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27th November 1809: The Berners Street hoax causes chaos in central London

Englishman Theodore Hook orchestrated a practical joke known as the Berners Street hoax in the heart of ...

26th November 1922: Tutankhamun’s tomb entered by Howard Carter

On the 26th November 1922, Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon entered the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt’s Valley of the ...

25th November 1491: The Treaty of Granada ends Islamic rule on the Iberian Peninsula

The Treaty of Granada ended the Granada War and brought about the end of Islamic rule on the Iberian ...

24th November 1859: Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species

On the 24th November 1859, English naturalist and geologist Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, the ground-breaking book that is considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary ...

23rd November 1889: The nickel-in-the-slot phonograph – the world’s first jukebox

The world's first ‘Nickel-In-The-Slot Phonograph’ introduced the concept of the jukebox to the ...

22nd November 1963: Assassination of John F. Kennedy

At 12.30pm on Friday November 22nd 1963, President John F. Kennedy of the United States of America was fatally shot as his motorcade passed through Dealey Plaza in Dallas, ...

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 ...

20th November 1945: First Nuremberg Trial begins

On the 20th November 1945 the first, and best known, of the Nuremberg Trials ...

19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

U.S. President Ronald Reagan and Soviet General Secretary Mikhail Gorbachev met for the first time at the Geneva ...

18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends

On the 18th November 1916, the Battle of the Somme ended when German troops retired from the final large British attack at the Battle of the Ancre amid worsening ...