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November 5th
1605 ~ A plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar below the building.
1872 ~ Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time. She was fined $100 for the privilege. 1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist. 1911 ~ Birthday of Roy Rogers, American actor. 1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1942 ~ The Second Battle of El Alamein was won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt. 1977 ~ Birthday of Brittney Skye, Porn actress. 1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan". 1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist. 1999 ~ Federal Judge Thomas Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly, saying the software giant's aggressive actions were ''stifling innovation'' and hurting consumers. |
November 6th
1789 ~ Pope Pius VI appointed Father John Carroll as the first Roman Catholic bishop in the United States.
1854 ~ Birthday of John Philip Sousa, composer of the official march of the U.S., The Stars and Stripes Forever 1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1869 ~ Rutgers University defeated Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game. 1893 ~ Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer. 1913 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1962 ~ The UN General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies[/URL] and called for all member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1975 ~ Birthday of Anastasia Blue, former Porn Actress. 1999 ~ Australians voted to keep the British queen as their head of state. 2000 ~ Death of L. Sprague De Camp, Science Fiction writer. |
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911. 1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster. 1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957. 1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky. 1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" at Baltimore, Maryland. 1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm. 1980 ~ Death of Steve McQueen, Actor. 1986 ~ Birthday of Yurizan Beltran, Porn Actress. 1989 ~ Protests force the resignation of East Germany’s Communist government. |
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". |
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, Nigerian 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. 1976 ~ Death of Alexander Calder, Artist. 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. |
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. 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. 2011 ~ jseal first posted "Strange Days" from deep in the wilds of Broad Creek Memorial Scout Reservation! Ah, the wonders of wireless technology! I used to have to prepare these pages ahead of time and email them to dicksbro. :) |
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, former U.S. Secretary of State. 1968 ~ Birthday of Janine Lindemulder, Porn Actress. 1972 ~ The Dow Jones industrial average closed above the 1,000 mark yesterday 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). 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. 2006 ~ Al Jazeera English worldwide launch. |
November 16th
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
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. 1992 ~ The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. |
November 17th
1871 ~ The National Rifle Association was granted a charter by the state of New York.
1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician. 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. 1979 ~ Death of John Glascock, British bassist (Jethro Tull). 1997 ~ An Islamic extremist group killed 60 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. |
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