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565 – Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
655 – Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532 – Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1533 – Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705 – Battle of Zsibó: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
1777 – American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate, the Continental Congress, sitting in its temporary capital of York, Pennsylvania, agreed to adopt the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union. Not until March 1, 1781, would the last of the 13 states, Maryland, ratify the agreement.
1791 – The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 – Pike expedition: Approaching the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains during his second exploratory expedition, Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak that looked "like a small blue cloud." The mountain was later named Pike's Peak in his honor.
1859 – The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 – American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman began his expedition across Georgia by torching the industrial section of Atlanta and pulling away from his supply lines. For the next six weeks, Sherman's army destroyed most of the state before capturing the Confederate seaport of Savannah, Georgia.
1889 – Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914 – Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1917: With his country embroiled in a bitter international conflict that would eventually take the lives of over 1 million of its young men, 76-year-old Georges Clemenceau was named prime minister of France for the second time.
1920 – First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1920 – The Free City of Danzig is established.
1922 – Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1926 – The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 – The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
1935 – Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
1939 – In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 – World War II: The naval Battle of Guadalcanal ended during World War II with a decisive U.S. victory over Japanese forces.
1943 – The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler makes public an order that Gypsies and those of mixed Gypsy blood are to be put on "the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1945 – Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 – Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 – Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1955 – The first part of Saint Petersburg Metro is opened.
1959 – The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966 – Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 – A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 – The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 – Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 – Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
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1971 – Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 – René Lévesque and the Parti Québécois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1977: President Jimmy Carter welcomed Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, the shah of Iran, and his wife, Empress (or "Shahbanou") Farrah, to Washington. Over the next two days, Carter and Pahlavi discussed improving relations between the two countries. Two years later, the two leaders' political fates would be further entwined when Islamic fundamentalists overthrew the shah and took Americans hostage in Tehran.
1978 – A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 – A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 – Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 – A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 – Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 – In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 – In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 – Israeli–Palestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 – The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 – The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 – A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 – Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002 – Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 – The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2006 – Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 – Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012 – Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2012 – Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Gertrude, Virgin. Double.
Contemporary Western
Abibus of Edessa
Albert the Great
Blessed Caius of Korea
Blessed Hugh Faringdon
Didier of Cahors
Leopold III
Malo
Mechell
Roque González de Santa Cruz
Albert the Great
Blessed Caius of Korea
Blessed Hugh Faringdon
Didier of Cahors
Leopold III
Malo
Mechell
Roque González de Santa Cruz
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Francis Asbury and George Whitefield (Episcopal Church)
Eastern Orthodox
November 15 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyr Demetrius of Thrace, from the village Davoudio/Dabuda
close to town Amapasos/Amapas, by beheading (298)
Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias (299), Samonas (306),
and Abibus (322), of Edessa.
Saint Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia (4th century)
Martyrs Eupsychios, Nearchos and Karterios
Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius,
who suffered under Julian the Apostate
Saint Thomas the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (665-668)
Saint Eugene, preached the Gospel with St Dionysius,
Bishop of Paris in France, and was martyred
Saint Felix of Nola, first Bishop of Nola near Naples in Italy,
martyred with thirty companions (287)
Martyrs Secundus, Fidentian and Varicus, in North Africa.
Saint Luperius, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (6th or 8th century)
Saint Malo (Maclovius, Machutis, Maclou), first Bishop of Aleth (c. 640)
Saint Desiderius (Didier), who succeeded his own brother,
St Rusticus, as Bishop of Cahors in France (655)
Saint Machudd (Machell), founder of the monastery of Llanfechell
in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)
Saint Paduinus (Pavin), a monk at the monastery of St Vincent in Le Mans
in France, then first Abbot of St Mary's near Le Mans (c. 703)
Saint Arnulf, Bishop of Toul in France (871)
Saint Findan (Fintan), hermit (879)
Venerable Philip, Abbot of Rabang, Vologda (1457)
Venerable Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos (1794)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Peter Kondarov, priests,
Gregory Dolinin and Nicetas Almazov, deacons (1937)[
Beginning of the Nativity Fast
Commemoration of the pious Emperor Justin and Theodora
Translation of the relics (1935-36) of Saint Gregory,
Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150), to Lesvos
(On the Sunday between November 11-17 each year)
"Kupyatich" Icon (1180) of the Most Holy Theotokos
Repose of St. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836)
Martyr Demetrius of Thrace, from the village Davoudio/Dabuda
close to town Amapasos/Amapas, by beheading (298)
Holy Martyrs and Confessors Gurias (299), Samonas (306),
and Abibus (322), of Edessa.
Saint Quinctian, Bishop of Seleucia (4th century)
Martyrs Eupsychios, Nearchos and Karterios
Martyrs Elpidius, Marcellus, and Eustochius,
who suffered under Julian the Apostate
Saint Thomas the New, Patriarch of Constantinople (665-668)
Saint Eugene, preached the Gospel with St Dionysius,
Bishop of Paris in France, and was martyred
Saint Felix of Nola, first Bishop of Nola near Naples in Italy,
martyred with thirty companions (287)
Martyrs Secundus, Fidentian and Varicus, in North Africa.
Saint Luperius, Bishop of Verona and Confessor (6th or 8th century)
Saint Malo (Maclovius, Machutis, Maclou), first Bishop of Aleth (c. 640)
Saint Desiderius (Didier), who succeeded his own brother,
St Rusticus, as Bishop of Cahors in France (655)
Saint Machudd (Machell), founder of the monastery of Llanfechell
in Anglesey in Wales (7th century)
Saint Paduinus (Pavin), a monk at the monastery of St Vincent in Le Mans
in France, then first Abbot of St Mary's near Le Mans (c. 703)
Saint Arnulf, Bishop of Toul in France (871)
Saint Findan (Fintan), hermit (879)
Venerable Philip, Abbot of Rabang, Vologda (1457)
Venerable Paisius (Velichkovsky) of Moldavia and Mt. Athos (1794)
New Hieromartyrs Nicholas and Peter Kondarov, priests,
Gregory Dolinin and Nicetas Almazov, deacons (1937)[
Beginning of the Nativity Fast
Commemoration of the pious Emperor Justin and Theodora
Translation of the relics (1935-36) of Saint Gregory,
Bishop of Assos near Ephesus (1150), to Lesvos
(On the Sunday between November 11-17 each year)
"Kupyatich" Icon (1180) of the Most Holy Theotokos
Repose of St. Herman of Alaska, Wonderworker of Alaska (1836)
Coptic Orthodox
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