This date in history

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1605 Gunpowder Plot: Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war.

1941 Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki and Maejima leave Pearl Harbor.

1979 Supreme Leader of Iran Ayatollah Khomeini describes the United States as "The Great Satan" amid accusations of imperialism and the sponsoring of corruption.

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1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe, on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.

1939 World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported.

1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

1950 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea.

1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation.

1991 The last oil fire in Kuwait set by retreating Iraqi troops is extinguished.

1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

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1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result, in Bush's favor, is eventually resolved by the Supreme Court.

2020 Former Vice-President Joe Biden declared the winner of the US Presidential race, four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump.

1917 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks.

1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed.

1972 Attorney Joe Biden is elected to the US Senate, representing the state of Delaware after defeating longtime incumbent J. Caleb Boggs by just over 3,000 votes; Biden would win re-election 6 times.

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On this day in 1861, the United States risks war with Great Britain as a boarding party from an American warship removes Confederate diplomats from the Royal Mail Ship Trent. London responds by sending troops to Canada.



Known as the Trent Affair or alternatively as the Mason & Slidell Affair. President Lincoln later disavowed the actions of USS San Jacinto's Captain Charles Wilkes and released both men to continue their journey to Europe, rather than provoke an irreparable breach with Great Britain.

In 1861 there were still concerns of European intervention in the US Civil War to force some kind of settlement. A fear that would not subside until after the 1862 Emancipation Proclamation when the war became an overt fight to destroy slavery, something Great Britain and fellow European powers could not be seen to be opposing after working to abolish the practice in their own nations and empires in the preceding decades.

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1900 British naval officer David Beatty takes part in the successful relief of the naval brigade at Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion and is promoted to captain.

1915 An Austrian-Hungarian submarine torpedoes and sinks the Italian liner 'Ancona' without warning, killing over 200 people.

1923 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stage "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich, Germany.

1939 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich.

1940 RAF bombs Munich, Adolf Hitler promises "an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished"

1950 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history.

1974 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London.

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States of America, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton, with an Electoral College victory of 304- 227; Clinton received just under 2.9 million more popular votes.

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1620 After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul.

1888 Jack Ripper's 5th and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, found on her bed.

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I

1923 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die and Adolf Hitler flees.

1925 German NSDAP (Nazi party) forms Schutzstaffel (SS)

2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine to be over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people.

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1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

1938 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

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1918 WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

1937 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)

1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto.

1942 British led Allied forces defeat Erwin Rommel's German and Italian Army Panzers in Second Battle of El-Alamein, North Africa, helping to secure the Suez Canal.

1961 City of Stalingrad renamed Volgograd.

2004 Yasser Arafat's death through unidentified causes confirmed by Palestine Liberation Organization, Mahmoud Abbas elected PLO chairman minutes later.

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1912 British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica.

1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup.

1938 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland.

1944 RAF sinks German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord, Norway.

1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal.

1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program.

1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

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1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar.

1986 US President Reagan confesses weapon sales to Iran.

2018 Trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán begins in New York, he is charged with drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder.

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1940 German planes destroy most of Coventry, England.

1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before.

1942 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender.

1960 Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo.

1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam.

1983 First cruise missile placed at Greenham Common, England.

1991 American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103

1994 1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel linking England and France under the English Channel.

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1492 Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco.

1720 Pirates Anne Bonny, Mary Read and Calico Jack are captured by Capt. Jonathan Barnet and brought to the Spanish Town of Jamaica, for trial.

1898 British naval officer David Beatty promoted to commander after Sudan Campaign.

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal.

1904 King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade.

1916 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross.

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219.

1967 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert.

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1581 Tsar Ivan the Terrible attacks his son and heir, Ivan Ivanovich, with a scepter after an argument leading to the latter's death three days later.

1939 Al Capone freed from Alcatraz jail.

1940 World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.

1960 U.S. marshals escort four six-year-old African-American girls to previously all-white public schools in New Orleans, in response to death threats against the girls and race riots.

1970 Two men are shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA)

1995 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery.

1998 Monica Lewinsky signs a deal for the North American rights to a book about her affair with US President Clinton.

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1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas.

1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship.

1951 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system.

1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

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1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's Jacobite army occupy Carlisle during its invasion of England.

1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt.

1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded.

1918 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914

1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.

1943 U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean.

1966 US Roman Catholic bishops ends rules against eating meat on Fridays.

1971 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast.

1983 Argentina announces its ability to produce enriched uranium for nuclear weapons.