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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 ...

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 ...

11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of ...

10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I ...

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 ...

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 ...

7th November 1917: Bolshevik Red Guards take control of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

The 'storming of the Winter Palace' presents the takeover of the Winter Palace as a huge battle. However, this popular image is a ...

6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

Abraham Lincoln was elected barely five months before the outbreak of the American Civil War, and was assassinated less than a month before its ...

5th November 1605: Gunpowder Plot foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords in London

However, the plot was revealed in an anonymous letter and Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of ...

4th November 1839: The Newport Rising armed rebellion takes place in south Wales

Focusing on reform of the electoral system to improve the conditions of the working class, the release of the People’s Charter in 1838 had prompted the creation of the national working-class Chartist protest ...