17th November 1969 The Sun was first published
In 1558, Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland.
Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th (and current) Dalai Lama, was enthroned as the leader of Tibet at the age of fifteen, on this day in 1950.
Oooh! And President Nixon said in 1973 "I'm not a Crook!"
The little fibber!
24th November 1991. Lead singer of Queen Freddie Mercury dies
Blimey was it really 18 years ago? Where does the time go?
Also on this date in history, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species (1859), Lee Harvey Oswald was fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters (1963 - the shooting was broadcast live on television), and in 1993 Robert Thompson and Jon Venables were convicted of the murder of 2-year-old James Bulger.
The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Britain, reached its peak intensity which it maintained through to November 27. Winds gusted up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people died.
In 1867, Alfred Nobel patented dynamite.
Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opened in 1952, at the Ambassadors Theatre in London and eventually became the longest continuously-running play in history.
36 top musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio and recorded Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas, on this day in 1984, to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia.
The steam locomotive, Flying Scotsman, became the first to officially exceed 100mph, on this day in 1934.
Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire in 1936.
Pink Floyd's 'The Wall' was released in 1979.
Operation Desert Storm officially ended on Nov 30th 1995.
December 1st, 1901 : Both England and Russia have laid claim to parts of Afghanistan and have been in constant conflict over it. However, a new ruler in Afghanistan may bring stability to the region. Unlike his unpopular father who created hardships for his people, his son, the new leader, planned to pay the military more and to reduce taxes
December 1st, 1943 : The Allied leaders of Britain, the United States and the Soviet Union having met together for the first time in Tehran, the capital of Iran. have agreed to work together to win the war in Europe and in Asia and establish an "enduring peace". The leaders Winston Churchill, President Franklin D Roosevelt and Marshal Joseph Stalin had never met together in one place
December 1st, 1988 : Benazir Bhutto the leader of the Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) is chosen and sworn in the next day as Prime Minister of Pakistan of the new coalition government.
December 1st, 2001 : The last Trans World Airlines ( TWA ) flight "Flight 220" flies into St. Louis International Airport ending 76 years of TWA operations following TWA’s purchase by American Airlines
December 1st, 2004 : The majority of Iranians view their nuclear power program with pride, even though it is a thorn in the flesh of the Bush administration. Iran keeps maintaining that it is using nuclear power for electricity, but many countries fear that they are trying to develop a nuclear bomb.
1981 – The AIDS virus was officially recognized. December 1st is now World AIDS Day.
1990 – Channel Tunnel workers from the United Kingdom and France met 40 metres beneath the English Channel seabed.
december 2nd.
1804 - Napoleon was crowned emperor of France at the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris.
1917 - During World War I, hostilities were suspended on the eastern front.
1961 - Cuban leader Fidel Castro declared in a nationally broadcast speech that he was a Marxist-Leninist and that he was going to lead Cuba to communism
1969 - The Boeing 747 jumbo jet got its first public preview as 191 people flew from Seattle, WA, to New York City, NY. Most of the passengers were reporters and photographers
1991 - American hostage Joseph Cicippio was released by his kidnappers. He had been held captive in Lebanon for over five years.
1994 - "Hollywood Madam" Heidi Fleiss was convicted in Los Angeles of three counts of pandering
1998 - Microsoft Corp. chairman Bill Gates donated $100 million to help immunize children in developing countries
december 3rd.
1910 - The neon lamp was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show. The lamp was developed by French physicist Georges Claude.
1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
1967 - In Cape Town, South Africa, a team of surgeons headed by Dr. Christian Barnard, performed the first human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky. Washkansky only lived 18 days.
1973 - Pioneer 10 sent back the first close-up images of Jupiter. The first outer-planetary probe had been launched from Cape Canaveral, FL, on March 2, 1972
1982 - Doctors at the University of Utah Medical Center removed the respirator of Barney Clark. The retired dentist had become the world's first recipient of a permanent artificial heart only one day before.
1992 - The Greek tanker "Aegean Sea" ran aground at La Coruna, Spain and spilled 21.5 million gallons of crude oil
1994 - AIDS activist Elizabeth Glaser died at the age 47. She and her two children were infected with HIV because of a blood transfusion.
1999 - Tori Murden became the first woman to row across the Atlantic Ocean alone. It took her 81 days to reach the French Caribbean island of Guadeloupe from the Canary Islands.
Paul Nicholas, Ozzy Osborne, Mel Smith, Eamonn Holmes, Daryl Hannah, Brendan Fraser, and Daniel Bedindfield all celebrate birthdays today.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scatman John, Madeline Kahn, and David Hemmings all lost their grip on this mortal coil on December 3rd.
december 4th.
1791 - Britain's Observer newspaper was first published
1918 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson set sail for France to attend the Versailles Peace Conference. Wilson became the first chief executive to travel to Europe while in office.
1942 - U.S. bombers attacked the Italian mainland for the first time during World War II
1965 - The U.S. launched Gemini 7 with Air Force Lt. Col. Frank Borman and Navy Comdr. James A. Lovell on board
1977 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, ruler of the Central African Empire, crowned himself emperor in a ceremony believed to have cost more than $100 million. He was deposed 2 years later
1979 - For the second time, the United Nations Security Council voted unanimously to urge Iran to free American hostages that had been taken on November 4.
1983 - U.S. jet fighters struck Syrian anti-aircraft positions in Lebanon in retaliation for attacks directed at American reconnaissance planes. Navy Lt. Robert O. Goodman Jr. was shot down and captured by Syria.
1992 - U.S. President Bush ordered American troops to lead a mercy mission to Somalia.
2000 - O.J. Simpson was involved in an incident with another motorist in Miami, FL. Simpson was accused of scratching the other motorists face while pulling off the man's glasses
In 1619, 38 colonists from Berkeley Parish in England disembarked in Virginia and gave thanks to God (this is considered by many to be the first Thanksgiving in the Americas).
The first edition of The Observer, the world's first Sunday newspaper, was published in 1791.
The crewless American ship Mary Celeste was found on this day in 1872, by the British brig Dei Gratia (the ship had been abandoned for 9 days but was only slightly damaged).
In 1971, the Montreux Casino in Switzerland was set ablaze by someone wielding a flare gun during a Frank Zappa concert; the incident would be noted in the Deep Purple song "Smoke on the Water".
English rock group Led Zeppelin officially disbanded on this day in 1980, following the death of drummer John Bonham on September 25th.
very important day today.
1941 - Pearl Harbor, located on the Hawaiian island of Oahu was attacked by nearly 200 Japanese warplanes. The attack resulted in the U.S. entering into World War II.
On this day in (Monday 8th December) 1980 John Lennon was assinated outside his New York flat.
Also on this day:
1995 Headteacher Philip Lawerence died as result of a stabbing. Whilst, he was tried to break up a fight.
1983 The House of Lords allowed TV cameras to broadcast live from their chamber.
1965 The Race Relations Act came into force.
8th December 1587 .... Mary Queen of Scots was executed!!!
9th December 1992 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana announced their seperation
A World Health Organization commission of eminent scientists certified the global eradication of smallpox, (making it the only human infectious disease to date to have been completely eradicated from nature) on December 9th 1979.
The first episode of Britain's longest running television soap opera Coronation Street was broadcast on this day in 1960.