Microsoft releases Windows 1.0. On November 20, 1985, a small technology company out of Bellevue, Washington launched a 16-bit graphical operating system for the PC….
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19 November 1998
The portrait of the ‘Artist Without Beard’ by Vincent van Gogh sells at auction for US$71.5 million. The last self portrait of the famous artist…
18 November 1626
St. Peter’s Basilica is consecrated. On this day, November 18, 1626, the new St. Peter’s Basilica in Rome was consecrated by Pope Urban VIII. Rather…
17 November 1950
Lhamo Dondrub is made the 14th Dalai Lama. The 14th Dalai Lama, Tenzin Gyatso, is a living paradox; he upholds compassion and nonviolence while battling…
16 November 1938
LSD is synthesized for the first time by Albert Hofmann. Albert Hofmann, a chemist working for Sandoz Pharmaceutical, synthesized LSD for the first time in…
15 November 2006
The Al Jazeera English service launches worldwide. Al Jazeera English (AJE) is an international state-funded 24-hour English-language news and current affairs TV channel owned and…
14 November 1851
The novel Moby Dick by Herman Melville is first published. Moby-Dick, a novel by Herman Melville about the voyage of the whaling ship Pequod, is…
13 November 1990
In Aramoana, near Dunedin in New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people. On November 13th, 1990, residents of the small seaside town of Aramoana…
12 November 1991
Indonesian armed forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor in what become known as the Santa Cruz massacre. In…
11 November 1918
Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in Compiègne to end fighting on the Western front during World War I. The last day of…