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11-16-2008, 07:25 AM
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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.
1938 ~ LSD was synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann.
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.
1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The first of more than 700 German scientists arrived in the U.S. to help the development of rocket technology.
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.
2002 ~ UN weapons inspectors led by Hans Blix arrive in Iraq.
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.
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.
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.
2003 ~ Michael Jackson was arrested charges of child molestation.
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November 21st
1695 ~ Death of Henry Purcell, Composer.
1787 ~ Birthday of Samuel Cunard, Shipping Magnate.
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.
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.
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November 24th
1642 ~ Abel Tasman became the first European to discover the island of Tasmania.
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 ~ 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.
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November 25th
1844 ~ Birthday of Karl Benz, Engineer.
1867 ~ Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
1913 ~ Birthday of Lewis Thomas, Physician & Essayist.
1926 ~ Birthday of Poul Anderson, Science Fiction writer.
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock"
1968 ~ Death of Upton Sinclair, Journalist, Politician, Writer.
1974 ~ Death of U Thant, Burmese UN Secretary-General.
1986 ~ The Iran-Contra affair became public knowledge.
1998 ~ The Turkish government led by PM Mesut Yilmaz collapsed after losing a no-confidence motion over corruption allegations.
1999 ~ Six-year-old Cuban refugee Elian Gonzalez was rescued by a pair of sport fishermen off the coast of Florida.
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November 26th
1862 ~ Lewis Carroll sent the handwritten manuscript of “Alice's Adventures Underground” to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
1922 ~ Birthday of Charles M. Schulz, Cartoonist.
1939 ~ Birthday of Tina Turner, the Queen of Rock & Roll.
1942 ~ President Roosevelt ordered nationwide gasoline rationing, beginning in December.
1968 ~ Cream played their farewell concert.
1976 ~ The Band played their farewell concert.
1981 ~ Birthday of Aurora Snow, Porn Star.
1981 ~ Death of Max Euwe, World Chess Master.
1983 ~ £25m in gold was stolen from a warehouse near Heathrow airport.
2003 ~ Last ever flight by Concorde.
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November 27th
8 BC ~ Death of Horace, poet. Remembered for, among other things, “Carpe Diem” (seize the day).
1095 ~ Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.
1895 ~ Alfred Nobel signed his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he died.
1921 ~ Birthday of Alexander Dubcèk, Czech politician.
1942 ~ Birthday of Jimi Hendrix, musician.
1946 ~ Indian P.M. Jawaharlal Nehru appealed to the U.S. and the USSR to start nuclear disarmament, stating that such an action would "save humanity from the ultimate disaster".
1973 ~ The U.S. Senate confirmed President-to-be Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew, who'd resigned.
1977 ~ Birthday of Mika Tan, American Porn Star.
1978 ~ Birthday of Shy Love, Porn Star.
1990 ~ John Major followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the UK.
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