November 4th

1922 - British archaeologist Howard Carter and his workmen discover a step leading to the tomb of King Tutankhamen in the Valley of the Kings in Egypt.

November 5th

2006 - Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for his role in the massacre of the 148 Shi’as in 1982

November 6th

1429 - Henry VI crowned King of England

November 7th

1872 -The ship Marie Celeste sails from New York, eventually to be found deserted

November 8th

1988 - George Bush elected as US President

November 9th

1922 - German SS formed

November 10th

1989 - East German border guards begin to dismantle parts of the ‘Berlin Wall’

November 11th

1918 - Germany and the Allies sign the armistice, in a railway carriage in the Compiegne forest

November 12th

1981 - US space shuttle Columbia, first space vehicle to make a second trip, launched

November 13th

1964 - Pope Paul VI donates his jewelled tiara, to the poor of the world

November 14th

1963 - As a result of volcanic activity, the Icelandic island of Surtsey is born

November 15th

1918 - Victory’ day celebrated in Britain to mark the ending of the First World War

November 16th

1982 - The space shuttle Columbia returns to earth after its first ever commercial mission, deploying two satellites

November 17th

1869 - After work lasting ten years, the 100 mile long Suez Canal opens

November 18th

1963 - The Bell telephone company introduces the first push button telephones in the United States.

November 19th

1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers Puerto Rico

November 20th

1945 - The Nuremburg war crimes tribunal begins hearings with 24 Nazi leaders, including Hess and Goering, on trial

November 21st

1783 - A Montgolfier brothers hot-air balloon, takes Jean de Rosier and the Marquis d’Arlandes, 500ft above Paris

November 22nd

1963 - Lyndon B Johnson sworn in as the 35th President of America, hours after the assassination of President Kennedy

November 23rd

1642 - The Dutch navigator, Abel Tasman, discovers Van Dieman’s Land (later to be re-named Tasmania)

November 24th

1963 - John F. Kenedy’s, alleged assassin

November 25th

1963 - JFK buried at Arlington National Cemetery

November 26th

1867 - The first ever woman to vote in a British election casts her vote due to a mistake in the electoral register

November 27th

1582 - William Shakespeare aged 18, marries Anne Hathaway

November 28th

1975 - East Timor declares independence from Portugal

November 29th

1864 - 1,200 American troops attack a camp of Cheyenne and Arapho Indians who had surrendered

November 30th

1950 - US President Truman threatens China with atom bomb