26th November 1922: Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings
Although Tutankhamun was one of the minor Pharaohs, the discovery of his tomb is significant for it being the most complete example of a royal tomb ever ...
26 Nov 20250s
25th November 1940: Nikolai Yezhov, former head of the Soviet secret police, executed in Moscow
Under Yezhov's leadership the NKVD launched a campaign of arrests targeting party members, military officers, and civilians that saw widespread purges, forced confessions, and executions. Estimates of...
25 Nov 20250s
24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology
Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of ...
24 Nov 20250s
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 Nov 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...
22 Nov 20250s
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 Nov 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 Nov 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 Nov 20250s
