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November 16th
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer.
1920 ~ Qantas was registered under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”.
1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist.
1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations.
1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The U.S. Army secretly admited 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.
1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor.
1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the fourth man in the "Philby affair".
2006 ~ Death of Milton Friedman, American economist.
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November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist.
1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing.
1926 ~ George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 ~ The animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, was released.
1968 ~ Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, awarded the The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco.
1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children.
2003 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
2004 ~ Fox hunting outlawed in England and Wales.
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November 20th
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer.
1924 ~ Birthday of Benoît Mandelbrot, Mathematician.
1945 ~ Nuremberg Trials began: Trials of 20 German Nazi leaders charged with war crimes during World War II started at the Nuremberg Palace of Justice.
1947 ~ The Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.
1975 ~ Death of Francisco Franco, Spanish Head of State (1936-1975).
1976 ~ Death of Trofim Lysenko, Russian biologist.
1995 ~ Diana, Princess of Wales, admitted to adultery during a television interview.
1998 ~ The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, was launched.
1998 ~ A court in Taliban-controlled Afghanistan declared accused terrorist Osama bin Laden "a man without a sin" in regards to the 1998 U.S. embassy bombings in Kenya and Tanzania.
2007 ~ Death of Ian Smith, Rhodesian politician.
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November 21st
1898 ~ Birthday of René Magritte, Belgian painter.
1953 ~ Authorities at the British Natural History Museum announced that the skull of the "Piltdown Man" was a hoax.
1964 ~ Verrazano Narrows Bridge opened.
1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established.
1976 ~ Birthday of Dasha, Czech Porn actress.
1979 ~ The U.S. Embassy in Islamabad, Pakistan was attacked by a mob and razed.
1980 ~ Lake Peigneur drained into an underlying salt deposit.
1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
1995 ~ Toy Story was released as the first feature-length film created using only computer-generated imagery.
1996 ~ Death of Abdus Salam, awarded one third of the Nobel Prize in Physics 1979.
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Originally Posted by jseal
1985 ~ U.S. Navy intelligence analyst Jonathan Pollard was arrested for giving Israel classified information on Arab nations and was eventually sentenced to life in prison.
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Just think, if he'd been a child molester, he probably would already be released and living in a house near you living on a government allowance.  |
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November 22nd
1718 ~ English pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed in battle off the coast of Virginia.
1890 ~ Birthday of Charles de Gaulle, General, President of France.
1963 ~ Death of C. S. Lewis, Author.
1963 ~ Death of Aldous Huxley, Author. (Brave New World)
1963 ~ President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
1968 ~ The Beatles released The White Album.
1977 ~ British Airways began London to New York City supersonic Concorde service.
1981 ~ Death of Hans Adolf Krebs, German physician and biochemist, awarded one half The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1953.
1990 ~ UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned.
2006 ~ Death of Pat Dobson, part of the Orioles' "Big Four" pitching staff along with Dave McNally, Mike Cuellar, and Jim Palmer.
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UGA VII died this week though I am not an alum I am a fan
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