800 – Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1167 Northern Italian towns form Lombardi League
1420 – Henry V of England enters Paris.
1566 Spanish King Philip II names Fernando Alvarez, duke of Alva
1577 – Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1626 Pasha Muhammad ibn Farukh, tyrannical governor of Jerusalem, driven out
1640 – End of the Iberian Union: Portugal regains independence after 60 years of Spanish rule following a revolution by Portuguese nobility; Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 60 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty. The Portuguese Restoration War begins and lasts until 1668 with recognition by Spain of the country's independence
1641 Massachusetts becomes the first colony to give statutory recognition to slavery
1653 An athlete from Croydon is reported to have run 20 miles from St Albans to London in less than 90 minutes
1656 Germany promises Poland aid against Sweden
1708 Great Alliance occupies Brussels
1742 Empress Elisabeth orders expulsion of all Jews from Russia
1750 First school in America to offer manual training courses opens in Maryland
1779 – General George Washington's army settles into a second season at Morristown, New Jersey.
1783 Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris
1821 Santo Domingo (Dominican Rep) proclaims independence from Spain
1822 – Dom Pedro (Peter I) is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1822 Franz Liszt, aged 11, debuts as a pianist in Vienna
1824 – United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, for the first time in history, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1826 – French philhellene Charles Nicolas Fabvier forces his way through the Turkish cordon and ascends the Acropolis of Athens, which had been under siege.
1828 – Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1831 Erie Canal closes for entire month due to cold weather
1834 – Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1852 Telegraph company opens throughout Netherlands
1862 – In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln addresses the U.S. Congress and speaks some of his most memorable words as he discusses the Northern war effort. Lincoln's closing paragraph was a statement on the trials of the time, reaffirming the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation: "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present...fellow citizens, we cannot escape history...The fiery trial through which we pass will light us down, in honor or dishonor, to the latest generation. We say we are for the Union. The world will not forget that we say this. We know how to save the Union...In giving freedom to the slave, we ensure freedom to the free--honorable alike in what we give, and what we preserve. We shall nobly save, or meanly lose, the last, best hope of earth."
1864 – Great Fire of Brisbane.
1864 Raid at Stoneman: Knoxville, Tennessee to Saltville, Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Millen Brutal, Georgia
1865 – Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1868 John D. Rockefeller took advantage of the competition that existed between the rail systems serving Cleveland to coordinate with other Cleveland refiners to negotiate substantially decreased rail rates.
1878 – The first telephone is installed in the White House.
1884 Society of Independent Artists hold 1st exhibition in Polychrome Pavilion, Paris, includes Georges Seurat's "Bathers at Asnières"
1885 – First serving of the soft drink Dr Pepper at a drug store in Waco, Texas.
1887 Sherlock Holmes first appears in print in "Study in Scarlet" by Arthur Conan Doyle
1887 Sino-Portuguese treaty recognizes Portugal's control of Macao
1896 First certified public accountants receive certificates (NY)
1900 Exiled South African President of Transvaal Paul Kruger visits Flanders and on the same day is declined a visit from the German Kaiser
1900 Portifiro Diaz is inaugurated for his 6th consecutive term as President of Mexico
1903 "The Great Train Robbery" the 1st Western film, released starring Justus D. Barnes and G. M. Anderson
1906 German Shoemaker Wilhelm Voigt (Capt of Köpenick) sentenced to 4 years for forgery after posing as Prussian officer
1909 First Christmas Club payment made, to Carlisle Trust Co, Pennsylvania
1909 1st Israeli kibbutz founded, Deganya Alef
1913 – The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913 – The first drive-up gasoline station opens in Pittsburgh
1913 – The world’s first moving assembly line is put to work at the Ford Motor Company to build the Model T Ford.
1913 – Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece. The flag of Greece is officially raised at Firka Fortress, Chania Crete symbolising the union of Crete and Greece.
1915 The US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington
1916 There is virtual civil war in Greece as royalists fight Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, the Allies ensure a Venizelist victory
1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska
1918 – Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Danish parliament passes an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown. The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed in Belgrade.
1919 – Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1919 – The first issue of Diário de Noite is published from Goa.
1919 AA Milne's comedy play "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Leningrad mayor and Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated, shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad. Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38.
1937 Japan recognizes Spain's Franco government
1917 Boys Town founded by Father Edward Flanagan west of Omaha, Nebraska
1918 – Transylvania unites with the Kingdom of Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
1918 – Danish parliament passes an act to grant Iceland independence under Danish crown. The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed in Belgrade.
1919 – Lady Nancy Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1919 – The first issue of Diário de Noite is published from Goa.
1919 AA Milne's comedy play "Mr Pim Passes By" premieres in Manchester
1921 First US helium-filled dirigible makes its 1st flight
1921 US Post Office establishes philatelic agency
1922 First skywriting over US - "Hello USA"-by Capt Turner, RAF
1922 Polish state Chief Marshal Józef Piłsudski resigns
1924 "La Révolution surréaliste" publishes its first issue in Paris, edited by André Breton
1924 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's first collaborative musical "Lady, Be Good!", featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adelle Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, opens at the Liberty Theatre, NYC, runs for 330 performances
1924 Plutarco Elías Calles becomes President of Mexico
1925 Peace Treaty of Locarno signed between Germany, France, Belgium, Great Britain, and Italy
1928 Railroad museum opens in Utrecht, Netherlands
1929 Game of Bingo invented by American toy salesman Edwin S. Lowe
1931 Ottawa branch of Royal Mint begins operation as Royal Canadian Mint
1933 Rudolf Hess & Ernest Rohm become ministers in Hitler's government
1934 – In the Soviet Union, Leningrad mayor and Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated, shot dead by Leonid Nikolaev at the Communist Party headquarters in Leningrad. Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38.
1935 Austria has world's first Day of Issue Postage Stamp
1936 Bell Labs tests coaxial cable for TV use
1936 Ernest Brundin & Frank Lyon obtain US patent for hydroponic (soil-less) culture of plants
1937 Japan recognizes Spain's Franco government
1938 School bus & train collide in Salt Lake City Utah
1939 SS-Fuhrer Himmler begins deportation of Polish Jews
1941 British cruiser HMS Dorsetshire forces crew of German submarine supply ship MV Python to scuttle vessel in the South Atlantic 1,150 miles west of South Africa
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1942 – Nationwide gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.
1944 – Edward R. Stettinius Jr. becomes Franklin Roosevelt's last secretary of state by filling the Cabinet spot left empty by the Cordell Hull.
1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book; the case remains unsolved and is "one of Australia's most profound mysteries."
1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1941 – World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941 – World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1942 – Nationwide gasoline rationing goes into effect in the United States.
1942 The Beveridge Report is published by the British government unveiling plans for a post-war welfare state
1942 With WWII travel restrictions in mind, MLB owners decide to restrict travel to a 3-trip schedule rather than customary 4; Spring training in 1943 limited to locations north of Potomac or Ohio rivers and east of the Mississippi
1943 At the end of the Tehran Conference, the Big Three (Stalin, Churchill and Roosevelt) agree that the invasion of Normandy should take place in May 1944
1944 Béla Bartòk's Concerto for orchestra, premieres in Symphony Hall, Boston, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky
1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1944 – Edward R. Stettinius Jr. becomes Franklin Roosevelt's last secretary of state by filling the Cabinet spot left empty by the Cordell Hull.
1948 – Taman Shud Case: The body of an unidentified man is found in Adelaide, Australia, involving an undetectable poison and a secret code in a very rare book; the case remains unsolved and is "one of Australia's most profound mysteries."
1944 Mail routing resumes in free South Netherlands
1948 Arabic Congress names Abdullah of Trans Jordan as King of Palestine
1951 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold.
1954 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement [Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (SAMDT)?],
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1956 Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns
1956 Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 73 performances
1951 Benjamin Britten's opera "Billy Budd" premieres in London
1951 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
1952 – The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sexual reassignment surgery.
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold.
1954 Nationalist China & US sign dike agreement [Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty (SAMDT)?],
1955 – American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to the Montgomery Bus Boycott.
1956 Indonesian VP Mohammed Hatta resigns
1956 Leonard Bernstein's musical "Candide" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 73 performances
1956 Musical comedy film "The Girl Can't Help It" starring Jayne Mansfield with cameos by rock 'n' roll stars Little Richard, Eddie Cochran, and Gene Vincent premieres
1957 Seminal rock band Buddy Holly & The Crickets make their "Ed Sullivan Show" debut, performing "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue"; singer Sam Cooke also performs after getting bumped due to time constraints on November 3rd - he sings "You Send Me" and “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons”
1957 Seminal rock band Buddy Holly & The Crickets make their "Ed Sullivan Show" debut, performing "That'll Be The Day" and "Peggy Sue"; singer Sam Cooke also performs after getting bumped due to time constraints on November 3rd - he sings "You Send Me" and “(I Love You) For Sentimental Reasons”
1958 "Flower Drum Song" opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 602 performances
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule as an autonomous member of the French Community (National Day)
1958 – The Central African Republic attains self-rule as an autonomous member of the French Community (National Day)
1958 – The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959 The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1959 The first color photograph of Earth received from outer space
1959 – Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1960 – Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1960 Patrice Lumumba caught in the Congo
1961 The independent Republic of West Papua is proclaimed in modern-day Western New Guinea.
1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1964 – Vietnam War: In two crucial meetings (on this day and two days later) at the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers agree, after some debate, to a two-phase bombing plan for North Vietnam.
1964 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1964 – Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
1965 – India's Border Security Force is established.
1965 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US begins
1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
1967 Queen Elizabeth II inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1967 Track Records releases the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 2nd studio album "Axis: Bold as Love" in the UK, just seven months after their debut release
1968 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's musical "Promises, Promises", based on the 1960 Billy Wider film "The Apartment", opens at Shubert Theatre, NYC; runs for 1,281 performances, wins a Grammy and 2 Tony Awards
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held.
1963 – Nagaland becomes the 16th state of India.
1964 – Vietnam War: In two crucial meetings (on this day and two days later) at the White House, President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers agree, after some debate, to a two-phase bombing plan for North Vietnam.
1964 Martin Luther King Jr. speaks to J. Edgar Hoover about his slander campaign
1964 – Malawi, Malta and Zambia join the United Nations.
1965 – India's Border Security Force is established.
1965 South Africa's government says children of white fathers are white
1965 Airlift of refugees from Cuba to US begins
1966 – The first Gävle goat, an annual Swedish Yule Goat tradition, is erected in Gävle.
1966 Georg Kiesinger elected West German chancellor
1966 Radio time signal WWV moves from Greenbelt, Maryland to Boulder, Colorado
1967 Queen Elizabeth II inaugurates 98-inch (249-cm) Isaac Newton telescope
1967 Track Records releases the Jimi Hendrix Experience's 2nd studio album "Axis: Bold as Love" in the UK, just seven months after their debut release
1968 Burt Bacharach and Hal David's musical "Promises, Promises", based on the 1960 Billy Wider film "The Apartment", opens at Shubert Theatre, NYC; runs for 1,281 performances, wins a Grammy and 2 Tony Awards
1968 Gonzalo Barrios, Venezuelan presidential candidate
1969 LAPD Police Chief Edward Davis announces warrants for the arrest of the Manson cult for murder
1969 – Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States since World War II is held.
1970 Independent People's Republic of South Yemen renames itself as People's Democratic Republic of Yemen
1970 Luis Echeverria Alvarez sworn in as president of Mexico
1971 – Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify their assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray, six miles northeast of Phnom Penh.
1971 Galt MacDermot and John Guare's "Two Gentlemen of Verona" opens at St James Theater NYC for 613 performances
1971 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release single "Happy Xmas (War is Over)" in the US
1972 2 people killed and 127 injured when 2 car bombs explode in the centre of Dublin, Republic of Ireland
1972 Wings release "Hi, Hi, Hi" in UK
1974 – TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974 – Northwest Orient Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1974 LA Skid Row slasher kills 1st of 8
1975 "The Robert MacNeil Report", later "The MacNeil-Lehrer Report", currently known as "PBS NewsHour" program premieres nationally in US on PBS
1975 Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
1975 Kuwait and Gulf and BP agree on terms of nationalization
1975 US President Gerald Ford visits People's Republic of China
1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
1976 – Angola joins the United Nations.
1976 Bangladesh General Ziaur Rahman declares himself president
1976 Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
1978 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1978 US President Jimmy Carter more than doubles national park system size
1980 Mel Harris appears on M*A*S*H in "Cementing Relationships"
1980 US Justice Department sues Yonkers siting racial discrimination
1981 – Yugoslavian charter Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes into Mont San-Pietro in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1982 "Tootsie" directed by Sydney Pollack and starring Dustin Hoffman and Jessica Lange premieres in Hollywood
1982 Dentist Barney B Clark gets 1st artificial heart
1982 Miguel de la Madrid inaugurated as President of Mexico
1983 Rita Lavelle, former head of EPA, convicted of perjury
1984 "Beverly Hills Cop" directed by Martin Brest and starring Eddie Murphy and Judge Reinhold premieres in Los Angeles
1984 – NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1984 France performs nuclear test
1985 Noraly Beyer becomes first black TV newscaster in the Netherlands.
1985 The Congress of South African Trade Unions (Cosatu) is launched at the height of the struggle against apartheid.
1985 STS 61-C vehicle moves to launch pad
1985 TV mini series "Anne of Green Gables" based on the novel by Lucy Maud Montgomery, starring Megan Follows is first shown on CBC in Canada
1986 Musée d'Orsay opens in Paris
1986 Paul McCartney releases "Only Love Remains"
1987 Digging begins to link England & France under English Channel
1988 596 dead after cyclone hits Bangladesh, half a million homeless
1988 – Benazir Bhutto is appointed Prime Minister of Pakistan, the 1st female leader of a Muslim country.
1988 Chinese minister of Foreign affairs Qian Qichen visits Moscow
1988 First World AIDS day to raise awareness of the AIDS global epidemic
1988 NBC bids a record $401 million to capture television broadcasting rights for the 1992 Barcelona Summer Olympic Games
1988 Roy Orbison gives his final concert at The Front Row Theater in Cleveland, Ohio
1989 "Day Without Art" - Artists demonstrate against AIDS
1989 Romanian 5-time Olympic gold medal winning gymnast Nadia Comăneci arrives in NYC requesting political asylum to the United States; granted
1989 – Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party a monopoly in the state.
1989 USSR President Mikhail Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican
1990 – Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet: Shortly after 11 a.m., 132 feet (40 metres) beneath the seabed of the English Channel, workers drill an opening the size of a car through a wall of rock. This is no ordinary hole: it connects the two ends of an underwater tunnel linking Great Britain with the European mainland for the first time in more than 8,000 years.
1990 Dictator of Chad Hissène Habré flees to Cameroon
1990 Iraq accepts Bush's offer for talks
1990 Lithuania, Estonia & Latvia hold their 1st joint session
1991 – Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1991 "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" closes at Gershwin NYC after 32 performances
1991 Colorado party wins Paraguay parliamentary election
1991 Nursultan Nazarbayev sworn in as president of Kazakhstan
1991 Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens' musical "Once on This Island", based on Rosa Guy's novel "My Love, My Love" (a Caribbean-set retelling of Hans Christian Andersen's "The Little Mermaid"), closes at Booth Theater, NYC, after 469 performances
1991 US 75th manned space mission "STS 44" Atlantis 10 lands
1992 2 C-141B Starlifters collide in Montana & crash, 13 die
1992 Amy Fisher, "The Long Island Lolita", sentenced 5-15 yrs for shooting Mary Jo Buttafuoco
1993 Northwest Airlink plane crashes in Minn, killing 18
1994 Ernesto Zedillo innaugrated as president of Mexico
1994 Jim Bakker, American televangelist and convicted fraud is released from jail
1994 Manuscript by Robert Schumann of his 2nd Symphony sells for $2.3M, a record for any 19th century work, at auction in London, England
1994 Rapper Tupac Shakur convicted on sexual assault charge, and later sentenced to up to 4 1/2 years in prison
1997 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Davenport IA on KORB 93.5 FM
1997 Westinghouse formally changes its name to CBS
1997 – In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
1998 Exxon announces a $73.7 billion USD deal to buy Mobil, creating Exxon-Mobil, the world's largest company.
1999 Rapper Jay-Z stabs record executive Lance "Un" Rivera at a night club in New York
2001 – Captain Bill Compton brings Trans World Airlines Flight 220, an MD-83, into St. Louis International Airport bringing to an end 76 years of TWA operations following TWA's purchase by American Airlines.
2003 "The Return of the King", 3rd and final film in the Lord of the Rings series, directed by Peter Jackson and starring Elijah Wood and Ian McKellen premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
2005 Musical "The Color Purple" based on the book by Alice Walker opens on Broadway, directed by Gary Griffin, produced by Scott Sanders, Quincy Jones and Oprah Winfrey, starring LaChanze as Celie (Tony Award Best Actress in a Musical)
2008 The US economy has been in recession since December 2007, the National Bureau of Economic Research announces
2009 – The Treaty of Lisbon, which amends the Treaty on European Union and the Treaty establishing the European Community, which together comprise the constitutional basis of European Union, comes into effect.
2012 8 people are killed and 36 injured after a bus overturns in Bolivia
2012 Enrique Peña Nieto sworn in as President of Mexico
2013 – China launches Yutu or Jade Rabbit, its first lunar rover, as part of the Chang'e 3 lunar exploration mission.
2013 – A derailment of a Metro-North Railroad train near Spuyten Duyvil, Bronx, New York City kills four and injures 61.
2014 "The Hobbit: Battle of the Five Armies", 3rd and final Hobbit film, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in London
2016 Crown Prince Maha Vajiralongkorn is declared King of Thailand, succeeding his father King Bhumibol Adulyadej
2016 French President Francois Hollande announces he will not seek a 2nd term - 1st modern French leader not to do so
2016 Gambia presidential election: dictator Yahya Jammeh is defeated by Adama Barrow after 22 years in power
2017 President Trump’s former national security adviser Michael Flynn pleads guilty to lying to the F.B.I.
2018 Ariana Grande releases the music video to her single "Thank U Next", biggest ever launch on Youtube Premiere
2018 Computer-animated film "Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse" starring Shameik Moore and Hailee Steinfeld premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Award Best Animated Film 2019)
2019 Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China
2018 Egyptian actress Rania Youssef charged for "inciting debauchery" after wearing see-through dress to Cairo film festival
2018 Syrian shadow puppetry added to UN list of cultural activities in urgent need of saving
2018 Violent demonstrations in Paris, France, by yellow-vest movement with 36,000 protesting nationwide
2018 World's first super-high definition 8K television channel by Japanese broadcaster NHK launches
2019 A newly developed apple that can last a year - the Cosmic Crisp goes on sale in Washington State, US
2019 Earliest traceable patient, a 55-year-old man, develops symptoms of a novel coronavirus (Covid-19) in Wuhan, China
2019 Iraqi parliament approves resignation of Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi after weeks of unrest and 400 deaths
December 1 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Prophet Nahum (7th century BC)
St. Onesimus, Archbishop of Ephesus (c. 107-17)
Saints Ananias and Solochonus, Archbishops of Ephesus
Hieromartyr Ananias of Persia (345)
Saint Porphyrios, Patriarch of Antioch (404-413)
Righteous Philaret the Merciful, of Amnia in Asia Minor (792)
Saint Anthony the New, monk of Kios in Bithynia (865)
Saint Theokletos, Archbishop of Sparta and Lacedaemonia (870)
2020 Chinese robotic spacecraft Chang’e-5 lands on the Moon as part of two-day mission to retrieve rock samples
2021 Tel Aviv named the world's most expensive city for the first time ahead of Singapore and Paris, with Damascus the cheapest
2021 Turner Art Prize awarded to activist group Array Collective for installation including mock Irish pub - first Northern Irish artists to win.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Felex de Valois, Comfessor. Double.
Edmund Campion and his Companions, Martyrs. Double.
Contemporary Western
Blessed Bruna Pellesi
Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Castritian
Eligius
Edmund Campion
Blessed Charles de Foucauld
Castritian
Eligius
Edmund Campion
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Nicholas Ferrar (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
St. Onesimus, Archbishop of Ephesus (c. 107-17)
Saints Ananias and Solochonus, Archbishops of Ephesus
Hieromartyr Ananias of Persia (345)
Saint Porphyrios, Patriarch of Antioch (404-413)
Righteous Philaret the Merciful, of Amnia in Asia Minor (792)
Saint Anthony the New, monk of Kios in Bithynia (865)
Saint Theokletos, Archbishop of Sparta and Lacedaemonia (870)
Saint Castritian, predecessor of St Calimerius as Bishop of Milan,
was bishop for forty-two years (137)
Hieromartyrs Diodorus and Marianus, and Companions,
martyrs in Rome under Numerian (c. 283)
Martyr Olympiades (Olympias), a noble from Rome (ex-consul)
martyred in Amelia in Italy under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Ansanus, called The Baptizer or The Apostle of Siena (304)[
Martyrs Lucius, Rogatus, Cassian and Candida, in Rome
Saint Ursicinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia in Italy,
he took part in the Council of Sardica (347)
Hieromartyr Evasius, first Bishop of Asti in Piedmont in Italy,
martyred under Julian the Apostate (c. 362)
Saint Leontius of Fréjus, Bishop of Fréjus in France from c. 419 to c. 432,
a great friend of St John Cassian who dedicated his first ten Conferences to him (c. 432)
Saint Candres of Maastricht, bishop who enlightened the Maastricht area (5th century)
Hieromartyr Proculus of Narni or Terni, martyred by Totila, King of the Goths (c. 542)
Saint Constantian, born in Auvergne, he became a monk at Micy (Orleans),
and founded a monastery at Javron (c. 570)
Saint Agericus (Aguy, Airy), Bishop, successor of St Desiderius
in Verdun in France (591)
Saint Eligius (Eloi, Eloy), Bishop of Noyon (Neth.) (660)
Saint Grwst the Confessor, in the Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd (7th century)
Translation of the relics of Saint Botolph (Botwulf of Thorney),
Abbot and Confessor, of Ikanhoe, England (680)
Repose of Righteous Virgin Barbara (Shulaeva) of Pilna (1980)
was bishop for forty-two years (137)
Hieromartyrs Diodorus and Marianus, and Companions,
martyrs in Rome under Numerian (c. 283)
Martyr Olympiades (Olympias), a noble from Rome (ex-consul)
martyred in Amelia in Italy under Diocletian (c. 303)
Saint Ansanus, called The Baptizer or The Apostle of Siena (304)[
Martyrs Lucius, Rogatus, Cassian and Candida, in Rome
Saint Ursicinus of Brescia, Bishop of Brescia in Italy,
he took part in the Council of Sardica (347)
Hieromartyr Evasius, first Bishop of Asti in Piedmont in Italy,
martyred under Julian the Apostate (c. 362)
Saint Leontius of Fréjus, Bishop of Fréjus in France from c. 419 to c. 432,
a great friend of St John Cassian who dedicated his first ten Conferences to him (c. 432)
Saint Candres of Maastricht, bishop who enlightened the Maastricht area (5th century)
Hieromartyr Proculus of Narni or Terni, martyred by Totila, King of the Goths (c. 542)
Saint Constantian, born in Auvergne, he became a monk at Micy (Orleans),
and founded a monastery at Javron (c. 570)
Saint Agericus (Aguy, Airy), Bishop, successor of St Desiderius
in Verdun in France (591)
Saint Eligius (Eloi, Eloy), Bishop of Noyon (Neth.) (660)
Saint Grwst the Confessor, in the Welsh Kingdom of Gwynedd (7th century)
Abbot and Confessor, of Ikanhoe, England (680)
Repose of Righteous Virgin Barbara (Shulaeva) of Pilna (1980)
Coptic Orthodox
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