UN
Day
World
Antibiotic Awareness Week, 13-19 November
Events
of the day
1002 – English king
Æthelred II orders the killing of all
Danes in England, known today as the St.
Brice's Day massacre.
1160 – Louis VII of France marries Adele
of Champagne.
1642 – First English Civil War: Battle
of Turnham Green – the Royalist forces
withdraw in the face of the Parliamentarian
army and fail to take London.
1775 – American Revolutionary War: Patriot
revolutionary forces under Gen. Richard
Montgomery attack Montreal, Quebec, defended
by British General Guy Carleton.
1841 – James Braid first sees a demonstration
of animal magnetism, which leads to his
study of the subject he eventually calls
hypnotism.
1851 – The Denny Party lands at Alki Point,
before moving to the other side of Elliot
Bay to what would become Seattle, Washington.
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece
is adopted.
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central
London.
1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy
Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party
over his support for conscription.
1918 – Allied troops occupy Constantinople,
the capital of the Ottoman Empire.
1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic
as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel
linking New Jersey to New York City.
1941 – World War II: The aircraft carrier
HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking
the following day.
1942 – World War II: Naval Battle of Guadalcanal
– U.S. and Japanese ships engage in an
intense, close-quarters surface naval
engagement during the Battle of Guadalcanal.
1947 – The Soviet Union completes development
of the AK-47, one of the first proper
assault rifles.
1950 – General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud,
President of Venezuela, is assassinated
in Caracas.
1954 – Great Britain defeats France to
capture the first ever Rugby League World
Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000
spectators.
1956 – The United States Supreme Court
declares Alabama laws requiring segregated
buses illegal, thus ending the Montgomery
Bus Boycott.
1965 – The SS Yarmouth Castle burns and
sinks 60 miles off Nassau with the loss
of 90 lives.
1966 – In response to Fatah raids against
Israelis near the West Bank border, Israel
launches an attack on the village of As-Samu.
1969 – Vietnam War: Anti-war protesters
in Washington, D.C. stage a symbolic March
Against Death.
1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical
cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges
Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh),
killing an estimated 500,000 people in
one night. This is regarded as the 20th
century's worst natural disaster.
1971 – The American space probe, Mariner
9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit
another planet successfully, swinging
into its planned trajectory around Mars.
1982 – Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim
in a boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Kim's subsequent death (on November 17)
leads to significant changes in the sport.
1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is
dedicated in Washington, D.C. after a
march to its site by thousands of Vietnam
War veterans.
1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts
and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic
mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia,
killing approximately 23,000 people.
1985 – Xavier Suarez is sworn in as Miami,
Florida's first Cuban-born mayor.
1986 – The Compact of Free Association
becomes law, granting the Federated States
of Micronesia, the Marshall Islands independence
from the United States.
1988 – Mulugeta Seraw, an Ethiopian law
student in Portland, Oregon is beaten
to death by members of the Neo-Nazi group
East Side White Pride.
1990 – In Aramoana, New Zealand, David
Gray shoots dead 13 people, in what becomes
known as the Aramoana Massacre.
1992 – The High Court of Australia rules
in Dietrich v The Queen that although
there is no absolute right to have publicly
funded counsel, in most circumstances
a judge should grant any request for an
adjournment or stay when an accused is
unrepresented.
1994 – In a referendum voters in Sweden
decide to join the European Union.
1995 – A truck-bomb explodes outside of
a US-operated Saudi Arabian National Guard
training center in Riyadh, killing five
Americans and two Indians. A group called
the Islamic Movement for Change claims
responsibility.
2000 – Philippine House Speaker Manuel
B. Villar, Jr. passes the articles of
impeachment against Philippine President
Joseph Estrada.
2001 – War on Terrorism: In the first
such act since World War II, US President
George W. Bush signs an executive order
allowing military tribunals against foreigners
suspected of connections to terrorist
acts or planned acts on the United States.
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees
to the terms of the UN Security Council
Resolution 1441.
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off
the Galician coast and causes a huge oil
spill.
2007 – The Russian Federation officially
withdraws from the Soviet-era Batumi military
base, Georgia.
Holidays
and observances
Christian
Feast Day:
Brice of Tours
Frances Xavier Cabrini
Homobonus
John Chrysostom (Eastern Orthodox, Repose)
Quintian of Rodez
Saints of the Premonstratensian Order
Stanislaus Kostka
The Hundred Thousand Martyrs of Tbilisi
(Georgian Orthodox Church)
Earliest day on which National Day of
Mourning or Volkstrauertag can fall, observed
two Sundays before the first of Advent.
(Germany)
Feast of Feronia, celebrated on the Ides
of November (Roman Empire)
World Kindness Day
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