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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.
 

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