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Facts
164 BC During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah
1620 Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, [O.S. Nov 11]
1791 Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic.
1818 Russia's Tsar Alexander I petitions for a Jewish state in Palestine
1877 Thomas Edison announces his "talking machine" invention (phonograph), the 1st machine to play and record sound
1906 China prohibits the opium trade
1970 General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup
1971 Battle of Garibpur: Indian troops aided by Mukti Bahini (Bengali guerrillas) defeat the Pakistan army
Deaths
496 Pope Gelasius I, Catholic Pope, of Berber extraction
1695 Henry Purcell, English composer (Indian Queen), dies at 36
1882 Sergei G Netsjajev, Russian nihilist, dies at 35
1942 J. B. M. Hertzog [Barry Hertzog], South African General and Prime Minister (1924-39), dies at 76
1992 Kaysone Phomvihane, Prime Minister and President of Laos (1975-91), dies at 71
1999 Quentin Crisp, British writer, raconteur and actor (b. 1908)
2011 Anne McCaffrey, sci-fi author, dies at 85
Born on this day
1965 Bjork, Icelandic singer (Like Someone in Love), born in Reykjavik
1985 Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer ("Call Me Maybe"), born in Mission, British Columbia
J. B. M. Hertzog
Quentin Crisp
