Today in History

Births on 18 November 🎂

1974 – Chloë Sevigny
American actress, fashion designer

1953 – Alan Moore
English author, illustrator

1939 – Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, author, critic

1933 – Bruce Conner
American painter, photographer, and director

1923 – Ted Stevens
American politician

Deaths on 18 November 🪦

1987 – Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist

1978 – Jim Jones
American cult leader, founded the Peoples Temple

1962 – Niels Bohr
Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 – Marcel Proust
French writer
 

November 18th

1477 Caxton’s book, the Dictes or Sayengis of the Philosophres, was published. It was the first printed book in England bearing a date.




1852 The state funeral of the Duke of Wellington took place at St Paul’s Cathedral. It was one of the biggest ever held in London. Known as the Iron Duke, he was Tory Prime Minister from 1828-30. His hereditary title was derived from the Somerset town of Wellington and was created for Arthur Wellesley, 1st Marquess of Wellington. The Wellington Monument is located on the highest point of the Blackdown Hills, 1.9 miles from the town of Wellington.







1910 More than 100 were arrested by police when suffragettes tried to storm the House of Commons at Westminster, London.





1995 - On this day in history, The Rolling Stones became the first band to broadcast a concert on the Internet
 
1872
suffragette, Susan B Anthony is arrested by U.S. Deputy Marshall for voting illegally
1902
NYC toymaker, Morris Mictom names his stuffed Teddy bear after U.S Pres Theodore' Teddy' Roosevelt
1928
Walt Disney's ' Steamboat Willie is released,1st Mickey Mouse sound cartoon
1963
Bell Telephone introduces touch tone phone
1978
918 members of the Peoples Temple Cult under leadership of Jim Jones are murdered or committed suicide in Jonestown, Guyana
2002
Dark Horse/EMI postmously releases George Harrison's 12th& final album' Brainwashed'. The album had 2 hit singles'Any Road' Stuck Inside a Cloud'. His best selling album was 'All Things That Pass' 1970,sold over 6 million copies he died 11/29/01 age 58
 

19th November

1900 - First copper coins circulated in NSW

1941 - The cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German ship Kormoran engage in battle, both are sunk off Western Australia. All 645 aboard Sydney die. 78 of 393 sailors die on the Kormoran.

1946 - Australian Country Music icon Slim Dusty records his first single - When the Rain Tumbles Down in July

1969 - Pele scores his 1000th goal

1996 - Martin Bryant is sentenced to 35 consecutive sentences of life imprisonment plus 1035 years without parole for the Port Arthur massacre.
 
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1835 A ship carrying 500 armed Maori from Ngati Tama and Ngati Mutunga arrives on the Chatham Islands; those Moriori (indigenous people of the Chatham Islands) that are not killed are enslaved.

1905 The SS Hilda, a steamship owned by the London and South Western Railway sank, with the loss of 125 lives when she struck ground at the entrance to Saint-Malo harbour.



1911 Doom Bar (previously known as Dunbar sands or Dune-bar) in Cornwall claimed two ships in a single day, Island Maid and Angele, the latter killing the entire crew, except the captain. There have been over 600 beachings, wrecks and capsizings at Doom Bar since records began early in the 19th century, with about 300 ships being wrecked.



1906 London is selected to host the 1908 Olympics.



1967 Bee Gees Appeared at the Saville Theatre, London, with the

The Flowerpot Men and The Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band.



1968 Onstage with The Supremes at the Royal Command Variety Performance in London, Diana Ross interrupts the show with a plea for greater interracial understanding. She receives a two-minute ovation from the audience, which includes members of the royal family. Queen Elizabeth II herself stands after Ross’ moving performance of West Side Story’s “Somewhere.”





2012 Father Christmas was left dangling from the ceiling for 30 minutes after his beard became trapped while abseiling inside a Reading shopping centre as part of a Christmas lights switch-on show.
 
1872
E.B. Barbour in Boston,Mass receives 1st U.S. patent for 'calculator',1st adding machine with keys capable of printing totals& subtotals
1953
U.S. Supreme Court rules7-2 baseball is a sport and not a business
1965
Kellogg's 'Pop Tarts' are created, the original unfrosted ones: strawberry,blueberry, brown sugar- cinammon,apple- currant. The frosted version came out in 1967,original cost of a box was 45 cents. Today its between $3-5
1979
singer, Chuck Berry is released from federal prison after serving 4 months for tax evasion conviction. He was given a fine, required to do 1,000hrs of community service
1998
Vincent Van Gogh's painting'Portrait of the Artist Without a Beard' sells at auction for $71.5 mill
2023
Brazil records its highest temperature ever at 112.6 F{ 44.8 C} in Aracuai, Monas Gerais state
 
November 19th

1272 Edward I was proclaimed King of England after the death of his father, Henry III. He reached a rather imposing six feet two inches in height, which was extremely rare for the time and earned him the nickname 'Longshanks', meaning long legs. He was also known as 'Hammer of the Scots' and marched his army north to rid himself of Robert the Bruce once and for all. He was also involved in the Ninth Crusade, the last major Crusade to the Holy Land.

1620 The birth of Peregrine White a child of William and Susanna White, Mayflower passengers. He was the first English child born in the Plymouth Colony at Cape Cod Harbour.







1923 – Traffic signal patented

American Garret Morgan was awarded the patent for an automated traffic signal. Morgan’s invention was not the first of its kind, but unlike the other traffic signals which just had stop and go signals, his traffic light had a third signal that warned drivers about changes in the stop and go lights. This signal was the precursor for today’s yellow light.





1973 – The Who drummer Keith Moon collapsed on stage and was replaced by 19-year-old fan Scott Halpin. Scott played three songs before becoming exhausted and unable to continue playing the drums.
 
20th November

1945 Nuremberg trial of Nazis began. Twenty of Germany's Nazi leaders went on trial in the German city of Nuremberg charged with war crimes.

1951 More than 1,000 families of British servicemen began moving out of the Suez Canal Zone town of Ismailia. The move was ordered following the shooting two days previously which cost the lives of at least five British soldiers. Nine Egyptians were killed.

1975 Spanish dictator Franco died. General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an authoritarian hand for 39 years, died at the age of 82.

1992 A fierce fire raged through Windsor Castle in Berkshire, threatening one of the world's greatest collections of art.
 
On This Day In History, November 21st

1979 – Mob burns down the 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 Looney 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 civilians and IRA members during the day added to the death count, which was over 30 by the end of the day.
 
Births on 21 November 🎂

1969 – Ken Griffey, Jr.
American baseball player

1965 – Björk
Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1945 – Goldie Hawn
American actress

1854 – Pope Benedict XV
Sardinian-born Pope of the Catholic Church

1694 – Voltaire
French philosopher

Deaths on 21 November 🪦

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
 
November 21st
1922 Ramsay MacDonald was elected leader of the Labour Party.


1936 The world's first gardening programme, 'In Your Garden, with Mr. Middleton', was broadcast by the BBC.


1953 The British Natural History Museum announced that the 'Piltdown Man' skull, initially believed to be one of the most important fossilized skulls ever found, was a hoax.



1958 Work began on the Forth Road Bridge in Scotland. It was the longest suspension bridge outside the United States and the fourth-largest in the world at the time of its construction. It was awarded Historic Scotland's Category A, listed structure status in 2001. .



1970 - ClassicBands.com

November 21
Two months after launching their TV series, The Partridge Family reaches the top spot on the Billboard Hot 100 with "I Think I Love You". The only members of the cast who actually sang on the record were David Cassidy and his real-life step-mother, Shirley Jones.
 
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 in 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 every 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 22 November 🎂

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 22 November 🪦

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
 
November 22nd




NOVEMBER 22, 1718
The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.




1764 History credits James Hargreaves with inventing the first Spinning Jenny, but it had been designed and built years before by an obscure artisan from Leigh called Thomas Highs.



1946 The first Biro ballpoint pen went on sale, invented by Hungarian Laszlo Biro and manufactured by a British company.



1968 The Beatles release The White Album, a double album that contains both the soothing ‘ Blacbird’and discomfiting "Helter Skelter.."
And ,of course, Rocky Racoon.
 
1910
Arthur Knight patents steel-shafted golf clubs
1928
French pianist/composer, Maurice Ravel's orchestral work 'Bolero' 1st performed in Paris
1956
XVI Summer Olympic Games are held for the 1st time outside of Europe& America in Melbourne, Australia
1965
CBS program airs 'Miss Goodall& The Wild Chimpanzees' watched by 25 mill viewers. It brings Goodall international attention
1977
The start of regular Concorde Supersonic Passenger Jet Service between JFK airport in NYC & Europe. Air France from Paris, British Airways from London. A one way ticket from London-JFK cost $1,113
2005
Angela Merkel becomes the 1st female Chancellor of Germany,her term Nov 22, 2005- Dec 8th 2021
2017
Ratko Mladic, Serbian War General is convicted of war crimes/ genocide during the Bosian War '92-'95 sentence to life in prison in a United Nations detention center in the Hague,he's now 83
 
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 that has had 11 different actors play the lead role follows the time-travelling 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 23 November 🎂

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
Holy Roman Emperor, also known as Otto the Great

Deaths on 23 November 🪦

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.

1942
Japan bombs Australia's northern most city - Darwin
 
November 23rd

1852 Britain's first four pillar boxes came into service on the Channel Island of Jersey. The idea came from English novelist Anthony Trollope who worked for the General Post Office in London before becoming a writer.




1889The jukebox was presented for the first time at a Palais Royale, Saloon in San Francisco, California, US.





1915 ‘Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit Bag’, the famous First World War song, was published, by Felix Powell and George Asaf, who were really two brothers from Wales.




1974 - ClassicBands.com

November 23
The band Spooky Tooth split up after releasing seven albums since 1968. At various times, the group included Gary Wright (who would have solo success with "Dreamweaver" and "Love Is Alive"), Mick Jones (later with Foreigner), Chris Stainton (who went on to work with Joe Cocker), and Henry McCullough. (recruited by Paul McCartney And Wings) The British band never charted in their home country, but gained modest success in America.
 
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 in the animal rights movement. It was Sewell’s only published work.




1939 Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to become BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), which later merged with British European Airways and returned to one of the previous names, British Airways.



1971 On November 24, 1971, a man using the alias D.B. Cooper hijacked a Northwest Orient Airlines flight, extorting $200,000 before parachuting out of the plane. The case remains one of the greatest unsolved mysteries in U.S. history, with Cooper's identity and fate still unknown.





1987 Free eye tests were abolished by the Conservative government.
Shameful.



1966 - John Lennon
The Beatles got together for the first time since their return from the summer tour of the United States, ready to record a new album. The first song selected for recording was John Lennon 'Strawberry Fields Forever', which would not end up on the album, but as The Beatles ' next single. This day's session was devoted entirely to ‘Strawberry Fields Forever.’
 
Nov 24th:
1874
U.S. inventor, Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire
1932
The FBI Crime Lab officially opens in Washington, DC
1947
House of Representatives Committee of Un-Americans finds 10 Hollywood directors/ writers in contempt for refusing to reveal if they are communists.They were blacklisted by film industry
1954
1st lady, Mamie Eisenhower christens 1st plane to be designated as 'Air Force One'
1971
Dan Cooper hijacks a plane extorts $200,000 in ransom,then jumps out of the plane over Washington State,never seen again
2012
Gangham Style becomes the most watched YouTube video surpassing 808 mil views
2021
Sweden's 1st female Prime Minister, Magdelan Andersson resigns after 12 hrs when her coalition govt 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, Antonia Mirabal, were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths 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 25 November 🎂

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 25 November 🪦

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
 
November 25th


1703 –
The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.




1783 –
American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.




1823 The first pleasure pier, The Chain Pier at Brighton, opened. It closed in 1896 and was destroyed in a storm in the same year..






1952 The play, The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, opened in London, at the Ambassador's Theatre where it remained for 21 years. By Saturday 12th April 1958 it had become the longest running production of any kind in the history of British Theatre.



1967 - ClassicBands.com

November 25
"Incense and Peppermints" by The Strawberry Alarm Clock hits the top of the Billboard Pop chart. The recording was initially intended as a B-side and the lead vocal is actually that of a friend of the band, 16-year-old Greg Munford, who was just hanging around during the session. Munford was not even a regular band member, but ended up singing a tune that would become a Rock And Roll standard and sell over a million copies. Despite this success, Munford never actually joined the original group and drummer Randy Seol sang the song in concert. Although it was a huge success in America, the single didn't chart at all in the UK.

 
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.
 

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