1887 – United States receives the rights to Pearl Harbor on Oahu, Hawaii.
1910 – The first patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine.
1921 – Coldest day in November in Netherlands … minus-14 degrees.
1826 – Tris Speaker resigns as manager of the Cleveland Indians while facing game-fixing allegations.
1929 – Aviator Richard E. Byrd sends “My calculations indicate that we have reached vicinity of South Pole.”
1942 – United States Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pounds per year, during World War II.
1944 – Johns Hopkins Hospital in Baltimore performs the first open heart surgery.
1953 – American Airlines begins its first regular commercial New York to Los Angeles air service.
1959 – Second Grammy Awards: “Mack the Knife,” Bobby Darin win.
1961 – Freedom Riders attacked by a white mob at a bus station in Mississippi.
1963 – President Lyndon Johnson sets up the Warren Commission to investigate the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
1971 – First pro golf championship at Walt Disney World.
1975 – President Gerald Ford signs the Education for All Handicapped Children Act that requires states provide free education for children with a disability.
1987 – Joe Montana of the San Francisco 49ers completes an NFL record of 22 consecutive passes.
1995 – CNNfn, a financial network by Turner Enterprises, is launched.
1997 – Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) agrees to an increase in its production ceiling, raising the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998.
2010 – “Rolling in the Deep” single is released by Adele. It becomes Billboard Song of the Year for 2011, and receives Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year for 2012.
2017 – TV host Matt Lauer is fired from NBC’s “Today” show after an allegation of sexual misconduct.
2021 – Jack Dorsey announces he is stepping down as CEO of Twitter and will be replaced by Parag Agrawal.
2023 – Taylor Swift is Spotify’s most-streamed global artist of the year with 26.1 billion streams, and Miley Cyrus’ “Flowers” is the most-steamed song.
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