Events in History
Events 201 - 238 of 238
Election of Interest
Oct 26 Winston Churchill re-elected British Prime Minister at the age of 76
Winston Churchill
- Oct 28 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 30 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Oct 31 French Second Chamber accepts the Schuman Plan
- Nov 1 US performs 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, Nevada Test Site, New Mexico
- Nov 1 Jet magazine founded by John H Johnson
- Nov 5 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 7 Constitution of Jordan passes
- Nov 10 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
- Nov 17 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system
- Nov 18 "See it Now" premieres on TV
- Nov 18 British troops occupy Ismailiya, Egypt
- Nov 19 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 20 Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
- Nov 24 British auto manufacturers Austin and Morris Motors merge
- Nov 25 17 die in a train crash in Woodstock, Alabama
- Nov 25 Commemoration of Dutch resistance fighter Hannie Schaft forbidden
- Nov 27 1st rocket to intercept an airplane at White Sands, New Mexico
- Nov 27 Cease-fire & demarcation zone accord signed in Panmunjon, Korea
- Nov 28 John Van Druten's "I am a Camera" premieres in NYC
- Nov 28 Military coup under Col Adib el-Shishakli in Syria
- Nov 29 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada
- Dec 1 Golden Gate Bridge closes due to high winds
- Dec 4 Superheated gasses roll down Mount Catarman, Philippines, killing 500 people
- Dec 4 Mir Waiz Maulvi Muhammad Yusouf is appointed President of Azad Kashmir Government
- Dec 8 AL alters its restrictions on night games, adopting NL's suspended game rule & lifting its ban on lights for Sunday games
- Dec 9 West German voters approve merger of 3 states to form Baden-Wurttemberg
- Dec 17 Dutch Communist Party members forbidden to be civil servants
- Dec 19 Nazi General Christiansen leaves Netherlands
- Dec 20 Walter Zinn's Experimental Breeder Reactor I, the first nuclear reactor to produce electric power, goes live at the Argonne National Laboratory, USA
- Dec 21 Pioneering telenovela "Sua Vida Me Pertence" premieres in Brazil
- Dec 23 Last Belgian communities get electricity
- Dec 24 United Kingdom of Libya gains independence from Italy via UN
- Dec 31 1st battery to convert radioactive energy to electricity announced
Birthdays in History
Birthdays 201 - 226 of 226
- Nov 13 Boaz Vaadia, Israeli-born sculptor who worked in America, born in Gat Rimon (d. 2017)
- Nov 17 Jack Vettriano, Methil Scotland, Scottish painter (The Singing Butler)
- Nov 18 Mark N Brown, Valparaiso In, Major USAF/astronaut (STS 28, 48, 66)
- Nov 18 Justin Raimondo, American author (Antiwar.com), born in White Plains, New York
- Nov 19 Timothy J Penny, American politician (Rep-D-MN, 1983-95), born in Albert Lea, Minnesota
- Nov 19 Lord Falconer of Thoroton, British lawyer and politician
- Nov 20 David Walters, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (1991-95), born in Canute, Oklahoma
- Nov 24 Chet Edwards, (Rep-D-Texas)
- Nov 25 Arturo Pérez Reverte, Spanish novelist and war reporter
- Nov 26 La Cicciolina [Ilona Staller], Italian MP, born in Budapest, Hungary
- Nov 29 Jonathan Zeitlyn, artist
- Nov 30 Christian Bernard, mystic
- Dec 1 Alexander Panayotov Aleksandrov, Bulgaria, cosmonaut (Soyuz TM-5)
- Dec 5 Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, Belgian artist, born in Antwerp
- Dec 8 Bill Bryson, American British author (Notes From a Small Island), born in Des Moines, Iowa
- Dec 12 Steven Alan Hawley, American NASA astronaut (STS 41-D, 61-C, 31, 82), born in Ottawa, Kansas
- Dec 12 Richard Davidson, American psychologist, born in Brooklyn, New York
- Dec 18 Andrew S Thomas, Adelaide Australia, PhD/astronaut (STS 77, STS 89/91)
- Dec 18 Pape Diouf, Senegalese journalist and football agent (president Olympique de Marseille 2005-09; first black president in Europe's top 6 leagues), born in Abéché, Chad (d. 2020)
- Dec 19 Fred W Leslie, Ancon Panama, PhD/astronaut (STS 73)
- Dec 20 Peter May, Scottish novelist and scriptwriter, born in Glasgow, United Kingdom
- Dec 22 Charles de Lint, Canadian sci-fi author (Moonhear, Mulengro, Yarrow), born in Bussum, Netherlands
- Dec 22 Gerald Cavendish Grosvenor, 6th Duke of Westminster, British peer and its 3rd richest person, born in Omagh, Northern Ireland (d. 2016)
- Dec 26 Richard Skinner, British DJ
- Dec 27 Ernesto Zedillo, President of Mexico
- Dec 28 Ian Buruma, Anglo-Dutch scholar and writer on Japan and the Far East.