1534-Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad
1563-Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years
1619-Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas
1791-Britain's "The Observer" is first published and becomes the oldest Sunday newspaper in the world
1829-Britain outlaws "suttee" in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre
1918-U.S. President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France