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November 11th
1821 ~ Birthday of Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Russian novelist.
1855 ~ Death of Søren Kierkegaard, Danish philosopher. 1880 ~ Australian bushranger and bank robber Ned Kelly was hung in Melbourne. 1885 ~ Birthday of George Patton, American general. 1895 ~ Birthday of Lucky Luciano, American gangster. 1904 ~ Birthday of Alger Hiss, American spy. 1918 ~ World War I ends: Germany signed an armistice agreement with the Allies. 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 King Canute.
1833 ~ Birthday of Alexander Borodin, Russian composer. 1840 ~ Birthday of Auguste Rodin, French sculptor. 1944 ~ World War II: The German battleship Tirpitz sunk off the coast of Norway. 1954 ~ Ellis Island closes. 1955 ~ Hovercraft design patented by British engineer Christopher Cockerell. 1970 ~ The famous exploding whale incident. 1982 ~ Yuri Andropov became the general secretary of the Soviet Communist Party's Central Committee. 1990 ~ Tim Berners-Lee published a formal proposal for the World Wide Web. 2001 ~ Taliban forces abandoned Kabul ahead of advancing Northern Alliance troops. |
November 13th
354 ~ Birthday of Saint Augustine of Hippo, Theologian.
1460 ~ Death of Henry the Navigator, Patron of African exploration. 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, Entertainer. 1956 ~ U.S. Supreme Court declared Alabama laws requiring segregated buses illegal. 1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. was dedicated. 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. 1840 ~ Birthday of Claude Monet, French impressionist painter. 1851 ~ Herman Melville's novel Moby-Dick was first published in the U.S. 1900 ~ Birthday of Aaron Copland, Composer. 1922 ~ The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) began radio service in the United Kingdom. 1991 ~ Indictments handed down against two Libyan intelligence officials in connection with the downing of the Pan Am Flight 103. 1993 ~ Michael Jackson entered a drug rehabilitation program to treat an addiction to painkillers. 2001 ~ Northern Alliance fighters entered Kabul. |
November 15th
1630 ~ Death of Johannes Kepler, astrologer, astronomer and mathematician.
1787 ~ Death of Christoph Willibald Gluck, Composer. 1887 ~ Birthday of Georgia O'Keeffe, Painter. 1891 ~ Birthday of Erwin Rommel, German Field Marshal. 1920 ~ First assembly of the League of Nations was held in Geneva. 1942 ~ Birthday of Daniel Barenboim, Pianist & Conductor. 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 world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004. 2001 ~ The Xbox video game console launched in North America. |
November 16th
1532 ~ Francisco Pizarro and his men captured Incan Emperor Atahualpa.
1849 ~ Fyodor Dostoevsky sentenced to death; his execution was canceled at the last minute. 1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and Father of Manitoba, executed for high treason. 1895 ~ Birthday of Paul Hindemith, Composer. 1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist. 1945 ~ Cold War: The U.S. 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. 1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the "fourth man" in the Philby affair. 2004 ~ Vivendi Universal and Valve Software released Half-Life 2, the sequel to the groundbreaking hit PC game Half-Life. |
November 17th
1777 ~ Articles of Confederation submitted to the states for ratification.
1790 ~ Birthday of August Ferdinand Möbius, Mathematician. 1869 ~ The Suez Canal was opened. 1887 ~ Birthday of Field Marshal Bernard Montgomery. 1917 ~ Death of Auguste Rodin, Sculptor. 1929 ~ Death of Herman Hollerith, Statistician. 1959 ~ Death of Heitor Villa-Lobos, Brazilian Composer. 1970 ~ Douglas Engelbart received a patent for the first computer mouse. 1997 ~ Egyptian militants killed 60 tourists at Luxor. 2003 ~ Arnold Schwarzenegger was inaugurated Governor of California. |
November 18th
1421 ~ A seawall at the Zuider Zee dike broke, flooding 72 villages and killing about 10,000 people in the Netherlands.
1626 ~ St. Peter's Basilica was consecrated. 1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer. 1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist. 1883 ~ American and Canadian railroads instituted four standard continental time zones. 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. 1928 ~ Release of Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, featuring the Mickey and Minnie Mouse. 1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children. 1991 ~ Muslim kidnappers in Lebanon free Anglican Church envoys Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland. 2002 ~ UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq. |
November 19th
1493 ~ Christopher Columbus became the first European to go ashore on what would become Puerto Rico.
1805 ~ Birthday of Ferdinand de Lesseps, Suez Canal engineer. 1828 ~ Death of Franz Schubert, Austrian Composer. 1863 ~ U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers 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. 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 ~ Milli Vanilli was stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the “Girl You Know It’s True” album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals. 1998 ~ Lewinsky scandal: The U.S. House of Representatives' Judiciary Committee began impeachment hearings against US President Bill Clinton. |
November 20th
1820 ~ An 80-ton sperm whale attacked a whaling ship from Nantucket, Massachusetts 2,000 miles from the western coast of South America. Herman Melville's 1851 novel Moby-Dick was in part inspired by this story.
1889 ~ Birthday of Edwin Hubble, Astronomer. 1908 ~ Birthday of Alistair Cooke, Journalist. 1910 ~ Death of Leo Tolstoy, Novelist. 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. 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. 2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation. |
November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer. 1783 ~ In Paris, Jean Rozier and François Laurent made the first untethered hot air balloon flight (flight time: 25 minutes, Maximum height: 100m, distance: 9 km). 1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate. 1877 ~ Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record sound. 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. 1969 ~ The first ARPANET link was established. 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 completely using computer-generated imagery. |
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. 1900 ~ Death of Arthur S. Sullivan, Composer. 1913 ~ Birthday of Benjamin Britten, Composer. 1963 ~ Death of C. S. Lewis, Author. 1963 ~ Death of Aldous Huxley, Author.(Brave New World) 1963 ~ U.S. President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas. 1968 ~ The Beatles released The White Album. 1977 ~ British Airways began regular London to New York City supersonic Concorde service. 1990 ~ UK Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigned. |
November 23rd
1860 ~ Birthday of Billy the Kid, Bandit.
1869 ~ The clipper ship Cutty Sark was launched. It is the only surviving example. 1867 ~ Birthday of Manuel de Falla, Composer. 1887 ~ Birthday of Boris Karloff, Actor. 1888 ~ Birthday of Harpo Marx, Comedian. 1902 ~ Death of Walter Reed, Bacteriologist. 1936 ~ The first edition of Life was published. 1955 ~ Death of Shemp Howard, actor, comedian (The Three Stooges) 1963 ~ The first episode of the sci-fi TV series "Doctor Who" aired on the BBC. 1971 ~ The People's Republic of China was given the Republic of China's seat on the United Nations Security Council. |
November 24th
1642 ~ Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the island of Tasmania.
I wonder how Grumble is doing these days? 1853 ~ Birthday of Bat Masterson, Gunslinger, Policeman, Sports Reporter. 1859 ~ British naturalist Charles Darwin published The Origin of Species, a book which argues that organisms gradually evolve through natural selection. 1868 ~ Birthday of Scott Joplin, Musician. 1941 ~ Birthday of Pete Best, original drummer of The Beatles. 1947 ~ The U.S. House of Representatives voted to approve citations of contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10 after they refused to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee. 1963 ~ Death of Lee Harvey Oswald, assassination suspect. 1991 ~ Death of Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen). 1993 ~ In the UK, Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger. 1998 ~ America Online announced it would acquire Netscape Communications. |
November 26th
1778 ~ Captain James Cook discovered Maui, in the Hawaiian Islands.
1862 ~ Lewis Carroll sent the handwritten manuscript of “Alice's Adventures Underground” to 10-year-old Alice Liddell. 1894 ~ Birthday of Norbert Wiener, mathematician, founder of cybernetics. 1922 ~ Birthday of Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist. 1922 ~ Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon viewed the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun. 1942 ~ The film Casablanca premiered in New York City. 1956 ~ Death of Tommy Dorsey, Big Band leader. 1968 ~ Cream played their farewell concert. 1976 ~ The Band played their farewell concert. 2003 ~ Last ever flight by Concorde. |
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