2020
US Attorney General William Barr says there is no evidence of widespread voter fraud in the 2020 presidential election, despite claims by President Donald Trump.
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2020
The United Kingdom became the first country to legalize the use of the Pfizer COVID-19 Vaccine.
Pfizer announced earlier in November that their vaccine had been proven to be 90% effective, making it the first fully tested and functional vaccine for COVID-19. At first, the vaccine was only approved for emergency use in the UK, with several countries following in their footsteps soon afterward.
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1994
Cobb, a film about the baseball player Ty Cobb and starring Tommy Lee Jones premiered.
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1993
Colombian drug lord Pablo Escobar was shot and killed in Medellín.
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1993
NASA’s Endeavour Space Shuttle was launched through Mission STS-61.
STS-61′s primary objectives were to service the Hubble Space Telescope, add additional solar panels, and make corrections to the telescope’s lenses and cameras. It took eleven days and five spacewalks to make the necessary upgrades and corrections, making it the most complex Space Shuttle mission at the time.
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1982
The first artificial heart was successfully implanted.
This was the first permanent artificial heart transplant, a surgery that took seven hours. It was called Jarvik-7 and lasted for 112 days until the patient, Barney Clark, died of unrelated causes.
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1970
The United States Environmental Protection Agency was formed in the US under Director William Ruckelshaus.
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1960
Paleoanthropologist Louis Leakey discovered a 1.4 million-year-old Homo erectus in Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
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1950
The “I Robot” collection of sci-fi short stories by Isaac Asimov was published by Genome Press in the US.
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1942
The world’s first self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction happened in Chicago Pile-1 at the University of Chicago. It was overseen by Enrico Fermi.
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1908
The Chinese child Emperor Pu Yi ascended the Chinese throne at the age of two.
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1899
The Battle of Tirad Pass was fought.
Sometimes referred to as “The Filipino Thermopylae,” this was a battle in the Philippine–American War. The battle was fought by a 60-man Filipino rear guard against over 500 American troops. Despite being vastly outnumbered, the battle lasted for five hours and resulted in 52 of the 60 Filipinos being killed.
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1867
Charles Dickens gave his first public reading.
Taking place at a New York City theater, Charles Dickens gave his first reading of a six-month American book tour.
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1804
Napoleon Bonaparte was crowned the Emperor of France in Paris.
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1766
Sweden introduced a groundbreaking Freedom of Press Act, becoming the first nation to introduce freedom of speech.
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