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November 1, 1995
November 1, 1995 – The first all-race local government elections took place in South Africa, marking the end of the apartheid system.
November 2, 1930 – Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
November 3, 1903 – Panama declared itself independent of Colombia following a revolt engineered by the US.
November 3, 1957 – Soviet Russia launched the world’s first inhabited space capsule, Sputnik II, which carried a dog named Laika.
November 4, 1842 – Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd in Springfield, Illinois.
November 4, 1862 – Richard Gatling patented his first rapid-fire machinegun which used revolving barrels rotating around a central mechanism to load, fire, and extract the cartridges.
November 4, 1890 – The first electrified underground railway system was officially opened in London.
November 4, 1979 – About 500 young Iranian militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 90 hostages, including 52 Americans that they held captive for 444 days.
November 4, 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 6, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US president and the first Republican. He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
November 5, 1911 – Aviator C. P. Snow completed the first transcontinental flight across America, landing at Pasadena, California.
November 6, 1962 – The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommended economic sanctions.
November 7, 1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.
November 7, 1917 – Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd. The Council of People’s Commissars was then established as the new government of Russia, with Nikolai Lenin as chairman.
November 7, 1867 – Polish chemist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1903, she and her husband received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of the element Radium.
November 7, 1990 – Mary Robinson became Ireland’s first female president.
November 8, 1656 – Astronomer and mathematician Edmund Halley was born in London. He sighted the Great Comet of 1682 (now named Halley’s Comet) and foretold its reappearance in 1758. Halley’s Comet appears once each generation with the average time between appearances being 76 years. It is expected to be visible again in 2061.
November 8, 1895 – X-rays (electromagnetic rays) were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany.
November 8, 1939 – An assassination attempt on Hitler failed at the Buergerbraukeller in Munich. A bomb exploded soon after Hitler had exited following a speech commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Seven others were killed.
November 9, 1877 – Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher was born in Sialkot.
November 9, 1918 – German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne in the closing days of World War I and fled to Holland. In Germany, Philip Scheidemann, a Socialist leader, then proclaimed a democratic republic and became its first chancellor.
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall was opened up after standing for 28 years as a symbol of the cold war. The 27.9 mile wall had been constructed in 1961.
November 10, 1483 – Reformation founder Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Saxony. In 1517, Luther tacked his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s castle church asserting the Bible should be the sole authority of the church, and calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church.
November 10, 1928 – Hirohito was crowned emperor of Japan. He was Imperial Japan’s Emperor during World War II. Following Japan’s defeat, he was allowed to stay and remained emperor until his death in 1989.
November 11, 1973 – Egypt and Israel signed a cease-fire agreement sponsored by the US.
November 11, 1987 – In Russia, Boris Yeltsin was removed as Moscow Communist Party chief for criticising the slow pace of Soviet reforms.
November 11, 1992 – The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
November 11, 1821 – Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow. Best known for The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
November 12, 1923 – Adolf Hitler was arrested in Germany after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
November 12, 1974 – The UN General Assembly suspended South Africa over its policy of apartheid.
November 13, 1945 – General Charles De Gaulle was appointed president of the French provisional government.
November 13, 1956 – The US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
November 13, 1995 – Israel began pulling its troops out of the West Bank city of Jenin, ending 28 years of occupation.
November 14, 1666 – The first experimental blood transfusion took place in Britain, utilising two dogs.
November 14, 1840 – French painter Claude Monet was born in Paris. He pioneered the impressionist style in his landscapes including the Haystacks, Poplars, and Rouen Cathedral series.
November 14, 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, India. He spent over 20 years working with Mahatma Gandhi to free India from British rule. Following independence in 1947, Nehru became India’s first prime minister, serving until his death in 1964.
November 4, 1862 – Richard Gatling patented his first rapid-fire machinegun which used revolving barrels rotating around a central mechanism to load, fire, and extract the cartridges.
November 4, 1890 – The first electrified underground railway system was officially opened in London.
November 4, 1979 – About 500 young Iranian militants stormed the US Embassy in Tehran, and took 90 hostages, including 52 Americans that they held captive for 444 days.
November 4, 1995 – Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin was assassinated as he left a peace rally in Tel Aviv.
November 6, 1860 – Abraham Lincoln was elected as the 16th US president and the first Republican. He received 180 of 303 possible electoral votes and 40 percent of the popular vote.
November 5, 1911 – Aviator C. P. Snow completed the first transcontinental flight across America, landing at Pasadena, California.
November 6, 1962 – The UN General Assembly adopted a resolution condemning South Africa for its apartheid policies and recommended economic sanctions.
November 7, 1659 – The Treaty of the Pyrenees was signed, ending the Franco-Spanish war of 1648-59.
November 7, 1917 – Russian Bolsheviks overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky in Petrograd. The Council of People’s Commissars was then established as the new government of Russia, with Nikolai Lenin as chairman.
November 7, 1867 – Polish chemist Marie Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland. In 1903, she and her husband received the Nobel Prize for Physics for their discovery of the element Radium.
November 7, 1990 – Mary Robinson became Ireland’s first female president.
November 8, 1656 – Astronomer and mathematician Edmund Halley was born in London. He sighted the Great Comet of 1682 (now named Halley’s Comet) and foretold its reappearance in 1758. Halley’s Comet appears once each generation with the average time between appearances being 76 years. It is expected to be visible again in 2061.
November 8, 1895 – X-rays (electromagnetic rays) were discovered by Wilhelm Roentgen at the University of Wuerzburg in Germany.
November 8, 1939 – An assassination attempt on Hitler failed at the Buergerbraukeller in Munich. A bomb exploded soon after Hitler had exited following a speech commemorating the 1923 Beer Hall Putsch. Seven others were killed.
November 9, 1877 – Allama Iqbal, great poet-philosopher was born in Sialkot.
November 9, 1918 – German Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated his throne in the closing days of World War I and fled to Holland. In Germany, Philip Scheidemann, a Socialist leader, then proclaimed a democratic republic and became its first chancellor.
November 9, 1989 – The Berlin Wall was opened up after standing for 28 years as a symbol of the cold war. The 27.9 mile wall had been constructed in 1961.
November 10, 1483 – Reformation founder Martin Luther was born in Eisleben, Saxony. In 1517, Luther tacked his 95 Theses on the door of Wittenberg’s castle church asserting the Bible should be the sole authority of the church, and calling for reformation of the Roman Catholic Church.
November 10, 1928 – Hirohito was crowned emperor of Japan. He was Imperial Japan’s Emperor during World War II. Following Japan’s defeat, he was allowed to stay and remained emperor until his death in 1989.
November 11, 1973 – Egypt and Israel signed a cease-fire agreement sponsored by the US.
November 11, 1987 – In Russia, Boris Yeltsin was removed as Moscow Communist Party chief for criticising the slow pace of Soviet reforms.
November 11, 1992 – The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests.
November 11, 1821 – Russian novelist Fyodor Dostoyevsky was born in Moscow. Best known for The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment and The Idiot.
November 12, 1923 – Adolf Hitler was arrested in Germany after the failed Beer Hall Putsch.
November 12, 1974 – The UN General Assembly suspended South Africa over its policy of apartheid.
November 13, 1945 – General Charles De Gaulle was appointed president of the French provisional government.
November 13, 1956 – The US Supreme Court ruled that racial segregation on public buses was unconstitutional.
November 13, 1995 – Israel began pulling its troops out of the West Bank city of Jenin, ending 28 years of occupation.
November 14, 1666 – The first experimental blood transfusion took place in Britain, utilising two dogs.
November 14, 1840 – French painter Claude Monet was born in Paris. He pioneered the impressionist style in his landscapes including the Haystacks, Poplars, and Rouen Cathedral series.
November 14, 1889 – Jawaharlal Nehru was born in Allahabad, India. He spent over 20 years working with Mahatma Gandhi to free India from British rule. Following independence in 1947, Nehru became India’s first prime minister, serving until his death in 1964.
November 15, 1943 – During the Holocaust, Heinrich Himmler ordered Gypsies and part-Gypsies to be sent to concentration camps. The number of Gypsies killed by Nazis is estimated up to 500,000.
November 16, 1918 – Hungary was proclaimed an independent republic following the break up of the Austro-Hungarian Empire.
November 16, 1989 – South African President F. W. de Klerk announced the abandonment of the Separate Amenities Act, thus opening the country’s beaches to all races.
November 17, 1954 – General Gamal Abdel Nasser became Egyptian head of state after forcing out General Mohammed Naguib.
November 18, 1993 – South Africa adopted a new constitution after more than 300 years of white majority rule. The constitution provided basic civil rights to blacks and was approved by representatives of the ruling party, as well as members of 20 other political parties.
November 19, 1493 – Puerto Rico was discovered by Columbus during his second voyage to the New World.
November 19, 1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to visit Israel.
November 19, 1978 – The biggest mass suicide in history occurred as Reverend Jim Jones led over 900 followers to their deaths at Jonestown, Guyana. Members of his “Peoples Temple” religious cult were ordered to drink a cyanide-laced fruit drink. Those who refused were forcibly injected.
November 19, 1996 – Pope John Paul II and Cuban leader Fidel Castro held their historic first meeting in the Vatican.
November 19, 1917 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi was born in Allahabad, India. She served from 1966-75 and later from 1980 to 1984, when she was assassinated by her own bodyguards as she walked to her office.
November 20, 1917 – The first use of tanks in battle occurred at Cambrai, France, during World War I. Over 300 tanks commanded by British General Sir Douglas Haig went into battle against the Germans.
November 20, 1980 – In China, Jiang Qing, the widow of Mao Zedong, went on trial with nine others on charges of treason.
November 21, 1694 – French author and philosopher Voltaire was born in Paris (as Francois-Marie Arouet).
November 21, 1783 – The first free balloon flight took place in Paris as Jean Francois Pilatre de Rozier and Marquis Francois Laurent d’Arlandes ascended in a Montgolfier hot air balloon. Their flight lasted about 25 minutes and carried them nearly six miles at a height of about 300 feet over Paris. Benjamin Franklin was one of the spectators.
November 21, 1992 – The Anglican Church of Australia voted to allow women to become priests. The largest of the dioceses voted against the bill, however, it still received the required two-thirds approval.
November 22, 1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco Da Gama, leading a fleet of four ships, became the first to sail round the Cape of Good Hope, while searching for a sea route to India.
November 22, 1963 – US President John F. Kennedy was shot dead when his motorcade slowly approached a triple underpass.
November 22, 1990 – British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher announced she would resign after 11 years in office, the longest term of any British Prime Minister in the 20th century.
November 24, 1859 – Charles Darwin’s book On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection was first published, theorising that all the living creatures descended from a common ancestor.
November 24, 1874 – Joseph Glidden patented his invention of barbed wire.
November 24, 1969 – The US army announced that Lt. William L. Calley had been charged with premeditated murder in the massacre of civilians in the Vietnamese village of My Lai in March of 1968. Calley was ordered to stand trial by court martial and was later convicted and sentenced to life in prison. However, his sentence was later commuted to three years of house arrest by President Richard Nixon.
November 25, 1974 – Britain outlawed the IRA (Irish Republican Army) following the deaths of 21 persons in a pub bombing in Birmingham.
November 25, 1992 – The parliament in Czechoslovakia voted to divide the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics.
November 26, 1940 – During the Holocaust, Nazis began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw, sealing in 400,000 inhabitants while denying them adequate food, sanitation and housing.
November 26, 1979 – After an absence of 21 years, the International Olympic Committee voted to re-admit China.
November 26, 1998 – In Dublin, Tony Blair became the first British prime minister to appear before the Irish Parliament, which had been created 80 years earlier in defiance of the British government.
November 27, 1701 – Anders Celsius (1701-1744) was born in Sweden. He invented the centigrade (Celsius) temperature scale commonly used in Europe.
November 29, 1947 – Palestine was partitioned into Jewish and Arab land by the UN General Assembly, resulting in the establishment of the Jewish state of Israel the following year.
November 29, 1989 – Forty-one years of Communist rule came to an end in Czechoslovakia following a twelve day revolution sparked by the beating of protesters.
November 30, 1782 – A provisional peace treaty was signed between Great Britain and the United States heralding the end of America’s War of Independence. The final treaty was signed in Paris on September 3, 1783. It declared the U.S. “…to be free, sovereign and independent states…” and that the British Crown “…relinquishes all claims to the government, propriety and territorial rights of the same, and every part thereof.”
