43-BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leaders formed by Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony
1778-British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1789-First national Thanksgiving in the U.S.
1791-First U.S. cabinet meeting, held at George Washington's home in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Secretary of State Thomas Jefferson, Secretary of the Treasury Alexander Hamilton, Secretary of War Henry Knox, and Attorney General Edmund Randolph attend.
1865-"Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America
1922-English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's nearly intact tomb in Egypt
1989-India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh
2021-WHO labels COVID-19 variant Omicron a "variant of concern", with its dozens of new mutations, after it emerges in Botswana and South Africa