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November 8th
1674 ~ Death of John Milton, English poet.
1847 ~ Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist. 1884 ~ Birthday of Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist. 1895 ~ Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. 1942 ~ World War II: Operation Torch – U.S. and UK forces landed in French North Africa. 1950 ~ The first dog fight between jet aircraft. 1957 ~ The UK conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test. 1986 ~ Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician. 1987 ~ An IRA bomb killed 11 people during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen, County Fermanagh. 2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, requiring Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". (requires Adobe Acrobat) |
November 9th
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1921 ~ Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. 1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer. 1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion. 1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began. 1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet. 1953 ~ Death of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia. 1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts. 1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician. 1989 ~ Fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany. |
November 10th
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?" 1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47. 1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor. 1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States. 1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy. 1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public. 1983 ~ Birthday of Sammie Rhodes, Porn Actress. 1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, writer and human rights activist. 2007 ~ Death of Norman Mailer, American author. |
November 11th
1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne.
1918 ~ Death of Henry Gunther, the last American to die in World War I. 1918 ~ The end of World War I: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. 1922 ~ Birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, American novelist. 1938 ~ Death of Mary Mallon, aka "Typhoid Mary", carrier of the typhoid disease. 1965 ~ Rhodesia proclaimed its independence from Britain. 1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests. 2000 ~ A cable car full of skiers and snowboarders, many of them children, caught fire in Austria, killing 155 people. 2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority. 2005 ~ Death of Peter Drucker, Management Theorist. |
November 12th
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer.
1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1942 ~ The Battle of Guadalcanal began. 1944 ~ The German battleship Tirpitz was sunk off the coast of Norway. 1954 ~ Ellis Island closed. 1961 ~ Birthday of Nadia Comăneci, Romanian gymnast. 1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident. 1982 ~ Birthday of Anne Hathaway, Actress. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops. |
November 13th
1850 ~ Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist.
1868 ~ Death of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer. 1940 ~ The animated film Fantasia was released. 1955 ~ Birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, American actress. 1956 ~ U.S. Supreme Court declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal. 1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial is dedicated. 1985 ~ A mudslide triggered by the Nevado del Ruiz volcano buried the city of Armero, Colombia, killing some 23,000 people. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first known World Wide Web page. 1998 ~ President Bill Clinton agreed to pay Paula Jones $850,000, ending the four-year legal battle over her sexual harassment lawsuit that spurred impeachment proceedings against him. Clinton did not admit guilt or apologize. 2002 ~ Saddam Hussein's government agreed to the return of international weapons inspectors to Iraq. |
November 14th
1719 ~ Birthday of Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
1832 ~ Death of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer. 1851 ~ Herman Melville's novel “Moby-Dick” was first published in the U.S. 1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began radio service in the UK. 1948 ~ Birthday of Charles, Prince of Wales. 1954 ~ Birthday of Condoleezza Rice, U.S. Secretary of State. 1968 ~ Birthday of Janine Lindemulder, Porn Actress. 1972 ~ The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark for the first time. 1991 ~ Indictments handed down against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 2001 ~ Northern Alliance fighters entered Kabul. |
November 15th
1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter.
1920 ~ First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva. 1940 ~ The Luftwaffe destroyed most of the English city of Coventry during World War II. 1960 ~ The Polaris missile became operational on the USS George Washington (SSBN-598). 1963 ~ Death of Fritz Reiner, Hungarian conductor. 1969 ~ The Soviet submarine K-19 collided with the American submarine USS Gato. 1971 ~ Intel released the first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 1978 ~ Death of Margaret Mead, American anthropologist. 1996 ~ Death of Alger Hiss, American government official & convicted spy. 1998 ~ Death of Stokely Carmichael, American Black Power activist. |
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. |
November 17th
1871 ~ The National Rifle Association was granted a charter by the state of New York.
1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1917 ~ Death of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1944 ~ Birthday of Danny DeVito, American actor. 1960 ~ Birthday of RuPaul, American drag entertainer. 1968 ~ Birthday of Amber Michaels, German Porn Actress. 1970 ~ In one of the greatest successes of the Soviet lunar exploration program, The USSR landed an unmanned, remote-controlled vehicle on the moon, the Lunokhod 1. 1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse. 1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 68 tourists at Luxor, Egypt. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was sworn in as the 38th governor of California. |
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. |
November 19th
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer.
1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer. 1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the military cemetery dedication ceremony in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. 1884 ~ Birthday of José Raúl Capablanca, Cuban Chess Grand Master. 1917 ~ Birthday of Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister of India. 1941 ~ World War II: The Royal Australian Navy cruiser HMAS Sydney and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran sank each other off the coast of Western Australia. 1969 ~ The second Apollo mission, Apollo 12, landed on the Moon – in “the Ocean of Storms”. 1977 ~ Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel and spoke before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement. 1990 ~ Pop group Milli Vanilli were stripped of their Grammy Award because they did not sing at all on the "Girl You Know It’s True" album. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against President Clinton. |
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. |
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. |
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. 1980 ~ Death of Mae West, Actress and writer. 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. |
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