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26th November 1976: Sex Pistols release the punk single ‘Anarchy in the UK’

The Damned had released what is recognised as the first ever punk single a month ...

25th November 1936: Nazi Germany and the Empire of Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact

Although directed against the Communist International, the organisation that sought to create a worldwide communist republic, the Anti-Comintern Pact was in reality against the Soviet ...

24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology

Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of ...

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: President John F. Kennedy fatally shot at Dealey Plaza in Dallas, Texas

When Kennedy's motorcade was barely five minutes away from its destination, gunshots rang out as it passed the Texas School Book ...

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: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War

Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...

19th November 1863: Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Pennsylvania

Opening with the famous line ‘Four score and seven years ago,’ Lincoln made the 2-minute speech to an assembled crowd of approximately 15,000 people including six separate state ...

18th November 1987: 31 people killed in the Kings Cross fire on the London Underground

The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras ...

17th November 1558: Elizabeth I succeeds her half-sister Mary to become Queen of England

Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn and, despite being declared illegitimate following the annulment of her parents’ marriage, came to the throne as the next in line behind her Catholic half-sister under the terms of the Third Act of ...