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1965: Shahrukh Khan is born
1986: US hostage freed in Beirut
Catholicism and Anglicanism – All Souls Day
Stories about Shah Rukh Khan
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Nov 4
2008: Barack Obama elected 44th president of the United States
1995: Israeli PM Yitzhak Rabin shot dead
1979: Militants storm US embassy in Tehran
All about Obama
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Nov 5
2007: China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around Moon.
1935 Parker Brothers company launches "Monopoly" game
The journey to Moon
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Nov 6
1913: Gandhi arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa
1917: The Bolshevik ‘October Revolution’ seizes power in Petrograd.
1956: Allied forces take control of Suez
All about Gandhiji
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Nov 7
1923: Adolf Hitler attempts a coup in Munich, proclaims himself Ludendorff dictator.
1983; Bomb explodes inside the US Capitol Building.
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Nov 9
Recent coups
1989: Berliners celebrate the fall of the Wall
1970: France mourns death of de Gaulle
1799: Napoleon Bonaparte participates in a coup and declares himself dictator of France.
All Germany related news
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Nov 10
1938: Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies.
1970: The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
The journey to Moon
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Nov 11
2004: Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat is dead
1918: World War I ends: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies
Israel-Palestine crisis
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Nov 12
1987: Boris Yeltsin is fired as head of Moscow’s Communist Party
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn
Russia in the news |
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Nov 13
971: American probe orbits Mars
1985: The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
Journey to Mars |
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Nov 14
1India: Birthday of Jawaharlal Nehru: Children's Day
World Diabetes Day
1908: Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
All about Jawaharlal Nehru |
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15th Nov 2009
2007: Cyclone Sidr hit Bangladesh, killing 5000 people
1920: Forty-one nations open the first League of Nations session in Geneva
1988: An independent State of Palestine is proclaimed by Palestinian National Council
All recent cyclones |
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16th nov 2009
1988: Benazir Bhutto elected Prime Minister of Pakistan.
International Day for Tolerance
1940: In occupied Poland, Nazis close off Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world.
What`s happening in Pakistan |
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17th Nov 2009
1869: The Suez Canal is formally opened.
International Students' Day – Commemorates the anniversary of 1939 Nazi storming of University of Prague.
1989: Velvet Revolution begins in Czechoslovakia
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18thNov 2009
1928: Mickey mouse makes his film debut in Steamboat Willie.
1926: George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize
1978: Mass suicide in Guyana leaves 900 dead
Nobel Prize |
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21st Nov 2009
1971: Indian troops defeat Pakistan army in Battle of Garibpur.
1979: Mob destroys US embassy in Pakistan
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22nd Nov 2009
1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
2005: Merkel becomes German chancellor
2004: The Orange Revolution begins in Ukraine
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23th Nov 2009
1980: Series of earthquakes in southern Italy kills 4,800 people.
1996: Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 is hijacked, then crashes into the Indian Ocean off the coast of Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125.
Recent earthquakes |
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24th Nov 2009
1985: Egyptian commandoes storm hijacked EgyptAir passenger jet
1963: Lee Harvey Oswald is fatally shot by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters.
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25th Nov 2009
International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women
1867: Alfred Nobel patents dynamite.
1987: Super Typhoon Nina pummels the Philippines. At least 1,036 deaths are attributed to the storm.
Stree: The Women Power |
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27th Nov 2009
1964: Jawaharlal Nehru appeals to the US and the Soviet Union to start nuclear disarmament
1971 – The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module.
The nuke issue |
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28th Nov 2009
1990: Margaret Thatcher formally tenders her resignation
1982 – Representatives from 88 countries gather in Geneva to discuss world trade and ways to work toward aspects of free trade.
1987 – South African Airways flight 295 crashes into the Indian Ocean, killing all 159 people on-board
UK stories |
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29th Nov 2009
1947: United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine
1877: Thomas Edison demonstrates his phonograph for the first time
Latest science and technology news |
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30th Nov 2009
1982: Animal activists bomb Downing Street
2004: Lion Air Flight 538 crash lands in Surakarta, Indonesia, killing 26
UK stories |
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