722 Boniface is consecrated a bishop by Pope Gregory II for the work he will do as a missionary to the Germans.
1016 Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside’
1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I.
1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.
1846 John Geddie sails from Nova Scotia for Polynesia where he will labor for many disappointing years on Aneiteum in the New Hebrides before seeing a spiritual breakthrough. Once the islanders are converted, however, they will be so zealous for Christ that they will send missionaries to other islands.
1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) “the Mona Lisa of prehistory”
Today’s Historical Events
Today In Film & Tv
1982 “Gandhi” directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)
1994 Beatles’ 1st album in 25 years, “Live at the BBC”, is released in Britain
Today In Music
1979 Pink Floyd’s “The Wall” released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1982 “Thriller”, 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
Today In Sport
1872 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow
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2017 World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan mountain range
Would You Believe This Fact About Today? Would You Believe?
1954 Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama in first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
