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11-10-2010, 10:46 AM
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Malice...in Sunderland
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A&A ALMANAC - Things To Celebrate Or Mourn
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NOVEMBER 10th
1960 - D.H. Lawrence's novel Lady Chatterley's Lover was first published in its entirety in the UK - its initial run of 200,000 copies had sold out by the end of the day.
It had been first published, in Florence, in 1928 but banned in the UK because of its sexual content [and the idea of one of the hoi polloi having it away with one of the nobs, no doubt]. A heavily edited version had been passed by the censors in 1932.
2001 - Ken Kesey died. Author and Merry Prankster and, I guess, a link between the Beats and the Hippies.
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11-11-2010, 11:01 AM
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Malice...in Sunderland
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November 11th
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NOVEMBER 11th
Today is Martinmas - Happy Martinmas everybody !
[Feast day St Martin of Tours [Christian]. Formerly marked with much feasting and drinking].
1954 - The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers by J.R.R. Tolkien was published.
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11-12-2010, 11:15 AM
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November 12th
1035 - Death of Knut Sveinsson, better known perhaps as Cnut or Canute.
1859 - In Paris, acrobat Jules Leotard first performed a flying trapeze act without a safety net.
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11-13-2010, 11:16 AM
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November 13th
1887 - Clashes took place between police and demonstraters in Trafalgar Square, London, at a meeting called to protest against a ban on open-air meetings and to call for the release of an Irish MP who had been supporting a rent strike.
Two demonstraters were killed on what became known as Bloody Sunday.
1956 - The US Supreme Court ruled that bus segregation in Montgomery and all of Alabama was illeagal.
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11-14-2010, 12:01 PM
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November 14th
1900 - Composer Aaron Copland born.
1952 - The British singles chart first published [in New Musical Express]. The first ever British Number 1 was Al Martino with Here In My Heart, and thus a dismal precedent was set.
Video included for historical purposes only. Listen with caution.
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11-17-2010, 10:54 AM
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November 17th
1558 - Queen Elizabeth I came to the throne. From 1568 this date was marked with the ringing of bells and subsequently became known as Queen Elizabeth's Day, celebrated with increasing fervour as her reign progressed, and long after her death the observance continued as a day for Protestant rejoicing and exporession of anti-Catholic feeling, including triumphal parades and processions, the preaching of sermons against papalism and burning the Pope's effigy.
After all, you've got to have someone to hate, haven't you, even if its just another branch of the same religion [think modern-day Northern Ireland, Orangemen marches, etc - see below.]
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11-20-2010, 11:57 AM
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November 20th
2002 - Professor Gunther von Hagens carried out the UK's first public autopsy in 170 years, to a sell-out audience of 500 people in a London theatre.
Prior to performing the autopsy, von Hagens had received a letter from Her Majesty's Inspector of Anatomy, the British government official responsible for regulating the educational use of cadavers.
The letter warned von Hagens that performing a public autopsy would be a criminal act under section 11 of the Anatomy Act 1984. The show was attended by officers from the Metropolitan Police, but they did not intervene and the dissection was performed in full.
The autopsy was shown in November 2002 on the UK's Channel 4 television channel; it resulted in over 130 complaints, an OFCOM record, but the Independent Television Commission ruled that the program had not been sensationalist and had not broken broadcasting rules.
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11-24-2010, 12:18 PM
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November 24th
1859 - Charles Darwin's On The Origin Of Species first published.
1868 - Scott Joplin born
1947 - For refusing to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee, the US Congress cited 10 Hollywood Writers, directors and producers - the Hollywood 10 - for contempt.
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, accused of assassinating John F. Kennedy, was himself murdered by Jack Ruby.
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11-25-2010, 11:40 AM
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November 25th
1969 - John Lennon returned his MBE as a protest against the UK's involvement in Biafra and US involvement in Vietnam.
Not sure why it says Sept 1st.. anyone ?
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11-26-2010, 11:19 AM
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November 26th
1703 - The 'Great Storm' raged across southern England, killing around 8000 people.
1922 - Howard Carter saw the first glimpses of the inside of the tomb of Tutankhamun.
1939 - Tina Turner born
1968 - UK race discrimination law was tightened, making it illegal to deny housing, employment or public services on the grounds of race.
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