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November 10, 1766 | The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University). |
November 8, 1889 | Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state. |
November 8, 1972 | American pay television network Home Box Office (HBO) launches. |
November 2, 1966 | The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States. |
November 8, 1576 | Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent: The States General of the Netherlands meet and unite to oppose Spanish occupation. |
November 11, 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations. |
November 25, 1908 | A fire breaks out on SS Sardinia as it leaves Malta's Grand Harbour, resulting in the ship's grounding and the deaths of at least 118 people. |
November 22, 2003 | England defeats Australia in the 2003 Rugby World Cup Final, becoming the first side from the Northern Hemisphere to win the tournament. |
November 19, 1969 | Apollo program: Apollo 12 astronauts Pete Conrad and Alan Bean land at Oceanus Procellarum (the "Ocean of Storms") and become the third and fourth humans to walk on the Moon. |
November 25, 1926 | The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history kills 76 people and injures more than 400. |
November 20, 1815 | The Second Treaty of Paris is signed, returning the French frontiers to their 1790 extent, imposing large indemnities, and prolonging the occupation by troops of Great Britain, Austria, Prussia, and Russia for several more years. |
November 1, 1937 | Stalinists execute Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community. |
November 2, 1960 | Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case. |
November 17, 2013 | A rare late-season tornado outbreak strikes the Midwest. Illinois and Indiana are most affected with tornado reports as far north as lower Michigan. In all around six dozen tornadoes touch down in approximately an 11-hour time period, including seven EF3 and two EF4 tornadoes. |
November 11, 1100 | Henry I of England marries Matilda of Scotland, the daughter of Malcolm III of Scotland and a direct descendant of the Saxon king Edmund Ironside; Matilda is crowned on the same day. |
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