Today:
1095 – Pope Urban II delivered the speech at the Council of Clermont that launched the First Crusade, calling Christians to reclaim the Holy Land.
1295 – The first elected representatives to the English Parliament convened in Westminster, marking the beginnings of modern parliamentary democracy.
1703 – The Great Storm of 1703 began, considered one of the most destructive and deadly storms in British history.
1839 – The American Statistical Association was founded in Boston, Massachusetts, becoming one of the oldest continuously operating professional associations in the United States.
1895 – Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, establishing the Nobel Prizes.
1924 – The first Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade was held in New York City, originally called the Macy’s Christmas Parade.
1940 – The “Coventry Blitz” during World War II devastated much of Coventry, England, with heavy German bombing raids.
1971 – The Mars 2 spacecraft, launched by the Soviet Union, became the first man-made object to impact the surface of Mars.
2001 – The Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium in the atmosphere of an exoplanet for the first time, advancing the study of planets outside our solar system.
2020 – The Arecibo Observatory in Puerto Rico suffered catastrophic structural damage, leading to its planned decommissioning and eventual collapse.
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