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3rd November 1976
Democrat Jimmy Carter won the US presidential election
4th November 1970
Genie a feral child is taken to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after her mother enters a welfare office in Temple City, California, to seek benefits for the blind.
5th November 1967
A Commuter express train careered off the tracks at Hither Green coming into London.
6th November 1956
Suez Crisis was the abortive military invasion of Egypt by British and French troops
7th November 1954
Armistice Day renamed Veteran’s Day
8th November 1960
John F. Kennedy Elected
9th November 1985
Charles and Diana make their first official visit to the United States Of America, and visit the White House for a Gala party
10th November 1938
Kate Smith sings a rendition of Irvin Berlin’s ‘God Bless America’ during a special Armistice Day
11th November 1921
President Warren G. Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a white marble sarcophagus in Arlington National Cemetery
12th November 1970
The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon
13th November 1940
Walt Disney releases “Fantasia” an experiment in animation and classical music
14th November 1940
Coventry Bombing in which German bombers devastate the British industrial city of Coventry
15th November 1934
Sir Oswald Mosley and Black-Shirt fascist followers were put on Trial.
16th November 1945
German V2 Rocket Scientists Come To US
17th November 1973
Marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s his famous “I am not a crook” line at the height of the Watergate scandal
18th November 1987
A fire in a King’s Cross underground station kills 30 commuters and injures dozens of others.
19th November 1967
Beatles Release “Magical Mystery Tour”
20th November 1992
Fire damages a major part of Windsor Castle Fire
21st November 1980
Fire At MGM Grand Hotel
22nd November 1935
The China Clipper took off from San Francisco, California on its way to Manila.
23rd November 2001
Convention on Cybercrime which aimed at the protection of society against cybercrime.
24th November 1963
Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead
25th November 1984
Band Aid recorded single “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
26th November 1922
The British Lord Carnarvon and the archaeologist Howard Carter enter King Tut’s Tomb
27th November,1910
Penn Station opens in New York.
28th November,1960
Rioting broke out in several areas of the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela.
29th November 1922
Federal authorities have been called upon to help state authorities enforce prohibition laws
30th November 1936
Crystal Palace which had been built for the Great Exhibition was destroyed by fire.