- 2014 – A stampede in the city of Kwekwe in Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
EVENTS:
- 1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
- 1905 – Albert Einstein’s paper, “Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?”,is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
- 1969 – The first permanent ARPANET link is established between UCLA and SRI.
- 1971 – Indian troops, partly aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas), defeat the Pakistan army in the Battle of Garibpur.
- 1992 – A major tornado strikes the Houston, Texas area during the afternoon. Over the next two days the largest tornado outbreak ever to occur in the US during November spawns over 100 tornadoes before ending on the 23rd.
- 2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island sustains the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.
- 2009 – A mine explosion in Heilongjiang province, northeastern China, kills 108.
- 2013 – A supermarket roof collapse in Riga, Zolitude, Latvia killing 54 people.
- 2014 – A stampede in the city of Kwekwe in Zimbabwe caused by the police firing tear gas kills at least eleven people and injures 40 others.
- 2015 – The government of Belgium imposed a security lockdown on Brussels, including the closure of shops, schools, public transportation, due to information about potential terrorist attacks.
- 2017 – Robert Mugabe formally resigns as President of Zimbabwe, after some thirty-seven years in office.
- 2019 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is indicted on charges of bribery, fraud, and breach of trust.
- 2019 – Tesla launches the SUV Cybertruck. A gaffe occurs during the launch event when its “unbreakable” windows shatter during demonstration.
- 2021 – An SUV plows through a Christmas parade in Waukesha, Wisconsin, killing six and injuring 62.
- 2022 – A magnitude 5.6 earthquake on the Indonesian island of Java kills between 335 and 602 people.
BIRTHS:
- 1870 – Joe Darling, Australian cricketer and politician (d. 1946)
- 1899 – Harekrushna Mahatab, Indian journalist and politician, 1st Chief Minister of Odisha (d. 1987)
- 1902 – Isaac Bashevis Singer, Polish-American author and playwright, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1991)
- 1916 – Sid Luckman, American football player and soldier (d. 1998)
- 1916 – Jadu Nath Singh, Indian soldier (d. 1948)
- 1926 – Prem Nath, Indian actor and director (d. 1992)
- 1966 – Troy Aikman, American football player and sportscaster
- 1966 – Andrew Caddick, New Zealand-English cricketer
- 1984 – Callum Ferguson, Australian cricketer
- 1989 – Will Buckley, English footballer
- 1991 – Lewis Dunk, English footballer
- 1997 – Reo Hatate, Japanese footballer
- 2004 – Rico Lewis, English footballer
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