Julian Made Constantius' Heir
355 Roman Emperor Constantius II proclaims his cousin Julian as Caesar and heir apparent
- 1153 Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude (aka Matilda)
- 1455 Lawsuit between Johann Gutenberg and Johann Fust concerning the printing press is decided in favor of Fust, with the Gutenberg's printing press turned over to him
- 1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes first known European to set foot in Texas
- 1534 Zealand hit by heavy storm
- 1572 Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
- 1657 Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
Lincoln Elected President
1860 Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois elected the 16th President of the United States of America
Davis Confederate President
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as US Confederate President
- 1862 New York-San Francisco direct telegraphic link forms
- 1863 Battle of Rogersville, Tennessee, Confederates recapture Rogersville
- 1864 Battle of Droop Mountain, West Virginia (Averell's Raid)
- 1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels
- 1865 Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
- 1869 1st US college football game, players used their hands or feet, Rutgers 6 Princeton 4
Samfundets Stotter
1878 Henrik Ibsen's play "Samfundets Stotter" (pillars of Society) premieres in Oslo
- 1879 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
- 1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
- 1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
- 1884 Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU Championship game
- 1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada, directed to close
Harrison Defeats Cleveland
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) is elected US President, defeating sitting President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland receives slightly more votes
- 1900 Battle at Bothaville: Major General Charles Knox beats Boers
McKinley Defeats Bryan
1900 Republican US President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan
- 1903 USA recognizes independence of Panama
Hughes Defeats Hearst
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Governor beating William Randolph Hearst
- 1906 Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
- 1908 Leonid Andreyev's "Dui Nashey Zhizni" premieres in St Petersburg
- 1910 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
- 1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico
Gandhi Arrested
1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa
- 1914 The British land troops (mostly from the Indian Army) at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and will begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts
- 1915 1st military flight in Dutch East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
- 1915 Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
- 1917 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections
Red October
1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution
- 1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed
- 1918 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
- 1918 WWI: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
- 1919 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel" is broadcast
- 1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
- 1928 Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
- 1928 Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
Hoover Elected President
1928 Republican candidate Herbert Hoover is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Al Smith
- 1928 Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king
- 1929 Providence Steam Roller become first NFL team to host a game at night under floodlights; lose 16-0 against the Chicago Cardinals at the Cycledrome, Providence, RI
- 1932 German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
- 1934 NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
- 1935 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
- 1936 RCA displays TV for press
French Without Tears
1936 Terence Rattigan's play "French Without Tears" premieres in London
- 1938 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, in a charity all-star game
- 1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
- 1939 World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Kraków and deported
- 1939 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
FDR Re-Elected
1940 Franklin D. Roosevelt re-elected US President
- 1941 Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
- 1941 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
- 1942 Indonesian independence movement Empat Serangkai founded by Sukarno, Mohammed Hatta, Ki Hajar Dewantara and Mas Mansur
- 1942 Nazis kill 12,000 Jews in the Minsk ghetto
- 1943 "Catulli Carmina (Songs of Catullus)", the second work of Carl Orff's Trionfi cantata trilogy premieres at the Leipzig Opera
- 1943 Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
- 1943 Soviet troops land on Kertsj peninsula
- 1945 House Committee on Un-American Activities begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
- 1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down
Wojtyla's First Mass
1946 Karol Wojtyla (future Pope John Paul II) holds his first Mass as newly ordained Catholic priest in Wawel Cathedral's crypt
About our Fatherland
1952 Dmitri Shostakovich's cantata "About our Fatherland" premieres
Eisenhower Defeats Stevensonn
1956 Dwight D. Eisenhower is re-elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate Adlai Stevenson
- 1956 Netherlands and Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviet actions in the Hungarian Revolution
- 1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation
- 1957 Felix Gaillard becomes Prime Minister of France
- 1958 AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
- 1958 Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
- 1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith (invented game of basketball - actually Canadian)
- 1962 BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
- 1962 Edward W. Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
- 1962 Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
- 1962 Statue of Joseph Stalin in Prague is removed as part of de-Stalinzation efforts
Ted Kennedy
1962 Ted Kennedy 1st elected as Democratic Senator for Massachusetts
- 1962 UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
- 1964 WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
- 1966 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
- 1967 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
- 1967 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
Film Premiere
1968 Psychedelic feature film "Head" starring the Monkees, and co-written by Jack Nicholson, a premieres in New York City
Man With the Golden Gun Films
1973 James Bond film "Man With the Golden Gun" starring Roger Moore begins filming
- 1974 Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
Film Premiere
1975 Fil adaptation of Neil Simon's comedy "The Sunshine Boys", starring Walter Matthau and George Burns premieres; Burns wins an Academy Award
Sex Pistols Perform
1975 First performance by punk band the Sex Pistols at St Martins College, London
Military Rule Begins
1978 Shah of Iran Mohammad Reza Pahlavi places the country under military rule; General Gholām Reza Azhāri forms government
Holmes vs. Snipes
1981 Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
Reagan Defeats Mondale
1984 Incumbent Republican President Ronald Reagan re-elected President of the United States in a landslide; wins 49 states, and defeats Democrat Walter Mondale
- 1984 Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
- 1985 22nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-A): Challenger 9 lands at Edwards AFB
- 1985 Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil
- 1985 M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
- 1985 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
- 1986 "Just Like the First Time" second studio album by Freddie Jackson is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1987)
- 1986 Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
- 1986 President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
- 1986 Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
- 1988 Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
19th NYC Marathon
1988 Steve Jones wins 19th NYC men's marathon (2:08:20); Grete Waitz wins record 9th women's title
- 1989 US marshals & FCC seize pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
I'm Your Baby Tonight
1990 "I'm Your Baby Tonight" 3rd studio album by Whitney Houston is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1991)
Arsenio's Hollywood Star
1990 Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
- 1990 Braves' Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
- 1990 Fire destroys some of Universal Studios' stages
- 1990 Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
- 1990 Iran's oil-producing region suffers a serious earthquake
- 1991 Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
- 1991 Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
- 1991 Maximus 2.0 BBS released
- 1991 Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
Communist Party Outlawed
1991 Russian President Boris Yeltsin outlaws the Communist Party
Kuwaiti Oil Fires
1991 The last oil fire in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops is extinguished
- 1993 Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
Holyfield vs. Bowe
1993 Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
- 1994 Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tajikistan
Cleveland Browns
1995 Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Baltimore, Maryland
Yitzhak Rabin
1995 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians
The English Patient
1996 "The English Patient" based on the novel by Michael Ondaatje, directed by Anthony Minghella and starring Ralph Fiennes, Juliette Binoche and Kristen Scott Thomas premieres in Los Angeles (Best Picture 1997)
- 1996 LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
- 1997 SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
- 1999 4th Rugby World Cup Final, Millennium Stadium, Cardiff: Wallabies fullback Matt Burke lands 7 penalties and 2 conversions as Australia beats France, 35-12
- 1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
- 2001 Crude oil for December delivery on the New York Mercantile Exchange (NYMEX) falls to a two-year low after OPEC members warn that a downward price spiral could occur if major non-OPEC oil exporters do not reduce oil production
24 Premieres
2001 TV drama series "24" starring Kiefer Sutherland premieres on Fox
- 2002 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
- 2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing 6 and injuring 150.
- 2004 Russian owned, Liberian flagged tanker 'Tropical Brilliance' gets stuck in the Suez Canal for 3 days, blocking all traffic
Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire
2005 "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire", the 4th film based on the books by J. K. Rowling, premieres in London. Goes on to become most successful film of the year, earning almost US$ 900 million.
- 2005 The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and Southwestern Indiana.
- 2005 The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon to Pyinmana.
- 2006 11.77" (29.89 cm) of rainfall, 10.17" (25.83 cm) of rainfall, Nehalem, Oregon (breaking state record set in 1915)
St Pancras Station
2007 London's St Pancras station with new high speed extension and Eurostar connection officially opened by Queen Elizabeth II
- 2009 Mapungubwe Interpretation Centre in South Africa, designed by Peter Rich, wins World Building of the Year at the World Architecture Festival in Barcelona
Casimir Pulaski Honored
2009 President Barack Obama signs congressional resolution conferring honorary U.S. citizenship to Revolutionary War hero Casimir Pulaski
- 2012 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
Obama Defeats Romney
2012 Barack Obama is re-elected as US President, defeating Republican candidate Mitt Romney
Elizabeth Warren
2012 Elizabeth Warren becomes the first female Senator from Massachusetts
- 2012 Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington
Tammy Duckworth
2012 Tammy Duckworth becomes the first disabled woman and first person born in Thailand to be elected to US Congress, representing Illinois
- 2013 15 people are killed after a suicide bombing in Baghdad, Iraq
- 2013 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria
- 2016 Indian government declares levels of air pollution in Delhi an emergency situation, closing schools and construction sites
- 2016 New York City Marathon: Ghirmay Ghebreslassie of Eritrea wins men's race in 2:07:51; defending women's champion Mary Keitany wins her 3rd NYC crown in 2:24:26
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
2018 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) is the youngest person ever elected to the US House of representatives at 29 years
Idris Elba
2018 British actor Idris Elba named "People" magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
- 2018 Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country's first openly male gay governor
- 2018 Colorado votes to abolish slavery as a form of punishment in state constitution
Prince Charles on Slavery
2018 Great Britain's Prince Charles calls slavery "an indelible stain" but stops short of an apology in a speech in Accra, Ghana
- 2018 Human longevity less than 10% dependent on genetics according to study published in journal "Genetics" based on 400 million people from Ancestry.com
- 2018 Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) are the first Muslim women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
- 2018 In US Midterm elections Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives after eight years, the Senate is held by Republicans
- 2018 More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report
- 2018 Record 19 black female judicial candidates all elected in Harris County, Texas, after campaigning together under "Black Girl Magic"
- 2018 Sharice Davids (Kansas) and Deb Haaland (New Mexico) are the first Native American women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
- 2019 17 people die in attack on a checkpoint by Islamic State militants on Tajikistan's border with Uzbekistan
- 2022 Plane crashes into Tanzania's Lake Victoria killing 19 people on board, with 24 survivors [1]
- 2022 US Powerball jackpot rises to a world record of $1.9bn after no winners for more than three months [1]
