Today in History

8th November

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.

1957 A report into a fire at Windscale nuclear power plant in Cumbria blamed the accident on human error, poor management and faulty instruments. An unspecified amount of radioactive iodine vapour - iodine 131 - escaped into the atmosphere and on the advice of the health physics manager a ban on the sale of local milk was imposed.

1957 Britain conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test, over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1990 The Republic of Ireland elected its first woman president, Mary Robinson. The mother-of-three had been a member of the Irish Senate for more than 20 years.
 

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 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 This Day, November 9th 🎂

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 This Day, November 9th 🪦

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 U
 

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 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 was 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 This Day, November 10th 🎂

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 This Day, November 10th🪦

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
 
1885
German engineer, Gottleib Daimler unveils world's 1st motorcycle
1911
philanthropist, Andrew Carneige forms Carneige Corp for scholarly and chairtable works
1940
Walt Disney becomes an informer at the Los Angeles office of the FBI
1969
children's educational show' Sesame Street debuts on PBS. Its one of the longest running shows in U.S. history
1975
ore ship, USS Edmund Fitzgerald with a crew of 29 is lost during a storm on Lake Superior
Canadian singer/ songwriter, Gordon Lightfoot in 1976 writes a song about this tragedy'
The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald' becomes a top ten hit on music charts
 
On This Day In History, November 11th

1999 House of Lords Act 1999 passed
The act removed the right to a place in the House of Lords based on peerage and hereditary rights.

1975 Angola independence
Angola gained its independence after over 300 years of Portuguese rule.

1965 Rhodesia declares its independence
Rhodesia, a region that is comprised of present-day Zimbabwe declared its freedom from the United Kingdom under the leadership of predominantly white leaders. It lasted for 14 years when it was renamed the Republic of Zimbabwe after being recognized by the UN and the UK.

1926 Approval of numbered highways in the US
Under this system, odd-numbered highways run north to south while even-numbered highways run east to west. Lower odd numbers are in the west, and higher odd numbers are in the east. Lower even numbers are in the south, and higher even numbers are in the north.

1918 World War I ends
An armistice was signed to formally end the war. With 17 million casualties, the First World War was one of the bloodiest conflicts in history.

On the eleventh Hour on the eleventh Day of the eleventh month, we will remember them.
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Births On This Day, November 11th 🎂

1974 Leonardo DiCaprio
American actor, producer

1945 Daniel Ortega
Nicaraguan politician, President of Nicaragua

1922 Kurt Vonnegut
American author

1885 George S. Patton
American general

1821 Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Russian author

Deaths On This Day, November 11th 🪦

2004 Yasser Arafat
Palestinian engineer, politician

1938 Typhoid Mary
Irish/American carrier of Typhoid fever

1887 Haymarket affair
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1880 Ned Kelly
Australian murderer
 
11th November

1724 The highwayman Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, was hanged in London. He had attracted attention for attacking the nation's leading policeman and 'Thief Taker' Jonathan Wild with a pocket knife. The policeman was also a successful gang leader and became the most infamous criminal in Britain during the 18th century. The attack by Blake left Wild incapacitated for weeks, and his grip over his criminal empire started to slip during his recuperation. Like Blake, he too was later hanged for his crimes.

1918 At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, the Great War ended; a war that had lasted for 4 years and 97 days.

1919 Britain introduced a two minute silence at 11:00 a.m. to remember those who died in World War I.

1965 The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, illegally severed its links with the British Crown. Mr Smith made the Unilateral Declaration of Independence (UDI) after days of tense negotiations with British Prime Minister Harold Wilson.

1992 The Church of England General Synod voted to allow women to be ordained to the priesthood.

2013 Hundreds of people attended the funeral of 99 year old Harold Jellicoe Percival (from Lytham St. Annes), a war veteran they never knew who died with no close friends or relatives around him. Veterans' groups and other military supporters campaigned, including via Twitter and Facebook, to acknowledge Mr. Percival's career as ground crew with the RAF's Bomber Command. He was also a distant relative of former Prime Minister Spencer Perceval, the only British Prime Minister to be assassinated - (1812).

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On This Day In History, November 12th

1991 Dili massacre
Several pro-independence protesters were shot at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor by Indonesian soldiers. about 250 people were killed in this event, which is also known as the Dili massacre or the Santa Cruz massacre

1990 Coup in Lesotho
Justin Metsing Lekhanya staged a coup against King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho and took over the government of Lesotho. Lekhanya was deposed a few months later in another military coup.

1984 First salvage operation in space
Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen aboard the space shuttle Discovery performed a series of space walks to salvage parts from two satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6 which had steered away from their orbits.

1981 STS-2 launched
The second space shuttle mission by NASA, space shuttle Columbia was launched from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time a manned space shuttle had been launched twice.

1966 First images of a Solar Eclipse taken from space
The crew of Gemini 12 which included Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin were able to view and take pictures of the total solar eclipse over South America.
 
Births On This Day, November 12th 🎂

1980 Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor, singer

1945 Neil Young
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1934 Charles Manson
American cult leader, murderer

1866 Sun Yat-sen
Chinese revolutionary, politician, 1st President of the Republic of China

1840 Auguste Rodin
French sculptor created The Thinker

Deaths On This Day, November 12th 🪦

2010 Henryk Górecki
Polish composer

1969 Iskander Mirza
Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan

1939 Norman Bethune
Canadian physician

1757 Colley Cibber
English poet

1035 Cnut the Great
Danish king
 
12th November

1555 Mary I’s Parliament re-established the Catholic faith in England and was reunited with the Pope.

1660 English author John Bunyan was arrested for preaching without a licence. He refused to give up preaching and remained in jail for 12 years.

1912 The remains of English explorer Robert Scott and his companions were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. Scott and his four comrades all perished on the return journey from a combination of exhaustion, starvation and extreme cold.

1982 The Polish Government freed the leader of the outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, after 11 months of internment.

1984 Quid notes out - pound coins in. The English pound note was to disappear after more than 150 years. News of the familiar green £1 note's withdrawal came when Chancellor Nigel Lawson made his autumn statement in parliament.

1997 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, escaped extradition again. Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him. The court in Rio de Janeiro ruled that because Biggs' crime was committed more than 20 years ago he could not be extradited under Brazilian law.
 
On This Day In History, November 13th


2015 Terrorist attacks in Paris
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks that included suicide bombs and mass shootings took place in France's capital city. Venues attacked included the Stade de France and the Bataclan Theater during a concert. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Daesh (ISIL) took responsibility for the attacks that killed about 130 people.

1994 Sweden votes to join EU
The referendum passed with over 50% of Swedish citizens voting to join the European Union. The Nordic country officially joined the EU on January 1, 1995.

1985 Armero tragedy
The late evening eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia caused volcanic mudflows, called lahars, and flooded the city of Armero, killing 25,000 of its residents. The Armero tragedy is considered to be one of the deadliest volcano-related disasters in the 20th century.

1950 Assassination of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
The Venezuelan president and head of the military Junta was kidnapped and killed by rebels headed by Rafael Simón Urbina. Chalbaud came to power after a coup against Rómulo Gallegos in 1948.

1887 Bloody Sunday in London
Protests by poor and unemployed Londoners over their hardships in Trafalgar Square took a violent turn when the police charged those protesting with batons. By the end of the day, 2 or 3 people were killed and several hundred protestors were injured.
 
Births On This Day, November 13th 🎂

1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician, author

1955 Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, singer, talk show host

1856 Louis Brandeis
American jurist

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet

354 Augustine of Hippo
Algerian bishop, theologian


Deaths On This Day, November 13th 🪦

2005 Eddie Guerrero
American wrestler

1963 Margaret Murray
English anthropologist

1903 Camille Pissarro
French painter

1868 Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer

1093 Malcolm III of Scotland
 
On This Day In History, November 14th

2010 Sebastian Vettel wins the Formula One World Drivers' Champion
At 23 years old, the German competitive race driver became the youngest person to win the World Championship in Formula One.

1971 First spacecraft to orbit a planet
NASA's Mariner 9 entered Mars' orbit after 167 days in space. Despite it being in Mars' orbit within 15 minutes, a dust storm on the planet made it impossible for Mariner 9 to take pictures of Mars until January.

1969 Apollo 12 launched
The crew of NASA's second manned mission to the Moon included Commander Charles Conrad, Jr. Richard F. Gordon, Jr., and Alan L. Bean. It landed on the Moon on November 19 and was the first spacecraft to take a color TV camera to the Moon.

1889 Nelie Bly sets out to go around the world in 80 days
The American journalist, whose real name was Elizabeth Cochrane Seaman, followed the footsteps of the fictional character Phileas Fogg from Jules Verne's Around the World in 80 Days. She started her adventure in Hoboken and came back 72 days later.

1851 Moby Dick Makes its Debut in the United States
The epic novel by Herman Melville about Captain Ahab's quest to find and kill Moby Dick, a white whale had released in the UK in October under the name The Whale. Considered to be one of the best fictional works written in recent history, the book did not sell many copies after its launch or during Melville's lifetime.
 
Births On This Day, November 14th 🎂

1971 Adam Gilchrist
Australian cricketer

1948 Charles III
King of the United Kingdom

1917 Deaths On This Day, November 14th 🪦

1988 Haywood S. Hansell
American general officer

1921 Isabel, Princess Imperial of Brazil

1915 Booker T. Washington
American author, educator

1831 Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
German philosopher

565 Justinian I
Byzantine EmperorPark Chung-hee
Korean general, politician, 3rd President of South Korea

1908 Joseph McCarthy
American politician

1898 Benjamin Fondane
Romanian/French poet, critic, philosopher
 
14th November 1964
At the start of her first tour of the UK, Dusty Springfield ruffles some feathers when she tells a British magazine, "I wish I'd been born coloured. When it comes to singing and feeling, I want to be one of them and not me.
Then I see how some of them are treated and I thank God I'm white."
 
14th November 1977
Wings release "Mull of Kintyre", a tune about Paul McCartney's Scottish home at the southwestern most tip of the Kintyre Peninsula in southwest Scotland. The bag pipe laced tune will become McCartney's all time best selling single in the UK.
It was the first song to sell over two million copies in Great Britain.
 
1851
Herman Melville's novel, 'Moby- Dick' is published in the u.S. by Harper&Brothers
1922
BBC begins daily radio broadcasts from 2LO transmitter at Marconi House
1960
Ray Charles' single' Georgia on My Mind' written by Hoagy Carmichael& Stuart Gorrell goes to # 1 on music charts. It becomes the official state song
1976
movie 'Network' a television satire by Paddy Chayefsky,directed by Sidney Lumet is released. It stars Faye Dunaway, William Holden, Peter Finch, Ned Beatty, Beatrice Straight. Its about a 4th rated network which would do anything to get big ratings A disgruntled newsman,Harold Beale{Finch} goes off on a tirade by saying ' I'm mad as hell and not going to take it anymore"
The movie won 4 Oscars,Finch won Best Actor{postmously}
1993
NFL head coach coach of Miami Dolphins, Don Shula holds record for most wins- 347
2022
Grammy winning singer, Roberta Flack announces she is suffering from ALS{Lou Gehrig's disease} no longer able to sing
 
On This Day In History, November 15th

2006 Al Jazeera English launched
The English-language 24-hour news channel is owned and run by Al Jazeera Media Network based in Doha, Qatar.

1988 State of Palestine created
The Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) declared the creation of the state while in exile in Algiers, Algeria. The declaration designated eastern Jerusalem as the state's capital. Today, almost 70% of all UN member states recognize it as an independent country.

1956 Elvis Presley makes his movie debut
Love Me Tender, a black-and-white musical starred the American singer, who is also sometimes called the King of Rock and Roll. The movie was named after Presley's hit single by the same name.

1949 Assassins of MK Gandhi Executed in India
Nathuram Godse, Narayan Apte, and 6 other co-conspirators of the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi were hanged at the Ambala jail. On January 30, 1948, Godse who was unhappy about Gandhi's accommodation of India's Muslims shot Gandhi while he was out for his evening prayers.

1920 League of Nations meets for the first time
The general assembly of the international organization got together for the first time after being founded in January 1920. The League was created as a response to World War I and was entrusted by member states to maintain peace in the world.
 

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