On This Day And In Previous Years (Brief Events In History)

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23rd October 1684 - Colony Massachusetts under authority of English crown mounted

23rd October 1814 - the first plastic surgery is performed in England

23rd October 1864 - Battle of Westport, Missouri: Union General Samuel R Curtis defeats Confederate General Stirling Price

23rd October 1942 - During WWII, Britain launches major offensive at El Alamein, Egypt

23rd October 1954 - Britain, France and Russia agree to end occupation of Germany

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24th October 1836 - earliest American patent for a phosphorus friction match by Alonzo Dwight Phillips

24th October 1929 - "Black Thursday", start of stock market crash, Dow Jones down 12.8%

24th October 1932 - British government signs trade treaty with USSR

24th October 1942 - Second day of battle at El Alamein: British infantry

24th October 1962 - Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet ships approach but stop short of the US blockade of Cuba

24th October 1980 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

24th October 2008 - "Bloody Friday" saw many of the world's stock exchanges experienced the worst declines in their history, with drops of around 10% in most indices.

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26th October 1529 - Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor of England

26th October 1850 - Robert McClure sights the fabled Northwest Passage for the first time (from Banks Island towards Melville Island)

26th October 1863 - International conference begins in Geneva aimed at improving medical conditions on battlefields - beginning of the Red Cross

26th October 1953 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Emu Field, Australia

26th October 1958 - PanAm flies first transatlantic jet from New York to Paris

26th October 1963 - US performs underground nuclear test at Fallon, Nevada

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28th October 1492 - Christopher Columbus sights Cuba and claims it for Spain under the name "Juana"

28th October 1636 - Harvard University, Cambridge, founded by a vote of the Massachusetts General Court

28th October 1904 - St Louis police try a new investigation method - fingerprints

28th October 1919 - Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto

28th October 1942 - the 6th day battle at El Alamein: British offensive under Montgomery

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29th October 1811 - first Ohio River steamboat leaves Pittsburgh for New Orleans

29th October 1889 - Queen Victoria grants Cecil Rhodes rights to Zambezia

29th October 1929 - "Black Tuesday" Wall Street Stock Market crashes triggering the "Great Depression"

29th October 2015 - China announces the end of their one-child policy after 35 years

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30th October 1470 - the Wars of the Roses: Henry VI of England returns to the English throne after Earl of Warwick defeats Yorkists in battle

30th October 1485 - Henry VII of England crowned at Westminster Abbey

30th October 1939 - German U boat fails on attack of English battleship Nelson with Winston Churchill, Dudley Pound & Charles Forbes aboard

30th October 1960 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary

30th October 1973 - the Bosphorus Bridge in Istanbul, Turkey is completed, connecting the continents of Europe and Asia over the Bosporus for the first time

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2nd November 1355 - English invasion army under King Edward lands at Calais

2nd November 1875 - Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela in Angola, from Africa's east coast, first European to cross equatorial Africa

2nd November 1904 - British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing

2nd November 1914 - Great Britain annexes Cyprus

2nd November 1914 - Great Britain declares entire North Sea military area, neutral ships transit at their own risk

2nd November 1942 - the 11th day of battle at El Alamein: British assault on Tel el Aqqaqir

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4th November 1529 - English cardinal Thomas Wolsey arrested on charges of treason

4th November 1839 - The Newport Rising is the last large-scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain

4th November 1862 - Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

4th November 1879 - African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus

4th November 1879 - James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio

4th November 1922 - Howard Carter discovers tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt

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5th November 1492 - Christopher Columbus first learns about growing and harvesting maize from Cuba's indigenous population

5th November 1605 - the Gunpowder Plot - catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempted to blow up King James I and the British Parliament. Plot discovered, Guy Fawkes caught, tortured and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, where his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

5th November 1914 - Britain declares war on Turkey and annexes Cyprus, occupied since 1878; the immediate reason is to keep it from being taken by Turkey

5th November 1937 - Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war

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6th November 1860 - Abraham Lincoln elected 16th American President

6th November 1914 - The British land troops at the head of the Persian Gulf in Mesopotamia, and begin to move westward in an attempt to draw Turkish troops from other fronts

6th November 1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

6th November 1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum

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7th November 1917 - British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks

7th November 1941 - British air attacks on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied

7th November 1910 - the first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.

7th November 1929 - Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building in New York

7th November 1944 - Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey

7th November 1972 - Incumbent President Richard Nixon is re-elected, defeating Democrat candidate George McGovern in a landslide by winning 49 states

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8th November 1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union

8th November 1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays

8th November 1910 - first Washington State election in which women could vote

8th November 1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration

8th November 1957 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island

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9th November 1620 - after a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land, Cape Cod,

9th November 1729 - Spain, France & Britain sign Treaty of Seville

9th November 1799 - Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul

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10th November 1619 - René Descartes has the dream that inspires his "Meditations on First Philosophy"

10th November 1836 - Louis Napoleon banished to America

10th November 1885 - German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveils the world's first motorcycle

10th November 1989 - Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall

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11th November 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army enters England

11th November 1889 - Washington admitted as 42nd state of USA

11th November 1909 - Construction of US navy base begins at Pearl Harbor, Hawaii

11th November 1918 - World War I armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

11th November 1920 - Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled

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12th November 1555 - the English Parliament re-establishes Catholicism

12th November 1799 - Andrew Ellicott makes the first known record of a meteor shower observation in the U.S, from a ship off the coast of Florida Keys

12th November 1847 - Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic

12th November 1915 - Theodore W Richards is the first American to win Nobel Prize in chemistry

12th November 1942 - the World War II Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands

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13th November 1553 - English Lady Jane Grey and Archbishop Thomas Cranmer accused of high treason

13th November 1921 - US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty

13th November 1956 - US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional

13th November 1980 - US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back first close-up pictures of Saturn

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14th November 1680 - Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet)

14th November 1908 - Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light

14th November 1940 - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England

14th November 1990 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

14th November 1994 - the first trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel

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15th November 1492 - Christopher Columbus notes first recorded reference to tobacco

15th November 1679 - English House of Commons accepts Exclusion Bill

15th November 1763 - Charles Mason & Jeremiah Dixon begin surveying Mason-Dixon Line between Pennsylvania & Maryland

15th November 1904 - King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade

15th November 1960 - USS George Washington, first sub with nuclear ballistic missiles, launched

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16th November 1764 - Native Americans surrender to British in Indian War of Chief Pontiac

16th November 1776 - British troops capture Fort Washington during American Revolution

16th November 1840 - New Zealand officially becomes a British colony

16th November 1940 - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg

16th November 1945 - the Founding of UNESCO

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