On This Day - 20th November

1908 - Alistair Cooke born
1925 - Robert F. Kennedy born
1926 - Kaye Ballard born
1927 - Estelle Parsons born
1932 - Richard Dawson born
1939 - Dick Smothers born
1943 - Veronica Hamel born
1945 - Twenty of Germany's Nazi leaders go on trial in the German city of Nuremberg charged with war crimes.
1946 - Duane Allman born
1951 - More than 1,000 families of British servicemen begin moving out of the Suez Canal Zone town of Ismailia.
1956 - Bo Derek born
1965 - Mike Diamond born
1975 - General Francisco Franco, who ruled Spain with an authoritarian hand for 39 years, dies at the age of 82.
1978 - MP Jeremy Thorpe is accused in court of plotting to kill his former homosexual lover and dispose of the body.
1986 - Police have begin a search for more victims of the Moors murderers, after receiving new information from Myra Hindley.
1990 - The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, fails to win outright victory in her battle against former Defence Minister Michael Heseltine for the leadership of the Conservative Party.
1992 - A fierce fire rages through Windsor Castle in Berkshire, threatening one of the world's greatest collections of art.
1995 - Diana, Princess of Wales, speakes openly for the first time about her separation from the Prince of Wales in a frank interview for the BBC's Panorama programme.
2003 - 32 people are killed and more than 400 injured in twin bomb attacks in the Turkish city of Istanbul.

On This Day - 19th November

1828 - Composer Franz Schubert dies
1905 - Tommy Dorsey born
1917 - Indira Gandhi born
1933 - Larry King born
1936 - Dick Cavett born
1938 - Ted Turner born
1942 - Calvin Klein born
1961 - Meg Ryan born
1962 - Jodie Foster born
1967 - The Prime Minister, Harold Wilson, defends his decision to devalue the pound saying it will tackle the "root cause" of Britain's economic problems.
1969 - A second crew of astronauts lands on the Moon with the Apollo 12 mission to the Ocean of Storms.
1977 - The president of Egypt, Anwar Sadat, begins his trip to Israel, the first Arab leader ever to visit the Jewish state and Kerri Strug born.
1985 - The first meeting in six years between the world's superpowers (the United States and the Soviet Union), begins in Switzerland.
1992 - Doctors treating Hillsborough victim Tony Bland are told by High Court in London, they can disconnect feeding tubes keeping him alive.
1994 - An estimated jackpot of £7m is up for grabs in Britain's first ever National Lottery draw.

On This Day - 18th November

1836 - William Gilbert born
1899 - Eugene Ormandy born
1908 - Imogene Coca born
1923 - The first American in space Alan B Shepard born
1939 - Brenda Vaccaro born
1942 - Linda Evans born
1960 - Elizabeth Perkins born
1962 - Kirk Lee Hammett born
1967 - A ban on the movement of farm animals is imposed across the whole of England and Wales in an attempt to curb the spread of the foot-and-mouth epidemic.
1968 - Owen Wilson born
1978 - The bodies of 914 people, including 276 children, are found in Guyana in South America, following the mass suicide of members of the People's Temple Christian Church.
1987 - 31 people die after a fire at King's Cross station in central London.
1989 - More than 50,000 people take to the streets of Sofia in Bulgaria demanding political reform.
1991 - Church envoy Terry Waite is freed by the Islamic extremists who kidnapped him in Beirut in 1987.
2000 - The film world celebrates the celebrity wedding of the year in New York, as Hollywood leading man Michael Douglas married Welsh actress Catherine Zeta Jones.
2003 - The United States President, George Bush, arrives in Britain for the first full state visit by an American president amid some of the tightest security London has ever seen.

On This Day - 17th November

1869 - The Suez Canal opens
1901 - Lee Strasberg born
1917 - Sculpter Auguste Rodin dies
1925 - Rock Hudson born
1938 - Gordon Lightfoot born
1942 - Martin Scorsese born
1943 - Lauren Hutton born
1944 - Lorne Michaels, Danny DeVito and Tom Sever born
1953 - Twenty Italian sailors die following a collision between two boats in the English Channel.
1960 - RuPaul born
1966 - Daisy Fuentes born
1977 - Laura Wilkinson born
1980 - Isaac Hanson born
1986 - The head of the Renault car company, Georges Besse, is assassinated in Paris.
1989 - Riot police in Prague, Czechoslovakia arrest hundreds of people taking part in a protest march.
1997 - 68 people are killed after an attack on a group of foreign tourists visiting a temple in Luxor, southern Egypt.
2003 - An ex-soldier who served in the Gulf War is found guilty of at least one of the Washington sniper killings in October last year.

On This Day - 16th November

1908 - Burgess Meredith born
1916 - Daws Butler born
1922 - Andrew Bonar Law becomes Prime Minister and Shigeru Miyamoto born
1960 - British TV personality Gilbert Harding, who achieved fame through his outspoken and often rude behaviour, dies of a heart attack.
1964 - Dwight Gooden born
1967 - Lisa Bonet born
1976 - Seven men who took part in an £8m 'Bank of America' robbery receive jail terms totalling nearly 100 years.
1977 - Oksana Baiul born
1979 - The Prime Minister, Margaret Thatcher, names Sir Anthony Blunt, a former security service officer and personal adviser on art to the Queen as the "fourth man" in the Cambridge spy ring and Trevor Penick born
1983 - 50 English football supporters are arrested in Luxembourg after a night of violence.
1995 - The Queen Mother has her right hip replaced in an operation in London.
2010 - The engagement of Prince William and Catherine Middleton is announced by Clarence House.

On This Day - 15th November

1887 - Georgia O'Keeffe born
1919 - Judge Joseph Wapner born
1928 - Bill "C.W. McCall" Fries born
1929 - Ed Asner born
1932 - Petula Clark born
1940 - The German Luftwaffe bombs Coventry in a massive raid which lasted more than 10 hours and left much of the city devastated. Also Sam Waterston born
1945 - Frida Lyngstad born
1951 - Anti-government rebels ambush and kill 11 people in an attack on a rubber plantation in Malaya.
1977 - Princess Anne gives birth to a boy (Peter Mark Andrew Phillips), the first royal baby to be born a commoner for more than 500 years.
1983 - John Le Mesurier and Yom Horn Die
1985 - Britain and the Republic of Ireland sign a deal giving Dublin a role in Northern Ireland for the first time in more than 60 years - unionists accuse Mrs Thatcher or treachery.
1998 - Britain and America have pulled back from the brink of war with Iraq after an offer to let UN weapons inspectors back into the country.

On This Day - 14th November

1765 - Robert Fulton born
1840 - Claude Monet born
1889 - Jawaharlal Nehru born
1900 - Aaron Copland born
1904 - Dick Powell born
1909 - Senator Joseph McCarthy born
1910 - Rosemary DeCamp born
1919 - Veronica Lake born
1921 - Brian Keith born
1929 - McLean Stevenson born
1935 - King Hussein of Jordan born
1948 - Prince Charles born
1954 - Condoleezza Rice and Yanni born
1973 - The wedding of the Queen's only daughter, Princess Anne to lieutenant Mark Phillips, takes place at Westminster Abbey. Also Six men and two women are convicted of exploding two IRA car bombs in London in March this year.
1975 - Travis Barker born
1977 - Firefighters claim widespread support for their first national strike, over a 30% pay demand.
1991 - Two Libyan intelligence officers are accused of masterminding the Lockerbie bombing.
2000 - Convoys of lorries and tractors converge on the capitals of England and Scotland to mark the 60-day deadline for government action to cut fuel tax.
2010 - Paul and Rachel Chandler are released in Somalia 13 months after being kindnapped by pirates. Sebastian Vettel became Formula One's youngest ever world champion after winning the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix aged 23 years and 106 days.