Today in history

6 th November 1986

             Sumburgh disaster:
                                              A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 2¹⁄₂ miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1986_British_International_Helicopters_Chinook_crash

7 th November 1907

        Jesus Garcia saves the town :
                                                   Jesús García saves the entire town of Nacozari de García by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers (3.7 miles) away before it can explode.




https://sobify.com/jesus-garcia-the-man-that-jumped-onto-a-burning-train-loaded-with-dynamite-and-saved-an-entire-town/

8 th November 1987

   Rememberance day bombing :                                         
                                               Remembrance Day bombing: A Provisional IRA bomb explodes in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland during a ceremony honouring those who had died in wars involving British forces. Twelve people are killed and sixty-three wounded



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Remembrance_Day_bombing

9 th November 1907

     Th Cullinan diamond :
                                    The Cullinan diamond , the worlds largest rough 
cut diamond ever found , was presented to King Edward V11 , on his birthday



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cullinan_Diamond

10 th November 1871

    Dr. Livingstone , i presume ?
                                              Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, famously greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?"



http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/stanley.htm

I had an uncle of my mother's who went on that expedition . He experienced temporary blindness in the jungle , and one of his shoes/boots were on display in Swansea museum . ( I don't know what happened to the other shoe/boot )

11 th November 1918

             World War 1 :
                                  World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne. The Armistice of 11 November 1918 was the armistice signed at Le Francport near Compiègne that ended fighting on land, sea and air in World War I between the Allies and their last remaining opponent, Germany. Previous armistices had been agreed with Bulgaria, the Ottoman Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Also known as the Armistice of Compiègne from the place where it was signed at 5:45 a.m. by the Allied Supreme Commander, French Marshal Ferdinand Foch,^[1] it came into force at 11:00 a.m. Paris time on 11 November 1918 and marked a victory for the Allies and a defeat for Germany, although not formally a surrender.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armistice_of_11_November_1918

12 th November 1912


     The frozen bodies of Captain Scott and his men are discovered on the Ross
      ice shelf in Antarctica :

               On 12 November a search party found the tent containing the frozen bodies of Scott, Wilson and Bowers, 11 miles (18 km) south of One Ton Depot. Atkinson read the relevant portions of Scott's diaries, and the nature of the disaster was revealed. After diaries, personal effects and records had been collected, the tent was collapsed over the bodies and a cairn of snow erected, topped by a cross fashioned from Gran's skis. The party searched further south for Oates's body, but found only his sleeping bag. On 15 November, they raised a cairn near to where they believed he had died .




https://www.coolantarctica.com/Antarctica%20fact%20file/History/Robert-Falcon-Scott-death-reasons.php

13 th November

   History of the R.L World cup :
                                              Great Britain defeats France to capture the first ever Rugby League World Cup in Paris in front of around 30,000 spectators



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rugby_League_World_Cupsize=14]           

14 th November 1952

      The United Kingdom pop charts :
                                                     The New Musical Express publishes the first regular UK Singles Chart.
with " Here in my heart " by Al Martino "  having the distinction of  being the very first U.K number 1 single




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/UK_Singles_Chart

15 th November 1985

   Anglo - Irish agreement :
                                       – The Anglo-Irish Agreement is signed at Hillsborough Castle by British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and Irish Taoiseach Garret FitzGerald.




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglo-Irish_Agreement

16 th November 1976

   Missing persons :
                            Renee MacRae  and her son Andrew disappear from Inverness . The disappearance is currently Britain's longest-running missing persons case .


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disappearance_of_Renee_MacRae

17 th November 2019

   First known Covid 19 case :
                                           The first case of someone suffering from Covid-19 can be traced back to 17 November, according to media reports on unpublished Chinese government data.
The report, in the South China Morning Post, said Chinese authorities had identified at least 266 people who contracted the virus last year and who came under medical surveillance, and the earliest case was 17 November – weeks before authorities announced the emergence of the new virus.



https://m.economictimes.com/news/international/world-news/first-covid-19-case-can-be-traced-back-to-november-2017-in-chinas-hubei-province-report/articleshow/74608199.cms

Very interesting, gassey. The Chinese seem to have been very slow in reacting to this virus.

18 th November 1987


   The Kings Cross fire disaster :
                                              King's Cross fire: In London, 31 people die in a fire at the city's busiest underground station, King's Cross St Pancras.
   At approximately 19:30, a fire started at King's Cross St Pancras tube station, a major interchange on the London Underground. As well as the mainline railway stations above ground and subsurface platforms for the Metropolitan, Circle and Hammersmith & City lines, there were platforms deeper underground for the Northern, Piccadilly, and Victoria lines. The fire started under a wooden escalator serving the Piccadilly line and, at 19:45, erupted in a flashover into the underground ticket hall, killing 31 people and injuring 100.


https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/King%27s_Cross_fire

19 th November 1994


     The National Lottery :
                                     In the United Kingdom, the first National Lottery draw is held. A £1 ticket gave a one-in-14-million chance of correctly guessing the winning six out of 49 numbers. The draw , Hosted on television by Noel Edmunds , saw seven jackpot
winners , but no millionaires




https://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/november-19-1994-first-national-lottery-draw-sees-seven-jackpot-winners-but-no-millionaires-11363944492010

20 th November 1992

   Windsor Castle fire :
                                 A fire broke out in Windsor Castle, the largest inhabited castle in the world and one of the official residences of Queen Elizabeth II. The castle suffered extensive damage and was fully repaired within the next few years at a cost of £36.5 million, in a project led by the conservation architects Donald Insall Associates. It led to the Queen paying tax on her income, and to Buckingham Palace, the Queen's other official residence, being opened to the public to help pay for the restoration work.




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1992_Windsor_Castle_fire

21 st november 1974


   Birmingham pub bombings :
                                           The Birmingham pub bombings were carried out on 21 November 1974, when bombs exploded in two public houses in Birmingham, England, killing 21 people and injuring 182 others.
The Provisional Irish Republican Army never officially admitted responsibility for the Birmingham pub bombings, although a former senior officer of the organisation confessed to their involvement in 2014. In 2017, one of the alleged perpetrators, Michael Hayes, also claimed that the intention of the bombings had not been to harm civilians, and that their deaths had been caused by an unintentional delay in delivering an advance telephone warning to security services.^]
Six Irishmen were arrested within hours of the blasts, and in 1975 sentenced to life imprisonment for the bombings. The men—who became known as the Birmingham Six—maintained their innocence and insisted police had coerced them into signing false confessions through severe physical and psychological abuse. After 16 years in prison, and a lengthy campaign, their convictions were declared unsafe and unsatisfactory, and quashed by the Court of Appeal in 1991. The episode is seen as one of the worst miscarriages of justice in British legal history




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birmingham_pub_bombings

22nd November 1963

   J.F. Kennedy assassination :
                                            U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also kills Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States .



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_John_F._Kennedy

23 rd November 1867


  Execution of the Manchester martyrs :
                                                         The Manchester Martyrs— William Philip Allen, Michael Larkin, and Michael O'Brien—were three men executed for the murder of a police officer in Manchester, England, in 1867, during an incident that became known as the Manchester Outrages. The three were members of the Irish Republican Brotherhood, also known as the Fenians, an organisation dedicated to ending British rule in Ireland, and were among a group of 30–40 Fenians who attacked a horse-drawn police van transporting two arrested leaders of the Brotherhood, Thomas J. Kelly and Timothy Deasy, to Belle Vue Gaol. Police Sergeant Charles Brett, travelling inside with the keys, was shot and killed as the attackers attempted to force the van open by blowing the lock. Kelly and Deasy were released after another prisoner in the van took the keys from Brett's body and passed them to the group outside through a ventilation grill; the pair were never recaptured, despite an extensive search.





https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manchester_Martyrs

24 th November  1542


  The battle of Solway Moss :
                                         Battle of Solway Moss: An English army defeats a much larger Scottish force near the River Esk in Dumfries and Galloway.
           The Battle of Solway Moss took place on Solway Moss near the River Esk on the English side of the Anglo-Scottish border in November 1542 between English and Scottish forces.
The Scottish King James V had refused to break from the Roman Catholic church, as urged by his uncle King Henry VIII, who then launched a major raid into South West Scotland. The Scottish army that marched against them was poorly led and organised, and many Scots were either captured or drowned in the river. News of the defeat is believed to have hastened the early death of James V.




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Solway_Moss

25 th  November 1984


         Band Aid :
                       Band Aid were a charity supergroup featuring mainly British and Irish musicians and recording artists. It was founded in 1984 by Bob Geldof and Midge Ure to raise money for anti-famine efforts in Ethiopia by releasing the song "Do They Know It's Christmas?" for the Christmas market that year. On 25 November 1984, the song was recorded at Sarm West Studios in Notting Hill, London, and was released in the UK on Monday 3 December. The single surpassed the hopes of the producers to become the Christmas number one on that release. Three subsequent re-recordings of the song to raise further money for charity also topped the charts, first the Band Aid II version in 1989 and the Band Aid 20 version in 2004 and finally the Band Aid 30 version in 2014. The original was produced by Midge Ure. The 12" version was mixed by Trevor Horn.




https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Aid_(band)

26 th November 1977

       The Southern Television Broadcast interuption :
                                                                           An unidentified hijacker named Vrillon, claiming to be the representative of the "Ashtar Galactic Command", takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes, starting at 5:12 pm.
 The Southern Television broadcast interruption was a broadcast signal intrusion that occurred on 26 November 1977 in parts of the southern United Kingdom. The audio of a Southern Television broadcast was replaced by a voice claiming to represent the 'Ashtar Galactic Command'. The speaker delivered a message instructing humanity to abandon its weapons, so it could participate in a 'future awakening' and 'achieve a higher state of evolution'. After six minutes, the broadcast returned to its scheduled programme.
Subsequent investigations showed that the Hannington transmitter of the Independent Broadcasting Authority had rebroadcast the signal from a small but nearby unauthorised transmitter, instead of the intended source. The hoaxer was never identified.
The event prompted hundreds of telephone calls from concerned members of the public, and was widely reported in British and American newspapers. These are sometimes contradictory, including differing accounts of the name used by the speaker and the wording of their message. A tape recording of the event was made, but may no longer exist.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Television_broadcast_interruption

27 th November 1975


  Norris Mcwhirter assassination :
                                                On November 27, 1975, Guinness Book of Records editor Ross McWhirter was assassinated by two members of the Provisional IRA outside his North London home.
McWhirter, who together with his twin brother Norris had gained fame through founding the Guinness annual and appearing on the BBC TV show Record Breakers, was an outspoken critic of Republican terrorism, advocating a tougher response by the British government.


https://home.bt.com/news/on-this-day/november-27-1975-tv-presenter-ross-mcwhirter-is-shot-dead-by-ira-after-reward-offer-11363946412832

28 th November 1919

    Lady Astor :
                      Lady Astor is elected as a Member of the Parliament of the United Kingdom. She is the first woman to sit in the House of Commons. (Countess Markievicz, the first to be elected, refused to sit.)
 Astor's Parliamentary career was the most public phase of her life. She gained attention as a woman and as someone who did not follow the rules, often attributed to her American upbringing. On her first day in the House of Commons, she was called to order for chatting with a fellow House member, not realising that she was the person who was causing the commotion. She learned to dress more sedately and avoided the bars and smoking rooms frequented by the men.



https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nancy_Astor,_Viscountess_Astor