- 2457 BC – Gaecheonjeol, Hwanung (환웅) purportedly descended from heaven. South Korea’s National Foundation Day.
- 52 BC – Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and battle of Alesia.
- 42 BC – Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight a decisive battle with Caesar’s assassins Brutus and Cassius.
- 382 – Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.
- 1392 – Muhammed VII becomes the twelfth sultan of the Emirate of Granada.
- 1574 – The Siege of Leiden is lifted by the Watergeuzen.
- 1683 – Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang receives the surrender of the Tungning kingdom on Taiwan after the Battle of Penghu.
- 1712 – The Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.[1]
- 1739 – The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War.
- 1789 – George Washington proclaims a Thanksgiving Day for that year.
- 1792 – A militia departs from the Spanish stronghold of Valdivia to quell a Huilliche uprising in southern Chile.[2]
- 1863 – The last Thursday in November is declared as 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.
- 1912 – U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
- 1918 – King Boris III of Bulgaria accedes to the throne.
- 1919 – Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin player to appear in a World Series.
- 1929 – The Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes is renamed to Yugoslavia by King Alexander I.
- 1930 – The German Socialist Labour Party in Poland – Left is founded.
- 1932 – Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1935 – Second Italo-Abyssinian War: Italy 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 Lyngiades, Greece.
- 1949 – 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 successfully tests a nuclear weapon to become the world’s third nuclear power.
- 1957 – The California State Superior Court rules that the book Howl and Other Poems is not obscene.
- 1962 – Project Mercury: Wally Schirra in Sigma 7 launched from Cape Canaveral for a six-orbit flight.
- 1963 – A violent coup in Honduras begins two decades of military rule.
- 1978 – A Finnish Air Force DC-3 crashes, killing all 15 people on board.
- 1981 – The hunger strike at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
- 1985 – The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight.
- 1986 – TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories in Canada, is officially opened.
- 1989 – A coup in Panama City is suppressed and 11 participants are executed.
- 1990 – The German Democratic Republic is abolished and becomes part of the Federal Republic of Germany.
- 1991 – Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.[3]
- 1993 – An American attack against a warlord in Mogadishu fails; eighteen US soldiers and over 350 Somalis die.
- 1995 – The O. J. Simpson murder case ends with a verdict of not guilty.
- 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 together in the Turkic Council.
- 2010 – The 19th Commonwealth Games commence in Delhi.
- 2013 – At least 360 migrants are killed when their boat sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
- 2015 – Forty-two are killed and 33 go missing in the Kunduz hospital airstrike.
- 2017 – King Felipe VI of Spain makes a special televised speech on Catalan independence referendum crisis.
-Source: wikipedia
