587 – Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
936 – Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
1240 Batu Khan's Mongol army lays siege to Kyiv and begins assaulting its city walls with catapults, city falls 8 days later
1291 Eleanor of Castile, wife of King Edward I of England, dies in Northamptonshire. Crosses are erected where her body rests on the way to London.
1443 – Albanian George Kastriotis Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in Middle Albania from the Ottomans and raise the Albanian flag.
1470 – Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
1520 – After navigating through the dangerous straits at the southern end of South America that now bear his name, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan enter the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail to the Pacific Ocean from the Atlantic Ocean.
1569 Duke of Alva forces bishop Nicolaas van Nieuwland of Haarlem to resign
1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare, 18, and Anne Hathaway, 26, pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence. Six months later, Anne gave birth to their daughter, Susanna, and two years later, to twins.
1600 The Royal Society is founded at Gresham College in London, England, following a lecture by Sir Christopher Wren, Professor of Astronomy
1627 – The Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth Navy has its greatest and last victory in the Battle of Oliwa.
1660 – At Gresham College, twelve men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray decide to found what is later known as the Royal Society.
1666 – At least 3,000 men of the Royal Scots Army led by Tam Dalyell of the Binns defeat about 900 Covenanter rebels in the Battle of Rullion Green.
1670 Pierre Corneille's "Tite et Berenice" premieres in Paris
1717 Blackbeard attacks and captures a French merchant slave ship, which he renames as his flagship the "Queen Anne's Revenge"
1720 Anne Bonny and Mary Read are tried, found guilty of pirating, and sentenced to death in Spanish Town, Jamaica, although their discovered pregnancies win them stays of execution
1729 Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1745 French troops and Indian forces attack Saratoga, NY, killing many and taking prisoners
1754 Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d'Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences
1757 Britain condemns Convention of Kloster-Zeven
1775 Second Continental Congress formally establishes the Continental Navy
1777: After the judgment and loyalty of Silas Deane is called into question, Congress appoints John Adams to succeed Deane as the commissioner to France.
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed between the Confederation Congress of the United States of America and the Cherokee people
1795 US pays $800,000 & a frigate as tribute to Algiers & Tunis
1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
1813 Cossacks occupy Utrecht
1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.
1821 – Panama Independence Day: Panama declares independence from Spain and joins Gran Colombia.
1828 – Greek War of Independence: The French Morea expedition to recapture Morea (now the Peloponnese) ends when the last Ottoman forces depart the peninsula.
1843 – Ka Lā Hui (Hawaiian Independence Day): The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1847 Church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali in Bologna, Italy initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo
1853 Olympia forms as capital of Washington Territory
1854 Dutch army stops Chinese uprising in Borneo
1861 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy
1862 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Cane Hill, Arkansas, Union troops under General James G. Blunt drive Confederates under General John Marmaduke back into the Boston Mountains in northwestern Arkansas (475 casualties).
1862 Battle of Hooly Spring, MS
1864 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones's Plantation, Georgia
1864 Battle of New Creek, West Virginia (Rosser's Raid, Ft Kelly)
1871 Ku Klux Klan trials began in Federal District Court in South Carolina
1875 British explorer Verney Cameron reaches East Africa
1878 Whistler v. Ruskin, the most famous trial in art history, ends with artist James McNeill Whistler awarded a token farthing in compensation after suing the writer and critic John Ruskin for libel, seeking £1,000 damages
1879 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
1885 – Bulgarian victory in the Serbo-Bulgarian War preserves the Unification of Bulgaria.
1893 – New Zealand becomes the first country in which women vote in a national election.
1895 – Organized by the Chicago Times-Herald, the first American automobile race takes place. Six cars raced over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours, averaging 7 m.p.h.
1899 – The Second Boer War: a British column is engaged by Boer forces at the Battle of Modder River (Cape Colony). British Lord Methuen defeats Boer forces of Piet Cronjé and Koos de la Rey. Although the Boers withdraw, the British suffer heavy casualties.
1901 Gustav Mahler conducts premiere of his 4th Symphony in G, at Kaim-Saal concert hall in Maxvorstadt, Munich, Germany to mixed reviews
1904 Germany defeats Hottentotten in Warmbad SW-Africa
1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith founds Sinn Féin as a political party with the main aim of establishing a dual monarchy in Ireland.
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna, Pennsylvania
1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered to be one of the most technically challenging piano concertos in the standard classical repertoire, at the New Theatre in New York City, with the composer as soloist and the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch
1910 – The Liberal Party, led by Eleftherios Venizelos, wins the second Greek general election of the year.
1911 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
1912 – Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from the Ottoman Empire in Vlorë.
1914 – World War I: The New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) reopens for bond trading after nearly four months, the longest stoppage in the exchange's history. The outbreak of World War I in Europe forced the NYSE to shut its doors on July 31, 1914, after large numbers of foreign investors began selling their holdings in hopes of raising money for the war effort. All of the world's financial markets followed suit and closed their doors by August 1.
1916 1st German air attack on London
1917 Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC
1917 – The Estonian Provincial Assembly declares itself the sovereign power of Estonia.
1918 – Bukovina votes for union with the Kingdom of Romania.
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates
1919 – American-born Nancy Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom with a substantial majority. She is the first woman ever to sit in the House of Commons. Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit. Lady Astor took the Unionist seat of her husband, Waldorf Astor, who was moving up to an inherited seat in the House of Lords.
1920 – Irish War of Independence: Kilmichael Ambush: The Irish Republican Army ambush a convoy of British Auxiliaries and kill seventeen.
1921 Ascension of 'Abdu'l-Baha (Baha'i festival-Qawl 6, 78)
1922 6 ex-ministers executed in Greece
1922 Captain Cyril Turner (RAF) gives 1st skywriting exhibition (NYC) Turner spelled out "Hello USA. Call Vanderbilt 7200." 47,000 called
1924 Pieter Jelle Troelstra leaves Dutch 2nd Chamber
1925 7th French government of Aristide Briand sworn-in
1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville, Tennessee.
1927 J McHugh & D Fields' musical "Delmar's Revels" premieres in NYC.
1929 Richard E. Byrd makes his 1st South Pole flight
1930 Howard Hanson's 2nd Symphony "Romantic" premieres
1932 Groucho Marx performs on radio for the first time
1933 A Dallas grand jury delivers a murder indictment against Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow for the January 1933 killing of Tarrant County Deputy Malcolm Davis.
1934 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power.
1938 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 premieres in Moscow, USSR.
1939 Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat.
1939 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
1940 Dutch law professor Rudolph Cleveringa arrested by Nazis
1941 German troops vacate Rostov
1942 – One of the deadliest fires in U.S. history occurs in Boston, Massachusetts, as 492 people die in a fire in the Cocoanut Grove nightclub at 22 Shawmut Street. The tragedy led to a reform of codes and safety standards across the country.1943 – World War II: Tehran Conference: U.S. President Franklin Delano Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran to discuss strategies for winning World War II and potential terms for a peace settlement.
1944 1st allied ship sails into Schelde Antwerp
1944 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1944 In reprisal 40 Dutch men are executed by Nazis
1944 US 121st Infantry regiment occupies Hurtgen
1946 Dutch Nazi Anton Mussert sentenced to death
1946 French Fourth Republic government led by Georges Bidault resigns
1948 "Hopalong Cassidy" premieres on TV
1949 "Texas, Li'l Darlin'" opens at Mark Hellinger NYC for 293 performances
1951 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC
1951 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
1953 "Wish You Were Here" closes at Imperial Theater NYC after 597 performances
1956 Photography begins on "... & God Created Women"
1957 "Look Homeward, Angel" play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1958 US reports 1st full-range firing of an Intercontinental ballistic missile
1959 Pope John XXIII publishes encyclical Princeps Pastorum.
1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France (National Day).
1961 General Meeting of UN debates New Guinea
1961 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich
1960 – Mauritania becomes independent of France (National Day).
1961 General Meeting of UN debates New Guinea
1961 Martin Walser's "Der Abstecher" premieres in Munich
1962 Telegraph between Netherlands & Indonesia restored
1963 The Beatles "She Loves You" unusually, returns to #1 in UK record chart and reaches 1 million copies sold
1964 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4, first probe to fly by Mars.
1964 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon Johnson's top advisers--Maxwell Taylor, Dean Rusk, Robert McNamara, and other members of the National Security Council--agree to recommend that the president adopt a plan for a two-stage escalation of the bombing of North Vietnam.
1965 – Vietnam War: In response to U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson's call for "more flags" in Vietnam, Philippine President-elect Ferdinand Marcos announces he will send troops to help fight in South Vietnam.
1966 – Michel Micombero overthrows the monarchy of Burundi and makes himself the first president; a republic is declared.
1966 Dominican Republic adopts constitution
1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University.
1968 John Lennon is fined £150 for unauthorized drug possession.
1971 "Me Nobody Knows" closes at Helen Hayes Theater, NYC, after 587 performances.
1971 – Fred Quilt, a leader of the Tsilhqot'in First Nation suffers severe abdominal injuries allegedly caused by Royal Canadian Mounted Police officers; he dies two days later.
1971 – Wasfi al-Tal, Prime Minister of Jordan, is assassinated by the Black September unit of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
1972 "Via Galactica" opens at Uris Theater NYC for 7 performances
1972 2 members of the IRA are killed in a premature bomb explosion in the Bogside area of Derry
1972 – Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison. The chief executioner is André Obrecht. (Bontems had been found innocent of murder, but as Buffet's accomplice was condemned to death anyway)
1973 Arab League summit in Algiers recognizes Palestine
1974 John Lennon's last concert appearance, as a guest of Elton John, Madison Square Garden, New York City NYC; they perform "Whatever Gets You Thru the Night"; "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds"; and "I Saw Her Standing There".
1975 "As the World Turns" and "The Edge of Night", the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.
1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal; Democratic Republic of East-Timor proclaimed.
1975 Wings release single "Venus & Mars/Rock Show" medley
1978 Atlantic Records releases "Briefcase Full of Blues", the debut album by The Blues Brothers (Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi); album tops the chart and becomes best-selling blues record of all-time
1979 "King of Schnorrers" opens at Playhouse Theater NYC for 63 performances.
1979 – Air New Zealand Flight 901, a DC-10 sightseeing flight over Antarctica, crashes into Mount Erebus, killing all 257 people on board, making it New Zealand's deadliest peacetime disaster.
1979 Pope John Paul II's first papal visit to Turkey, almost 1 1/2 years before Turkish native Mehmet Ali Agca attempts to kill him.
1980 – Iran–Iraq War: Operation Morvarid: The bulk of the Iraqi Navy is destroyed by the Iranian Navy in the Persian Gulf. (Commemorated in Iran as Navy Day.)
1981 – Our Lady of Kibeho: Schoolchildren in Kibeho, Rwanda, experience the first of a series of Marian apparitions.
1981 "Merrily We Roll Along" closes at Alvin Theater NYC after 16 performances
1981 New Zealand general election won by ruling National party and Prime Minister Robert Muldoon
1982 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
1983 9th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 6 launches
1983 9th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia 6 launches
1984 Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States
1985 6th Belgium government of Martens forms
1986 OPEC reaches oil production accord
1986 US Reagan administration exceeds SALT II arms limitations for 1st time
1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on board.
1988 Picasso's "Acrobat & Harlequin" sells for $38.46 million
1989 Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"
1989 – Cold War: Velvet Revolution: Confronted by the collapse of communist regimes in neighboring countries and growing protests in the streets, officials of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announce that it will give up its monopoly monopoly on political power. Elections held the following month brought the first non-communist government to office in over 40 years.
1990 Conservative Party chooses John Major to succeed Margaret Thatcher as leader and Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
1990 Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his term as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister.
1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
2004 Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
1991 – South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
1993 "Gray's Anatomy" opens at Beaumont Theater NYC for 13 performances
1993 "Mixed Emotions" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 48 performances
1993 Carlos Reina wins Honduras presidential election
1994 Convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by fellow inmate Christopher Scarver in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium in Portage, Wisconsin.
1994 Norway votes against joining European Union.
1995 James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack.
1997 Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV.
1997 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia..
1998 The people of Albania vote for their new Constitution in a referendum.
2000 Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze
2002 – Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with surface-to-air missiles.
2004 Male Poʻo-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
2008 Sweden technically enters the recession after experiencing contraction of 0.1% in the second and third quarter.
2012 "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 1st of the Hobbit film series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
2013 – A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 45 others.
2014 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
2012 "The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey" 1st of the Hobbit film series, directed by Peter Jackson, starring Martin Freeman and Ian McKellen, premieres in Wellington, New Zealand
2013 – A 5.6 earthquake in Iran kills seven people and injures 45 others.
2014 – Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
2016 Musical "Hamilton" starring Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Ramos sets new record for most money earned in a week on Broadway - $3.3 million.
2016 Plane carrying Brazilian Chapecoense football team crashes near Medellin, Colombia killing 71 players and journalists.
2017 India's Supreme Court rejects appeal to block global release of controversial film "Padmavati".
2017 Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya
2018 Australian state Queensland raises its fire warning to "catastrophic" for the first time as 130 fires burn.
2018 French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public.
2019 European parliament declares a climate emergency.
2019 Iraqi security forces open fire on protesters killing at least 25 in Nasiriya a day after the Iranian embassy in Najais is burnt down.
2019 Zimbabwe on the brink of man-made starvation according to the UN.
2020 At least 110 people killed in attack on Koshobe village in north-east Nigeria by Boko Haram jihadist group.
2020 Joe Biden injures his foot playing with his dog Major.
2020 Thousands of farmers begin entering Delhi to protest proposed agriculture reforms.
2021 Honduras presidential elections: Xiomara Castro elected country's first female president (declared 2 Dec).
2022 50 million birds killed in record-breaking outbreak of avian flu across the US according to Department of Agriculture, amid similar outbreaks elsewhere around the world.
2022 Cocaine “super-cartel” that controlled one-third of European trade broken up in 'Operation Desert Light' by Europol, with 30 tones of the drug seized and 49 people arrested.
2022 London's Horniman Museum, becomes first UK museum to return items, including Benin Bronzes to Nigeria, originally looted from Benin City by British troops in 1897.
2022 Merriam-Webster's word of the year is 'gaslighting' while Collins' is 'permacrisis'.
2022 Qatar Football World Cup Chief Hassan Al-Thawadi confirms 400-5000 immigrant workers died during the building of world cup venues.
2022 Recent protests in Iran have killed 451 protesters and 60 security forces according to Human Rights Activist in Iran group, with 18,000 detained. Iranian government says number killed is 300.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Jehoshaphat, Archbishop of Polotsk, Martyr. Double.
Contemporary Western
Catherine Labouré
Pope Gregory III
Pope Gregory III
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Feast of the Holy Sovereigns (Episcopal Diocese of Hawaii)
Kamehameha and Emma (Episcopal Church (USA))
Eastern Orthodox
November 28 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
Martyr Irenarchus and Seven Women-martyrs at Sebaste (303)
Martyrs at Tiberiopolis (361-362):
Timothy and Theodore, bishops;
Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore, and Nicephorus, presbyters;
Basil and Thomas, deacons;
Hieroteus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius, and Eusebius, monks;
Etymasius.
Venerable Monk-martyr and Confessor Stephen the New
of Mt. St. Auxentius (767)
Martyrs: Basil, Stephen, Gregory, another Gregory, John, Andrew,
Peter, Anna, and many others (767)
Saint Romanos, Bisop of Macedonia
Saint Rufus and Companions, a citizen of Rome who was martyred
with his entire household under Diocletian (304)
Saints Papinianus and Mansuetus, Bishops in North Africa martyred
under the Arian Vandal King Genseric (5th century)
Saints Valerian, Urban, Crescens, Eustacius Cresconius, Crescentian,
Felix, Hortulanus and Florentian, Bishops from North Africa exiled
by the Arian King Genseric (5th century)
Saint Fionnchu, the successor of St. Comgall at the monastery
of Bangor in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Hippolytus, Bishop of Saint-Claude in France (c. 775)
Blessed Theodore, Archbishop of Rostov (1394)
Martyr Christos of Constantinople (1748)
New Hieromartyr Constantine Zverev of Alma-Ata, Deacon (1920)
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius Gribkov, Alexis Veselovsky, Peter Voron, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Senkevich, Deacon (1937)
Virgin-Martyr Paraskeva Fedorov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Krylov, Priest (1941)
Uncovering of the relics (2000) of Venerable Sergius (Srebriansky),
Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)
Martyrs at Tiberiopolis (361-362):
Timothy and Theodore, bishops;
Peter, John, Sergius, Theodore, and Nicephorus, presbyters;
Basil and Thomas, deacons;
Hieroteus, Daniel, Chariton, Socrates, Comasius, and Eusebius, monks;
Etymasius.
Venerable Monk-martyr and Confessor Stephen the New
of Mt. St. Auxentius (767)
Martyrs: Basil, Stephen, Gregory, another Gregory, John, Andrew,
Peter, Anna, and many others (767)
Saint Romanos, Bisop of Macedonia
with his entire household under Diocletian (304)
Saints Papinianus and Mansuetus, Bishops in North Africa martyred
under the Arian Vandal King Genseric (5th century)
Saints Valerian, Urban, Crescens, Eustacius Cresconius, Crescentian,
Felix, Hortulanus and Florentian, Bishops from North Africa exiled
by the Arian King Genseric (5th century)
Saint Fionnchu, the successor of St. Comgall at the monastery
of Bangor in Ireland (6th century)
Saint Hippolytus, Bishop of Saint-Claude in France (c. 775)
Martyr Christos of Constantinople (1748)
New Hieromartyr Seraphim (Chichagov), Metropolitan of St. Petersburg (1937)
New Hieromartyrs Nazarius Gribkov, Alexis Veselovsky, Peter Voron, Priests (1937)
New Hieromartyr Alexis Senkevich, Deacon (1937)
Virgin-Martyr Paraskeva Fedorov (1938)
New Hieromartyr Nicholas Krylov, Priest (1941)
Archimandrite, of Tver (1948)
Repose of Herman of Alaska, the anniversary of his actual death (1836)
Coptic Orthodox
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