24 Nov 1877     Anna Sewell’s animal welfare novel ‘Black Beauty’ was published.
24 Nov 1963     JFK’s assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, was shot and killed by Jack Ruby on live television.
24 Nov 1989     Sachin Tendulkar became the youngest to score a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days.
24 Nov 1991     Freddie Mercury died.
24 Nov 2005     New licensing laws came into force in the UK giving the green light to round-the-clock drinking.

25 Nov 1487     Elizabeth of York was crowned Queen of England.
25 Nov 1913     Lincoln Deachey became the first pilot to perform a loop-the-loop in an aircraft.
25 Nov 1984     Thirty-six top musicians gathered in a Notting Hill studio and recorded Band Aid’s ‘Do They Know It’s Christmas’.
25 Nov 2002     Nicolas Cage filed for divorce from Lisa Marie Presley after 3 months of marriage.
25 Nov 2016     Fidel Castro died.
25 Nov 2020     Diego Maradona died.

26 Nov 1778     Captain James Cook was the first European to visit Maui in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii.
26 Nov 1922     Howard Carter opened Tutankhamun’s virtually intact tomb in Egypt.
26 Nov 1965     France launched Asterix and became the third nation to put an object in orbit using its own booster.
26 Nov 2024     Charlie Chaplin married his second wife Lita Grey.
26 Nov 1942     ‘Casablanca’ starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman had its premiere.
26 Nov 1983     £26million worth of gold, diamonds and cash was stolen from Brink’s-Mat warehouse at Heathrow.
26 Nov 2003     Concorde made its final flight, over Bristol.
26 Nov 2008     The decommissioned liner Queen Elizabeth 2 docks in Dubai.

27 Nov 2006     Pamela Anderson divorced Kid Rock after just four months.
27 Nov 2013     ‘Frozen’ was released by Disney.
27 Nov 2013     Ashton Kutcher divorced Demi Moore after eight years.

28 Nov 1582     William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway.
28 Nov 1814     The Times became the first newspaper to be produced on a steam-powered printing press.
28 Nov 1919     Lady Nancy Astor was elected as the first female member of the House of Commons (to take her seat).
28 Nov 1968     Enid Blyton died.
28 Nov 1990     Margaret Thatcher resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister.

29 Nov 1877     Thomas Edison demonstrated his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time.
29 Nov 1899     FC Barcelona was founded.
29 Nov 1963     The Beatles released ‘I Want to Hold Your Hand’.
29 Nov 1972     Atari co-founder, Nolan Bushnell released Pong, the first commercially successful video game.
29 Nov 1975     Graham Hill was killed in a plane crash.
29 Nov 1986     Cary Grant died.
29 Nov 2001     George Harrison died.
29 Nov 2023     Taylor Swift was named Spotify’s most-streamed global artist of the year with 26.1 billion streams, with Miley Cyrus’ ‘Flowers’ being the most-streamed song .

30 Nov 1872     The first international football game took place between Scotland and England.
30 Nov 1900     Oscar Wilde died.
30 Nov 1936     London’s Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire.
30 Nov 1940     ‘I Love Lucy’ star Lucille Ball married Desi Arnaz.
30 Nov 1979     Pink Floyd released the album ‘The Wall’ and it sold  6 million copies in its first two weeks.
30 Nov 1982     ‘Gandhi’ starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud had its premiere.
30 Nov 1982     Michael Jackson released his sixth studio album ‘Thriller’.
30 Nov 1999     Exxon and Mobil agreed to merge to create the world’s largest company.
30 Nov 2007     Evel Knievel died.
30 Nov 2022     The AI chatbot ChatGPT was launched by OpenAI.