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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.
1905 ~ Albert Einstein's paper, Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?, is published in the journal "Annalen der Physik". This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².
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.
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 Actress.
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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November 29th
1643 ~ Death of Claudio Monteverdi, Composer.
1832 ~ Birthday of Louisa May Alcott, Writer.
1898 ~ Birthday of C. S. Lewis, Writer.
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 ~ Natalie Wood drowned in a boating accident off Santa Catalina Island, California.
1982 ~ The UN General Assembly passed Resolution 37/37, stating that the Soviet Union forces should withdraw from Afghanistan.
1982 ~ Birthday of Krystal Steal, Porn Actress.
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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