Anniversaries

4th November 2008 (12 Years)

Barack Obama becomes the first person of African descent to be elected President of the United States.

5th November 1913 (107 Years)

Vivien Leigh - arguably most famous for her role as Scarlet in 'Gone with the Wind' was born.

5th November 1935 (85 Years)

First flight of the Hawker Hurricane.

5th November 1979 (41 Years)

Al Capone, gangster and co-founder/boss of the Chicago Outfit during prohibition in the US, dies.

6th November 1814 (206 Years)

Adolphe Sax, the Elgain-born French musical instrument designer who invented the Saxaphone, was born.

6th November 1865 (155 Years)

The last Confederate surrender occurred during the American Civil War.

6th November 1893 (127 Years)

Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer and critic, died.

6th November 1913 (107 Years)

Mahatma Ghandi was arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa.

7th November 1665 (355 Years)

The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published.

7th November 1838 (182 Years)

Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer, was born.

7th November 1867 (153 Years)

Marie Curie is born. French physicist and chemist who conducted pioneering research on radioactivity, first person and only woman to win a Nobel Prize twice.

7th November 1913 (107 Years)

Albert Camus, writer and philosopher, was born.

7th November 1913 (107 Years)

Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist, explorer, biologist and geographer, died.

7th November 1980 (40 Years)

Steve McQueen, American actor called "The King of Cool", died.

7th November 1991 (29 Years)

Eileen Agar, British painter and photographer associated with the Surrealist movement, died.

8th November 1817 (203 Years)

Andrea Appiani, Italian neoclassical painter, died.

8th November 1978 (42 Years)

Norman Rockwell, American painter and illustrator, died.

9th November 1841 (179 Years)

Edward VII, son of Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom, was born.

9th November 1888 (132 Years)

Mary Jane Kelly, the 5th and final canonical victim of Jack the Ripper, was found dead in her bed.

9th November 1918 (102 Years)

Guillaume Apollinaire, French author, poet, and playwright, died.

9th November 1938 (82 Years)

Kristallnacht, Nazi Germany's first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, began.

9th November 1938 (82 Years)

Kristallnacht: pogrom against Jews throughout Nazi Germany and Austria on 9–10 November. 80 years.

9th November 1939 (81 Years)

The first UK film premiere of the Wizard of Oz with Judy Garland.

9th November 1953 (67 Years)

Dylan Marlais Thomas, Welsh poet and writer best known for Under Milk Wood, died.

9th November 1960 (60 Years)

Senator John F Kennedy has won the election to become the youngest elected president of the United States.

9th November 1970 (50 Years)

Charles de Gaulle, wartime hero and former president of France, dies.

9th November 1989 (31 Years)

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

9th November 1989 (31 Years)

The fall of the Berlin Wall.

9th November 1991 (29 Years)

Yves Montand, Italian-born French actor and singer, died.

10th November 1668 (352 Years)

François Couperin, French organist and composer, was born.

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