On this day

1963: Kennedy shot dead in Dallas
The President of the United States has been assassinated by a gunman in Dallas, Texas.
John F Kennedy was hit in the head and throat when three shots were fired at his open-topped car.

The presidential motorcade was travelling through the main business area of the city.

Texas Governor John Connally was also seriously injured when one of the unknown sniper's bullets hit him in the back.

The men were accompanied by their wives, who were both uninjured.

Vice-president Lyndon Johnson - who was following in a different car - has been sworn in as the new US leader.

The presidential party was driving from Dallas airport to the city centre when witnesses said shots were fired from the window of a building overlooking the road.

The president collapsed into Jackie Kennedy's arms, who was heard to cry "Oh no". Seconds later Governor Connally was also hit.

Dallas Times Herald photographer Bob Jackson was in the motorcade close behind the Democrat leader's car and heard the shots as it entered Dealey Plaza.

"As I looked up I saw a rifle being pulled back from a window - it might have been resting on the windowsill - I didn't see a man," he said.

Mr Kennedy's limousine was driven at speed to Parklands Hospital immediately after the shooting.


This is terrible - I cannot find words

Senator Mike Mansfield

The president was alive when he was admitted, but died at 1400 local time (1900 GMT) - 35 minutes after being shot.

Police and Secret Service agents stormed the School Book Depository building moments after the shots were fired and recovered a rifle with a telescopic sight, said to be the assassination weapon.

The mood of shock in the US was echoed by Senator Mike Mansfield in an emergency forum of the senate.

"This is terrible - I cannot find words," he said.


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A secret serviceman jumps into Kennedy's car seconds after he was shot
Kennedy's car sped off after he was shot


A BBC Panorama footage of the Kennedy shooting


Witness: "I grabbed my boy and fell on him"







In Context
A little under an hour after the shooting, a policeman approached Lee Harvey Oswald, believing he recognised his description.
The policeman was shot dead. Oswald was arrested almost immediately under suspicion of murder.

Shortly afterwards, he was also charged with the assassination of President Kennedy.

The suspect was never tried as he was shot dead himself two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby.

The Warren Report, commissioned to investigate the president's death, concluded he had been killed by shots fired by Mr Oswald from the School Book Depository building.

But conspiracy enthusiasts quickly turned the assassination into one of the most disputed events in modern history, with theories ranging from claims it was an elaborately staged suicide to the driver being the murderer.


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2003: England win Rugby World Cup
1997: Michael Hutchence found dead in hotel
1971: Six dead in Scottish mountain tragedy
2005: Merkel becomes German chancellor


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November 23rd

1835 - USA: A machine to manufacture horseshoes is patented by Henry Burden a Scottish immigrant from New York. The machine could produce 60 horseshoes a minute. In the Civil War most of the shoes for Union Cavalry came from Burden's plant.

1868 - USA: 800 Seventh Cavalry soldiers under George Armstrong Custer set off in a snowstorm from Camp Supply, looking for hostile Indians in what is now present day Oklahoma.

1900 - Paris: The Durand-Ruel Gallery hosts an exhibition of Claude Monet paintings.

1907 - USA: Standard Oil Boss John Rockefeller gives $2.6 million towards a medical institute.

1916 - Petrograd: Boris Sturmer, the reactionary protégé of Rasputin is replaced as premier by Alexander Trepov.

1918 - UK: League football resumes throughout the country.

1928 - New York: The Stock Exchange shuts for one day to clear backlogs from record trading of 6.9 million shares.

1933 - Germany: Adolf Hitler suppresses two monarchist groups, fearing a plot to restore the ex-Kaiser.

1937 - New York: John Steinbeck's Play "Of Mice and Men" opens.

1939 - North Atlantic: In a brief battle, the German warships Scharnhorst and Gneisenau sink the armed merchant cruiser HMS Rawalpindi resulting in the deaths of 265 people.

1940 - Vichy: Admiral William Leahy is appointed US ambassador to the French Government.

1941 - Libya: British and German forces clash across a wide front in the area between Sidi Rezegh and Bir el-Gubi.

1944 - Finland: Finnish and Soviet troops drive the Germans out of Lapland.

1951 - Korea: UN and Communist negotiators agree "in principal" to a truce line.

1952 - Iraq: Ten people are killed after two days of anti-Western riots.

1958 - West Africa: Ghana and Guinea sign an agreement aimed at forming a Union of West African states.

1965 - UK: Marc Bolan appears live on the UK TV Show "Five o'clock Funfair", performing "The Wizard.

1966 - UK: BP announces it has struck the best gas-producing areas yet in the North Sea, 40 miles east of the Humber.

1970 - Rome: Pope Paul VI bars cardinals over 80 from voting in Papal elections.

1974 - USA: The Rolling Stones achieve their fifth US No.1 album with "It's Only Rock N Roll.

1975 - UK: Queen begin a nine-week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with Bohemian Rhapsody.

1979 - Norway: Marianne Faithfull is arrested at Oslo Airport for possession of Marijuana.

1980 - Italy: A severe earthquake devastates a wide area in the south of the country.

1984 - Korea: Three North Korean troops are killed in a clash with UN troops in the demilitarised zone.

1987 - Ireland: 40 people are held after police raids for IRA arms north and south of the border.

1989: UK: Jimmy Somerville is given a conditional discharge from Bow Street Magistrate's Court after being found guilty of obstructing the highway during an AIDS demonstration outside the Australian commission in London.

1992 - Germany: A Turkish woman and two girls aged 14 and 10 are burnt to death in a racist arson attack in the village of Molln.

1993 - London: England Football Manager Graham Taylor resigns.

1994 - Sarajevo: NATO fighters strike at Bosnian Serb SAM missile batteries; the Serbs continue their defiance, pressing on with an attack on Bihac.

1996 - Indian Ocean: 127 people are killed when a hijacked Ethiopian Airlines passenger jet crashes into the sea off the Comoro Islands after running out of fuel.

2009 - Switzerland: The first atom collisions take place in the large Hadron Collider at Cern, near Geneva.

2010 - UK: Clarence House confirms that Prince William and Catherine Middleton are to be married at Westminster Abbey on 29th April 2011.

2011 - Arizona: 6 people, including three children are killed in a air crash in the Superstition Mountains.

November 24th

1835 - USA: The Texas Rangers, a mounted police force is authorised by the Texas Provincial Government.

1902 - Paris: The world's first professional photography conference opens.

1907 - Berlin: Chancellor von Bulow introduces a bill to expropriate land belonging to the Poles in German occupied Poland.

1911 - Liverpool: 21 people are killed, and 114 are injured in a mill explosion.

1919 - London: The government announces a ten shillings per ton cut in the price of coal.

1922 - Ankara: Ex-Sultan Abdul Mejid is installed as Caliph.

1927 - Edinburgh: Comedian Sir Harry Lauder is given the freedom of the city.

1930 - London: The London School of Economics Survey, states London has better education, less larceny, but lower morals and more fraud than in 1890.

1936 - Oxford: Industrialist Lord Nuffield gives £2,000,000 to the University for a medical research school.

1941 - Libya: Rommel makes a "dash for the wire", an abortive attempt to outflank British troops attacking towards Tobruk; meanwhile the British occupy the Axis supply depot at Garbut.

1942 - Solomon Islands: Japan lands a team of engineers at Munda, in New Georgia, to begin work on an airfield.

1943 - Pacific: The Gilbert Islands fall to the Allies.

1944 - USSR: The Germans force back the Soviets at Korosten.

1950 - UK: A report into the Tudor V air disaster which occurred in March, states that overloading probably led to the crash, which killed 80 people.

1952 - Washington: The State Department accuses the USSR of arming the Viet Minh.

1962 - UK: The BBC show the first transmission of "That Was The Week That Was"

1963 - USA: The nation watches as President J.F. Kennedy's assassin Lee Harvey Oswald is shot and killed by nightclub owner Jack Ruby while in custody of the Dallas Police.

1964 - UK: The First commercial radio station in the UK Radio Manx, based on the Isle of Man, begins broadcasting.

1968 - Falklands: Lord Chalfont becomes the first member of a British Government to visit the islands.

1973 - USA: Ringo Starr goes to No.1 on the US singles charts with "Photograph."

1974 - USSR: President Gerald Ford and Leonid Brezhnev agree to limits on the numbers of strategic nuclear weapons, at a summit meeting in Vladivostok.

1976 - Turkey: Around 6,000 people are reported killed after an earthquake near the Soviet Border.

1981 - North Sea: Two oil-rigs break from their moorings and begin to drift in hurricane-force winds.

1983 - New Delhi: Mother Teresa of Calcutta, is presented with the insignia of the Order of Merit by HM The Queen in a ceremony held in the grounds of the Presidential Palace.

1985 - Malta: 59 people are killed when Egyptian commandos storm an Egyptian airliner kidnapped by Palestinian gunmen.

1986 - London: Barclays Bank announces it is "disinvesting" from South Africa, where it is the biggest bank.

1987 - London: The government announces that free eye tests are to be abolished.

1991 - UK: Queen Frontman Freddie Mercury dies of complications from AIDS at his home in London's Holland Park, aged 45, just one day after he publicly admitted he was HIV positive.

1995 - Rome: Former Italian premier Silvio Berlusconi, and four others are to stand trial for alleged embezzlement and false accounting over the purchase of a film company.

1998 - Gaza Strip: Palestine's first airport is opened in the Gaza Strip by Palestinian leader Yasir Arafat in preparation for a Palestinian state.

2003 - USA: Country singer Glen Campbell is arrested on charges of "extreme" drunk driving, hit and run, and assaulting a police officer in Phoenix, Arizona. His blood alcohol level was .20.

2006 - Northern Ireland: Convicted killer and loyalist Michael Stone, carrying a gun, knife, and several explosive devices, is seized by security guards and police at Northern Ireland's Parliament building Stormont.

2007 - California: Wildfires in Malibu cause 100 homes in three separate communities to be evacuated.

2010 - UK: University students throughout England and Wales stage day of demonstrations against increases in tuition fees, and cuts in higher education funding.

November 25th

1758 - USA: British Forces drive the French from Fort Duquesne, which the British then renamed Pittsburgh.

1864 - USA: A Confederate attempt to burn New York City ends in failure. Twelve fires were set by arsonists in hotels, theatres, and docks, but all were put out quickly with no casualties. Among the targets were Barnum's Museum, the Astor House, and the Hudson River dock.

1906 - Russia: A new law grants concessions to peasants, and abolishes compulsory village communes.

1913 - Natal: Two Indians are killed and 20 others are injured when police open fire on a crowd demonstrating in protest at the jailing of Mohandas Gandhi, the leader of the passive resistance movement in South Africa.

1915 - USA: Colonel William Simmons revives the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta.

1918 - London: Parliament is dissolved prior to the General Election, after lifting many war restrictions.

1922 - Rome: The Italian Chamber of Deputies grants Benito Mussolini absolute power for one year.

1927 - Algeria: 300 people are feared dead after severe floods.

1930 - Japan: Around 300 people are feared dead after an earthquake destroys the town of Mishioma.

1932 - UK: The actor's union Equity, votes to operate a "closed shop" from the beginning of 1933.

1940 - Haifa, Palestine: Jewish refugees from Germany, Czechoslovakia, and Austria blow up their ship, thePatria to try to avoid being deported to Mauritius by the British authorities.

1942 - Greece: Resistance fighters and British SOE agents blow up the Gorgopotamus viaduct, on the Athens-Salonika railway.

1943 - Formosa: US aircraft destroy 42 Japanese planes in a raid on Shinchiku airfield.

1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau: Demolition of the gas chambers and crematoria begins.

1952 - Kenya: Around 2,000 Kikuyu people are rounded up as the Mau Mau begins open rebellion against British rule.

1955 - USA: Racial segregation in interstate trains and buses is banned by the Interstate Commerce Commission.

1961 - USA: The Everly Brothers begin active service with the 8th Battalion, Marine Corps Reserves.

1963 - USA: John F. Kennedy is buried at Arlington National Cemetery following a mass at St Matthew's Roman Catholic Cathedral.

1965 - London: Harrods closes its store to the public to allow the Beatles to do their Christmas shopping.

1966 - UK: Warren Mitchell star of "Till Death Us Do Part" is named best TV actor of 1966.

1969 - UK: John Lennon returns his MBE to The Queen over Britain's involvement in the Nigeria-Biafra War, America in Vietnam, and against his latest single "Cold Turkey" sliding down the charts.

1973 - Northern Ireland: The 200th British soldier is killed in the province.

1977 - Manila: Jailed Marcos opponent Benigno Aquino is sentenced to death for subversion and murder.

1985 - London: Habitat and British Home Stores announce they are to merge in a deal worth £1.5 billion.

1987 - Zimbabwe: 16 missionaries are massacred by guerrillas near Bulawayo.

1991 - UK: Wilson Silcott, serving life for a policeman's murder in the 1985 Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham is cleared by the Appeal Court.

1992 - London: Agatha Christie's mystery "The Mousetrap" celebrates its 40th anniversary in the West End.

1998 - London: British Law Lords rule that General Augusto Pinochet is not immune to prosecution for genocide.

2003 - London: Meatloaf undergoes heart surgery in a London hospital after being diagnosed with a condition that causes a irregular heartbeat. The Singer had collapsed on Nov 17th as he performed at the Wembley Arena.

2007 - USA: Syria accepts a US invitation to participate in the 2007 Mideast Peace Conference.

2010 - USA: The US government sets aside an area in Alaska, which is twice the size of the UK as a "critical habitat" for Polar Bears.

2012 - Manchester: Boxer Ricky Hatton loses to Ukrainian Vyacheslav Senchenko is his comeback fight at the Manchester Arena.
He announces his retirement at the press conference after the fight.

(25-11-2013 14:22 )4evadionne Wrote:  November 25th
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1915 - USA: Colonel William Simmons revives the Ku Klux Klan in Atlanta.
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Interesting article http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Joseph_Simmons

November 26th

1832 - USA: The first streetcar in the world was put into operation by the New York & Harlem Railroad in New York City. Built by John Stephenson, it was named John Mason and was a horse-drawn car that ran on Lower Fourth Avenue.

1855 - USA: The Wakarusa War threatened Lawrence, Kansas, when around 1,500 Border Ruffians, camped on the Wakarusa River advanced on the town. They withdrew when they discovered the town was heavily defended by Free State forces.

1901 - Africa: Britain signs an agreement with Italy fixing the frontier between Eritrea and the Sudan.

1914 - UK: Around 700 people are killed when "HMS Bulwark" blows up in the harbour at Sheerness, Kent.

1917 - Petrograd: Vladimir Lenin offers an armistice to Germany and Austria.

1921 - USA: President Warren G. Harding calls for more international conferences to settle world problems.

1925 - Berlin: The Reichstag approves the Lorcarno agreement.

1929 - Brussels: The government of Henri Jaspar resigns over a proposal to make Ghent University entirely Flemish.

1933 - Paris: Camille Chautemps forms a government, following the resignation of Albert Sarraut.

1934 - Bonn: Theologian Dr Karl Barth is dismissed for refusing to swear loyalty to Adolf Hitler.

1935 - London: Clement Attlee is re-elected Labour leader.

1939 - North Sea: Ten people are killed when the Polish liner Pilsudski, on charter to the Royal Navy is torpedoed and sunk.

1940 - Mediterranean: Planes from the aircraft carrier HMS Illustrious attack Italian targets on Rhodes.

1941 - Kurile Islands: The Japanese Pearl Harbour Task Force sets sail from Tankan Bay.

1943 - Mediterranean: An Hs293 glider bomb hits the British troopship Rhona off Bougie, in Algeria killing 1,115 people.

1944 - Auschwitz-Birkenau: The last remaining 204 Sonderkommandos who privileged prisoners with the task of burying or cremating their gassed comrades, are murdered.

1947 - London: The government outlines its plans for nationalisation of the railways.

1953 - London: Peers approve the government's plans for commercial television.

1955 - Cyprus: British troops and terrorists fight running battles in the so-called "Murder Mile" of Famagusta.

1959 - Havana: Major Ernesto "Che" Guevara becomes head of the Cuban national bank.

1963 - New York: Share values rise by $15 billion, in Wall Streets biggest one-day rally.

1967 - USA: The Beatles promotional film of "Hello Goodbye" is aired on the Ed Sullivan Show. It was never shown at the time in the UK due to a Musician's Union ban on miming.

1969 - UK: Pink Floyd and Mouseproof play at the Civic Hall in Dunstable. Tickets cost 14 shillings.

1972 - UK: The Race Relations Act comes into force: Employers can no longer discriminate on grounds of colour.

1976 - Bucharest: The Warsaw Pact invites the West to join in an agreement barring first use of nuclear weapons.

1978 - Belfast: The deputy governor of the Maze Prison is shot dead by terrorists.

1981 - UK: Shirley Williams wins the Crosby by-election for the SDP, overturning a 19,272 Conservative majority.

1982 - New York: Jazz Trumpeter Miles Davis marries actress Cicely Tyson.

1985 - USA: The rights to Ronald Reagan's autobiography are acquired by Random House for $3,000,000. The bid was believed to be the highest ever for a single book.

1994 - USA: The Eagles begin a two-week run at No.1 on the US Album chart with "Hell Freezes Over."

1996 - London: Chancellor Kenneth Clarke, promises he will seek "copper-bottomed" guarantees that Britain would not be subject to EU sanctions if it stayed outside a single currency.

1999 - UK: Cliff Richard begins a three week run at No.1 on the UK singles chart with "Millennium Prayer" despite the single being boycotted by most radio stations.

2006 - Afghanistan: One NATO soldier, and 57 insurgents are killed in fighting in Southern Afghanistan.

2008 - UK: Woolworths Group PLC agrees to put its chain of 815 stores in the UK and its DVD distribution businesses into administration, with 30,000 jobs at risk.

2011 - USA: NASA launches the robotic Mars Science Laboratory, the largest rover yet sent to Mars, with its aim to find evidence for past or present life on Mars.

26 November 2013

I can confirm that the Xmas 2013 season has started today.
They were playing "Frosty the Snowman" in Tesco this afternoon.
Its the first time that I have heard it this year.
The trouble is, once I have heard it, it stays in my head for the rest of the day.

November 27th

1834 - USA: Cherokee Indians in favour of the nation's removal to lands west of the Mississippi River officially formed the Treaty Party.

1909 - London: Thomas Lewis of the University College Hospital gives a description on auricular fibrillation of the heart.

1912 - North Africa: France and Spain sign a treaty outlining their respective spheres of influence in Morocco.

1914 - Eastern Front: Russian forces rout the Germans on the Polish front between the Vistula and Warta Rivers.

1915 - Canada: Private Albert Mountain Horse is buried in Fort Macleod, Alberta. He was the only Blood Indian to go to the front lines in World War 1. He died due to exposure to poison gas on the battlefield.

1928 - Nicaragua: President Herbert Hoover arrives for talks with President Moncada regarding the Sandanist rebel threat.

1936 - London: Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden warns Germany that Britain will fight to protect Belgium.

1937 - UK: 10 times flat racing champion and 14 times Classic winning jockey Steve Donaghue rides his last race.

1939 - Germany: "Aryans" are given twelve months to divorce their Jewish spouses.

1940 Mediterranean: Italian ships attack a British fleet protecting a Gibraltar-Alexandria convoy in the Battle of Cape Sportivo off Sardinia; they retreat after damaging the cruiser HMS Berwick.

1941 - Mediterranean: A U-boat sinks the Australian sloop Paramatta off Tobruk, killing 138 on board.

1943 - Berlin: RAF Lancaster bombers supported by Mosquitoes make their fourth raid within a week on the German city.

1944 - Palau Islands: Fighting comes to end on Peleliu, with 13,600 Japanese soldiers killed and 400 captured against 1,792 US casualties and 8,000 wounded.

1950 - Korea: A massive force of Chinese troops eject UN troops from the Manchurian Border.

1951 - Prague: Czech vice-premier Rudolf Slansky is arrested on a charge of espionage.

1965 - USA: Herb Alpert's Tijuana Brass hit No.1 on the US album charts with "Whipped Cream & Other Delights."

1966 - USA: The New Vaudeville Band top the US singles charts with "Winchester Cathedral", which reached No.4 in the UK.

1970 - USA: Testimony that an anti-war group called the "East Coast Conspiracy to Save Lives" was planning to kidnap a high government official and blow up the underground central heating system for federal buildings in Washington D.C, was given to a Senate sub-committee by FBI director J. Edgar Hoover. Hoover named Philip and Daniel Berrigan, both priests, as leaders of the plot. The Government official was later identified as presidential adviser Henry Kissinger.

1973 - USA: The Carpenters Top the US singles chart with "Top of the World"

1976 - UK: The four millionth Mini rolls off the assembly line.

1982 - UK: Abba score their eighth UK No.1 album with "The Singles-The First Ten Years."

1983 - Manila: Thousands of anti-Marcos protestors take to the streets on the birthday of the late Benigno Aquino.

1986 - USA: Jon Bon Jovi is No.1 on the US singles chart with "You Give Love A Bad Name."

1992 - Venezuela: President Carlos Perez survives a new military coup attempt.

1995 - Moscow: President Boris Yeltsin leaves hospital after treatment for his heart condition, and is sent away on rest-cure.

1996 - UK: Former Stone Roses guitarist John Squires new band The Seahorses make their live debut at the Buckley Tivoli in front of 200 fans.

2001 -USA: Elvis Presley is inducted into the Gospel Association Hall Of Fame.

2007 - Paris: Around 80 French police officers are injured during a second night of riots by youths in the Paris suburbs.

2009 - China: China's National Space Administration sets a launch date of October 2010 for its second Lunar Orbiter Chang 'e 2

2011 - UK: Wales manager Gary Speed is found dead at his home in Cheshire, having apparently committed suicide.

November 28th

1895 - USA: The first gasoline-powered automobile race in the US, the Chicago to Evanston Thanksgiving Day Race, is won by the brothers Charles E. and J. Frank Duryea.

1904 - South West Africa: German Colonial troops defeat the Hottentots at Warmbad.

1906 - USA: "Philadelphia Jack" O'Brien, a light heavyweight, fights heavyweight champion Tommy Burns to a 20 round draw in Los Angeles, California.

1916 France: Totals for the Somme dead to date stand at 650,000 Allies and 500,000 Germans.

1922 - Athens: Five ex-cabinet ministers and one army officer are executed for high treason, for losing the Turkish war.

1923 - New York: "Laugh, Clown, Laugh!" adapted from the Italian playwright Fausto Martini's drama Ridi Pagliaccio by David Belasco and Tom Cushing, opens at the Belasco Theatre. It starred Lionel Barrymore as the tragic figure Tito Beppi, the clown destroyed by love.

1926 - Washington: The Hoover Report reveals that the US is enjoying its highest ever standard of lving.

1932 - Tehran: The Persian government ends the 1901 oil concession operated by the Anglo-Persian Oil Company.

1935 - Berlin: Hitler declares all men from 18 to 45 army reservists.

1939 - Friesian Islands: RAF fighters attack Luftwaffe mine-laying seaplanes at Borkum.

1940 - Berlin: Der ewige Jude [The Eternal Jew] a film purporting to prove the Jew's evil influence opens across the city.

1941 - Libya: General von Ravenstein, commander of the 21 Panzer division, becomes the first German General to fall into allied hands.

1942 - Rastenburg: Adolf Hitler refuses to heed Irwin Rommel's plea to evacuate German forces from North Africa.

1943 - Italy: Bernard Montgomery declares that "the road to Rome is open" as the Eighth Army launches a heavy attack across the River Sangro.

1947 - London: The Food Ministry promises more meat, sugar, and sweets, for the Christmas Holidays.

1951 - Egypt: The British agree to withdraw from three towns, if the Egyptians promise to quell terrorism.

1958 - Africa: Chad, Congo, Gabon, Mali, Mauritania, and Senegal all become republics in the French Union.

1960 - Lagos: Hundreds of students lobby Nigeria's parliament in protest at a planned defence pact with Britain.

1964 - USA: Mariner 4 is launched from Cape Kennedy to transmit close-up TV pictures of Mars on its projected flyby within 8,600 miles of the planet in July 1965.

1967 - UK: All horse racing is suspended due to a foot and mouth epidemic.

1970 - UK: Dave Edmunds is at No.1 on the UK singles charts with his version of Smiley Lewis's 1955 hit "I Hear You Knockin". It was also the first release on the new Mam record label.

1974 - USA: John Lennon makes his last-ever concert appearance when he joins Elton John on stage at Madison Square Garden in New York, performing, "Whatever Gets You Through The Night", "I Saw Her Standing There, and Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds."

1976 - UK: The Tom Robinson Band make their live debut at the Hope and Anchor in London.

1983 - London: The Government announces it will end the opticians monopoly on the sale of glasses.

1987 - UK: Rick Astley goes to No.1 on the UK album chart with his debut LP "When You Need Somebody."

1990 - UK: Britain re-opens diplomatic links with Syria.

1995 - Paris: Most of France grinds to a halt as striking railway workers are joined by public service employees.

2000 - London: Madonna plays her first British show for more than seven years at the Brixton Academy. Tickets change hands for more than a £1,000.

2006 - Chad: Chadian rebels state they have shot down a government military plane with a ground to-air-missile in fighting near the town of Abeche.

2007 - UK: Portsmouth manager Harry Redknapp is one of five men arrested as part of an on-going investigation of alleged corruption in British Football.

2008 - USA: As the Christmas shopping season begins, two people are shot dead at a Toys R Us store in Palm Desert, California, while a Wal Mart employee is crushed in a stampede, after shoppers break down a front door in Valley Stream, New York.

2010 - USA: Actor and comedian Leslie Nielson, star of Police Squad and the Naked Gun movies, dies at his home in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, from Pneumonia aged 84

2012 - Syria: 54 people are killed and more than 120 are injured by two car bomb explosions in the south east district of Damascus.

28 November 1983

"Now that's what I call music" was first released on a double vinyl LP 30 years ago today.
I heard them talking about it on Radio 5 this morning.
More here http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/music...thday.html