On This Day In History
November 27th
1095 Pope Urban II preaches the west to wrestle control of the Holy land the Seljuk Turks at the Council of Clermont, triggering the First Crusade
1295 English King Edward I calls what later became known as "The Model Parliament" extending the authorities of its representatives
1493 Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus's orders.
1807 Portuguese Royal Family and its court of nearly 15,000 people leave Lisbon for their colony of Brazil to escape invading Napoleonic troops
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
Did You Know?
"The Mask of Zorro" directed by Fred Niblo and starring Douglas Fairbanks is shown in New York - 1st American superhero film
Today in history in 1920
#OTD in 1957, her 46th birthday, Fe Del Mundo, the first woman to be admitted to Harvard Medical School (in 1936—the admin hadn't realised she was female) opened the Children's Memorial Hospital—the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines. #WomeninSTEM https://t.co/CE9B4Ya7Hb pic.twitter.com/2AnPto9MWP
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 27, 2018
On this day in 1995, a Princeton Professor wrongly predicted that violence in the U.S. would rise dramatically due to an incoming wave of "super-predators," coded language for young, Black males. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history.https://t.co/zxh3z4RHyf
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 27, 2021
November 28th
1520 Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan begins crossing the Pacific Ocean
1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer - makes newspapers available to a mass audience
1919 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons
1967 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
This day 101 years ago – 28 November 1920 – Tom Barry flagged down two trucks carrying RIC Auxiliaries 1½ miles south of Kilmichael, Co Cork.
His IRA unit then launched an ambush, killing 16 of the Auxiliaries. Another escaped, but was later shot. Three IRA men were also killed. pic.twitter.com/47viPXqtTj
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 28, 2021
In Nov 1933, Louise Dahl‐Wolfe's first photograph was published, in @VanityFair. Named one of "America's Outstanding Woman Photographers" in 1950, she was famous for fashion and portrait photos and her use of colour, pioneering the "New Woman" image. https://t.co/N3bgOY8LjO pic.twitter.com/oFD0BSuHjr
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 28, 2021
On this day in 1933, a white mob of 7,000 including women and children hanged and burned Lloyd Warner, a 19-year-old Black man, in a spectacle lynching in Missouri. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/SuV4kTl7IA
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 28, 2021
November 29th
526 A possible date for the Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) which killed 200,000 people
1745 Bonnie Prince Charlie's army moves into Manchester and occupies Carlisle
1877 US inventor Thomas Edison demonstrates his hand-cranked phonograph for the first time
1935 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
1951 1st underground atomic explosion at Frenchman Flat in Nevada
Would You Believe?
Crew of slave ship Zong murder about 142 African slaves by dumping them into the sea, to claim insurance
Today in History in 1781
Did You Know?
Co-founder of Atari, Nolan Bushnell releases Pong, the 1st commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California
Today in history in 1972
Happy birthday to politician Nellie Tayloe Ross, born #otd in 1876. A Democrat, Ross was the first woman to become a state governor (Wyoming, in 1925) and the first female director of the US Mint - a post she held for twenty years. https://t.co/UTDAmzMWq8 pic.twitter.com/fHMNyNdWxR
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 29, 2021
On this day in 1864, American troops murdered over 150 Cheyenne and Arapaho people living peacefully along Sand Creek in CO despite assuring the community days earlier that they would be safe. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/Hthss1sPvy
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 29, 2021
November 30th
1016 Cnut the Great [Canute], King of Denmark, claims the English throne after the death of Edmund ‘Ironside'
1487 The first German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated in Munich by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops
1786 Grand Duke of Tuscany Leopold II promulgates a penal reform, making his the 1st state to abolish the death penalty. November 30 commemorated as Cities for Life Day.
1876 Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann finds the gold Mask of Agamemnon at Mycenae (modern Greece) “the Mona Lisa of prehistory” [1]
Did You Know?
World’s longest recorded rainbow – 8 hrs 58 min in Taipei’s Yangmingshan mountain range
Today in history in 2017
Would You Believe?
Ann Hodges is bruised by a meteor at Sylacauga, Alabama in first modern instance of a meteorite striking a human
Today in History in 1954
November 30th 1900: Oscar Wilde (Born October 16th 1854) died.
This day 112 years ago – 30 November 1909 – H. H. Asquith's 'People's Budget' was rejected by the House of Lords.
This led to Asquith's promising to “set up in Ireland a system of full self-government in regard to purely Irish affairs,” in exchange for the support of the IPP. pic.twitter.com/QWDSOFx8Ar
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 30, 2021
This day 26 years ago – 30 November 1995 – Bill Clinton became the first sitting U.S. President to visit Northern Ireland.
He said he was “proud to be here in the home of Ireland's most tireless champion for civil rights and its most eloquent voice of non-violence, John Hume.” pic.twitter.com/uqiMW4EN5a
— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) November 30, 2021
#OTD in 1788 it was a man (James Dore) who gave a sermon on the African slave trade: but it was radical publisher and campaigner Martha Gurney who made it a best-selling sensation. A powerful influencer, her London shop was a hub for abolitionists. https://t.co/8pvoJkUazZ pic.twitter.com/AiOHRSGXy0
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) November 30, 2021
On this day in 1921, a white mob lynched a 15-year-old Black boy named Robert Murtore after a local sheriff in Texas failed to protect him while he was in his custody. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/IvSmjhm0PB
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) November 30, 2021
December 1st
1913 Ford Motor Company institutes world's 1st moving assembly line for the Model T Ford
1934 Leningrad mayor Sergey Kirov is assassinated and Joseph Stalin uses it as an excuse to begin his Great Purge of 1934-38
1988 Benazir Bhutto named 1st female Prime Minister of a Muslim country (Pakistan)
Today in Film & TV
1953 Hugh Hefner publishes 1st edition of Playboy magazine, featuring Marilyn Monroe as the magazine's 1st centerfold
Did You Know?
The New York Daily News reports the first successful sexual reassignment operation
Today in history in 1952
Would You Believe?
Sex Pistols using profanity on TV, gets them branded as "rotten punks"
Today in History in 1976
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— This Day in Irish History (@ThisDayIrish) December 1, 2021
It is #WorldAidsDay2021. In January 2000, virologist Beatrice Hahn published her discovery that HIV was a cross-species infection, passed from apes to humans. In 2002 @Discovermag named her as one of the 50 most important women in science. https://t.co/Y6lS77IcSY #WomenInSTEM pic.twitter.com/x3uatBuRn5
— On This Day She (@OnThisDayShe) December 1, 2021
On this day in 1955, police arrested Rosa Parks in Alabama for refusing to give up her seat on a segregated bus—not because she was physically tired, but because she was tired of giving in. To overcome racial inequality, we must confront our history. https://t.co/vx2aL3LUye
— Equal Justice Initiative (@eji_org) December 1, 2021