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1959 - Britain, Norway, Portugal, Switzerland, Austria, Denmark and Sweden meet to form European Free Trade Association.
1984 - South Africa announces it will begin negotiations with Angola on the withdrawal of South African forces from Angola's south.
1994 - Angola's government and rebels sign a peace accord.
Nov. 21
1620 - The Mayflower ship, carrying the first permanent European settlers to North America , lands in what is now Provincetown, Massachusetts more than a thousand miles from their intended destination.
Nov. 22
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was shot to death while riding in a motorcade in Dallas. Texas Gov. John B. Connally was seriously wounded. Suspect Lee Harvey Oswald was arrested.
1967 - The U.N. Security Council approved Resolution 242, which called for Israel to withdraw from territories it had captured the previous June, and implicitly called on adversaries to recognize Israel's right to exist.
Nov. 23
1804 - The 14th president of the United States, Franklin Pierce, was born in Hillsboro, N.H.
1963- President Lyndon B. Johnson proclaimed Nov. 25 a day of national mourning following the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Nov.24
1859 - British naturalist Charles Darwin published "On the Origin of Species,'' which explained his theory of evolution by means of natural selection.
1784 - Zachary Taylor, the 12th president of the United States, was born in Orange County, Va.
Nov. 25
1957 - President Dwight D. Eisenhower suffered a slight stroke.
1963 - The body of President John F. Kennedy was laid to rest at Arlington National Cemetery.
1986 - The Iran-Contra affair erupted as President Ronald Reagan and Attorney General Edwin Meese revealed that profits from secret arms sales to Iran had been diverted to Nicaraguan rebels.
Nov. 26
1798 -A day of thanksgiving set aside by President George Washington to observe the adoption of the Constitution of the United States.
