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==Events== ===Pre-1600=== *[[2457 BC]] – [[Gaecheonjeol]], Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea's National Foundation Day. *[[52 BC]] – [[Gallic Wars]]: [[Vercingetorix]], leader of the [[Gauls]], surrenders to the Romans under [[Julius Caesar]], ending the siege and [[battle of Alesia]]. *[[42 BC]] – [[Liberators' civil war]]: Triumvirs [[Mark Antony]] and [[Octavian]] fight to a draw Caesar's assassins [[Marcus Junius Brutus|Brutus]] and [[Gaius Cassius Longinus|Cassius]] in the first part of the [[Battle of Philippi]], where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.<ref>{{cite book | last = Dupuy | first = R | title = The Harper encyclopedia of military history: from 3500 BC to the present | publisher = HarperCollins | location = New York | year = 1993 | isbn = 9780062700568 | page=125}}</ref> * [[382]] – Roman Emperor [[Theodosius I]] concludes a peace treaty with the [[Goths]] and settles them in the [[Balkans]]. *[[1392]] – [[Muhammed VII, Sultan of Granada|Muhammed VII]] becomes the twelfth sultan of the [[Emirate of Granada]]. *[[1574]] – The [[Siege of Leiden]] is lifted by the ''[[Watergeuzen]]''. ===1601–1900=== *[[1683]] – [[Qing dynasty]] naval commander [[Shi Lang]] receives the surrender of the [[Kingdom of Tungning|Tungning kingdom]] on Taiwan after the [[Battle of Penghu]]. *[[1712]] – The [[James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose|Duke of Montrose]] issues a warrant for the arrest of [[Rob Roy MacGregor]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Hamilton Howlett|title=Highland Constable: The Life and Times of Rob Roy MacGregor|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=QDSCAAAAIAAJ|year=1950|publisher=Blackwood|page=91}}</ref> *[[1739]] – The [[Treaty of Niš (1739)|Treaty of Niš]] is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the [[Russo-Turkish War (1735–1739)|Russian–Turkish War]]. *[[1789]] – [[George Washington]] proclaims Thursday November 26, 1789 a [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving Day]]. *[[1792]] – A militia departs from the Spanish [[Valdivian Fort System|stronghold]] of [[Valdivia]] to quell a [[Huilliche uprising of 1792|Huilliche uprising]] in southern Chile.<ref>{{cite book | last = Barros Arana | first = Diego | author-link1 = Diego Barros Arana | title = Historia General de Chile | volume = VII | url = http://www.memoriachilena.gob.cl/602/w3-article-9008.html | year = 2000 | orig-year = 1886 | edition = 2nd | publisher = [[Editorial Universitaria]] | location = Santiago, Chile | isbn = 956-11-1535-2 | language = es |chapter = Capítulo XVII |pages = 66–70 }}</ref> *[[1862]] – [[American Civil War]]: The two-day [[Second Battle of Corinth]] begins as [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces under General [[Earl Van Dorn]] attack [[Union (American Civil War)|Union]] defenses led by General [[William Rosecrans]] around [[Corinth, Mississippi]].<ref>{{cite book|last=White|first=Kristopher D.|date=2021|title=Battle Maps of the Civil War - The Western Theater|location=Princeton, New Jersey|publisher=Knox Press|page=22|isbn=978-1-68261-993-3}}</ref> *[[1863]] – The last Thursday in November is declared as [[Thanksgiving (United States)|Thanksgiving Day]] by U.S. President [[Abraham Lincoln]]. *[[1873]] – Chief [[Kintpuash]] and companions are hanged for their part in the [[Modoc War]] of [[northern California]]. ===1901–present=== *[[1912]] – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the [[Battle of Coyotepe Hill]]. *[[1918]] – Tsar [[Boris III of Bulgaria]] accedes to the throne. *[[1919]] – [[Cincinnati Reds]] pitcher [[Adolfo Luque]] becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a [[World Series]]. *[[1929]] – The [[Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes]] is renamed to Yugoslavia by King [[Alexander I of Yugoslavia|Alexander I]]. *[[1932]] – The [[Kingdom of Iraq]] gains independence from the United Kingdom. *[[1935]] – [[Second Italo-Ethiopian War|Second Italo-Abyssinian War]]: Italy [[De Bono's invasion of Abyssinia|invades Ethiopia]]. *[[1942]] – A German [[V-2 rocket]] reaches a record 85 km (46 nm) in altitude. *[[1943]] – [[World War II]]: German forces murder 92 civilians in [[Lingiades massacre|Lingiades]], Greece. *[[1946]] – An [[American Overseas Airlines]] [[Douglas DC-4]] [[1946 American Overseas Airlines Douglas DC-4 crash|crashes]] near [[Ernest Harmon Air Force Base]] in [[Stephenville, Newfoundland and Labrador]], Canada, killing 39.<ref>{{Cite web |last=Ranter |first=Harro |title=ASN Aircraft accident Douglas C-54E-5-DO (DC-4) NC90904 Stephenville-Harmon AAB, NL (YJT) |url=https://aviation-safety.net/database/record.php?id=19461003-0 |access-date=2022-10-02 |website=aviation-safety.net}}</ref> *[[1949]] – [[WERD (Atlanta)|WERD]], the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta. *[[1951]] – Korean War: The [[First Battle of Maryang San]] pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops. *[[1952]] – The United Kingdom [[Operation Hurricane|successfully tests]] a nuclear weapon in the [[Montebello Islands]], [[Western Australia]], to become the world's third nuclear power. *[[1957]] – The [[State Superior Court of California|California State Superior Court]] rules that the book ''[[Howl (poem)|Howl and Other Poems]]'' is not obscene. *[[1962]] – [[Project Mercury]]: US astronaut [[Wally Schirra]], in [[Mercury-Atlas 8|Sigma 7]], is launched from [[Cape Canaveral Space Force Station|Cape Canaveral]] for a six-orbit flight. *[[1963]] – [[1963 Honduran coup d'état|A violent coup in Honduras]] begins two decades of military rule. *[[1981]] – The [[1981 Irish hunger strike|hunger strike]] at the [[HM Prison Maze|Maze Prison]] in [[Northern Ireland]] ends after seven months and ten deaths. *[[1985]] – The [[Space Shuttle Atlantis|Space Shuttle ''Atlantis'']] makes its maiden flight, carrying two [[Defense Satellite Communications System|DSCS-III Satellites]] on [[STS-51-J]]. *[[1986]] – [[TASCC]], a superconducting cyclotron at the [[Chalk River Laboratories]] in [[Canada]], is officially opened. *[[1989]] – A [[1989 Panamanian coup d'état attempt|coup]] in [[Panama City]] is suppressed and 11 participants are executed. *[[1990]] – The [[East Germany|German Democratic Republic]] [[German reunification|is abolished]] and becomes part of the [[Germany|Federal Republic of Germany]]; the event is afterwards celebrated as [[German Unity Day]].<ref>{{cite journal |author=Gordon |first=Joseph S. |title=German Reunification and the Bundeswehr |journal=Military Review |publisher=Command and General Staff School |page=21}}</ref> *[[1991]] – [[Nadine Gordimer]] is announced as the winner of the [[Nobel Prize in Literature]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Nobel Prize in Literature 1991 - Press Release|publisher=Nobel Media AB|date=2014|url=https://www.nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/literature/laureates/1991/press.html|access-date=7 January 2018}}</ref> *[[1993]] – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu [[Battle of Mogadishu (1993)|fails]]; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die. *[[1995]] – [[Murder trial of O. J. Simpson|O. J. Simpson murder case]]: [[O. J. Simpson]] is [[Acquittal|acquitted]] of the murders of [[Nicole Brown Simpson]] and [[Ronald Goldman]]. *[[2008]] – The [[Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008]] for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush. *[[2009]] – [[Azerbaijan]], [[Kazakhstan]], [[Kyrgyzstan]], and [[Turkey]] join in the [[Organization of Turkic States|Turkic Council]]. *[[2013]] – At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat [[2013 Lampedusa migrant shipwreck|sinks]] near the Italian island of [[Lampedusa]]. *[[2015]] – Forty-two people are killed and 33 go missing in the [[Kunduz hospital airstrike]] in [[Afghanistan]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/story-of-how-a-kunduz-hospital-was-shelled-by-us-gunship-in-question/2015/10/10/1c8affe2-6ebc-11e5-b31c-d80d62b53e28_story.html |title=By evening, a hospital. By morning, a war zone |newspaper=The Washington Post |date=10 October 2015 |access-date=18 October 2015}}</ref> *[[2021]] – Eight people are killed [[2021 Milan airplane crash|in an airplane crash]] near [[Milan]], Italy.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Wert |first1=Jakob |title=Pilatus PC-12 aircraft crashes in Milan, hits building |url=https://www.ifn.news/posts/pilatus-pc-12-crashes-in-milan-hits-building/ |access-date=3 October 2021 |work=International Flight Network |date=3 October 2021}}</ref> *[[2022]] – [[Svante Pääbo]] is [[2022 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine|awarded]] the [[Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine]].<ref>{{cite news |last=Bryson Taylor |first=Derrick |title=2022 Nobel Prizes: The Full List |url=https://www.nytimes.com/article/nobel-prizes-2022.html |access-date=2 November 2022 |work=The New York Times |date=10 October 2022}}</ref> *[[2024]] – [[Bengali language|Bengali]], [[Assamese language|Assamese]], [[Marathi language|Marathi]], [[Pali]] and [[Prakrit]] are accorded the [[Classical languages of India|Classical language]] status by the Government of India<ref>{{Cite web |last=Government of India |first=Press Information Bureau |date=4 October 2024 |title=Status of Classical Language: An Explainer |url=https://pib.gov.in/PressNoteDetails.aspx?NoteId=153239&ModuleId=3®=3&lang=1}}</ref>
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