Apollo 12 lands at Oceanus Procellarum on the moon (1969) - Nov. 19
Bobbi McGaughey gives birth in Des Moines, IA to the first set of septuplets to survive infancy with all seven alive 10 years after (1997) - 11/19
Equal Opportunity Day - Nov. 19
Goldwyn Pictures is formed by Samuel Goldfish with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn after which Goldfish legally changed his name to Goldwyn (1916) - 11/19
National Review (bi-weekly magazine) publishes its first issue (1955) - Nov. 19
Vincent Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait withou beard" sold at auction for $71.5 million in New York City (1998) - Nov. 19
Doo Dah Parade Day - a Farcical parade held in Pasadena, CA since 1976 with the date varying each year (2017) - Nov. 19
November 20, 2017
Elizabeth II of Great Britain (then still a princess) marries Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh (1947) - Nov. 20
Diana, Princess of Wales, admits to adultery in a TV interview (1995) - Nov. 20
Essex (whaleship) is struck two times by a sperm whale causing the ship to sink the event inspiring Melville's Moby Dick (1820) - Nov. 20
International Space Station's first pressurized module (Zarya) is launched (1998) - Nov. 20
Leo Tolstoy (Russian novelist) died apparently of cold (1910) - Nov. 20
Queen Alexandra (consort to Edward VII of the UK) died at Sandringham after suffering a heart attack (1925) - Nov. 20
Traffic Light Day - 11/20
Universal Children's Day - Nov. 20
Department of Justice Building is renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building in honor of RFK's 76th birthday (2001) - Nov. 20
Absurdity Day - 11/20
Microsoft Windows Version 1.0 is released (1985) - Nov. 20
Windsor Castle fire breaks out in the Private Chapel and rages for 15 hours (1992) - Nov. 20
November 21, 2017
Birmingham pub blasts were explosions from IRA placed devices in two pubs packed with mainly teenage drinkers that killed 19 injured 180 (1974) - Nov. 21
Piltdown Man (fragments of a skull and jawbone collected in 1912 thought to be fossilised remains of an early human) is exposed as a hoax (1953) - Nov. 21
HMS Britannic (sister ship of the HMS Olympic and Titanic) sinks after hitting a mine just off the coast of Kea with the loss of 30 lives (1916) - 11/21
MGM Grand Hotel and Casino fire (Las Vegas, NV) is the worst disaster in Nevada history with 119 killed and 650 injured (1980) - Nov. 21
Princess Victoria, The Princess Royal (eldest child of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) is born at Buckingham Palace (1840) - Nov. 21
Rebecca Ann Latimer Felton (American writer, teacher and reformer) becomes the first woman to serve in the US Senate (1922) - Nov. 21
The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (two deck suspension bridge connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn) is opened to traffic (1964) - Nov. 21
What you love about America Day - Nov. 21
Anne McCaffrey (American-born Irish writer best known for her Dragonriders of Pern series) dies in her home in Ireland after suffering a stroke at age 85 (2011) - Nov. 21
November 22, 2017
Angela Merkel becomes the first female Chancellor of Germany (2005) - Nov. 22
B-2 Spirit Stealth Bomber (a multirole heavy bomber with "low observable" stealth technology) has its 1st prototype revealed in Palmdale, CA (1988) - 11/22
British Airways inaugurates a regular London to New York City supersonic concorde service (1977) - Nov. 22
Aldous Huxley (English writer best known for being the "spiritual father" of the hippie movement) died of cancer (1963) - Nov. 22
Edward Teach (aka Blackbeard the pirate) is killed in a battle with Lieutenant Robert Maynard and is subsequently decapitated (1718) - Nov. 22
The China clipper (sea plane) takes off from San Francisco for Manila to deliver over 110,000 pieces for the first transpacific airmail (1935) - Nov. 22
Cutty Sark (Clipper ship built in 1869 as a merchant vessel) is launched from Dumbarton, Scotland (1869) - Nov. 22
Hockey Day - Nov. 22
Lebanon Independence Day from France (1943) - Nov. 22
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated supposedly by Lee Harvey Oswald while on a political trip in Dallas, TX (1963) - 11/22
Rene Moawad (12th President of Lebanon) is killed by an exploding car bomb in West Beirut along with 23 others (1989) - Nov. 22
Rosemary West (Britain's most prolific female serial killer) is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women (1995) - Nov. 22
Stop the Violence Day - Nov. 22
Toy Story is released as the first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery (1995) - Nov. 22
You Tube Live (an entertainment and multimedia event) first takes place in San Francisco, CA (2008) - Nov. 22
November 23, 2017
King of Horror (Boris Karloff) is born (1887) - Nov. 23
Doctor Who premieres on BBC television with the pilot An Unearthly Child starring William Hartnell as the First Doctor (1963) - Nov. 23
Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 (hijaacked en routed from Addis Ababa to Nairobi) crash lands in the Indian Ocan after running out of fuel (1996) - Nov. 23
Irpinia Italy earthquake (measuring 6.8 on the Richter Scale) kills almost 3,000, injures more than 10,000 leaving 300,000 homeless (1980) - 11/23
First jukebox goes into operation at the Palais Royale Saloon in San Francisco (1889) - 11/23
Life Magazine (weekly magazine publication created by Henry Luce) has its first edition released (1936) - 11/23
MS Explorer (Cruise ship tracing the route of Ernest Shacleton) hit a possible iceberg and sank near King George Island (2007) - 11/23
Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is confirmed as the President of Liberia becoming the first woman to lead an African country (2005) - Nov. 23
Total Solar Eclipse occurs over regions of the Antarctic continent (2003) - Nov. 23
Thanksgiving (U.S. Holiday celebrated on the 4th Thursday in November) is an annual tradition in the USA since 1863 (2017) - Nov. 23
November 24, 2017
November 24, 2016
Apollo 12 experiences a rough splashdown east of Pago Pago that resulted in Alan Bean being struck by a 16-mm movie camera (1969) - Nov. 24
D.B. Cooper hijaacks a plane, receives $200,000 in ransom and parachutes from the plane without getting caught (1971) - Nov. 24
Jon Venables and Robert Thompson (British 10-year-old boys) are found guilty of murdering James Bulger (2-year-old boy) (1993) - Nov. 24
Lee Harvey Oswald (US Marine arrested for the murder of JFK) is murdered by Jack Ruby while being transported to the Dallas County Jail (1963) - Nov. 24
Lucy (a 40% Australopithecus afarensis skeleton) is discovered by the Int'l Afar Research Expedition (1974) - Nov. 24
Origin of the Species by Charles Darwin is 1st published (1859) - 11/24
Black Friday (USA) Shopping Sale Day held the Friday after Thanksgiving marking the beginning of the Christmas shopping season (2017) - 11/24
Flossing Day - Friday after Thanksgiving (2017) - 11/24
Turkey Leftovers Day (2017) - Nov. 24
November 25, 2017
Great Storm of 1703 (greatest windstorm every recorded in the southern part of Great Britain) reaches its peak intensity (1703) - Nov. 25
Saint Catherine's Day is the feast day of Saint Catherine of Alexandria - Nov. 25
Seige of Granada (last Moorish stronghold in Spain) begins (1471) - Nov. 25
Shopping Reminder Day - Nov. 25
Upton Sinclair (Pulitzer prize-winning American author best known for his 1906 muckraking novel The Jungle) died (1966) - Nov. 25
White Ship tragedy claimed the life of William Adelin (only legitimate son of Henry I of England-1120) - Nov. 25
Buy Nothing Day (UK) - celebrated the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day in the UK (2017) - Nov. 25
November 26, 2017
Day of the Covenant (Baha'i) celebrates the appointment of Abdul-Baha as the Centre of Baha'u'llah's Covenant - Nov. 26
Cake Day - Nov. 26
Charles M. Schulz (creator of the comic strip "Peanuts") is born (1922) - Nov. 26
College Fraternity Day - Nov. 26
Lebanon Independence from France is declared (1941) - Nov. 26
Maria Feodorovna (wife of Alexander III of Russia and mother to Nicholas II) is born (1847) - Nov. 26
Maud of Wales (consort to King Haakon VII of Norway and daughter of King Edward VII and Alexandra of Denmark) is born (1869) - Nov. 26
Nicholas II of Russia married Alix of Hesse (1894) - Nov. 26
Ruzhou school killings in China resulted in the deaths of eight students (2004) - 11/26
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