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On This Day In History, November 3rd

1978 – Dominica gains independence
The Caribbean Island nation gained its independence from the British after being colonised in 1805.

1973 – NASA launches Mariner 10
The last of the Mariner Program, Mariner 10, was the first spacecraft to fly by two planets - Venus and Mercury. The probe flew by Venus on February 5, 1974, and did 3 flybys of Mercury on March 29, 1974, September 21, 1974, and on March 16, 1975, after which communications with the probe were terminated.

1954 – Godzilla released
The Japanese science fiction starring a mutated monster of the same name became an instant hit.

1868 – John Willis Menard elected to the U.S. House of Representatives
He became the first African-American to be elected to the House.

1838 – The Times of India was founded
The world's largest English-language daily was launched as a bi-weekly as the Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce in Bombay, India.
 

Births on November 3rd 🎂

1957 – Dolph Lundgren
Swedish actor

1949 – Anna Wintour
English/American journalist, editor

1933 – Amartya Sen
Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1918 – Bob Feller
American baseball player

1815 – John Mitchel
Irish journalist, activist

Deaths on November 3rd 🪦

1996 – Jean-Bédel Bokassa
Central African politician, 2nd President of the Central African Republic

1957 – Wilhelm Reich
Austrian/American psychotherapist

1954 – Henri Matisse
French painter

1926 – Annie Oakley
American target shooter

361 – Constantius II
Roman Emperor
 
November 3rd
1718 The birth of John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich who gave his name to the Sandwich Islands, and (allegedly) to the 'sandwich' as a result of his reluctance to leave the gaming tables but requiring a quick and easy to eat snack.

1728 The explorer James Cook was baptised in the parish church of St. Cuthbert at Marton, near Middlesborough. Cook was also a Captain in the British Navy and a cartographer. He made detailed maps of Newfoundland prior to making three voyages to the Pacific Ocean, during which he achieved the first recorded European contact with the eastern coastline of Australia and the Hawaiian Islands, and the first recorded circumnavigation of New Zealand.


1783 The highwayman John Austin was the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.





1941 English broadcaster Roy Plomley conceived the idea for 'Desert Island Discs'. The programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1942.



3 Nov 1967
The filming for The Beatles Magical Mystery Tour was completed finishing with a sequence at Ringo's country house in Weybridge, Surrey, BBC television bought the rights to broadcast the film twice, the first broadcast, in black-and-white was scheduled for December 26, 1967. The second showing, on the color channel BBC2, was not yet available to all Britons, was set for January 5, 1968.

and in 1977 Elton John announced his retirement from live performing.Really.
 

1838
The Times of India,world's largest circulated English language daily newspaper is founded,still in production today
1896
JH Hunter patents the portable weighing scales
1911
automobile pioneer/racer, Louis Chevrolet offically enters Chevrolet in automobile market in competition with Ford's Model T
1952
Birdseye's "Frozen Peas' are marketed by General Foods using methods of company's V.P./process inventor, Clarence Birdseye
1975
Chris Evert becomes 1st tennis player to have the #1 ranking on WTA{Women's Tennis Assocation},holds the spot for 26 weeks
1994
Sony PLay Station console is released in Japan by Sony Interactive Entertainment,it would be released in Sept '95 in the U.S.cost $299
2014
NYC's 104 story One World Trade Center officially opens 13 yrs after Sept 11th attacks
 
November 3rd


1839 The Newport Rising took place. It was the last large scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. Between 1,000 and 5,000 marched on the town of Newport in Monmouthshire, intent on liberating those who were reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel. 22 of their number were killed by the troops and upwards of 50 were wounded.
cwmbranhistory.blogspot.com/2017/03/char...-lower-cock-inn.html

( I live a matter of yards from the places mentioned in that article)





1890 The Prince of Wales travelled by the underground electric railway from King William Street to the Oval to mark the opening of what is now the City Branch of the Northern Line. It was the first electrified underground railway system.
1900 Britain's first driving lessons were given, in London.




1922: British archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the burial mask of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.



1975 Lynyrd Skynyrd perform at the Cardiff Capitol Theatre in Cardiff, Wales. A recording of the show is released over thirty years later on the album Live at the
Cardiff Capital Theatre( long gone and replaced by a shopping centre)
 
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On This Day In History, November 5th

2009 – 13 killed at Fort Hood, Texas
Major Malik Hasan opened fire at the Soldier Readiness Processing Centre in Fort Hood, Texas and killed 13 people, injuring 30.

2007 – China's first lunar satellite enters lunar orbit
The Chang'e 1, an unmanned lunar-orbiting spacecraft, sent the first pictures of the Moon on November 26.

2003 – Green River Killer pleads guilty
Gary Ridgeway, a serial killer also known as the Green River Killer, pleaded guilty to killing 48 women in the 1980s and 1990s.

1995 – Assassination attempt on Canadian Prime Minister
André Dallaire tried to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien.

1943 – Vatican City bombed
Vatican City was bombed by a fascist Italian aircraft breaching the neutrality of the Vatican during the Second World War
 
Births on 5 November 🎂

1960 – Tilda Swinton
English actress

1959 – Bryan Adams
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, actor

1948 – Bob Barr
American politician

1941 – Art Garfunkel
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor

1931 – Ike Turner
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Deaths on 5 November 🪦

2010 – Antonio Cárdenas Guillén
Mexican drug lord, co-leader

1982 – E. H. Carr
English historian, theorist

1979 – Al Capp
American cartoonist

1956 – Art Tatum
American pianist

1879 – James Clerk Maxwell
Scottish physicist
 
5th November 1956
ABC (Australia) first television broadcast.
1971
Announcer Al Dvorin utters what would become a well known phrase: "Elvis has left the building" at the end of a Minneapolis concert.
He was asked to make the announcement in an effort to quiet the fans who continued to call for an encore.
 
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1895
The 1st automobile patent was granted to George B. Sheldon for gasoline driven car
1935
Parker Brothers launch board game, Monopoly,cost was $2. The price today is between $15-30
1956
The Nat king Cole Show debuts on NBC hosted by singer, Nat King Cole. It originally aired on Mondays for 15 min.When it was moved to Tues, it became 30 min,show lasted 1yr
1987
an iceberg twice the size of U.S. state Rhode Island{ 1,545 sq miles/4,001 km} breaks from Antartica Ross Ice Shelf
2024
The world's 1st wooden satellite,'LignoSat' which will burn up in re-entry is developed by Kyoto Univ to address space junk,is launched Kennedy Space Center
 
November 5th





1605: The Gunpowder Plot, an attempt to assassinate King James I and blow up the British Parliament, was foiled with the arrest of Guy Fawkes.







1909 Woolworths opened its first British store, in Liverpool. Almost 100 years later, (at the end of the first week in January 2009) the last remaining stores closed for the last time.



1912 The appointment of a British Board of Film Censors. They decided on only two classifications - 'Universal' and 'Not Suitable for Children'. 1914 World War I: Britain and France declared war on Turkey.



1927 Britain’s first automatic traffic lights were installed at Princess Square road junction in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.



5 Nov 1982
Channel 4 TV's The Tube had its first showing. Presented by Paula Yates and Jools Holland, the show featured The Jam and an interview with Mick Jagger . The first live act on the show was local band Toy Dolls. The show ran until 1987 and was named after the plexiglass tunnel which led down into Studio Five at Tyne Tees TV, the place where all the stars from the 80’s subsequently appeared
 
November 6th


355
Roman emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.


447
A powerful earthquake destroys large portions of the Walls of Constantinople, including 57 towers.





1217
The Charter of the Forest is sealed at St Paul's Cathedral, London by King Henry III, acting under the regency of William Marshall, 1st Earl of Pembroke which re-establishes for free men rights of access to the royal forest that had been eroded by William the Conqueror and his heirs.


1942 The Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church.



1968 2300 jobs were lost when British Eagle airlines stopped flying.



1979 - Paul Simon kicks off his latest British tour at London's Hammersmith Odeon by offering to buy everyone in the audience a drink. The tab comes to about $2,000.
 
On This Day In History, November 7th

1987 – Coup in Tunisia
In a bloodless coup in Tunisia, Zine El Abidine Ben Ali took over the presidency of Tunisia from President Habib Bourguiba.

1947 – Coup in Thailand
The military staged a coup against Thawan Thamrong Nawasawat and installed Khuang Aphaiwong as Prime Minister.

1917 – October Revolution
The Bolsheviks, led by Vladimir Lenin, took over the Winter Palace and ended the rule of the post-Tsarist provisional government and transferred all powers to the communists in Russia

1916 – First woman to be elected to the US Congress
Jeannette Rankin from Montana became the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives.

1869 – First inter-city cycle race
The first city-to-city cycle race was held between Paris and Rouen. James Moore, an Englishman living in Paris at that time, won the race.
 
Births on 7 November 🎂

1952 – David Petraeus
American military officer, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency

1943 – Joni Mitchell
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist

1913 – Albert Camus
French author, journalist, philosopher, and Nobel Prize laureate

1888 – C. V. Raman
Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1867 – Marie Curie
Polish chemist, physicist, and Nobel Prize laureate

Deaths on 7 November 🪦

2011 – Joe Frazier
American boxer

1980 – Steve McQueen
American actor

1962 – Eleanor Roosevelt
American politician, humanitarian, 34th First Lady of the United States

1913 – Alfred Russel Wallace
Welsh/English geographer, biologist, explorer

644 – Umar
Islamic caliph
 
November 7th
1610 Galileo Galilei makes his first observation of the four Galilean moons: Ganymede (moon) Ganymede, Callisto (moon) Callisto, Io (moon) Io and Europa (moon) Europa, although he is not able to distinguish the last two until the following day.



1966 – John Lennon and Yoko Ono MeetOn November 7, 1966, John Lennon met artist Yoko Ono at the Indica Gallery in London.


Ono was preparing for her solo art exhibit.


Their meeting led to one of the most famous relationships in music history


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1996 The closure of 'Butlins - Barry Island' in south Wales, Billy Butlin's last-built and smallest holiday camp. At the time of its closure it was owned by Majestic Holidays and was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development. .
( I had many a day trip there. Loved the chairlift.Now it’s a housing estate)
 
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1872
cargo ship, Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island to Genoa,mysteriously is found abandoned 4 weeks later.All the cargo was intact,the captain& 10 crew members personal belongs were untouched. Its still a mystery what happen
1907
Delta Sigma Pi, professional fraternity is organized in NYC to foster the study of business at universities
1943
last scoreless tie in the NFL, Detroit Lions 0, NYGiants 0
1967
Pres. Lyndon Johnson signs bill which establishes Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1989
NYC elects David Dinkins as its 1st African- American mayor, he succeeded Ed Koch.His term 1990-1993,he lost re-election to Rudy Guilianni
1990
Mary Robinson is elected 1st female President of Ireland from 1990-1997
2018
actress, Emma Thompson is made Dame of British Empire by Prince William at Buckingham Palace
 
November 8thNovember 8th is 'The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones', still marked by some English freemasons. It commemorates four masons martyred by Emperor Diocletian for refusing to sculpt a pagan god.



1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public. It is second in size to the British Library.


1605 Robert Catesby, the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, was killed by gunshot, along with other conspirators at Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire. He was buried close by but the bodies of Catesby and fellow conspirator Percy were exhumed and decapitated and Catesby's head was placed on the side of the Parliament House.






On November 8, 1923, Adolf Hitler led an attempted coup known as the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, Germany. Hitler and his Nazi followers sought to overthrow the Weimar Republic and seize control of the Bavarian government.

They stormed a meeting at the Bürgerbräukeller beer hall, where they declared a national revolution and tried to gain the support of local military and political leaders. The coup failed the following day when the police confronted the Nazis, resulting in a brief but deadly skirmish.


Hitler was arrested and sentenced to prison, where he wrote “Mein Kampf.” Although the putsch was unsuccessful, it significantly boosted Hitler’s profile and laid the groundwork for his eventual rise to power.





1920 Rupert Bear made his first appearance in the Daily Express. Rupert Bear Annuals


have been produced since 1936 and are still in production today. The Rupert Annual is still one of the top three Annual titles sold worldwide.




1967 BBC Radio Leicester becomes the first BBC local radio station.
 
1761
Benjamin Franklin opens the 1st library in North America colonies,Library Company of Philadelphia
1904
inventor, Harvey Hubbell receives 1st U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1943
single' Paper Doll' sung by The Mills Brothers hits #1 on the music charts, stays there for 12 weeks. It becomes their biggest hit selling over 10 million copies
1972
premium cable channel HBO{Home Box Office} is launched in U.S.
1999
tenor, Andrea Bocelli releases' Sacred Arias' album which becomes the world's best selling classical album by a solo artist. It has sold over 5 million copies
2024
The bells at Notre Dame Cathederal in Paris ring out for the 1st time since the 2019 fire. The restored north tower belfry has 3 new bells one was commissioned to be played during the Summer Olympics
 
On This Day In History, November 9th

2009 – 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall
On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the last soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president and Noble Prize winner Lech Walesa walked through the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

1994 – Darmstadtium was created for the first time
The heavily radioactive element with an atomic number of 110 and symbol Ds was created at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, the city after which the element is named.

1985 – Youngest person to become World Chess Champion
22-year-old Russian Gary Kasparov won the 13th World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion.

1967 – Rolling Stone makes its debut
The biweekly popular culture magazine was founded by Jann Simon Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

1938 – Night of Broken Glass
A pogrom against Jewish businesses, synagogues, and Jews in Germany and Austria was carried out by Sturmabteilung troops and civilians. The series of attacks that killed about 70 people and put 30,000 jews in prison is known as the Night of Broken Glass or Kristallnacht
 

Births on 9 November 🎂

1974 – Alessandro Del Piero
Italian footballer

1970 – Chris Jericho
American/Canadian wrestler, singer-songwriter, actor

1934 – Carl Sagan
American astronomer, author

1928 – Anne Sexton
American poet

1918 – Spiro Agnew
American politician, 39th Vice President of the United States

Deaths on 9 November 🪦

2005 – K. R. Narayanan
Indian politician, 10th President of India

2004 – Stieg Larsson
Swedish writer

1970 – Charles de Gaulle
French general, politician, President of France

1953 – Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king

1940 – Neville Chamberlain
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom
 
November 9th





1494 Piero the Unfortunate of the de' Medici family, ruler of Florence, loses power and flees the state.



1847 In Edinburgh, Dr James Young Simpson delivered Wilhelmina Carstairs while chloroform was administered to her mother, the first child to be born with the aid of anaesthetics.

1888 At 3:30 a.m. in London's Whitechapel, 25-year-old Mary Kelly became Jack the Ripper's last known victim.

The 'Ripper' was never caught, but the nature of the murders and of the victims drew attention to the poor living conditions in the East End of London and galvanised public opinion against the overcrowded, unsanitary slums. In the two decades after the murders, the worst of the slums were cleared and demolished.




1961 Brian Epstein went to a lunchtime session at The Cavern in Liverpool to see for himself why his record shop was receiving so many requests for records by a group (the Beatles) that had apparently made none. He later became their manager.




1979 The UK release of the controversial comedy film Monty Python's "Life of Brian". The film tells the story of Brian Cohen, a young Jewish man who is born on the same day as, and next door to, Jesus Christ and is subsequently mistaken for the Messiah. EMI Films withdrew funding just days before production was scheduled to begin and financing was arranged by George Harrison, former member of the Beatles and a long time Monty Python fan. Thirty-nine local authorities in the UK imposed an outright ban and some countries banned its showing for decades.





1992 The opening of the Victoria Shopping Centre in Harrogate. Described by Bill Bryson, in his book Notes from a Small Island as “heartbreakingly awful, the worst kind of pastiche architecture – a sort of Bath Crescent meets Crystal Palace with a roof by B&Q. The figures perched along the top look as if two dozen citizens of various ages are about to commit mass suicide.
 
On This Day In History, November 10th

1969 – Sesame Street premieres
Sesame Street, the long-running American children's television series, premiered on TV stations.

1951 – North American Numbering Plan begins
The plan standardized distance calling and gave phone numbers in cities a fixed 3 digit prefix, also called an area code. This made making long-distance calls faster and easier and without the involvement of an operator. The first call under the plan was made between the mayors of Englewood, New Jersey and Alameda, California.

1903 – Windshield wiper patented
The US patent office granted inventor Mary Anderson a patent for automatic windshield wipers - a device that is used to remove or wipe the front and back windshields in automobiles.

1898 – Wilmington riots begin
Thought to be one of the only incidents of insurrection against a local government in the United States, the Wilmington Race Riots of 1898 or the Wilmington Massacre of 1898 began after an election voted in a biracial city council. In retaliation, white supremacists overthrew the council, destroyed a lot of property and killed many black people in the city over the course of a few days.

1775 – US Marine Corps is created
The elite military force capable of operating on land, sea and air was founded in Philadelphia during the American Revolutionary War. A resolution of the Second Continental Congress formed two battalions of Continental Marines that became the forerunners of today's marine corps.
 
Births on 10 November 🎂

1968 – Tracy Morgan
American comedian, actor

1960 – Neil Gaiman
English author, illustrator, screenwriter

1928 – Ennio Morricone
Italian composer, conductor

1759 – Friedrich Schiller
German poet, playwright, historian

1483 – Martin Luther
German monk, priest, leader of the Protestant Reformation

Deaths on 10 November 🪦

2015 – Helmut Schmidt
German politician, 5th Chancellor of Germany

2007 – Norman Mailer
American author, journalist

1982 – Leonid Brezhnev
Soviet politician

1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk
Turkish army officer, politician, 1st
President of Turkey

1917 – Harry Trott
Australian cricketer
 
November 10th







1674 – The Dutch Republic Cedes New Netherland to EnglandOn November 10, 1674, the Treaty of Westminster was signed, marking the formal transfer of New Netherland from the Dutch Republic to England. This agreement concluded the Third Anglo-Dutch War and saw the English rename the colony New York, in honor of the Duke of York, later King James II of England.





1871 Henry Morton Stanley, (Welsh journalist and explorer) having been sent out to Africa by his newspaper to find the Scottish missionary David Livingstone, finally made contact with him at Ujiji on Lake Tanganyika with the immortal words, ‘Dr Livingstone, I presume?' Henry Stanley was born John Rowlands. His mother abandoned him as a very young baby and he was eventually sent to St. Asaph Union Workhouse for the Poor.






1967 - The Moody Blues released "Nights in White Satin" as part of their concept album Days of Future Passed. Written by Justin Hayward, the song became an iconic example of symphonic rock, blending rock with orchestral elements performed by the London Festival Orchestra. With its lush arrangements, evocative lyrics, and Hayward’s heartfelt vocal delivery, "Nights in White Satin" explores themes of love and longing, resonating with listeners and achieving widespread popularity. Though it initially charted modestly, the song was re-released in 1972, reaching #2 on the Billboard Hot 100 and cementing its status as a timeless classic.
And I heard Justin Hayward perform it recently.
 
1885
German engineer, Gottleib Daimler unveils world's 1st motorcycle
1954
Marine Corps War Memorial is unveiled in Arlington County, VA dedicated to U.S. Marine Corps who died in defense of U. S. since 1775
1969
childrens educational TV show' Sesame Street' debuts on PBS,it has taught generations of children how to count, learn the alphabet
1975
U.S. iron ore freighter ship' US Edmund Fitzgerald with crew of 29 are lost during a storm on Lake Superior
It weighed 13,000 tons 730 ft long. Canadian folk singer, Gordon Lightfoot wrote& recorded song'The Wreck of Edmund Fitzgerald
2023
record for most expensive U.S. stamp is set, a 1918 'inverted Jenny' sells for $2mil at NYC auction
 

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