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Looking Back on November

Read This Magazine by Read This Magazine
15 November 2024
in Culture, History
Looking Back on November feature

Looking back on November takes a step back in time as we look at a series of past events that have occurred in November in years past.

1 Year Ago

The last song released by The Beatles, Now and Then, finally gets it debut, some 46 years after it was written. It features restored vocals by John Lennon and hit the top spot in the charts.

Meanwhile, the 100mph winds of Storm Ciaran bombard Britain.

5 Years Ago

New TV streaming service Apple TV+ is launched, the 1,000th episode of BBC One’s Holby City is aired, and both restaurateur and TV chef Gary Rhodes and Australian-born writer and broadcaster Clive James pass away.

10 Years Ago

Band Aid 30 release their cover of Do They Know It’s Christmas to raise funds for the Ebola crisis in West Africa. In reality TV, TOWIE star Gemma Collins leaves I’m a Celebrity… Get Me Out of Here after just 72 hours.

15 Years Ago

With an average of 215mm of rain falling across the country, November 2009 becomes the wettest UK month since records began in 1910. In the acting world, Edward Woodward dies.

20 Years Ago

The Wales Millennium Centre in Cardiff opens, while Parliament passes two important Acts – the Hunting Act 2004, prohibiting fox hunting in England and Wales, and the Civil Partnership Act.

25 Years Ago

The famous BBC ‘Test Card F’ is retired after being used on screen for 32 years, while Ford Motor Company buy Jaguar for £1.6billion.

30 Years Ago

Barbara Windsor makes her debut as Peggy Mitchell in EastEnders, the first National Lottery draw is broadcast on BBC One, and the Daily Telegraph becomes the first UK newspaper to go online.

Looking Back on November

35 Years Ago

Helen Sharman is selected as the first Briton to travel into space, while the final episode of Blackadder Goes Forth airs, with its iconic ending as Edmund goes ‘over the top’.

40 Years Ago

The original Band Aid line-up records Do They Know It’s Christmas, while almost 3,000 striking miners return to work. The UK and French governments agree to build the Channel Tunnel without using public money.

50 Years Ago

Lord Lucan disappears, the New Covent Garden Market is opened, while singer Louise Redknapp and comedian Stephen Merchant are born.

60 Years Ago

ITV soap Crossroads debuts, Parliament votes to abolish the death penalty and actor and comedian Alistair McGowan, lexicographer Susie Dent and actress and broadcaster Liza Tarbuck are all born.

75 Years Ago

A landmark speech in support of a European Union is made by Conservative party leader Winston Churchill and BBC television transmits to the Midlands, the first place to receive service outside of London.

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