Nov8 

1978  John Merrill completed his 10 month 6,824 mile walk around the British coast

1974  Covent Garden market moved to Nine Elms

1967  The first UK local radio station, Radio Leicester, went on air

1958  The first British album chart was published in the Melody Maker

1953  Three mountaineers on the slopes of Mount Everest discovered and photographed footprints of the supposed Yeti

1895  The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad  Röntgen discovered X rays

Nov9 

1990  Mary Robinson, a lawyer, was confirmed as The Republic of Ireland's first woman President

1967  The first issue of the rock magazine Rolling Stone appeared

1925  The Shutzstaffel (Protection Squad) or SS was founded

1922  The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sir William Horwood was poisoned by arsenic filled chocolates but survived

1859  Flogging was abolished in the British army