Today in History

Births On This Day, November 21st 🎂

1969 Ken Griffey, Jr.
American baseball player

1965 Björk
Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1945 Goldie Hawn
American actress

1854 Pope Benedict XV

1694 Voltaire
French philosopher

Deaths On This Day, November 21st 🪦

2012 Ajmal Kasab
Pakistani terrorist

1996 Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1970 C. V. Raman
Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1959 Max Baer
American boxer, actor

1899 Garret Hobart
American lawyer, politician, 24th Vice President of the United States
 

On This Day In History, November 22nd

2005 Angela Merkel takes office as German Chancellor
The physical chemist from former East Germany became the first female chancellor of the country.

2004 Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine
The revolution began after an election that was marred by widespread rumors of corruption and fraud. The protests resulted in electoral reforms in the country and November 22 was declared a Day of Freedom in 2005. The holiday was then moved to January 22, 2011.

1995 Toy Story released
Produced by Pixar, the movie which follows the adventures of human-like toys, was the world’s first feature-length computer-animated movie. Considered to be one of the best animated films ever released, Toy Story won 3 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

1986 Mike Tyson wins fight against Trevor Berbick
The victory won Tyson the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship and made him the world’s youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years.

1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated
The 35th President of the United States was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was the 4th American president to be assassinated while in office. The other 3 were Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield, and William McKinley.
 
Births On This Day, November 22nd 🎂

1986 Oscar Pistorius
South African sprinter

1984 Scarlett Johansson
American actress, singer

1967 Boris Becker
German tennis player

1890 Charles de Gaulle
French general, politician, President of France

1819 George Eliot
English author

Deaths On This Day, November 22nd🪦

1963 Aldous Huxley
English author

1963 John F. Kennedy
American lieutenant, politician, 35th President of the United States

1963 C. S. Lewis
Irish author, poet

1900 Arthur Sullivan
English composer

1718 Blackbeard
English pirate
 

22nd November

1869 The clipper Cutty Sark was launched In Dumbarton, Scotland. She was one of the last clippers ever built, and is the only one still surviving today. She is preserved as a museum ship, located near the centre of Greenwich, in south-east London.

1995 Rosemary West was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.Justice Charles Mantell told Britain's most prolific female serial killer she should never be released. West's victims included her 16-year-old daughter, her eight-year-old stepdaughter and her husband's pregnant lover.

1990 Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her premiership that had begun in 1979.

1997 Michael Hutchence, the lead singer of Australian rock band INXS and partner of British television star Paula Yates, was found dead in a hotel in Sydney.
 
On This Day In History, November 23rd

2009 Maguindanao massacre in the Philippines
Considered to be the worst attack on journalists in recorded history, the massacre occurred in the southern Philippines, when 57 citizens and journalists en route to register voters in Esmael Mangudadatu for the upcoming gubernatorial elections, were killed by gunmen and buried. 34 journalists were killed on the day.

2005 Ellen Johnson Sirleaf elected as President of Liberia
The 2011 Nobel Peace Prize winner is also the first woman to be elected as head of state in an African country.

1976 First person to dive 100 meters in the sea without breathing equipment
Frenchman Jacques Mayol, who is also sometimes known as Dolphin Man, was 49 years old at the time. He broke his own record 7 years later by diving 105 meters.

1963 Doctor Who debuts on TV
The longest-running science fiction TV show first aired with an episode called An Unearthly Child on the British Broadcasting Channel. The show which has had 11 different actors play the lead role, follows the time-traveling adventures of Doctor Who, who uses the Time and Relative Dimension in Space or TARDIS to jump around in time and space.

1910 Last person to be executed in Sweden
Johan Alfred Ander was convicted of murdering Victoria Hellsten during a robbery of a currency exchange. He was the only person in Swedish history to be executed using a guillotine. Capital punishment in the country was abolished for all peacetime crimes in 1921 and for all crimes in 1973.
 

Births On This Day, November 23rd 🎂

1992 Miley Cyrus
American singer-songwriter, actress

1982 Asafa Powell
Jamaican sprinter

1950 Chuck Schumer
American politician

1859 Billy the Kid
American criminal

912 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, November 23rd 🪦

2014 Marion Barry
American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia

2006 Alexander Litvinenko
Russian spy

2006 Willie Pep
American boxer

1990 Roald Dahl
English pilot, author, screenwriter

1923 Urmuz
Romanian judge, author
 
23rd November 1899

The world's first jukebox, then known as a "nickel in the slot machine," was installed at San Francisco's' Palais Royal Hotel.
It had been created by simply adding a coin slot to an Edison phonograph. The machine had no amplification and patrons had to listen to the music using one of four listening tubes.
In its first six months of service, the machine earned over $1000.
 
23rd November 1956

A 19 year-old, sheet metal worker named Louis Balint was arrested after punching Elvis Presley at a hotel bar in Toledo, Ohio.
Balint was upset that his wife carried a picture of Elvis in her wallet.
He was fined $19.60 but ended up being jailed for seven days because he was unable to pay the fine.
 
23rd November

1962 British surgeon John Charnley developed a technique at Wrightington Hospital Lancashire that revolutionised hip replacement operations. He was later knighted for his efforts and his work became the standard procedure across the world.

1963 Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson began his new job today as US president. He was sworn in just two hours after an assassin shot President John F Kennedy.

1978 A Birmingham (England) nightclub was ordered to open its doors to black and Chinese people. The year-long investigation into popular nightspot Pollyanna's was held after two separate complaints alleging the club had a racist entry policy.

1984 London tube fire traps hundreds. Almost 1,000 passengers were trapped in smoke-filled tunnels for three hours after a fire at London's busiest underground station, Oxford Circus. Emergency services arrived at Oxford Circus within minutes of the blaze breaking out. There were no deaths and only minor injuries.

1996 A hijacked passenger jet crashed into the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel. Out of the 175 passengers and crew on board at least 100 people were killed when Flight ET961 broke up during an emergency landing 1,640 feet (500 metres) from a holiday beach on the Comoro Islands.
 
On This Day In History, November 24th

2012 Fire breaks out in a clothing factory in Dhaka
Over 110 people were killed and about 200 people were injured at the Tazreen Fashion factory on the outskirts of Dhaka, Bangladesh. The tragedy brought to light the poor working conditions of workers who made export clothing in Bangladesh. It also led to major labor reforms in the country and in the fashion world, which promised to take steps to ethically source their products.

1971 Hijacking of Northwest Orient Airline 305
Considered to be one of the only unsolved hijacking cases in American history, a man named DB Cooper or Dan Cooper hijacked the Seattle, Washington-bound plane. After his demands of $ 200,000 in cash and parachutes were fulfilled at the Seattle airport, he released the passengers, refueled the airplane, and asked to be flown to Mexico. On the way, however, he used a parachute to escape from the plane. Cooper has never been identified or caught.

1963 Lee Harvey Oswald shot
Oswald had assassinated John F. Kennedy, the 35th American president, two days prior to being shot by Jack Ruby while being transported by the police. The murder was broadcast live on TV.

1877 Black Beauty was published
The classic novel about the life of a horse called Black Beauty was written by English author Anna Sewell. The book quickly gained popularity and became an important part of the animal rights movement. It was Sewell’s only published work.

1859 Charles Darwin’s Origin of Species published
One of the most influential books of all time, On the Origin of Species, put forth the theory of evolution and described the process of natural selection.
 
Births On This Day, November 24th 🎂

1978 Katherine Heigl
American actress, producer

1961 Arundhati Roy
Indian author, activist

1946 Ted Bundy
American serial killer

1867 Scott Joplin
American pianist, composer

1632 Baruch Spinoza

Deaths On This Day, November 24th 🪦

1991 Freddie Mercury
Tanzanian/English singer-songwriter, producer

1963 Lee Harvey Oswald
American assassin of John F. Kennedy

1920 Alexandru Macedonski
Romanian author, poet

1572 John Knox
Scottish clergyman

1265 Magnus Olafsson
Manx king
 
1874
U. S. inventor, Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire
1896
Vermont become the 1st state to enact absentee voting law
1940
German Luftware bombs hit Bristol, England killing 200 people, the 1st German raid in the city
1971
"Dan Cooper' hijacks a plane, extorts $200,000 ransom, then jumps out of the plane over state of Washington. He's never seen again
2012
Gangham Style become the most viewed Youtube video with over 808 million views
2021
Sweden's 1st female Prime minister, Magdelena Andersson resigns after 12 hrs on the job,after her coaliltion gov't falls apart
 
On This Day In History, November 25th

1973 Military coup in Greece
President George Papadopoulos was ousted by the army, just a week after student-led protests at the Athens Polytechnic were violently put down by the government.

1960 Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters
The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, and Antonia Mirabal, were activists who were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths were staged to look like accidents. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

1952 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opens at London’s West End
The longest-running show in history, the play began as a radio play called Three Blind Mice. It is based on the death of Dennis O'Neill, who died while in foster care.

1950 “Storm of the Century” hits Eastern US
Also known as the Appalachian Storm, the storm reached blizzard conditions and dumped nearly 60 inches of snow in the Appalachian area. It brought unseasonal temperatures to the region and caused widespread damage to property. About 150 people were thought to have been killed as a result of it.

1936 Nazi Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
The treaty was directed towards the Soviet Union and stipulated that in case of Soviet aggression towards either country, the other would consider it as an act of aggression towards it as well. The pact was later signed by other countries including Italy, Romania, Spain, and Turkey.
 
Births On This Day, November 25th 🎂

1952 Imran Khan
Pakistani cricketer, politician

1915 Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile

1914 Joe DiMaggio
American baseball player

1844 Karl Benz
German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz

1835 Andrew Carnegie
Scottish/American businessman founded the Carnegie Steel Company

Deaths On This Day, November 25th 🪦

2005 George Best
Irish/English footballer

1997 Hastings Banda
Malawian politician, 1st President of Malawi

1974 U Thant
Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General

1974 Nick Drake
English singer-songwriter, musician

1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American judge
 
On This Day In History, November 26th

2003 Concorde retired from service
Concorde retired from service after 27 years of flight

1983 Brink’s Mat gold heist
The £ 26 million robbery took place in a Brink Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London. The stolen gold, diamonds, and cash have never been recovered.

1966 World’s first tidal power station opens in France
The Rance Tidal Power Station on the Rance River in Brittany, France was inaugurated by French president Charles de Gaulle. Today, it is one of the largest tidal power stations in the world.

1965 France launches Astérix
The launch of the satellite from Hammaguir, Algeria made France the 6th country in the world after the US, the USSR, the UK, Canada, and Italy to have an artificial satellite in orbit. The satellite is named after the Asterix the popular comic character created by French writer René Goscinny.

1942 Casablanca premiers
The classic movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart won 3 Oscars – Best Picture, Director, and Adapted Screenplay. The film, which is set during the Second World War, follows the life of Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and a club owner in Casablanca, Morocco, who has to choose between his love for a woman, Ilsa Lund, and saving her husband from the Nazis.
 
Births On This Day, November 26th 🎂

1972 Arjun Rampal
Indian actor

1939 Tina Turner
American singer, dancer, actress

1922 Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist

1876 Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king

1827 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church

Deaths On This Day, November 26th 🪦

1952 Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, explorer

1943 Edward O'Hare
American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient

1883 Sojourner Truth
American activist

1855 Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet

1504 Isabella I of Castile
 
26th November

1703 The Great Storm made landfall in the south of England. This perfect hurricane arrived without warning and resulted in enormous death and destruction, both on land and at sea. Thousands of people died and the Eddystone Lighthouse was lost. The week-long storm was later documented by Daniel Defoe.

1805 The offficial opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wales. It is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain, a Grade I Listed Building and a World Heritage Site.

1954 Donald Campbell's new Bluebird K7 (a turbo jet engined hydroplane) was handed over to him On This Day. Campbell set seven world water speed records in Bluebird K7 and it was in her that he was killed on Coniston Water on 4th January 1967 whilst attempting another water speed record, his target being 300 mph. He is buried in Coniston graveyard.

1956 Allied forces took control of Suez. British and French troops seized control of two major ports in Egypt's Canal Zone and declared a ceasefire. An official statement said Port Said was in allied hands and the town had suffered little damage.

1999 Australians rejected a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic.In the landmark referendum to decide whether Australia would replace Queen Elizabeth with a president, the "no" votes led 54.87% to 45.13% in the final count.

1986 Oil workers die in helicopter crash. Forty-five people were feared dead after a Chinook helicopter carrying oil rig workers plunged into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.
 
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1896
Amos Alonzo Stagg at Univ of Chicago creates American football huddle
1922
British archaeologist, HOward Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1948
1st Polaroid camera sells for $87.95 at a Boston ,Mass dept store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes the prototype for all Polaroid cameras for the next 15yrs
2003
The Concorde,supersonic plane takes its last flight from Heathrow Airport in London to Bristol England. The reasons why it was retired, not enough passengers, high cost of maintenance
 
On This Day In History, November 27th

2005 World’s first successful partial face transplant
Drs Bernard Devauchelle, Benoit Lengelé, and Jean-Michel Dubernard used donor tissue to reconstruct the face of Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France. Isabelle Dinoire’s face had been mauled by a dog.

2001 Hubble detects the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System
The space telescope detected sodium on HD 209458 b, an exoplanet also known as Osiris. Belonging to a class of planets called hot Jupiter, because they are similar in size to Jupiter. Unlike Jupiter, however, these planets orbit very close to their stars and consequently have very high temperatures on their surfaces.

1989 World’s first living liver transplant
21-month-old Alyssa Smith became the first person to receive a liver transplant from a living donor, her mother Teresa Smith at the University of Chicago Medical Center. The transplant occurred under the supervision of surgeons Christoph Broelsch, Richard Thistlethwaite, Thomas Heffron, and Jean Emond.

1978 Harvey Milk and George Moscone were assassinated
Milk was the first openly gay person to be elected to local government in California. He and George Moscone, San Francisco's mayor at the time, were killed by a former member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.

1895 Alfred Nobel signs his last will
Alfred Nobel signed his last will which called for his estate and fortune that he made as the inventor of dynamite to be used for creating awards for those who contributed to the benefit of mankind. The will created 5 awards - in physics, chemistry, medicine, literature, and peace, and was signed by the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris.
 
Births On This Day, November 27th 🎂

1960 Yulia Tymoshenko
Ukrainian politician, Prime Minister of Ukraine

1955 Bill Nye
American engineer, educator, television host

1951 Kathryn Bigelow
American director

1942 Jimi Hendrix
American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1940 Bruce Lee
American actor, martial artist

Deaths On This Day, November 27th 🪦

1978 Harvey Milk
American lieutenant, politician, activist

1967 Léon M'ba
Gabonese politician, 1st President of Gabon

1953 Eugene O'Neill
American playwright, Nobel Prize laureate

1895 Alexandre Dumas, fils
French author

1852 Ada Lovelace
English mathematician
 
27th November


1295 Lancashire Day. It is held on 27 November to commemorate the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament, to attend the Model Parliament of King Edward I.

1914 Miss Mary Allen and Miss E F Harburn became the first two trained policewomen to be granted official status in Britain when they reported for duty at Grantham, Lincolnshire.They were the first uniformed women police officers in the UK to carry out actual policing duties, though at this stage they had no power of arrest and unlike male police officers, were not paid out of the rates.

1944 Between 3,500 and 4,000 tons of explosives stored in a cavern beneath Staffordshire detonated, killing 68 people and wiping out an entire farm. Hidden 90ft beneath the ground in a disused part of an old gypsum mine, RAF Fauld was the area's worst-kept secret. The vast subterranean network of tunnels was packed to the roof with tens of thousands of huge bombs. Beneath the farm lay 180,000 sq ft of underground corridors, 12ft high and 20ft wide, used to store RAF munitions during the Second World War.

1967 President de Gaulle said ‘Non’ to British entry into the Common Market.

2008 The Queen Elizabeth II liner (the QE2) retired from active Cunard service.
 
On This Day In History, November 28th

1991 South Ossetia declares independence
The disputed region of the country of Georgia calls itself the Republic of South Ossetia. The Declaration of Independence was not recognized by Georgia and was followed by the South Ossetia War. Only a few countries, including Russia and Venezuela, recognize it as a sovereign country.

1975 East Timor independence
East Timor declared its independence from Portugal

1967 First pulsar observed
Graduate student Jocelyn Bell and her advisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University were the first people to observe and discover pulsars. Pulsars are rapidly spinning neutron-magnetized stars that emit radiation.

1964 NASA launches Mariner 4
The first spacecraft to make a flyby of Mars, the spacecraft was the first one to send images of a planet back to Earth.

1943 Tehran Conference begins
The Tehran Conference between the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union began at the Soviet Embassy in Tehran. The conference dealt with the Axis powers in Europe and Asia and made plans to open up a second front against the Germans in France during WW II.
 

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