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Australian cricket coach and former player Justin Lee Langer AM was born on November 21, 1970.
Australian cricket coach and former player Justin Lee Langer AM was born on November 21, 1970. He served as the men's national team coach of Australia from May 2018 until February 2022, when he...
In 2016, India will commemorate the 50th anniversary of IR8, a specially engineered rice variety that spared much of Asia from starvation.
India marked the 50th anniversary of IR8 on November 21, 2016. IR8 is a high-yielding semi-dwarf rice variety developed in the early 1960s by the International Ric...
The Chinese People's Liberation Army proclaims a unilateral cease-fire in the Sino-Indian War in 1962 in order to claim unlawfully captured territory.
Zhou Enlai suggested a cease-fire and negotiated a compromise. Enlai proposed that India and China disengage and withdraw their soldiers 20 kilometres beyond the c...
Aarti Chhabria, an Indian Bollywood actress and Miss India Worldwide 2000, was born in Mumbai, Maharashtra, in 1982.
Aarti Chhabria is an Indian actress and model who was born on November 21, 1982 in Mumbai, Maharashtra (India). She was crowned Miss India Worldwide 2000 in 1999. ...
Sofia Vergara married True Blood actor Joe Manganiello in Palm Beach, Florida in 2015.
The love story of Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello is straight out of a Hollywood film. On November 22, 2015, the stunning couple married for the first time....
Jennifer Love Hewitt married actor Brian Hallisay in 2013.
Jennifer Love Hewitt married Brian Hallisay on November 21, 2013. Jennifer Love Hewitt and her actor-husband Brian Hallisay are expecting their third child. The 9-...
Demi Moore marries actor Bruce Willis at The Little White Chapel in Las Vegas in 1987.
Demi Moore and Bruce Willis married on November 21, 1987, in the Golden Nugget casino in Las Vegas, barely four months after meeting, after Willis persuaded her to...
Billie Jean King, an American tennis player who won 12 Grand Slam singles championships and 39 Grand Slams, was born in Long Beach, California in 1943.
Billie Jean King (born) Billie Jean Moffitt, born November 22, 1943 in Long Beach, California, United States, is an American tennis player whose influence and play...
Kate Winslet married assistant film director Jim Threapleton in 1998 at All Saints Church in Reading, England.
On November 22, 1998, the actress Kate Winslet married fiance Jim Threapleton in a low-key wedding at her family's local church in Reading, Berkshire.Read More
Bikram Singh, the Indian Lt-General in Kashmir, died in 1963.
Lieutenant General Bikram Singh, PVSM, who died on November 22, 1963, was an Indian Army General Officer. When he died in the Poonch Indian Air Force helicopter cr...
In 1718, Blackbeard, a famed English pirate, is killed in combat at the age of 38.
In his own time, Edward "Blackbeard" Teach (1680-1718) was a legend. He was born in England and robbed ships moving to and from the American colonies, as...
In 1984 Scarlett Johansson, an American actress, was born in New York City.
Scarlett Johansson was born on November 22, 1984, in New York City, New York, United States. She is an American actress and singer whose acting range has earned he...
1967 Mark Ruffalo is an American actor who was born in Kenosha, Wisconsin.
Mark Ruffalo, born November 22, 1967 in Kenosha, Wisconsin, USA, is an American actor who was a compelling performer in critically acclaimed movies and plays, thou...
Mulayam Singh Yadav, an Indian politician (Samajwadi Party), was born in Etawah district, Uttar Pradesh, in 1939.
Mulayam Singh Yadav is a well-known Indian politician who founded the Samajwadi Party. Mulayam Singh Yadav was born on November 22, 1939, in a poor peasant family,...
Lionel Messi of FC Barcelona establishes a new La Liga goal scoring record of 253 in 2014.
Lionel Messi scored a hat trick in Barcelona's 5-1 win over Sevilla on November 22, 2014, to break the Spanish league's all-time scoring record. Messi, alr...
Lee Harvey Oswald killed US President John F. Kennedy in 1963 while riding in an open-topped motorcade in Dallas, Texas.
The 35th President of the United States, John Fitzgerald Kennedy, was assassinated on November 22, 1963, at 12:30 p.m. CST in Dallas, Texas, while riding in a pres...
Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope in 1497 on his route to India on the first journey from Europe.
Vasco da Gama, a Portuguese explorer, circumnavigated the Cape of Good Hope on his way to India for the first time in 1497. He was the first European to sail to In...
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...
