Anniversaries

11th November 1918 (95 Years)

End of World War One.

11th November 1918 (95 Years)

WWI: Germany signs the armistice with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne, France. The fighting officially ends at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month.

11th November 1976 (37 Years)

Alexander Calder, American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of kinetic sculpture, dies.

12th November 1840 (173 Years)

Auguste René Rodin, considered as one of the most remarkable sculptors of his time, is born.

12th November 1866 (147 Years)

Sun Yat-sen, Chinese revolutionary and politician, 1st President of the Republic of China, is born.

12th November 1916 (97 Years)

Percival Lowell, American businessman, author, mathematician, and astronomerm, dies.

12th November 1954 (59 Years)

The closure of Ellis Island, the main immigration station in New York Harbour. It opened in 1892.

12th November 1981 (32 Years)

William Holden, American actor and singer, died.

13th November 1868 (145 Years)

Gioachino Rossini, Italian composer who wrote The Barber of Seville, died.

14th November 1263 (750 Years)

Saint Alexander Nevsky, Russian nobleman, Prince of Novgorod and Kiev, Grand Prince of Vladimir, dies.

14th November 1716 (297 Years)

Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, dies.

14th November 1840 (173 Years)

Claude Monet, French painter and master of Impressionism, was born.

14th November 1922 (91 Years)

Daily broadcasting by the BBC began in Marconi's London studio in the Strand.

14th November 1940 (73 Years)

World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed.

14th November 1948 (65 Years)

Charles Philip Arthur George, Prince of Wales, was born.

15th November 1515 (498 Years)

Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

15th November 1887 (126 Years)

Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist, is born.

15th November 1891 (122 Years)

Erwin Rommel, known as the Desert Fox, German field marshal during WWII, was born.

15th November 1917 (96 Years)

WWI - at one of the darkest hours for the French war effort, Georges Benjamin Clemenceau was appointed prime minister.

15th November 1958 (55 Years)

Tyrone Power, American actor, singer, and producer, died.

15th November 1969 (44 Years)

Over 250,000 people joined in a demonstration in Washington to protest against the Vietnam War.

16th November 1988 (25 Years)

Lotte Stam-Beese, German architect, dies.

17th November 1793 (220 Years)

Charles Lock Eastlake, English painter, historian, and academic, was born.

17th November 1917 (96 Years)

Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, dies.

17th November 1928 (85 Years)

Arman, French-American painter and sculptor, was born.

17th November 1942 (71 Years)

WWII The Tunisian Campaign (also known as the Battle of Tunisia) began.

18th November 1493 (520 Years)

Christopher Columbus first sights the island now known as Puerto Rico. He will go ashore on the 19th.

18th November 1923 (90 Years)

Alan Bartlett "Al" Shepard, American naval officer and aviator, test pilot, flag officer, and the first American to travel into space, was born.

18th November 1976 (37 Years)

Man Ray, American-French modernist painter and photographer, dies.

19th November 1917 (96 Years)

Indira Priyadarshini Nehru Gandhi, Indian politician and central figure of the Indian National Congress party, and to date the only female Prime Minister of India, was born.

Field	Search term	Example
Asset title	title:	title:pony
Asset title and keywords	~	~pony
Asset description text	description:	description:london
Agency prefix	prfx: or $	prfx:lal or $LAL
Asset id	imageid:	imageid:250297 or imageid:[2500 TO 4000]
Agency name	coll:	coll:history
Medium	medium:	medium:oil
Century	century:	century:20th
Keywords	kw:	kw:dog
Artist name	artist: or ?	artist:monet or ?monet
Artist nationality	??	??French
Creator ID	creatorid:	creatorid:37
Location	loc: or @	loc:exeter or @exeter
Classification	class: or #	class:57 or #57. Use # for unclassified assets
Year	year:	year:1850 or year:[1700 TO 1800]

Type a keyword

Art. Culture. History.

Simple. Fast. Reliable.

Discover millions of images and videos for your creative projects.

Navigation

Contact

Legal