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Pope Gregory XIV
Gough Whitlam
Damage from the Brooklyn Theatre fire
H. H. Asquith
Pope Innocent VIII
Henry Knox's train of artillery
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| International Volunteer Day; | refimprove |
| ; National Day in Thailand (1927) | multiple issues |
| 1492 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to set foot on the island of Hispaniola, now Haiti and the Dominican Republic. | date not cited |
| 1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier. | refimprove section |
| 1766 – In London, James Christie founded what is today the world's leading art business and fine arts auction house. | refimprove section |
| 1776 – Phi Beta Kappa, the oldest academic honor society in the United States, and the first collegiate organization to adopt a Greek-letter name, was founded at the College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, Virginia. | lots of CN tags (13) |
| 1876 – Fire engulfed the Brooklyn Theatre in Brooklyn, New York, killing at least 278 people, mostly due to smoke inhalation. | lots of CN tags (6), especially concentrated in two sections |
| 1916 – Amid the First World War and following his loss of support in Parliament, British Prime Minister H. H. Asquith resigned. | "Too long" yellow banner |
| 1933 – The prohibition of alcoholic beverages in the United States at the federal level ended when the Twenty-first Amendment to the Constitution was ratified, repealing the Eighteenth Amendment. | cn tags, sparsely cited |
| 1945 – Flight 19, a squadron of five U.S. Navy torpedo bombers, disappeared over the Bermuda Triangle. | Too much uncited |
| 1958 – Subscriber trunk dialling was inaugurated in the United Kingdom by Queen Elizabeth II when she made a phone call from Bristol to Edinburgh. | refimprove |
| 1995 – Azerbaijan Airlines Flight 56 crashed shortly after takeoff from Nakhchivan Airport, killing 52 people on board. | "Unreferenced section" orange banner |
| 2005 – The Civil Partnership Act came into force, granting civil partnerships in the United Kingdom rights and responsibilities identical to civil marriage. | several incited passages, including the date itself |
| Clair Cameron Patterson |d|1995 | Yellow "unclear citation style" banner |
Eligible
- 1456 – The first of two major earthquakes struck the Kingdom of Naples, killing up to 70,000 people.
- 1757 – Seven Years' War: Prussian troops under Frederick the Great defeated Austrian forces at the Battle of Leuthen (pictured).
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: Continental Army colonel Henry Knox arrived at Fort Ticonderoga in New York to arrange the transport of 60 tons of artillery (depicted) to support the siege of Boston.
- 1807 – Napoleonic Wars: British ships began a raid on Griessie after the Dutch captain refused a British demand for surrender.
- 1914 – The Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition began in an attempt to make the first land crossing of Antarctica.
- 1918 – National Guards and Sokol volunteers protested in Zagreb, leading to an armed clash with regiments of the Home Guard and former Common Army.
- 1936 – The 1936 Soviet constitution, also known as the "Stalin constitution", was adopted.
- 1958 – Britain's first motorway, the Preston Bypass, opened to the public.
- 2007 – A gunman killed nine people at a shopping mall in Omaha, Nebraska.
- Born/died: | Joan, Countess of Flanders |d|1244| Ealhswith |d|902| Sigismund Rákóczi|d|1608| James Guthrie |b|1792|Afanasy Fet |b|1820| Jacobus Anthonie Meessen |b|1836| Yūjirō Motora|b|1858|John Jellicoe, 1st Earl Jellicoe |b|1859| Clyde Cessna |b|1879| Guy Morançon |b|1927| Amrita Sher-Gil |d|1941| Priscilla Jana|b|1943|Sajid Javid |b|1969| Princess Alice of Battenberg |d|1969| Neil Druckmann|b|1978| Frankie Muniz|b|1985|
Notes
- Decline and fall of Pedro II of Brazil appears on November 15, Transfer of the Portuguese court to Brazil appears on November 29, and Pedro I of Brazil appears on December 1, so Pedro II should not be used in the same year.
December 5: Krampusnacht in parts of Central Europe
Nelson's Column during the Great Smog of London
- 1484 – Pope Innocent VIII issued the papal bull Summis desiderantes affectibus, which gave the Dominican inquisitor Heinrich Kramer the explicit authority to prosecute witchcraft in Germany.
- 1952 – The "Great Smog of London" (pictured) began and lasted for five days, causing 12,000 deaths and leading to the Clean Air Act 1956.
- 1965 – The "glasnost meeting" took place in Moscow, becoming the first demonstration in the Soviet Union after World War II and marking the beginning of the civil rights movement in the country.
- 1972 – Gough Whitlam took office as the 21st Prime Minister of Australia and formed a duumvirate with his deputy Lance Barnard, ending 23 years of Liberal–Country Party government.
- Phillis Wheatley (d. 1784)
- Arthur Currie (b. 1875)
- Louise Bryant (b. 1885)
- Latifa bint Mohammed Al Maktoum (b. 1985)
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