1909 – British House of Lords rejects David Lloyd George’s ‘People’s Budget’, which tried to shift tax burden to the wealthy. Leads to the Parliament Act; intent to stop unelected house overruling will of the elected house.
1924 – 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
1931 – His Master’s Voice and Columbia Records merge into EMI
1939 – Paul Osborn’s “Mornings at 7” premieres in NYC
1967 – Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D, Eisenhower), announce their engagement
1969 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1972 – BBC bans Wings’ “Hi, Hi, Hi”
1997 – “Eugene Onegin” closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
2019 – On the way to 36 in 2nd Test v Pakistan, Australian cricket batsman Steve Smith overtakes Don Bradman’s run-tally of 6,996 Test runs; becomes fastest batsman to 7000, in terms of innings (126)
2021 – 15 year old student shoots four death and injures seven at Oxford High School in Oxford, Michigan
Month: November 2023
Historical Events for 29th November 2023
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s Jacobite army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
1791 – Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton
1803 – Dessalines and Christophe declare St Domingue (Haiti) independent
1850 – The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, taking over the leadership of German Confederation
1943 – US aircraft carrier Hornet launched
1981 – Revival of Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe’s musical “My Fair Lady” closes at Uris Theater, NYC, after 119 performances
1986 – 51st Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 21-17 in Birmingham
1987 – Ranger’s Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs NY Islanders). It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal.
2017 – Bosnian war criminal Slobodan Praljak commits suicide by poison in court at The Hague after 20 year prison term read out
2022 – For the first time fewer than half of people in England and Wales call themselves Christian according to the 2021 Census
Historical Events for 28th November 2023
1754 – Jean-Baptiste Le Rond d’Alembert is elected to the French Academy of Sciences
1813 – Cossacks occupy Utrecht
1909 – Sergei Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. 3, one of the genres most difficult, premieres at the New Theatre in New York City, with the composer as soloist and the New York Symphony Society conducted by Walter Damrosch
1955 – 1956 NFL Draft: Gary Glick from University of Colorado AandM first pick by Pittsburgh Steelers
1957 – “Look Homeward, Angel” play based on the book by Thomas Wolfe adapted by Ketti Frings and starring Anthony Perkins premieres in NYC
1960 – Mauritania gains independence from France (National Day)
1966 – Coup in Burundi overthrows monarchy; a republic is declared
1967 – 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
1975 – Wings release single “Venus and Mars/Rock Show” medley
1984 – Over 250 years after their deaths, William Penn and his wife Hannah Callowhill Penn are made Honorary Citizens of the United States
Historical Events for 27th November 2023
1912 – Albanian National Flag adopted
1914 – 1st British woman elected political agent (Grantham, Lincolnshire)
1962 – 1st test flight of the Boeing 727 takes place
1973 – Neil Simon’s play “Good Doctor” premieres in NYC
1980 – Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1982 – Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
1985 – Cards Vince Coleman wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 – Lions’ Barry Sanders becomes NFL’s 2nd all-time rusher
2005 – First partial human face transplant is completed for Isabelle Dinoire in Amiens, France.
2013 – “Frozen”, the highest-grossing animated film of all time, starring Idina Menzel and Kristen Bell, is released
Historical Events for 26th November 2023
1898 – SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed
1914 – Battleship HMS Bulwark explodes at Sheerness Harbour, England, 788 die
1922 – English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1942 – Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
1954 – Test Cricket debut of Colin Cowdrey v Australia at Gabba
1963 – 29th Heisman Trophy Award: Roger Staubach, Navy (QB)
1967 – Browns’ Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
1978 – 1st lesbian themed TV movie – “A Question of Love”
1979 – Twins John Castino and Jays Alfredo Griffin tie for AL Rookie of Year
1984 – US and Iraq re-establish diplomatic relations
Historical Events for 25th November 2023
1357 – Charles IV issues letter of protection of Jews of Strasbourg Alsace
1920 – WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
1951 – Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
1955 – Walter Piston’s 6th Symphony, composed to mark the 75th Anniversary of the Boston Symphony, premieres, led by Charles Munch
1959 – Mary Rodgers and Marshall Barer’s musical “Once Upon A Mattress”, starring Carol Burnett and directed by George Abbott, opens at Alvin Theater, NYC, after starting off-Broadway at the Phoenix Theatre, later moves to St. James
1972 – “Ambassador” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC after 9 performances
1981 – Failed coup by South African mercenaries in Seychelles
1983 – Larry Holmes TKOs Marvis Frazier in 1 for heavyweight boxing title
1990 – Lech Wałęsa wins Poland’s first popular election
1995 – “Patti LuPone on Broadway” closes at Walter Kerr NYC after 46 performances
Historical Events for 24th November 2023
1434 – River Thames in London freezes over
1954 – Air Force One, 1st US Presidential airplane, christened
1958 – Mali becomes an autonomous state within French Community
1966 – The Beatles began recording sessions for their album “Sgt.Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band”
1971 – A woman is killed after members of the Irish Republican Army carry out an attack on British soldiers in Strabane, County Tyrone
1972 – Taoiseach Jack Lynch meets with British PM Edward Heath in London to give Irish approval to Attlee’s paper saying new arrangements should be ‘acceptable to and accepted by the Republic of Ireland’
1979 – “Salem’s Lot”, American two-part miniseries based on the horror novel of the same name by Stephen King, concludes in the United States
2014 – “Take Your Time” single is released by Sam Hunt (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
2020 – COVID-19 surge in the US gathers further pace with death toll of 2,200 highest since May and new cases averaging 175,000 a day
2021 – Sweden’s first female Prime Minister Magdalena Andersson resigns after 12 hours in the job after her coalition government falls apart
Historical Events for 23rd November 2023
1834 – “Harold in Italy”, symphonic work for orchestra and viola by Hector Berlioz, premieres and at the Paris Conservatoire; Chrétien Urhan soloist, with Narcisse Girard conducting
1890 – General elections in Italy won by the Left group headed by Francesco Crispi
1913 – Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers
1914 – The US Army withdraws from Mexico
1923 – Germany’s Gustav Stresemann’s government falls to the SPD
1976 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1977 – European weather satellite Meteosat 1 launched from Cape Canaveral
1991 – Brigham Young University quarterback Ty Detmer finishes NCAA career with record 4,031 yards passed in a season, and 15,031 yards for career
2003 – Georgian president Eduard Shevardnadze resigns following weeks of mass protests over flawed elections
2014 – Magnus Carlsen defends his World Chess Championship title after defeating Vishy Anand
Historical Events for 22nd November 2023
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1862 – Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
1906 – Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1930 – Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1930 – 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1944 – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1992 – Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
2003 – 68th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-23 in Auburn
Historical Events for 21st November 2023
1849 – Friedrich Hebbel’s play “Der Rubin” premieres in Vienna
1916 – HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people
1933 – 1st US ambassador to USSR, W.C. Bullitt, begins service
1934 – NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
1946 – Harry Truman becomes 1st US President to travel in a submerged sub
1953 – WKJG TV channel 33 in Ft Wayne, IN (NBC) begins broadcasting
1964 – “Zizi” opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 49 performances
1980 – “Hi Infidelity” 9th studio album by REO Speedwagon is released
1999 – Repeat of previous year’s final, but different result; American tennis star Lindsay Davenport beats Martina Hingis 6-4, 6-2 for the WTA Tour Championship at Madison Square Garden, NYC
2020 – Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge