43BC Reni Conference: Octavian, Lepidus, & Antony form the Second Triumvirate, to plunder the state
602 Phocas proclaims himself Roman Emperor (602-610)
1095 Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade
1237 Battle of Cortenuova: Emperor Frederik II defeats the Lombard League
1382 Battle of Roosbecke: The French defeat the Flemings
1499 Cesare Borgia captures Imola, save for the citadel, which he besieges
1676 The First Great Fire of Boston, 46 houses burn
1789 President George Washington proclaims the last Thursday in November a day of prayer and thanksgiving
1798 Neapolitan Army occupies Rome, as the French fall back
1820 Palermo: Royalist troops crush a Nationalist uprising
1838 The Pastry War: French troops occupy Vera Cruz to collect alleged damages
1863 Battle of Payne's Farm, VA
1868 Battle of the Washita: Custer defeats the Cheyenne
1895 Alfred Nobel establishes his prizes
1919 Peace of Neuilly-sur-Seine: Allies & Bulgaria
1926 Army & Navy play to a 21 tie before 110,000 fans
1941 HMAS 'Parramatta' is sunk off Tobruk by 'U-559'
1941 Joint Army-Navy signal to senior commanders in the Pacific ends with, "This dispatch is to be considered a war warning," and CNO adds to CINCUS Kimmel "an aggressive move by Japan is expected within the next few days"
1941 Operation Crusader: British troops break the seven month Axis siege of Tobruk
1942 The French Navy scuttles its ships at Toulon to prevent Nazis from capturing them
1943 Teheran Conference: Churchill, Roosevelt, and Stalin talk strategy
1944 B-29s based in the Mariana's, raid Tokyo, while others based in India bomb Bangkok.
1951 First successful surface-to-air missile test, White Sands
1958 USSR abrogates Allied war-time agreements on control of Germany
1965 c. 20,000 anti-war demonstrators gather in Washington
1989 Narco-terrorists bomb Colombian airliner, 107 die
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