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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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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.
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November 21st
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.
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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.
1989 ~ The Velvet Revolution: The leadership of Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigned.
1991 ~ Death of Freddie Mercury, musician (Queen).
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.
1940 ~ Woody Woodpecker first appeared in the film "Knock Knock"
1952 ~ Birthday of Imran Khan, Pakistani test cricketer.
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
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.
1985 ~ Death of Vivien Thomas, an interesting Surgeon.
2003 ~ Last ever flight by Concorde.
2008 ~ Ten coordinated terrorist attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists killed 164 and injured more than 250 people in Mumbai (Bombay), India.
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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.
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".
India would later develop its indigenous nuclear WMD.
1973 ~ The U.S. Senate confirmed President-to-be Gerald Ford as vice president, succeeding Spiro Agnew, who'd resigned.
1978 ~ Birthday of Shy Love, Porn actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Danielle Foxxx, Porn actress.
1979 ~ Birthday of Hilary Hahn, American violinist.
1990 ~ John Major followed Margaret Thatcher as Prime Minister of the UK.
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1994 ~ Norway voted to reject membership in the European Union for the second time.
Smartest move that Norway ever made.
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November 29th
1832 ~ Birthday of Louisa May Alcott, Writer.
1890 ~ At West Point, New York, the U.S. Naval Academy defeated the U.S. Military Academy 24-0 in the first Army–Navy football game.
1898 ~ Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Writer.
1944 ~ The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
1947 ~ The UN passed a resolution calling for Palestine to be partitioned between Arabs and Jews.
1975 ~ The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen.
1981 ~ Death of Natalie Wood, Actress.
1986 ~ Death of Cary Grant, British-born American actor.
1990 ~ The UN Security Council passed Security Council Resolution 678, authorizing military intervention in Iraq if that nation did not withdraw its forces from Kuwait and free all foreign hostages by January 15, 1991.
2001 ~ Death of George Harrison, musician.
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