- 0009 - Vespasian was born (d. 0079). Roman Emperor.
- 0284 - Diocletian was acclaimed emperor by his soldiers.
- 0375 - Valentinian I dies (b. 0321). Roman Emperor
- 0594 - Gregory of Tours dies (b. c. 0539). Bishop and historian
- 0641 - Emperor Jomei of Japan dies (b. 0593)
- 0680 - Hilda of Whitby dies (b. 0614)
- 1231 - Elisabeth of Hungary dies (b. 1207). Daughter of Andrew II of Hungary and saint
- 1326 - Edmund FitzAlan dies (b. 1285). 9th Earl of Arundel, English politician
- 1494 - Giovanni Pico della Mirandola dies (b. 1463). Italian philosopher.
- 1502 - Atahualpa was born (d. 1533). Last emperor of the Inca.
- 1503 - Agnolo Bronzino was born (d. 1572). Italian painter.
- 1525 - Leonor of Portugal dies (b. 1458). Queen of Portugal
- 1558 - Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies (b. 1516) and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
- 1558 - Queen Mary I of England dies (b. 1516)
- 1558 - Reginald Cardinal Pole dies (b. 1500). Archbishop of Canterbury
- 1562 - Antoine de Bourbon dies (b. 1518). Father of Henry IV of France
- 1576 - Roque Gonzales was born (d. 1628). Paraguayan missionary.
- 1587 - Joost van den Vondel was born (d. 1679). Dutch poet.
- 1592 - King John III of Sweden dies (b. 1537)
- 1600 - Kuki Yoshitaka dies (b. 1542). Japanese naval commander.
- 1612 - Dorgon was born (d. 1650). Manchu prince.
- 1632 - Gottfried Heinrich Graf zu Pappenheim dies (b. 1594). Bavarian field marshal.
- 1643 - Jean-Baptiste Budes dies (b. 1602). Comte de Guébriant, marshal of France
- 1648 - Thomas Ford dies. English composer.
- 1665 - John Earle dies. English bishop
- 1668 - Joseph Alleine dies (b. 1634). English non-conformist preacher.
- 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer was born (d. 1776). French theologian.
- 1685 - Pierre Gaultier de Varennes et de la Vérendrye was born (d. 1749). French-Canadian trader and explorer
- 1690 - Charles de Sainte-Maure dies (b. 1610). Duc de Montausier, French soldier
- 1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen dies (b. 1631). Dutch painter.
- 1713 - Abraham van Riebeeck dies (b. 1653). Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies
- 1717 - Jean le Rond d'Alembert was born (d. 1783). French mathematician.
- 1720 - Calico Jack dies. English pirate
- 1747 - Alain-René Lesage dies (b. 1668). French writer.
- 1755 - King Louis XVIII of France was born (d. 1824)
- 1765 - Étienne-Jacques-Joseph-Alexandre MacDonald was born (d. 1840). French marshal.
- 1768 - Thomas Pelham-Holles dies (b. 1693). 1st Duke of Newcastle-upon-Tyne, English statesman.
- 1776 - James Ferguson dies (b. 1710). Scottish astronomer.
- 1777 - Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
- 1789 - Charlotte, Duchess of Albany dies (b. 1753). Child of Bonnie Prince Charlie
- 1790 - August Ferdinand Möbius was born (d. 1868). German mathematician and astronomer.
- 1790 - Marechal Saldanha was born (d. 1876). Portuguese militar and politician.
- 1793 - Sir Charles Lock Eastlake was born (d. 1865). English painter.
- 1794 - Jacques François Dugommier dies (b. 1738). French general.
- 1796 - Catherine II of Russia dies (b. 1729). Empress of Russia.
- 1799 - Titian Peale was born (d. 1885). American artist.
- 1800 - The United States Capitol building in Washington, DC holds its first session of the U.S. Congress.
- 1807 - O exército francês comandado pelo general Junot entra em Portugal, pela fronteira de Segura, na Beira Baixa, começando a Primeira Invasão Francesa.
- 1808 - David Zeisberger dies (b. 1721). Moravian missionary.
- 1816 - August Wilhelm Ambros was born (d. 1876). Austrian composer
- 1820 - Captain Nathaniel Palmer becomes the first American to see Antarctica (the Palmer Peninsula was later named after him).
- 1822 - Joaquim Machado de Castro dies. Portuguese sculptor.
- 1827 - The Delta Phi Fraternity, America's oldest continuous social fraternity, was founded at Union College in Schenectady, NY.
- 1835 - Andrew L. Harris was born (1915). American Civil War hero and Governor of Ohio
- 1835 - Antoine Charles Horace Vernet dies (b. 1758). French painter.
- 1854 - Hubert Lyautey was born (d. 1934). French general.
- 1856 - American Old West: On the Sonoita River in present-day southern Arizona, the United States Army establishes Fort Buchanan in order to help control new land acquired in the Gadsden Purchase.
- 1857 - Joseph Babiński was born (d. 1932). Polish-French neurologist.
- 1858 - Modified Julian Day zero.
- 1858 - Robert Owen dies (b. 1771). British father of the cooperative movement.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Siege of Knoxville begins - Confederate forces led by General James Longstreet place Knoxville, Tennessee under siege.
- 1866 - Voltairine de Cleyre was born (d. 1912). American anarchist.
- 1866 - Lola Mora (Dolores Mora de la Vega) was born. Argentine sculptor.
- 1868 - Korbinian Brodmann was born (d. 1918). German neurologist.
- 1869 - In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is inaugurated in an elaborate ceremony, after 10 years of construction.
- 1871 - The National Rifle Association is granted a charter by the state of New York.
- 1876 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's patriotic Slavonic March made its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception by the Russian people.
- 1878 - Grace Abbott was born (d. 1939). American social worker and activist.
- 1878 - Lise Meitner was born (d. 1968). Austrian physicist.
- 1887 - Bernard Montgomery was born in London (d. 1976). British World War II commander.
- 1894 - Richard Nikolaus Graf Coudenhove-Kalergi was born (d. 1972). Austrian politician
- 1895 - Mikhail Bakhtin was born (d. 1975). Russian philosopher.
- 1895 - Gregorio López y Fuentes was born (d. 1966). Mexican author.
- 1895 - Clube de Regatas Flamengo is founded.
- 1896 - Lev Vygotsky was born (d. 1934). Russian psychologist.
- 1897 - Frank Fay was born (d. 1961). American actor.
- 1899 - Douglas Shearer was born (d. 1971). Canadian film sound engineer
- 1901 - Walter Hallstein was born (d. 1982). German politician.
- 1901 - Lee Strasberg was born (d. 1982). Austrian director.
- 1902 - Eugene Wigner was born (d. 1995). Hungarian-US physicist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1963, with Jensen and Mayer, for extensive work on quantum mechanics.
- 1902 - U.S. troops intervene in Colombia.
- 1902 - Hugh Price Hughes dies (b. 1847). Methodist Social Reformer.
- 1903 - The Russian Social Democratic Labor Party splits into two groups; the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority"). (NOTE: Later the Mensheviks became the majority party, meaning that technically the Mensheviks became the bolsheviks and the Bolsheviks mensheviks).
- 1904 - Isamu Noguchi was born (d. 1988). American sculptor.
- 1904 - U.S. troops intervene in Panama.
- 1904 - William Hastie was born (d. 1976). US judge and politician.
- 1905 - Queen Astrid of Belgium was born (d. 1935).
- 1905 - Mischa Auer was born (d. 1967). American actor.
- 1905 - Adolphe of Luxembourg dies (b. 1817)
- 1906 - Soichiro Honda was born (d. 1992). Japanese automobile pioneer.
- 1906 - Rollie Stiles was born. American Baseball Player.
- 1907 - Israel Regardie was born (d. 1985). Aleister Crowley's secretary.
- 1910 - Raquel de Queiroz was born. Brazilian writer who was the first woman to have a chair in the Academia Brasileira de Letras
- 1911 - Omega Psi Phi Fraternity, Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University.
- 1911 - Christian Fouchet was born (d. 1974). French diplomat
- 1916 - Shelby Foote was born (d. 2005). American historian.
- 1917 - Auguste Rodin dies (b. 1840). French sculptor known for his bronze and marble figures, including The Thinker (1880) and The Kiss (1886), and considered one of the best portraitists in the history of sculpture
- 1917 - Romeu Correia was born in Cacilhas (d. 12 Jun 1996). Portuguese writer.
- 1919 - George V, then King of the United Kingdom, proclaimed Armistice Day (later Remembrance Day), saying "that at the hour when the Armistice came into force, the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month, there may be for the brief space of two minutes a complete suspension of all our normal activities … so that in perfect stillness, the thoughts of everyone may be concentrated on reverent remembrance of the glorious dead." The idea was first suggested by Edward George Honey.
- 1920 - Camillo Felgen was born (d. 2005). Luxembourgish singer.
- 1922 - Stanley Cohen was born. American biochemist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
- 1922 - Robert Comtesse dies (b. 1847). Member of the Swiss Federal Council.
- 1923 - Bert Sutcliffe was born (d. 2001). New Zealand cricketer.
- 1925 - Rock Hudson was born (d. 2 Oct 1985). American actor. McMillan and Wife, Giant, A Gathering of Eagles, Ice Station Zebra, Magnificent Obsession, Pillow Talk, Written on the Wind;
- 1925 - Sir Charles Mackerras was born. American-born conductor
- 1927 - Rogério Paulo was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1928 - Rance Howard was born. American actor
- 1929 - Norm Zauchin was born (d. 1999). Baseball player.
- 1929 - Herman Hollerith dies (b. 1860). American statistician.
- 1929 - Pascual Ortiz Rubio elected president of Mexico.
- 1935 - Toni Sailer was born. Austrian skier
- 1936 - Dalia Rabikovich was born (d. 2005). Israeli poet.
- 1936 - Ernestine Schumann-Heink dies (b. 1861). Austrian contralto
- 1937 - Peter Cook was born (d. 1995). English comedian, satirist, and writer (Beyond the Fringe, The Wrong Box)
- 1937 - Jack Worrall dies (b. 1860). Australian cricketer, footballer, and coach.
- 1938 - Gordon Lightfoot was born. Canadian singer
- 1938 - Ante Trumbić dies (b. 1864). Croatian politician.
- 1938 - Alvaro Leon Cassuto was born in Oporto. Portuguese composer and conductor.
- 1939 - Auberon Waugh was born (d. 2001). British author.
- 1940 - Eric Gill dies (b. 1882). English sculptor and writer.
- 1940 - Raymond Pearl dies (b. 1879). American biologist.
- 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables the State Department that Japan had plans to launch an attack against Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (his cable was ignored).
- 1942 - Martin Scorsese was born. American film director (Mean Streets, The Color of Money, Raging Bull, Goodfellas, Taxi Driver, Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore, New York, New York, The Last Temptation of Christ, Cape Fear)
- 1942 - Khang Khek Leu was born. Cambodian politician
- 1943 - Lauren Hutton was born. American actress (American Gigolo, Lassiter, Paper Lion)
- 1944 - Danny DeVito was born. Emmy-award winning actor (Taxi [1980-81]; Twins, Batman Returns, Hoffa, The Jewel of the Nile, Romancing the Stone, Terms of Endearment) and director (Throw Mama from the Train, The War of the Roses, Jack the Bear).
- 1944 - Rem Koolhaas was born. Dutch architect (House of Music : Casa da Musica, in Oporto).
- 1944 - Lorne Michaels was born. Canadian, Emmy Award-winning writer (The Paul Simon Special [1977], Saturday Night Live [1976, 1977, 1989], Lily [1974]; Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In, Three Amigos) and Emmy Award-winning producer (Saturday Night Live [1976, 1993, 2002]; Sunday Night, The New Show, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Stuart Saves His Family, Lassie, The Coneheads, Wayne’s World series, Three Amigos)
- 1944 - Tom Seaver was born. Baseball player
- 1945 - Elvin Hayes was born. American basketball playe.
- 1946 - Terry E. Branstad was born. Governor of Iowa
- 1946 - Martin Barre was born. English rock musician (Jethro Tull)
- 1947 - Steven E. de Souza was born. American scriptwriter
- 1948 - Howard Dean was born. American politician.
- 1949 - Nguyễn Tấn Dũng was born. Prime Minister of Vietnam
- 1950 - Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama, was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1950 - Roland Matthes was born. German athlete, one of the greatest backstrokers in the history of swimming.
- 1950 - Tom Walkinshaw was born. British businessman
- 1951 - Yaruch Bann was born. French poet
- 1951 - Stephen Root was born. American actor
- 1951 - Dean Paul Martin was born (d. 1987). American singer and actor.
- 1952 - Ties Kruize was born. Dutch field hockey player.
- 1953 - Twenty die in Channel collision: Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.
- 1954 - Mark Brandon Read was born. Australian criminal
- 1955 - James P. Johnson dies (b. 1894). American pianist and composer.
- 1958 - Mort Cooper dies (b. 1913). Baseball player.
- 1958 - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio was born. American actress
- 1959 - Heitor Villa-Lobos dies (b. 1887). Brazilian composer.
- 1960 - Kirk Fogg was born. Host of Legends of the Hidden Temple
- 1960 - Jonathan Ross was born. British television presenter
- 1960 - RuPaul was born. American actor
- 1962 - Dédé Fortin was born (d. 2000). Quebec singer (Les Colocs).
- 1966 - Jeff Buckley was born (dies). American musician
- 1966 - Daisy Fuentes was born. Cuban model, TV host and actress
- 1966 - Sophie Marceau was born. French actress
- 1966 - Kate Ceberano was born. Australian singer
- 1967 - Vietnam War: Acting on optimistic reports he was given on November 13, US President Lyndon B. Johnson tells his nation that, while much remained to be done, "We are inflicting greater losses than we're taking...We are making progress." (two months later the Tet Offensive made him regret his words).
- 1968 - NBC preempts the final 1:05 minutes of a very close NFL football match between the New York Jets and the Oakland Raiders with Heidi, prompting an outrage amongst sport fans.
- 1968 - Alexandros Panagoulis condemned to death by the Greek Colonels' Junta.
- 1968 - Amber Michaels was born. German porn actress
- 1968 - Mervyn Peake dies (b. 1911). British writer and illustrator.
- 1969 - Cold War: Negotiators from the Soviet Union and the United States meet in Helsinki to begin SALT I negotiations aimed at limiting the number of strategic weapons on both sides.
- 1969 - Jean-Michel Saive was born. Belgian table tennis player.
- 1969 - Ryotaro Okiayu was born. Japanese voice actor
- 1969 - Kianna Dior was born. Korean-Canadian porn star
- 1970 - Paul Allender was born. English singer (Cradle of Filth)
- 1970 - Elton John plays a concert at A&R Studios in New York City which later becomes the album 11-17-70.
- 1970 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
- 1972 - Leonard Roberts was born. American actor
- 1973 - Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, US President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."
- 1973 - Alexei Urmanov was born. Russian figure skater.
- 1973 - Bernd Schneider was born. German football player.
- 1973 - Eli Marrero was born. American baseball player.
- 1974 - Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal, as a front of PCP(m-l).
- 1975 - Diane Neal was born. American actress.
- 1976 - Brandon Call was born. American actor
- 1977 - Ryk Neethling was born. South African swimmer.
- 1978 - The Star Wars Holiday Special aired one time only on CBS.
- 1978 - Reggie Wayne was born. American football player
- 1979 - Brad Bradley was born. American professional wrestler
- 1979 - John Glascock dies. British bassist (Jethro Tull)
- 1980 - Isaac Hanson was born. American musician (Hanson)
- 1981 - Sarah Harding was born. English singer (Girls Aloud)
- 1982 - Katie Feenstra was born. American basketball player.
- 1982 - Eduard Tubin dies (b. 1905). Estonian composer
- 1982 - Leonid Borisovitch Kogan dies (b. 1924). Russian violinist.
- 1983 - The Zapatista Army of National Liberation founded.
- 1983 - Christopher Paolini was born. Author
- 1985 - The first edition of Phrack is released. It became the oldest computer underground magazine still running after its 20 years of existence.
- 1986 - French car chief shot dead : George Besse (b. 1927) - the head of the Renault car company- is assassinated outside his home in Paris.
- 1987 - Paul Derringer dies (b. 1906). Baseball player.
- 1989 - Cold War: Velvet Revolution begins - In Czechoslovakia a peaceful student demonstration in Prague is severely beaten back by the communist riot police. This sparks a revolution aimed at overthrowing the communist government (it succeeded on December 29).
- 1989 - Gus Farace dies murdered (b. 1960). American gangster.
- 1989 - João de Freitas Branco dies. Portuguese musicologist and critic of music.
- 1990 - Robert Hofstadter dies (b. 1915). American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1990 - Fugendake, part of the Mount Unzen volcanic complex, Nagasaki prefecture, Japan became active again and erupted.
- 1993 - Mário Dionísio dies (b. 1916). Portuguese teacher and writer.
- 1993 - Gérard D. Lévesque dies (b. 1926). Quebec politician.
- 1994 - Raquel Castro was born. American actress
- 1995 - Public Radio International's radio program This American Life broadcasts its first episode, "New Beginnings".
- 1997 - In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut (police killed the assailants).
- 2000 - Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru.
- 2000 - Louis Eugène Félix Néel dies (b. 1904). French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 2001 - Michael Karoli dies (b. 1948). German guitarist (Can)
- 2002 - Abba Eban dies (b. 1915). Israeli diplomat and politician.
- 2003 - Arnold Schwarzenegger is inaugurated Governor of California.
- 2003 - Arthur Conley dies (b. 1946). American singer.
- 2003 - Don Gibson dies (b. 1928). American singer and songwriter.
- 2004 - Kmart Corp. announced it was buying Sears, Roebuck and Co. for $11 billion and naming the newly merged company Sears Holdings Corporation.
- 2004 - Mikael Ljungberg dies (b. 1970). Swedish wrestler.
- 2004 - Samuel Karokikki dies (b. 1943). Nauru athlete.
- 2004 - Alexander Ragulin dies (b. 1941). Russian hockey player.
- 2005 - Italy's choice of national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes officialised in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
- 2005 - Marek Perepeczko dies (b. 1942). Polish actor.
- 2006 - Ferenk Puskas dies at 79. Legendary Hungarian football player who was voted the 20th century's fourth best player by the International Federation for Football History and Statistics.
- 2006 - Sottomayor Cardia dies. Portuguese politician, one of the founders of Portuguese Socialist Party (PS)
- Feast day of St Elisabeth of Hungary, Gregory of Tours; Hilda of Whitby; Hugh of Lincoln (Roman Catholic)
- Slovakia - Struggle for Freedom and Democracy Day commemorating the beginning of the Velvet Revolution in 1989.
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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