Today in History


Births on 26 November 🎂

1972 – Arjun Rampal
Indian actor

1939 – Tina Turner
American singer, dancer, and 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 26 November 🪦

1952 – Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, explorer

1943 – Edward O'Hare
American pilot, Medal of Honour recipient

1883 – Sojourner Truth
American activist

1855 – Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet

1504 – Isabella I of Castile
Queen of Castile, Queen of Aragon
 

November 26th
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.





1832 - Public streetcar service began in New York City.



1867 - J.B. Sutherland patented the refrigerated railroad car.




1867 Mrs. Lily Maxwell of Manchester became the first ever woman to vote in a British election, due to a mistake in the electoral register. She had to be escorted to the polling station by a bodyguard to protect her from those opposed to women’s suffrage.




1917 - The National Hockey League was officially formed in Montreal, Canada.





1988 Mrs. Rita Lockett of Torquay, Devon, spent £10,000 to repeat her daughter’s wedding two months after the event, because she did not like the video. The couple went through the reception with all 200 wedding guests wearing the same outfits and having to listen to the same speeches, this time with a professional video crew on hand.





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November 26
Bill Haley plays for Britain's Queen Elizabeth II at the Royal Command Performance during his final tour of the UK. After the show, Her Majesty confided in Haley, "You know, we grew up with you."
 
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November 27thOn This Day - 27th November27th November is Lancashire Day - to commemorate the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament, to attend the Model Parliament of King Edward I..







1826British pharmacist John Walker invented the matchstick by accident.Walker was experimenting with flammable pastes to use in guns. He created the match when the wooden tool he used to mix the substances in his paste scraped and caught fire. Walker never patented the matchstick.



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.


1924: The First Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade Is Held



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

1967 – The Beatles released their double EP ‘Magical Mystery Tour’ in the US which also served as the soundtrack to their TV film of the same name.

1969 – The Rolling Stones performed at Madison Square Garden in New York City. The show was recorded and parts of it were included in the band’s live album ‘Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out’ which became a chart-topper in the UK.
 

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 recognised by Georgia and was followed by the South Ossetia War. Only a few countries, including Russia and Venezuela, recognise it as a sovereign country.

1975 – East Timor's 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, magnetised neutron 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 World War II.
 
Births on 28 November 🎂

1962 – Jon Stewart
American comedian, actor, and television host

1820 – Friedrich Engels
German philosopher

1628 – John Bunyan
English preacher, author

1489 – Margaret Tudor
English wife of James IV of Scotland

1118 – Manuel I Komnenos
Byzantine Emperor

Deaths on 28 November 🪦

2010 – Leslie Nielsen
Canadian/American actor

1968 – Enid Blyton
English author

1954 – Enrico Fermi
Italian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1859 – Washington Irving
American historian, author

1680 – Gian Lorenzo Bernini
Italian sculptor, painter
 
November 28th

1520 - On this day in history, Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait. The strait was named after him. He was the first European to sail the Pacific from the east.



1660 At Gresham College in Central London, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray founded what was later known as the Royal Society, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in science.






1814 - The Times in London is printed for the first time by automatic, steam-powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.





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November 28
Elton John was joined on stage by John Lennon at Elton's Madison Square Garden concert. They performed three numbers together, "Whatever Gets You Through the Night", "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds" and "I Saw Her Standing There". Lennon had promised the flamboyant rocker that he would make a stage appearance with him if his "Whatever Gets You Through the Night" became a #1 hit, which it did two weeks earlier. Later that same night, Lennon and his estranged wife Yoko Ono reconciled backstage after being separated for a year.
 
November 28th

1781– Zong Massacre: The British slave ship Zong’s crew murdered 133 Africans, a case that became pivotal in the British abolitionist movement.




On November 29, 1864,one of the darkest chapters in American history unfolded when a Colorado militia led by Colonel John M. Chivington attacked a peaceful encampment of Cheyenne and Arapaho people at Sand Creek, Colorado. The assault, carried out under a flag of truce, resulted in the deaths of over 230 Native Americans, including many women and children. This event is widely recognized as a brutal example of the violence inflicted on Indigenous peoples during westward expansion.



1907 British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War. A portrait hangs in the Church of St. Margaret in East Wellow, Hampshire, the burial place of the Nightingale family.




1934 In Britain, the first live radio broadcast of a royal wedding - the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina at Westminster Abbey in London.



1963 The Beatles record I Want To Hold Your Hand was released, with advance orders of one million in the UK alone.




1965 Housewife Mary Whitehouse began her Clean Up TV Campaign by setting up the National Viewers and Listeners' Association to tackle 'bad taste and irresponsibility'.
 
Nov 29th:
1910
1st U.S. patent for traffic light system awarded to Chicago engineer, Ernest Sirrine
1924
NHL's Montreal Forum home to Montreal Canadiens is opens in Montreal,Quebec
1945
movie' The Lost Weekend' based on novel by Charles R. Jackson directed by Billy Wilder is released. The story of an unsuccessful writer{Ray Milland} who battles the bottle Others in cast, Jane Wyman, Howard de Silva,Frank Fayden, Mary Young. The movie won 4 Oscars, picture/ director, actor/ screenplay
1959
at the 2nd Grammy awards, winners Bobby Darin for Record of the Year' Mack The Knife& Best New Artist, Jimmy Driftwood for Song of the Year' The Battle of New Orleans', Frank Sinatra for album of yr' Come Dance With Me'& Best Male Vocal' Performance,Ella Fitzgerald'But Not For Me' Best Female Vocal Performance
1975
U.S. Pres Gerald Ford signs Education for All Handicapped Children Act which requires all states to provide free education for children with disabilities
2017
Matt Lauer, co host of NBC's 'Today Show' is fired after allegations of sexual misconduct
 
30th November
1878 - Advance Australia Fair - Australia's National Anthem was first sung publicly at the Highland Society of NSW’s annual Scottish concert in the Protestant Hall, Sydney.

1912 - The state of New South Wales banned the screening of any films about bushrangers.
The move was done as police and public moralisers fretted about the booming popularity of the genre of films.
The regulation banned "scenes such as would have a demoralising effect on young persons; successful crime, such as bushranging, robberies, or other acts of lawlessness which might reasonably be considered as having an injurious influence on youthful minds.
 
November 30th1016 – Cnut the Great Claims the English Throne


1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut without the moustache and cane in 'Making a Living'.

1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (Engine No. 4472) became the first to officially exceed 100mph. She recently underwent went major restoration at the National Railway Museum in York. There was a series of test runs in January 2016 on the East Lancashire Railway, ahead of an official launch at King’s Cross railway station in London.

1936 The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. The spectacular blaze was seen miles away. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, it was originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851.



1969 – The Rolling Stones played the final concert of their US tour in Fort Worth, Texas, closing an influential chapter of live rock performance.



1969 – The Monkees gave their last live concert (until 1986) on this day, marking the end of an era for the popular pop-rock group.




1970 – George Harrison released the triple album All Things Must Pass (UK release on Nov. 30), a landmark post-Beatles solo work that topped charts worldwide.
 
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1868 The opening of London's Smithfield meat market.




1887 Beeton’s Christmas Annual went on sale, with 'A Study in Scarlet' by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, which first introduced the detective, Sherlock Holmes.









1919 – Nancy Astor becomes to 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.





1972 Martha and the Vandellas give their farewell performance in Detroit, Michigan.
 
1st December

1942 The coalition British Government unveiled plans for a welfare state offering care to all from the cradle to the grave. The Beveridge report proposed a far-reaching series of changes designed to provide a financial safety net to ensure a "freedom from want".

1955 Rosa Parks was arrested by police in Montgomery, Alabama, after refusing to give up her seat on the bus to a white person.

1973 David Ben-Gurion, a founder of the Israeli state and its first prime minister, died aged 87.

1990 Construction workers drilled through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France.
The momentous breakthrough linked the UK to Europe for the first time since the Ice Age, about 8,000 years ago.
 
1929
U.S. toy salesman,Edwin S. Lowe invents the game' Bingo'
1940
4 sets of brothers play in one NHL game.The Chicago Blackhawks{ Bob&Bill Carse} beat NY Rangers{Lynn&Muzz Patrick} 4-1
1955
civil rights activist, Rosa Parks is arrested in Montgomery,Alabama refusing to move to the back of the bus& give up her seat to a white passenger
1971
John Lennon&Yoko Ono release single' Happy Christmas{War is Over} in the U.S. At first it was a modest commerical success over the yrs has become a Christmas classic
1998
Exxon announced its $73.7 billion U.S. deal to buy Mobil creating Exxon Mobil.Its the world's largest investor owned oil company
 
December 2nd
1697 The rebuilt St Paul’s Cathedral, the work of Sir Christopher Wren, was opened. The previous cathedral had been destroyed in the Great Fire of London in 1666.


1804 – Napoleon Bonaparte Crowns Himself Emperor of the FrenchIn a grand ceremony at Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris on December 2, 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor of the French. This event marked the rise of the First French Empire and signaled the end of the French Republic that had emerged from the Revolution.






1929 Britain’s first 22 public telephone boxes came into service. They were designed by Giles Gilbert Scott and installed as part of a new scheme for policing and were made available for general use in the Barnes, Kew and Richmond Districts. The red K6 phone boxes have become a British icon and many can be found in tourist cities.
Not too many left now.




1966 The Mini skirt, the symbol of the Swinging Sixties, was banned from the Houses of Parliament at Westminster.




1973 - The Who and some companions were jailed overnight for $6,000 worth of destruction they imposed on a hotel room after a show.
 
This day in History, December 3rd

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduced potatoes to England from Colombia

1854 Eureka Stockade
In what is claimed by many to be the birth of Australian democracy, more than 20 gold miners at Ballarat, Victoria, are killed by state troopers in an uprising over mining licences

1967 South African surgeon Dr Christiaan Barnard performs the world's first human-to-human heart transplant, on Louis Washkansky, at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town; he survives for 18 days

1984 Bhopal disaster
A Union Carbide pesticide plant leaks 45 tons of methyl isocyanate and other toxic compounds in Bhopal, India, officially killing 2,259 - other estimates are as high as 16,000 (including later deaths) and over half a million injured

1989, Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and US President George H. W. Bush declared the Cold War over
 
December 3rd

1586 Sir Thomas Herriot introduces potatoes to England from Colombia




1868 Gladstone became Prime Minister for the first time. He won office for three more terms.



1926 In an episode as puzzling and intriguing as any in her many novels, Agatha Christie disappeared from her Surrey home and was discovered on the 14th December staying under an assumed name at the Old Swan Hotel, Harrogate. She said she had no recollection of how she came to be in Yorkshire.



1936 The Royal Family cancelled all engagements as news broke of Edward VIII's determination to marry divorcee Wallis Simpson.



1944 Britain 'stood down' the Home Guard - formed in 1939 to defend Britain from invasion by Germany. They were officially disbanded in December 1945.



1961 The whole of south East England was plunged into darkness for two hours, due to an error by an electrician.






1908 Elgars 1st Symphony in A performed by the Hallé Orchestra conducted by Hans Richter, premieres in Manchester, England
 
1926
British mystery writer, Agatha Christie disappears for 11 days
1947
stage drama production of Tennesee Williiams' play'A Streetcar Named Desire' starring Jessica Tandy, Kim Hunter, Marlon Brando directed by Elia Kazan opens in NYC,runs for 855 performances. Tandy won Tony award for Best Actress in a play, Williams won Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The movie version came out in '51 with Hunter&Brando reprising their roles
1968
NBC airs 'Elvis Presley's Comeback Special, his 1st live performance in 7 yrs. It relaunched his singing career
1984
Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India releases 45 tons of toxic compounds killing 2,259 people
2019
the 70th anniv of NATO with a gathering of world leaders in London. Queen Elizabeth II has a reception in Buckingham Palace
 
On This Day In History, December 4th

On This Day In History, December 4th

1534 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent occupies Baghdad

1563 Council of Trent holds its last session after 18 years, the last ecumenical council for more than 300 years

1619 Thirty-eight colonists from Berkeley Parish, England, disembark in Virginia and give thanks to God, considered by many the first Thanksgiving in the Americas

1791 Britain's "The Observer" is first published and becomes the world's oldest Sunday newspaper

1829 Britain outlaws "suttee" in India, a Hindu practice where a widow burns herself to death on her husband's funeral pyre

1918 US President Woodrow Wilson sails for the Versailles Peace Conference in France
 
December 4th







1798 British Prime Minister William Pitt the Younger announced the introduction of Income Tax to help finance the war against France.



1872 Crew from the British brigantine Die Gratia boarded a deserted ship drifting in mid Atlantic. The captain's table was set for a meal aboard the US ship Marie Celeste but the Captain, crew and passengers were all missing.

On the fateful evening of December 4, 1956, an unassuming recording studio in Memphis, Tennessee, bore witness to a historic gathering of musicians that would only ever happen once. Sun Studio, under the proprietorship of the visionary Sam Phillips, became the unexpected stage for an impromptu jam session featuring four iconic figures: Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins, and Johnny Cash. Individually, these musicians had already etched their names into the burgeoning rock and roll scene, but this unplanned convergence would elevate their status to legendary proportions.The Million Dollar Quartet was born.




2014 Knutsford council, in Cheshire, approved plans to widen the town's pavements. 220 years previously, spinster Lady Jane Stanley had paid for narrow pavements to be laid in the town, to prevent lovers from strolling arm in arm.
 
December 5th




1766 – Christie's hold their first sale
Art auction house Christie's founder James Christie made his first art sale.



1905 The roof of Charing Cross Railway Station in London collapsed, killing five people.




1928 England beat Australia by a record 675 runs in the Test at Brisbane.





1958 Prime Minister Harold Macmillan opened the Preston bypass in Lancashire. It was the first stretch of motorway in Britain and is now part of the M6 and M55 motorways.




1976The journalist Phil Sutcliffe takes Stewart Copeland of the band Curved Air to see a Newcastle band called Last Exit. Sutcliffe introduces Copeland to Last Exit's bass player, Sting. A few months later, they form The Police .
 
1776
The 1st U.S. academic honor society, Phi Beta Kappa forms at William&Mary College in Williamsburg, VA
1854
Aaron Allen in Boston,Mass patents folding theatre chair
1952
Great Smog in London, England which lasted 4 days with smog,no winds& cold temps pollution from coal smoke kills over 8,000 people
1973
Apple Records releases Paul McCartney& Wings album'Band On The Run' in U.S. a commerical hit.The album hits #1 in 7 countries
2006
Audrey Hepburn's Givenchy black dress she wore in movie'Breakfast at Tiffany's is auctioned off for charity at Christie's in London sold for a record $923,187
 
December 6th

it is The Feast day of Nicholas, popularly known as Santa Claus. He is the patron saint of children. The name Santa Claus is a phonetic alteration from the German Sankt Niklaus and the Dutch Sinterklaas.






On December 6, 1865, the United States took one of its most defining steps toward justice with the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment to the Constitution. This historic act formally abolished slavery, freeing millions of people from bondage and marking the culmination of centuries of struggle and sacrifice. The amendment declared that "neither slavery nor involuntary servitude… shall exist within the United States," turning the moral victory of the Civil War into law.



1897 The world's first fleet of motorised taxi cabs started operating in London.




1916 David Lloyd George became Prime Minister. He was born in Chorlton-on-Medlock, near Manchester, to Welsh parents, but the tiny village of Llanystumdwy was his childhood home. Llanystumdwy has one of the very few museums in Britain which celebrates the life of a former Prime Minister.



1969: The Rolling Stones headlined the ill-fated Altamont Free Concert in California. The outdoor festival became infamous when a fan was fatally stabbed in the crowd. (This event was later featured in the documentary “Gimme Shelter.”)
 
December 7th1642 The Battle of Tadcaster took place during the First English Civil War when the Earl of Newport's Royalist force attacked Lord Fairfax's Parliamentarian garrison at Tadcaster, in Yorkshire. After the town had been vacated by the Parliamentarians, Newcastle advanced his forces, subsequently garrisoning Pontefract Castle and a number of other towns in the area, cutting Fairfax off from the West Riding of Yorkshire.

1732 The first Covent Garden Opera House, then called the Theatre Royal, opened in London to an elite crowd, for a performance of John Gay's The Beggar's Opera, a tribute to Gay, who had died three days previously.



1817 The death of William Bligh, rear-Admiral who was captain of the HMS Bounty at the time of the mutiny.





1983 A cat climbed to a height of 160ft up an industrial chimney, holding up the work of Lancashire's chief steeplejack and chimney demolisher Fred Dibnah.

 

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