On This Day In History, 1 November
Louis The Pious made All Saints Day compulsory in 835, the Maastricht Treaty came into effect in 1993, Gary Player was born in 1935, and...
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On This Day In History, 2 November
The first resident crew arrived at the ISS in 2000, the BBC officially launched a regular TV service in 1936, #GeorgeBernardShaw died in 1950, and...
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On This Day In History, 3 November
The Soviet Union launched Sputnik 2 in 1957, One World Trade Center officially opened in 2014, Larry Holmes was born in 1949, and more…
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On This Day In History, 4 November
UNESCO was formed in 1946, Howard Carter discovered the tomb of Tutankhamen in 1922, The Spice Girls released the Spice album in 1996, and more…
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On This Day In History, 5 November
Saddam Hussein was sentenced to death in 2006, the Gunpowder Plot was discovered in 1605, Art Garfunkel was born in 1941, and more…
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On This Day In History, 6 November
Abraham Lincoln won the US election in 1860, the Sex Pistols played their 1st gig in 1975, Sir George Williams, founder of the YMCA, died...
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On This Day In History, 7 November
A United Nations Emergency Force brought the #SuezCrisis to an end in 1956, the Mary Celeste departed from New York City in 1872, and more…
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On This Day In History, 8 November
The Beer Hall Putsch occurred in Munich in 1923, Lord Lucan disappeared in 1974, never to be seen again, HBO was launched in 1972, and...
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On This Day In History, 9 November
The Berlin Wall was opened for the 1st time in 1989, A Nightmare On Elm Street was released in 1984, Charles De Gaulle died in...
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On This Day In History, 10 November
The Marine Corps War Memorial was unveiled in 1954, Sesame Street premiered in 1969, Richard Burton was born in 1925, and more…
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On This Day In History, 11 November
WW1 ended in 1918, Route 66 was established in 1926, Wings released Mull Of Kintyre in 1977, Ned Kelly was hanged in 1880, and more…
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On This Day In History, 12 November
Ellis Island in New York shut its doors in 1954, the body and diary of Robert Falcon Scott was found in 1912, Stan Lee died...
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On This Day In History, 13 November
Over 100 killed during the Terrorist Attacks In Paris in 2015, Toy Story 2 was released in 1999, Whoopi Goldberg was born in 1955, and...
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On This Day In History, 14 November
The Dow Jones closed above 1,000 for the first time in 1972, Apollo 12 was launched in 1969, Oscar-Claude Monet was born in 1840, and...
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On This Day In History, 15 November
Nazi Germany closed off the Warsaw Ghetto to the outside world in 1940, the Xbox was released in 2001, Petula Clark was born in 1932,...
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On This Day In History, 16 November
Space Shuttle Columbia returned from the first shuttle mission in 1982, David Livingstone first viewed the Victoria Falls in 1855, and more…
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On This Day In History, 17 November
The Suez Canal officially opened in 1869, the city of Budapest was formed in 1873, the Marx Brothers movie Duck Soup was released in 1933,...
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On This Day In History, 18 November
The Battle Of The Somme came to an end in 1916, Terry Waite was released in 1991, Steamboat Willie was released in 1928, and more…
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On This Day In History, 19 November
Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time in 1985, Amazon Kindle sales started in 2007, Pele scored his 1,000th goal in 1969,...
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On This Day In History, 20 November
The Nuremberg Trials started in 1945, Windsor Castle caught fire in 1992, Die Another Day was released in 2002, and more…
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On This Day In History, 21 November
Robert Mugabe resigned as leader of Zimbabwe in 2017, millions tuned in to find out Who Shot JR in 1980, Demi Moore married Bruce Willis...
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On This Day In History, 22 November
JFK was assassinated in 1963 in Dallas, Margaret Thatcher resigned as British PM in 1990, Toy Story went on general release in 1995, and more…
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On This Day In History, 23 November
The Dow Jones closed above the 1929 Wall Street Crash level in 1954, it took 25 years, Doctor Who first appeared on television in 1963,...
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On This Day In History, 24 November
Charles Darwin’s book On The Origin Of Species was published in 1859, Lee Harvey Oswald was shot in 1963, Scott Joplin was born in 1867,...
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On This Day In History, 25 November
Fidel Castro died in 2016 aged 90, John Lennon returned his MBE to the Queen in 1969, The Mousetrap opened in 1952, George Best died...
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On This Day In History, 26 November
The final Concorde flight flew out from London Heathrow in 2003, The Sex Pistols released Anarchy In The UK in 1976, Tina Turner was born...
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On This Day In History, 27 November
The majority of the French naval fleet was destroyed in 1942, orders for the First Crusade were given in 1095, Frozen went on general release...
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On This Day In History, 28 November
The Tehran Conference took place in 1943, Lady Astor became the 1st female British MP in 1923, Enid Mary Blyton died in 1968 aged 71,...
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On This Day In History, 29 November
The UN General Assembly confirmed the partition of Palestine in 1947, Futbol Club Barcelona was formed in 1899, C S Lewis was born in 1898,...
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On This Day In History, 30 November
The Winter War began in 1939, Michael Jacksons Thriller was released in 1982, Winston Churchill was born in 1899 in Blenheim, and more…