History
On this day in 1980: Voyager 1 revealed the complexity of Saturn’s rings
NASA’s Voyager 1 swept past Saturn on 12 November 1980, passing about 126,000 kilometres above the planet’s cloud tops. The...
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On this day in 1918, the guns fell silent on the Western Front
At 11am on 11 November 1918, an armistice between Germany and the Allies took effect, ending more than four years...
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On this day in 1975, the Edmund Fitzgerald sank on Lake Superior
On 10 November 1975, the American freighter Edmund Fitzgerald sank during a severe storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29...
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On this day in 1989: The Berlin Wall falls and changes the course of European history
On 9 November 1989, one of the most significant events of the twentieth century unfolded as thousands of East Germans...
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On this day in 1895: The discovery of X-rays revolutionised medicine and science
On 8 November 1895, German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen made one of the most important discoveries in medical and scientific...
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On this day in 1867: Marie Curie was born
On 7 November 1867, Marie Skłodowska Curie was born in Warsaw, Poland, beginning a life that would fundamentally change humanity’s...
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On this day in 1860, Abraham Lincoln wins the US presidency
Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States on 6 November 1860, becoming the first Republican to...
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2013 India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft, the Mars Orbiter Mission,
On 5 November 2013, India launched its first interplanetary spacecraft from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre in Sriharikota. The Mars...
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On this day in 1922, a stone step led to Tutankhamun’s tomb
On 4 November 1922, Egyptian excavators working with British archaeologist Howard Carter uncovered a step cut into the bedrock in...
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On this day in 1957: Laika becomes the first animal to orbit Earth as the Space Race accelerates
On 3 November 1957, the Soviet Union made history by launching Sputnik 2 into orbit with a small dog named...
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