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30 November306 : St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 1215: Pope Innocent III closes 4th council of Lateranen. 1406: Angelo Correr elected Pope Gregory XII. 1886: The Folies Bergère stages its first revue. 1916: Costa Rica signs the Buenos Aires Convention, a copyright treaty. 1967: South Yemen becomes independent from the United Kingdom. 29 November1924: Italian composer Giacomo Puccini dies in Brussels before he could complete his opera Turandot. 1963: President Johnson names a commission headed by Earl Warren to investigate the assassination of President Kennedy. 1986: Actor Cary Grant dies in Davenport, Iowa, at age 82. 1987: North Korean agents plant a bomb on Korean Air Flight 858, which kills all 115 passengers and crew. 2001: Beatle George Harrison dies of cancer. 28 November1520: Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean. 1821: Panama Independence Day: Panama separates from Spain and joins Gran Colombia. 1893: Women vote in a national election for the first time, in the New Zealand general election. 1919: US-born Lady Astor elected first female member of British House of Commons. 1967: 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University. 1999: Eleven people are injured in a sword attack at a church in south London. 27 November1237: Battle of Cortenuova: Holy Roman Emperor Frederik II defeated the Second Lombardian League. 1382: Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. 1703: The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm. 1839: In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded. 1901: The U.S. Army War College is established. 1987: South African Airways Flight 295 crashes and kills all 159 on board. 26 November1805: Official opening of Thomas Telford’s Pontcysyllte Aqueduct. 1812: The Battle of Berezina begins during Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. 1938: Tina Turner (Anna Mae Bullock) is born. 1941: President Franklin D Roosevelt signs a bill that establishes the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day. 1998: The Khanna rail disaster takes 212 lives in Khanna, Ludhiana, India. 2011: The Mars Science Laboratory launches to Mars with the Curiosity Rover. 25 November1487: Elizabeth of York is crowned Queen of England. 1759: An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000-40,000. 1963: President John F. Kennedy is buried in Washington, D.C. 1966: First television link between Australia and the UK. 1986: The King Fahd Causeway is officially opened in the Persian Gulf. 24 November642 : Theodore I begins his reign as Catholic Pope. 1434: River Thames in London freezes over. 1942: Comedian Billy Connolly is born. 1991: Freddie Mercury dies aged 45 just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive. 2012: A fire at a clothing factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh kills at least 112 people. 23 November1248: Conquest of Seville by Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile. 1644: Areopagitica, a pamphlet by John Milton, decrying censorship, is published. 1910: Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. 1955: The Cocos Islands are transferred from the control of the United Kingdom to that of Australia. 1978: Cyclone kills about 1000 people in eastern Sri Lanka. 2005: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf is elected president of Liberia and becomes the first woman to lead an African country. 22 November498 : St Symmachus begins his reign as Pope replacing Anastasius II. 1346: Street fights in Utrecht, Hollandsgezinde Gunterlingen statements. 1890: French president Charles de Gaulle was born in Lille, France. 1954: The Humane Society of the United States was incorporated as the National Humane Society. 1994: The Sega Saturn is released in Japan. 2005: Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany. 21 November1789: North Carolina ratifies the United States Constitution and is admitted as the 12th U.S. state. 1791: Colonel Napoléon Bonaparte is promoted to General and appointed Commander-in-Chief of the Armies of the French Republic. 1832: Wabash College is founded in Crawfordsville, Indiana. 1970: General Hafez al-Assad becomes Prime Minister of Syria following military coup. 2013: 54 people are killed when the roof of a shopping center collapses in Riga, Latvia. 20 November1168: Giovanni di Struma elected anti-Pope. 1431: First meeting of Order of the Golden Fleece. 1719: Sweden & Hannover sign peace Treaty of Stockhol. 1789: New Jersey becomes the first U.S. state to ratify the Bill of Rights. 1985: Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released. 19 November461 : St Hilary begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1302: Pope Boniface VIII delegates degree “Unam sanctam” 1367: League of Cologne goes against Danish king Waldemar IV 1816: Warsaw University is established. 1999: Shenzhou 1: The People’s Republic of China launches its first Shenzhou spacecraft. 18 November794 : Japanese emperor Kammu deallocates residence of Nara to Kioto. 1105: Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I 1307: William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son’s head 1421: Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands 1477: First English dated printed book “Dictes & Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton 17th November1183: The Battle of Mizushima takes place. 1292: John Balliol becomes King of Scotland. 1558: Elizabeth I aged 25 ascends English throne upon death of her half sister Queen “Bloody” Mary. 1947: The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath. 1970: Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse. 2000: Alberto Fujimori is removed from office as president of Peru. 16th November534 : Second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus published. 1380: French King Charles VI declares no taxes for ever. 1852: The English astronomer John Russell Hind discovers the asteroid 22 Kalliope. 1914: The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. 1920: First assembly of the League of Nations is held in Geneva, Switzerland. 1992: The Hoxne Hoard is discovered by metal detectorist Eric Lawes in Hoxne, Suffolk. 15th November1492: Christopher Columbus notes 1st recorded reference to tobacco. 1791: The first U.S. Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors. 1904: King C. Gillette patents the Gillette razor blade. 1948: Mackenzie King retires after 22 years as Prime Minister of Canada. 1933: Thailand has its first election. 2016: Hong Kong High Court bans elected politicians Yau Wai-ching and Baggio Leung from the city’s Parliament. 14th November
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