Today In History: November

Great Lisbon Earthquake

November 1st

  • 1512: The Sistine Chapel Ceiling Opens To The Public
  • 1755: The Great Lisbon Earthquake Strikes
  • 1924: William Tilghman Is Murdered
  • 1950: A Failed Assassination Attempt On President Harry S. Truman
  • 1952: The First Hydrogen Bomb Is Tested
  • 1993: The European Union Is Founded By The Maastricht Treaty

Emu War Lewis Gunners

November 2nd

  • 1734: Daniel Boone Is Born
  • 1932: The Great Emu War Begins
  • 1960: 'Lady Chatterley's Lover' Is Determined Not To Be Obscene
  • 1984: Velma Barfield Is Executed
  • 2011: Anatoly Moskvin Is Arrested

Laika The Dog

November 3rd

  • 1793: Olympe De Gouges Is Executed
  • 1926: Annie Oakley Dies
  • 1948: Newspaper Mistakenly Prints "Dewey Defeats Truman"
  • 1954: Henri Matisse Dies
  • 1957: Sputnik 2 Launches Into Space With A Dog On Board
  • 1984: Lisa McVey Is Abducted By Bobby Joe Long

Opening Tomb Of King Tut

November 4th

  • 1677: William III And Mary II Of England Marry
  • 1922: The Entrance To King Tut's Tomb Is Discovered
  • 1960: Jane Goodall Observes Chimpanzees Creating Tools
  • 1970: Social Workers Learn Of Genie, The 'Feral' Child
  • 1980: Jimmy Carter Loses Reelection To Ronald Reagan
  • 1982: Dominique Dunne Dies

Guy Fawkes is arrested

November 5th

  • 1605: Guy Fawkes Is Arrested
  • 1872: Susan B. Anthony Illegally Votes In A Presidential Election
  • 1913: Vivien Leigh Is Born
  • 1989: Betty Broderick Murders Her Ex-Husband
  • 1998: DNA Testing Confirms Jefferson Lineage In The Descendants Of Sally Hemings

Abraham Lincoln Photograph

November 6th

  • 1661: Charles II Of Spain Is Born
  • 1860: Abraham Lincoln Is Elected President
  • 1917: The Bolshevik Revolution Begins In Russia
  • 1984: Ronald Reagan Is Elected As 40th U.S. President
  • 2005: The Miami Brinks Heist

Steve Mcqueen Holding His Gun

November 7th

  • 1867: Marie Curie Is Born
  • 1872: The Mary Celeste Leaves Port
  • 1940: The Tacoma Narrows Bridge Collapses
  • 1980: Steve McQueen Dies
  • 1991: Magic Johnson Announces He's HIV-Positive
  • 2018: Brothel Owner Dennis Hof Is Elected To The Nevada State Assembly — A Month After His Death

Doc Holliday

November 8th

  • 1510: Lope De Aguirre Is Born
  • 1887: Doc Holliday Dies
  • 1895: X-Rays Are Discovered
  • 1920: Esther Rolle Is Born
  • 1923: The Beer Hall Putsch Begins
  • 1939: Georg Elser Narrowly Misses Assassinating Adolf Hitler
  • 1972: John Paul Getty III's Ear Is Delivered To A Newspaper
  • 1974: John Bingham, Otherwise Known As Lord Lucan, Disappears
  • 2011: Jennifer Pan Has Her Parents Murdered

Man Takes Axe To Berlin Wall

November 9th

  • 1888: Jack The Ripper Kills His Final Victim
  • 1914: Hedy Lamarr Is Born
  • 1938: The Start Of Kristallnacht
  • 1971: John List Murders His Family
  • 1989: Fall Of The Berlin Wall

Sesame Street Debuts

November 10th

  • 1865: Henry Wirz Is Hanged
  • 1871: Henry M. Stanley Finds Dr. David Livingstone
  • 1923: Hachikō The Akita Is Born
  • 1958: The Smithsonian Acquires The Hope Diamond
  • 1969: Sesame Street Debuts
  • 1998: Josh Phillips Murders Maddie Clifton

Treaty Of Versailles

November 11th

  • 1620: The Mayflower Compact Is Signed
  • 1831: Nat Turner Is Executed
  • 1859: Belle Gunness Is Born
  • 1880: Ned Kelly Is Hanged
  • 1918: World War I Ends
  • 1934: Grace Budd's Mother Receives A Letter From Her Killer
  • 1938: Typhoid Mary Dies
  • 1988: Police Find Bodies Buried On Dorothea Puente's Property

Mothman Illustration

November 12th

  • 1666: Mary Astell Is Born
  • 1859: Jules Léotard Performs The First Flying Trapeze Act
  • 1941: The Murder Inc. Trials Begin
  • 1966: First Recorded Mothman Sighting
  • 1969: Johnny Gosch Is Born
  • 1996: The Charkhi Dadri Mid-Air Collision
  • 2022: Mehran Karimi Nasseri Dies

Amityville House After The Murders

November 13th

  • 1002: St. Brice's Day Massacre
  • 1850: Robert Louis Stevenson Is Born
  • 1906: Empress Wanrong Is Born
  • 1942: The USS Juneau Is Destroyed In The Pacific
  • 1974: The Amityville Murders
  • 1985: Nevado Del Ruiz Erupts
  • 2012: Cari Farver Goes Missing

Ruby Bridges Escorted By Marshals

November 14th

  • 1840: Claude Monet Is Born
  • 1851: Moby-Dick Is Published
  • 1933: Danny Greene Is Born
  • 1960: Ruby Bridges Integrates A Louisiana Elementary School
  • 1969: NASA Launches Apollo 12
  • 1970: Marshall University Football Team Dies In Plane Crash
  • 2012: Rita Crundwell Is Convicted Of Largest Municipal Fraud In U.S. History

Sherman Burns Atlanta

November 15th

  • 1842: Cherokee Slave Revolt
  • 1864: General Sherman Burns Atlanta And Begins His March To The Sea
  • 1949: Candance Montgomery Is Born
  • 1959: The Clutter Family Is Murdered
  • 1995: The Clinton-Lewinsky Affair Begins
  • 2005: Steven Avery Is Arrested And Charged With The Murder Of Teresa Halbach

Cop Outside Gein House

November 16th

  • 1532: Francisco Pizarro Captures Atahualpa
  • 1581: Ivan The Terrible's Son, Ivan Ivanovich, Dies
  • 1849: Fyodor Dostoevsky Is Sentenced To Death
  • 1940: George Metesky Attempts His First Bombing
  • 1957: Police Discover Ed Gein's House Of Horrors
  • 1971: Edie Sedgwick Dies

Queen Elizabeth I

November 17th

  • 1558: Elizabeth I Of England Takes The English Throne
  • 1818: Queen Charlotte Dies
  • 1894: H. H. Holmes Is Arrested
  • 1938: Stalin's Great Purge Comes To An End
  • 1942: Martin Scorsese Is Born
  • 1972: Tony Baekeland Murders His Mother
  • 1989: George H.W. Bush Pardons A Turkey
  • 1998: Esther Rolle Dies

Jonestown Bodies Og 2

November 18th

  • 1626: St. Peter's Basilica Is Consecrated
  • 1865: Mark Twain's First Story Is Published
  • 1928: Disney's Steamboat Willie Is Released
  • 1939: Margaret Atwood Is Born
  • 1978: The Jonestown Massacre

Man In The Iron Mask Depiction

November 19th

  • 1703: The "Man In The Iron Mask" Dies
  • 1863: Abraham Lincoln Delivers The Gettysburg Address
  • 1961: Michael Rockefeller Vanishes
  • 2002: The Department of Homeland Security Is Created
  • 2017: Charles Manson Dies

Goring At Nuremberg

November 20th

  • 1820: A Sperm Whale Sinks The Whaling Ship Essex
  • 1945: The Nuremberg Trials Begin
  • 1947: Queen Elizabeth II And Prince Philip Marry
  • 1975: Francisco Franco Dies
  • 2013: Joseph Paul Franklin Is Executed

Pilgrims Aboard The Mayflower

November 21st

  • 1620: The Pilgrims Sign The Mayflower Compact
  • 1694: Voltaire Is Born
  • 1877: Thomas Edison Announces The Invention Of The Phonograph
  • 1959: Alan Freed Is Fired From A New York Radio Station
  • 1974: Birmingham Pub Bombings

Kennedy In Limo

November 22nd

  • Blackbeard Is Killed
  • Charles De Gaulle Is Born
  • President John F. Kennedy Is Assassinated
  • 1987: The Max Headroom Incident
  • 2004: Dena Schlosser Amputates Her Baby's Arms

Tweed Ring Cartoon

November 23rd

  • 1499: Perkin Warbeck Is Hanged
  • 1801: Philip Hamilton, The Son Of Alexander Hamilton, Is Shot In A Duel
  • 1876: Boss Tweed Is Imprisoned In New York City
  • 1958: Harry Einstein Dies On Stage
  • 1966: The New York City Smog Disaster
  • 1900: Ronald Dahl Dies

Jack Ruby Killing Oswald

November 24th

  • 1700: Spanish War Of Succession Begins
  • 1801: Philip Hamilton Dies In A Duel
  • 1859: Charles Darwin Publishes On The Origin Of Species
  • 1963: Lee Harvey Oswald Is Killed
  • 1971: D. B. Cooper Hijacks Flight 305
  • 1991: Freddie Mercury Dies

Andrew Carnegie

November 25th

  • 1487: Elizabeth Of York Is Crowned Queen Of England
  • 1835: Andrew Carnegie Is Born
  • 1960: The Mirabal Sisters Are Assassinated
  • 1960: John F. Kennedy Jr. Is Born
  • 1970: Yukio Mishimia Dies By Seppuku
  • 1988: Junko Furuta Is Kidnapped

Alexandra Wedding Crop

November 26th

  • 1883: Sojourner Truth Dies
  • 1894: Czar Nicholas II Marries Alexandra Feodorovna
  • 1922: Charles Schulz Is Born
  • 1942: Casablanca Premieres
  • 2003: The Concorde Takes Its Final Flight
  • 2016: Joel Guy Jr. Murders His Parents

Bruce Lee In Fake Blood

November 27th

  • 1809: The Berners Street Hoax Unfolds
  • 1895: The Nobel Prize Is Established
  • 1924: The First Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Is Held
  • 1940: Bruce Lee Is Born
  • 1942: Jimi Hendrix Is Born
  • 1945: The Slinky Is Introduced
  • 1978: Dan White Assassinates Harvey Milk And George Moscone

Jeffrey Dahmer Mugshot

November 28th

  • 1582: William Shakespeare Marries Anne Hathaway
  • 1720: Anne Bonny's Trial Begins
  • 1820: Friedrich Engels Is Born
  • 1978: Harvey Milk Is Assassinated
  • 1994: Jeffrey Dahmer Is Killed

Robert Wagner Natalie Wood Og

November 29th

  • 1832: Louisa May Alcott Is Born
  • 1864: The Sand Creek Massacre
  • 1947: United Nations Adopts Resolution To Partition Palestine
  • 1961: Enos The Chimpanzee Is Launched Into Space
  • 1981: Natalie Wood Drowns

Mark Twain

November 30th

  • 1835: Mark Twain Is Born
  • 1954: Ann Hodges Is Hit By A Meteorite
  • 1969: Tex Watson Is Arrested
  • 2001: Gary Ridgway Is Arrested
  • 2013: Paul Walker Dies