Anniversaries

15th November 1969 (58 Years)

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

16th November 1988 (39 Years)

Lotte Stam-Beese, German architect, dies.

17th November 1793 (234 Years)

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

17th November 1917 (110 Years)

Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, dies.

17th November 1928 (99 Years)

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

17th November 1942 (85 Years)

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

18th November 1493 (534 Years)

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

18th November 1923 (104 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 (51 Years)

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

19th November 1917 (110 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.

19th November 1942 (85 Years)

Battle of Stalingrad - Three Soviet armies surrounded 300,000 soldiers of the German 6th Army, this was a turning point in WW2.

20th November 1713 (314 Years)

Thomas Tompion, English clock maker. Renowned for the cylinder tunnel.

20th November 1945 (82 Years)

The Nuremberg trials, held by the Allied forces after World War II, begin.

20th November 1947 (80 Years)

Princess Elizabeth marries Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey in London.

20th November 1975 (52 Years)

General Franco, Spanish dictator, dies.

20th November 1978 (49 Years)

Giorgio de Chirico, Greek-Italian painter and sculptor, died.

21st November 1916 (111 Years)

WWI: the British hospital ship HMHS Britannic (sister ship of the Titanic) hit a mine and sank off Greece.

21st November 1916 (111 Years)

Franz Joseph I, Emperor of Austria and King of Hungary, dies.

22nd November 1718 (309 Years)

Off the coast of North Carolina, British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") was killed in battle with a boarding party led by Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

22nd November 1913 (114 Years)

Benjamin Britten, leading British composer, conductor and pianist, was born.

22nd November 1916 (111 Years)

Jack London, American author and social activist, died.

22nd November 1928 (99 Years)

The premier performance of Ravel's Boléro takes place in Paris.