1271 - Kublai Khan renames his empire "Yuan" (元 yuán), officially marking the start of the Yuan Dynasty of Mongolia and China.
1642 - Abel Tasman becomes first European to land in New Zealand.
1777 - The United States celebrates its first Thanksgiving, marking the recent victory by the Americans over General John Burgoyne in the Battle of Saratoga in October.
1916 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when German forces under Chief of staff Erich von Falkenhayn are defeated by the French, and suffer 337,000 casualties.
1939 - World War II: The Battle of the Heligoland Bight, the first major air battle of the war, takes place.
1956 - Japan joins the United Nations.
1972 - Vietnam War: President Richard Nixon announces that the United States will engage North Vietnam in Operation Linebacker II, a series of Christmas bombings, after peace talks collapsed with North Vietnam on the 13th.
1978 - Dominica joins the United Nations.
1989 - The European Economic Community and the Soviet Union sign an agreement on trade and commercial and economic cooperation.
2005 - The civil war in Chad begins when rebel groups, allegedly backed by neighbouring Sudan, launch an attack in Adré.
2006 - United Arab Emirates holds its first-ever elections.
2010 - Governmental protests begin in Tunisia, beginning the Arab Spring
Famous Birthdays:
1825 - Charles Griffin, general
1863 - Archduke Franz Ferdinand of Austria
1888 - Dame Gladys Cooper, actress
1913 - Willy Brandt, Chancellor of Germany
1928 - Mirza Tahir Ahmad, Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community
1943 - Keith Richards, guitarist
1963 - Brad Pitt, actor
1978 - Katie Holmes, actress
1980 - Christina Aguilera, singer
1989 - Ashley Benson, American actress
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