1768 – The first edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica is published.
1790 – The U.S. Congress moves from New York City to Philadelphia.
1865 – The Thirteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution is ratified, banning slavery.
1877 – The first edition of The Washington Post is published.
1884 – The Washington Monument in Washington, D.C., is completed.
1889 – Jefferson Davis, American general and politician, President of the Confederate States of America (b. 1808) dies.
1892 – Werner von Siemens, German engineer and businessman, founded the Siemens Company (b. 1816) dies.
1897 – London becomes the world's first city to host licensed taxicabs.
1904 – Theodore Roosevelt articulated his "Corollary" to the Monroe Doctrine, stating that the U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere should Latin American governments prove incapable or unstable.
1907 – A coal mine explosion at Monongah, West Virginia, kills 362 workers.
1917 – Irv Robbins, Canadian-American businessman, co-founded Baskin-Robbins (d. 2008) is born.
1933 – U.S. federal judge John M. Woolsey rules that James Joyce's novel Ulysses is not obscene.
1947 – The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated.
1951 – Harold Ross, American journalist and publisher, founded The New Yorker (b. 1892) dies.
1952 – Craig Newmark, American computer programmer and entrepreneur; founded Craigslist is born.
1953 – Vladimir Nabokov completes his controversial novel Lolita.
1973 – The Twenty-fifth Amendment: The United States House of Representatives votes 387 to 35 to confirm Gerald Ford as Vice President of the United States. (On November 27, the Senate confirmed him 92 to 3.)
2014 – Ralph H. Baer, German-American video game designer, created the Magnavox Odyssey (b. 1922) dies.
2015 – Venezuelan elections are held. For the first time in 17 years the United Socialist Party of Venezuela loses its majority in parliament.
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