Wikipedia:Selectit anniversaries/November

The On this day selections for November on the Main Page. Days wi nae selection yet are leetit at the fit, for onybody that wants tae mak ane.

8 November

1895 – Experimentin wi electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen (picturt) discovers the X-ray.
1923 – In Munich, Adolf Hitler leads the Nazis in a failed attempt tae owerthraw the German government, the Beer Hall Putsch.
1960 – John F. Kennedy is electit the 35t Preses o the Unitit States, defeatin the sittin Vice Preses, Richard Nixon.
1987 – A Provisional IRA bomb gangs aff durin a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northren Ireland, killin 12 fowk an injurin 63 ithers.
2013 – Typhoon Haiyan strikes the Visayas region o the Philippines, killin at least 6,300 fowk, the deidliest typhoon in the Philippines in modren history.

Duns Scotus (d. 1308) · Edmond Halley (b. 1656) · Gordon Ramsay (b. 1966)

1901 – Prince George, Duke o Cornwall, later George V, becomes Prince o Wales an Earl o Chester.
1918 – Kaiser Wilhelm II o Germany abdicates efter the German Revolution, an Germany is proclaimed a republic, the Weimar Republic.
1938 – Kristallnacht begins, as SA stormtroopers an ceevilians wreck Jewish hames, businesses an synagogues in Germany an Austrie. At least 90 fowk are killed, an 30,000 men are sent tae concentration camps.
1967 – NASA launches the uncrewed Apollo 4 test spacecraft on the first Saturn V rocket, as pairt o the Apollo programme.
1989 – East Germany opens the crossins in the Berlin Wa (picturt), lettin its citizens traivel tae Wast Germany, an the Wa comes doun that nicht.

Edward VII (b. 1841) · Ramsay MacDonald (d. 1937) · Neville Chamberlain (d. 1940) · Charles de Gaulle (d. 1970)

1202 – Fourth Crusade: Despite letters frae Pape Innocent III forbiddin it an threatenin excommunication, Catholic crusaders begin a siege o Zara, nou Zadar in Croatie.
1775 – The Unitit States Marine Corps is foondit at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia.
1969 – The bairns' television series Sesame Street first gangs oot in the Unitit States.
1983 – Microsoft introduces Windows 1.0.
2019 – The Preses o Bolivie, Evo Morales, an several o his government resign efter 19 days o ceevil protests.

Martin Luther (picturt) (b. 1483) · Friedrich Schiller (b. 1759) · Richard Burton (b. 1925) · Ruth Davidson (b. 1978) · Arthur Rimbaud (d. 1891)

11 November: Remembrance Day

1918 – Warld War I: The German Empire signs an airmistice wi the Allies in a railwey cairrage in the forest o Compiègne, Fraunce.
1920 – In Lunnon, the Cenotaph is unveiled an the Unknown Warrior is buried in Wastmeenster Aibey (picturt) in myndin o the First Warld War.
1965 – Rhodesie, led bi Prime Meenister Ian Smith, declares itsel independent o the Unitit Kinrick withoot its agreement.
1975 – Durin a constitutional crisis in Austrailie, the Governor-General, Sir John Kerr, dismisses Prime Meenister Gough Whitlam's government.
1999 – The House of Lords Act gets royal assent, takin maist hereditary peers oot o the Hoose o Lairds.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky (b. 1821) · Leonardo DiCaprio (b. 1974)

1927 – Leon Trotsky (picturt) is expelled frae the Soviet Communist Pairty, leavin Joseph Stalin in undisputit control o the Soviet Union.
1944 – Seicont Warld War: The Ryal Air Force sinks the German battleship Tirpitz near Tromsø, Norawa, killin aboot 1,000 sailors on board.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager 1 maks its closest approach tae Saturn an taks the first heich-resolution images o its rings.
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
2014 – The Philae lander, frae the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, touches doun on the comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko, the first spacecraft tae come doun on a comet.

Charles Bell (b. 1774) · Cnut the Great (d. 1035) · Duncan II o Scotland (d. 1094) · Stan Lee (d. 2018)

1093 – At the Battle o Alnwick, in an Inglis victory ower the Scots, Malcolm III o Scotland (picturt) an his son Edward are killed.
1715 – At the Battle o Sheriffmuir, the forces o the Kinrick o Great Breetain halt the Jacobite advance, tho the battle is inconclusive.
1940 – Walt Disney's animatit film Fantasia is first shawn, at the Broadway Theatre in New York.
1994 – In a referendum, voters in Swaden decide tae jyne the European Union.
2015 – Islamic State attackers cairy oot a series o co-ordinatit terrorist attacks in Paris, killin 130 fowk an injurin 413 ithers.

Augustine o Hippo (b. 354) · Edward III o Ingland (b. 1312) · Robert Louis Stevenson (b. 1850) · Henry the Navigator (d. 1460)

1851 – Moby-Dick, a novel bi Herman Melville (picturt), is published in the Unitit States.
1918 – Czechoslovakie becomes a republic.
1922 – The British Broadcasting Company, later the BBC, begins its radio service in the Unitit Kinrick.
1940 – Warld War II: In Ingland, Coventry is heavily bombed bi German bombers, an Coventry Cathedral is near destroyed.
1975 – Wi the signin o the Madrid Accords, Spain gies up Wastren Sahara.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (d. 1716) · Claude Monet (b. 1840) · Charles III (b. 1948)

655 – Penda o Mercia an Æthelhere o East Anglia are defeatit bi Oswiu o Northumbria at the Battle o the Winwaed in Yorkshire.
1859 – Peyed for bi the Greek businessman Evangelos Zappas, the first modren revival o the Olympic Games taks place in Athens.
1908 – Efter monie atrocities in the territory, the Congo Free State is annexed tae Belgium as the Belgian Congo.
1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler orders that the Romani are tae be pit "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
1985 – The Breetish Prime Meenister, Margaret Thatcher, an the Taoiseach, Garret FitzGerald, sign the Anglo-Irish Agreement on Northren Ireland.
1988 – The Soviet spacecraft Buran (picturt), a reusable craft biggit tae answer NASA's Space Shuttle, is launched, wi naebody on board, on its anerly flicht.

Albertus Magnus (d. 1280) · Johannes Kepler (d. 1630) · William Herschel (b. 1738)

1292 – John Balliol acomes Keeng o Scotland.
1558 – Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I o Ingland dees an is succeedit bi her hauf-sister Elizabeth I o Ingland. (picturt)
1777 – Airticles o Confederation (Unitit States) are submittit tae the states for ratification.
1869 – In Egyp, the Suez Canaul, airtin the Mediterranean Sea wi the Reid Sea, is inauguratit.
1989 – Cauld War: Velvet Revolution begins: In Czechoslovakie, a student demonstration in Prague is quelled bi riot polis. This causes an uprisin aimed at owerthrawin the communist govrenment (it succeeds on 29 December).

Vespasian (b. 9 AD) · Catherine the Great (d. 1796) · Rachel McAdams (b. 1978)