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-* [[284]] - [[Diocletian]] is proclaimed emperor by his soldiers. 
-* [[473]] - The future [[Zeno I]] is named associate emperor by [[Emperor Leo I]]. 
-*[[1183]] - [[Battle of Mizushima]]. 
-*[[1292]] - ([[Julian calendar|O.S.]]) [[John I of Scotland|John Balliol]] becomes King of [[Scotland]].  
-*[[1511]] - [[Spain]] and [[England]] ally against [[France]]. 
-*[[1558]] - [[Elizabethan era]] begins: Queen [[Mary I of England]] dies and is succeeded by her half-sister [[Elizabeth I of England]]. 
-*[[1603]] - [[England|English]] [[exploration|explorer]], [[writer]] and [[courtier]] [[Walter Raleigh|Sir Walter Raleigh]] goes on trial for [[treason]].  
-*[[1659]] - [[Peace of the Pyrenees]] is signed between [[France]] and [[Spain]]. 
-*[[1777]] - [[Articles of Confederation]] submitted to the states for ratification. 
-*[[1796]] - [[Napoleonic Wars]]: [[Battle of Arcole]] - [[France|French]] forces defeat the [[Austria]]ns in [[Italy]].  
-*[[1800]] - The [[United States Capitol]] building in [[Washington, DC]] holds its first session of the [[Congress of the United States|U.S. Congress]]. 
-*[[1812]] - Napoleonic Wars: [[Battle of Krasnoi]]. 
-*[[1820]] - Captain [[Nathaniel Palmer]] becomes the first [[United States|American]] to see [[Antarctica]] (the [[Palmer Peninsula]] was later named after him). 
-*[[1827]] - The [[Delta Phi]] Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at [[Union College]] in [[Schenectady]], NY.  
-*[[1831]] - [[Ecuador]] and [[Venezuela]] separate from Greater [[Colombia]]. 
-*[[1839]] - [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s first opera, ''[[Oberto (opera)|Oberto, conte di San Bonifacio]]'' opens in [[Milan]].  
-*[[1855]] - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see [[Victoria Falls]] in what is now present-day [[Zambia]]-[[Zimbabwe]]. 
-*[[1856]] - [[American Old West]]: On the [[Sonoita River]] in present-day southern [[Arizona]], the [[United States Army]] establishes [[Fort Buchanan, Arizona|Fort Buchanan]] in order to help control new land acquired in the [[Gadsden Purchase]].  
-*[[1858]] - Modified [[Julian Day]] zero. 
-*[[1863]] - [[American Civil War]]: [[Siege of Knoxville]] begins - [[Confederate States of America|Confederate]] forces led by General [[James Longstreet]] place [[Knoxville, Tennessee]] under [[siege]]. 
-*[[1869]] - In [[Egypt]], the [[Suez Canal]], linking the [[Mediterranean Sea]] with the [[Red Sea]], is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony.  
-*[[1871]] - The [[National Rifle Association]] is granted a charter by the state of [[New York]]. 
-*[[1876]] - [[Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky]]'s patriotic [[Slavonic March]] made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people. 
-*[[1878]] - First assassination attempt against [[Umberto I of Italy]]. 
-*[[1886]] - Premiere of the opera ''[[Mignon]]'' by [[Ambroise Thomas]]. 
-*[[1903]] - The [[Russian Social Democratic Labor Party]] splits into two groups; the [[Bolsheviks]] ([[Russian language|Russian]] for "majority") and [[Mensheviks]] (Russian for "minority"). 
-* 1903 - [[Dahomey]] (current [[Benin]]) becomes a French protectorate. 
-*[[1905]] - The [[Eulsa Treaty]] is signed between Japan and Korea. 
-*[[1911]] - The [[Omega Psi Phi]] fraternity, the first African-American fraternity at a historically black college or university, is founded at [[Howard University]] in [[Washington, DC]]. 
-*[[1919]] - King [[George V of the United Kingdom]] proclaims [[Armistice Day]] (later [[Remembrance Day]]). The idea was first suggested by [[Edward George Honey]]. 
-*[[1922]] - Former [[Ottoman sultan]] [[Mehmed VI]] goes into exile in [[Italy]].  
-*[[1933]] - [[United States]] recognizes [[Soviet Union]]. 
-*[[1939]] - Nine [[Czech people|Czech]] students are executed as a response to anti-[[Protectorate Bohemia and Moravia|Nazi]] demonstrations prompted by the death of [[Jan Opletal]]; in addition, Czech universities are shut down and over a thousand Czech students sent to [[concentration camp]]s. November 17 declared International Student's day. 
-*[[1939]] - The [[Rome]]-[[Rio de Janeiro]] air connection is created. 
-*[[1941]] - [[World War II]]: [[Joseph Grew]], the [[United States]] ambassador to [[Japan]], cables the [[United States Department of State|State Department]] that Japan has plans to launch an [[Attack on Pearl Harbor|attack]] against [[Pearl Harbor]], [[Hawaii]] (his cable is ignored).  
-*[[1950]] - [[Tenzin Gyatso, 14th Dalai Lama|Tenzin Gyatso]], the 14th [[Dalai Lama]], was enthroned as [[Tibet]]'s [[head of state]] at the age of fifteen. 
-*[[1953]] - The remaining human inhabitants of the [[Blasket Islands]], [[Kerry]], [[Ireland]] are evacuated to the mainland. 
-*[[1954]] - Colonel [[Gamal Abdel Nasser]] becomes [[president of Egypt]]. 
-*[[1962]] - [[President of the United States|President]] [[John F. Kennedy]] dedicates [[Dulles International Airport]], serving the [[Washington, D.C.]] region. 
-*[[1967]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on [[November 13]], US President [[Lyndon B. Johnson]] tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." 
-*[[1968]] - [[Alexandros Panagoulis]] is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate [[Greece|Greek]] dictator [[George Papadopoulos]]. 
-*[[1969]] - [[Cold War]]: Negotiators from the [[Soviet Union]] and the [[United States]] meet in [[Helsinki]] to begin [[SALT I]] negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.  
-*[[1970]] - [[Vietnam War]]: Lieutenant [[William Calley]] goes on trial for the [[My Lai massacre]].  
-* 1970 - [[Luna program]]: The [[Soviet Union]] lands [[Lunokhod 1]] on [[Mare Imbrium]] (Sea of Rains) on the [[Moon]]. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting [[Luna 17]] spacecraft.  
-* 1970 - [[Douglas Engelbart]] receives the [[patent]] for the first [[computer mouse]]. 
-*[[1973]] - [[Watergate scandal]]: In [[Orlando, Florida]], US President [[Richard Nixon]] tells 400 [[Associated Press]] managing editors "I am not a crook".  
-* 1973 - The [[Athens Polytechnic Uprising]] against the military [[Greek military junta of 1967-1974|regime]] ends in a bloodshed in the Greek capital. 
-*[[1974]] - ''[[Worker-Peasant Alliance|Aliança Operário-Camponesa]]'' (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in [[Portugal]], as a front of [[Communist Party of Portugal (Marxist-Leninist) (1974)|PCP(m-l)]]. 
-*[[1978]] - [[The Star Wars Holiday Special]] aired one time only on CBS. 
-*[[1983]] - The [[Zapatista Army of National Liberation]] is founded 
-*[[1985]] - The first edition of [[Phrack]] is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence. 
-*[[1989]] - [[Cold War]]: [[Velvet Revolution]] begins - In [[Czechoslovakia]] a student demonstration in [[Prague]] is quelled by riot police. This sparks an uprising aimed at overthrowing the [[communism|communist]] government (it succeeds on [[December 29]]).  
-*[[1990]] - Fugendake, part of the [[Mount Unzen]] volcanic complex, [[Nagasaki prefecture]], [[Japan]] becomes active again and erupts. 
-*[[1997]] - In [[Luxor]], [[Egypt]], 62 people are killed by 6 [[Islam]]ic militants outside the [[Temple of Hatshepsut]], known as [[November 1997 Luxor massacre|Luxor massacre]] (The police then kill the assailants). 
-*[[2000]] - A catastrophic [[landslide]] in Log pod Mangartom, [[Slovenia]], kills 7, and causes millions of [[Slovenian tolar|SIT]] of damage. It is one of the worst catastrophes in [[Slovenia]] in the past 100 years. 
-* 2000 - [[Alberto Fujimori]] is removed from office as president of [[Peru]]. 
-*[[2003]] - [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] is inaugurated as [[Governor of California]]. 
-*[[2004]] - [[Kmart]] Corp. announces it is buying [[Sears, Roebuck and Co.]] for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company [[Sears Holdings Corporation]]. 
-*[[2005]] - [[Italy]]'s choice of national anthem, ''[[Il Canto degli Italiani]]'', becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the [[Birth of the Italian Republic|birth of the republic]]. 
-*[[2006]] - Official naming of element 111, [[Roentgenium]] (Rg). 
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