1060 – Béla I is crowned king of Hungary.
1240 – Mongol invasion of Rus': Kiev under Daniel of Galicia and Voivode Dmytro falls to the Mongols under Batu Khan.
1534 – The city of Quito in Ecuador is founded by Spanish settlers led by Sebastián de Belalcázar.
1648 – Colonel Thomas Pride of the New Model Army purges the Long Parliament of MPs sympathetic to King Charles I of England, in order for the King's trial to go ahead; came to be known as "Pride's Purge".
1704 – Battle of Chamkaur: During the Mughal-Sikh Wars, an outnumbered Sikh Khalsa defeats a Mughal army.
1732 – Professional players in New York perform the first play in the American colonies.
1745 – Charles Edward Stuart's army begins retreat during the second Jacobite Rising.
1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, officially ending the institution of slavery, is ratified.
1877 – The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
1884 – The construction of the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed by Army engineers. The project took 34 years.
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1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1907 – An explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah, in West Virginia's Marion County, kills 362 coal miners. It was the worst mining disaster in American history.
1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
1917 – Halifax Explosion: At 9:05 a.m., a Belgian steamer and French freighter, both loaded with ammunition, explode in Canada's Halifax Harbor, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, leveling part of the town and leaving more than 1,900 people killed and approximately 8,000 injured. The eight-million tons of TNT carried by the ships was intended for use in World War I. It is the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives, ending a five-year Irish struggle for independence from Britain.
1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State, comprising four-fifths of Ireland, comes into existence.
1923 – President Calvin Coolidge makes the first US Presidential address broadcast on radio.
1907 – An explosion in a network of mines owned by the Fairmont Coal Company in Monongah, in West Virginia's Marion County, kills 362 coal miners. It was the worst mining disaster in American history.
1916 – World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
1917 – Finland declares independence from Russia.
1917 – Halifax Explosion: At 9:05 a.m., a Belgian steamer and French freighter, both loaded with ammunition, explode in Canada's Halifax Harbor, near Halifax, Nova Scotia, leveling part of the town and leaving more than 1,900 people killed and approximately 8,000 injured. The eight-million tons of TNT carried by the ships was intended for use in World War I. It is the largest artificial explosion up to that time.
1917 – World War I: USS Jacob Jones is the first American destroyer to be sunk by enemy action when it is torpedoed by German submarine SM U-53.
1921 – The Anglo-Irish Treaty is signed in London by British and Irish representatives, ending a five-year Irish struggle for independence from Britain.
1922 – One year to the day after the signing of the Anglo-Irish Treaty, the Irish Free State, comprising four-fifths of Ireland, comes into existence.
1923 – President Calvin Coolidge makes the first US Presidential address broadcast on radio.
1928 – The government of Colombia sends military forces to suppress a month-long strike by United Fruit Company workers, resulting in an unknown number of deaths.
1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1941 – World War II: The United Kingdom and Canada declare war on Finland in support of the Soviet Union during the Continuation War. Camp X opens in Canada to begin training Allied Secret Agents for the War.
1941: President Roosevelt—convinced on the basis of intelligence reports that the Japanese fleet is headed for Thailand, not the United States—sends a telegram to Emperor Hirohito with the request that "for the sake of humanity," the emperor intervene "to prevent further death and destruction in the world."
1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
1956 – A violent water polo match between Hungary and the USSR takes place during the 1956 Summer Olympics in Melbourne, against the backdrop of the 1956 Hungarian Revolution.
1957 – Project Vanguard: A launchpad explosion of Vanguard TV3 thwarts the first United States attempt to launch a satellite into Earth orbit.
1961: U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff authorized combat missions by Operation Farm Gate pilots. With this order, U.S. Air Force pilots were given the go-ahead to undertake combat missions against the Viet Cong as long as at least one Vietnamese national was carried on board the strike aircraft for training purposes,
1967 – Adrian Kantrowitz performs the first human heart transplant in the United States.
1969 – Meredith Hunter is killed by Hells Angels during a Rolling Stones concert at the Altamont Speedway in California.
1971 – Pakistan severs diplomatic relations with India, initiating the Indo-Pakistani War of 1971.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3.)
1975 – The Troubles: Fleeing from the police, a Provisional IRA unit takes a couple hostage in Balcombe Street, London, beginning a six-day siege.
1977 – South Africa grants independence to Bophuthatswana, although it is not recognized by any other country.
1978 – Spain approves its latest constitution in a referendum.
1982 – The Troubles: The Irish National Liberation Army bombed a pub frequented by British soldiers in Ballykelly, Northern Ireland. It killed eleven soldiers and six civilians.
1988 – The Australian Capital Territory is granted self-government.
1989 – The École Polytechnique massacre (or Montreal Massacre): Marc Lépine, an anti-feminist gunman, murders 14 young women at the École Polytechnique in Montreal.
1991 – In Croatia, forces of the Yugoslav People's Army bombard Dubrovnik after laying siege to the city since May.
1992 – The Babri Masjid in Ayodhya, India, is demolished, leading to widespread riots causing the death of over 1,500 people.
1997 – A Russian Antonov An-124 cargo plane crashes into an apartment complex near Irkutsk, Siberia, killing 67.
2005 – Several villagers are shot dead during protests in Dongzhou, China.
2005 – An Iranian Air Force C-130 military transport aircraft crashes into a ten-floor apartment building in a residential area of Tehran, killing all 84 on board and 44 more on the ground.
2006 – NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars.
2008 – The 2008 Greek riots break out upon the killing of a 15-year-old boy, Alexandros Grigoropoulos, by a police officer.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Nicolas, Archbishop of Myra, Confessor. Double.
Contemporary Western
Abraham of Kratia
Aemilianus
Blessed János Scheffler
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras
Nicholas of Myra, and its related observances:
Aemilianus
Blessed János Scheffler
María del Monte Carmelo Sallés y Barangueras
Nicholas of Myra, and its related observances:
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
Eastern Orthodox
Saints
Martyr Niser, under Maximian, by fire (c. 286-305)
Saint Nicholas the Wonderworker (Nicholas of Myra),
Archbishop of Myra in Lycia (c. 345)
Saint Nicholas, Bishop of Patara, uncle of St. Nicholas of Myra (4th century)
Saint Abramius, Bishop of Cratea (Kratia) in Bithynia (6th century)
Pre-Schism Western Saints
Saints Auxilius, Isserninus and Secundinus, missisonaries with St Patrick
in the enlightenment of Ireland (5th century)
Martyrs Dionysia, Dativa, Leontia, Tertius, Emilian, Boniface, Majoricus,
and Servus, in North Africa under the Arian Vandal Hunneric (c. 484)
Saint Gertrude the Elder, founder and first Abbess of Hamaye
(Hamay, Hamage) near Douai, in north France (649)
Post-Schism Orthodox Saints
New Martyr Nicholas of Karamania, in Asia Minor (1657)
New Martyrs and Confessors
Hieromartyr Grigol Peradze of Georgia,
Archimandrite, Hieromartyr (1942)
Other commemorations
The miraculous apparition of St. Nicholas
at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
The Wonderworking icon of St. Nicholas the Drenched
of St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kiev
Name Day of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II (1918)
at the First Ecumenical Council (325)
The Wonderworking icon of St. Nicholas the Drenched
of St. Sophia’s Cathedral in Kiev
Name Day of Royal Martyr Tsar Nicholas II (1918)
Coptic Orthodox
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