13th November 1833: Great Meteor Storm brings tens of thousands of meteors per hour to the North America sky
Contemporary estimates suggest that up to 100,000 meteors per hour may have been visible at the Great Storm's peak shortly before dawn on 13 ...
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12th November 1990: The World Wide Web formally proposed by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee
Within five years the World Wide Web began to be adopted by people and companies that weren’t connected with science or academia, and it has seemingly been dominated by photographs of cats ever ...
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
On the 11th November 1918, fighting on the First World War’s Western Front ended when representatives from the Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of ...
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10th November 1898: Wilmington Massacre sees an armed white mob overthrow the elected government of Wilmington, North Carolina
On 10 November, hundreds of armed men led by Alfred Waddell set fire to the Daily Record office, and violence spread through the city as mobs killed an estimated 60 to 300 Black ...
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9th November 1989: Berlin Wall opened by the East German government after Günter Schabowski mistakenly announced that GDR citizens could cross to West Berlin with immediate effect
Although the border remained closed for around three hours, by 11pm the Berlin Wall checkpoint at Bornholmer Strasse had been ...
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8th November 1923: Adolf Hitler leads the Beer Hall Putsch in Munich, alongside General Ludendorff
Hitler was injured and escaped capture, but was arrested two days later and put on trial for high ...
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7th November 1874: Elephant first appears as a symbol of the Republican Party in Thomas Nast’s political cartoon Third Term Panic
Third Term Panic became one of Thomas Nast’s most influential works, securing the elephant’s place in American political iconography and was later adopted by the Republican Party ...
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6th November 1975: The Sex Pistols play their first gig at St Martin’s College of Art in London
The Sex Pistols supported pub rock band Bazooka Joe and played a few cover songs on equipment borrowed from the headliners, but the plug was pulled after twenty ...
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