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November 2nd
1739 ~ Birthday of Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Composer.
1755 ~ Birthday of Marie Antoinette, Queen of France. 1815 ~ Birthday of George Boole, Mathematician & Philosopher. 1817 ~ The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opened in Montreal, Quebec. 1920 ~ KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania started broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920. 1930 ~ Haile Selassie was crowned emperor of Ethiopia. 1950 ~ Death of George Bernard Shaw, Playwright. 1960 ~ Penguin Books was found not guilty of obscenity in the “Lady Chatterley's Lover” case. 1988 ~ The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT. 2004 ~ U.S. Presidential Election between Senator John Kerry and President George W. Bush. |
November 3rd
1801 ~ Birthday of Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer.
1816 ~ Birthday of Jubal Early, Confederate General. 1838 ~ The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper was founded. 1903 ~ Panama proclaimed itself independent from Colombia. 1918 ~ Poland declared its independence from Russia. 1954 ~ The first in the Godzilla series of films was released in Japan. 1954 ~ Death of Henri Matisse, French artist. 1957 ~ Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter space - a dog named Laika. 1986 ~ Iran-Contra Affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reported that the United States had been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. 1993 ~ Death of Leon Theremin, Russian inventor. |
November 4th
1847 ~ Death of Felix Mendelssohn, German composer.
1869 ~ The first issue of scientific journal Nature was published. 1922 ~ In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men found the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings. 1924 ~ Death of Gabriel Fauré, French composer. 1942 ~ World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel led his forces on a five-month retreat. 1946 ~ Birthday of Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States. 1948 ~ T.S. Eliot won the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1956 ~ Soviet troops invaded Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands were killed, more are wounded and nearly a quarter million leave the country. 1979 ~ Iran hostage crisis began: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invaded the United States embassy in Tehran and took 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). 1995 ~ The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, was assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv. |
November 5th
1605 ~ Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, found Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building.
1872 ~ Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time (she was later fined $100). 1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist. 1914 ~ United Kingdom annexed Cyprus, and with France declared war on the Ottoman Empire. 1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. 1977 ~ Death of Guy Lombardo, Conductor. 1979 ~ Death of Al Capp, Cartoonist. 1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist. 1990 ~ Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, was shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. 1999 ~ Microsoft antitrust case: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued a preliminary ruling that softwaremaker Microsoft had "monopoly power". |
November 6th
1528 ~ Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca became the first known European to set foot on Texas.
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. 1861 ~ Birthday of James Naismith, inventor of basketball. 1861 ~ Jefferson Davis was elected president of the Confederate States of America. 1893 ~ Death of Peter Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Composer. 1913 ~ Mahatma Gandhi was arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa. 1962 ~ The United Nations General Assembly passed a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and called for all member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation. 1999 ~ Australians voted to keep the British queen as their head of state. 2000 ~ Death of L. Sprague De Camp, Science Fiction writer. |
November 7th
1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, Chemist, Physicist, recipient of two Nobel Prizes. 1874 ~ A cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly, was published which is considered the first use of an elephant as a symbol for the United States Republican Party. 1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster and popularizer of hypermodernism in chess. 1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature. 1917 ~ Russian Revolution began: In Russia, Bolshevik leader Vladimir Lenin, with the assistance of Bolshevik military leader and philosopher Leon Trotsky, led his revolutionaries in a nearly bloodless coup d'état against the Provisional Government. 1922 ~ Birthday of Al Hirt, Musician. 1926 ~ Birthday of Dame Joan Sutherland, Opera singer. 1940 ~ In Washington, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm, four months after the bridge's completion.. 1980 ~ Death of Steve McQueen, Actor. |
November 8th
1519 ~ Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.
1900 ~ Death of John Milton, English poet. 1793 ~ In Paris, the French Revolutionary government opened the Louvre to the public as a museum. 1836 ~ Birthday of Milton Bradley, manufacturer, lithographer, game maker. 1847 ~ Birthday of Bram Stoker, Irish novelist. 1884 ~ Birthday of Hermann Rorschach, psychiatrist. 1895 ~ While experimenting with electricity Wilhelm Röntgen discovered x-rays. 1942 ~ World War II: Operation Torch - United States and United Kingdom forces landed in French North Africa. 1986 ~ Death of Vyacheslav Molotov, Soviet politician. 2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously approved a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences". |
November 9th
1541 ~ Queen Catherine Howard confined in London Tower.
1731 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Banneker, American scientist. 1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim. 1918 ~ Germany is proclaimed a Republic. Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated and choose to live in exile in the Netherlands as a result of the German Revolution. 1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer. 1938 ~ Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, began. 1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, British poet and author 1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by a series of blackouts lasting up to 13 1/2 hours. 1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician. 1989 ~ Cold War: Communist-controlled East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall and allowed its citizens to freely travel to West Germany for the first time since 1961. |
November 10th
1483 ~ Birthday of Martin Luther, a leader of the Protestant Reformation.
1668 ~ Birthday of François Couperin, French composer. 1775 ~ American Revolutionary War: The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines (later renamed the United States Marine Corps) to serve as landing troops for the recently created Continental Navy. 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 Timofeevich Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47. 1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor. 1938 ~ Death of Mustafa Kemal Ataturk, founder of Turkey. 1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States. 1975 ~ The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy. 2084 ~ A transit of Earth from Mars will be visible to hypothetical future Mars colonists. |
November 11th
1634 ~ Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passed "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery" (anal sex).
1675 ~ Gottfried Leibniz demonstrated integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the y=x function. 1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist. 1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne. 1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general. 1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, American government official, spy. 1918 ~ World War I ends: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside of Compiègne in France. 1922 ~ Birthday of Kurt Vonnegut, Jr., Novelist. 1992 ~ The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests. 2004 ~ Death of Yasser Arafat, President of the Palestinian Authority. |
November 12th
1035 ~ Death of Canute the Great.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1918 ~ Austria became a republic. 1927 ~ Leon Trotsky was expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin with undisputed control of the Soviet Union. 1944 ~ World War II: The Royal Air Force launched one of the more successful precision bombing attacks of war and sunk the German battleship Tirpitz off the coast of Norway. 1969 ~ Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre - Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh broke the My Lai story. 1970 ~ The Oregon Highway Division attempted to destroy a rotting beached Grey whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident. (scroll to the bottom) 1982 ~ In the Soviet Union, Yuri Andropov was selected to become the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee, succeeding the late Leonid I. Brezhnev. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. |
November 13th
354 ~ Birthday of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Theologian.
1460 ~ Death of Henry the Navigator, Patron of African exploration. 1775 ~ American Revolutionary War: Patriot revolutionary forces under Col. Ethan Allen captured Montreal from British General Guy Carleton. 1850 ~ Birthday of Robert Louis Stevenson, Novelist. 1868 ~ Death of Gioacchino Rossini, Composer. 1940 ~ The animated feature-length film Fantasia was released. 1955 ~ Birthday of Whoopi Goldberg, Entertainer. 1960 ~ Sammy Davis, Jr. married Swedish actress May Britt. Interracial marriage is still illegal in 31 US states out of 50. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee wrote the first known World Wide Web page. 2002 ~ Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agreed to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441. |
November 14th
1716 ~ Death of Gottfried Leibniz, Philosopher & Mathematician.
1719 ~ Birthday of Leopold Mozart, Austrian musician, father of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. 1832 ~ Death of Charles Carroll of Carrollton, Declaration of Independence signer, US Senator. 1851 ~ Herman Melville's novel “Moby-Dick” was first published. 1840 ~ Birthday of Claude Monet, French impressionist painter. 1900 ~ Birthday of Aaron Copland, Composer. 1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began radio service in the United Kingdom. 1940 ~ World War II: In England, the city of Coventry was heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. 1991 ~ American and British authorities announced indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 2001 ~ War on Terror: Northern Alliance fighters took over the capital Kabul. |
November 15th
1630 ~ Death of Johannes Kepler, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
1787 ~ Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer. 1854 ~ In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, was given the needed royal concession by the Said. 1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter. 1891 ~ Birthday of Erwin Rommel, German field marshal. 1942 ~ Birthday of Daniel Barenboim, Pianist & Conductor. 1943 ~ German SS leader Heinrich Himmler ordered that Gypsies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps." 1969 ~ Vietnam War: In Washington, DC, 250,000-500,000 protesters staged a peaceful demonstration against the war. 1971 ~ Intel released the world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 1998 ~ Iraqi climbdown averted air strikes: American and British bombers were on their way to Baghdad when they were called off after Iraq's letter was delivered to the United Nations Security Council. "Now Iraq must live up to its obligations," President Bill Clinton Clinton said. |
November 16th
1532 ~ Francisco Pizarro and his men captured Incan Emperor Atahualpa and his nobles.
1849 ~ A Russian court sentenced Fyodor Dostoevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group: his execution is canceled at the last minute. 1885 ~ Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba", Louis Riel executed for high treason. 1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer 1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist. 1940 ~ World War II: In response to the Luftwaffe leveling Coventry two days before, the Royal Air Force bombed Hamburg. 1945 ~ Cold War: The United States controversially imported 88 German scientists to help in the development of rocket technology. 1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor. 1965 ~ The Soviet Union launched the Venera 3 space probe toward Venus, the first spacecraft to reach the surface of another planet. 2004 ~ Vivendi Universal and Valve Software released Half-Life 2, the sequel to the groundbreaking hit PC game Half-Life. |
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