This Day in History

Hi I am starting this thread which will give us some insight into importance of every day in our history. It would be really informative if you could too add your knowledge of such events that have occured in past.

7th November
1985
Four heavily armed Palestinian terrorists hijacked the Achille Lauro, an Italian cruise ship carrying about 440 passengers off Egypt only to surrender two days later.
1867
Marie Curie, the pioneering physicist, was born in Poland. She later migrated to France and won two Nobel Prizes for her work on radioactivity
1872
The Marie Celeste sailed from New York only to be found mysteriously abandoned some days later. There was no sign of the crew but all the ship's provisions were found undisturbed.
1888
The second Indian Nobel laureate, C V Raman was born. In 1930, he won the Nobel Prize in Physics for the Raman Effect.
1895
Canada's first trans-continental railway was completed. The Canadian Pacific Railroad laid 4,600 kilometres of track that that made it possible for migrants to settle in the vast areas in the west of the continent.

10 November
1657
Shivaji and Afzal Khan met at the fort of Pratapgarh. After a stormy meeting, Shivaji killed Afzal Khan by plunging his hand fitted with tiger claws into Khan.
1871
Henry Morton Stanley, an American news reporter, set out for Africa to find the English explorer, David Livingstone, who was presumed lost.
1928
Showa Tenno Hirohito, the 124th Japanese monarch was enthroned as Emperor of Japan, two years after his accession to the throne.
1970
The Great Wall of China, previously out-of-bounds, opened to world tourism.
1995
Ken Saro-Wiwa, a Nigerian playwright and environmental activist, was hanged in Nigeria along with eight other activists.

Hi Ashna,
What you have started is a great idea! It brought a lot of memories back. Keep them coming....

Shalini Thanks for your appreciation...i just thought it would be a knowledge booster for us and our children.

14 November 2005

1881
Nellie Bly, an intrepid American journalist broke Phileas Fogg's record, by going around the world in 72 days, 6 hours, 11 minutes and 14 seconds.
1889
India's first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru, was born in Allahabad.
1935
The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially proclaimed by the first Philippine president, Luis Manuel Quezon, and U.S. president Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1940
During the Battle of Britain, nearly 500 Luftwaffe bombers descended on the historic industrial city of Coventry after nightfall, destroying factories and much of the city centre, including a 14th-century cathedral.
1963
A volcanic eruption under the sea off the coast of Iceland created the new island of Surtsey.
1969
Apollo 12, the second manned mission to the the moon, was launched.

16 November 2005

1713
Balaji Vishwanath was appointed Peshwa by Shahu.
1869
In Egypt, the Suez Canal, stretching 176 km across the Isthmus of Suez, opened to navigation
1959
The Sound of Music, starring Julie Andrews and Christopher Plummer, opened in New York. It became one of the most popular films of all time.
1965
Venera 3 was launched and became the first man-made object to land on another planet when it crashed into Venus
1988
In Pakistan, citizens voted in the first free elections in 11 years. Benazir Bhutto became the Prime Minister.

17 November 2005

1558
Elizabeth I ascended the English throne upon the death of her half-sister Mary.
1921
The Prince of Wales landed in Bombay only to be greeted by a complete hartal.
1954
Egypt's king Farukh went into exile and was succeeded as head of state by General Abdul Gamel Nasser.
1959
The famous De Beers company of South Africa produced synthetic diamonds for the first time.
1995
Bettino Craxi, who served as Italy's first Socialist prime minister from 1983 to 1987, was indicted on corruption charges along with 74 others.

18 November
1477 W.Claxton publishes 1st book printed in England,translation by Earl Rivers.
1497 Portuguese navigator Bartholomeu discovered Cape of Good Hope.
1626 St.Peter's Cathedral Rome-officially dedicated.
1865 Mark Twain's 1st story"The Celebrated Jumping Frog..." is published in the New York Saturday Press.
1905 Parliament elects Prince Charles of Denmark to be the next King of Norway.
1912 Cholera breaks in Constantinople.
1928 Mickey mouse makes debut in Steamboat Willie,first animated talking picture.
1950 Bureau of Mines discloses its first production of oil from coal in practical amounts.
1963 Bell Telephones introduced the push-button phone.
1968 Soviets recover the Zond6 spacecraft after a flight around the moon.
1976 After 37 years of dictatorship,Spain saw a return of democracy.
1984 Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine.

21 November
1783
French inventors Jean de Rozier and the Marquis d'Arlandes made the first manned hot air balloon flight when they flew over Paris for 25 minutes. Their balloon was made by the Montgolfier brothers.
1843
Thomas Hancock patented vulcanized rubber.
1953
The Piltdown Man discovered in 1912 was proved to be a hoax.
1962
A ceasefire was declared, ending the Indo-China border conflict.
1977
The supersonic airliner the Concorde, made its first flight between London and New York.

23 November
1948
F.G.Back patented the zoom lens for cameras.
1971
The People's Republic of China secured a permanent seat in the United Nations Security Council.
1979
Thomas McMahon, a member of the Irish Republican Army (IRA), was sentenced to life imprisonment for his role in the assassination of Lord Louis Mountbatten.
1980
A series of earthquakes killed 4800 people in southern Italy.
1995
Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic reluctantly accepted a peace plan to end four years of bloody conflict in the former Yugoslavia.