On This Day

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24 NOVEMBER

380 Theodosius I makes his adventus, or first formal entry, into Constantinople

1542 The English army defeated the Scots at the Battle of Solway Moss. It started as a family dispute when Henry VIII of England broke from the Roman Catholic Church and asked James V of Scotland, his nephew, to do the same, but James ignored his uncle's request.

1639 1st observation of transit of Venus by Jeremiah Horrocks and William Crabtree - helped establish size of the Solar System

1642 Dutch explorer Abel Tasman discovers Van Diemen's Land (Tasmania)

1806 The birth of Reverend William Webb Ellis, Anglican clergyman and the alleged inventor of rugby football whilst a pupil at Rugby School. According to legend, Webb Ellis picked up the ball and ran with it during a school football match in 1823. The William Webb Ellis Cup is presented to the winners of the Rugby World Cup.

1815 Birth of Grace Darling, an English lighthouse keeper’s daughter from the Longstone Lighthouse who rowed out to rescue survivors of the Forfarshire off the Farne Islands and became a national heroine. She died of consumption, aged 26. The Grace Darling memorial is within St. Aidan's churchyard, Bamburgh, Northumberland.

1831 Michael Faraday read his first series of papers at the Royal Society in London on ‘Experimental Research into Electricity’.

1859 Charles Darwin published his controversial and groundbreaking scientific work 'The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection'. Darwin was born in Shewsbury, Shropshire. The Quantum Leap sculpture in Shrewsbury was created to celebrate the bicentenary of his birth. This statue to Darwin is outside Shrewsbury library, a building that was once his former school.

1874 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire

1939 Imperial Airways and British Airways merged to become BOAC (British Overseas Airways Corporation), which later merged with British European Airways and returned to one of the previous names, British Airways.

1941 The birth of Pete Best, British musician, principally known as the original drummer in The Beatles, until he was eventually replaced by Ringo Starr.

1950 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas

1951 Austin and Morris Motors agreed to merge.

1954 France sends 20,000 soldiers to Algeria

1955 The birth of Ian Botham, former England Test cricketer and Test team captain. He played mainly for Somerset and the County Ground at Taunton has a stand called the Sir Ian Botham Stand.

1962 ' That Was the Week That Was' went out live from the BBC, introduced by a new presenter, David Frost, and with some material written by an equally unknown John Cleese.

1966 400 die of respiratory failure & heart attacks in New York City smog, smoggiest day in city's history

1972 One of only eight 1933 pennies minted was auctioned at Sotherbys for £7,000.

1974 Police charged 6 men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings 3 days previously.

1987 Free eye tests were abolished by the Conservative government.

1991 Freddie Mercury, English rock singer, died at the age of 45, just one day after he publicly announced that he was HIV positive.

1993 The last 14 bottles of Scotch whisky salvaged from the SS Politician, wrecked in 1941 and the inspiration of the book and film, Whisky Galore, were sold at auction for £11,462.

2005 New laws came in force in England and Wales allowing 'round-the-clock drinking'.

2008 Chancellor Alistair Darling cut VAT, but took borrowing to record levels in moves that he said were needed to save the UK from a deep and long-lasting recession.

2010 Weather forecasters predicted that the UK would be entering a prolonged cold spell which could bring one of the earliest significant snowfalls since 1993. A few days later more than a thousand schools were closed across the UK and snow caused travel chaos in Scotland and the north of England.

2014 Cherry Campbell, aged 9, who plays the title role in CBeebies show Katie Morag became the youngest-ever winner at the Bafta Children's awards.

2014 NHS workers, including nurses, midwives and ambulance staff, staged four-hour strikes in England and Northern Ireland as part of a pay dispute. They were protesting about the decision not to implement a 1% rise for all staff as recommended by a pay review body.

Famous Birthday's

Zachary Taylor
(1784 - 1850)



Charles "Lucky" Luciano
(1896 - 1962)

Ted Bundy
(1946 - 1989)

Famous Deaths



Diego Rivera
(1886 - 1957)

Lee Harvey Oswald
(1939 - 1963)



Freddie Mercury
(1946 - 1991)

Famous Weddings

1190 Isabella of Jerusalem marries Conrad of Montferrat at Acre, making him de jure King.

1979 Author Kurt Vonnegut Jr. (57) weds photographer Jill Krementz (39)

1980 Ronald Reagan Jr marries Doria Palmieri

1984 MLB pitcher Roger Clemens (22) weds Debra Lynn Godfrey

2000 Actor, screenwriter and director Jon Favreau (34) weds physician Joya Tillem (30) in Sonoma, California

Famous Divorces

1976 Singer-songwriter Donna Summer (27) divorces actor Helmuth Sommer after 5 years of marriage

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25 NOVEMBER

1120 Henry I's only legitimate son, William, was drowned when The White Ship (la Blanche-Nef) carrying him from Normandy to England sank off Barfleur. This set up a conflict, known as the Anarchy, for the English crown between Stephen and Henry's daughter, Matilda.

1177 Battle of Montgisard: Baldwin IV of Jerusalem defeats Saladin and a larger Ayyubid force

1703 The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reached its intensity which it maintained through to 27th November. Winds gusted up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died.

1783 Britain evacuates New York city, its last military position in United States

1823 The first pleasure pier, The Chain Pier at Brighton, opened. It closed in 1896 and was destroyed in a storm in the same year.

1835 Birth of Andrew Carnegie, Scottish-born US industrialist and philanthropist who rose from telegraph boy to iron and steel multimillionaire. He devoted his vast wealth to libraries and universities including the Carnegie Hall in New York which opened in 1891.

1839 Cyclone slams south eastern India with high winds and a 40 foot storm surge, destroying city of Coringa. Storm waves sweep inland, destroying 20,000 ships and killing an estimated 300,000 people

1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite

1896 William Marshall became the first person in Britain to receive a parking summons after leaving his car in Tokenhouse Yard in the City of London, but the case was dismissed.

1932 British Equity, the actors' union, voted for a 'closed shop' to begin operating in 1933.

1937 An inter-regional spelling competition became the first British quiz programme to be broadcast.

1940 World War II: The first flight of the deHavilland Mosquito aircraft. The Mosquito was one of the few operational, front-line aircraft to be constructed almost entirely of wood and, as such, was nicknamed 'The Wooden Wonder' or Mossie to its crews. When it entered production in 1941 it was one of the fastest operational aircraft in the world.

1952 The play, The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie, opened in London, at the Ambassador's Theatre where it remained for 21 years. By Saturday 12th April 1958 it had become the longest running production of any kind in the history of British Theatre.

1953 Hungary, led by their talented footballer Ferenc Pushkas, beat England 6-3 at Wembley to become the first foreign team to achieve an away win at Wembley.

1969 John Lennon returned his MBE in protest against British involvement in Biafra and British support of US involvement in Vietnam.

1981 The inquiry into the Brixton riots in April blamed serious social and economic problems affecting Britain's cities.

1983 World's greatest robbery; 26 million pounds (sterling) worth of gold, diamonds and cash stolen from Brink's-Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport, England

1984 Band Aid rock stars gathered at Sarm Studios in London to record 'Do They Know It's Christmas', to aid famine relief in Ethiopia.

1991 Winston Silcott became the first of the 'Tottenham Three', convicted for the 1985 killing of a policeman in Tottenham, North London, to have his conviction overturned.

2005 Former football star George Best died in hospital at the age of 59 after suffering multiple organ failure. He was a talented and charismatic player and became one of the first celebrity footballers. Best's subsequent extravagant lifestyle led to various problems, most notably alcoholism, which he suffered from for the rest of his adult life. A common description of his place in football history is summed up by the quote 'Maradona good; Pelé better; George Best.'

2012 34 year old former two-weight world champion Ricky Hatton announced his retirement from boxing following his loss to Vyacheslav Senchenko in Manchester. Quote by Hatton "A fighter knows and I know it isn't there any more. I have got to be a man and say it is the end of Ricky Hatton."

2013 It was announced that Clare's Law, which enables people to check the police record of their partners, would be expanded (in March 2014) to cover all of England and Wales. The policy is named after Clare Wood, who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend George Appleton at her Salford home in February 2009

Famous Birthday's

Karl Benz
(1844 - 1929)



Joe DiMaggio
(1914 - 1999)

John F. Kennedy Jr.
(1960 - 1999)

Famous Death's



Upton Sinclair
(1878 - 1968)



Anthony Burgess
(1917 - 1993)

Fidel Castro
(1926 - 2016)

Famous Weddings

1795 US President William Henry Harrison (22) weds Anna Symmes (20) in North Bend, Ohio

1908 Vaudeville performer Will Rogers (29) weds Betty Blake

1913 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House

1923 Film director Frank Capra (26) weds actress Helen Howell in San Francisco, California

1961 Racing car driver Mario Andretti (21) weds high school sweetheart Dee Ann Hoch (19)

Famous Divorces

2002 Academy Award-winning actor Nicolas Cage (38) divorces "Princess of Rock and Roll" Lisa Marie Presley (34) due to irreconcilable differences after 3 months of marriage

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26 NOVEMBER

43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed

1645 English Civil War - The third siege of Newark, which lasted from 26th November 1645 to 8th May 1646. Newark was important to both sides, as two important roads ran through the town - the Great North Way and Fosse Way. Newark castle was deliberately destroyed as a fortress in 1648.

1703 Henry Winstanley, the engineer who built the first Eddystone lighthouse, was among those who died when it was destroyed in the Great Storm that claimed 9000 lives and lasted from the 25th to the 27th November.

1778 British explorer Captain James Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)

1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America

1805 The offficial opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct that carries the Llangollen Canal over the valley of the River Dee in Wales. It is the longest and highest aqueduct in Britain, a Grade I Listed Building and a World Heritage Site.

1836 The death of John Loudon McAdam. He invented a new process, "macadamisation", for building roads with a smooth hard surface, using controlled materials. Modern road construction still reflects McAdam's influence. He had extensive responsibilities in the north of England including the road from Penrith to Greta Bridge (A66), the road from Penrith to Cockermouth (also the A66) and the road from Penrith to Carlisle (A6). Whilst in the area he lived here - 1, Cockell House, Penrith

1864 Oxford professor Charles Dodgson presented a little girl called Alice Liddell with a handwritten manuscript of a story she had inspired him to write. It was called Alice's Adventures Under Ground. Dodgson's tale was published in 1865 as 'Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll'. Alice's shop in Oxford at 83, St. Aldates was the inspiration for a whole chapter in the Alice in Wonderland stories. Lewis Carroll was born at Daresbury and this is the site of the former parsonage where he was born. There is also a Lewis Carroll window in the parish church of All Saints in Daresbury.

1865 "Alice in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll is published in America

1867 Mrs. Lily Maxwell of Manchester became the first ever woman to vote in a British election, due to a mistake in the electoral register. She had to be escorted to the polling station by a bodyguard to protect her from those opposed to women’s suffrage.

1908 The birth of Lord Forte (Charles Forte), British business magnate and Chairman of Trusthouse Forte, one of the largest hotel and restaurant groups in the world.

1917 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands

1922 Howard Carter and the Earl of Carnarvon, Carter’s sponsor, became the first men to see inside the tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun near Luxor since it was sealed 3,000 years previously. Having escaped detection by tomb robbers, it was complete with gold statues and a gold throne inlaid with gems.

1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hit a Woolworth's store on New Cross High Street in Lewisham and killed 168 shoppers.

1945 The release of the classic romantic film Brief Encounter, starring Celia Johnson, Trevor Howard, Stanley Holloway and Joyce Carey. The film was partially shot at Carnforth railway station and buffet room.

1952 1st modern 3-D movie "Bwana Devil" premieres in Hollywood

1953 Peers backed the Government's proposals for commercial television.

1954 Donald Campbell's new Bluebird K7 (a turbo jet engined hydroplane) was handed over to him On This Day. Campbell set seven world water speed records in Bluebird K7 and it was in her that he was killed on Coniston Water on 4th January 1967 whilst attempting another water speed record, his target being 300 mph. He is buried in Coniston graveyard.

1968 The new Race Relations Act made it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to people because of their ethnic background.

1970 In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record

1983 The Brinks Mat security warehouse at London’s Heathrow Airport was robbed of £25 million worth of gold bars weighing three tons. The gang gained entry to the warehouse from an insider security guard called Anthony Black. The robbers expected to steal £3 million in cash, but when they arrived, they found the gold bullion, most of which was never recovered.

1987 Drawings of English bank notes by US artist James Boggs were declared works of art and not illegal replicas of UK currency by an Old Bailey jury.

1988 Mrs. Rita Lockett of Torquay, Devon, spent £10,000 to repeat her daughter’s wedding two months after the event, because she did not like the video. The couple went through the reception with all 200 wedding guests wearing the same outfits and having to listen to the same speeches, this time with a professional video crew on hand.

1992 It was announced that as from 1993 the Queen would make arrangements to pay income tax, the first British monarch to do so since the 1930s.

1998 Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Oireachtas, the parliament of the Republic of Ireland

2014 The Save the Children charity was criticised for giving former Prime Minister Tony Blair an award for his anti-poverty work in Africa. Critics said that his role in the Iraq war should disqualify him from receiving the honour.

Famous Birthday's

Albert B. Fall
(1861 - 1944)

Charles M. Schulz
(1922 - 2000)

Robert Goulet
(1933 - 2007)

Tina Turner
78th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Sojourner Truth
(1787 - 1883)

Philippe de Broca
(1933 - 2004)



Michael Bentine
(1922 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1894 Russian emperor Nicholas II (26) weds Alexandra Feodorovna (22) at the Grand Church of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg, Russia

1924 Comic actor Charlie Chaplin (35) weds "The Kid" actress Lita Grey (16) in Mexico

1958 Model Bettie Page (35) weds Armond Walterson in Florida

1962 Singer Tina Turner (23) weds Ike Turner (31) in Tijuana, Mexico

1977 Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm (53) weds businessman Arthur Hardwick Jr at the Sheraton Inn in Cheektowaga, New York

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Arsenal mugged us again in injury time ...Grrr

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I look at it a different way alf.

However unfair it was, be it bad Refereeing or cheating we mugged ourselves.

We had the best of the first half but yet again was found lacking in scoring the important goal(s) when being on top, we left it too late with the Sub, and what was Tarky thinking even laying a hand on him in the first place, yes it's done a lot and most get away with it but we are Burnley and should not be messing about with below standard Refs who cannot control a thermostat let alone a Premier League game and thrive on giving an innocuous decision to make them look good especially at a crucial moment in the game.

[The Bedlington Terrier]

These sort of games are way beyond the likes of Lee Mason who is one cheating, horrible little man.

How s-h-i-t is Mason?

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27 NOVEMBER

27 November is Lancashire Day

1095 Pope Urban II preaches 1st Crusade

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

1582 William Shakespeare, aged 18, married Anne Hathaway. They had a daughter in 1583 and a twin boy and girl in 1585. The boy died aged 11. Anne Hathaway's cottage .

1811 The death of Andrew Meikle, a mechanical engineer credited with inventing the threshing machine to remove the outer husks from grains of wheat.

1835 James Pratt and John Smith are hanged in London; they are the last two to be executed for sodomy in England

1874 The birth of Chaim (Azriel) Weizmann, first president of Israel, who was a chemistry professor in Geneva where he became active in the World Zionist Movement. After settling in Britain in 1904 he assisted the British munitions industry during the First World War when he devised a way of extracting acetone (needed for cordite) from maize. In return, the British government promised to help his cause and establish a Jewish state in Palestine.

1895 At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies

1897 The death of James Bateman, British landowner and accomplished horticulturist. He created the famous themed gardens at Biddulph in Staffordshire. The garden is a rare survival of the interim period between the Capability Brown landscape garden and the High Victorian style. Bateman was also responsible for laying out the Arboretum at Derby, the first public park in England.

1914 Miss Mary Allen and Miss E F Harburn became the first two trained policewomen to be granted official status in Britain when they reported for duty at Grantham, Lincolnshire.

1920 The birth of Harry "Buster" Merryfield, English actor best known for starring as Uncle Albert in the BBC comedy series Only Fools and Horses.

1920 "The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film

1924 In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held

1925 Ernie Wise, 'straight man' to comedian Eric Morecambe, was born.

1943 Conference of Tehran (Churchill-Roosevelt-Stalin)

1944 Between 3,500 and 4,000 tons of explosives stored in a cavern beneath Staffordshire detonated, killing 68 people and wiping out an entire farm. The explosion was heard over 100 miles away in London, and recorded as an earthquake in Geneva.

1965 1st French satellite launched; France becomes 3rd nation in space

1966 The first Lancashire Day to commemorate the day in 1295 when Lancashire first sent representatives to Parliament, to attend the Model Parliament of King Edward I. The county has two AONBs (Areas of Outstanding Natural Beauty) - The Forest of Bowland and Arnside/Silverdale

1967 President de Gaulle said ‘Non’ to British entry into the Common Market.

1975 Ross McWhirter, TV presenter and co-editor of The Guinness Book of Records, was assassinated by two Provisional IRA gunmen after he had offered a £50,000 reward for information leading to a conviction for several high-profile bombings.

1976 The four millionth 'Mini' car left the production line.

1987 A young man in Somerset tried seven times to kill himself following a row with his girlfriend. He threw himself in front of four cars, and jumped under the wheels of a lorry. He tried to strangle himself and jumped from a window. The real victims were a driver of one car who suffered a heart attack, a policeman who injured his back trying to restrain the man, and a doctor who was kicked in the face when the struggling man reached hospital.

1990 John Major won his second ballot for leadership of the Conservative Party and became Prime Minister. (Mrs. Thatcher had resigned as Prime Minister 5 days previously.)

2000 A 10-year-old schoolboy, Damilola Taylor, died after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers near his home in Peckham, south London.

2005 President El Hadj Omar Bongo Ondimba of Gabon, in power since 1967 and the longest-serving head of state in the world, is re-elected to his third consecutive seven-year term

2005 The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France

2008 The Queen Elizabeth II liner (the QE2) retired from active Cunard service. It was planned for her to begin conversion to a floating hotel; however, she remains moored at Port Rashid (Dubai) facing an uncertain future.

2012 Police admitted that the late Sir Cyril Smith, former MP for Rochdale, was a *** abuser of boys in the late 1960s. Despite not being charged, after inquiries in 1970, 1998, and 1999, the CPS stressed that changes in procedure meant a prosecution would be pursued today.

2013 The death of actor, Lewis Collins, aged 67. He was the quintessential British hard man, best known as Bodie in the TV the series 'The Professionals'.

2014 A new treatment for bladder cancer was shown to completely cure some people, in the first significant breakthrough in the disease for 30 years. Scientists from Queen Mary University of London discovered that an antibody allowed cancer cells to be picked up by the immune system and eradicated before they could spread.

2014 A consortium made up of 'Stagecoach' and 'Virgin' won the franchise to run the East Coast mainline rail route. The firms promised to invest £140m in the route over eight years, and to pay the government £3.3bn for the contract.

2014 Australian Test batsman Phillip Hughes died aged 25, two days after being struck on the top of the neck by a ball during a domestic match in Sydney. He also played for Hampshire, Middle*** and Worcestershire. His final innings score was adjusted to show him being 63 not out, after an update from Cricket Australia.

2014 The American wife of London financier Sir Chris Hohn was awarded £337m by a High Court judge in a divorce case. The sum was thought to be the biggest of its kind made by a judge in England. The couple separated following 17 years of marriage.

2014 The car registration plate "25 O" was sold at auction for £518,000, setting a new British record.

2014 The death, aged 94, of the acclaimed British crime writer PD James. Her books Her books (e.g Death Comes To Pemberley) sold millions of copies around the world during her 50-year career, with many made into television films.

Famous Birthday's

Anders Celsius
(1701 - 1744)

Ernie Wise
(1925 - 1999)

Bruce Lee
(1940 - 1973)

Jimi Hendrix
(1942 - 1970)

Trevor Leonard Ward-Davies 'Dozy', (English musician, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich)
(1944 - 2016)

John Alderton
77th Birthday


Matthew Taylor
36th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Horace
(65 BC - 8 BC)

Ada Lovelace
(1815 - 1852)

Alan Freeman
(1927 - 2006)

Lewis Collins
(1946 - 2013)

Gary Speed
1969 - 2011)



Len Shackleton
(1922 - 2000)

Harvey Milk
(1930 - 1978)


Famous Weddings

1960 Actress Lana Turner marries for the 6th time to Frederick May

1971 MLB center fielder Willie Mays (40) weds Mae Louise Allen in Mexico City

1980 British playwright (Nobel prize for literature 2005) Harold Pinter (50) marries 2nd wife British writer and historian Antonia Frazer (48)

1993 Actress Teri Garr (44) weds building contractor John O'Neil (42) at the Twin Dolphins Hotel in Cabo San Lucas, Mexico

2010 US Navy Seal Marcus Luttrell (25) weds Melanie Juneau in Texas

Famous Divorces

2006 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (39) divorces singer Kid Rock (36) due to irreconcilable differences only 4 months after getting married

2006 Actress Selma Blair (34) divorces actor-rocker Ahmet Zappa (32) due to irreconcilable differences after more than 2 years of marriage

2013 Actor Ashton Kutcher (35) divorces actress Demi Moore (51) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

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28 NOVEMBER

1520 Three ships under the command of explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first European ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

1582 In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence

1628 John Bunyan, author of The Pilgrim's Progress, was born.

1660 At Gresham College in Central London, 12 men, including Christopher Wren, Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, and Sir Robert Moray founded what was later known as the Royal Society, an organization dedicated to promoting excellence in science.

1757 The birth of the poet William Blake. His work included a poem that began 'And did those feet in ancient time', which became the words for the anthem Jerusalem.

1814 The Times newspaper was, for the first time, printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer. It signalled the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

1893 Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election

1895 The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois. Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours

1905 The Irish political party Sinn Fein was founded by Arthur Griffith in Dublin.

1909 Sergei Rachmaninoff makes the debut performance of his Piano Concerto No. 3, considered one of the most technically challenging concertos in the standard classical repertoire

1914 World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading

1919 Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP, holding a safe Plymouth seat for the Conservative Party in a by-election caused by her husband's elevation to the peerage.

1935 The Miles quadruplets (Ann, Ernest, Michael and Paul) were born in Cambridgeshire and were the first British quads to survive infancy.

1943 U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran, Iran, to discuss war strategy

1967 All horse racing in Britain was suspended 'indefinitely' to help prevent the spread of foot-and-mouth disease.

1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University

1968 The death of the children's author Enid Blyton. She wrote more than 800 books over 40 years including Noddy, The Famous Five and The Secret Seven.

1971 An English farmer uncovered a major immigrant smuggling operation when he rammed a plane which had landed at a disused airfield on his farm in Kimbolton, 10 miles from Huntingdon. The pilot escaped but police officers arrived soon after the incident and detained the five occupants of the plane.

1990 Margaret Thatcher made her last speech outside 10 Downing Street following her resignation as Prime Minister.

1993 The Northern Ireland peace process and Prime Minister John Major's credibility were dealt a blow when secret government contacts with the IRA were publicly disclosed.

1997 MPs in the House of Commons approved a Private Member's Bill, introduced by Labour MP Michael Foster, to ban fox hunting.

1999 Eleven people were injured when a nude swordsman attacked churchgoers at St. Andrew's Roman Catholic Church in London.

2002 Suicide bombers blow up an Israeli-owned hotel in Mombasa, Kenya; their colleagues fail in their attempt to bring down Arkia Israel Airlines Flight 582 with missiles

2006 A modern spy drama unfolded following the death of former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko in London when traces of polonium-210 radiation were found at central London addresses.

2011 British company Captive Media announced details of its urinal mounted, urine-controlled games console for men. It called it the first 'hands-free' video gaming console of its kind, with games on offer including a skiing challenge, and a multiple choice pub quiz. A noted side effect was that the toilets became markedly cleaner, as a new premium was set on accuracy.

2013 A Newport man (James Howells) searched a landfill site in South Wales hoping to find a computer hard drive he threw away, worth over £4m. The drive contained 7,500 *******s, a virtual form of currency for use online. The drive was not found.

2013 The grand unveiling of TV's Coronation Street (Weatherfield) at its new home on Salford Quays, across the water from the BBC. In January 2014 the soap left its long established Quay Street site in Manchester city centre, which was sold for £26.5m.

2014 Jordan Winn was jailed for 13 months after he was caught driving at nearly 100mph in a 30mph zone. Winn blamed his Staffordshire bull terrier, who he said was in the footwell of his Volvo S60, for sitting on the accelerator pedal.

Famous Birthday's

William Blake
(1757 - 1827)

Henry Bacon
(1866 - 1924)

Berry Gordy
88th Birthday

Hugh McKenna, (rocker, Alex Harvey Band)
68th Birthday


Ed Harris
67th Birthday

Jeff Fahey
64th Birthday



Alessandro Altobelli
62nd Birthday

Martin Clunes
56th Birthday

Famous Deaths

James Naismith
(1861 - 1939)

Enrico Fermi
(1901 - 1954)

Jeffrey Dahmer
(1960 - 1994)

Jerry Edmonton, (Canadian drummer, Steppenwolf)
(1946 - 1993)



Leslie Nielsen
(1926 - 2010)

Famous Weddings

1582 Playwright & poet William Shakespeare marries Anne Hathaway

1936 Paleoanthropologist Raymond Arthur Dart (43) weds librarian Marjorie Gordon Frew

1938 Chinese politician Mao Zedong (44) weds Jiang Qing (24) in a small private ceremony

1962 Artist and peace activist Yoko Ono (30) weds film producer Anthony Cox

1986 NBC's Ahmad Rashad marriage proposal is accepted by Phylicia Ayers-Allen during halftime of Det Lions-NY Jets football game

50 Years Ago Album and Single # 1s

SGT PEPPER'S LONELY HEARTS CLUB BAND - BEATLES.

LET THE HEARTACHES BEGIN - LONG JOHN BALDRY

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29 NOVEMBER

526 Antioch, modern day Syria, struck by an earthquake, killing about 250,000

800 Charlemagne arrives at Rome to investigate the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III

1530 Thomas Wolsey, English Cardinal and Lord Chancellor, died en route from York to his imprisonment in the Tower of London.

1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester & occupies Carlisle

1781 The crew of the British slave ship Zong, murdered 133 Africans by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance. The resulting court cases, brought by the ship-owners, sought compensation from the insurers for their lost cargo. The court established that the deliberate killing of slaves could, in some circumstances be legal. It was a landmark in the battle against the African slave trade of the eigh****th century, and inspired abolitionists such as Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson, leading to the foundation of the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade in 1787.

1849 Sir John Ambrose Fleming, English electrical engineer, was born. His inventions included the Fleming Valve and many related devices that led to the development of modern electronics.

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

1898 C.S. Lewis, author of the Narnia Chronicles, was born.

1899 FC Barcelona Association football club is founded

1907 British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87, was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War. This portrait hangs in the Church of St. Margaret in East Wellow, Hampshire, the burial place of the Nightingale family.

1934 In Britain, the first live radio broadcast of a royal wedding - the marriage of the Duke of Kent to Princess Marina at Westminster Abbey in London.

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

1940 The city of Liverpool endured nearly eight hours of bombing, which left 166 people dead and 2,000 people homeless. At the time, Prime Minister Winston Churchill described the tragedy as "the single worst civilian incident of the war."

1944 The first surgery (on a human) to correct blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas

1947 The UN approved Britain's plan for a partition of Palestine.

1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada

1956 Panic-buying broke out at garages across the country as the government gave details of its petrol rationing plans. Petrol had been in short supply since the President of Egypt, Gamal Abdul Nasser, took over the running of the Suez Canal four months previously.

1962 Britain and France announced a joint agreement to design and build Concorde, the world's first supersonic airliner.

1963 The Beatles record I Want To Hold Your Hand was released, with advance orders of one million in the UK alone.

1965 Housewife Mary Whitehouse began her Clean Up TV Campaign by setting up the National Viewers and Listeners' Association to tackle 'bad taste and irresponsibility'.

1972 Atari announces the release of Pong, the first commercially successful video game

1975 British racing driver Graham Hill was killed in an aircraft crash at Arkley, Hertfordshire.

1986 The death of Cary Grant, British-born American actor. He was considered one of Hollywood's definitive leading men and was named the second Greatest Male Star of All Time (after Humphrey Bogart) by the American Film Institute.

1995 On his historic visit to Britain, US President Bill Clinton praised British Prime Minister John Major and Irish Prime Minister John Bruton for their joint efforts to bring peace in Northern Ireland.

2001 George Harrison, musician, actor, songwriter and former lead guitarist with the Beatles died of lung cancer, aged 58. Often referred to as the 'quiet Beatle', Harrison became an admirer of Indian culture and mysticism, and introduced it to the other Beatles, as well as to their Western audiences.

2009 Maurice Clemmons shoots and kills four police officers inside a coffee shop in Lakewood, Washington

2013 The consecration of the Rev. Pat Storey as the UK and Ireland's first woman bishop, at a service at Christ Church Cathedral - Dublin.

2013 A double engine failure caused a police helicopter to crash into the Clutha Vaults pub in Glasgow. Ten people died in the accident; all three on board, six on the ground and another person died two weeks later from injuries received.

2015 Great Britain won the Davis Cup for the first time since 1936 after Andy Murray beat Belgium's David Goffin to clinch the decisive point in Ghent.

Famous Birthday's

Christian Doppler
(1803 - 1853)

Louisa May Alcott
(1832 - 1888)



C. S. Lewis
(1898 - 1963)

Ryan Giggs
44th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Giacomo Puccini
(1858 - 1924)

Dorothy Day
(1897 - 1980)

George Harrison
(1943 - 2001)



Natalie Wood, American actress drowns at 43
(1938 - 1981)



Irene Handl
(1901 - 1987)

Famous Weddings

1916 Erwin Rommel marries Lucie "Lu" Mollin

1927 Theodor Geisel (Dr. Seuss) (23) marries first wife fellow author and editor Helen Palmer (28)

1934 Prince George, Duke of Kent weds princess Marina of Greece and Denmark

2003 Composer and former Oingo Boingo singer Danny Elfman (50) weds actress Bridget Fonda (39) at First Congressional Church in Los Angeles

2008 "Without a Trace" star Roselyn Sanchez (35) weds actor Eric Winter (32) at Fort San Cristobal in Old San Juan, Puerto Rico

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30 NOVEMBER

St Andrew’s Day. He is the patron saint of Scotland, also of golfers and fishermen.

1016 Cnut the Great (Canute), King of Denmark, claimed the English throne after the death of Edmund II, often known as Edmund Ironside. The cognomen 'Ironside' was given to Edmund because of his valour in resisting the Danish invasion led by Cnut the Great.

1648 English Parliamentary army captures King Charles I

1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die

1782 In Paris, representatives from the United States and the Kingdom of Great Britain sign preliminary peace articles (later formalized as the 1783 Treaty of Paris).

1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.

1872 The first football match between England and Scotland took place, at Hamelton Crescent Glasgow. It ended in a 0-0 draw.

1874 Birth of Sir Winston Leonard Churchill, British statesman, journalist, historian and Nobel prize-winner for literature. He was a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough, and was born born in Blenheim Palace. The great wartime Prime Minister, with his highly quotable speeches, was considered by many as ‘the greatest living Englishman’.

1913 Charlie Chaplin made his film debut without the moustache and cane in 'Making a Living'.

1934 The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman (Engine No. 4472) became the first to officially exceed 100mph. She recently underwent went major restoration at the National Railway Museum in York. There was a series of test runs in January 2016 on the East Lancashire Railway, ahead of an official launch at King’s Cross railway station in London.

1936 The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire. The spectacular blaze was seen miles away. Designed by Sir Joseph Paxton, it was originally erected in Hyde Park for the Great Exhibition in 1851.

1944 HMS Vanguard, Britain’s largest, and last ever battleship, was launched at Clydebank.

1947 1947-48 Civil War in Mandatory Palestine begins, leading up to the creation of the state of Israel

1954 1st meteorite known to strike a person - American Ann Hodges in Sylacauga, Alabama (she survives)




1955 Floodlights were used for the first time at Wembley Stadium, during an international game with Spain.

1960 Gary Lineker, footballer, and former England captain, was born. Despite his long career, Lineker was never cautioned by a referee for foul play, a feat equalled only by Billy Wright, John Charles and Sir Stanley Matthews.

1968 The Trade Descriptions Act came into force making it a crime for a trader to knowingly sell an item with a misleading label or description.

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

1982 Michael Jackson's second solo album, Thriller is released worldwide. It will become the best-selling record album in history

1982 A letter bomb exploded inside No. 10, Downing Street, injuring a member of staff. The package was sent by animal rights activists. Margaret Thatcher was at home when the device exploded but she was not hurt in the blast.

1983 Seaweed contaminated by heavy radioactivity was discovered in Cumbria, near the Sellafield nuclear plant.

1987 At Christie's auctioneers in London, a painting by Edgar Degas, 'The Laundry Maids', was sold for £7.48 million.

1995 Official end of Operation Desert Storm

1999 British Aerospace and Marconi Electronic Systems merged to form BAE Systems, Europe's largest defence contractor and the fourth largest aerospace company in the world.

2011 Up to two million public sector workers from 30 trade unions went on strike over reforms to their pensions, hitting public services as diverse as health, refuse and tax collection. Thousands of schools were closed and ports and airports were affected as border control staff walked out. It was the biggest day of strike action in more than 30 years, with warning of more stoppages to follow if ministers refused to negotiate on the dispute.

2013 Dr. David Hessayon, the author, who sold more than 50 million of his 'Gardening Expert' guidebooks announced his retirement at the age of 85. He has three honorary doctorates and was made an OBE in 2007.

2013 The Hon. Edward Charles d'Olier Gibson, who appealed his conviction for assaulting a police officer, claiming that he did not know what a modern policeman looked like, had his case thrown out by a judge who ordered him to pay prosecution costs of £620. Gibson was also disqualified from driving for 12 months for drink-driving and was fined a total of £2,350 for the offences.

Famous Birthday's

Jonathan Swift
(1667 - 1745)

Mark Twain
(1835 - 1910)

Winston Churchill
(1874 - 1965)

Richard Crenna
(1926 - 2003)

Ridley Scott
80th Birthday


Mandy Patinkin
65th Birthday

Gary Lineker
57th Birthday

Famous Deaths

Oscar Wilde
(1854 - 1900)

Evel Knievel
(1938 - 2007)

James Baldwin, (writer, Go Tell it on the Mountain), dies at 63
(1924 - 1987)

Paul Walker
(1973 - 2013)


Zeppo Marx
(1901 - 1979)

Tiny Tim
(1925 - 1996)

Famous Weddings

1940 "I Love Lucy" actress Lucille Ball (28) weds actor Desi Arnaz (23) in Greenwich, Connecticut

1945 Actress Bette Davis (37) weds artist William Grant Sherry

1973 Sci-fi author Issac Asimov (53) weds second wife psychoanalyst and Sci-fi author Janet Jeppson (47)

1996 Multimillionaire and top-selling female suspense novelist Mary Higgins Clark (67) weds Merrill Lynch Futures retired CEO John Conheeney (67) in Saddle River, New Jersey

1996 "All My Children" actress-model Eva LaRue (29) weds John Callahan (42) under a 500-year-old banyan tree at Koele in Lanai, Hawaii