Today in History

10th November

1793 The French Republic abolishes worship of the Christian god, establishing a 'cult of reason' in its place.

1847 The passenger ship Stephen Whitney was wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster resulted in the construction of the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

1871 Journalist Henry Stanley finds the missing explorer Dr David Livingstone at Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika.

1960 Bookshops all over England sold out of Penguin's first run of 200,000 copies of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover

1995 The writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, was executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.
 

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Tomorrow, being the 11th................... At the eleventh hour on the eleventh day of the eleventh month – we will remember them. The Armistice, an agreement to end the fighting of the First World War as a prelude to peace negotiations, began at 11am on 11 November 1918.
Did you know that Armistice is derived from the Latin word: "sistere," meaning "to come to a stand" or "to cause to stand or stop." Combined with arma, meaning "weapons." An armistice, therefore, is literally a cessation of arms.

Today most of the UK will have church services and parades to remember the fallen in wars. We will be at the 11:00 o'clock church service this morning. Tonight though, we are off to a 1940's concert, all dressed up in period style.
 
1903
U.S. Patent Office awarded Mary Anderson a patent for windshield wiper,she never received payment for her invention.She did live to see the idea come to fruition,was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011
1940
Pittsburgh Steelers and Philadelphia Eagles play a penalty free football game, Steelers won 7-3
1969
Sesame Street,children's educational TV show debuts on PBS.It was created by Joan Ganz Cooney, former documentary producer for PBS.The show taught generations of young children how to count,learn the alphabet. She hired puppeteer, Jim Henson who created a cast of now well known characters;Bert&Ernie, Cookie Monster,Oscar the Grouch,Big BIrd
1989
Germans begun to demolished the Berlin Wall
2023
The most expensive U.S. stamp ever made 1918' Inverted Jenny' sold at auction in NYC for $2mill
 

11th November

1918 Fighting in World War One ceased with the signing of an armistice between Germany and the Allies at 11 am.

1919 Britain introduced a two minute silence at 11:00 a.m. to remember those who died in World War I.

1921 The first British Legion Poppy Day.

1965 The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, illegally severed its links with the British Crown.

1975 The southern African state of Angola gained its independence from former colonial power Portugal.

1987 A painting by Vincent Van Gogh sold for $49m (£27m) - a world record for a work of art.

1998 In the first joint engagement of its kind, the Queen and the Irish president, Mary McAleese, unveiled a peace tower in memory of the Irish dead of the First World War.

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On This Day In History, November 12th

1991 Dili massacre
Several pro-independence protesters were shot at the Santa Cruz cemetery in Dili, East Timor by Indonesian soldiers. about 250 people were killed in this event, which is also known as the Dili massacre or the Santa Cruz massacre

1990 Coup in Lesotho
Justin Metsing Lekhanya staged a coup against King Moshoeshoe II of Lesotho and took over the government of Lesotho. Lekhanya was deposed a few months later in another military coup.

1984 First salvage operation in space
Astronauts Dale A. Gardner and Joseph P. Allen aboard the space shuttle Discovery performed a series of spacewalks to salvage parts from two satellites, the Palapa B-2 and the Westar 6 which had steered away from their orbits.

1981 STS-2 launched
The second space shuttle mission by NASA, space shuttle Columbia was launched from NASA's John F. Kennedy Space Center in Florida. It was the first time a manned space shuttle had been launched twice.

1966 First images of a Solar Eclipse taken from space
The crew of Gemini 12 which included Edwin Eugene "Buzz" Aldrin were able to view and take pictures of the total solar eclipse over South America.
 
Births On This Day, November 12th 🎂

1980 Ryan Gosling
Canadian actor, singer

1945 Neil Young
Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer

1934 Charles Manson
American cult leader, murderer

1866 Sun Yat-sen
Chinese revolutionary, politician, 1st President of the Republic of China

1840 Auguste Rodin
French sculptor created The Thinker

Deaths On This Day, November 12th🪦

2010 Henryk Górecki
Polish composer

1969 Iskander Mirza
Pakistani politician, 1st President of Pakistan

1939 Norman Bethune
Canadian physician

1757 Colley Cibber
English poet

1035 Cnut the Great
Danish king
 
This Day In History, November 13

2015 Terrorist attacks in Paris
A series of coordinated terrorist attacks that included suicide bombs and mass shootings took place in France's capital city. Venues attacked included the Stade de France and the Bataclan Theatre during a concert. The Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS), also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant or Daesh (ISIL) took responsibility for the attacks that killed about 130 people.

1994 Sweden votes to join EU
The referendum passed with over 50% of Swedish citizens voting to join the European Union. The Nordic country officially joined the EU on January 1, 1995.

1985 Armero tragedy
The late evening eruption of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano in Colombia caused volcanic mudflows, called lahars, and flooded the city of Armero, killing 25,000 of its residents. The Armero tragedy is considered to be one of the deadliest volcano-related disasters in the 20th century.

1950 Assassination of Carlos Delgado Chalbaud
The Venezuelan president and head of the military Junta was kidnapped and killed by rebels headed by Rafael Simón Urbina. Chalbaud came to power after a coup against Rómulo Gallegos in 1948.

1887 Bloody Sunday in London
Protests by poor and unemployed Londoners over their hardships in Trafalgar Square took a violent turn when the police charged those protesting with batons. By the end of the day, 2 or 3 people were killed and several hundred protestors were injured.
 
Births On This Day, November 13th 🎂

1969 Ayaan Hirsi Ali
Dutch politician, author

1955 Whoopi Goldberg
American actress, singer, talk show host

1856 Louis Brandeis
American jurist

1850 Robert Louis Stevenson
Scottish author, poet

354 Augustine of Hippo
Algerian bishop, theologian

Deaths On This Day, November 13h🪦

2005 Eddie Guerrero
American wrestler

1963 Margaret Murray
English anthropologist

1903 Camille Pissarro
French painter

1868 Gioachino Rossini
Italian composer

1093 Malcolm III of Scotland
 
13th November

1002 - Ethelred the Unready orders the St Brice's Day Massacre - the murder of all Danes in England. The St Brice’s Day Massacre earned King Aethelred the nickname Aethelred the Unready (or ill advised).

1642 First English Civil War: At the Battle of Turnham Green (Middlesex), the Royalist forces withdrew in the face of the Parliamentarian army and failed to take London. Charles and his army retreated to Oxford for secure winter quarters.

1916 The final phase of the Somme offensive began.

1969 Britain's first live quintuplets this century were born, at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London.

1979 The Times newspaper was published for the first time in nearly a year. The paper's disappearance from news stands followed a dispute between management and unions over manning levels and the introduction of new technology.
 
Nov 14th:
1856
American inventor, Gail Borden granted a patent fro technology related to his invention of condensed milk
1889
New World reporter, Nellie Bly begins her attempt to surpass Jules Verne's fictious character, Phileas Figg's travel around the world in 80 days. She does finishing in 72 days, 6 hrs
1960
Ray Charles, single' Georgia On My Mind' hits # 1 on the music charts, stays there for 14 weeks
1968
Yale Univ announced it was going co-educational
1976
movie' Network' directed by Sidney Lument is released, based on Paddy Chafesky's satirical look at network TV.The story is about a 4th place network that will air anything to boost its ratings. It stars, Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, Ned Beatty, Robert Duvall, Beatrice Straight. The movie won 7 Oscars inc actor{Finch, postmously} Dunaway{Best Actress} Straight{ supp actress},Chafesky{ best screenplay}
1994
1st public trains run through the Channel Tunnel which links England&France under the English Channel
2022
Grammy award winning singer, Roberta Flack reveals she is suffering from ALS,can no longer sing
 
Nov 15th:
1791
The 1st U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown opens
1904
inventor/ businessman, King Gillette patents safety razor as Gillette's razor blade
1920
League of Nations holds its 1st meeting in Geneva
1963
Leo Sternbach, a chemist at Roche created Valium which is approved by U.S. Drug& Food Adminstration. It becomes the most prescribed drug in the world from 1969-1982
1969
in Washington, DC close to half million protest the Vietnam War, experts called it the largest anti-war rally in U.S. history
2017
a painting by Leonardo da Vinci' Salvator Mundi' sells for a record $450.3 mil at auction in NYC world record price
2022
Brooklyn, NY 's Public library celebrating its 125th anniv announced writer Maurice Sendak's book' Where The Wild Things Are' is its most borrowed book
 
On This Day In History, November 16th

2001 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone released
The film version of the popular book by the same name written by author J. K. Rowling starred Daniel Radcliffe as Harry Potter and followed Potter's first year at Hogwarts, a school for magic.

1988 Estonians declare sovereignty from the USSR
Estonians issued the Estonian Sovereignty Declaration as part of the Singing Revolution. The Declaration declared Estonian sovereignty from the Soviet Union and declared Estonian laws paramount over Soviet laws. The day is now celebrated as the Day of Declaration of Sovereignty.

1965 Soviets launch Venera 3
Part of the Venera program, it was the first space probe to land on another planet - Venus. Unfortunately, due to technical issues, it was not able to send any data back to Earth. The first space probe to send data from another planet to Earth was Venera 7.

1945 UNESCO founded
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization is a special branch of the United Nations which promotes peace and well-being through education, scientific collaboration and cultural understanding and exchange. It is headquartered in Paris, France and has 195 state members.

1940 Warsaw ghetto sealed
The largest Jewish ghetto in Nazi-occupied Poland, the Warsaw ghetto, was created in October 1940 by a German decree. According to the decree, all Jews in the city had to move to the ghetto, which was closed off by a 10-foot wall and had soldiers and police guarding it from the outside 24 hours a day. The ghetto was the scene of one of the largest Jewish uprisings during the Second World War in 1943.
 
Births On This Day, November 16th 🎂

1977 Maggie Gyllenhaal
American actress

1952 Shigeru Miyamoto
Japanese video game designer, created Mario, The Legend of Zelda

1930 Chinua Achebe
Nigerian author, poet, academic

1922 José Saramago
Portuguese author, Nobel Prize laureate

42 Tiberius
Roman Emperor

Deaths On This Day, November 16th🪦

2006 Milton Friedman
American economist, Nobel Prize laureate

1980 Jayan
Indian actor

1960 Clark Gable
American actor

1885 Louis Riel
Canadian politician

1724 Jack Sheppard
English criminal
 
On This Day In History, November 17th

2003 Arnold Schwarzenegger sworn in as Californian Governor
The bodybuilder and actor best known for his role as a cyborg in the science fiction movie, The Terminator, replaced then Governor Gray Davis. Schwarzenegger was elected for another term as governor in 2007.

1989 Velvet Revolution begins
A week after the fall of the Berlin Wall, a demonstration by students commemorating International Students Day in Prague was violently shut down by riot police. The incident led to mass strikes and nonviolent around the country that ended communist rule in erstwhile Czechoslovakia and paved the way for the first democratic elections in the country in 41 years.

1973 Athens Polytechnic Uprising Ends
The popular protests against the military junta under Georgios Papadopoulos began on November 14 when students at the polytechnic went on strike. On the morning of November 17, the military crashed into the campus grounds using a tank and put an end to the protests. While no one was thought to have been killed on the polytechnic campus, many people were killed in clashes around the city. Today, all schools and universities are closed on November 17 to commemorate the uprising.

1869 Construction on the Suez Canal finished
The 120-mile (193 km) long artificial waterway connecting the Red Sea and the Mediterranean Sea took 10 years to be built and was opened to ships. The canal connected Europe to Asia without ships having to go all the way around Africa.

1858 The start of Modified Julian Date
Mostly used by astronomers and astrophysicists, the Modified Julian Date (MJD) is a dating method that is defined by subtracting 2,400,000.5 days from the current Julian date (JD), which is calculated by counting the number of days past since Noon January 1, 4713 B.C.E. The MJD gives the number of days past Midnight on November 17, 1858. MJD was first used in 1957 by scientists at the Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory to track satellites.
 
Births On This Day, November 17th 🎂

1978 Rachel McAdams
Canadian actress

1964 Susan Rice
American diplomat, 27th United States Ambassador to the United Nations

1942 Martin Scorsese
American director, producer, screenwriter, actor

1920 Gemini Ganesan
Indian film actor

1901 Walter Hallstein
German politician, diplomat, 1st President of the European Commission

Deaths On This Day, November 17th 🪦

2012 Bal Thackeray
Indian politician

1917 Auguste Rodin
French sculptor created The Thinker

1796 Catherine the Great
Russian wife of Peter III of Russia

1768 Thomas Pelham-Holles, 1st Duke of Newcastle
English politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom

1558 Mary I of England
 
On This Day In History, November 18th

1978 Mass suicides in Jonestown
Over 900 people committed suicide at the behest of Jim Jones the founder and head of a group called Peoples Temple. Formed in Indianapolis, Indiana, in the mid-1050s, members of the group moved to Guyana in 1974 and set up a settlement outside Georgetown called it Jonestown.

1963 Push button phones are used for the first time
Bell systems started replacing rotary dial phones with push-button phones in the United States. Push button phones use keys or buttons to dial a number.

1916 End of the Somme Offensive
The battle was fought between German forces on one side and British and French forces on the other during the First World War. Thought to be one of the bloodiest battles of the 20th century - the conflict started on July 1, 1916, and was fought on the banks of the river Somme in France.

1903 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty signed between Panama and the US
The treaty created the Panama Canal Zone and set up the terms for the construction of the Panama Canal. Until 1979, the Panama Canal Zone was a territory of the United States. The French began construction on the Panama Canal in 1881 but had to stop due to engineering problems. The US took over the construction in 1904 and finished building the canal in 1914.

1883 Canadian and American railroads adopt time zones
Prior to this, most cities had their own local time, making it difficult for railways to be on time and confusing passengers. To solve this problem, private railways decided to divide the continent into 4 distinct time zones - the lines of which are very close to the time zone lines today.
 
Births On This Day, November 18th 🎂

1974 Chloë Sevigny
American actress, fashion designer

1953 Alan Moore
English author, illustrator

1939 Margaret Atwood
Canadian poet, author, critic

1933 Bruce Conner
American painter, photographer, director

1923 Ted Stevens
American politician

Deaths On This Day, November 18th 🪦

1987 Jacques Anquetil
French cyclist

1978 Jim Jones
American cult leader founded the People's Temple

1962 Niels Bohr
Danish physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1922 Marcel Proust
French writer

1886 Chester A. Arthur
American politician, 21st President of the United States
 
On This Day In History, November 19th

1977 Egyptian president Anwar Sadat visits Israel
Sadat was the first Arab head of state to visit Israel and address the Israeli parliament, the Knesset. His visit came under severe criticism both in Israel and in the Arab world. Sadat and Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin were jointly awarded the Nobel Peace Prize in 1978 for their attempts to bring a resolution to the Arab-Israeli conflict.

1969 Pelé’s 1000th goal
The Brazilian footballer, often considered to be the greatest athlete of the 20th century, made his 1,000th professional goal against Vasco da Gama at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro.

1946 Gettysburg Address
Thought to be one of the most memorable and influential speeches in the history of the United States, the address was delivered by American President Abraham Lincoln while dedicating the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, 4 months after the bloody Battle of Gettysburg. The short address which was only 272 words in length, emphasized that the American Civil War wasn’t just a war to save the union, but also a war to ensure equality and freedom.

1943 Janowska camp uprising
The concentration camp in occupied Poland was set up in 1941. In November 1943, in anticipation of the advancement of Soviet troops, the Nazis tried to evacuate the camp and used the inmates to remove traces of executions and mass killings in the past. On this day, the inmates staged an uprising and attempted to escape. Most escapees, however, were recaptured and killed.

1794 Signing of the Jay Treaty
The treaty, officially known as, the Treaty of Amity Commerce and Navigation, between His Britannic Majesty and The United States of America, was signed between representatives of the United States and Britain. It called for the British to surrender northwestern posts to the U.S. and for them to consider the United States as the most favoured nation for trade between the two countries.
 
Births On This Day, November 19th 🎂

1941 Tommy Thompson
American politician, 42nd Governor of Wisconsin

1917 Indira Gandhi
Indian politician, 3rd Prime Minister of India

1888 José Raúl Capablanca
Cuban chess player

1831 James A. Garfield
American politician, 20th President of the United States

1600 Charles I of England

Deaths On This Day, November 19th 🪦

1924 Thomas H. Ince
American actor, director, producer

1918 Joseph F. Smith
American religious leader, 6th President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1850 Richard Mentor Johnson
American politician, 9th Vice President of the United States

1828 Franz Schubert
Austrian composer

1798 Wolfe Tone
Irish patriot
 
19th November

1703 The 'Man in the Iron Mask', whose identity remains the subject of much speculation, died in the Bastille.

1947 George VI created Philip Mountbatten the Duke of Edinburgh in preparation for his wedding to George's elder daughter, Princess Elizabeth.

1960 The first VTOL (vertical take off and landing) aircraft P.1127, made by the British Hawker Siddeley Company was flown, untethered, for the first time. It's first conventional flight, (i.e. a horizontal take off) was on 13th March 1961.

1969 Second Apollo mission lands on Moon. The crew of the latest Apollo mission carried out the second manned landing on the Moon's surface. Apollo 12 almost failed before it began because of a leaking hydrogen tank, but launch crews raced against time to change it before takeoff.

2012 Father Christmas was left dangling from the ceiling for 30 minutes after his beard became trapped while abseiling inside a Reading shopping centre as part of a Christmas lights switch-on show. 🎅
 
1805
explorers Meriwether Lewis&William Clark reach the Pacific Ocean,1st European Americans to cross the West
1872
E.D. Barbour in Boston,Mass awarded the 1st U.S. patent for 1st calucator,an adding machine of printing totals& subtotals
1953
U. S. Supreme Court ruled 7-2 baseball is a sport not a business
1975
movie' One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest',based on stage adaption of Ken Kesey's book directed by Milos Forman. The story of a feisty misfit who becomes a new patient in a insane asylum. He inspires the other patients to assert themselves
cast Jack Nicholson,Louise Fletcher, Danny De Vito, Will Sampson, Brad Dourif Christopher Lloyd, movie won 5 Oscars including pic/director, actor{Nicholson} actress{Fletcher as 'Nurse Ratched'}
1990
pop vocal duo,Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy for hit single' Girl You Know Its True' when it was learned they did not sing the song
2018
LA Rams defeated Kansas Chiefs 54-51,1st time 2 teams scored 50 points in same game
2021
a rare copy of the U.S. Constitution is sold to Ken Griffin, head of hedge fund, Citadel for $43.2mil,a world record for a book/historical document or manuscript
 
On This Day In History, November 20th

1998 First module of the International Space Station launched
Called Zarya, the module is Russian-built and American-owned. The International Space Station (ISS) is a manned artificial satellite that was built and operated by 5 space agencies – the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, the US’s NASA, Russia's Roscosmos, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. The brightest man-made object visible to the naked eye from Earth, ISS orbits the Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometres per hour) at an average distance of 248 miles (400 kilometres) from Earth.

1985 Windows 1.0 released
Nearly two years after it was announced, Microsoft released its first graphical operating system. The OS made it easier for users to navigate on their computer screens. It came with Paint, Notepad, Calculator and a game called Reversi.

1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the document that laid out the rights of children around the world. The day is also annually celebrated as Universal Children's Day.

1945 Nuremberg trials begin
The trials were led by the International Military Tribunal and were held to prosecute high-ranking members of the Nazi party for war crimes committed during the Second World War. Of the 23 people tried, 14 were sentenced to death.

1923 Traffic signal patented
American Garret Morgan was awarded the patent for an automated traffic signal. Morgan’s invention was not the first of its kind, but unlike the other traffic signals which just had stop-and-go signals, his traffic light had a third signal that warned drivers about changes in the stop-and-go lights. This signal was the precursor for today’s yellow light.
 
Births On This Day, November 20th 🎂

1981 Sam Fuld
American baseball player

1942 Joe Biden
American politician, 46th President of the United States

1925 Robert F. Kennedy
American politician, 64th United States Attorney General

1912 Otto von Habsburg
Austrian/German son of Charles I of Austria

1750 Tipu Sultan
Indian army officer, king

Deaths On This Day, November 20th 🪦

2006 Robert Altman
American director, screenwriter

1975 Francisco Franco
Spanish general, politician, Caudillo of Spain

1925 Alexandra of Denmark

1910 Leo Tolstoy
Russian author

1737 Caroline of Ansbach
 


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