Year 52 » Vercingetorix, leader of the Gauls, surrenders to the Romans under Julius Caesar, ending the siege and Battle of Alesia.
Year 382 » Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans in exchange for military service.
Year 1283 Calendar » Dafydd ap Gruffydd, prince of Gwynedd in Wales, is the first nobleman to be executed by hanged, drawn and quartered called hanging, drawing and quartering.
Year 1683 Calendar » The Qing dynasty naval commander Shi Lang reaches Taiwan (under the Kingdom of Tungning) to receive the formal surrender of Zheng Keshuang and Liu Guoxuan after the Battle of Penghu.
Year 1712 Calendar » The James Graham, 1st Duke of Montrose e.g Duke of Montrose issues a warrant for the arrest of Rob Roy MacGregor.
Year 1739 Calendar » The Treaty of Niš (1739) named Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia at the end of the Russian–Turkish War, 1736–39.
Year 1789 Calendar » George Washington makes the first Thanksgiving (United States) named Thanksgiving Day designated by the national government of the United States of America.
Year 1835 Calendar » The Staedtler company is founded in Nuremberg, Germany.
Year 1849 Calendar » American author Edgar Allan Poe is found delirious in a gutter in Baltimore under mysterious circumstances; it is the last time he is seen in public before his Death of Edgar Allan Poe or death.
Year 1863 Calendar » The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving (United States) or Thanksgiving Day by United States President Abraham Lincoln as are Thursdays, November 30, 1865 and November 29, 1866.
Year 1873 Calendar » Kintpuash or Captain Jack and companions are hanged for their part in the Modoc War.
Year 1912 Calendar » U.S. forces defeat Nicaraguan rebels under the command of Benjamín Zeledón at the Battle of Coyotepe Hill.
Year 1942 Calendar » Spaceflight: The first successful launch of a V-2 /V-2 rocket e.g A4-rocket from Test Stand VII at Peenemünde, Germany. It is the first man-made object to reach space.
Year 1949 Calendar » WERD (defunct) called WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
Year 1950 Calendar » Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San, primarily pitting Australian and British forces against communist China, begins.
Year 1955 Calendar » The Mickey Mouse Club debuts on American Broadcasting Company known as ABC.
Year 1961 Calendar » 'The Dick Van Dyke Show' premieres on CBS known as CBS-TV in the United States.
Year 1962 Calendar » Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 8 named Sigma 7 is launched from Cape Canaveral, with astronaut Wally Schirra aboard, for a six-orbit, nine-hour flight.
Year 1981 Calendar » The 1981 Irish hunger strike known as hunger strike by Provisional Irish Republican Army and Irish National Liberation Army prisoners at the Maze Prison in Northern Ireland ends after seven months and ten deaths.
Year 1985 Calendar » The Space Shuttle Atlantis makes its maiden flight. (Mission STS-51-J).
Year 1986 Calendar » TASCC, a superconducting cyclotron at the Chalk River Laboratories, is officially opened.
Year 1990 Calendar » German reunification: The East Germany or German Democratic Republic ceases to exist and its territory becomes part of the Germany named Federal Republic of Germany. East German citizens became part of the European Community, which later became the Europe
Year 1995 Calendar » O. J. Simpson is O. J. Simpson murder case known as acquitted of the murders of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman.
Year 2008 Calendar » The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Year 2009 Calendar » The presidents of Azerbaijan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, and Turkey sign the Nakhchivan Agreement on the Establishment of Turkic Council.
Year 2013 Calendar » At least 134 migrants are killed when their boat 2013 Mediterranean Sea migrant shipwreck e.g sinks near the Italian island of Lampedusa.
Year 2013 » The Gambia withdraws from the Commonwealth of Nations.