17 Nov 1558     Queen Mary I died and was succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.
17 Nov 1869     Suez Canal in Egypt opened, linking the Mediterranean and Red sea.
17 Nov 2003     21 year old Britney Spears became the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
17 Nov 2003     Arnold Schwarzenegger’s term as the governor of California began.
17 Nov 2019     The first known case of COVID-19 was traced to a 55-year-old man from Wuhan in China.

18 Nov 1902     Toymaker Morris Michton named the teddy bear after US President Teddy Roosevelt.
18 Nov 1928     Walt Disney’s ‘Steamboat Willie’ was released, the first Mickey Mouse sound cartoon.
18 Nov 1963     The first push-button telephone went into service.
18 Nov 1987     31 people died in a fire at King’s Cross underground station.
18 Nov 1991     Church envoy Terry Waite was freed in Beirut after being kidnapped in 1987.
18 Nov 2000     Michael Douglas married Catherine Zeta Jones.
18 Nov 2011     One Direction released their debut album ‘Up All Night’.

19 Nov 1805     Beethoven’s only opera, Fidelio, opened in Vienna.
19 Nov 1969     Apollo 12’s Charles Conrad and Alan Bean became the 3^rd and 4^th people on the Moon.
19 Nov 1994     The UK’s first National Lottery draw took place.

20 Nov 1947     Princess Elizabeth married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten at Westminster Abbey.
20 Nov 1976     ‘Rocky’ starring Sylvester Stallone had its premiere.
20 Nov 1984     McDonald’s made their 50 billionth hamburger.
20 Nov 1992     A fire broke out in Windsor Castle causing over £50million worth of damage.
20 Nov 2013     Rupert Murdoch divorced Wendi Deng.
20 Nov 2013     Ashton Kutcher divorced Demi Moore after 8 years of marriage.
20 Nov 2022     The 2022 FIFA World Cup kicked-off in Qatar. The first time the tournament was held in the Middle East.

21 Nov 1877     Thomas Edison announced the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.
21 Nov 1976     ‘Rocky’ starring Sylvester Stallone premiered in New York.

22 Nov 1910     Arthur Knight patented the steel shaft golf club.
22 Nov 1955     RCA Records bought Elvis Presley’s contract from Sun Records for $35,000.
22 Nov 1963     President John F Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas.
22 Nov 1963     US Vice President Lyndon B Johnson was sworn in as the 36^th US President.
22 Nov 1975     Juan Carlos is declared King of Spain following the death of Francisco Franco.
22 Nov 1977     The first British Airways regular London to New York Concorde service began.
22 Nov 1980     Mae West died.
22 Nov 1990     Margaret Thatcher withdrew from the Conservative Party leadership election, confirming the end of her time as Prime-Minister.
22 Nov 1995     ‘Toy Story’ was released. The first feature-length film created completely using computer-generated imagery.
22 Nov 1997     Michael Hutchence was found dead in a hotel room in Sydney, Australia.
22 Nov 1997     Sean Bean married Abigail Cruttenden.
22 Nov 2005     Angela Merkel became the first female Chancellor of Germany.
22 Nov 2011     Ashlee Simpson divorced Fall Out Boy bassist Pete Wentz.

23 Nov 1976     Jacques Mayol became the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
23 Nov 1991     Freddie Mercury announced in a statement he was HIV-positive and died the next day.
23 Nov 2015     Blue Origin’s New Shepard space vehicle became the first rocket to successfully go into space and return to Earth for a controlled, vertical landing.