November's History

November's History:

1st November:
1179 – Philip II is crowned King of France.
1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
1876 – New Zealand's provincial government system is dissolved.
1961 – 50,000 women in 60 cities participate in the inaugural Women Strike for Peace (WSP) against nuclear proliferation.

2nd November:
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

3rd November:
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1812 – Napoleon's armies are defeated at Vyazma.
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

4th November:
1429 – Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
1861 – The University of Washington opens in Seattle, Washington as the Territorial University.
1970 – Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
5th November:
1780 – French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1872 – Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
2007 – China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
6th November:
1856 – The first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot is submitted for publication.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1947 – Meet The Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
7th November:
1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.
1893 – Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote.

8th November:
1889 – Montana is admitted as the 41st U.S. state.
1976 – A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.

9th November:
1492 – Peace of Etaples between Henry VII and Charles VIII.
1729 – Spain, France and Great Britain sign the Treaty of Seville.
1945 – Soo Bahk Do Moo Duk Kwan is founded.

10th November:
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies.
1997 – WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

11th November:
1889 – Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.
1918 – Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.
2008 – The RMS Queen Elizabeth 2 (QE2) set sail on her final voyage to Dubai.

12th November:
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic.
1936 – In California, the San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge opens to traffic.
1996 – A Saudi Arabian Airlines Boeing 747 and a Kazakh Ilyushin Il-76 cargo plane collide in mid-air near New Delhi, killing 349. The deadliest mid-air collision to date.

13th November:
1971 – The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet successfully, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars.
2002 – The oil tanker Prestige sinks off the Galician coast and causes a huge oil spill.
14th November:
1922 – The BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
2002 – Argentina defaults on an $805 million World Bank payment.

15th November:
1854 – In Egypt, the Suez Canal, linking the Mediterranean Sea with the Red Sea, is given the necessary royal concession.
1971 – Intel releases world's first commercial single-chip microprocessor, the 4004.
1990 – Space Shuttle program: Space Shuttle Atlantis launches with flight STS-38.

16th November:
1973 – Skylab program: NASA launches Skylab 4 with a crew of three astronauts from Cape Canaveral, Florida for an 84-day mission.
2000 – Bill Clinton becomes the first U.S. President to visit Vietnam since the end of the Vietnam War.
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17th November:
1800 – The United States Congress holds its first session in Washington, D.C.
1905 – The Eulsa Treaty is signed between Japan and Korea.
2005 – Italy's national anthem, Il Canto degli Italiani, becomes official for the first time, almost 60 years after it is provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.

18th November:
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights what is now Puerto Rico.
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway.
1918 – Latvia declares its independence from Russia.
1963 – The first push-button telephone goes into service.

19th November:
1816 – Warsaw University is established.
1946 – Afghanistan, Iceland and Sweden join the United Nations.
1955 – National Review publishes its first issue.

20th November:
1789 – New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1984 – The SETI Institute is founded.
1998 – The first module of the International Space Station, Zarya, is launched.

21st November:
1877 – Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
2004 – The island of Dominica is hit by the most destructive earthquake in its history. The northern half of the island receives the most damage, especially the town of Portsmouth. It is also felt in neighboring Guadeloupe, where one person is killed.

22nd November:
1858 – Denver, Colorado is founded.
1922 – Egyptology: Howard Carter, assisted by Lord Carnarvon, opens the tomb of Tutankhamun.
2008 – YouTube hosts the largest ever live broadcast, YouTube Live.

23rd November:
1936 – The first edition of Life is published.
1963 – The BBC broadcast the first ever episode of Doctor Who starring William Hartnell which would become the world's longest Science-Fiction Drama to date.

24th November:
1429 – Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieged La Charité.
1966 – New York City experiences the smoggiest day in the city's history.

25th November:
1867 – Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1952 – Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually becomes the longest continuously-running play in history.
1975 – Suriname gains independence from the Netherlands.

26th November:
1842 – The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1941 – U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
1990 – The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.

27th November:
1912 – Spain declares a protectorate over the north shore of Morocco.
1924 – In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.
2005 – The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.

28th November:
1785 – The Treaty of Hopewell is signed.
1912 – Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
1975 – East Timor declares its independence from Portugal.

29th November:
1922 – Howard Carter opens the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun to the public.
1929 – U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.
2007 – A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad.

30th November:
1936 – In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire.
1967 – The People's Republic of South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom.