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On Nov 27:
1703 - The first Eddystone Lighthouse is destroyed in the Great Storm of 1703. The Great Storm of 1703 is the most severe storm ever recorded in the British Isles. It affected southern England and the English Channel. A 120-mph (193-km/h) "perfect hurricane", it started on 24 November 1703, and did not die down until 2 December. Observers at the time recorded barometric readings as low as 973 millibars (measured by William Derham in South Essex, but it has been suggested that the storm may have deepened to 950 millibars over the Midlands. At sea, many ships (many returning from helping the King of Spain fight the French in the War of the Spanish Succession) were wrecked, including HMS Resolution at Pevensey and on the Goodwin Sands, HMS Stirling Castle, HMS Northumberland and HMS Restoration, with about 8,000 lives lost overall, particularly on the Goodwins. The first Eddystone Lighthouse was destroyed on 27 November, killing six occupants. The number of oak trees lost in the New Forest alone was 4,000. On the Thames, around 700 ships were heaped together in the Pool, the section downstream from London Bridge. HMS Vanguard was wrecked at Chatham. HMS Association was blown from the Thames Estuary to Gothenburg in Sweden before way could be made back to England. At Wells, Bishop Kidder was killed when two chimneystacks in the palace fell on the bishop and his wife, asleep in bed. This same storm blew in part of the great west window in Wells Cathedral. |
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1954 : Enrico Fermi, architect of the nuclear age, dies
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On Nov 28:
1942 - A fire destroyed the Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston, killing nearly 500 people. |
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1947 : U.N. votes for partition of Palestine
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On Nov 29:
1975 - The name "Micro-soft" (for "microcomputer software") is first used in a letter from Bill Gates to Paul Allen. |
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December 1, 1959
Twelve nations, including the United States and the Soviet Union, sign the Antarctica Treaty, which bans military activity and weapons testing on that continent. It was the first arms control agreement signed in the Cold War period. |
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1990: Tunnel links UK and Europe
Construction workers have drilled through the final wall of rock to join the two halves of the Channel Tunnel and link Britain to France. http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/onthisday/hi/da...ewsid_2516000/2516473.stm |
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On Dec 3:
1967 – Cardiac surgeon Christiaan Barnard performed the first successful human heart transplant on Louis Washkansky at Groote Schuur Hospital in Cape Town, South Africa. |
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