On the 23rd November 1963, the first ever episode of cult science fiction television show Doctor Who was broadcast by the BBC.

The British pirate Edward Teach, better known as Blackbeard, was killed during a battle with British sailors under the command of Lieutenant Robert Maynard.

On the 21st November 1877, American inventor Thomas Edison announced his phonograph, the world’s first practical machine that could record and play sound using a cylinder.

The Occupation of Alcatraz was launched by a group of 89 members of the Indians of All Tribes in an attempt to gain control under the Treaty of Fort Laramie that had been signed in…

On the 19th November 1863, US President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers’ National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.

The worst fire in the history of the London Underground killed 31 people at Kings Cross St Pancras station.

On the 17th November 1558, Elizabeth I succeeded her half-sister Mary to become queen of England.

German pop duo Milli Vanilli were stripped of the Grammy Award for Best New Artist after it emerged that they did not sing any of the vocals on their debut album.

On the 15th November 1917, Georges Clemenceau was appointed Prime Minister of France for the second time.

Bridges was born in 1954, the same year that the Supreme Court unanimously ruled in the landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka, Kansas that racially segregated schools were unconstitutional.

On the 13th November 1002, the St Brice’s Day Massacre took place when king Æthelred the Unready “ordered slain all the Danish men who were in England”.

Trotsky had been a key figure in the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917.

American surgeon Dr Mary Walker became the first, and so far only, woman to receive the Medal of Honor.

Henry Morton Stanley, a Welsh-American journalist and explorer, allegedly greeted the missing Scottish missionary David Livingstone with the phrase, “Dr Livingston, I presume?”