Anniversaries

10th November 1880 (140 Years)

Sir Jacob Epstein, American-British sculptor, was born.

10th November 1891 (129 Years)

Arthur Rimbaud, French poet of symbolism and adventurer, dies.

10th November 1917 (103 Years)

WWI: the Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) in Flanders ended.

10th November 1938 (82 Years)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, died.

10th November 1938 (82 Years)

Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies. 80 years.

10th November 1958 (62 Years)

The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

10th November 2008 (12 Years)

Miriam Makeba, South African singer-songwriter, actress, and activist, died.

11th November 1863 (157 Years)

Paul Signac, French painter, was born.

11th November 1868 (152 Years)

Jean-Édouard Vuillard, French painter and printmaker associated with the Nabis, was born.

11th November 1918 (102 Years)

End of World War One.

11th November 1918 (102 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 (44 Years)

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

12th November 1840 (180 Years)

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

12th November 1866 (154 Years)

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

12th November 1916 (104 Years)

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

12th November 1954 (66 Years)

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

12th November 1981 (39 Years)

William Holden, American actor and singer, died.

13th November 1868 (152 Years)

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

14th November 1263 (757 Years)

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

14th November 1716 (304 Years)

Gottfried Leibniz, German philosopher and mathematician, dies.

14th November 1840 (180 Years)

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

14th November 1922 (98 Years)

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

14th November 1940 (80 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 (72 Years)

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

15th November 1515 (505 Years)

Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal.

15th November 1887 (133 Years)

Georgia O'Keeffe, American artist, is born.

15th November 1891 (129 Years)

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

15th November 1917 (103 Years)

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

15th November 1958 (62 Years)

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

15th November 1969 (51 Years)

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

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