0399 St Anastasius I begins his reign as Catholic Pope
1095 Pope Urban receives an appeal from the Byzantine emperor Alexius Comnenus for aid against the Seljuk Turks He proclaims the crusade November 27 at the Synod of Clermont, and he excommunicates France's Philip I for adultery
1815 Cracow (Poland) declared a free republic
1839 American Statistical Association organizes in Boston
1843 The opera "The Bohemian Girl" is produced (London)
1870 NY Times dubs baseball "The National Game"
1885 Earliest photograph of a meteor shower made
1889 Curtis P. Brady was issued the first permit to drive an automobile through Central Park in New York City. Mr. Brady had to pledge to New York's finest that he would not frighten the horses in the park.
1890 Firstsignal box for San Francisco Police Department goes into operation
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize
1898 Side-wheeler "Portland" sinks off Cape Cod, 190 die
1901 Army War College established in Washington DC
1903 The opera "Die Heugierigen Frauen" is produced (Munich)
1910 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
1912 Albanian National Flag adopted
1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established
1916 City of Birmingham, an Ellerman Lines ship, of 7,498 grt, and built by Palmers of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1911, she was torpedoed by the German submarine U32, 90 miles south-east of Malta while bound from Liverpool to Karachi. with 315 passengers and crew on board, 4 lost their lives, all crew
1924 57,000 watch a High School football game in LA
1926 110,000 watch Army andNavy play a 21-all tie
1926 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
1926 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
1937 Pro-labor musical revue "Pins and Needles" opens, produced by ILGWU
1939 Inauguration of Empire Air Training Scheme (EATS)
1941 USSR begins a counter offensive causing Germany to retreat
1942 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships and subs so Nazis don't take them
