23rd November
1937 Jagadish Chandra Bose, Indian physicist, polymath, and writer, dies at 78
1904 III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis. First US Olympic.
24th November
1926 Sri Aurobindo retires to lead a life of seclusion, hands responsibility for followers to Mirra Alfassa (founding of Sri Aurobindo ashram)
1947 John Steinbeck’s novel “Pearl” published
25th November
1867 US Congress commission looks into “impeachment” of President Andrew Johnson
1973 Bloodless military coup ousts Greek President George Papadopoulos
26th November
1883 Sojourner Truth, US abolitionist/women’s rights advocate, dies at 96
1825 1st college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha (Union College, NY))
1832 1st streetcar railway in America starts operating in New York City
27th November
1878 Jatindramohan Bagchi, Indian (Bengali) poet was born (d. 1948).
1895 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel’s will establishes the Nobel Prize
28th November
1814 The Times of London first printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer – makes newspapers available to a mass audience
1962 K. C. Dey, a well-known famous blind singer of Bengal, died.
2017 India’s Supreme Court rejects appeal to block the global release of controversial film “Padmavati”
29th November
1775 Sir James Jay invents invisible ink
1944 John Hopkins hospital performs 1st open heart surgery
30th November
1731 Beijing hit by an earthquake; about 100,000 die
1924 1st photo facsimile transmitted across Atlantic by radio (London-NYC)
