On This Day In History. What Happened Today In History

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 20 November



1998 First module of the International Space Station launched
Called Zarya, the module is Russian-built and American owned. The International Space Station (ISS) is a manned artificial satellite was built and operated by 5 space agencies – the Canadian Space Agency, the European Space Agency, US’s NASA, Russia's Roscosmos, and the Japanese Aerospace Exploration Agency. The brightest man-made object visible to the naked eye from Earth, ISS orbits the Earth at a speed of 17,500 miles per hour (28,000 kilometers per hour) at an average distance of 248 miles (400 kilometers) from Earth.

1985 Windows 1.0 released
Nearly two years after it was announced, Microsoft released its first graphical operating system. The OS made it easier for users to navigate on their computer screens. It came with Paint, Notepad, Calculator and a game called Reversi.

1959 Declaration of the Rights of the Child
The United Nations General Assembly adopted the document that laid out the rights of children around the world. The day is also annually celebrated as Universal Children's Day.

1945 Nuremberg trials begin
The trials were led by the International Military Tribunal and were held to prosecute high-ranking members of the Nazi party for war crimes committed during the Second World War. Of the 23 people tried, 14 were sentenced to death.

1923 Traffic signal patented
American Garret Morgan was awarded the patent for an automated traffic signal. Morgan’s invention was not the first of its kind, but unlike the other traffic signals which just had stop and go signals, his traffic light had a third signal that warned drivers about changes in the stop and go lights. This signal was the precursor for today’s yellow light.


Births On This Day – 20 November

1981 Sam Fuld
American baseball player

1942 Joe Biden
American politician, 47th Vice President of the United States

1925 Robert F. Kennedy
American politician, 64th United States Attorney General

1912 Otto von Habsburg
Austrian/German son of Charles I of Austria

1750 Tipu Sultan
Indian army officer, king


Deaths On This Day – 20 November

2006 Robert Altman
American director, screenwriter

1975 Francisco Franco
Spanish general, politician, Caudillo of Spain

1925 Alexandra of Denmark
1910 Leo Tolstoy
Russian author

1737 Caroline of Ansbach

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 20 November


1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.
1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.
1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.
1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
2001 - The U.S. Justice Department headquarters building was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building by President George W. Bush. The event was held on what would have been Kennedy's 76th birthday.

[Vikesh]

On This Day In History– 20 November


1789 - New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
1818 - Simon Bolivar formally declared Venezuela independent of Spain.
1943 - During World War II, U.S. Marines began their landing on Tarawa and Makin atolls in the Gilbert Islands.
1945 - 24 Nazi leaders went before an international war crimes tribunal in Nuremberg, Germany.
1962 - Mickey Mantle was named the American League Most Valuable Player for the third time.
1967 - The Census Clock at the Department of Commerce in Washington, DC, went past 200 million.
1977 - Egyptian President Anwar Sadat became the first Arab leader to address Israel's parliament.
1983 - An estimated 100 million people watched the controversial ABC-TV movie "The Day After." The movie depicted the outbreak of nuclear war.
1990 - Saddam Hussein ordered another 250,000 Iraqi troops into the country of Kuwait.
1990 - The space shuttle Atlantis landed at Cape Canaveral, FL, after completing a secret military mission.
1998 - Afghanistan's Taliban militia offered Osama bin Laden safe haven. Osama bin Laden had been accused of orchestrating two U.S. embassy bombings in Africa and later terrorist attacks on New York City and the Pentagon.
2001 - The U.S. Justice Department headquarters building was renamed the Robert F. Kennedy building by President George W. Bush. The event was held on what would have been Kennedy's 76th birthday.

Amazing historical day today..

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 21 November


1979 Mob burns down US embassy in Pakistan
The mob was allegedly incensed by a rumor that the United States was involved in an attack on a mosque in the holy city of Mecca.

1964 Verrazano Narrows Bridge opens in NYC
The suspension bridge connects Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City and at the time of its opening, it was the world’s longest suspension bridge, until the Humber Bridge in the UK opened in 1981.

1962 War between China and India ends
The month-long war began over a border dispute between the two countries and ended with a unilateral ceasefire by the Chinese.

1941 Tweety Bird makes its debut
The fictional cartoon canary also just called Tweety made his first appearance in A Tale of Two Kitties, a Warner Bros. Merrie Melodies cartoon. Tweety was created by animator Bob Clampett who worked on Loony Tunes cartoons.

1920 Bloody Sunday in Ireland
A key event in the Irish War of Independence, which was a conflict between the British government and Irish revolutionaries in Ireland, Bloody Sunday began with the killings of 14 people by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) under the leadership of Michael Collins. Two other violent incidents against civilians and IRA members during the day added to the death count, which was over 30 by the end of the day.


Births On This Day – 21 November

1969 Ken Griffey, Jr.
American baseball player

1965 Björk
Icelandic singer-songwriter, producer, actress

1945 Goldie Hawn
American actress

1854 Pope Benedict XV
1694 Voltaire
French philosopher


Deaths On This Day – 21 November

2012 Ajmal Kasab
Pakistani terrorist

1996 Abdus Salam
Pakistani physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1970 C. V. Raman
Indian physicist, Nobel Prize laureate

1959 Max Baer
American boxer, actor

1899 Garret Hobart
American lawyer, politician, 24th Vice President of the United States

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 22 November



2005 Angela Merkel takes office as German Chancellor
The physical chemist from former East Germany became the first female chancellor of the country.

2004 Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine
The revolution began after an election that was marred by widespread rumors of corruption and fraud. The protests resulted in electoral reforms in the country and November 22 was declared a Day of Freedom in 2005. The holiday was then moved to January 22 in 2011.

1995 Toy Story released
Produced by Pixar, the movie which follows the adventures of human-like toys, was the world’s first feature-length computer-animated movie. Considered to be one of the best-animated films ever released, Toy story won 3 Oscars including Best Original Screenplay, Best Original Score, and Best Original Song.

1986 Mike Tyson wins fight against Trevor Berbick
The victory won Tyson the World Boxing Council (WBC) heavyweight championship and made him the world’s youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20 years.

1963 John F. Kennedy assassinated
The 35th President of the United States was shot by Lee Harvey Oswald, while traveling in a motorcade in Dallas, Texas. He was the 4th American president to be assassinated while in office. The other 3 were Abraham Lincoln, James Abram Garfield, and William McKinley.


Births On This Day – 22 November

1986 Oscar Pistorius
South African sprinter

1984 Scarlett Johansson
American actress, singer

1967 Boris Becker
German tennis player

1890 Charles de Gaulle
French general, politician, President of France

1819 George Eliot
English author


Deaths On This Day – 22 November

1963 Aldous Huxley
English author

1963 John F. Kennedy
American lieutenant, politician, 35th President of the United States

1963 C. S. Lewis
Irish author, poet

1900 Arthur Sullivan
English composer

1718 Blackbeard
English pirate

[Lalitsharma]

22nd November 1943: Mulayam Singh Yadav, the Indian politician, was born

Mulayam Singh Yadav, a leading player in Indian politics and former defense minister of India, was born on November 22, 1939, in Saifai village of Uttar Pradesh’s Etawah district. The Samajwadi Party founder, known for his shrewd political skills, has served as Chief Minister of Uttar Pradesh several times.

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 22 November

1492 Pinta under Martín Alonso Pinzón separates from Christopher Columbus's fleet
1497 Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1903 Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
1906 Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
1918 Marshal Józef Piłsudski becomes 1st President (dictator) of Poland
1923 Calvin Coolidge pardons WW I German spy Lothar Witzke, sentenced to death
1927 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1936 PGA Championship Men's Golf, Pinehurst CC: Denny Shute wins first of his consecutive PGA titles, defeating Jimmy Thomson, 3 & 2
1942 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man
1963 Lyndon B. Johnson sworn in as the 36th US President after the assassination of President John F. Kennedy
1981 USSR performs the nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 23 November



1165 Pope Alexander III returns from exile to Rome
1499 Flemish pretender to the English throne Perkin Warbeck hanged for reportedly attempting to escape from Tower of London. Invaded England in 1497, claiming to be the lost son of King Edward IV
1644 "Areopagitica", a pamphlet by John Milton decrying censorship, is published
1654 French mathematician, scientist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal experiences an intense, mystical vision that marks him for life.
1864 -25] Battle at Ball's Ferry Georgia (30 casualties)
1885 Amsterdam police attack meeting of social-democrats united
1904 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis
1905 Henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named US minister to Haiti
1911 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, renamed Letterman General Hospital
1921 US President Warren G. Harding signs Willis Campell Act (anti-beer bill) forbidding doctors prescribing beer or liquor for medicinal purposes
1923 German army commander General Von Seeckt bans NSDAP & KPD
1937 John Steinbeck's "Of Mice & Men" premieres in NYC
1939 Nazi Govrnor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jews to wear a blue star
1942 German 4th & 6th Army surrounded at Stalingrad
1942 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor
1942 Soviet 21st Army recaptures Kalatsj at Don
1944 US 7th army under General Alexander Patch conquers Straatsburg
1947 Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Chi Cards (45-21)
1956 Vladimir Kuts of the Soviet Union runs Olympic record 28:45.6 to win the 10,000m at the Melbourne Olympics; later also wins 5,000m gold
1963 JFK's body lay in repose in East Room of White House
1965 31st Heisman Trophy Award: Mike Garrett, Southern Cal (RB)
1976 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1979 Pink Floyd's "The Wall" released, sells 6 million copies in 2 weeks
1984 "A Christmas Carol" directed by Clive Donner starring George C. Scott premieres in the UK
1986 Second WTA Tour Championship of the year; change of tennis schedule; Martina Navratilova wins 5th straight and 8th overall title with 7–6, 6–3, 6–2 win over Steffi Graf in NYC
2001 53rd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
2004 World of Warcraft, multiplayer online role-playing video game released, world's most subscribed game
2008 35th American Music Awards: Rihanna & Chris Brown win
2014 41st American Music Awards: One Direction, Sam Smith and Katy Perry win

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History– 23 November



Births On This Day – 23 November

1992 Miley Cyrus
American singer-songwriter, actress

1982 Asafa Powell
Jamaican sprinter

1950 Chuck Schumer
American politician

1859 Billy the Kid
American criminal

912 Otto I, Holy Roman Emperor


Deaths On This Day – 23 November

2014 Marion Barry
American politician, 2nd Mayor of the District of Columbia

2006 Alexander Litvinenko
Russian spy

2006 Willie Pep
American boxer

1990 Roald Dahl
English pilot, author, screenwriter

1923 Urmuz
Romanian judge, author

[Vikesh]

On This Day In History– 23 November

2006 Alexander Litvinenko
Russian spy

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History


1973 Military coup in Greece
President George Papadopoulos was ousted by the army, just a week after student-led protests at the Athens Polytechnic were violently put down by the government.

1960 Assassination of the Mirabal Sisters
The 3 Dominican sisters, Patria, Minerva, Antonia Mirabal, were activists that were opposed to the dictatorship of Rafael Trujillo. On this day, they were brutally killed and their deaths staged to look like accidents. In 1999, the United Nations General Assembly declared November 25 as the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.

1952 Agatha Christie’s The Mousetrap opens at London’s West End
The longest-running show in history, the play began as a radio play called Three Blind Mice. It is based on the death of Dennis O'Neill, who died while in foster care.

1950 “Storm of the century” hits eastern US
Also known as the Appalachian Storm, the storm reached blizzard conditions and dumped nearly 60 inches of snow in the Appalachian area. It brought unseasonal temperatures to the region and caused widespread damage to property. About 150 people were thought to have been killed as a result of it.

1936 Nazi Germany and Japan sign the Anti-Comintern Pact
The treaty was directed towards the Soviet Union and stipulated that in case of Soviet aggression towards either country, the other would consider it as an act of aggression towards it as well. The pact was later signed by other countries including Italy, Romania, Spain, and Turkey.


Births On This Day – 25 November

1952 Imran Khan
Pakistani cricketer, politician

1915 Augusto Pinochet
Chilean general, politician, 30th President of Chile

1914 Joe DiMaggio
American baseball player

1844 Karl Benz
German engineer, businessman, founded Mercedes-Benz

1835 Andrew Carnegie
Scottish/American businessman, founded the Carnegie Steel Company


Deaths On This Day – 25 November

2005 George Best
Irish/English footballer

1997 Hastings Banda
Malawian politician, 1st President of Malawi

1974 U Thant
Burmese diplomat, 3rd United Nations Secretary-General

1974 Nick Drake
English singer-songwriter, musician

1944 Kenesaw Mountain Landis
American judge

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 25 November

1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1933 1st Soviet liquid-fuel rocket attains an altitude of 261' (80m)
1937 World's Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
1953 Earthquake and tsunami strike Honshu, Japan
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1967 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
1970 In Japan, author Yukio Mishima, and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt
1979 Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
2014 Lionel Messi becomes the UEFA Champions League all-time top scorer
2017 Longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee - Emma Wren Gibson, frozen 24 years ago

[Vikesh]

On This Day In History– 25 November

1715 First English patent granted to an American, for processing corn
1867 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite
1933 1st Soviet liquid-fuel rocket attains an altitude of 261' (80m)
1937 World's Fair of Paris closes (31.2 million visitors)
1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.
1948 16-inch coastal guns removed from Fort Funston, San Francisco
1951 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
1953 Earthquake and tsunami strike Honshu, Japan
1961 NBA's Bob Cousy becomes 2nd player to score 15,000 points
1967 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
1970 In Japan, author Yukio Mishima, and two compatriots commit ritualistic suicide after an unsuccessful coup attempt
1979 Israel returns Alma oilfields in Gulf of Suez to Egypt
2014 Lionel Messi becomes the UEFA Champions League all-time top scorer
2017 Longest known frozen embryo to be successfully born is delivered in Tennessee - Emma Wren Gibson, frozen 24 years ago

Today's history=1944 World War II: A German V-2 rocket hits a Woolworth's store in Deptford, United Kingdom, killing 160 shoppers.

[Nitin Kumar]

On This Day In History



2003 Concorde retired from service
Concorde retired from service after 27 years of flight

1983 Brink’s Mat gold heist
The £ 26 million robbery took place in a Brink Mat warehouse at Heathrow Airport in London. The stolen gold, diamonds and cash has never been recovered.

1966 World’s first tidal power station opens in France
The Rance Tidal Power Station on the Rance River in Brittany, France was inaugurated by French president Charles de Gaulle. Today, it is one of the largest tidal power stations in the world.

1965 France launches Astérix
The launch of the satellite from Hammaguir, Algeria made France the 6th country in the world after the US, the USSR, the UK, Canada, and Italy to have an artificial satellite in orbit. The satellite is named after the Asterix the popular comic character created by French writer René Goscinny.

1942 Casablanca premiers
The classic movie starring Ingrid Bergman and Humphrey Bogart won 3 Oscars – Best Picture, Director and Adapted Screenplay. The film, which is set during the Second World War, follows the life of Rick Blaine, a former freedom fighter and a club owner in Casablanca, Morocco, who has to choose between his love for a woman, Ilsa Lund, and saving her husband from the Nazis.


Births On This Day – 26 November

1972 Arjun Rampal
Indian actor

1939 Tina Turner
American singer, dancer, actress

1922 Charles M. Schulz
American cartoonist

1876 Ibn Saud
Saudi Arabian king

1827 Ellen G. White
American author, co-founder of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church


Deaths On This Day – 26 November

1952 Sven Hedin
Swedish geographer, explorer

1943 Edward O'Hare
American pilot, Medal of Honor recipient

1883 Sojourner Truth
American activist

1855 Adam Mickiewicz
Polish poet

1504 Isabella I of Castile

[Lalitsharma]

On This Day In History– 26 November

43 BC Second Triumvirate alliance of Roman leader Octavian (later Caesar Augustus), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony formed
1789 1st national Thanksgiving in America
1793 Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City with 12 cent fare
1922 English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt
1934 German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
1948 1st polaroid camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes a prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for the next 15 years
1965 France launches 1st satellite, 92 lb (42 kg) A1-capsule (Astérix), named after the popular French comic character
1988 Pioneer 6's closest approach to Earth since 1965 launch (1.87 M km)
1989 India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh
2018 NASA's InSight mission lands on Mars after a 7-month voyage
2018 Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have made the first genetically edited baby
2018 First multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola started in the Democratic Republic of Congo announced by the WHO