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On This Day In History, November 21st

1979 Mob burns down US embassy in Pakistan
The mob was allegedly incensed by a rumour that the United States was involved in an attack on a mosque in the holy city of Mecca.

1964 Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens in NYC
The suspension bridge connects Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City and at the time of its opening, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge until the Humber Bridge in the UK opened in 1981.

1962 War between China and India ends
The month-long war began over a border dispute between the two countries and ended with a unilateral ceasefire by the Chinese.

1941 Tweety Bird makes its debut
The fictional cartoon canary also just called Tweety made his first appearance in A Tale of Two Kitties, a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon. Tweety was created by animator Bob Clampett who worked on Loony Tunes cartoons.

1920 Bloody Sunday in Ireland
A key event in the Irish War of Independence, which was a conflict between the British government and Irish revolutionaries in Ireland, Bloody Sunday began with the killings of 14 people by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) under the leadership of Michael Collins. Two other violent incidents against civilian and IRA members during the day added to the death count, which was over 30 by the end of the day.
 

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 rumours 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 travelling 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.

1943 World War II: Prime Minister Winston Churchill, the U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, and the Chinese leader Chiang Kai-Shek met in Cairo, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.

1990 Margaret Thatcher, the first female prime minister in British history, announced her resignation after 11 years in Britain’s top office.

1995 Rosemary West 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.

2003 England's rugby team won the World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in a nail biting final 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
 
1869
Clipper Cutty Shark is launched in Dumbarton, Scotland one of the last clippers ever built
1897
John Lee Love patents portable pencil sharpener
1936
1st issue of Life Magazine is published,the idea was to show the news of the day in pictures.It ceased publication on Dec 29,1972
1945
most of U.S. wartime rationing of foods including meat, & butter ends
1960
Hollywood Walk of Fame at Hollywood Blvd & Vine Street is dedicated in Los Angeles
1984
Boston College's football QB, Doug Flutie throws a 48 yard 'Hail Mary Pass' was caught in end zone with no time left defeated Miami 47-45
2021
a manuscript of the early works of Albert Einstein's 'Theory of Relativity' sells at auction for $13 mil
 
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 labour 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, refuelled the aeroplane 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 is 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
Dutch philosopher

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
 
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 that 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
 
25th November

1120 Henry I's only legitimate son, William, was drowned when The White Ship (la Blanche-Nef) carrying him from Normandy to England sank off Barfleur. This set up a conflict, known as the Anarchy, for the English crown between Stephen and Henry's daughter, Matilda.

1703 The Great Storm of 1703. A catastrophic hurricane ripped across East Anglia. It was the worst storm in British history and killed 8,000 people.

1953 Hungary, led by their talented footballer Ferenc Puskas, beat England 6-3 at Wembley to become the first foreign team to achieve an away win at Wembley.

1963 John F Kennedy is laid to rest. The funeral of the assassinated President, John F Kennedy, took place in Washington. An estimated 800,000 Americans lined the streets to watch the coffin's procession from the Capitol, where the president's body had lain in state.

1984 Band Aid rock stars gathered at Sarm Studios in London to record 'Do They Know It's Christmas', to aid famine relief in Ethiopia.
 
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
 
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. A dog had mauled Isabelle Dinoire’s face.

2001 Hubble detects the first planetary atmosphere outside the Solar System
The space telescope detected sodium on HD 209458 b, an exoplanet 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 are 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
 
28th November

1905 The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin.

1967 All horse racing in Britain was cancelled indefinitely to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

1971 An English farmer uncovered a major immigrant smuggling operation when he rammed a plane which had landed at a disused airfield on his farm in Kimbolton, 10 miles from Huntingdon. The pilot escaped but police officers arrived soon after the incident and detained the five occupants of the plane.

1990 Margaret Thatcher made her last speech outside 10 Downing Street following her resignation as Prime Minister.

1994 Norway voted 'no' to Europe. Norway voted to reject membership of the European Union in a referendum, for the second time in its history.

1997 MPs in the House of Commons approved a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Labour MP Michael Foster, to ban fox hunting.

1999 Nude swordsman attacked churchgoers. Eleven people injured in a sword attack at a church in south London. A naked man wielding a 3 ft (91 cm) Samurai sword burst into St Andrew's Roman Catholic church in Thornton Heath, Croydon, during Sunday Mass.

2014 Jordan Winn was jailed for 13 months after he was caught driving at nearly 100mph in a 30mph zone. Winn blamed his Staffordshire bull terrier, who he said was in the footwell of his Volvo S60, for sitting on the accelerator pedal.
 
On This Day In History, November 29th

1972 Atari Releases Pong
One of the very first arcade games to hit the market, Pong was a 1 or 2-player video game similar to tennis, where the goal is to use a paddle to hit a ball. Around 35000 Pong consoles were sold around the world.

1951 Silent Coup in Thailand
The Thai military took over the country's governance and reinstated the 1932 Constitution.

1929 First flight over the South Pole
American explorer Richard Byrd became the first person to fly over the South Pole. The flight took just over 18 hours. 3 years ago, Byrd flew over the North Pole, though there is some debate about whether he accomplished the feat.

1899 FC Barcelona founded
The popular football (soccer) club was founded by footballer Hans Gamper. Informally known as Barça, the club is thought to be one of the top 5 richest football clubs in the world. The club has won 4 European Cups (1978-79, 1981-82, 1988-89, 1996-97) and is a 5-time Champions League winner (1991-92, 2005-06, 2008-09, 2010-11, 2014-15).

1777 City of San Jose Founded
The first city to be settled in California, San Jose was founded as San José de Guadalupe. Before the Spanish settled in the city, the area was inhabited by the Ohlone people. San Jose was the first capital of the state of California, which was established in 1850.
 
Births On This Day, November 29th 🎂

1969 Mariano Rivera
Panamanian baseball player

1964 Don Cheadle
American actor, producer

1932 Jacques Chirac
French politician, 22nd President of France

1898 C. S. Lewis
Irish author, poet

1835 Empress Dowager Cixi
of China

Deaths On This Day, November 29th 🪦

2001 George Harrison
English singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1975 Graham Hill
English race car driver

1780 Maria Theresa
Austrian wife of Francis I, Holy Roman Emperor

1682 Prince Rupert of the Rhine

1632 Frederick V, Elector Palatine
Bohemian king
 
On This Day In History, December 1st

2009 Treaty of Lisbon comes into force
The Treaty of Lisbon, which amended the two treaties - the Maastricht Treaty and the Treaty of Rome - that form the constitutional basis of the European Union came into force after being signed by 13 countries in 2007.

1958 French colony of Ubangi-Shari gains autonomy
The French colony of Ubangi-Shari, now known as the Central African Republic, gained autonomy from France. 2 years later, the country became independent and adopted its current name.

1943 Tehran Conference ends
The Tehran Conference between the US, the UK, and the Soviet Union ended with the three countries deciding to open up a second front against Germany in France, and the Soviet Union agreeing to declare war against Japan.

1919 Nancy Astor becomes the first woman to join the British House of Commons
Nancy Witcher Langhorne also known as Nancy Astor became the first woman to join the British House of Commons.

1918 Kingdom of Iceland established
The Kingdom of Iceland was established with the signing of the Act of Union with Denmark. The act recognized Iceland as a sovereign state under a common monarch with Denmark, and the Kingdom lasted until 1944 when a national referendum created the Republic of Iceland.
 
Births On This Day, December 1st 🎂

1970 Sarah Silverman
American comedian, actress, singer

1949 Pablo Escobar
Colombian drug lord

1945 Bette Midler
American singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1935 Woody Allen
American screenwriter, director, actor

1896 Georgy Zhukov
Russian general

Deaths On This Day, December 1st

2012 Mitchell Cole
English footballer

1973 David Ben-Gurion
Israeli politician, 1st Prime Minister of Israel

1947 Aleister Crowley
English magician, author

1825 Alexander I of Russia

1135 Henry I of England
 
1st December

1581 Edmund Campion (later St. Edmund) and three other Jesuits were martyred. He was tried on a charge of treason for promoting Catholicism and was hanged in London.

1942 The British government unveiled plans for a post-war welfare state in the Beveridge Report, offering care to all from the cradle to the grave. It revolved around a compulsory National Insurance scheme to provide all adults with free medical treatment, unemployment benefit and old age pensions.

1955 Civil rights activist Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat for a white passenger in Alabama. Parks was riding a crowded Montgomery city bus when the driver, upon noticing that there were white passengers standing in the aisle, asked Parks and other Black passengers to surrender their seats and stand. Three of the passengers left their seats, but Parks refused.

1990 Britain and France were joined for the first time in thousands of years as the last wall of rock separating two halves of the Channel Tunnel was removed.

2014 Christopher Law, the former owner of Britain’s last surviving temperance bar (Fitzpatrick’s, in Rawtenstall, Lancashire) was prosecuted for drink-driving. 🍻
 
1st December 1969
The Bee Gees' Barry Gibb announces that he is "fed up, miserable and completely disillusioned" and is quitting the group.

His brother Robin had made the same decision earlier in the year and all three brothers ended up releasing solo material before they would reform in late 1970.
 

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