| 1099 | Christian soldiers on the First Crusade march aroundJerusalem. |
| 1608 | The first French settlement at Quebec was established bySamuel de Champlain. |
| 1630 | The Massachusetts Bay Colony celebrated Thanksgiving Day. The day is recognized as the first Thanksgiving. |
| 1663 | King Charles II of England granted a charter to Rhode Island. |
| 1693 | Uniforms for police in New York City were authorized. |
| 1709 | Peter the Great defeated Charles XII at Poltava, in theUkraine, The Swedish empire was effectively ended. |
| 1755 | Britain broke off diplomatic relations with France as theirdisputes in the New World intensified. |
| 1776 | Col. John Nixon gave the first public reading of the U.S.Declaration of Independence to a crowd at IndependenceSquare in Philadelphia. |
| 1794 | French troops captured Brussels, Belgium. |
| 1795 | Kent County Free School changed its name to Washington College. It was the first college to be named after U.S. President George Washington. The school was established by an act of the Maryland Assembly in 1723. |
| 1815 | Louis XVIII returned to Paris after the defeat of Napoleon. |
| 1865 | C.E. Barnes patented the machine gun. |
| 1879 | The first ship to use electric lights departed from SanFrancisco, CA. |
| 1881 | Edward Berner, druggist in Two Rivers, WI, poured chocolatesyrup on ice cream in a dish. To this time chocolate syruphad only been used for making ice-cream sodas. |
| 1889 | The Wall Street Journal was first published. |
| 1889 | John L. Sullivan defeated Jake Kilrain, in the lastchampionship bare-knuckle fight. The fight lasted 75 rounds. |
| 1907 | Florenz Ziegfeld staged his first "Follies" on the roof ofthe New York Theater in New York City. |
| 1919 | U.S. President Wilson returned from the Versailles PeaceConference in France. |
| 1947 | Demolition work began in New York City for the new permanentheadquarters of the United Nations. |
| 1950 | General Douglas MacArthur was named commander-in-chief ofUnited Nations forces in Korea. |
| 1953 | Notre Dame announced that the next five years of its footballgames would be shown in theatres over closed circuit TV. |
| 1960 | The Soviet Union charged Gary Powers with espionage. Hewas shot down in a U-2 spy plane. |
| 1963 | All Cuban-owned assets in the United States were frozen. |
| 1969 | The U.S. Patent Office issued a patent for the game "Twister." |
| 1970 | The San Francisco Giant’s Jim Ray Hart became the firstNational League player in 59 seasons to collect six runsbatted (RBI) during a single inning. |
| 1986 | Kurt Waldheim was inaugurated as president of Austria despitecontroversy over his alleged ties to Nazi war crimes. |
| 1993 | Charles Keating, chief of Lincoln Savings & Loan Association, was sentenced to 12 years and seven months in prison for violating California security and fraud laws. |
| 1997 | The Mayo Clinic and the U.S. government warned that thediet-drug combination known as "fen-phen" could causeserious heart and lung damage. |
| 1997 | NATO invited Poland, Hungary, and the Czech Republic to jointhe alliance in 1999. |
| 2000 | J.K. Rowling's "Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire" wasreleased in the U.S. It was the fourth Harry Potter book. |
