On This Day in November

367 entries

• 2012 — A fuel tank truck crashes and explodes in the Saudi Arabian capital Riyadh, killing 26...
• 2000 — The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations.
• 1993 — The Maastricht Treaty takes effect, formally establishing the European Union.

300 entries

• 1990 — British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result...
• 1988 — The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant...
• 1986 — US Hostage, David Jacobsen, is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.[2]

382 entries

• 2016 — The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in Game 7 of the 2016 World Series to...
• 2014 — One World Trade Center officially opens.
• 1997 — The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to...

336 entries

• 2015 — A cargo plane crashes shortly after takeoff from Juba International Airport in Juba,...
• 2015 — A building collapses in the Pakistani city of Lahore resulting in at least 45 deaths,...
• 2010 — Aero Caribbean Flight 883 crashes into Guasimal, Sancti Spíritus. All 68 passengers...

379 entries

• 2015 — An iron ore tailings dam bursts in the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais flooding a...
• 2013 — India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
• 2009 — U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the...

318 entries

• 2013 — Several small bombs explode outside a provincial office of the Chinese Communist Party...
• 2012 — Barack Obama is reelected President of the United States; Tammy Baldwin becomes the...
• 2004 — An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet,...

407 entries

• 2012 — An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
• 2007 — Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
• 2004 — Iraq War: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as...

386 entries

• 2016 — Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announces withdrawal of ₹500 and ₹1000...
• 2016 — Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States defeating Hillary Clinton....
• 2013 — Typhoon Haiyan, one of the strongest tropical cyclones ever recorded, strikes the...

358 entries

• 2012 — A train carrying liquid fuel crashes and bursts into flames in northern Myanmar,...
• 2012 — At least 27 people are killed and dozens are wounded in conflicts between inmates and...
• 2007 — The German Bundestag passes the controversial data retention bill mandating storage of...

401 entries

• 2009 — Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
• 2008 — Over five months after landing on Mars, NASA declares the Phoenix mission concluded...
• 2006 — Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.

367 entries

• 2014 — Fifty-eight people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District in southern...
• 2012 — A strong earthquake with the magnitude 6.8 hits northern Burma, killing at least 26 people.
• 2006 — Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom,...

310 entries

• 2015 — Two suicide bombers detonated explosives in Bourj el-Barajneh, Beirut, killing 43...
• 2014 — The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches...
• 2011 — Silvio Berlusconi tenders his resignation as Prime Minister of Italy, effective...

315 entries

• 2015 — A set of coordinated terror attacks in Paris, including multiple shootings,...
• 2015 — WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.
• 2012 — A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific

361 entries

• 2012 — Israel launches a major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with...
• 2008 — The first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
• 2003 — Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377...

368 entries

• 2016 — Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the...
• 2012 — Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Communist Party of China and a new...
• 2007 — Cyclone Sidr hits Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5,000 people and destroying parts...

343 entries

• 1997 — After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei...
• 1992 — The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
• 1990 — Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not...

358 entries

• 1939 — Nine Czech students are executed as a response to anti-Nazi demonstrations prompted by...
• 1933 — United States recognizes Soviet Union.
• 1911 — Omega Psi Phi Fraternity Incorporated, which is the first black Greek-lettered...

336 entries

• 2013 — NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars.
• 2012 — Pope Tawadros II of Alexandria becomes the 118th Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of...
• 2003 — In the United Kingdom, the Local Government Act 2003, repealing Section 28, becomes effective.

396 entries

• 2016 — Pope Francis created 17 new members of the College of Cardinals at a consistory in...
• 2013 — A double suicide bombing at the Iranian embassy in Beirut kills 23 people and injures...
• 2010 — The first of four explosions takes place at the Pike River Mine in New Zealand; 29...

353 entries

• 2015 — Following a hostage siege, at least 19 people are killed in Bamako, Mali.
• 2003 — After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul bombings occurs in...
• 1998 — A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden...

328 entries

• 2015 — The government of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the...
• 2014 — A stampede in Kwekwe, Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least...
• 2013 — The first of to become massive protests start in Ukraine after President Viktor...

394 entries

• 2015 — A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar killed at least 116 people near...
• 2012 — Ceasefire begins between Hamas in the Gaza Strip and Israel after eight days of...
• 2005 — Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany.

384 entries

• 2015 — Blue Origin's New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully fly to...
• 2011 — Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh...
• 2010 — Bombardment of Yeonpyeong: North Korean artillery attack kills two civilians and two...

346 entries

• 2015 — A Russian Air Force Sukhoi Su-24 fighter jet is shot down by the Turkish Air Force...
• 2015 — A terrorist attack on a hotel in Al-Arish, Egypt, kills at least seven people and...
• 2015 — An explosion on a bus carrying Tunisian Presidential Guard personnel in Tunisia's...

368 entries

• 2015 — Pope Francis makes his first official visit to Africa.
• 2009 — Jeddah floods: Freak rains swamp the city of Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, during an ongoing...
• 2008 — Cyclone Nisha strikes northern Sri Lanka, killing 15 people and displacing 90,000...

360 entries

• 2011 — NATO attack in Pakistan: NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani check post in a...
• 2011 — The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover.
• 2008 — Mumbai attacks by Lashkar-e-Taiba.

370 entries

• 2015 — United States: An active shooter inside a Planned Parenthood facility in Colorado...
• 2009 — Nevsky Express bombing: A bomb explodes on the Nevsky Express train between Moscow and...
• 2006 — The Canadian House of Commons approves a motion introduced by Prime Minister Stephen...

353 entries

• 2016 — A chartered Avro RJ85 plane carrying at least 81 people, including the Chapecoense...
• 2014 — Gunmen set off three bombs at the central mosque in the northern city of Kano killing...
• 2002 — Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues...

349 entries

• 2009 — Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in...
• 2007 — The Armed Forces of the Philippines lay siege to the Peninsula Manila after soldiers...
• 1987 — Korean Air Flight 858 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115.

355 entries

• 2012 — An Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane belonging to Aéro-Service, crashes into houses near...
• 2005 — John Sentamu becomes the first black archbishop in the Church of England with his...
• 1999 — In Seattle, United States, demonstrations against a World Trade Organization meeting...