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565 Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705 Battle of Zsibσ: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
1777 American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
1859 The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914 Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1920 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1922 Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
1935 Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)
1945 Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1959 The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966 Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 Renι Lιvesque and the Parti Quιbιcois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978 A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002 Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2006 Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012 Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2012 Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.
Events:C/P.
565 Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
655 Battle of the Winwaed: Penda of Mercia is defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria.
1315 Battle of Morgarten: The Schweizer Eidgenossenschaft ambushes the army of Leopold I.
1532 Commanded by Francisco Pizarro, Spanish conquistadors under Hernando de Soto meet Inca Empire leader Atahualpa for the first time outside Cajamarca, arranging a meeting on the city plaza the following day.
1533 Francisco Pizarro arrives in Cuzco, the capital of the Inca Empire.
1705 Battle of Zsibσ: Austrian-Danish victory over the Kurucs (Hungarians).
1777 American Revolutionary War: After 16 months of debate the Continental Congress approves the Articles of Confederation.
1791 The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.
1806 Pike expedition: Lieutenant Zebulon Pike sees a distant mountain peak while near the Colorado foothills of the Rocky Mountains. (It is later named Pikes Peak.)
1859 The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.
1864 American Civil War: Union General William Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta, Georgia and starts Sherman's March to the Sea.
1889 Brazil is declared a republic by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca as Emperor Pedro II is deposed in a military coup.
1914 Harry Turner becomes the first player to die from game-related injuries in the "Ohio League", the direct predecessor to the National Football League.
1920 First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland.
1922 Over 1,000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
1923 The German Rentenmark is introduced in Germany to counter hyperinflation in the Weimar Republic.
1926 The NBC radio network opens with 24 stations.
1928 The RNLI lifeboat Mary Stanford capsized in Rye Harbour with the loss of the entire 17 man crew.
1935 Manuel L. Quezon is inaugurated as the second President of the Philippines.
1939 In Washington, D.C., US President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial.
1942 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
1942 World War II: The Battle of Guadalcanal ends in a decisive Allied victory.
1943 The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)
1945 Venezuela joins the United Nations.
1949 Nathuram Godse and Narayan Apte are executed for assassinating Mahatma Gandhi.
1951 Greek resistance leader Nikos Beloyannis, along with 11 resistance members, is sentenced to death by the court-martial.
1959 The murders of the Clutter Family in Holcomb, Kansas, which inspired Truman Capote's non-fiction book In Cold Blood.
1966 Project Gemini: Gemini 12 completes the program's final mission, when it splashes down safely in the Atlantic Ocean.
1966 A Boeing 727 carrying Pan Am Flight 708 crashes near Berlin, Germany, killing all three people on board.
1967 The only fatality of the North American X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert.
1969 Cold War: The Soviet submarine K-19 collides with the American submarine USS Gato in the Barents Sea.
1969 Vietnam War: In Washington, D.C., 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war, including a symbolic "March Against Death".
1971 Intel releases the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1976 Renι Lιvesque and the Parti Quιbιcois take power to become the first Quebec government of the 20th century clearly in favor of independence.
1978 A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183.
1979 A package from Unabomber Ted Kaczynski begins smoking in the cargo hold of a flight from Chicago to Washington, D.C., forcing the plane to make an emergency landing.
1983 Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus is founded. Recognized only by Turkey.
1985 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes.
1985 The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.
1987 Continental Airlines Flight 1713, a Douglas DC-9-14 jetliner, crashes in a snowstorm at Denver's Stapleton International Airport, killing 28 occupants, while 54 survive the crash.
1987 In Brașov, Romania, workers rebel against the communist regime of Nicolae Ceaușescu.
1988 In the Soviet Union, the unmanned Shuttle Buran makes its only space flight.
1988 IsraeliPalestinian conflict: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by the Palestinian National Council.
1988 The first Fairtrade label, Max Havelaar, is launched in the Netherlands.
1990 Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.
1990 The Communist People's Republic of Bulgaria is disestablished and a new republican government is instituted.
2000 A chartered Antonov An-24 crashes after takeoff from Luanda, Angola, killing more than 40 people.
2000 Jharkhand state comes into existence in India.
2002 Hu Jintao becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new nine-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2003 The first day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings, in which two car bombs, targeting two synagogues, explode, killing 25 people and wounding about 300. Additional bombings follow on November 20.
2006 Al Jazeera English launches worldwide.
2007 Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts of the world's largest mangrove forest, the Sundarbans.
2012 Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated.
2012 Four people are killed and 16 others are injured in the Midland train crash after a Union Pacific train struck a parade float in Midland, Texas.