November 25

1703 - The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people perish in the mighty gale. 1839 - A cyclone slams India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying the port city of Coringa (never to be entirely rebuilt again). The storm wave sweeps inland, taking with it 20,000 ships and thousands of people. An estimated 300,000 deaths result from the disaster. 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River. 2007 - The first European Parliament election and a referendum on changing the voting system (called by the President and declared invalid because of insufficient turnout) were held in Romania. 2009 - Powerful storm brings 3 years worth of rain in 4 hours to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, sparking terrible floods known as the 2009 Jeddah Floods, which kill over 150 people and sweep thousands of cars away right in the middle of Hajj in the second largest city of Saudi Arabia, Jeddah.

November 26

1034 - Mel Coluim mac Cineda, King of Scots dies. Donnchad, the son of his second daughter Bethc and Crnn of Dunkeld, inherits the throne. 1991 - Condoms are handed out to thousands of New York High School students. 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament. 2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China. 2008 - Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

November 27
1975 - The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. 1999 - The left-wing Labour Party takes control of the New Zealand government with leader Helen Clark becoming the first elected female Prime Minister in New Zealand's history. 2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet. 2004 - Pope John Paul II returned the relics of Saint John Chrysostom to the Eastern Orthodox Church. 2005 - The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

November 28

1990 - Singapore's Lee Kuan Yew resigns, ending his reign as Singapore's longest-serving Prime Minister 1994 - Norway votes against joining European Union to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium. 1995 - James Brady, former white house press sect, suffers a heart attack 1997 - First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia. 2000 - Ukrainian politician Oleksander Moroz begins the Cassette Scandal by publicly accusing President Leonid Kuchma of involvement in the murder of journalist Georgiy Gongadze. 2004 - Male Po o-uli dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation

Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.

November 21
1789 North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state. 1920 Irish War of Independence: In Dublin, 31 people are killed in what became known as "Bloody Sunday". This included fourteen British informants, fourteen Irish civilians and three Irish Republican Army prisoners. 1922 Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senator. 1894 Port Arthur massacre: Port Arthur, Manchuria falls to the Japanese, a decisive victory of the First Sino-Japanese War. 1916 World War I: A mine explodes and sinks HMHS Britannic in the Aegean Sea, killing 30 people.

November 22
1858 Denver, Colorado was founded as a mining town during the Pikes Peak Gold Rush in western Kansas Territory. 1935 The China Clipper takes off from Alameda, California for its first commercial flight. It reaches its destination, Manila, a week later. 1942 World War II: Battle of Stalingrad General Friedrich Paulus sends Adolf Hitler a telegram saying that the German 6th army is surrounded. 1943 World War II: War in the Pacific U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan. 1943 Lebanon gains independence from France. Lebanon gained independence in 1943, while France was occupied by Germany. General Henri Dentz, the Vichy High Commissioner for Syria and Lebanon, played a major role in the independence of both nations.

November 23

1808 French and Poles defeat the Spanish at battle of Tudela. The battle of Tudela, was a major French victory that sealed the success of Napoleons great plan of double-envelopment during the one campaign he conducted in person in Spain. 1863 American Civil War: Battle of Chattanooga begins Union forces led by General Ulysses S. Grant reinforce troops at Chattanooga, Tennessee and counter-attack Confederate troops. 2007 - MS Explorer, a cruise liner carrying 154 people, sank in the Antarctic Ocean south of Argentina after hitting an iceberg near the South Shetland Islands. 2009 - The Maguindanao massacre occurs in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, Mindanao, Philippines killing 58 people including Mangudadatu's wife, his two sisters, journalists, lawyers, aides, and motorists who were witnesses or were mistakenly identified as part of the convoy. 2010 - The Bombardment of Yeonpyeong occurs on Yeonpyeong Island, South Korea. The North Korean artillery attack kills 2 civilians and 2 South Korean marines.

November 24
1859 Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, the anniversary of which is sometimes called "Evolution Day". 1932 In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. 1941 World War II: The United States grants Lend-Lease to the Free French . 1943 World War II: The USS Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men. 1944 World War II: Bombing of Tokyo The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.

November 29
1929 - U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole. 1963 - The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, known unofficially as the Warren Commission, was established by Lyndon B. Johnson to investigate the assassination of United States President John F. Kennedy on November 22, 1963. The Commission took its unofficial name the Warren Commissionfrom its chairman, Chief JusticeEarl Warren. 1971 - U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan . 1997 - The Assembly adopted the resolution on the partition of Palestine continue to organize an annual exhibit on Palestinian rights or a cultural event in cooperation with the Permanent Observer Mission of Palestine to the UN. 1944 - Albania was liberated from the control of Nazi over them.

November 30
1630 - 16,000 inhabitants of Venice died this month of plague. 1786 - Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 is therefore commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day. 1988 - Computer Security Day was started to help raise awareness of computer related security issues. Its goal is to remind people to protect their computers and information. 2005 - John Sentamu becomes the first African American archbishop in the Church of England with his enthronement as the 97th Archbishop of York. 2007 - Hillary Clinton presidential campaign office hostage crisis: Leeland Eisenberg entered the campaign office of Hillary Clinton in Rochester, New Hampshire with a device suspected of being a bomb and held three people hostage for 5 hours.

November 19
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico, on his 2nd voyage. He made four voyages to the Americas, with his first in 1492, which resulted in what is widely referred to as the Discovery of America.
1700 - Battle at Narva: Swedish king Karel XII beats Russians. A Swedish relief army under Charles XII of Sweden defeated a Russian siege force three times its size. Charles XII turned southward to expel August the Strong from Livonia and Poland-Lithuania. Peter the Great took Narva in a second battle in 1704. 1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1944 - World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort. 1999 - Shenzhou 1: The People's Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft.

November 20
1407 - A truce between John the Fearless, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Valois, Duke of Orlans is agreed under the auspices of John, Duke of Berry. Orlans would be assassinated three days later by Burgundy. 1521 - Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine. 1998 - A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.

2003 - After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.

November 13

1941 - British aircraft carrier "Ark Royal" sank in Mediterranean. 1970 - Cyclone kills estimated 300,000 in Chittagong Bangladesh. 1970 - Flooding ravages Ganges delta, 200,000-1 million killed. 1982 - A boxing match held in Las Vegas, Nevada ends when Ray Mancini defeats Duk Koo Kim. Kim's death on November 17 led to significant changes in the sport. 1990 - In Aramoana, New Zealand, Resident David Gray shot dead 13 people, in what became known as the Aramoana Massacre.

November 14
1889 - New York World reporter Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Cochrane) began her attempt to surpass fictitious journey of Jules Verne's Phileas Fogg by traveling around world in less than 80 days She succeeded, finishing the trip in January in 72 days and 6 hours. 1927 Worlds largest gas tank in Pittsburgh Penn explodes killing 28 people. 1967 - The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman". 1984 - Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city. 2002 - The United States House of Representatives votes not to create an independent commission to investigate the September 11 attacks.

November 15
1854 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession. 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 which is destroyed mid-air over the Mojave Desert. 1985 - A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes. 2003 - The first day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings takes place, to be followed by additional bombings on November 20. 2007 - A devastating Cyclone named Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing an estimated 5000 people and destroyed the world's largest mangrove forest, Sundarbans.

November 16
1901 - 3 autos race on Ocean Parkway, Brooklyn, fastest speed achieved by Henry Fournier who drives a mile in 51 4/5 seconds. 1943 - World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway. 1974 - 1st intentional interstellar radio message sent, Arecibo telescope towards M 41, a cluster of stars some 25,000 light years away. 1997 - After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons. 2000 - Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.