On the 12th November 1990, British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee published the first formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
22nd July 1992: Pablo Escobar escapes from the luxury La Catedral prison
22nd July 2017
The Prospero satellite was launched, making it the first and only British satellite to be launched using a British rocket.
Frenchman André-Jacques Garnerin performed the first high-altitude parachute descent.
The first well-publicised public demonstration of inhaled ether anaesthesia was given at the Massachusetts General Hospital.
The first edition of the National Geographic Magazine was published by the National Geographic Society.
Shortly after midnight in Moscow, the Soviets became the first to successfully send a human-made object to the Moon.
On the 11th September 1978, Janet Parker became the last recorded person in the world to die from smallpox.
Thomas Edison began operating the first permanent commercial electrical power plant in New York.
On the 12th August 1865 Joseph Lister carried out the world’s first antiseptic surgery using the chemical phenol, otherwise known as carbolic acid.
French aviator Louis Charles Joseph Blériot made the first flight across the English Channel in a heavier-than-air aircraft.
20th November 1945: First Nuremberg Trial begins
20th November 2018
18th November 1916: Battle of the Somme ends
18th November 2018
11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
11th November 2018
1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland
1st September 2018
9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
9th November 2017