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Robert Johnson's first recording session with producer Don Law took place in 1936 at the Gunter Hotel in San Antonio, Texas.
On November 23, 1936, in San Antonio, Texas, Robert Johnson had his first recording session. Don Law, the producer of Vocalion, oversaw the recording sessions, whi...
Miley Cyrus, an American actress and singer, was born in Franklin, Tennessee in 1992.
Miley Cyrus, full name Destiny Hope Cyrus, was born November 23, 1992, in Franklin, Tennessee, United States, and is an American singer and actress whose performan...
Sathya Sai Baba, an Indian yogi and philosopher, was born in 1926.
Sri Sathya Sai Baba was born on November 23, 1926, in the extreme south of India. Sri Sathya Sai was a great healer, clairvoyant, and miracle worker, as well as a ...
Roald Dahl, a British novelist and Spy, died in 1990 at the age of 74.
Roald Dahl was a British writer who died on November 23, 1990, in Oxford, England. He was a popular author of inventive, irreverent children's books. C.S. Fore...
In the year 1937, Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian scientist, mathematician, and writer, died at the age of 78.
Sir Jagadish Chandra Bose was a pioneering Indian scientist who demonstrated through experimentation that animals and plants have many similarities. He showed that...
In 2018, Justin Bieber, a Canadian artist, announced his marriage to American model Hailey Baldwin.
On November 23, 2018, Justin Bieber confirmed his marriage to model Hailey Baldwin, posting the ultimate status update on social media two months after it was repo...
Brandon Routh, the star from "Superman Returns," married actress Courtney Ford in 2007 at the gorgeous El Capitan Ranch in Santa Barbara, California.
Brandon proposed to his three-year girlfriend, actress Courtney Ford, on August 23, 2006. On November 24, 2007, the pair married in Santa Barbara's El Capitan ...
1991 Freddie Mercury, originally Farrokh Bulsara, is a British singer-songwriter and member of the band Queen who died of AIDS at the age of 45.
Freddie's battle with AIDS ended on November 24th, 1991, when he died little over 24 hours after publicly announcing his diagnosis. The passing of rock's m...
In 1963, Lee Harvey Oswald, the American murderer of JFK two days previously, was shot dead two days later by nightclub owner Jack Ruby live on television at 24.
Oswald was shot and murdered by Jack Ruby, the proprietor of a nightclub, on November 24, while being carried from the police station to the county prison through ...
Arundhati Roy, an Indian activist and writer, was born in Shillong, Meghalaya, in 1961.
Arundhati Roy was born to a Keralite Syrian Christian mother and a Bengali Hindu father in Shillong, Meghalaya. She grew up in the Kerala town of Aymanam. At the a...
Ted Bundy, an American serial killer during the 1970s, was born in Burlington, Vermont in 1946.
Ted Bundy was born on November 24, 1946, in Vermont, United States of America, as Theodore Robert Cowell. Elanor Louise Cowell was his mother's name, while his...
In 1926, Sri Aurobindo retires to a life of solitude, leaving Mirra Alfassa in charge of his disciples (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)
The transformation of human life into divine life in divine body was the major topic of his vision. He believed in a spiritual awakening that not only emancipated ...
Charles Darwin, an English naturalist, publishes "On the Origin of Species" in 1859, fundamentally transforming the understanding of evolution and establishing the groundwork for evolutionary biology.
On the Origin of Species (or, more precisely, On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection, or the Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life...
Lionel Messi becomes the all-time leading scorer in the UEFA Champions League in 2014.
Lionel Messi became the all-time leading scorer in the history of the UEFA Champions League on November 25, 2014, with 72 goals. On Matchday 4, the Barcelona star ...
Karl Benz, German inventor, engine designer, and Mercedes-Benz automotive maker, was born in Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, in 1844.
Karl Benz, a German inventor, is one of several people credited with inventing the first vehicle. He designed the motorised tricycle in 1885, which became the firs...
Gaston Chevrolet, a French-born American racing car racer and automobile pioneer, was born in 1920. Diego Maradona, an Argentine soccer striker, died of a heart attack at the age of 60.
Gaston Chevrolet, a race driver from Los Angeles, is died in a track collision. He is the first of three renowned brothers to die in a sad accident. Gaston was Lou...
Facebook co-founder Chris Hughes was born on Nov 26 in 1983
Chris Hughes, an American businessman and author, was born on November 26, 1983. He co-founded Facebook and served as its spokesperson from its inception until 2007. From 2012 until 2016, he served...
Arjun Rampal, an Indian actor, was born in Jabalpur, Madhya Pradesh, India in 1972.
Arjun Rampal, a former model turned actor and producer, rose to prominence after appearing in Rajiv Rai's romance drama Pyaar Ishq aur Mohabbat in 2001. Howeve...
Verghese Kurien, an Indian engineer, was born in Calicut, India, in 1921.
Dr. Verghese Kurien was born on November 26, 1921, in Calicut, Kerala, to an aristocratic Syrian Christian family. Years later, seeing these people's struggle ...
Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, in 2008: Ten coordinated strikes by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure over 250 people in Mumbai, India.
The Mumbai terrorist attacks of 2008 were a series of terrorist assaults that took place in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India, on November 26, 2008. The assaults were car...
Howard Carter, an English archaeologist, unlocks Tutankhamun's nearly undamaged tomb in Egypt in 1922.
The tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun, who died in 1323 BC at the age of roughly 18, was found late in 1922 by British archaeologist Howard Carter in Egypt's Valley ...
Eugene O'Neill, an American writer, died of cerebellar cortical atrophy at the age of 65 in 1953.
Eugene O'Neill was a major American theatrical dramatist. Four of his plays received the Pulitzer Prize. His major concern was the grief and pain that sensitiv...
Vishwanath Pratap Singh, the seventh Prime Minister of India, died in 2008 at the age of 77.
The 77-year-old statesman, who had been suffering blood cancer and renal failure for more than 17 years, died in the city's Apollo Hospital, where he was being...
Suresh Raina, an Indian cricketer (Gujarat Lions, Chennai Super Kings), was born in Muradnagar, India, in 1986.
Fans may remember Suresh Kumar Raina as the first Indian to score a century in all three versions of the game. Raina, who was born on November 27, 1986, is a left-...
James Marshall "Jimi" Hendrix, an American rock guitarist, was born in Seattle, Washington in 1942.
Jimi Hendrix, widely regarded as one of the most inventive and influential artists of the twentieth century, was a forerunner of the electric guitar's explosiv...
Bruce Lee, a Chinese-American martial artist and actor, was born in San Francisco, California, in 1940.
Bruce Jun Fan Lee was born in San Francisco, California in 1940, when his parents were on tour with the Chinese Opera. Bruce Lee, who was reared in Hong Kong, was ...
Bollywood actor Prateik Babbar was born Nov 28, 1986
Prateik Babbar is an Indian actor and martial artist who primarily works in Hindi-language movies. He was born&n...
The "Chicago Times-Herald" organised America's first auto race in 1895 From Chicago to Evanston and back; 6 vehicles, 55 miles, Frank Duryea wins averaging 7 MPH.
On Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 1895, he drove this car in America's inaugural automotive race. The Chicago Times-Herald sponsored the race, which covered a ...
William Shakespeare, a playwright and poet, marries Anne Hathaway in 1582.
In November 1582, William Shakespeare married Anne Hathaway, with whom he stayed married until Shakespeare's death in 1616. William was 18 when they married, a...
JRD Tata, an Indian businessman, died in 1993 at the age of 89.
Jehangir Ratanji Dadabhoy Tata (July 29, 1904 – November 29, 1993) was an Indian aviator, industrialist, entrepreneur, and Tata Group chairman. His mother wa...
Chadwick Boseman, an American actor (Black Panther), was born in Anderson, South Carolina in 1976.
Chadwick Aaron Boseman was born on November 29, 1976 he was an actor and playwright from the United States. He began working continuously as a writer, director, an...
Nolan Bushnell, co-founder of Atari, introduces Pong, the first commercially successful video game, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California in 1972.
On November 29, 1972, in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California, the modern video game business was established. The game was Pong, which had recently bee...
Winston Churchill, British Prime Minister during World War II and author, was born in 1874 at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England.
Winston Churchill, born on November 30, 1874, was a British leader who served as Prime Minister of the United Kingdom from 1940 to 1945, during World War II, and a...
Kaley Cuoco, an American actress (The Big Bang Theory), was born in Camarillo, California in 1985.
Kaley Christine Cuoco is an American actress and producer who was born on November 30, 1985. She earned her breakout role as Bridget Hennessy on the ABC comedy 8 S...
Mark Twain, alias Samuel Clemens, was born in Florida, Missouri in 1835.
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, better known as Mark Twain, was an American author, humorist, entrepreneur, publisher, and lecturer. On November 30th, 1835, he was born....
Jagadish Chandra Bose, an Indian physicist, polymath, and writer, was born in Munshiganj, British India, in 1858.
Jagdish Chandra Bose was a world-renowned Indian scientist. He was the first to demonstrate that plants and metals, like humans, had feelings. Jagdish Chandra Bose...
Jonathan Swift, an Irish author and satirist, was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1667.
Jonathan Swift, born on November 30, 1667, was an Anglo-Irish satirist, essayist, political pamphleteer (first for the Whigs, then for the Tories), poet, and Angli...
Paul Walker, an American actor, died in an automobile accident in 2013 at the age of 40.
Paul William Walker IV was an American actor who lived from September 12, 1973 to November 30, 2013. He is most recognised for his part in the Fast & Furious f...
George H. W. Bush, the 41st President of the United States and the 43rd Vice President of the United States, died in 2018 at the age of 94.
George H. W. Bush, the 41st president of the United States, died at his Houston home on November 30, 2018, after a struggle with vascular Parkinson's disease. ...
Rajiv Dixit, an Indian physicist and Swadeshi movement pioneer, died in 2010. (b. 1967)
Rajiv Dixit was an activist who lived from November 30, 1967, until November 30, 2010. He was the national secretary of the Bharat Swabhiman Trust and an outspoken...
In 2018, singer Nick Jonas (26) and actress Priyanka Chopra (36) married in Jodhpur's Umaid Bhavan Palace.
Priyanka Chopra, a Bollywood actress, and Nick Jonas, a singer, were married on December 1, 2018. Their three-day wedding included both Christian and Hindu wedding...
Jackie Chan marries actress Lin Feng-jiao in Los Angeles in 1982.
Jackie Chan is a Hong Kong actor, director, martial artist, and stuntman who is noted for his comedic acrobatic fighting style, comic timing, and inventive stunts,...
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, an Indian diplomat and politician, died in 1990 at the age of 90.
Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit was the first woman to be selected as the sixth Governor of Maharashtra and the eighth President of the United Nations General Assembly. Her ...
Pablo Escobar, Colombian drug lord, was born in Rionegro, Colombia, in 1949.
Pablo Emilio Escobar Gaviria (January 1, 1949 – December 2, 1993) was a Colombian drug lord and narcoterrorist who founded and led the Medelln Cartel. Escoba...
Benazir Bhutto became the first female Prime Minister of a Muslim country in 1988. (Pakistan)
Benazir Bhutto was a Pakistani politician who served as the country's 11th and 13th prime ministers, from 1988 to 1990 and 1993 to 1996, respectively. She was ...
Sherlock Holmes first appears in literature in Arthur Conan Doyle's "Study in Scarlet" in 1887.
Arthur Conan Doyle, a Scottish writer, developed the fictitious character Sherlock Holmes. Conan Doyle's A Study in Scarlet, published in Beeton's Christma...
Nagaland is admitted to the Indian Union as a state in 1963.
Nagaland, a picturesque north-eastern highland state, was established on December 1, 1963. Over the course of 150 years, a convoluted (and at times contentious) se...
United Arab Emirates, which was established as a federation on December 2, 1971
The United Arab Emirates, also known as the UAE or the Emirates, is a nation in the eastern section of the Arabian Peninsula that is situated on the Gulf of Oman and Persian Gulf coasts, respective...
King C. Gillette begins marketing safety razor blades in 1901.
King Camp Gillette was an American businessman who lived from January 5, 1855 to July 9, 1932. He created a popular version of the safety razor. Before Gille...
General Napoleon Bonaparte is crowned Emperor of France in 1804 at Notre Dame de Paris in a ceremony presided over by Pope Pius VII.
Napoleon I was the French Emperor from 1804 through 1814, and again in 1815. During the Napoleonic Wars, Napoleon controlled European and global events for more th...
Britney Spears, an American popstar, was born in McComb, Mississippi in 1981.
Britney Jean Spears is an American singer, songwriter, and dancer who was born on December 2, 1981. She is known as the "Princess of Music" because she i...
Lucy Liu, an American actress (Ally McBeal), was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York in 1968.
Lucy Liu is an American actress, producer, and artist who has worked in both television and cinema. She was born on December 2, 1968. She has two SAG Awards, a Cri...
Gianni Versace, Italian fashion designer (Versace), was born in Reggio Calabria, Italy in 1946.
Giovanni "Gianni" Versace was an Italian fashion designer and businessman who was born on December 2, 1946. Versace, a worldwide luxury fashion brand tha...
Indra Lal Roy, an Indian World War I flying ace, was born in Calcutta, British India, in 1898.
On 2 December 1898, Indra Lal Roy was born. He was born in Calcutta, where his father was a barrister and Director of Public Prosecutions, as the second son of Pie...
Pablo Escobar, a Colombian drug kingpin, was shot dead by Colombian police in 1993, at the age of 44.
The Medelln Cartel was founded and led by Pablo Emilio Escobar, a Colombian drug lord and narco-terrorist. Escobar, dubbed "The King of Cocaine," is the ...
Ip Man, a Chinese martial artist and master instructor of Wing Chun, died in 1972 at the age of 79.
Ip Man, also known as Yip Man died on 2nd December 1972. He was a Chinese martial artist who was a grandmaster of the Wing Chun martial art. He taught a numbe...
