24th November 1859: Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species, considered by many to be the foundation of evolutionary biology
Darwin’s book presented evidence for the process of natural selection, and its publication sparked a seismic shift in the study of ...
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23rd November 1450: Ottoman forces abandon the First Siege of Krujë, after being unable to defeat Skanderbeg’s forces
The Ottomans had suffered up to 20,000 casualties compared to Skanderbeg’s 1,000 during the ...
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22nd November 1987: Max Headroom signal hijacking takes control of two Chicago television stations
The hijackings showed a figure dressed as Max Headroom, a fictional artificial-intelligence television personality created in the mid-1980s and presented as “the world’s first computer-generated TV host”, in front of a sheet of corrugated ...
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21st November 1974: The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people and injure 182
21 people were killed and 182 were injured in the Birmingham pub ...
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20th November 1945: The first of the Nuremberg Trials begin in the aftermath of the Second World War
Organised by the Allies to bring senior Nazis to justice for their part in the war crimes committed by the regime, t first Nuremberg Trial lasted for almost a ...
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