On This Day

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The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was followed by a tsunami and firestorm. It is central event in Voltaire’s satirical novel Candide. It’s all for the best in the best of all possible worlds.

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The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 was followed by a tsunami and firestorm.

That must have been a proper **** weekend tbf

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02 NOVEMBER

1470 The birth of King Edward V of England, one of the two 'princes in the Tower'. Along with his younger brother Richard of Shrewsbury, Duke of York, Edward 'disappeared' after being sent (allegedly for safety reasons) to the Tower of London. Responsibility for their deaths is widely attributed to his uncle, Richard III, but the actual events have remained controversial for centuries.

1636 The birth of Edward Colston, Bristol-born merchant and Member of Parliament. Much of his wealth, although used often for philanthropic purposes, was acquired through the trade and exploitation of slaves. He endowed schools and almshouses and his name is commemorated in several Bristol landmarks, two schools and the Colston bun (a yeast dough flavoured with dried fruit and spices).

1871 British police began their Rogues' Gallery, taking photographs of all convicted prisoners.

1875 Verney Cameroon reaches Benguela in Angola, from Africa's east coast, 1st European to cross equatorial Africa

1896 The first motor insurance policies were issued in Britain, but they excluded damage caused by frightened horses.

1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team

1899 Boer War: The start of the Siege of Ladysmith in Natal when Boers encircled British troops and civilians inside the town. The siege lasted for 118 days.

1917 British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a declaration of intent to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine. The British government hoped that the formal declaration would help garner Jewish support for the Allied effort in World War I.

1920 Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress

1920 In the US, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 presidential election

1924 Almost 11 years after its appearance in America, the first crossword puzzle was published in a British newspaper, sold to the Sunday Express by C.W. Shepherd.

1930 Coronation of Ras Tafari Makonnen as Haile Selassie I, 225th Emperor of Ethopian Solmonic Dynasty

1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis powers

1936 The world's first regular TV service was started by the British Broadcasting Corporation at Alexandra Palace at 3:00 p.m. It was defined as 'high-definition' (with 200 lines of resolution) and was renamed BBC1 in 1964. An estimated 100 TV owners tuned in.

1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose or H-4 The Hercules; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built

1950 George Bernard Shaw, the renowned playwright died, aged 94.

1951 The final phase of the largest troop airlift since the war brought in British reinforcements to quell unrest in the Canal Zone, Egypt.

1953 The foundation of the Samaritans, (the world's first crisis hotline organisation), by the Anglican priest Chad Varah, who was born in Barton-upon-Humber, Lincolnshire.

1954 The comedy series 'Hancock's Half Hour' was first broadcast on BBC Radio.

1959 The opening of Watford Gap Services, the oldest motorway services in Britain. The M1 - between Junction 5 (Watford) and Junction 18 (Crick/Rugby) opened on the same day. Watford Gap has long been hailed as the unofficial cut-off point between the two parts of the country, with 'southerners' sometimes criticised for not venturing north of it.

1959 Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

1960 Penguin publishers were cleared of obscenity for printing the D.H. Lawrence novel 'Lady Chatterley's Lover'. The first edition was printed privately in Florence in 1928 but the unexpurgated edition could not be published openly in the United Kingdom until 1960. The book was notorious at the time for its story of the physical relationship between a working-class man and an upper-class woman, with explicit descriptions of ***, and its use of then-unprintable words.

1963 Gerry & the Pacemakers reached the number one spot with 'You'll Never Walk Alone'.

1964 The first episode of the television soap opera 'Crossroads' was broadcast on ITV.

1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the US

1981 Citizens Band radio (CB radio) was legally allowed in Britain

1982 The first edition of 'Countdown' the British TV game show involving word and number puzzles. It was hosted by Richard Whiteley and Carol Vorderman and was also the first programme to be aired on Channel 4.

1983 U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day

1988 The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT

2000 The controversial chief inspector of schools in England, Chris Woodhead, stepped down, to the delight of teachers' unions.

2012 It was announced that more than 100 post boxes, painted gold to celebrate the success of Britain's Olympic and Paralympic athletes, would remain gold on a permanent basis. This one, at Leek in Staffordshire commemorates the Olympic rower Anna Watkin.

2012 66 year old billionaire Sean Quinn, once Ireland's richest man and the 12th richest in the UK, was taken to prison to begin a nine-week sentence for contempt of court.

2014 The death, aged 85, of Acker Bilk, the legendary jazz clarinettist. He was the first UK act to top the US charts in the 1960s and was known for performing in a flamboyant waistcoat and bowler hat.

Famous Birthday's

Marie Antoinette
(1755 - 1793)

Warren G. Harding
(1865 - 1923)

Burt Lancaster
(1913 - 1994)

Keith Emerson
(1944 - 2016)

Stefanie Powers
75th Birthday

Ken Rosewall
83rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

George Bernard Shaw
(1856 - 1950)

Willie Sutton
(1901 - 1980)

Toni Stone
(1921 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1887 Baseball legend Connie Mack (24) weds Margaret Hogan

1896 Nizari Imam Aga Khan III (19) weds first cousin Shahzadi Begum in Pune, India

2005 Irish TV and radio presenter Sile Seoige (26) weds Glen Mulcahy at St. Brendan's Church in County Offaly

2009 "*** and the City" actor Ron Livingston (41) weds actress Rosemarie DeWitt (34) in San Francisco

2012 BMX icon TJ Lavin weds longtime fiancee Roxanne Siordia (32) in Las Vegas

Famous Divorces

2006 Rocker Rod Stewart (58) divorces model Rachel Hunter (33) due to irreconcilable differences

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03 NOVEMBER

644 Umar ibn al-Khattab, second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina

1534 England's Parliament met and passed an Act of Supremacy which made King Henry VIII head of the English church, a role formerly held by the Pope.

1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

1640 English Long Parliament forms

1718 The birth of John Montague, fourth Earl of Sandwich who gave his name to the Sandwich Islands, and (allegedly) to the 'sandwich' as a result of his reluctance to leave the gaming tables but requiring a quick and easy to eat snack.

1783 The highwayman John Austin was the last person to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

1783 The American Continental Army is disbanded

1817 The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.

1838 The Times of India was founded, as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce. According to Audit Bureau of Circulations, it has the largest circulation among all English-language newspapers in the world,

1843 The statue of English Admiral Horatio Nelson was raised to the top of Nelson's Column in Trafalgar Square, London. The operation was completed on the 4th when the statue’s two sections were assembled. (Note:- Nelson was born in Burnham Thorpe - Norfolk. His home was demolished in 1803, but was on this site outside the village.

1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

1911 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T

1919 The birth of Sir Ludovic Kennedy, Scottish born journalist, broadcaster, humanist and author, also known for his role in the abolition of the death penalty in the United Kingdom.

1930 The birth, in Huddersfield, of Brian Robinson, former road racing cyclist of the 1950s and early 1960s. He was the first Briton to finish the Tour de France and the first to win a Tour stage. His successes paved the way for other Britons such as Tom Simpson.

1941 English broadcaster Roy Plomley conceived the idea for 'Desert Island Discs'. The programme was first broadcast on BBC Radio in January 1942.

1942 World War II: The Battle of El Alamein. The British Eighth Army, commanded by General Bernard Montgomery, broke through the German front line having taken 9000 prisoners and destroyed 300 tanks.

1948 Lulu (born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie) the British actress and singer was born, in Glasgow.

1949 The BBC purchased the Shepherd's Bush Studios from the Rank Organisation.

1954 The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name

1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit

1964 Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

1975 Queen Elizabeth II opened the North Sea pipeline - the first to be built underwater - bringing ashore 400,000 barrels a day to Grangemouth Refinery on the Firth of Forth in Scotland.

1976 The first £100,000 Premium Bond was won, by an anonymous person in Hillingdon.

1985 Two French agents in New Zealand pleaded guilty to sinking the Greenpeace ship, Rainbow Warrior and to the manslaughter of a photographer on board. They were sentenced to ten years’ imprisonment.

1986 Ash-Shiraa reports that the US has been secretly selling weapons to Iran to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon

1996 The death of Conservative MP Barry Porter narrowed to one seat the majority held by the Conservative Party in Parliament.

1997 The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its assistance to Islamic extremist groups

2002 Lonnie Donegan, singer, musician, and legendary skiffle king, died at the age of 71.

2014 Will Cornick, aged 16, who murdered Ann Maguire while she was teaching a Spanish lesson at Corpus Christi Catholic College in Leeds, showed no emotion as he was handed a minimum of 20 years in custody. Ahead of the killing in April 2014, he had also planned to murder two other teachers, including one who was pregnant.

2014 One World Trade Center officially opens

Famous Birthday's

Charles Bronson
(1921 - 2003)

Roseanne Barr
65th Birthday

Roy Emerson
81st Birthday

Brian Poole
76th Birthday

Gerd Müller
72nd Birthday

Lulu
68th Birthday

Larry Holmes
67th Birthday

Dolph Lundgren
60th Birthday

James Prime
56th Birthday

Ian Wright
53rd Birthday

Famous Deaths

Annie Oakley
(1860 - 1926)

Alfred Wegener
(1880 - 1930)

Henri Matisse
(1869 - 1954)

Ian Bannen
(1928 - 1999)

Lonnie Donegan
(1931 - 2002)

Tom [Thomas] Graveney
(1927 - 2015)

Famous Weddings

1963 Cosmonaut Valentina Tereshkova (26) weds cosmonaut Andriyan Nikolayev (34) at the Moscow Wedding Palace

2012 Professional bull rider Luke Snyder (30) weds Jennifer Manna (34) at Big Cedar Lodge outside of Branson, Missouri

2012 Olympic gymnast Carly Patterson (24) weds Mark Caldwell (27) at the Main Street Garden Park in Dallas, Texas

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04 NOVEMBER

1576 Eighty Years' War: In Flanders, Spanish defeat Walloon and capture Antwerp

1650 William III, King of England, Scotland and Ireland was born ..... in Holland. On the day after his 38th birthday he landed at Torbay with an army of English and Dutch troops, and when Parliament declared the throne empty, he was proclaimed king. These gilded statues of William III are in Portsmouth Dockyard and in Hull . Hull was the first large city in Britain to swear their allegiance to the new King when he deposed James II in 1685.

1677 The future Mary II of England married William, Prince of Orange. They later jointly reigned as William and Mary.

1783 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's Symphony No. 36 is performed for the first time in Linz, Austria

1832 The birth, in Monmouthshire, of James James, harpist and musician from Pontypridd in South Wales. He composed the tune of the Welsh national anthem Hen Wlad fy Nhadau (also known as Land of my Fathers). This memorial to James James and his father Evan James, who wrote the lyrics, is in Ynysangharad Park, Pontypridd.

1839 The Newport Rising took place. It was the last large scale armed rebellion against authority in mainland Britain. Between 1,000 and 5,000 marched on the town of Newport in Monmouthshire, intent on liberating those who were reported to have been taken prisoner in the town's Westgate Hotel. 22 of their number were killed by the troops and upwards of 50 were wounded.

1841 First wagon train arrives in California

1847 Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, discovers the anaesthetic properties of chloroform

1852 For the first time in its history, journalists were allowed into the House of Commons to report debates.

1859 The death of Joseph Rowntree, British chocolate manufacturer and philanthropist.

1862 Dr Richard Gatling patents Gatling machine gun in Indianapolis

1879 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents refrigerating apparatus

1884 The birth of Henry George (Harry) Ferguson, Irish engineer and inventor who is noted for his role in the development of the modern agricultural tractor, for becoming the first Irishman to build and fly his own aeroplane, and for developing the first four-wheel drive Formula One car, the Ferguson P99.

1890 The Prince of Wales travelled by the underground electric railway from King William Street to the Oval to mark the opening of what is now the City Branch of the Northern Line. It was the first electrified underground railway system.

1900 Britain's first driving lessons were given, in London.

1921 The Sturmabteilung or SA, whose members were known as "brownshirts", physically assault Adolf Hitler's opposition after his speech in Munich

1922 English explorers Lord Carnarvon and Howard Carter discovered the Tomb of King Tutankhamen, in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt. It had been undisturbed since 1337 BC.

1924 Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming is elected the first female governor in the United States

1929 Violinist Yehudi Menuhin made his London debut, aged 12.

1939 President Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents

1942 The Battle of El Alamein ended with victory for the allies, after 12 days of conflict with Rommel's 'Africa Corps'.

1952 Queen Elizabeth II opened her first Parliament.

1952 The United States government establishes the National Security Agency, or NSA

1963 John Lennon utters his infamous line at a Royal Variety Performance "Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And for the rest of you, if you’ll just rattle your jewelry…" in London

1973 The Netherlands experiences the first Car-Free Sunday caused by the 1973 oil crisis. Highways are deserted and are used only by cyclists and roller skaters

1974 Judith Ward was convicted of an army coach bombing on the M62 motorway in which 12 people died. She received a life term for each of those who died. Her conviction was quashed in 1992 when her lawyers argued that the trial jury should have been told of her history of mental illness.

1979 Iran hostage crisis: A mob of Iranians, mostly students, overruns the US embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).

1987 Millionaire Peter de Savary bought Land’s End in Cornwall.

1994 400 years of shipbuilding came to an end at the Swan Hunter Shipyard, Tyneside, with the launch of the Royal Naval Frigate 'Richmond'. The yard stood empty for a few years, before it was bought by Jaap Kroese, a Dutch millionaire.

1995 Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Israeli

2008 Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States

2011 Seven people were killed and 51 injured in a 34-vehicle pile-up on the M5 in Somerset. The accident happened close to junction 25 northbound and led to a 'massive fireball' at the scene.

2012 Reg Dean (from Wirksworth in Derbyshire) who was Britain's oldest man, celebrated his 110th birthday. He attributed his longevity to a 'mysterious medicine' given to him as a youth in India and to being 'a lazy-bones'. He died on 5th January 2013, aged 110 years and 63 days.

2014 Statistics from the 2011 census showed that Polish migrants had the highest employment rate of any nationality living in Britain, including the British. Results aslo showed that European migrants to the UK added £4.96bn more in taxes in the years to 2011 than they took out in public services

Famous Birthday's

Walter Cronkite
(1916 - 2009)

Art Carney
(1918 - 2003)

Matthew McConaughey
48th Birthday

Loretta Swit
79th Birthday

Rodney Marsh
69th Birthday

Matthew McConaughey
47th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Cy Young
(1867 - 1955)

Yitzhak Rabin
(1922 - 1995)

Sparky Anderson
(1934 - 2010)

Michael Crichton
(1942 - 2008)

Acker Bilk
(1929 - 2014)

Famous Weddings

1842 U.S. first lady Mary Todd Lincoln (23) weds US president Abraham Lincoln (33) in Springfield, Illinois

1911 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma

1939 Actress and comedian Phyllis Diller (22) weds inspector Sherwood Diller in Covington, Kentucky

1978 "The Nanny" actress Fran Drescher (20) weds writer and director Peter Marc Jacobson (20)

2006 Radio and television journalist Alison Stewart (40) weds MSNBC vice-president of prime-time programming Bill Wolff (40) at the stylish New York restaurant Cipriani 23rd Street

Famous Divorces

1940 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway divorces 2nd wife Pauline Pfeiffer

1993 Nia Peeples files for divorce from Howard Hewett

2009 R&B singer Usher (30) divorces hair stylist and wardrobe stylist Tameka Foster (38) due to irretrievably broken marriage after 2 years

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05 NOVEMBER

1492 Christopher Columbus learns of maize (corn) from Indians of Cuba

1556 Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat hindu leader Hemu

1605 Guy Fawkes, born here in York was arrested when around 30 barrels of gunpowder, camouflaged with coal, were discovered in the cellar under Parliament. Robert Catesby’s small band of Catholic zealots who planned to blow up James I and Parliament were only arrested after Fawkes revealed their names when tortured on the rack. Conspirators met at the Old Lion Inn, Dunchurch, Warwickshire and plaque on 5th November to await news of the destruction of Westminster.

1854 Nine**** Victoria Crosses were won in the defeat of the Russians at the Battle of Inkerman.

1872 Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100

1895 George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile

1909 Woolworths opened its first British store, in Liverpool. Almost 100 years later, (at the end of the first week in January 2009) the last remaining stores closed for the last time.

1912 The appointment of a British Board of Film Censors. They decided on only two classifications - 'Universal' and 'Not Suitable for Children'.

1912 Woodrow Wilson is elected to the presidency of the United States

1913 Vivien Leigh, British actress who won an Oscar for 'Gone With the Wind' was born.

1914 World War I: Britain and France declared war on Turkey.

1925 Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union

1927 Britain’s first automatic traffic lights were installed at Princess Square road junction in Wolverhampton, in the West Midlands.

1932 Gillespie Road London Underground station, which also served Arsenal Football Club’s Highbury ground, had its name changed to Arsenal after representations by the club.

1935 Lester Piggott, champion jockey, was born. Aged 18, he rode his first Derby winner. Piggott had 4,493 career wins, including nine Epsom Derby victories and is one is one of the most well-known English flat racing jockeys of all time. In 1987 he was convicted of tax fraud, jailed for three years and was stripped of his OBE that had been awarded in 1975.

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

1950 Korean War: British and Australian forces from the 27th British Commonwealth Brigade successfully halted the advancing Chinese 117th Division during the Battle of Pakchon in North Korea.

1956 Britain and France land airborne forces at Port Said in Egypt, escalating the Suez Crisis

1967 At least 40 people were killed and 80 hurt after a train derailed near Hither Green, south-east London. Survivors included Robin Gibb of the Bee Gees who died on 20th May 2012, at the age of 62, from liver and kidney failure.

1971 Princess Anne was voted ‘Sportswoman of the Year’ by the British Sportswriters' Association.

1979 The trial began in Dublin, of the two men accused of the murder of Lord Mountbatten.

1979 Iran's Ayatollah Khomeini declares US "The Great Satan"

1990 Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel

1991 Millionaire publishing tycoon Robert Maxwell was found dead at sea, several hours after mysteriously disappearing from his yacht off the Canary Islands.

2006 Following the invasion of Iraq in March 2003 by a coalition of countries including Britain and America, Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq was sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for his role in the massacre of 148 Shi'as in 1982. His execution was carried out on 30th December 2006.

2007 Android mobile operating system is unveiled by Google

2009 U.S. Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan murders 13 and wounds 32 at Fort Hood, Texas in the deadliest mass shooting at a U.S. military installation

2013 The village of Wool, in the Purbeck district of Dorset, reported that at least 160 sheep had been stolen from nearby fields, sometime between 1st and 3rd November.

Famous Birthday's

Vivien Leigh
(1913 - 1967)

Bill Walton
65th Birthday

Bryan Adams
58th Birthday

Lester Piggott
82nd Birthday

Art Garfunkel
75th Birthday

Peter Noone
69th Birthday

Kasper Schmeichel
31st Birthday

Famous Deaths

Christiaan Eijkman
(1858 - 1930)

George M. Cohan
(1878 - 1942)

René Goscinny
(1926 - 1977)

Eamonn Andrews
(1922 - 1987)

Robert Maxwell
(1923 -1991)

Famous Weddings

1940 American author and journalist "The Old Man and the Sea" Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn

1941 Writer and veterinary surgeon James Herriot (25) weds Joan Catherine Danbury

1977 43rd US President George W. Bush (31) weds Laura Welch (31) at The First United Methodist Church in Midland, Texas

2005 2004 Indianapolis 500 racecar driver winner Buddy Rice (29) weds Michelle Noonan in Arizona

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06 NOVEMBER

1429 Henry VI was crowned King of England, seven years after acceding to the throne at the age of eight months. Two years later, in Paris, he was also crowned King of France.

1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain

1638 Birth of James Gregory, Scottish mathematician and astronomer who described the first practical reflecting telescope and contributed towards the discovery of calculus.

1856 The first work of fiction by the author Mary Anne Evans (later known as George Eliot) was submitted for publication. The title was 'Scenes of Clerical Life'. Her 1872 book, Middlemarch, has been described as the greatest novel in the English language.

1860 Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President

1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America

1892 Birth of Sir John Alcock, English aviator who flew the first non-stop flight across the Atlantic in 1919 with Sir Arthur Whitten-Brown.

1913 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa

1917 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution

1924 Tory leader Stanley Baldwin was elected Prime Minister. He appointed Winston Churchill, former Liberal, as the Chancellor of the Exchequer.

1928 Arnold Rothstein, head of the Jewish mob in New York, is shot and mortally wounded. He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a gambling debt

1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie

1935 The RAF's first monoplane fighter, the 'Hawker Hurricane' made its maiden flight. Although largely overshadowed by the Spitfire, the aircraft became renowned during the Battle of Britain, and accounted for 60% of the RAF's air victories.

1938 Singer P.J. Proby was born. He was later banned from performing when his trousers regularly and 'accidentally' split on stage.

1942 The Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church.

1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan

1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program

1968 2300 jobs were lost when British Eagle airlines stopped flying.

1970 Three times Grand National hero Red Rum, the greatest ever steeplechaser, won his first ever race, a novice event at Doncaster, at odds of 100/7.

1975 UK punk rock group, the *** Pistols, gave their first public performance at London's St Martin's College of Art. College authorities cut the concert short after a mere 10 minutes.

1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule; General Gholan Reza Azhari forms government

1986 Forty five people died after a Chinook helicopter carrying oil rig workers plunged into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.

2003 Michael Howard took over as leader of the Conservative party after Iain Duncan Smith was ousted in a no-confidence vote.

2004 The death, aged 66, of Fred Dibnah MBE - Bolton born steeplejack, industrial historian, mechnical engineer, steam engine enthusiast and television presenter. His coffin was towed through the centre of Bolton by his restored traction engine, driven by his son, followed by a cortège of steam-powered vehicles. His former home in Bolton is now the Fred Dibnah Heritage Centre. He is buried here, in Tonge Cemetery, Bolton..

2008 The Bank of England made a 1.5% cut in UK interest rates to 3%, the lowest level since 1955.

2011 Sir Alex Ferguson celebrated 25 years as manager of Manchester United, making him the longest serving manager in their history and the longest serving manager in English League football. He was knighted in 1999 for his services to the game and also holds the Freedom of the City of Aberdeen.

2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate

2013 Anthony Peter McCoy (commonly known as AP McCoy) became the first jump jockey to ride 4,000 winners when he triumphed with the second of two rides at Towcester, (on Mountain Tunes in the 3:10pm race).

2014 Sheila Marsh, a 77-year-old grandmother-of-four, was granted a final wish of seeing her favourite horse for one last time - after the animal was brought to visit her in her hospital bed at Wigan Royal Infirmary. She passed away from cancer just hours after the horse, named Bronwen, was brought to see her.

2014 The Government announced that new road signs showing height and width restrictions using both imperial and metric measurements were to be introduced. "Imperial only signs can remain in place only until such time that they become life-expired, or replaced during routine maintenance."

Famous Birthday's

Suleiman the Magnificent
(1494 - 1566)

Walter Johnson
(1887 - 1946)

Emma Stone
28th Birthday

P. J. Proby
79th Birthday

Sally Field
71st Birthday

Jim Rosenthal
70th Birthday

Glenn Frey
(1948 - 2016)

Nigel Havers
66th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
(1840 - 1893)

Arnold Rothstein
(1882 - 1928)

Gene Tierney
(1920 - 1991)

Tommy Lawton
(1919 - 1996)

Fred Dibnah
(1938 - 2004)

Clive Dunn
(1920 - 2012)

Famous Weddings

1919 "The Sheik" actor Rudolph Valentino (24) weds actress Jean Acker (26)

1935 English Prince Henry weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott

1983 Businessman Vidal Sassoon (55) weds dressage champion Jeanette Hartford-Davis

1993 Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)

1998 "Some Like It Hot" actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada

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07 NOVEMBER

1492 Ensisheim Meteorite strikes a wheat field near the village of Ensisheim in Alsace, France. Oldest meteorite with a known date of impact.

1665 The first edition of the London Gazette was printed. It is the world's longest running journal and carried news of military appointments and engagements.

1687 The birth of William Stukeley, English clergyman, friend of Sir Isaac Newton and antiquarian who pioneered the archaeological investigation of the prehistoric monuments of Stonehenge and Avebury.

1805 The birth of Thomas Brassey, an English civil engineering contractor who was responsible for building much of the world's railways in the 19th century. By 1847, he had built one-third of the railways in Britain, and by time of his death in 1870 he had built an incredible one in every twenty miles of railway in the world. He also built the structures associated with those railways, including docks, bridges, viaducts (such as Chirk viaduct), stations, tunnels and drainage works.

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later

1908 Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia

1914 The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published

1917 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.

1929 In New York City, the Museum of Modern Art opens to the public

1931 Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Zedong

1933 Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City

1935 The Royal National Institute for the Blind distributed its first Talking Books of players and records to blind & partially sighted people.

1942 The birth of Jean Shrimpton, leading English model whose face and figure, enhanced with a miniskirt, set the fashion for the 60s.

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America

1945 Group Captain H J Wilson became the first man to exceed 600 miles per hour (970 km/h), flying a Gloster Meteor jet fighter at Herne Bay. The aircraft was powered by two 3,500 lb thrust Rolls Royce Derwent V turbojets.

1953 The birth of Lucinda Green MBE, former champion British equestrian. She began riding at the age of four and is most well known for winning the Badminton Horse Trials a record six times, on six different horses.

1956 An official ceasefire during the Suez Crisis following the British and French invasion of Egypt after President Nasser had announced the nationalisation of the Suez Canal.

1964 The country's first drink-driving advertisement was shown on television, with the message "Drinking and driving are dangerous."

1967 British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper beat challenger Billy Walker to become the only boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.

1973 US Congress overrides President Richard M. Nixon's veto of the War Powers Resolution, which limits presidential power to wage war without congressional approval

1974 Lord Lucan mysteriously disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny and a serious assault on his wife.

1978 The birth, in Peckham, London of the footballer Rio Gavin Ferdinand. He joined Manchester United in July 2002 for around £30 million, breaking the transfer fee record.

1989 David Dinkins becomes the first African American to be elected Mayor of New York City

1990 Mary Robinson became the first woman President of the Irish Republic.

1994 WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world's first internet radio broadcast

1996 A team of British, American and Australian scientists reported evidence that life on Earth originated some 350 million years earlier than previously believed.

1996 The closure of 'Butlins - Barry Island' in south Wales, Billy Butlin's last-built and smallest holiday camp. At the time of its closure it was owned by Majestic Holidays and was sold for £2.25m to Vale of Glamorgan Council who demolished the camp and sold it to Bovis Homes for housing development.

1997 Despite him being instrumental in their overnight phenomenal international success, British group 'The Spice Girls' sacked their creator and manager Simon Fuller.

1998 Families of World War 1 soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall in the first ceremony of its kind to pay tribute to the 306 servicemen who died. Those soldiers now have a memorial at the National Memorial Arboretum in Staffordshire.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore which is eventually resolved in Bush's favor by the Supreme Court

2000 Hillary Clinton is elected to the US Senate, becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the United States, although she was actually still the First Lady

2001 Prime Minister Tony Blair insisted that his global activity for the war on terrorism did not mean that domestic issues such as crime, health and education were neglected.

2002 Iran bans advertising of United States products

2012 Actor Clive Dunn, best known for his role as Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, died aged 92.

2013 A report showed that the NHS spent nearly £700 on clinical negligence cover for every live birth in England - almost a fifth of all spending on maternity.

2014 Alan Knight, a fraudster from Swansea, who pretended to be quadriplegic for two years in an attempt to evade punishment for conning an elderly and vulnerable neighbour was jailed for four and a half years.

2016 The death (aged 95) of the veteran broadcaster Sir Jimmy Young. He spent almost three decades at BBC Radio 2 and was one of the original Radio 1 DJs when the station launched in 1967.

Famous Birthday's

Agrippina the Younger
(15 - 59)



Marie Curie
(1867 - 1934)

Leon Trotsky
(1879 - 1940)

Jean Shrimpton
75th Birthday

Joni Mitchell
74th Birthday

John Barnes
54th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Butch Cassidy
(1866 - 1908)

Eleanor Roosevelt
(1884 - 1962)

Joe Frazier
(1944 - 2011)

Alfred Russel Wallace
(1823 - 1913)

Steve McQueen
(1930 - 1980)

Howard Keel
(1919 - 2004)


Leonard Cohen
(1934 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1597 Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal

1913 Comedian Oliver Hardy (21) marries pianist Madelyn Saloshin in in Macon, Georgia

1951 Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)

1957 Cosmonaut Yuri Gagarin (23) weds Valentina Ivanovna Goryacheva

1984 FIFA soccer player Diego Maradona (24) weds long-time fiancée Claudia Villafañe in Buenos Aires

Famous Divorces

1934 Actress Gloria Swanson (35) divorces Michael Farmer after 3 years of marriage

1957 Actress Ingrid Bergman (42) divorces Roberto Rossellini after 7 years of mariage

1982 Actress Elizabeth Taylor's 7th divorce from politician John Warner

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08 NOVEMBER

November 8th is 'The Feast of the Four Crowned Ones', still marked by some English freemasons. It commemorates four masons martyred by Emperor Diocletian for refusing to sculpt a pagan god.

392 Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion

1519 1st meeting of Moctezuma II & Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico

1602 The Bodleian Library at Oxford University was opened to the public. It is second in size to the British Library.

1605 Robert Catesby, the ringleader of the Gunpowder Plotters, was killed by gunshot, along with other conspirators at Holbeche House, on the border of Staffordshire. He was buried close by but the bodies of Catesby and fellow conspirator Percy were exhumed and decapitated and Catesby's head was placed on the side of the Parliament House.

1656 The birth of Edmond Halley, English astronomer and mathematician best known for the comet named after him and for his work predicting its orbit. He also produced the first meteorological chart.

1674 The death of John Milton, blind English poet of Paradise Lost.

1701 William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges

1734 Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in Netherlands

1745 Charles Edward Stuart invaded England with an army of 5000 that would later participate in the Battle of Culloden (16th April 1746).

1802 The birth of Sir Benjamin Hall, commissioner of works at the time of Big Ben’s installation in the tower at the Houses of Parliament. The famous 13 ton bell is named after him.

1847 Bram Stoker, Irish author remembered for the classic, 'Dracula', was born. Whitby has associations with the Dracula novel.

1866 Herbert Austin, later Baron Austin, English motor car manufacturer, was born.

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

1917 The People's Commissars give authority to Vladimir Lenin, Leon Trotsky, and Joseph Stalin

1920 Rupert Bear made his first appearance in the Daily Express. Rupert Bear Annuals have been produced since 1936 and are still in production today. The Rupert Annual is still one of the top three Annual titles sold worldwide.

1923 Beer Hall Putsch: In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in an unsuccessful attempt to overthrow the German government

1933 US President Franklin D. Roosevelt unveils the Civil Works Administration, an organization designed to create jobs for more than 4 million unemployed

1937 The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich

1957 A report into a fire at Windscale nuclear power plant in Cumbria blamed the accident on human error, poor management and faulty instruments. The fire caused an unspecified amount of radioactive iodine vapour - iodine 131 - to escape into the atmosphere.

1957 Britain conducted its first successful hydrogen bomb test, over Kiritimati in the Pacific.

1958 Melody Maker published the first British album charts.

1960 John F. Kennedy defeats Richard Nixon in one of the closest presidential elections of the twentieth century to become the 35th president of the United States


1965 The bill abolishing the death penalty became law.

1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California

1967 BBC Radio Leicester (the first of the new breed of BBC Local Radio stations) began broadcasting at 12.45 p.m. from a transmitter located on Gorse Hill above the city centre.

1972 HBO launches its programming, with the broadcast of the 1971 movie Sometimes a Great Notion, starring Paul Newman and Henry Fonda

1973 The right ear of John Paul Getty III is delivered to a newspaper together with a ransom note, convincing his father to pay US$2.9 million

1974 Covent Garden ceased to be the location of London’s famous flower and vegetable market as it moved across the Thames, leaving the old warehouses and Floral Hall.

1974 Britiish peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London

1987 An IRA bomb exploded shortly before a Remembrance Day service at the Cenotaph in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 11 people.

1990 The Republic of Ireland elected its first woman president, Mary Robinson. The mother-of-three had been a member of the Irish Senate for more than 20 years.

2002 Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council under Resolution 1441 unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face "serious consequences"

2003 The Countess of Wes*** (wife of Prince Edward) gave birth to her first child - Lady Louise Windsor, a month early at Frimley Park hospital in Surrey. The baby weighed just 4lbs 9oz (2 kg).

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected President of The United States of America, defeating democrat Hillary Clinton despite Clinton receiving 2.9 million more votes

Famous Birthday's

Vlad the Impaler
(1431 - 1476)

Bram Stoker
(1847 - 1912)

Margaret Mitchell
(1900 - 1949)

Edmond Halley
(1656 - 1742)

Herbert Austin
(1866 - 1941)

Minnie Ripperton
(1947 - 1979)

Ken Dodd
90th Birthday



Alain Delon
82nd Birthday

Martin Peters
74th Birthday

Roy Wood
70th Birthday

Alan Curbishley
60th Birthday

Gordon Ramsay
51st Birthday

Famous Deaths



Doc Holliday
(1851 - 1887)

Ramsay MacDonald
(1866 - 1937)

Betty Nuthall
(1911 - 1983)

Eddie Charlton
(1929 - 2004)

Famous Weddings

1766 Future Prime Minister William Cavendish-Bentinck (28) weds Dorothy Cavendish (16)

1975 NBA legend Larry Bird (18) weds highschool sweetheart Janet Condra

1985 Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42)

1997 Bluegrass musician Alison Krauss marries Pat Bergeson

2006 Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool Nazril Idrus

Famous Divorces

1968 Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John

1970 "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8 days after getting married

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Robert Catesby
I wonder why they buried him after being shot and then decided to dig him back up and chop his head off,lack of planning if you ask me