwarted in his attempt to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien when Chrétien's wife locked the door.
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November 6: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844); Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland and Sweden (1632); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
Rova of Antananarivo
- 1789 – Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
- 1865 – Months after the Battle of Appomattox Courthouse effectively ended the American Civil War, the CSS Shenandoah became the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 38 vessels.
- 1935 – The Hawker Hurricane, the aircraft responsible for 60% of the Royal Air Force's air victories in the Battle of Britain, made its first flight.
- 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of Jagiellonian University in Kraków.
- 1995 – Madagascar's Rova of Antananarivo (pictured), which served as the royal palace from the 17th to 19th centuries, was destroyed by fire.
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November 7: October Revolution Day in Belarus and various other regions of the former Soviet Union
Hillary Clinton
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1775 – Lord Dunmore, the royal governor of the British Colony of Virginia, signed a proclamation promising freedom for slaves of Patriots if they joined the British Armed Forces.
- 1917 – Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 1987 – Singapore's first Mass Rapid Transit line was opened, starting with train services between Yio Chu Kang and Toa Payoh stations.
- 2000 – Hillary Clinton (pictured) was elected as a Senator, becoming the first First Lady to win public office in the United States.
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November 8: St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church); Remembrance Sunday in the Commonwealth (2015)
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Bodleian Library
- 1602 – The Bodleian Library (pictured), one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened at the University of Oxford.
- 1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, US, Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges.
- 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians in the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
- 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.
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November 9: Inventors' Day in Austria, Germany and Switzerland; Independence Day in Cambodia (1953); Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan
Shogun Tokugawa Yoshinobu
- 1799 – The coup of 18 Brumaire led by Emmanuel Joseph Sieyès and Napoleon deposed the French government, replacing the Directory with the Consulate.
- 1867 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu (pictured), the last shogun of Japan, tendered his resignation to the Emperor Meiji.
- 1888 – Mary Jane Kelly was murdered in London; she was widely believed to be the fifth and final victim of the notorious unidentified serial killer Jack the Ripper.
- 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone, the American-based magazine devoted to music, liberal politics and popular culture, was published.
- 1985 – At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the youngest-ever undisputed World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
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November 10: Diwali in South India (2015); Remembrance of Mustafa Kemal Atatürk in Turkey (09:05 EET/07:05 UTC)
SS Edmund Fitzgerald
- 1202 – The first major action of the Fourth Crusade and the first attack against a Catholic city by Catholic crusaders, the Siege of Zara, began in Zadar, Croatia.
- 1775 – The United States Marine Corps was founded as the Continental Marines by a resolution of the Second Continental Congress during the American Revolutionary War.
- 1940 – A magnitude 7.7 ML earthquake struck the Vrancea region of Romania, the country's strongest earthquake in the 20th century.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
- 1975 – The SS Edmund Fitzgerald (pictured), the largest ship on North America's Great Lakes, sank in Lake Superior with the loss of 29 lives.
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November 11: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2015); Armistice Day in Belgium, France, New Zealand and Serbia; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth; Independence Day in Angola (1975) and Poland (1918); Veterans Day in the United States
The Mayflower Compact 1620 by JLG Ferris
- 1620 – The Mayflower Compact, the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower 's passengers (pictured) while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
- 1926 – The plan for the United States Numbered Highway System was approved by the American Association of State Highway Officials.
- 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war.
- 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngo Dinh Diem was crushed after Diem falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
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November 12: New Year's Day in the Nepal Sambat calendar (2015)
Zoe Porphyrogenita
- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe (pictured) first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- 1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- 1940 – Soviet Foreign Minister Vyacheslav Molotov arrived in Berlin to discuss the possibility of the Soviet Union joining the Axis Powers.
- 1945 – Sudirman was elected the first commander-in-chief of the Indonesian Armed Forces.
- 1970 – The Oregon Highway Division unsuccessfully attempted to destroy a rotting beached sperm whale near Florence, Oregon, with explosives.
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November 13: Twin Holy Birthdays begin (Bahá'í Faith, 2015)
Destruction of Armero, Colombia
- 1642 – First English Civil War: The Royalist army engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism.
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown in stereophonic sound, premiered at The Broadway Theatre in New York City.
- 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia (destruction pictured), and killed approximately 23,000 people.
- 1990 – A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal shooting.
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November 14: World Diabetes Day; Children's Day in India
Eugene Burton Ely taking off from a warship
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.
- 1940 – Second World War: Coventry Cathedral and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
- 1975 – With the signing of the Madrid Accords, Spain agreed to withdraw its presence from the territory of Spanish Sahara.
- 1995 – As a result of budget conflicts between President Bill Clinton and the United States Congress led by Newt Gingrich, the federal government was forced to shut down non-essential services.
- 2003 – Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discovered the trans-Neptunian object 90377 Sedna.
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November 15: Republic Day in Brazil (1889); Shichi-Go-San in Japan
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King James II
- 1315 – A 1,500-strong force from the Swiss Confederacy ambushed a group of Austrian soldiers of the Holy Roman Empire on the shores of Lake Ägerisee in Switzerland.
- 1688 – Prince William of Orange landed at Brixham in Devon, on his way to depose his uncle and father-in-law King James II (pictured), the last Catholic monarch of England.
- 1859 – Sponsored by businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.
- 1935 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president.
- 1988 – PLO leader Yasser Arafat proclaimed the creation of the State of Palestine as "the state of Palestinians wherever they may be".
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November 16: Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988)
Bucharest Metro train
- 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish Conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing Sapa Inca Atahualpa.
- 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", was executed by hanging for high treason.
- 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.
- 1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro (train pictured), the M1 Line, opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania.
- 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
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Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama
- 1558 – Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland, marking the beginning of the Elizabethan era.
- 1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
- 1905 – Influenced by the result of the Russo-Japanese War, the Empire of Japan and the Korean Empire signed the Eulsa Treaty, effectively depriving Korea of its diplomatic sovereignty.
- 1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1968 – NBC controversially cut away from an American football game between the Oakland Raiders and New York Jets to broadcast Heidi, causing viewers in the Eastern United States to miss the game's dramatic ending.
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November 18: Independence Day in Latvia (1918); National Day in Oman (1940)
Ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church
- 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after he commanded the Pope to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1812 – Napoleonic Wars: During Napoleon's invasion of Russia, Marshal Michel Ney's leadership in the Battle of Krasnoi earned him the nickname "the bravest of the brave" despite the overwhelming French defeat.
- 1865 – American author Mark Twain's story "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County", his first great success as a writer, was published.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin (ruins of the Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church pictured).
- 1985 – Calvin and Hobbes, a comic strip by Bill Watterson that was at its height one of the most popular in the world, was first published.
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November 19: International Men's Day; World Toilet Day; Liberation Day in Mali
Reagan and Gorbachev in Geneva
- 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
- 1816 – The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university.
- 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 the Soviet Union's favour.
- 1985 – Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and US President Ronald Reagan (both pictured) held the first of five summit meetings between them in Geneva.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
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November 20: Universal Children's Day
Nuremberg trial defendants
- 284 – Diocletian became Roman emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Lee marked the invasion of New Jersey by British and Hessian forces and the subsequent general retreat of the Continental Army.
- 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation were defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado, but the losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the blockade.
- 1945 – The Nuremberg trials (defendants pictured) of 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1979 – A group of armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.
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November 21: World Hello Day; Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
"God Defend New Zealand"
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: After capturing the city of Lüshunkou, the Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the Irish Republican Army killed more than a dozen members of the "Cairo Gang", and the Royal Irish Constabulary opened fire during a Gaelic football match in Croke Park.
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" (audio featured) became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
- 2009 – An explosion in a coal mine in Heilongjiang, China, killed 108 miners.
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November 22: Feast of Christ the King (Roman Catholic Church, 2015); Alphabet Day in Albania (1908); Independence Day in Lebanon (1943)
Angela Merkel
- 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
- 1831 – After a bloody battle with the military causing 600 casualties, rebellious silkworkers seized Lyon, France, beginning the First Canut Revolt.
- 1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I 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.
- 2005 – Angela Merkel (pictured) assumed office as chancellor of Germany, the first woman to do so.
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November 23: National Sovereignty Day in Argentina; St George's Day in Georgia; Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
Ellen Johnson Sirleaf
- 1733 – African slaves from Akwamu in the Danish West Indies revolted against their owners, one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1955 – The Cocos Islands in the Indian Ocean were transferred from British to Australian control.
- 1963 – The first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television show, was broadcast on BBC television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the title role.
- 2005 – Ellen Johnson Sirleaf (pictured) won the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
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November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism)
Ruby about to shoot Oswald
- 1227 – High Duke of Poland Leszek the White was assassinated during a diet of the Piast dukes.
- 1642 – A Dutch expedition led by Abel Tasman reached present-day Tasmania, Australia.
- 1877 – Anna Sewell's influential animal welfare novel Black Beauty, one of the best-selling books of all time, was first published.
- 1922 – Irish Civil War: Author and Irish nationalist Robert Erskine Childers was executed by the Irish Free State for illegally carrying a semi-automatic pistol.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot (pictured) and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 2012 – A fire at a clothing factory in the Ashulia district on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh, killed at least 117 people.
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November 25: Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2015); Teachers' Day in Indonesia
Albert Einstein
- 1491 – Reconquista: The Granada War was effectively brought to an end with the signing of the Treaty of Granada between Castile-Aragon and the Emirate of Granada.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1915 – Albert Einstein (pictured) presented to the Prussian Academy of Science his field equations of general relativity.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
- 1984 – Band Aid, a supergroup consisting of over 30 leading British and Irish pop musicians, recorded the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
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November 26: Feast day of John Berchmans (Roman Catholic Church); Thanksgiving in the United States (2015)
- 43 BC – Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus, Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed the Second Triumvirate alliance.
- 1842 – The University of Notre Dame (main administration building pictured) in South Bend, Indiana, US, was founded as an all-male institution by members of the Roman Catholic Congregation of Holy Cross.
- 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
- 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted the Southern Television broadcast in South East England, warning viewers that "All your weapons of evil must be destroyed."
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing a total of 173 people and wounding more than 300 others.
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- 1703 – The Great Storm of 1703, one of the most severe storms to strike southern Great Britain, destroyed the first Eddystone Lighthouse off Plymouth, England.
- 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
- 1926 – Restoration of Colonial Williamsburg (pictured), a recreation of a Colonial American city in the Historic Triangle on the Virginia Peninsula, US, began.
- 1978 – San Francisco mayor George Moscone and openly gay supervisor Harvey Milk were assassinated by supervisor Dan White.
- 1999 – The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, making Labour's Helen Clark the first woman to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.
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November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912) and Panama (1821); Navy Day in Iran (1980); Holodomor Remembrance Day in Ukraine (2015)
- 1443 – Having deserted the army of the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg went to Krujë in Middle Albania and using a forged letter from Sultan Murad II to the Governor of Krujë, became lord of the city.
- 1660 – At London's Gresham College, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists founded a learned society now known as the Royal Society.
- 1919 – Nancy Astor, the first woman to serve as a Member of Parliament in the British House of Commons, was elected in a by-election.
- 1943 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin (all three pictured) met at the Tehran Conference to discuss war strategy against the Axis powers.
- 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.
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- 1781 – The crew of the overcrowded British slave ship Zong killed 133 African slaves by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children.
- 1890 – The Diet of Japan (pictured in session), a bicameral legislature modelled after both the German Reichstag and the British Westminster system, first met after the Meiji Constitution went into effect.
- 1947 – The United Nations General Assembly voted to approve the Partition Plan for Palestine, a plan to resolve the Arab–Israeli conflict in the British Mandate of Palestine by separating the territory into Jewish and Arab states.
- 1972 – Atari released Pong, one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home console markets.
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November 30: Cities for Life Day; Independence Day in Barbados (1966)
- 1872 – The first international football match took place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow, between Scotland and England.
- 1934 – The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman became the first to officially exceed 100 miles per hour (160 km/h).
- 1939 – The Winter War broke out as the Soviet Red Army invaded Finland (Finnish troops pictured) and quickly advanced to the Mannerheim Line, an action judged as illegal by the League of Nations.
- 1953 – Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Cohen, Governor of Uganda.
- 1962 – Burmese diplomat U Thant became United Nations Secretary-General, following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961.
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