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22nd November 1718: The pirate Blackbeard killed by sailors under Robert Maynard

The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert ...

21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

Within two decades, Edison's invention of the phonograph had spawned an entire industry built around the recording, distribution and sale of sound ...

20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in ...

19th November 1863: Lincoln delivers Gettysburg Address

On the 19th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, ...

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 ...

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 ...

16th November 1945: Foundation of UNESCO – United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation

UNESCO was created to promote international collaboration in education, science and culture as a way to contribute towards world peace and ...

15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time

Clemenceau's appointment heralded a marked change in government as he sought to consolidate French support behind its ...

14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were ...

13th November 1002: Æthelred the Unready orders the St Brice’s Day Massacre

On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in ...