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November 5th
1605 ~ A plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament was foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered in a cellar below the building.
1872 ~ Suffragist Susan B. Anthony voted for the first time. She was fined $100 for the privilege.
1892 ~ Birthday of J. B. S. Haldane, Geneticist.
1911 ~ Birthday of Roy Rogers, American actor.
1930 ~ Sinclair Lewis was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
1942 ~ The Second Battle of El Alamein was won by the British in El Alamein, Egypt.
1977 ~ Birthday of Brittney Skye, Porn actress.
1979 ~ Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
1989 ~ Death of Vladimir Horowitz, Pianist.
1999 ~ Federal Judge Thomas Jackson declared Microsoft Corp. a monopoly, saying the software giant's aggressive actions were ''stifling innovation'' and hurting consumers.
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1665 ~ The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English language journal, was first published.
1867 ~ Birthday of Marie Curie, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics 1903, and the Nobel Prize in Chemistry 1911.
1886 ~ Birthday of Aron Nimzowitsch, chess grandmaster.
1913 ~ Birthday of Albert Camus, writer, awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 1957.
1917 ~ Bolshevik leaders Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky.
1934 ~ Premiere of Rachmaninoff's "Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini" at Baltimore, Maryland.
1940 ~ The middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge collapsed in a windstorm.
1980 ~ Death of Steve McQueen, Actor.
1986 ~ Birthday of Yurizan Beltran, Porn Actress.
1989 ~ Protests force the resignation of East Germany’s Communist government.
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November 9th
1888 ~ Jack the Ripper killed Mary Jane Kelly, his last known victim.
1921 ~ Albert Einstein was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics.
1934 ~ Birthday of Carl Sagan, American Astronomer & Writer.
1936 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Tal, World Chess Champion.
1938 ~ Nazi Germany's first large-scale act of physical anti-Jewish violence, Kristallnacht, began.
1953 ~ Death of Dylan Thomas, Welsh poet.
1953 ~ Death of Abdul Aziz Al-Saud, first King of Saudi Arabia.
1965 ~ Several U.S. states and parts of Canada were hit by blackouts.
1970 ~ Death of Charles de Gaulle, French general and politician.
1989 ~ Fall of the Berlin Wall. East Germany opened checkpoints in the Berlin Wall allowing its citizens to travel to West Germany.
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November 10th
1775 ~ The Continental Congress passed a resolution creating the Continental Marines, later renamed the United States Marine Corps.
1871 ~ Henry Morton Stanley located missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika saying "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"
1919 ~ Birthday of Mikhail Kalashnikov, Soviet inventor, AK-47.
1925 ~ Birthday of Richard Burton, Actor.
1951 ~ Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service began in the United States.
1975 ~ The SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a storm on Lake Superior. Gordon Lightfoot's "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a song about the tragedy.
1982 ~ The Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C. opened to public.
1983 ~ Birthday of Sammie Rhodes, Porn Actress.
1995 ~ Execution of Ken Saro-Wiwa, Nigerian writer and human rights activist.
2007 ~ Death of Norman Mailer, American author.
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November 16th
1885 ~ Louis Riel, Canadian rebel leader and "Father of Manitoba", executed for high treason.
1920 ~ Qantas was registered under the name of “Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited”.
1922 ~ Birthday of Gene Amdahl, computer scientist.
1933 ~ The U.S. and the USSR established diplomatic relations.
1945 ~ Operation Paperclip: The U.S. Army secretly admited 88 German scientists and engineers to help in the development of rocket technology.
1959 ~ The Rodgers and Hammerstein musical "The Sound of Music" opened on Broadway.
1960 ~ Death of Clark Gable, Actor.
1979 ~ Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer, identified as the fourth man in the "Philby affair".
2006 ~ Death of Milton Friedman, American economist.
1992 ~ The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk.
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November 18th
1786 ~ Birthday of Carl Maria von Weber, Composer.
1836 ~ Birthday of Sir William S. Gilbert, Dramatist.
1916 ~ World War I: First Battle of the Somme, which started on July 1, ended in stalemate – Approx. 1,120,000 casualties, 310,000 killed or missing.
1926 ~ George Bernard Shaw refused to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."
1928 ~ The animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, was released.
1968 ~ Death of Niels Bohr, Danish physicist, awarded the The Nobel Prize in Physics 1922.
1976 ~ Spain's parliament approved a bill to establish a democracy after the dictatorship of General Franco.
1978 ~ Jonestown, Guyana mass suicide: 914 die, including 276 children.
2003 ~ The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruled 4-3 that the state constitution guarantees gay couples the right to marry.
2004 ~ Fox hunting outlawed in England and Wales.
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