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{{calendar}} {{Day}} == Events == === Up to 1950 === * [[1227]] &ndash; Polish prince [[Leszek the White]] is [[murder]]ed. * [[1248]] &ndash; A mass of [[Rock (geology)|rock]] collapses from [[Mont Granier]] in Southeastern [[France]] in the night to [[November 25]], causing over 1,000 casualties. * [[1429]] &ndash; [[Joan of Arc]] unsuccessfully besieges (tries to take control of) La Charite. * [[1542]] &ndash; [[Battle of Solway Moss]]: An [[England|English]] [[army]] defeats a much larger [[Scotland|Scottish]] force near the River Esk, [[Dumfries and Galloway]]. * [[1594]] &ndash; In [[Goa]], [[India]], Portuguese missionaries start building the Basilica do Bom [[Jesus]]. * [[1631]] &ndash; The [[Netherlands|Dutch]] occupy the city of [[Olinda]], the capital of [[Pernambuco]] in present–day [[Brazil]], and set it on [[fire]], as they feel they can make more money in nearby [[Recife]]. * [[1642]] &ndash; [[Abel Tasman]] becomes the first European to discover the island [[Van Diemen's Land]] (later renamed [[Tasmania]]). * [[1850]] &ndash; [[Denmark|Danish]] troops defeat a [[Schleswig-Holstein]] force in the [[town]] of [[Lottorf]], Schleswig–Holstein. * [[1859]] &ndash; [[Charles Darwin]] publishes ''[[The Origin of Species]]''. * [[1863]] &ndash; [[American Civil War]]: [[Battle of Lookout Mountain]]. * [[1874]] &ndash; American [[Joseph Glidden]] receives a [[patent]] for his invention, [[barbed wire]]. * [[1906]] &ndash; A local [[newspaper]] in [[Ohio]] accuses two teams of trying to deliberately lose games, causing the first major scandal in [[American football]]. * [[1917]] &ndash; Nine police officers and one [[civilian]] are killed when a bomb explodes at the [[Milwaukee]], [[Wisconsin]] police headquarters building. * [[1922]] &ndash; Nine [[IRA]] members are executed by an [[Irish Free State]] firing squad. * [[1932]] &ndash; In [[Washington, D.C.]], the [[Federal Bureau of Investigation|FBI]] Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens. * [[1940]] &nd