November 29th – Birthdays and Events
1907 - British nurse Florence Nightingale, aged 87 (at the time of her presentation), was presented with the Order of Merit by Edward VII for her work tending the wounded during the Crimean War.
November 28th – Birthdays and Events
1935 - The Miles quadruplets (Ann, Ernest, Michael and Paul) were born in Cambridgeshire and were the first British quads to survive infancy.
November 27th – Birthdays and Events
1976 - The four millionth ‘Mini’ car left the production line. More than ten million Minis have been built and sold worldwide since 1959 and almost as many of the new ones have been built in the last 27 years under BMW.
November 26th – Birthdays and Events
1865 - Lewis Carroll’s “Alice in Wonderland” novel was published. It would become one of the most famous works of English language fiction.
November 25th – Birthdays and Events
1984 - The cream of the British pop world including Bono, George Michael, Boy George, Paul Young and Sting gathered to record the historic Do They Know It’s Christmas? as Band Aid.
November 24th – Birthdays and Events
1991 - Queen frontman Freddie Mercury (born Farrokh Bulsara) died at the age of 45, following complications from the AIDS virus. His death came just one day after he announced his diagnosis. Mercury co-founded Queen in 1970, and remained the band’s frontman throughout his life.
November 23rd – Birthdays and Events
2014 - Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins the season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at the Yas Marina Circuit to clinch his second Formula 1 World Drivers Championship.
November 22nd – Birthdays and Events
1963 - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated as he rode in a motorcade through Dealey Plaza in downtown Dallas, Texas with his wife, Jacqueline Kennedy, Texas Governor John Connally, and his wife, Nelly Connally. Vice president Lyndon B Johnson is sworn in as President aboard Air Force One.
November 21st – Birthdays and Events
2019 - Elon Musk revealed Tesla’s first electric cyber truck with shatterproof windows. However, at the grand reveal, when the shatterproof windows were tested by being repeatedly hit by the design chief Franz von Holzhausen, the windows shattered.