Today in History, English
Today in History, English


IDTimeCategoryEvent
132901November 22Death2014 – Marcel Paquet, Belgian-Polish philosopher and author (b. 1947)
132902November 22Death2014 – Émile Poulat, French sociologist and historian (b. 1920)
132903November 22Death2014 – Tamir Rice, American shooting victim (b. 2002)
132904November 22Holiday and observanceChristian Feast Day:Saint CeciliaSaint George's Day (Eastern Orthodox, a national holiday in Georgia)Saint HerbertNovember 22 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
132905November 22Holiday and observanceDay of the Albanian Alphabet (Albania and ethnic Albanians)
132906November 22Holiday and observanceEarliest day on which Thanksgiving Day can fall, while November 28 is the latest celebrated on the fourth Thursday of November. (United States)
132907November 22Holiday and observanceIndependence Day (Lebanon), celebrates the independence of Lebanon from France in 1943.
132908November 23Event534 BC – Thespis of Icaria becomes the first recorded actor to portray a character onstage.
132909November 23Event1174 – Saladin enters Damascus, and adds it to his domain.
132910November 23Event1248 – Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.
132911November 23Event1499 – Pretender to the throne Perkin Warbeck is hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from the Tower of London. He had invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV of England.
132912November 23Event1510 – First campaign of the Ottoman Empire against the Kingdom of Imereti (modern western Georgia). Ottoman armies sack the capital Kutaisi and burn Gelati Monastery.
132913November 23Event1531 – The Second War of Kappel results in the dissolution of the Protestant alliance in Switzerland.
132914November 23Event1644 – John Milton publishes Areopagitica, a pamphlet decrying censorship.
132915November 23Event1733 – The start of the 1733 slave insurrection on St. John in what was then the Danish West Indies.
132916November 23Event1808 – French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela.
132917November 23Event1810 – Sarah Booth debuts at the Royal Opera House.
132918November 23Event1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins: Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee, and counter-attack Confederate troops.
132919November 23Event1867 – The Manchester Martyrs are hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while freeing two Irish nationalists from custody.
132920November 23Event1876 – Corrupt Tammany Hall leader William Magear Tweed (better known as Boss Tweed) is delivered to authorities in New York City after being captured in Spain.
132921November 23Event1889 – The first jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco.
132922November 23Event1890 – King William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to succeed him.
132923November 23Event1910 – Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden.
132924November 23Event1914 – Mexican Revolution: The last of U.S. forces withdraw from Veracruz, occupied seven months earlier in response to the Tampico Affair.
132925November 23Event1918 – Heber J. Grant succeeds Joseph F. Smith as the seventh president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
132926November 23Event1924 – Edwin Hubble's scientific discovery that Andromeda, previously believed to be a nebula within our galaxy, is actually another galaxy, and that the Milky Way is only one of many such galaxies in the universe, was first published in a newspaper.[cita
132927November 23Event1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
132928November 23Event1936 – Life magazine is reborn as a photo magazine and enjoys instant success.
132929November 23Event1939 – World War II: HMS Rawalpindi is sunk by the German battleships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau.
132930November 23Event1940 – World War II: Romania becomes a signatory of the Tripartite Pact, officially joining the Axis powers.

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