Year 1533 Calendar » Conquistadors from Spain under the leadership of Francisco Pizarro arrive in Cajamarca, Inca Empire.
Year 1770 Calendar » James Bruce discovers what he believes to be the source of the Nile.
Year 1889 Calendar » Pioneering female journalist Nellie Bly (aka Elizabeth Cochrane) begins a successful attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days. She completes the trip in seventy-two days.
Year 1910 Calendar » Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performs the first takeoff take off from a ship in Hampton Roads, Virginia. He took off from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham (CL-2) USS 'Birmingham' in a Curtiss Model D Curtiss pusher.
Year 1922 Calendar » The British Broadcasting Company or BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
Year 1940 Calendar » World War II: In England, Coventry Blitz called Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.
Year 1941 Calendar » World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal 91 6 sinks due to torpedo damage from the GS U-81 1941 6 sustained on November 13.
Year 1941 » World War II: In Slonim, German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9,000 Jews in a single day.
Year 1952 Calendar » The first regular UK Singles Chart published by the NME named New Musical Express.
Year 1957 Calendar » The Apalachin Meeting outside Binghamton, New York is raided by law enforcement, and many high level Mafia figures are arrested.
Year 1965 Calendar » Vietnam War: The Battle of Ia Drang begins the first major engagement between regular American and North Vietnamese forces.
Year 1967 Calendar » 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".
Year 1969 Calendar » Apollo program: NASA launches 'Apollo 12', the second Space exploration or crewed mission to the surface of the Moon.
Year 1970 Calendar » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University American football named football team.
Year 1970 » Soviet Union enters International Civil Aviation Organization called ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
Year 1971 Calendar » Enthronment of Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria or Pope Shenouda III as Pope of the Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria or Pope of Alexandria.
Year 1971 » 'Mariner 9' enters orbit around Mars.
Year 1973 Calendar » In the United Kingdom, Anne, Princess Royal or Princess Anne marries Captain (British Army and Royal Marines) or Captain Mark Phillips, in Westminster Abbey.
Year 1979 Calendar » Iran hostage crisis: US President Jimmy Carter issues Executive order 12170, freezing all Iranian assets in the United States in response to the Iran hostage crisis e.g hostage crisis.
Year 1984 Calendar » Zamboanga City mayor Cesar Climaco, a prominent critic of the government of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos, is assassinated in his home city.
Year 1990 Calendar » After German reunification, the Germany named Federal Republic of Germany and Poland sign a treaty confirming the Oder–Neisse line as the border between Germany and Poland.
Year 1991 Calendar » In Royal Oak, Michigan, a Termination of employment or fired United States Postal Service employee goes on a going postal e.g shooting rampage, killing four and wounding five before committing suicide.
Year 1991 » Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile.
Year 1991 » American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan Intelligence assessment or intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103.
Year 1995 Calendar » A budget standoff between Democratic Party (United States) Democrats and Republican Party (United States) Republicans in the United States Congress U.S. Congress forces the Federal government of the United States federal government to United States federa
Year 2001 Calendar » War in Afghanistan (2001–present) called War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters take over the capital Kabul.
Year 2003 Calendar » Astronomers Michael E. Brown, Chad Trujillo, and David L. Rabinowitz discover 90377 Sedna, a Trans-Neptunian object.
Year 2008 Calendar » The 2008 G-20 Washington summit or first G-20 economic summit opens in Washington, D.C.
Year 2012 Calendar » Israel launches a Operation Pillar of Defense known as major military operation in the Gaza Strip, as hostilities with Hamas escalate.