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The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President) were held in Romania. |
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The Saskatchewan Rough Riders defeat the Winnipeg Blue Bombers 23-19 in the 95th Grey Cup held in Toronto. It was the third Grey Cup win for the Rough Riders; Lenny Kravitz performs during half time show. |
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Polish Minister of National Defence Radek Sikorski opens Warsaw Pact archives to historians. Maps of possible nuclear strikes against Western Europe, as well as the possible nuclear annihilation of 43 Polish cities and 2 million of its citizens by Soviet-controlled forces, are released. |
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The U.S. Court of Appeals (7thCir) issued its opinion in Assessment Technologies v. Wiredata, a copyright infringement case. |
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Reported assassination attempt on Turkmen president Saparmurat Niyazov. |
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2000 Baku earthquake took place. |
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An Ice storm strikes the central U.S. killing 26 people. Powerful windstorm affects Florida, winds gust over 90 mph, toppling trees and flipping trailers. |
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Sony founder Akio Morita announces he will be stepping down as CEO of the company. |
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The Czechoslovakia Federal Assembly votes to split the country into the Czech Republic and Slovakia from January 1, 1993. |
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German politician Rita Süssmuth becomes president of the Bundestag. |
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Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm. |
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Iran Contra Affair: US Attorney General Edwin Meese announces that profits from covert weapons sales to Iran were illegally diverted to the anti-communist Contra rebels in Nicaragua. |
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The King Fahd Causeway was officially opened in the Persian Gulf. |
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36 top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aids Do They Know Its Christmas in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. |
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A KCR train derails between Sheung Shui and Fanling, Hong Kong. |
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The Minneapolis Thanksgiving Day Fire destroys an entire city block, including the Northwestern National Bank building and the recently closed Donaldsons Department Store. |
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No Más Fight: Sugar Ray Leonard regains the WBC world welterweight boxing title in a bout against Roberto Duran. |
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Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands. |
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George Papadopoulos, head of the military Regime of the Colonels in Greece, is ousted in a military coup led by Lieutenant General Phaidon Gizikis. |
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In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt. |
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President John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. |
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The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. |
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French Sudan gains autonomy as a self-governing member of the French Community. |
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Hungary becomes the first team outside the British Isles to beat England at home, famously winning 6-3 at Wembley Stadium. |
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Agatha Christies murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history. |
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The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die due to the storm. |
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The Peoples Republic of China joins the Korean War, sending thousands of troops across the Yalu river border to fight United Nations forces. |
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Red Scare: The "Hollywood Ten" are blacklisted by Hollywood movie studios. |
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New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. |
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World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworths store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers. |
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World War II: Battle of Peleliu - At Peleliu, Palau, American forces led by the general officer William H. Rupertus defeat the Japanese army led by Colonel Kunio Nakagawa. |
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Statehood of Bosnia and Herzegovina was re-established at the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia. |
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Finland joined the Anti-Comintern Pact. |
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First flight of the deHavilland mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder. |
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In Berlin, Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact, thus agreeing to consult on what measures to take "to safeguard their common interests" in case of an unprovoked attack by the Soviet Union against either nation. |
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The worst, deadliest tornado outbreak in U.S. November history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all. |
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Vojvodina, former Austro-Hungarian crownland, proclaims its secession from this state to join the Kingdom of Serbia. |
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Panama becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty. |
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The Danish Prins Carl arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. |
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Death of Mother Mary of the Immaculate Conception, CIC, first of the Sisters of the Immaculate Conception (Louisiana), the second indigenous congregation of women in the Archdiocese of New Orleans. |
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Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knifes sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. |
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The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873. |
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Alfred Nobel patents dynamite. |
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American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City. |
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American Civil War: Battle of Missionary Ridge - At Missionary Ridge in Tennessee, Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant break the Siege of Chattanooga by routing Confederate troops under General Braxton Bragg. |
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A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster. |
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The Greek frigate Hellas arrives in Nafplion to become the first flagship of the Hellenic Navy. |
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Benjamin Bathurst, a British diplomat, mysteriously disappeared (or more likely murdered) in Perleberg. |
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Partitions of Poland: Stanislaus August Poniatowski, the last king of independent Poland, is forced to abdicate and exiled to Russia. |
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American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris. |
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