On This Day in November

On November

1st- Which European capital city was devastated by an earthquake in 1755?

2nd- Haile Selassie was crowned Emperor of which African nation in 1930?

3rd- Which country declared its independence from Russia in 1918?

4th- Which Missouri born poet won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1948?

5th- Which board game was released by Parker Brothers in 1935?

6th – Who left Pittodrie for Old Trafford in 1986?

7th – Which sports star announced he was HIV positive in 1991?

8th – Whose right ear was sent to a newspaper accompanied with a ransom note in 1973?

9th – Mary Jane Kelly became the last known victim of whom in 1888?

10th – Who said, “Dr Livingstone I presume” in 1871?

11th – Whose death was formally announced by the PLO in 2004?

12th – Who was expelled by the Communist Party in 1927?

13th – Which black entertainer was widely condemned in the USA after marrying white Swedish actress Mary Britt in 1960?
 

14th – Who was the bride and groom at a wedding held at Westminster Abbey in 1973?

15th – Which film marked the screen debut of Elvis Presley in 1956?

16th – Which airline was founded in Australia in 1920?

17th – Who announced to a newspaper “I am not a crook” in 1973?

18th – Which leader of the People’s Temple led a mass suicide in 1978?

19th – Who was appointed Poet Laureate in 1850?

20th – Who married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten in 1947?

21st – What became the first full length feature film produced entirely by computer generated imagery in 1995?

22nd – Who did Mike Tyson beat to become the youngest ever heavyweight world champion in 1986?

23rd – Which famed clipper vessel was launched in Dumbarton in 1869?

24th – Which singer died of AIDS aged 45 in 1991?

25th – What became the first foreign team to defeat England at Wembley in 1953?

26th – At which vault at Heathrow Airport were over 6000 gold bars stolen in 1983?

27th – Which gangster born Lester Joseph Gillis was killed in shoot out in 1934?

28th – East Timor declared its independence from which European country in 1975?

29th – Which commission was established to investigate the assassination of JFK in 1963?

30th – Which London building was destroyed by fire in 1936?

 

ANSWERS

1st – Lisbon

2nd – Ethiopia

3rd – Poland

4th – TS Eliot

5th – Monopoly

6th – Alex Ferguson

7th – Magic Johnson

8th – John Paul Getty III

9th – Jack the Ripper

10th – Henry Morton Stanley

11th – Yasser Arafat

12th – Leon Trotsky

13th – Sammy Davis Jnr

14th – Princess Anne & Mark Phillips

15th – Love Me Tender

16th – QANTAS

17TH – Richard Nixon

18th – Reverend Jim Jones

19th – Alfred Lord Tennyson

20th – Princess Elizabeth later Queen Elizabeth II

21st – Toy Story

22nd – Trevor Berbick

23rd – Cutty Sark

24th – Freddie Mercury

25th – Hungary

26th – Brinks Mat

27th – Baby Face Nelson

28th – Portugal

29th – Warren Commission

30th – Crystal Palace