November 6th – Birthdays and Events
1975 - UK punk rock group, the Sex Pistols, gave their first public performance at London’s St Martin’s College of Art. College authorities cut the concert short after a mere 10 minutes.
November 5th – Birthdays and Events
1605 - Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested in the cellars of the Houses of Parliament, where he had planted gunpowder in an attempt to blow up the building and kill King James I of England.
November 4th – Birthdays and Events
2001 - The first Harry Potter film “Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone” premiered in Leicester Square, London introducing young stars Daniel Radcliffe, Rupert Grint and Emma Watson.
November 3rd – Birthdays and Events
1957 - The Soviet Union sent a dog into space aboard spacecraft Sputnik II. The dog called Laika was the first living organism to be sent into orbit from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Kazakhstan.
November 2nd – Birthdays and Events
2012 - It was announced that more than 100 post boxes, painted gold to celebrate the success of Britain’s Olympic and Paralympic athletes, would remain gold on a permanent basis.
November 1st – Birthdays and Events
1611 - William Shakespeare had his first known performance of “The Tempest.” The performance was at the Whitehall Palace and performed for James I and his English Royal Court.
October 31st – Birthdays and Events
The Halloween holiday has its roots in the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (a Gaelic word pronounced “SAH-win”), a pagan religious celebration to welcome the harvest at the end of summer, when people would light bonfires and wear costumes to ward off ghosts.
October 30th – Birthdays and Events
1990 - English and French tunnellers met for the first time underneath the English Channel during the construction of the Channel Tunnel.
October 29th – Birthdays and Events
2013 - The Lonely Planet Guide named Yorkshire as one of the top places in the world to visit. It put the area third in the top 10 world regions, behind destinations in India and Australia.