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Nov24

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1927 |
Sir Harry Lauder was given the freedom
of Edinburgh |
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1859 |
Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was first published |
| 1642 |
Dutch navigator Abel Tasmin discovered Van Diemen's
Land, later renamed Tasmania |
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Nov25
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1963 |
President John F Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery |
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Nov26
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1968 |
Cream made their farewell performance at the Albert Hall |
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| 1966 |
The world's first major tidal power station opened on the
Rance estuary in Brittany, France |
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Nov27
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1582 |
Anne Hathaway married William Shakespeare |
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Nov28
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1983 |
The European Space Agency's Spacelab
was launched |
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1968 |
Children's writer Enid Blyton died |
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1919 |
Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP |
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| 1893 |
New Zealand women became the first women in the world
to vote in a General Election |
| 1660 |
The Royal Society was founded |
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Nov29
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1929
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 Bernt Balchen and Richard Byrd
made the first flight over the South Pole
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Nov30
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Saint
Andrew's Day - the patron saint of Scotland |
| 1931 |
Columbia and HMV merged to form Electrical and Musical Industries
(EMI) |