The Birmingham pub bombings were bombings by the Provisional Irish Republican Army in Birmingham, England on November 21, 1974 which killed 21 people and injured 182.
The devices were placed in two central Birmingham pubs: the Mulberry Bush, at the foot of the Rotunda, and the Tavern in the Town, a basement pub on New Street
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Operation Ivory Coast was a United States military operation in the Vietnam War.
On November 21, 1970, U.S. Army Colonel Arthur D. “Bull” Simons and Lieutenant Colonel Elliot “Bud” Sydnor led a team of 56 U.S. Army Special Forces soldiers in a joint Air Force/Army raid on the Son Tay prison camp in North Vietnam. […]

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The Grand Mosque Seizure on November 20, 1979 was an armed attack and takeover by “at least 500″ armed Islamic fundamentalist dissidents of the Al-Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, Saudi Arabia, the holiest place in Islam. The insurgents declared that the Mahdi, or redeemer of Islam, had arrived in the form of one of the insurgents’ […]

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Muhammad Anwar El Sadat was the third President of Egypt, serving from October 15, 1970 until his assassination. He had been a senior member of the Free Officers who overthrew the Muhammad Ali Dynasty in the Egyptian Revolution of 1952, and was a close confidante of Gamal Abdel Nasser, whom he succeeded as President in […]

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Jonestown was a short-lived settlement made in northwestern Guyana by the Peoples Temple, a cult from California.
Jonestown became lastingly and internationally notorious in 1978 when all but a few residents died in a mass murder-suicide orchestrated by their leader, Jim Jones. The name of the settlement thus also became a term for that incident.
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The Athens Polytechnic uprising in 1973 was a massive demonstration of popular rejection of the Greek military junta of 1967-1974. The uprising began on November 14, 1973, escalated to an open anti-junta revolt and ended in bloodshed in the early morning of November 17 after a series of events starting with a tank crashing through […]

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Dr. Douglas C. Engelbart is an American inventor. He is best known for inventing the computer mouse in a joint effort with Bill English; as a pioneer of human-computer interaction whose team developed hypertext, networked computers, and precursors to GUIs; and as a committed and vocal proponent of the development and use of computers and […]

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Lunokhod 1 was the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world by the Soviet Union as part of its Lunokhod program.
Luna 17 was launched on November 10, 1970 at 14:44:01 UTC. After reaching earth parking orbit, the final stage of Luna 17’s launching rocket fired to place it into a trajectory towards the […]

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William Laws Calley, Jr. (born June 8, 1943, in Miami, Florida) is an American war criminal. While serving as a U.S. Army officer, he was found guilty of ordering the March 16, 1968, My Lai Massacre during the Vietnam War.
Calley’s trial started on November 17, 1970, and resulted in a conviction on March 29, 1971, […]

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Skylab 4 was the fourth Skylab mission and placed the third crew on board. It started November 16, 1973, with the launch of three astronauts on a Saturn IB rocket, and lasted 84 days, 1 hour and 16 minutes.
A total of 6,051 astronaut-utilization hours were tallied by Skylab 4 astronauts performing scientific experiments in the […]

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