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Battle of Cajamarca -
Pizarro's tomb, Lima -
Atahualpa, last Inca emperor -
3D representation of an LSD molecule -
SARS Virus -
Wei Jingsheng -
Bucharest Metro train -
"Hoxne Tigress"
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
|---|---|
| International Day for Tolerance | stub |
| Day of Declaration of Sovereignty in Estonia (1988) | refimprove |
| 1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia. | unreferenced section |
| 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: At the Battle of Schöngrabern, Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delayed the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. | needs more footnotes, short |
| 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre. | lots of CN tags |
| 1979 – The first line of Bucharest Metro, the M1 Line, opened from Timpuri Noi to Semănătoarea in Bucharest, Romania. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Eight employees of Universidad Centroamericana "José Simeón Cañas" in San Salvador, including six Catholic priests, were murdered by a Salvadoran Army "death squad". | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The first case of severe acute respiratory syndrome (SARS) was recorded in Guangdong, China. | lots of CN tags, refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1476 – With the help of Stephen the Great and Stephen V Báthory, Vlad the Impaler became the ruler of Wallachia for the third time after forcing Basarab Laiotă to flee to the Ottoman Empire.
- 1532 – Spanish conquest of the Inca Empire: Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro orchestrated a surprise attack in Cajamarca, Peru, capturing the Sapa Inca, Atahualpa.
- 1855 – Explorer David Livingstone became the first European to see Victoria Falls, one of the largest waterfalls in the world, on what is now the Zambia–Zimbabwe border.
- 1907 – Two years after the failed attempt by the Five Civilized Tribes in the Indian Territory to achieve U.S. statehood, they joined with the Oklahoma Territory to become the 46th state to enter the union.
- 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, was founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
- 1944 – Operation Queen commenced in Düren, Germany, with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombing attacks of the Second World War.
- 1945 – The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) was founded.
- 1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Sverdlovsk (now Yekaterinburg), killing all 107 people aboard.
- 1981 – About 30 million people watched Luke Spencer and Laura Webber marry on the television show General Hospital, the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
- 1992 – In Suffolk, England, a local man found the largest hoard of Roman silver and gold in Britain, including the largest collection of 4th/5th-century gold and silver coins ever discovered within the former Roman Empire.
- 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
- Born/died this day: Ælfric of Abingdon (d. 1005) · Turibius of Mogrovejo (b. 1538) · Caroline Birley (b. 1851)
Notes
- David Livingstone appears on November 10, so Victoria Falls should not appear in the same year
- Washington (state) appears on November 11, so Oklahoma should not appear in the same year.
- 534 – The Codex Repetitae Praelectionis, the second edition of the Codex Justinianus, the codification of Roman law by Justinian I, was published.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, Louis Riel (pictured), Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", was hanged for high treason.
- 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1973 – U.S. President Richard Nixon signed an act authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline to transport oil from the Arctic Ocean to the Gulf of Alaska.
Edmund of Abingdon (d. 1240) · Charles-Antoine Campion (b. 1720) · Chinua Achebe (b. 1930)