2333BC Dangun Wanggeom becomes the first King of Chosun
52BC Gallic leader Vercingetorix surrenders to Caesar, ending the protracted siege of Alesia and completing in the Roman conquest of Gaul
42BC First Battle of Philippi: Antony & Octavian edge Cassius and Brutus
1569 Battle of Moncontour: Defeat of the Huguenots near Paris
1574 Relief of Leiden: William of Orange breaches the dikes to lift a long Spanish siege
1707 Last Spanish troops in Naples surrender to Austrian Marshal Daun
1860 Piedmontese-Italian Army invades Naples
1861 Combat at Greenbriar, WVa
1862 Battle of Corinth: Rosecrans's Yanks defeat Van Dorn's Rebs (to Oct 4)
1863 Lincoln designates the last Thursday in November as "Thanksgiving Day"
1865 Self-Proclaimed "Emperor" Maximilian of Mexico issues the "Black Decree" - anyone found fighting against him shall be executed.
1895 Publication of Stephen Crane's "The Red Badge of Courage"
1903 Battle of Barre, Vt.: Anarchists attempt to disrupt a Socialist Party meeting, leading to a melee; one killed, many injured
1904 France and Spain sign a treaty to divide Morocco
1918 Boris III becomes Tsar of Bulgaria (1918-1943)
1921 The Unknown Soldier sails from France aboard USS 'Olympia' (C-6)
1928 Accidental sinking of the French submarine 'Ondine', 42 die
1929 The Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, & Slovenes is renamed Yugoslavia
1932 Iraq gains independence from Britain, joins League of Nations
1935 Italy invades Ethiopia
1937 Dedication of Ernst Durig's "Peace Memorial" -- commonly known as the "Gold Star Mother Monument" -- at Greenwood, Wisconsin
1942 Aleutians: US troops occupy the Andreanof Islands
1943 Central China: the Japanese begin major "rice" offensive
1943 Kolombangara: 9,500 Japanese troops complete evacuation
1952 Britain explodes its first atom bomb, the Montebello Islands, Australia
1955 Former marine Bob Keeshan's "Captain Kangaroo" airs, runs 29 years
1955 Soviet battleship 'Novorossiisk' (ex-Italian 'Giulio Cesare') mined in the Baltic, many die
1959 US Army veteran Rod Serling's "The Twilight Zone" premieres on CBS, runs for four seasons [Still on the air in reruns and spawned two successor series]
1985 21st Space Shuttle Mission: 'Atlantis' makes the first all-military space flight
1986 Soviet Yankee-class sub sinks off North Carolina, 3 die
1989 Panamanian Defense Force attempts a coup against Manuel Noriega
1990 The Communist German Democratic Republic merges into the German Federal Republic.
1993 "Black Hawk Down": Insurgents ambush US troops in Mogadishu, Somalia
