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1. 21st November 1877: Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound

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2. 20th November 1969: Native Americans begin their occupation of Alcatraz Island

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3. 19th November 1985: Reagan and Gorbachev meet for the first time at the Geneva Summit

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4. 18th November 1883: The Day of Two Noons sees four standard time zones applied across the continental United States

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5. 17th November 1894: H. H. Holmes, one of America’s earliest serial killers, apprehended in Boston

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6. 16th November 1793: Mass drownings begin in Nantes as part of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution

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7. 15th November 1917: Georges Clemenceau appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time

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8. 14th November 1960: Ruby Bridges, first African-American to desegregate an elementary school

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9. 13th November 1956: Supreme Court upholds Browder v Gayle to desegregate buses in Alabama

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10. 12th November 1933: German referendum on withdrawing from the League of Nations

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11. 11th November 1865: Dr Mary Walker becomes the first (and only) woman to receive the Medal of Honor

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12. 10th November 1871: Henry Morton Stanley locates Dr David Livingstone in Africa

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13. 9th November 1799: Coup of 18 Brumaire sees Napoleon Bonaparte begin his rise to power

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14. 8th November 1620: Battle of White Mountain fought near Prague in the early stages of the Thirty Years’ War

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15. 7th November 1917: Bolshevik Red Guards take control of the Winter Palace in St Petersburg

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16. 6th November 1860: Abraham Lincoln elected as the 16th President of the USA

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17. 5th November 1605: Gunpowder Plot foiled when Guy Fawkes was discovered guarding 36 barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of Lords in London

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18. 4th November 1839: The Newport Rising armed rebellion takes place in south Wales

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19. 3rd November 1918: The Kiel Mutiny begins, marking the start of the German Revolution

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20. 2nd November 1936: BBC Television Service launched in the UK as the world’s first regular high-definition television service

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