Niccolo Machiavelli
1512 Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
- 1519 University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
Andromaque
1667 Jean Racine's "Andromaque" premieres in Paris
The Conscious Lovers
1722 Richard Steele's sentimental comedy play "The Conscious Lovers" premieres in London
- 1733 France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first 'Pacte de Famille' between the Bourbon kings of France and Spain)
Elizabeth of Russia's Heir
1742 Empress Elizabeth of Russia proclaims her nephew Peter of Holstein-Gottorp (later Peter III) her heir
- 1747 Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
- 1775 Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
- 1786 The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded in Boston, Massachusetts as the Stoughton Musical Society
- 1794 French troops conquer Nijmegen
- 1800 It becomes illegal for women in Paris to wear trousers without a Police permit (annulled 2013)
Lewis and Clark Reach the Pacific
1805 Lewis and Clark Expedition first sights the Pacific Ocean at the mouth of the Columbia River
Battle of Tippecanoe
1811 Battle of Tippecanoe: General William Henry Harrison defeats the Native Americans of the Tecumesh Confederation
- 1814 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
James Monroe
1820 James Monroe re-elected US president
Zachery Taylor
1848 General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
Battle of Belmont
1861 Battle of Belmont, fought in Mississippi County, Missouri begins, first combat test for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, Union victory (US Civil War)
- 1861 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina ends, Union forces capture Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard (US Civil War)
- 1863 Battles of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, Virginia
- 1864 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
- 1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
Alexander Mackenzie PM
1873 Alexander Mackenzie becomes the second Prime Minister of Canada, succeeding John A. Macdonald
Republican Party Symbol
1874 First cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol is published by Thomas Nast
Rutherford B. Hayes
1876 President Rutherford B. Hayes and challenger Samuel J. Tilden claim presidential victory as Tilden (D) wins popular vote but Electoral College votes are disputed with Hayes (R)
Laurier Government
1900 In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
- 1901 A French fleet seizes the customs house on the Turkish-ruled island of Mytilene after Turks refuse to settle France's indemnity claims for losses suffered by French subjects in 1896
Foundation of Delta Sigma Pi
1907 Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.
- 1907 Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
- 1907 Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
- 1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
- 1909 Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
- 1910 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- 1913 Great Lakes Storm the "White Hurricane" begins with 90 mph winds and 35 foot waves, (lasts till 10 Nov), will sink 19 ships and strand 19 more, killing over 250 people [1]
- 1914 German Chinese concession of Kiaochow Bay and its center at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese forces
- 1914 Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
- 1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
Woodrow Wilson Re-elected
1916 Amidst the Mexican Revolution and World War I, Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Charles E. Hughes
- 1916 Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
First Woman to Congress
1916 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative
- 1917 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
Soviet Government Forms
1917 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
- 1918 Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria as a revolutionary uprising spreads throughout Germany
Goddard's Rocket
1918 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
Mystery-Bouffe
1918 Soviet dramatic play "Mystery-Bouffe" by Vladimir Mayakovsky premieres in Petrograd
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
1918 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
End of World War I
1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed
Chinese People's Republic
1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong
- 1932 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
Fiorello La Guardia
1933 Fiorello La Guardia is elected the 99th Mayor of New York City
- 1933 Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
- 1934 Arthur L. Mitchell, becomes first African American Democratic US congressman (Illinois)
Joseph Stalin Proclaims
1935 Addressing a meeting of Stakhanovites, Joseph Stalin utters his famous phrase "life has become better"
Fausto Coppi
1942 Italian cyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world hour record 45.798km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
- 1943 Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
- 1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey
- 1944 Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
- 1949 King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
- 1950 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti" premieres in Milan
- 1950 French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
- 1951 Constitution of Jordan passes
- 1953 WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
- 1954 Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
- 1954 US spy plane shot down North of Japan
- 1955 Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
Suez Crisis
1956 Suez Crisis ends with a ceasefire as the United Nations Emergency Force is established at instigation of Canadian diplomat Lester B. Pearson and UN Secretary-General Dag Hammarskjöld
- 1957 Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
- 1957 Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
- 1957 WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
- 1960 KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcasting
- 1961 France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
- 1962 Columbia Records completes a three-night live recording of Barbra Steisand at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village, NYC for her debut album; technical issues force them to shelf the release and bring her to a studio to record
Glenn Hall
1962 Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
Nixon Loses
1962 Richard Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for Governor of California
Elston Howard AL MVP
1963 New York Yankee catcher Elston Howard is first African-American to be voted AL MVP
John Meets Yoko
1966 John Lennon meets Yoko Ono at an avante-garde art exposition at Indica Gallery in London [1]
- 1966 Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
- 1967 Carl Stokes elected first African American mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio
- 1967 MLB St Louis Cardinals infielder Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
- 1967 Richard G Hatcher elected 1st African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, served 1968-88
- 1967 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
- 1968 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
- 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their second album "Wedding Album" in UK
Monzon vs. Benvenuti
1970 Argentine boxer Carlos Monzon upsets defending champion Nino Benvenuti of Italy in 12th round KO in Rome to win WBC, WBA middleweight titles
- 1970 Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
- 1972 Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states
- 1973 NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
- 1973 US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
- 1975 Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
Gone With The Wind
1976 "Gone With The Wind", 1939 Oscar-winning film epic starring Vivien Leigh and Clark Gable, makes broadcast television debut on NBC; aired in two parts over consecutive nights; earns a then record 65% share of TV viewers
- 1978 Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
- 1978 CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
- 1978 Marion Barry Jr. elected as Washington, D.C.'s first African American mayor
- 1979 MLB Chicago Cubs reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
- 1981 France performs nuclear test
- 1982 Turkey adopts constitution
- 1983 Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
- 1983 Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
- 1984 STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
- 1985 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
- 1987 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
- 1988 MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
Leonard vs. LaLonde
1988 Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
- 1989 Baltimore Orioles Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
NYC Firsts
1989 NYC elects it's 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)
Magic Johnson
1991 Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
- 1992 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
Alain Prost
1993 French Williams driver Alain Prost finishes 2nd in season ending Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide to claim his 4th F1 World Drivers Championship by 26 points from Ayrton Senna; Prost announces his retirement from F1 racing
- 1995 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
- 1996 "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
- 1996 Ex-NFL running back and Heisman Trophy winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times in his hometown of Camden, New Jersey; recovers
- 1996 Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
Bean
1997 "Bean" film directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean opens in the US
- 1997 Two surgeons who performed plastic surgery on Amado Carrillo Fuentes are found dead, encased in concrete drums showing signs of torture
Sports History
1999 Dale Jarrett wins the NASCAR Winston Cup Series championship
Bush vs. Gore
2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court
Hillary Clinton
2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming first US First Lady to win public office and while still the First Lady
Election of Interest
2000 Joe Lieberman is elected to a third Senate term, defeating Republican candidate Philip Giordano
The Blind Assassin
2000 Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for her novel "The Blind Assassin"
- 2000 The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas
Florida, Florida, Florida
2000 Tim Russert famously declares the outcome of the 2000 Presidential election will depend on "Florida, Florida, Florida" during NBC coverage
- 2001 The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
- 2002 Iran bans advertising of products from the United States
- 2004 War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S. forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
- 2006 Joe Lieberman wins re-election to the U.S. Senate as an independent candidate
- 2007 Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
NBA Record
2009 Jerry Sloan becomes the first coach in NBA history with 1,000 wins for one team after defeating the Oklahoma City Thunder
- 2012 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
- 2012 Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage
- 2015 Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
- 2017 Danica Roem becomes the first US transgender person to be elected to a state legislature in the US in North Virginia
- 2017 Extreme smog in Delhi, India, leads Indian Medical Association to declare "a state of medical emergency"
- 2017 Melbourne Cup: Joseph O’Brien at 24 is the youngest trainer to win with Rekindling jockeyed by Corey Brown
- 2017 Opera soprano Audrey Luna sings highest-ever note at Met Opera in New York, A above high C
- 2017 South Korean golfer Park Sung-hyun becomes the first LPGA rookie to be ranked no. 1
- 2017 US Democrats dominate off-year elections; Ralph Northam wins Governor of Virginia, Philip Murphy Governor of New Jersey
Emma Thompson
2018 Actress Emma Thompson is made a Dame of the British Empire by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, London
- 2018 Ex-marine opens fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, shooting 12, including a police officer, and himself
Political History
2018 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
- 2018 World's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo
- 2019 Congolese rebel leader Bosco Ntaganda, the "Terminator" is the to be convicted of sexual slavery by the International Criminal Court and is sentenced to 30 years in prison on 18 charges
- 2019 Humans 1st walked upright 12 million years ago (not 6 million as previously thought), according to study a new species of ape found in Bavaria, Germany, published in "Nature"
Donald Trump
2019 Queen Elizabeth II confirms she is no longer buying clothes made with real fur
- 2019 Song lyrics have gotten sadder says researchers who studied 50 years of lyrics at University of Exeter, published in journal "Evolutionary Human Sciences"
35th Inductees
2020 35th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Depeche Mode; The Doobie Brothers; Whitney Houston; Nine Inch Nails; The Notorious B.I.G.; T-Rex; Jon Landau; and Irving Azoff
- 2020 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump
Kamala Harris
2020 Kamala Harris makes US history as the 1st woman and 1st woman of color to be elected to the vice presidency (date election called)
Rudy Giuliani
2020 Rudy Giuliani holds infamous Trump Campaign press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to contest the US election results
- 2021 Attempt to assassinate Iraqi Prime Minister Mustafa al-Kadhimi through drone attack on his home in Baghdad
- 2021 Kyle Larson holds off Martin Truex Jr in the NASCAR Cup Series Championship Race at Phoenix Raceway to earn his 10th win of the season and claim his first Cup Series championship
- 2022 French tennis star Caroline Garcia scores the biggest title win of her career beating Aryna Sabalenka 7–6, 6–4 in the WTA Finals in Fort Worth, Texas
Albanese Meets Li Qiang
2023 Australia's Prime Minister Anthony Albanese meets Chinese Premier Li Qiang in Beijing, re-establishing dialogue between the countries two leaders after a seven-year gap [1]
- 2023 Australian cricket all-rounder Glenn Maxwell hits 201 not out to guide his team to a 3 wicket World Cup win over Afghanistan in Mumbai; first to score double-ton in a ODI run chase; first non-opener to 200
- 2023 Cherelle Parker (51) is elected 100th Mayor of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania - first woman and first Black woman mayor [1] [2]
- 2023 Israeli forces cut off north Gaza, severing it from the southern part of the territory as Hamas Health Authority says Palestinian death toll is now over 10,000 [1]
- 2023 Ohio votes in two referendums to protect abortion rights under its constitution, and legalize the use of marijuana [1]
