This day in history

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6 November 1649 - Death of Owen Roe O'Neill, the Catholic military leader opposed to Cromwell.

1981 - Taoiseach Garret Fitzgerald and Margaret Thatcher decide to set up an Anglo-Irish Inter-Governmental Council

2005 - Irish and British soldiers killed at the Battle of Messines in 1917 are all commemorated in an historic ceremony where the Tricolour of the Republic and the Union Flag are flown alongside one another at the war memorial in Derry City.

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1492 : The Ensisheim meteorite is a stony meteorite that fell on November 7, 1492 in a wheat field outside the walled town of Ensisheim in then Alsace, Further Germany (now France). The meteorite can still be seen in Ensisheim's museum, the sixteenth-century Musée de la Régence. It is the oldest stony European meteorite fall from which there is still some meteoritic material preserved.

1924 : The Socialist Government in Britain headed by the British Prime Minister Ramsay McDonald went to Buckingham Palace to hand over to King George the seal of Office to be given to the new Prime minister Stanley Baldwin.

1935 : It was possible that a naval parity (equality) agreement would be reached between countries such as the U.S., England, and Japan. However, it was also evident that both the United States and England would not be willing to alter the 5-5-3 military ratio limitations outlined by the Washington Treaty, which was soon to expire.

1942 : Allied forces invade North Africa .

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1665 - The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, was first published.

1917 - The Bolsheviks, led by Lenin, took power in Russia.

1921 - Benito Mussolini declared himself to be leader of the National Fascist Party in Italy.

1941 - German torpedo aircraft sank the Soviet hospital ship Armenia killing approximately 7,000 people.

1942 - Allied forces invade North Africa.

1943 - Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell was born

1944 - President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was elected to an unprecedented fourth term in office. FDR remains the only president to have served more than two terms.

1956 - The United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution calling for the UK, France and Israel to immediately withdraw their troops from Egypt, after their invasion to sieze the suez canal.

1964 - The UKs first drink-driving advert was shown on TV, with the message "Drinking and driving are dangerous."

1967 - British heavyweight champion Henry Cooper beat challenger Billy Walker to become the only boxer to win three Lonsdale Belts outright.

1974 - Lord Lucan mysteriously disappeared following the murder of his children's nanny and a serious assault on his wife.

1980 - Actor Steve McQueen died of cancer in Mexico, aged 50.

1990 - Mary Robinson became the first woman elected President of Ireland.

1998 - Families of WW1 soldiers executed for cowardice or desertion laid a wreath at the Cenotaph in Whitehall for the first time, to pay tribute to the 306 servicemen who died.

2012 - Clive Dunn, best known for his role as Lance Corporal Jones in Dad's Army, died aged 92.

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8 November 1895

German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays

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1519 - Hernan Cortez enters Tenochtitlan. Aztec ruler Montezuma welcomed him as a god.

1799 - The Coup of 18–19 Brumaire in Paris, marked the end of the Revolution and the rise of
Napoleon.

1847 - Birth in Dublin of Bram Stoker, author of Dracula

1887 - Doc Holliday, friend of Wyatt Earp died of tuberculos.

1923 - Adolf Hitler and Erich Ludendorff attempted to start an insurrection in Germany against the Weimar Republic in the Beer Hall Putsch.

1938 - Kristallnacht started, 48 hrs of anti-Jewish violence throughout Germany and Austria.

1939 - An assassination attempt on Hitler failed when he left just before a bomb exploded.

1960 - John F. Kennedy became the youngest president of the USA and the first Catholic.

1960 - An Irish UN peacekeeping force was ambushed in the Congo, 9 were killed by Baluba tribesmen. These are the first overseas combat deaths of the Irish soldiers acting for the UN.

1965 - The Murder (Abolition of the Death Penalty) Act 1965 was given Royal Assent.

1974 - Lord Lucan vanished, accused of murder and assult he was officially declared dead in 1999.

1982 - Leonid Brezhnev, leader of the Soviet Union for more than 18 years died in Moscow.

1987 - 11 people were killed after a bomb explodes during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen.

1998 - Irish President Mary McAleese acknowledges the 50,000 Irishmen killed in WW1.

2011 - The Nord Stream gas pipeline between Russia and the EU was officially opened.

2016 - Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the USA.

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November 9, 1938, in an event that would foreshadow the Holocaust, German Nazis launch a campaign of terror against Jewish people and their homes and businesses in Germany and Austria. The violence, which continued through November 10 and was later dubbed “Kristallnacht,” or “Night of Broken Glass,” after the countless smashed windows of Jewish-owned establishments, left approximately 100 Jews dead, 7,500 Jewish businesses damaged and hundreds of synagogues, homes, schools and graveyards vandalized. An estimated 30,000 Jewish men were arrested, many of whom were then sent to concentration camps for several months; they were released when they promised to leave Germany. Kristallnacht represented a dramatic escalation of the campaign started by Adolf Hitler in 1933 when he became chancellor to purge Germany of its Jewish population.

2009 20th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall
On this day, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the last soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev and Polish ex-president and Noble Prize winner Lech Walesa walked through Brandenburg Gate in Berlin to commemorate the 20th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall.

1994 Darmstadtium created for the first time
The heavily radioactive element with an atomic number of 110 and symbol Ds, was created at Gesellschaft für Schwerionenforschung (Institute for Heavy Ion Research) in Darmstadt, Germany, the city after which the element is named.

1985 Youngest person to become World Chess Champion
22-year-old Russian Gary Kasparov won the 13th World Chess Championship against Anatoly Karpov to become the youngest World Chess Champion.

1967 Rolling Stone makes its debut
The biweekly popular culture magazine was founded by Jann Simon Wenner in San Francisco. The magazine launched the careers of many famous authors and published the early versions of Hunter S. Thompson's Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.

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November 9

1847 - The first child to be born with the aid of anaesthetics is delivered in Edinburgh.

1907 The Cullinan Diamond was presented by the Transvaal to King Edward VII, on his birthday

1871 - According to his journal, Henry Stanley found David Livingstone exploring the source of the Nile and used the famous words “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?”

1908 Britain's first woman mayor, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, was elected at Aldeburgh, Suffolk.

1918 Germany was proclaimed a republic as the Kaiser abdicates and fled to the Netherlands.

1935 - Japanese troops invaded Shanghai, China.

1953 - Author-poet Dylan Thomas died in New York at age 39.

1956 - Street fighting broke out in the streets of Budapest, Hungary.

1961 - Brian Epstein first saw the Beatles in a lunchtime session at The Cavern,.

1970 - General Charles de Gaulle, former president of France died of a heart attack, aged 79.

1979 - Monty Python's "Life of Brian" had its UK release.

1979 - Four men guilty of killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater. 18 years later the convictions were quashed.

1993 - Stari Most, the 427-year-old bridge in Mostar, Bosnia was destroyed by Bosnian Croat forces.

[Richard Frost]

10 November

1989: Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall

1967: Lady Chatterley's Lover which has been banned in England since it's publication in 1928 and which Penguin fought and won the right in a well publicised trial last month to publish the book in paperback 30 years later. It sold out of 200,000 copies on it's first day. DH Lawrence's sexually explicit novel was published in Italy in 1928 and in Paris the following year but has been banned in the UK till now it became available this morning in paperback for 3s 6d. ( about 17p in today's money )

1871: Henry Stanley finds missing explorer Dr David Livingstone
'Dr Livingstone, I presume?' Journalist Henry Stanley will claim he uttered those words on this day, upon finding David Livingstone after a harrowing search in central Africa. The quote, however, and even the date, will later come into question.

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1674 - The “New Netherlands”, which included New Amsterdam (New York) were ceded to the British.

1798 - Wolfe Tone, one of leaders of the United Irishmen, was tried and convicted of treason

1879 – Birth of Padraig Pearse, Irish revolutionary and one of the leaders of the 1916 Easter Rebellion.

1885 - German engineer Gottlieb Daimler unveiled the world's first motorcycle

1928 - WWI novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” by Erich Maria Remarque was first published

1951 - First direct customer-dialled telephone call made between New Jersey and California.

1958 Donald Campbell broke the water speed record of 248mph on Coniston Water

1969 - Sesame Street made it's debut on PBS.

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11 November 1918

WWI armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, “the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month”.