• 1521 Arabs attribute shortage of water in Jerusalem to Jews making wine.
• 1805 Beethoven’s “Fidelio” premieres in Vienna.
• 1833 Charles Darwin reaches Punta Gorda, sees Rio Uruguay.
• 1873 Rival cities of Buda & Pest unite to form the capital of Hungary.
• 1888 Willard Bundy patents timecard clock.
• 1906 George Bernard Shaw’s “Doctor’s Dilemma” premieres in London.
• 1914 US State Department starts requiring photographs for passports.
• 1917 First successful tank use in battle (Britain breaks through German lines) at Battle of Cambrai WWI.
• 1920 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson.
• 1923 Garrett Morgan patents his traffic signal design, an important development in automobile safety.
• 1929 Salvador Dali’s first one-man show.
• 1945 24 Nazi leaders put on trial at Nuremberg, Germany.
• 1959 UN adopts Universal Declaration of Children’s Rights.
• 1966 Men in Zurich vote against female suffrage.
• 1981 Ringo releases “Stop & Smell Roses” album.
• 1982 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts “Saturday Night Live”.
• 1983 “Terms of Endearment” from the book by Larry McMurtry, directed by James L. Brooks and starring Shirley MacLaine and Debra Winger premieres in New York (Best Picture 1984).
• 1985 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released.
• 1986 World Health Organization announces first global effort to combat AIDS.
• 1993 Winnie Mandela’s driver and bodyguard murdered in Johannesburg.
• 1995 “Beatles’ Anthology, Vol 1” released.
• 1998 Court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declares accused terrorist Osama bin Laden “a man without a sin” in regard to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
• 2001 Josh Groban releases his debut album “Josh Groban”.
• 2002 “Die Another Day”, 20th James Bond film released, directed by Lee Tamahori, starring Pierce Brosnan and Halle Berry.
• 2003 After the November 15 bombings, a second day of the 2003 Istanbul Bombings occurs in Istanbul, Turkey, destroying the Turkish head office of HSBC Bank AS and the British consulate.
• 2015 More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal “Sciences Advances”.
• 2015 “25” 3rd studio album by Adele is released (Grammy Award for Album of the Year 2017, 2016 Billboard Album of the Year).
Source: www.onthisday.com
