On This Day - 27th November

1909 - James Agee born
1940 - Bruce Lee born
1941 - Eddie Rabbit born
1942 - Jimi Hendrix born
1956 - Rick Rockwell born
1957 - Caroline Kennedy born
1961 - The Royal Air Force has begins airlifting to drop food supplies to flood victims in Somalia.
1964 - Robin Givens born
1967 - French President, Charles de Gaulle says he will veto Britain's application to join the Common Market for a second time.
1970 - Brooke Langton born
1975 - Guinness Book of Records co-founder and editor Ross McWhirter has been shot dead outside his North London home.
1976 - Jaleel White born
1990 - John Major becomes leader of Tory party and Prime Minister
2000 - A schoolboy Damilola Taylor dies after being stabbed in the leg by a gang of hooded attackers in Peckham, south London.

On This Day - 26th November

1912 - Eric Sevareid born
1912 - Eugene Ionesco born
1922 - Charles Schulz born
1933 - Robert Goulet born
1938 - Rich Little born
1939 - Tina Turner born
1953 - Peers back the Conservative Government's proposals for the introduction of commercial television - despite fierce opposition from some rebels.
1968 - The new Race Relations Act comes into force, making it illegal to refuse housing, employment or public services to people because of their ethnic background.
1972 - Eight armed men protesting against the imprisonment of IRA member Sean MacStiofain try to rescue him from a Dublin hospital.
1983 - An armed gang carries out Britain's largest ever robbery at London's Heathrow Airport. Over £25m worth of gold bullion bound for the Far East was stolen from the Brinks Mat warehouse.
1992 - It is announced that a British monarch is to pay income tax for the first time since the 1930s.

On This Day -25th November

1846 - Carry Nation born
1870 - Solanus Casey born
1914 - Joe DiMaggio born
1920 - Ricardo Montalban born
1923 - The first transatlantic wireless broadcast is mde
1924 - Paul Desmond born
1947 - John Larroquette born
1960 - John F. Kennedy Jnr and Amy Grant born
1963 - The funeral of the assassinated President, John F Kennedy, takes place in Washington DC.
1971 - Christina Applegate born
1973 - The Greek Government is toppled by the country's armed forces after weeks of unrest.
1976 - Donovan McNabb born
1981 - Barbara and Jenna Bush born
1991 - The man who was jailed for life in 1987 for killing a police officer is cleared of the crime. Winston Silcott was convicted in 1985 of the murder of PC Keith Blakelock during the Broadwater Farm riots in Tottenham, north London.
1998 - The government of Turkey collapses after losing a no-confidence motion over corruption allegations.

On This Day - 24th November

1784 - The 12th President of the U.S. and opponent of slavery Zachary Taylor is born.
1853 - Bat Masterson born
1868 - Scott Joplin born
1888 - Dale Carnegie born
1925 - William F. Buckley born
1945 - Quisling is executed
1963 - Lee Harvey Oswald, the man accused of assassinating John F Kennedy, is himself shot dead in a Dallas police station.
1974 - Police charge six men in connection with the Birmingham pub bombings three days ago. Hugh Callaghan, Patrick Hill, Robert Hunter, Noel McIlkenny, William Power and John Walker were accused of the murder of the youngest victim of the attacks.
1978 - Katherine Heigl born
1985 - The hijacking of an EgyptAir passenger jet to Malta ends in violence and further bloodshed after the plane was stormed by Egyptian commandoes. Two crew members and 59 of the 90 passengers were killed.
1989 - The entire leadership of the Communist Party in Czechoslovakia resigns to make way for democratic changes.
1991 - Freddie Mercury dies aged 45, just one day after he publicly announced he was HIV positive.
1998 - The government unveils its plans to abolish the rights of 700 hereditary peers to sit and vote in the House of Lords.
2005 - Round-the-clock drinking in England and Wales is now a reality after new licensing laws came in force at midnight.

On This Day - 23rd November

1804 - Franklin Pierce born
1859 - Billy the Kid born
1887 - Boris Karloff born
1888 - Harpo Marx born
1910 - Dr Crippen is hanged
1925 - Johnny Mandel born
1954 - Bruce Hornsby born
1960 - Phil Wrend born
1963 - Fifty-five year old Lyndon Baines Johnson begins his new job as US president.
He was sworn in yesterday just two hours after an assassin shot President John F Kennedy in the head.
1967 - Salli Richardson born
1978 - Birmingham nightclub 'Pollyanna's' is ordered to open its doors to black and Chinese people after a year long investigation into racism.
1984 - Almost 1,000 passengers are trapped in smoke-filled tunnels for three hours after a fire at London's busiest underground station, Oxford Circus.
1996 - A hijacked passenger jet crashes into the Indian Ocean after running out of fuel. Out of the 175 passengers and crew on board at least 100 people were killed when Flight ET961 broke up during an emergency landing 1,640 feet (500 metres) from a holiday beach on the Comoro Islands.
2002 - The Miss World contest is moved to London from Nigeria after riots by Muslim youths opposed to the show left more than 100 people dead and 500 injured in the city of Kaduna.

On This Day - 22nd November

1890 - Charles de Gaulle born
1899 - Hoagy Carmichael born
1900 - Arthur Sullivan of Gilbert and Sullivan fame dies
1913 - Benjamin Britten born
1921 - Rodney Dangerfield born
1932 - Robert Vaughn born
1943 - Billie Jean King born
1958 - Jamie Lee Curtis born
1961 - Mariel Hemingway born
1963 - 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.
1971 - Five teenagers and their female instructor die in one of Scotland's worst mountaineering accidents.
1979 - Scott Robinson born
1984 - Scarlett Johansson born
1990 - It is announced that Margaret Thatcher is to stand down as prime minister after her Cabinet refused to back her in a second round of leadership elections.
1995 - Rosemary West is sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of 10 young women and girls.
1997 - Michael Hutchence, the Australian rock star and front man of INXS, the country's most successful band, is found dead in an hotel room in Sydney aged 37.
2003 - England win the Rugby World Cup, beating Australia 20-17 in the final.
2005 - Angela Merkel, leader of the Christian Democrats (CDU), is sworn in as Germany's first woman chancellor at a ceremony in the country's parliament.

On This Day - 21st November

1694 - French writer and philospher Voltaire born.
1785 - William Beaumont born
1898 - Rene Magritte born
1920 - Stan Musial born
1922 - Ramsey MacDonald becomes leader of the Labour Party
1927 - Joseph Campanella born
1938 - Marlo Thomas born
1941 - Juliet Mills born
1944 - Harold Ramis born
1945 - Goldie Hawn born
1965 - Björk born
1966 - Troy Aikman born
1967 - The number of animals slaughtered in the latest epidemic of foot-and-mouth disease reaches a record high of 134,000.
1969 - Ken Griffey born
1974 - Bombs devastate two central Birmingham pubs, killing 19 people and injuring over 180.
1985 - The Geneva summit ends in optimism but with no agreement on the "Star Wars" space defence system.
1979 - A mob in the Pakistani capital, Islamabad, burns the US Embassy to the ground, killing a US marine.
1995 - A peace settlement for war-torn Bosnia-Herzegovina is brokered in the United States.