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Post by stevep on Nov 25, 2018 11:46:12 GMT
November 25th
2348 BC: Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood.
Actually the event that probably inspired the legends was about 8,000 years earlier when the ice barrier at the mouth of Hudson's Bay gave way and allowed a large backlog of previously melted glacial waters to flow into the world's oceans.
If it was populated and low lying possibly I can see 300,000 dead  but 20,000 ships seems rather excessive. Just possibly that number of river/coastal fishing boats although I would suspect lost/destroyed would be more accurate than sweep inland.
Not sure where this date comes from? The war continued to 53 although according to Wiki there were talks before that point but no clear date as to when they were started and changes of the front line occurred in 52 and 53, albeit mostly minor in character.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 25, 2018 11:50:05 GMT
November 25th
2348 BC: Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. Actually the event that probably inspired the legends was about 8,000 years earlier when the ice barrier at the mouth of Hudson's Bay gave way and allowed a large backlog of previously melted glacial waters to flow into the world's oceans.
If it was populated and low lying possibly I can see 300,000 dead but 20,000 ships seems rather excessive. Just possibly that number of river/coastal fishing boats although I would suspect lost/destroyed would be more accurate than sweep inland.
Not sure where this date comes from? The war continued to 53 although according to Wiki there were talks before that point but no clear date as to when they were started and changes of the front line occurred in 52 and 53, albeit mostly minor in character.
Seems the death toll of the November 25th 1839 cyclone is correct. 1839- Coringa Cyclone |
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Post by stevep on Nov 25, 2018 12:16:12 GMT
Actually the event that probably inspired the legends was about 8,000 years earlier when the ice barrier at the mouth of Hudson's Bay gave way and allowed a large backlog of previously melted glacial waters to flow into the world's oceans.
If it was populated and low lying possibly I can see 300,000 dead but 20,000 ships seems rather excessive. Just possibly that number of river/coastal fishing boats although I would suspect lost/destroyed would be more accurate than sweep inland.
Not sure where this date comes from? The war continued to 53 although according to Wiki there were talks before that point but no clear date as to when they were started and changes of the front line occurred in 52 and 53, albeit mostly minor in character.
Seems the death toll of the November 25th 1839 cyclone is correct. 1839- Coringa Cyclone
OK thanks. That was bad. 3rd worst in history according to the page. Also supports the figure of 20,000 vessels lost. Which is more accurate than 20,000 ships. Loose use of language by the sound of it.
To get that high a storm surge, although the terrain can I think have an impact, there must have been a hell of a pressure difference I suspect, which would also have driven such string winds.
Interesting and depressing, that although the Bay of Bengal account for 7 of the top 10 killer storms they rarely get mentioned compared to those hitting N America or E Asia.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 25, 2018 12:24:16 GMT
November 25th
2348 BC: Biblical scholars have long asserted this to be the day of the Great Deluge, or Flood. Actually the event that probably inspired the legends was about 8,000 years earlier when the ice barrier at the mouth of Hudson's Bay gave way and allowed a large backlog of previously melted glacial waters to flow into the world's oceans.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 26, 2018 4:00:57 GMT
November 26th
783: The Asturian queen Adosinda is held at a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
1161: Battle of Caishi: A Song dynasty fleet fights a naval engagement with Jin dynasty ships on the Yangtze river during the Jin–Song Wars.
1476: Vlad the Impaler defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.
1688: Louis XIV declares war on the Netherlands.
1774: A congress of colonial leaders criticizes British influence in the colonies and affirms their right to “Life, liberty and property.”
1789: George Washington proclaims this a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. This date was later used to set the date for Thanksgiving.
1812: Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army begins crossing the Berezina River over two hastily constructed bridges.
1825: The Kappa Alpha Society, the second American college Greek-letter fraternity, is founded.
1863: The first National Thanksgiving is celebrated.
1901: The Hope diamond is brought to New York.
1907: The Duma lends its support to the Czar in St. Petersburg, who claims he has renounced autocracy.
1917: The Bolsheviks offer an armistice between Russian and the Central Powers.
1922: Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter, archeologists, open King Tut’s tomb, undisturbed for 3,000 years.
1938: Poland renews its nonaggression pact with the Soviet Union to protect against a German invasion.
1939: The Soviet Union charges Finland with an artillery attack on its border.
1941: The Japanese fleet departs from the Kuril Islands en route to its attack on Pearl Harbor.
1947: France expels 19 Soviet citizens, charging them with intervention in internal affairs.
1949: India becomes a sovereign democratic republic.
1950: North Korean and Chinese troops halt a UN offensive.
1957: President Dwight Eisenhower suffers a minor stroke.
1975: Lynette “Squeaky” Fromme is found guilty of an attempt on President Gerald Ford’s life.
1979: Oil deposits equaling OPEC reserves are found in Venezuela.
1982: Yasuhiro Nakasone is elected the 71st Japanese prime minister.
1983: At London’s Heathrow Airport, almost 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from a Brinks-MAT vault.
1998: Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
2000: Republican candidate George W. Bush is certified the winner of Florida’s electoral votes, giving him enough electoral votes to defeat Democrat Al Gore Jr. for the US presidency, despite losing the popular vote.
2011: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpost in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 27, 2018 3:50:11 GMT
November 27th
43 BC: Octavian, Antony and Lepidus form the triumvirate of Rome.
176: Emperor Marcus Aurelius grants his son Commodus the rank of "Imperator" and makes him Supreme Commander of the Roman legions.
395: Rufinus, praetorian prefect of the East, is murdered by Gothic mercenaries under Gainas.
511: King Clovis I dies at Lutetia and is buried in the Abbey of St Genevieve.
511: Clovis, king of the Franks, dies and his kingdom is divided between his four sons.
1095: In Clermont, France, Pope Urban II makes an appeal for warriors to relieve Jerusalem. He is responding to false rumors of atrocities in the Holy Land.
1382: The French nobility, led by Olivier de Clisson, crush the Flemish rebels at Flanders.
1812: One of the two bridges being used by Napoleon Bonaparte‘s army across the Berezina River in Russia collapses during a Russian artillery barrage.
1826: Jedediah Smith’s expedition reaches San Diego, becoming the first Americans to cross the southwestern part of the continent.
1862: George Armstrong Custer meets his future bride, Elizabeth Bacon, at a Thanksgiving party.
1868: Lieutenant Colonel George A. Custer‘s 7th Cavalry kills Chief Black Kettle and about 100 Cheyenne (mostly women and children) on the Washita River.
1887: U.S. Deputy Marshall Frank Dalton, brother of the three famous outlaws, is killed in the line of duty near Fort Smith, Ark.
1904: The German colonial army defeats the Hottentots at Warmbad in southwest Africa.
1909: U.S. troops land in Blue fields, Nicaragua, to protect American interests there.
1919: Bulgaria signs a peace treaty with the Allies at Neuilly, France, fixing war reparations and recognizing Yugoslavian independence.
1922: Allied delegates bar the Soviets from the Near East peace conference.
1936: Great Britain’s Anthony Eden warns Adolf Hitler that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.
1942: The French fleet in Toulon is scuttled to keep it from Germany.
1950: East of the Ch’ongch’on River, Chinese forces annihilate an American task force.
1954: Alger Hiss, convicted of being a Soviet spy, is freed after 44 months in prison.
1959: Demonstrators march in Tokyo to protest a defense treaty with the United States.
1967: Lyndon Johnson appoints Robert McNamara to the presidency of the World Bank.
1967: Charles DeGaulle vetoes Great Britain’s entry into the Common Market again.
1970: Syria joins the pact linking Libya, Egypt and Sudan.
1973: The US Senate votes to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States; the House will confirm Ford on Dec. 6.
1978: San Francisco mayor George Moscone and Harvey Milk, the city’s first openly gay supervisor, are assassinated by former city supervisor Dan White.
1978: The Kurdistan Workers’ Party and PKK (Parti Karkerani Kurdistan, or PKK) is founded; it is a militant group that fought an armed struggle for an independent Kurdistan.
1984: Britain and Spain sign the Brussels Agreement to enter discussions over the status of Gibraltar.
1999: Helen Clark becomes first elected female Prime Minister of New Zealand.
2001: The Hubble Space Telescope discovers a hydrogen atmosphere on planet Osiris, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.
2004: Pope John Paul II returns relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church.
2005: The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.
2006: The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion, tabled by Prime Minister Stephen Harper, recognizing the Quebecois as a nation within Canada.
2009: Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and Saint Petersburg, derailing it and causing 28 deaths and 96 injuries.
2015: United States: An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado Springs, Colorado, shoots at least four police officers. One officer later dies. Two civilians were also killed, and six injured. The shooter later surrendered.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 28, 2018 3:53:44 GMT
November 28th
587: Treaty of Andelot: King Guntram of Burgundy recognizes Childebert II as his heir.
936: Shi Jingtang is enthroned as the first emperor of the Later Jin by Emperor Taizong of Liao, following a revolt against Emperor Fei of Later Tang.
1443: Skanderbeg and his forces liberate Kruja in central Albania and raise the Albanian flag.
1470: Champa–Đại Việt War: Emperor Lê Thánh Tông of Đại Việt formally launches his attack against Champa.
1520: Spanish explorer Ferdinand Magellan, having discovered a strait at the tip of South America, enters the Pacific.
1729: Natchez Indians massacre most of the 300 French settlers and soldiers at Fort Rosalie, Louisiana.
1861: The Confederate Congress admits Missouri to the Confederacy, although Missouri has not yet seceded from the Union.
1868: Mt. Etna in Sicily violently erupts.
1872: The Modoc War of 1872-73 begins in northern California when fighting breaks out between Modoc Chief Captain Jack and a cavalry detail led by Captain James Jackson.
1899: The British are victorious over the Boers at Modder River.
1919: Lady Astor is elected the first woman in Parliament.
1925: The forerunner of the Grand Ole Opry, called the WSM Barn Dance, opens in Nashville, Tennessee.
1935: The German Reich declares all men ages 18 to 45 as army reservists.
1937: Spanish leader Francisco Franco blockades the Spanish coast.
1939: The Soviet Union scraps its nonaggression pact with Finland.
1941: The aircraft carrier USS Enterprise departs from Pearl Harbor to deliver F4F Wildcat fighters to Wake Island. This mission saves the carrier from destruction when the Japanese attack.
1943: Sir Winston Churchill, Joseph Stalin and Franklin D. Roosevelt meet at Tehran, Iran, to hammer out war aims.
1944: The first shipment of supplies reach Antwerp by convoy, a new route for the Allies.
1948: Dr. Edwin Land’s first Polaroid cameras go on sale in Boston.
1950: In Korea, 200,000 Communist troops launch an attack on UN forces.
1961: Ernie Davis becomes the first African-American to win the Heisman Trophy.
1963: Cape Canaveral is renamed Cape Kennedy.
1971: The Anglican Church ordains the first two women as priests.
1975: East Timor declares independence from Portugal.
1980: Operation Morvarid (Iran-Iraq War) takes place; the Iranian Navy destroys over 70% of the Iraqi Navy.
1984: Republican Robert Dole is elected Senate majority leader.
1989: The Communist Party of Czechoslovakia announces it will give up its monopoly on political power.
1991: South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia.
2002: Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya.
2014: Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern Nigerian city of Kano killing at least 120 people.
2016: A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 81 people, including the Chapecoense football team, crashes near Medellín, Colombia.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 29, 2018 4:07:06 GMT
November 29th
561: King Chlothar I dies at Compiègne. The Merovingian dynasty is continued by his four sons, Charibert I, Guntram, Sigebert I and Chilperic I, who divide the Frankish Kingdom.
618: The Tang dynasty scores a decisive victory over their rival Xue Rengao at the Battle of Qianshuiyuan.
903: The Abbasid army under Muhammad ibn Sulayman al-Katib deals a crushing defeat to the Qarmatians at the Battle of Hama.
1394: The Korean king Yi Seong-gye, founder of the Joseon dynasty, moves the capital from Kaesŏng to Hanyang, today known as Seoul.
1549: The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins.
1612: The Battle of Swally takes place, which loosens the Portuguese Empire's hold on India.
1729: Natchez Indians massacre 138 Frenchmen, 35 French women, and 56 children at Fort Rosalie, near the site of modern-day Natchez, Mississippi.
1776: American Revolutionary War: The Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements.
1777: San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.
1781: The crew of the British slave ship Zong murders 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
1783: A 5.3 magnitude earthquake strikes New Jersey.
1807: Transfer of the Portuguese Court to Brazil: John VI of Portugal flees Lisbon from advancing Napoleonic forces during the Peninsular War, transferring the Portuguese court to Brazil.
1830: November Uprising: An armed rebellion against Russia's rule in Poland begins.
1847: The Sonderbund is defeated by the joint forces of other Swiss cantons under General Guillaume-Henri Dufour.
1847: Whitman massacre: Missionaries Dr. Marcus Whitman, his wife Narcissa, and 15 others are killed by Cayuse and Umatilla Indians, causing the Cayuse War.
1850: The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, is signed in Olomouc. Prussia capitulates to Austria, which will take over the leadership of the German Confederation.
1864: American Indian Wars: Sand Creek massacre: Colorado volunteers led by Colonel John Chivington massacre at least 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho noncombatants inside Colorado Territory.
1864: American Civil War: Battle of Spring Hill: The Confederate Army of Tennessee misses an opportunity to crush the Army of the Ohio.
1872: American Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River.
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time.
1890: The Meiji Constitution goes into effect in Japan, and the first Diet convenes.
1893: Elizabeth Yates is elected mayor of Onehunga in New Zealand, becoming the first female mayor in the British Empire.
1899: FC Barcelona is founded by Catalan, Spanish and Englishmen. It later develops into one of Spanish football's most iconic and strongest teams.
1902: The Pittsburgh Stars defeated the Philadelphia Athletics, 11–0 to win the first championship associated with an American national professional football league.
1929: U.S. Admiral Richard E. Byrd leads the first expedition to fly over the South Pole.
1943: World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce (present-day Bosnia and Herzegovina).
1944: World War II: Albania is liberated by the Partisans.
1945: The Federal People's Republic of Yugoslavia is declared.
1947: Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
1947: First Indochina War: French forces carry out a massacre at Mỹ Trạch, Vietnam.
1948: Marshal Lin Biao, commander-in-chief of the Chinese communist Northeast Field Army, launched a massive offensive toward Beijing, Pingjin Campaign has begun.
1949: Iriaka Matiu Ratana was elected member of parliament for the Western Maori seat in the New Zealand Parliament, becoming the first female Māori MP.
1952: Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a campaign promise by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict.
1961: Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission: Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbits the Earth twice and splashes down off the coast of Puerto Rico.
1963: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson establishes the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1963: Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashes shortly after takeoff from Montreal-Dorval International Airport, killing all 118 people on board.
1967: Vietnam War: U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara announces his resignation.
1972: Atari releases Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
1986: The Surinamese military attacks the village of Moiwana during the Suriname Guerrilla War, killing at least 39 civilians, mostly women and children.
1987: North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew.
2007: The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes stage a mutiny.
2009: Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington.
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Post by stevep on Nov 29, 2018 9:47:16 GMT
Lordroel Rather dubious about this one? "1945: Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria." - Doubt it occurred on 30th Nov 45. According to Wiki the Soviets took it on 30th March 45 so it could just be a typo. Probably about the same date they would be reaching Austria.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 29, 2018 15:42:39 GMT
Lordroel Rather dubious about this one? "1945: Russian forces take Danzig in Poland and invade Austria." - Doubt it occurred on 30th Nov 45. According to Wiki the Soviets took it on 30th March 45 so it could just be a typo. Probably about the same date they would be reaching Austria. Steve
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Post by lordroel on Nov 30, 2018 8:14:19 GMT
Seems i made a mistake and put November 30th on the place of November 29th, it has been corrected and edited.
November 30th
977: Emperor Otto II lifts the siege at Paris and withdraws. His rearguard is defeated while crossing the Aisne River by Frankish forces under King Lothair III.
1707: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British to capture Pensacola, Florida.
1718: King Charles XII of Sweden dies during a siege of the fortress of Fredriksten in Norway.
1782: American Revolutionary War: Treaty of Paris: In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).
1838: Mexico declares war on France.
1861: The British Parliament sends to Queen Victoria an ultimatum for the United States, demanding the release of two Confederate diplomats who were seized on the British ship Trent.
1864: The Union wins the Battle of Franklin, Tennessee.
1900: The French government denounces British actions in South Africa, declaring sympathy for the Boers.
1900: Oscar Wilde dies in a Paris hotel room after saying of the room’s wallpaper: “One of us has got to go.”
1906: President Theodore Roosevelt publicly denounces segregation of Japanese schoolchildren in San Francisco.
1919: Women cast votes for the first time in French legislative elections.
1935: Non-belief in Nazism is proclaimed grounds for divorce in Germany.
1939: Soviet bombers attack Helsinki, while publicly insisting that they are airdropping bread to its starving populace, as the Red Army invades Finland.
1942: Battle of Tassafaronga; A smaller squadron of Japanese destroyers led by Raizō Tanaka defeats a U.S. cruiser force under Carleton H. Wright..
1948: The Soviet Union completes the division of Berlin, installing the government in the Soviet sector.
1950: President Harry Truman declares that the United States will use the A-bomb to get peace in Korea.
1956: The United States offers emergency oil to Europe to counter the Arab ban.
1961: The Soviet Union vetoes a UN seat for Kuwait, pleasing Iraq.
1974: India and Pakistan decide to end a 10-year trade ban.
1974: Pioneer II sends photos back to NASA as it nears Jupiter.
1979: Pope John Paul II becomes the first pope in 1,000 years to attend an Orthodox mass.
1981: Representatives of the US and the USSR meet in Geneva, Switzerland, to begin negotiations on reducing the number of intermediate-range nuclear weapons in Europe.
1982: Thriller, Michael Jackson’s second solo album, is released; the album, produced by Quincy Jones, became the best-selling album in history.
1993: US President Bill Clinton signs the Brady Handgun Violence Prevention Act (better known as the Brady Bill) into law.
1994: The MS Achille Lauro, a ship with a long history of problems, including a 1985 terrorist hijacking, catches fire off the coast of Somalia.
1995: Operation Desert Storm officially comes to an end.
1998: Exxon and Mobil Oil agree to a $73.7 billion merger, creating the world’s largest company, Exxon-Mobil.
2004: On the game show Jeopardy! contestant Ken Jennings loses after 74 consecutive victories. It is the longest winning streak in game-show history, earning him a total of over $3 million.
2005: John Sentamu becomes Archbishop of York, making him the Church of England’s first black archbishop.
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Post by stevep on Nov 30, 2018 10:31:11 GMT
Lordroel
One small point. Your modified 29th Nov entry still has the date as the 30th.
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Post by lordroel on Nov 30, 2018 10:32:57 GMT
Lordroel One small point. Your modified 29th Nov entry still has the date as the 30th. Steve Fixed i hope, i was so busy with wanting to start the first day of the Winter War in realtime that i jumped a day to November 30th. |
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December 1st
800: Charlemagne judges the accusations against Pope Leo III in the Vatican.
1420: Henry V of England enters Paris.
1577: Francis Walsingham is knighted.
1640: End of the Iberian Union: Portugal acclaims as King João IV of Portugal, ending 59 years of personal union of the crowns of Portugal and Spain and the end of the rule of the Philippine Dynasty.
1768: The former slave ship Fredensborg sinks off Tromøya in Norway.
1822: Peter I is crowned Emperor of Brazil.
1824: United States presidential election, 1824: Since no candidate received a majority of the total electoral college votes in the election, the United States House of Representatives is given the task of deciding the winner in accordance with the Twelfth Amendment to the United States Constitution.
1828: Argentine general Juan Lavalle makes a coup against governor Manuel Dorrego, beginning the Decembrist revolution.
1834: Slavery is abolished in the Cape Colony in accordance with the Slavery Abolition Act 1833.
1862: In his State of the Union Address President Abraham Lincoln reaffirms the necessity of ending slavery as ordered ten weeks earlier in the Emancipation Proclamation.
1865: Shaw University, the first historically black university in the southern United States, is founded in Raleigh, North Carolina.
1913: The Buenos Aires Metro, the first underground railway system in the Southern Hemisphere and in Latin America, begins operation.
1913: Ford Motor Company introduces the first moving assembly line.
1913: Crete, having obtained self rule from Turkey after the First Balkan War, is annexed by Greece.
1918: Transylvania unites with Romania, following the incorporation of Bessarabia (March 27) and Bukovina (November 28), thus concluding the Great Union.
1918: The Kingdom of Iceland becomes a sovereign state, yet remains a part of the Danish kingdom.
1918: The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes (later known as the Kingdom of Yugoslavia) is proclaimed.
1919: Lady Astor becomes the first female Member of Parliament to take her seat in the House of Commons of the United Kingdom. (She had been elected to that position on November 28.)
1924: The National Hockey League's first United States-based franchise, the Boston Bruins, played their first game in league play at home, at the still-extant Boston Arena indoor hockey facility.
1934: In the Soviet Union, Politburo member Sergey Kirov is assassinated. Stalin uses the incident as a pretext to initiate the Great Purge.
1941: World War II: Emperor Hirohito of Japan gives the final approval to initiate war against the United States.
1941: World War II: Fiorello La Guardia, Mayor of New York City and Director of the Office of Civilian Defense, signs Administrative Order 9, creating the Civil Air Patrol.
1952: The New York Daily News reports the news of Christine Jorgensen, the first notable case of sex reassignment surgery.
1955: American Civil Rights Movement: In Montgomery, Alabama, seamstress Rosa Parks refuses to give up her bus seat to a white man and is arrested for violating the city's racial segregation laws, an incident which leads to that city's bus boycott.
1958: The Central African Republic attains self-rule within the French Union.
1958: The Our Lady of the Angels School fire in Chicago kills 92 children and three nuns.
1959: Cold War: Opening date for signature of the Antarctic Treaty, which sets aside Antarctica as a scientific preserve and bans military activity on the continent.
1960: Paul McCartney and Pete Best are arrested (and later deported) from Hamburg, Germany, after accusations of attempted arson.
1964: Vietnam War: U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson and his top-ranking advisers meet to discuss plans to bomb North Vietnam.
1969: Vietnam War: The first draft lottery in the United States is held since World War II.
1971: Cambodian Civil War: Khmer Rouge rebels intensify assaults on Cambodian government positions, forcing their retreat from Kompong Thmar and nearby Ba Ray.
1973: Papua New Guinea gains self-governance from Australia.
1974: TWA Flight 514, a Boeing 727, crashes northwest of Dulles International Airport, killing all 92 people on board.
1974: Northwest Airlines Flight 6231, another Boeing 727, crashes northwest of John F. Kennedy International Airport.
1977: Pinwheel is launched, which is now Nickelodeon.
1981: Inex-Adria Aviopromet Flight 1308, a McDonnell Douglas MD-80, crashes in Corsica, killing all 180 people on board.
1984: NASA conducts the Controlled Impact Demonstration, wherein an airliner is deliberately crashed in order to test technologies and gather data to help improve survivability of crashes.
1988: World AIDS Day was proclaimed worldwide by the UN member states
1989: Philippine coup attempt: The right-wing military rebel Reform the Armed Forces Movement attempts to oust Philippine President Corazon Aquino in a failed bloody coup d'état.
1989: Cold War: East Germany's parliament abolishes the constitutional provision granting the Communist Party the leading role in the state.
1990: Channel Tunnel sections started from the United Kingdom and France meet 40 metres beneath the seabed.
1991: Cold War: Ukrainian voters overwhelmingly approve a referendum for independence from the Soviet Union.
1997: In the Indian state of Bihar, Ranvir Sena attacked the CPI(ML) Party Unity stronghold Lakshmanpur-Bathe, killing 63 lower caste people.
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December 2nd
1244: Pope Innocent IV arrives at Lyon for the First Council of Lyon.
1409: The University of Leipzig opens.
1697: St Paul's Cathedral is consecrated in London.
1763: Dedication of the Touro Synagogue, in Newport, Rhode Island, the first synagogue in what will become the United States.
1804: At Notre Dame Cathedral in Paris, Napoleon Bonaparte crowns himself Emperor of the French.
1805: War of the Third Coalition: Battle of Austerlitz: French troops under Napoleon Bonaparte decisively defeat a joint Russo-Austrian force.
1823: Monroe Doctrine: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James Monroe proclaims American neutrality in future European conflicts, and warns European powers not to interfere in the Americas.
1845: Manifest destiny: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President James K. Polk proposes that the United States should aggressively expand into the West.
1848: Franz Joseph I becomes Emperor of Austria.
1851: French President Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte overthrows the Second Republic.
1852: Louis-Napoléon Bonaparte becomes Emperor of the French as Napoleon III.
1859: Militant abolitionist leader John Brown is hanged for his October 16 raid on Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
1865: Alabama ratifies 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, followed by North Carolina then Georgia, and U.S. slaves were legally free within two weeks.
1867: At Tremont Temple in Boston, British author Charles Dickens gives his first public reading in the United States.
1899: Philippine–American War: The Battle of Tirad Pass, termed "The Filipino Thermopylae", is fought.
1908: Puyi becomes Emperor of China at the age of two.
1917: World War I: Russia and the Central Powers sign an armistice at Brest-Litovsk, and peace talks leading to the Treaty of Brest-Litovsk begin.
1927: Following 19 years of Ford Model T production, the Ford Motor Company unveils the Ford Model A as its new automobile.
1930: Great Depression: In a State of the Union message, U.S. President Herbert Hoover proposes a $150 million (equivalent to $2,197,000,000 in 2017) public works program to help generate jobs and stimulate the economy.
1939: New York City's LaGuardia Airport opens.
1942: World War II: During the Manhattan Project, a team led by Enrico Fermi initiates the first artificial self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.
1943: World War II: A Luftwaffe bombing raid on the harbour of Bari, Italy, sinks numerous cargo and transport ships, including the American SS John Harvey, which is carrying a stockpile of World War I-era mustard gas.
1947: Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.
1949: Convention for the Suppression of the Traffic in Persons and of the Exploitation of the Prostitution of Others is adopted.
1950: Korean War: Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River ended, with decisive Chinese victory, UN forces were completely expelled from North Korea.
1954: Cold War: The United States Senate votes 65 to 22 to censure Joseph McCarthy for "conduct that tends to bring the Senate into dishonor and disrepute".
1954: The Sino-American Mutual Defense Treaty, between the United States and Taiwan, is signed in Washington, D.C.
1956: The Granma reaches the shores of Cuba's Oriente Province. Fidel Castro, Che Guevara and 80 other members of the 26th of July Movement disembark to initiate the Cuban Revolution.
1957: United Nations Security Council Resolution 126 relating to Kashmir conflict is adopted.
1961: In a nationally broadcast speech, Cuban leader Fidel Castro declares that he is a Marxist–Leninist and that Cuba is going to adopt Communism.
1962: Vietnam War: After a trip to Vietnam at the request of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mike Mansfield becomes the first American official to comment adversely on the war's progress.
1970: The United States Environmental Protection Agency begins operations.
1971 – Abu Dhabi, Ajman, Fujairah, Sharjah, Dubai, and Umm al-Quwain form the United Arab Emirates.
1971: The Soviet space program's Mars 3 orbiter releases a descent module. It lands sucessfully but loses contact, but it is the first man-made object to land softly the surface of Mars.
1975: Laotian Civil War: The Pathet Lao seizes the Laotian capital of Vientiane, forces the abdication of King Sisavang Vatthana, and proclaims the Lao People's Democratic Republic.
1976: Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado.
1980: Salvadoran Civil War: Four American missionaries are raped and murdered by a death squad.
1982: At the University of Utah, Barney Clark becomes the first person to receive a permanent artificial heart.
1988: Benazir Bhutto is sworn in as Prime Minister of Pakistan, becoming the first woman to head the government of an Islam-dominated state.
1989: The Communist insurgency in Malaysia was ended by peace agreement signed and ratified by the Malayan Communist Party (MCP), and the Malaysian - Thailand governments.
1991: Canada and Poland become the first nations to recognize the independence of Ukraine from the Soviet Union.
1993: Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar is shot and killed in Medellín.
1993: Space Shuttle program: STS-61: NASA launches the Space Shuttle Endeavour on a mission to repair the Hubble Space Telescope.
1999: The United Kingdom devolves political power in Northern Ireland to the Northern Ireland Executive following the Good Friday Agreement.
2001: Enron files for Chapter 11 bankruptcy.
2015: San Bernardino attack: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tashfeen Malik kill 14 people and wound 22 at the Inland Regional Center in San Bernardino, California.
2016: Thirty-six people die in a fire at a converted Oakland, California, warehouse serving as an artist collective.
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but 20,000 ships seems rather excessive. Just possibly that number of river/coastal fishing boats although I would suspect lost/destroyed would be more accurate than sweep inland.