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November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911. 1874 ~ The Republican Party was symbolized as an elephant for the first time, in a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly magazine. 1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster. 1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. 1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. 1922 ~ Birthday of Al Hirt, Musician. 1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer. 1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini at Baltimore, Maryland. 1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm. |
November 8th
1674 ~ Death of John Milton, English poet.
1847 ~ Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist. 1884 ~ Birthday of Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist. 1895 ~ Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. 1942 ~ World War II: Operation Torch – U.S. and UK forces landed in French North Africa. 1950 ~ Korean War: The first dog fight between jet aircraft. 1986 ~ Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician. 1994 ~ The U.S. Republican Party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. 2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, requiring Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". (requires Adobe Acrobat) 2006 ~ The U.S. Democrtic Party took control of both the House of Representatives and the Senate. |
November 9th
1731 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Banneker, American scientist.
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. 1918 ~ As a result of the German Revolution, Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and went into exile in the Netherlands. 1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer. 1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion. 1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began. 1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet. 1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts. 1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician. 1989 ~ East Germany allowed its citizens to travel freely to West Germany for the first time since 1961. |
November 10th
1483 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation.
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps. 1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47. 1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor. 1938 ~ Death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey. 1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States. 1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy. 1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public. 1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and human rights activist. |
November 11th
1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1855 ~ Death of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher. 1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne. 1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general. 1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, Spy. 1918 ~ The end of World War I: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. 1965 ~ Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. 1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests. 2000 ~ A cable car full of skiers and snowboarders, many of them children, caught fire in Austria, killing 155 people. 2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
November 12th
1035 ~ Death of King Canute.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1942 ~ The WWII naval Battle of Guadalcanal began. 1944 ~ The German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off the coast of Norway. 1954 ~ Ellis Island closed. 1955 ~ Hovercraft patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell. 1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
November 13th
354 ~ Birthday of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Theologian.
1850 ~ Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist. 1868 ~ Death of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer. 1940 ~ The animated film Fantasia was released. 1956 ~ U.S. Supreme Court declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal. 1985 ~ A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first known World Wide Web page. 1998 ~ President Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, ending the four-year legal battle over her sexual harassment lawsuit that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. Clinton did not admit guilt or apologize. 2001 ~ Afghanistan's ruling Taliban abandoned the capital Kabul without a fight, allowing Northern Alliance fighters to take over the city. 2002 ~ Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq. |
November 14th
1716 ~ Death of Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher & Mathematician.
1719 ~ Birthday of Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 1832 ~ Death of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Claude Monet, French impressionist painter. 1851 ~ Herman Melville's novel “Moby-Dick” was first published in the U.S. 1900 ~ Birthday of Aaron Copland, Composer. 1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began radio service in the UK. 1972 ~ The Dow Jones industrial average closed above 1,000 for the first time. 1991 ~ Indictments handed down against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 2001 ~ Northern Alliance fighters entered Kabul. |
November 15th
1630 ~ Death of Johannes Kepler, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
1787 ~ Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer. 1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter. 1891 ~ Birthday of Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal. 1920 ~ First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe destroyed most of the English town of Coventry during World War II. 1942 ~ Birthday of Daniel Barenboim, Pianist & Conductor. 1960 ~ The Polaris missile became operational on the USS George Washington (SSBN-598). 1969 ~ The Soviet submarine K-19 collided with the American submarine USS Gato. 1971 ~ Intel released the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. |
November 16th
1849 ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky sentenced to death; his execution was canceled at the last minute.
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason. 1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer. 1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist. 1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations. 1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical ''The Sound of Music'' opened on Broadway. 1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor. 1965 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. 1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the "fourth man" in the Philby affair. |
November 17th
1777 ~ Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
1869 ~ The Suez Canal was opened. 1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1917 ~ Death of Auguste Rodin, Sculptor. 1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician. 1959 ~ Death of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian Composer. 1970 ~ In one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program, The USSR landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. 1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse. 1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 60 tourists at Luxor, Egypt. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was inaugurated Governor of California. |
November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist. 1883 ~ American and Canadian railroads instituted four standard continental time zones. 1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing. 1928 ~ Release of Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, featuring the Mickey and Minnie Mouse. 1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The first of more than 700 German scientists arrived in the U.S. to help the development of rocket technology. 1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco. 1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children. 2002 ~ UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. 2004 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry. |
November 19th
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus became the first European to go ashore on what would become Puerto Rico.
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer. 1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer. 1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1884 ~ Birthday of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban Chess Grand Master. 1917 ~ Birthday of Indira Gandhi, prime minister of India. 1941 ~ World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sank each other off the coast of Western Australia. 1969 ~ The second Apollo mission, Apollo 12, landed on the Moon – in “the Ocean of Storms”. 1977 ~ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton. |
November 20th
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1908 ~ Birthday of Alistair Cooke, Journalist. 1910 ~ Death of Leo Tolstoy, Novelist. 1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician. 1945 ~ The trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice. 1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London. 1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a TV interview. 1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched. 1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania. 2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation. |
November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer.
1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate. 1877 ~ Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound. 1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter. 1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax. 1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened. 1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established. 1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit. 1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison. 1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery. |
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