3 Nov 1906       The International Radiotelegraph Conference chose “SOS” as the international distress signal.
3 Nov 1957       Soviet Union launched a dog called Laika into space, that became the first animal in space.
3 Nov 1975       North Sea oil began to flow ashore.
3 Nov 1991       Ayrton Senna won the Australian Grand Prix, the shortest F1 race ever run (14 laps) because of wet weather, to win his third World Drivers Championship by 24 points from Nigel Mansell.
3 Nov 1992       Whitney Houston released a cover of the Dolly Parton song ‘I Will Always Love You’.
3 Nov 2004       US President George W Bush won a second term in office.
3 Nov 2014       One World Trade Center officially opened in New York City, replacing the Twin Towers after they were destroyed during the September 11 attacks.

4 Nov 1841       The first wagon train arrived in California after a five and a half months and 1,730 mile journey over the Sierra Nevada from Missouri.
4 Nov 1854       Florence Nightingale with a staff of 38 nurses arrived in Turkey to aid in the Crimean War.
4 Nov 1922       Howard Carter rediscovers the intact tomb of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun.
4 Nov 1963       John Lennon joked with the audience at the Royal Variety Performance “Will the people in the cheaper seats clap your hands? And the rest of you rattle your jewellery”.
4 Nov 1980       Ronald Reagan was elected the 40^th US President.
4 Nov 2001       ‘Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone’ the first film in the series had its world premiere.
4 Nov 2008       Barack Obama was elected President of the United States, beating John McCain.

5 Nov 1605       Guy Fawkes was arrested in what became known as the Gunpowder Plot.
5 Nov 1991       The body of Robert Maxwell was found in the sea off the coast of Tenerife.

5 Nov 2007       The Android mobile operating system was unveiled by Google.
5 Nov 2007       China’s first lunar satellite, Chang’e 1 went into orbit around the Moon.
5 Nov 2013       India launched the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.

6 Nov 1968       Richard Nixon was elected US President.
6 Nov 1975       The Sex Pistols played their first gig at St Martins College, London.
6 Nov 2020       Kylie Minogue became the first female to top the UK album chart over five consecutive decades with ‘Disco’.

7 Nov 1861       The first Melbourne Cup horse race was held.
7 Nov 1872       Cargo ship Mary Celeste set sail from Staten Island for Genoa and was mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later.
7 Nov 1951       Frank Sinatra married his second wife Ava Gardner.
7 Nov 1980       Steve McQueen died.
7 Nov 1990       Mary Robinson became Irelands first elected female President.
7 Nov 2011       Joe Frazier died.

8 Nov 1960       John F Kennedy was elected the 35^th US President.
8 Nov 1966       Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California.
8 Nov 1968       Cynthia Lennon was granted a divorce from  John Lennon.
8 Nov 1974       Police began a search for Lord Lucan following the death of his children’s nanny.
8 Nov 2007       Chad Varah, who founded The Samaritans, died.
8 Nov 2016       Donald Trump was elected the 45^th President of the United States.

9 Nov 1984       Wes Craven’s horror film ‘A Nightmare on Elm Street’ had its premiere.
9 Nov 1985       22 year old Garry Kasparov became the youngest World Chess Champion after beating Anatoly Karpov.
9 Nov 1989       East Berlin opened its borders at Checkpoint Charlie and crowds began tearing down the Berlin Wall.