On This Day - 13th November

1850 - Robert Louis Stevenson born
1856 - Louis Brandeis born
1871 - Henry Stanley finds Dr Livingstone
1911 - Andrew Bonar Law becomes leader of the Tory Party
1915 - Nathaniel Benchley born
1920 - The first session of the League of Nations is convened
1922 - Oskar Werner born
1938 - Jean Seberg born
1945 - Charles de Gaulle elected president of France
1954 - Chris Noth born
1955 - Whoopi Goldberg born
1969 - Britain's first live quintuplets born this century are said to be making satisfactory progress at Queen Charlotte's maternity hospital in London.
1971 - The American space probe, Mariner 9, becomes the first spacecraft to orbit another planet, swinging into its planned trajectory around Mars without a hitch.
1979 - The Times newspaper is published for the first time in nearly a year.
1981 - Rachel Bilson born
1985 - Nevado del Ruiz erupts in Colombia killing 23,000 people
1995 - An 18-year-old student is placed on a life-support machine after taking an ecstasy tablet at her 18th birthday party.
2010 - Burma's pro-democracy leader Aung San Suu Kyi is freed by the country's military rulers after being under house arrest for seven years.

On This Day - 12th November

1840 - Auguste Rodin born
1918 - Jo Stafford born
1923 - The Munich Beerhall Putsch led by Adolf Hitler
1929 - Grace Kelly born
1943 - Wallace Shawn born
1944 - Al Michaels born
1945 - Marshal Tito wins Yugoslavian election
1945 - Neil Young born
1954 - New York's main immigration control centre, Ellis Island, is shut down after 62 years.
1961 - Nadia Comaneci born
1966 - David Schwimmer born
1967 - Michael Moorer born
1968 - Sammy Sosa born
1970 - Tonya Harding born
1980 - The Voyager 1 space probe has reached the ringed planet, Saturn and sent back the first vivid photographs of the planet and Ryan Gosling born
1982 - The Polish Government has freed the leader of the outlawed Solidarity movement, Lech Walesa, after 11 months of internment.
1984 - It is announced that the English pound note is to disappear after more than 150 years.
1997 - The so-called 'Great Train Robber', Ronnie Biggs, celebrates after Brazil's Supreme Court rejected a British request to extradite him.
2001 - The Greek authorities carry out further inquiries in the case of 12 British plane-spotters being held on spying charges.

On This Day - 11th November

1880 - Australian bushwacker Ned Kelly is hanged
1885 - General George Patton born
1889 - Washington, Montana and the Dakotas achieve statehood
1899 - Pat O'Brien born
1904 - Alger Hiss born
1919 - The Armistice begins
1922 - Kurt Vonnegut born
1925 - Jonathan Winters born
1935 - Bibi Andersson born
1942 - Germans invade Vichy France
1951 - Marc Summers born
1954 - Thousands of elderly people take part in a rally in London calling for an increase in their pensions.
1962 - Demi Moore born
1964 - Calista Flockhart born
1965 - The Rhodesian Government, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith, illegally severs its links with the British Crown.
1970 - Peta Wilson born
1974 - Leonardo DiCaprio born
1975 - The southern African state of Angola gains its independence from former colonial power Portugal.
1987 - A painting by Vincent Van Gogh is sold for $49m (£27m) - a world record for a work of art.
1991 - Church of England allows female priests to be ordained
1992 - The Church of England votes for women priests
2000 - 155 people die in an intense fire on board a funicular railway in the Austrian Alps, only 12 people survived.
2004 - Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat dies in hospital in Paris, France, aged 75.

On This Day - 10th November

1483 - Revolutionary theologian Martin Luther born
1889 - Claude Rains born
1925 - Richard Burton born
1935 - Roy Scheider born
1944 - Tim Rice born
1949 - Donna Fargo born
1956 - Sinbad born
1959 - MacKenzie Phillips born
1960 - Bookshops all over England have sold out of Penguin's first run of the controversial novel Lady Chatterley's Lover, on the first day of publication.
1980 - The Labour Party chooses the outspoken left-wing MP Michael Foot as its new leader.
1982 - Speculation grows that soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev has died.
1995 - The writer and human rights activist, Ken Saro-Wiwa, is executed in Nigeria despite worldwide pleas for clemency.
1997 - British au pair Louise Woodward is freed from jail in the United States after her conviction for murdering a baby was reduced to manslaughter.

On This Day - 9th November

1913 - Hedy Lamarr born
1918 - Spiro Agnew born
1934 - Carl Sagan born
1936 - Mary Travers born
1941 - Tom Fogerty born
1951 - Lou Ferrigno born
1960 - Senator John Fitzgerald Kennedy emerges as the new president of the United States beating Vice-President Richard Nixon by a slim margin.
1970 - One of the greatest figures in the history of France, General Charles de Gaulle, dies aged 79 at his home of a heart attack and Chris Jericho born
1973 - Nick Lachey born
1978 - Sisqo born
1979 - Four men are found guilty of killing paperboy Carl Bridgewater.
1985 - Prince Charles and Princess Diana end the first day of their much-vaunted trip to the USA at a gala dinner in the Washington, hosted by President Reagan and his wife Nancy.
1988 - Vice President George Bush has sweeps into the White House as the 41st president of the United States.
1989 - The Berlin Wall is breached after nearly three decades keeping East and West Berliners apart.
1993 - Lawyers acting for the Princess of Wales start legal action over secretly-taken pictures of her exercising which were published last week by a national newspaper.

On This Day - 8th November

1900 - Margaret Mitchell born
1920 - Esther Rolle born
1927 - Patti Page born
1931 - Morley Safer born
1932 - Franklin D Roosevelt wins first US Presidential term
1951 - Mary Hart born
1957 - An inquiry into last month's fire at Cumberland's Windscale nuclear power plant has blamed the accident on a combination of human error, poor management and faulty instruments.
1968 - Parker Posey born
1974 - Detectives are searching for British aristocrat Lord Lucan, following the murder last night of his children's nanny and an attack on his estranged wife.
Also businessman Ronald Milhench who forged Harold Wilson's signature to help pull off a deal has been jailed for three years.
1975 - Tara Reid born
1985 - Jack Osbourne born
Sharon and Ozzy's son, a chip off the old block judging by his habits
1987 - A bomb has exploded during a Remembrance Day service at Enniskillen in County Fermanagh, killing 11 people.
1990 - Ireland elects Mary Robinson as its first female president.
2000 - Bush and Gore fight to the finish. The result of the American presidential election is still hanging in the balance hours after the last polls officially closed.
2003 - The Countess of Wessex is rushed into hospital to give birth to a girl, a month early.

On This Day - 7th November

1867 - Madame Curie born
1879 - Leon Trotsky born
1903 - Dean Jagger born
1916 - The first female member of the US Congress elected
1918 - Billy Graham born
1922 - Al Hirt born
1926 - Joan Sutherland born
1943 - Joni Mitchell born
1944 - Franklin Roosevelt becomes the only US president to win a fourth term
1956 - General Dwight D Eisenhower has been returned to the White House with the biggest Republican win since Abraham Lincoln's in 1860.
1959 - Keith Lockhart born
1964 - Dana Plato born
1972 - President Richard Nixon has won an overwhelming victory in the US presidential elections for a second term in the White House. Jason and Jeremy London born
1975 - A Dutch industrialist kidnapped by the IRA more than a month ago is released.
1984 - Ronald Reagan has been elected for a second term as US President in the biggest landslide since George Washington ran unopposed in 1792.
1989 - East Germany's Communist-dominated government has resigned - the first time such an event has occurred in the country's 40-year history.
1998 - American senator John Glenn, the world's oldest astronaut, has landed back on Earth aged 77 after an historic nine-day mission.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton, wife of the president, has won a seat for the Democrats in the Senate to become the only First Lady to win elective office in US history.
2001 - Republican billionaire Michael Bloomberg has been elected mayor of New York in the most expensive mayoral contest in US history.
2011 - Dr Conrad Murray, Michael Jackson's personal physician is convicted of the involuntary manslaughter of the star by a jury in Los Angeles.
2011 - Former Olympic and World Boxing Champion 'Smokin' Joe Frazier dies of liver cancer aged 67.