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

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17th November 1558 - Elizabeth I aged 25 ascends the English throne upon death of her half sister Queen Mary

17th November 1558 - the Church of England is re-established

17th November 1800 - Congress holds its first session in Washington D.C. in an incomplete Capitol Building

17th November 1855 - David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls, in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe

17th November 1970 - Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse

17th November 2014 - the Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops

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18th November 1477 - the first English dated printed book "Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers" by William Caxton

18th November 1911 - Britain's first seaplane flies

18th November 1916 - British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the first Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded

18th November 1941 - British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa

18th November 1943 - 444 British bombers attack Berlin

18th November 1963 - Bell Telephone introduces the touch-tone telephone to customers in Pennsylvania

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19th November 1620 - the Mayflower reaches Cape Cod and explores the coast

19th November 1794 - Jay Treaty, first US extradition treaty, signed with Great Britain

19th November 1863 - US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address beginning; "Four score and seven years ago..."

19th November 1969 - Apollo 12's Charles Conrad and Alan Bean become the 3rd and 4th humans on the Moon

19th November 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for first time

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21st November 1272 - following Henry III of England's death on November 16, his son Prince Edward becomes King of England

21st November 1620 - Mayflower Compact signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod

21st November 1620 - Pilgrim Fathers reach America: Provincetown Harbor, Mass

21st November 1791 - Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to first Lieutenant and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic

21st November 1918 - the German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth

21st November 1953 - authorities at the British Natural History Museum announce the "Piltdown Man" skull, one of the most famous fossil skulls in the world, is a hoax

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22nd November 1497 - Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India

22nd November 1864 - American Civil War Battle at Griswoldville, Georgia, ends after 650 casualties

22nd November 1935 - flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on first trans-Pacific airmail flight

22nd November 1963 - US President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas

22nd November 1969 - isolation of a single gene announced by scientists at Harvard University

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23rd November 1644 - "Areopagitica", a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published

23rd November 1765 - People of Frederick County, Maryland, refuse to pay British Stamp tax

23rd November 1867 - the Manchester Martyrs are hung, Manchester, England for shooting a police officer

23rd November 1869 - the clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving

23rd November 1943 - the British Forces Broadcasting Service begins operations

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24th November 1542 - the Battle of Solway Moss: English beat Scottish King James V

24th November 1639 - the first observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System

24th November 1859 - English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology

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25th November 1715 - the first English patent granted to an American, for processing corn

25th November 1867 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel Patents Dynamite

25th November 1876 - Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.

25th November 1905 - Telimco makes the first ever advertisment for a radio set, by advertising a $7.50 set in the "Scientific American" which claimed to receive signals for up to one mile

25th November 1912 - American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois

25th November 1944 - World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers

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26th November 1778 - the British explorer Captain James Cook is the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

26th November 1865 - "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America

26th November 1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt

26th November 2003 - Supersonic airplane the Concorde makes its last ever flight, returning to Bristol, England

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27th November 1295 - English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives

27th November 1493 - Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the first native American uprising against Spanish rule

27th November 1826 - John Walker invents friction match in England

27th November 1895 - Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel established the Nobel Prize

27th November 1941 - British 13th Army Corps reached Tobruk

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28th November 1520 - Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean

28th November 1814 - the Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience

28th November 1919 - American born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the first female member of the British House of Commons

28th November 1967 - the first radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University

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29th November 1745 - Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle

29th November 1877 - US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time

29th November 1887 - US receives rights to Pearl Harbor, on Oahu, Hawaii

29th November 1935 - Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics

29th November 1951 - the first underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

29th November 1962 - Great Britain and France decided to jointly build the Concorde supersonic airliner

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30th November 1648 - English Parliamentary army captured King Charles I

30th November 1782 - Britain signed agreement recognizing US independence

30th November 1786 - Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the first state to abolish the death penalty

30th November 1944 - the biggest and last British battleship HMS Vanguard launched

30th November 1966 - Barbados gained independence from Great Britain (National Day)

30th November 1974 - most complete early human skeleton (Lucy, Australopithecus) discovered by Donald Johanson, Maurice Taieb, Yves Coppens and Tim White in the Middle Awash of Ethiopia's Afar Depression

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1st December 1420 - Henry V of England enters Paris

1st December 1783 - Jacques Charles and Nicolas Roberts make first untethered ascension with gas hydrogen balloon in Paris

1st December 1913 - the Ford Motor Company institutes world's first moving assembly line for the Model T Ford

1st December 1915 - the US requests that Germany withdraw its military and naval attaches from the Embassy in Washington

1st December 1934 - Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38

1st December 1955 - Rosa Parks is arrested for refusing to move to the back of a bus and give her seat to a white passenger in Montgomery, Alabama

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2nd December 1804 - Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in Paris

2nd December 1939 - British Imperial Airways & British Airways merge to form BOAC

2nd December 1976 - Fidel Castro becomes President of Cuba, replacing Osvaldo Dorticós Torrado

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4th December 1791 - Britain's Observer, oldest Sunday newspaper in the world, first published

4th December 1812 - Peter Gaillard of Lancaster, Pennsylvania, patents a horse-drawn mower

4th December 1833 - American Anti-Slavery Society formed by Arthur Tappan in Philadelphia

4th December 1918 - US President Woodrow Wilson sails for Versailles Peace Conference in France

4th December 1942 - FDR orders dismantling of Works Progress Administration

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6th December 1768 - the first edition of "Encyclopedia Brittanica" published in Scotland

6th December 1865 - 13th Amendment of the United States Constitution is ratified, abolishing slavery

6th December 1876 - the first crematorium in US begins operation, Washington, Pennsylvania

6th December 2006 - NASA reveals photographs taken by Mars Global Surveyor suggesting the presence of liquid water on Mars

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7th December 1941 - Imperial Japanese Navy with 353 planes attack the US fleet at Pearl Harbor Naval Base, Hawaii, killing 2,403 people

7th December 1962 - Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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8th December 1863 - Abraham Lincoln issues his Amnesty Proclamation and plan for Reconstruction of the South

8th December 1914 - Battle of the Falkland Island: British Royal Navy destroys a German battle squadron

8th December 1941 - US and Britain declared war on Japan, US enters World War II

8th December 1941 - US President Franklin D. Roosevelt delivered "Day of Infamy" speech to US Congress a day after the bombing of Pearl Harbor

8th December 1966 - US and USSR signed treaty to prohibit nuclear weapons in outer space

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9th December 1861 - the American Civil War: The Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War is established by the U.S. Congress

9th December 1940 - the British assault on Benghazi, Libya: first major allied offensive in North Africa

9th December 1984 - Great Britain performed nuclear test at Nevada Test Site

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