On This Day

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On This Day - November

4th November 1980

Roanald Reagan won the US election with a landslide victory over Jimmy Carter

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5th November 1991

The body of newspaper publisher Robert Maxwell was found in the sea off the coast of Tenerife, apparently having fallen off his yacht.

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6th November 1999

Australians reject a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic.

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November 8






1979 - The program, "The Iran Crisis: America Held Hostage", premiered on ABC-TV. The show was planned to be temporary, but it evolved into "Nightline" in March of 1980.

1979 - U.S. Senators John Warner (R-VA) and Mac Mathias (R-MD) introduced legislation to provide a site on the National Mall for the building of the Vietnam Veterans Memorial.

1980 - Scientists at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California announced that they had discovered a 15th moon orbiting the planet Saturn.

1985 - A letter signed by four American hostages in Lebanon was delivered to The Associated Press in Beirut. The letter, contained pleas from Terry Anderson, Rev. Lawrence Jenco, David Jacobsen and Thomas Sutherland to President Reagan to negotiate a release.

1986 - Vyacheslav M. Molotov died at age 96. During World War II, Molotov ordered the mass production of bottles filled with flammable liquid later called the "Molotov cocktail."

1987 - A bomb planted by the Irish Republican Army exploded in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, at a ceremony honoring Britain's war dead. Eleven people were killed.

1990 - U.S. President Bush ordered more troop deployments in the Persian Gulf, adding about 150,000 soldiers to the multi-national force fighting against Iraq.

1991 - The European Community and Canada imposed economic sanctions on Yugoslavia in an attempt to stop the Balkan civil war.

1992 - About 350,000 people rallied in Berlin against racist violence.

1993 - Five Picasso paintings and other artwork were stolen from the Museum of Modern Art in Stockholm, Sweden. The works were valued at $52 million.

1997 - Chinese engineers diverted the Yangtze River to make way for the Three Gorges Dam.

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9th November 1989

One of the major milestones in the fall of communism occurred with the opening up of the Berlin Wall allowing East Germans to pass freely to the west for the first time in 30 years.

[Elbmek]

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Many would argue that that was a black day for the west.

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10th November 1997

British nanny Louise Woodward was freed from jail in the United States after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to manslaughter.

Hard to believe this was 12 years ago, remember watching this at the time and being somewhat gripped by it.

[Elbmek]

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10th Nov 1952, my beautiful wife was born - sorry!!

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Happy Birthday Mrs E

11th November 1992

The General Synod of the Church of England voted by a majority of 2 to allow women to become priests.

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12th November 1980

The Voyager 1 space probe reached Saturn and sent back the first vivid photographs of the planet showing bands of yellow and orange clouds circling the planet at several hundred miles an hour.

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14th November 1973

Princess Anne married Lieutenant Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey

[Elbmek]

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12th November 1980

The Voyager 1 space probe reached Saturn and sent back the first vivid photographs of the planet showing bands of yellow and orange clouds circling the planet at several hundred miles an hour.

I was entralled for weeks with all this, then they put out those amazing documentaries later on!

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16th November 1979

Margaret Thatcher named Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer and personal adviser on art to the Queen as the "fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring, ending a 15 year cover up.

[Elbmek]

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............... and failed to presecute a traitor

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18th November 1987

27 people were killed after fire broke out under the wooden escalators at London Kings Cross railway station.