After months of negotiations and a long ratification process, the Maastricht Treaty came into force on November 1, 1993. The European Union (EU), featuring a central bank and deeper military…

The history of western India took a new turn on November 10, 1659: the Battle of Pratapgad shifted the balance of power in the region away from the Adilshahi and…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The Great War, a four-year-slog dividing Europe that heralded a new age of combat, mercifully came to a close at 11am on November 11, 1918 in…

Walking along the River Foyers after attending church, Hugh Gray managed to be the first to capture photographic evidence of Scotland’s enduring mystery — the Loch Ness Monster — on…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Almost a year after a woman named Rosa Parks was arrested for refusing to sit in the back of a National City Lines bus in Montgomery,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons If the Germans were looking for their own Renaissance man to compete with the likes of Britain’s Sir Isaac Newton, it is unlikely they would look…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons In a bid to unhinge the Confederate States of America’s ability to make war against the Union Army, General William Tecumseh Sherman launched an aggressive strategy…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons The day after one of his men told Inca Emperor Atahualpa the Spanish had arrived in peace, Francisco Pizarro captured the native leader on November 16,…

*Image Credit: Wikimedia Commons Nearly 4,000 years after Pharaoh Senausert III dug the first waterway to link the Mediterranean and Red Seas, the Suez Canal opened in Egypt on November…

A pair of world icons hit the silver screen for the first time at the Colony Theater in New York City on November 18, 1928: Mickey and Minnie Mouse starred…