23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces
The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...
23 Marras 20250s
22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations
The hijackings showed a figure dressed as Max Headroom, a fictional artificial-intelligence television personality created in the mid-1980s and presented as “the world’s first computer-generated TV ho...
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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub ...
21 Marras 20250s
20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War
Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...
20 Marras 20250s
19th November 2006: Nintendo release the Wii console that includes motion-sensing technology
The Wii's defining feature was the Wii Remote, a wireless controller that could be swung, pointed, or tilted that enabled physical actions to correspond directly with on-screen ...
19 Marras 20250s
18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends with a German withdrawal
By the end of the Battle of the Somme, the Allies had advanced more than six miles into German-held ...
18 Marras 20250s
17th November 1903: The Bolshevik-Menshevik split within the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party
The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party split into the Bolshevik and Menshevik ...
17 Marras 20250s
16th November 1938: Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann synthesizes lysergic acid diethylamide, later known as LSD
Lysergic acid diethylamide was modified from one of the principal active components of ergot, a fungus found on rye that had long been known for its medicinal and toxic ...
16 Marras 20250s
