43 BC- Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed.
1778 – British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii).
1789 – 1st national Thanksgiving in America.
1865 – “Alice in Wonderland” by Lewis Carroll is published in America.
1883 – Sojourner Truth, the African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women’s rights movements, died.
1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt.
1939 – American singer Tina Turner—who found success in the rhythm-and-blues, soul, and rock genres—was born.
1941 – Adm. Chuichi Nagumo leads the Japanese First Air Fleet, an aircraft carrier strike force, toward Pearl Harbor, with the understanding that should “negotiations with the United States reach a successful conclusion, the task force will immediately put about and return to the homeland.”
2008 – Ten gunmen—who were believed to be connected to Lashkar-e-Taiba, a Pakistan-based terrorist organization—launched a series of coordinated attacks in Mumbai (Bombay); the siege ended three days later, with at least 174 people killed.
Film: 1942 – “Casablanca” directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943).
Music: 1945 – Charlie “Bird” Parker leads recording session for the Savoy label marketed as the “greatest Jazz session ever” with Dizzy Gillespie and Miles Davis.
