PHOTO OF THE DAY. Sophia Loren trying Whelks in a fish bar, near the River Thames (1960). 📷 Bob Hope and Alisdair MacDonald

PERSON OF THE DAY. 20 November 1925. Robert F Kennedy (also known as”Bobby” and “RFK”), was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, USA. He served as the 64th United States Attorney General from 1961 to 1964 and as a US Senator for New York from 1965 until his assassination in June 1968.

FACT OF THE DAY. 20 November 1995. Princess Diana in an interview with Martin Bashir, broadcast on the BBC programme Panorama, gave intimate details of her marriage to Prince Charles including an admission they had both had extra marital affairs. Bashir had obtained the interview by deception.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A woman in New York City walking her dog in the driving rain (1957). 📷 Saul Leiter

PERSON OF THE DAY. 19 November 1703. The Man in The Iron Mask died. He was an unidentified prisoner held for 34 Years in several French prisons. Mystery still surrounds his actual identity. The story was made popular via the Alexandre Dumas novel, with the English title, The Man In The Iron Mask.

19 November 1863. Abraham Lincoln delivered the famous Gettysburg Address. It’s regarded as one of the greatest and most influential speeches by a US President. The words of the speech are carved in stone on the south wall of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, DC.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Grand Central Terminal, New York City (1941). 📷 John Collier

PERSON OF THE DAY. 18 November 1926. Irish-born playwright George Bernard Shaw turned down the huge cash prize attached to the Nobel Prize for Literature, saying: ‘I never forgave Alfred for inventing dynamite.’

FACT OF THE DAY. 18 November 1983. The world’s 1st all-girl sextuplets were born to Janet Walton at Liverpool Maternity Hospital. The 6 girls: Hannah, Lucy, Ruth, Sarah, Kate and Jennifer were born in the space of 4 minutes between 7:56 PM and 8 PM.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Miss New Zealand faints during the 1954 Miss Universe contest. None of the other contestants moved. 📷 Perry Griffith.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 17 November 1937. Peter Cook was born in Torquay. He was a key figure in anti-establishment satire in the 1960s, starring in Beyond the Fringe, founding The Establishment Club, co-founding Private Eye and was part of comedy duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore.

FACT OF THE DAY. 17 November 1558. Elizabeth I became Queen of England and Ireland and reigned until her death on 24 March 1603. She restored Protestantism and her navy repelled the Spanish Armada. She was the last of the 5 monarchs of the House of Tudor.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Cunard ocean liner RMS Mauretania (1906). 📷 Colourised by Marina Amaral.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 16 November 2008. Reg Varney died (aged 92). He’s best known as Stan Butler in the ITV sitcom On The Buses and for officially opening Britain’s 1st cash dispenser at Barclays Bank, Enfield, London and being the 1st member of the public to use it.

FACT OF THE DAY. 16 November 1915. Coca-Cola had the prototype for its classic bottle patented by the US Patent Office (Patent No 48,160). The bottle design is still recognisable today. The original patent is on display at the National Archives Museum in Washington, DC.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Michael Caine, photo roll by Brian Duffy (1964).

PERSON OF THE DAY. 15 November 1897. Aneurin Bevan was born in Tredegar, Wales. He spearheaded the creation of the NHS in 1948 by the Labour government. It offered treatment free at the point of delivery to all citizens, irrespective of income. It’s one of the key social reforms in British history.

FACT OF THE DAY. 15 November 2002. Notorious Moors murderer Myra Hindley died in prison (aged 60). She was convicted, along with Ian Brady, for the murders of 5 children aged between 10 and 17 (victim details below). It was one of the most horrific criminal cases in British legal history.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Pop artist, Andy Warhol, shopping for Campbell’s soup. 📷 Bob Adelman (1965).

FACT OF THE DAY. 14 November 1948. King Charles III (Charles, Philip, Arthur, George), was born in Buckingham Palace, London. He’s the eldest son of Elizabeth II and was longest-serving heir apparent in British history and the longest-serving Prince of Wales. He became King on 8 September 2022.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 14 November 1889. Investigative journalist Nellie Bly (Elizabeth Jane Cochran) began an attempt to travel around the world in less than 80 days in emulation of Jules Verne’s fictional character, Phileas Fogg, in Around The World in Eighty Days. Bly took 72 days on same journey.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Jimi Hendrix in Montagu Place, London (1967). 📷 David Magnus

PERSON OF THE DAY. 13 November 1805. Johann George Lehner, a butcher from Vienna, invented a pork and beef sausage he called the “Frankfurter”. It later became known as the “Hot Dog”.

FACT OF THE DAY. 13 November 1942. 5 American brothers (left to right: Joe, Frank, Al, Matt, and George Sullivan) died in the aftermath of the sinking of the light cruiser USS Juneau by the Japanese Navy. It was the largest loss of life by a single American family serving during WW2.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Lady Florence Norman, a suffragette, on her motor-scooter in London (1916). 📷 Paul Thompson

PERSON OF THE DAY. 12 November 1929. Grace Kelly was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. Films include: High Society, Rear Window and Dial M for Murder. In 1956 she became Princess Grace of Monaco by marrying Prince Rainier III. She then gave up her film career.

FACT OF THE DAY. 12 November 1912. The frozen remains of British explorer Robert Scott and his exploration team were found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The last entry in Scott’s diary was on the 29 March 1912 and it’s assumed this was the date on which he died.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. The coffin of the Unknown Warrior lies in Westminster Abbey (1920). 📷 google images

PERSON OF THE DAY. 11 November 1918. 9:30 AM. George Ellison (aged 40) became the last British soldier to be killed in the “Great War of 1914-19”, He was shot dead by a German sniper while on a patrol in woodland on the outskirts of Mons, Belgium.

FACT OF THE DAY. 11 November 1918. Fighting in the “Great War of 1914-18” ended at 11:00 AM Paris time: the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month. At the time it was the deadliest military conflict in history with an estimated 9 million military deaths and 13 million civilian deaths.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. England goalkeeper Gordon Banks catches a dog (1965). 📷 Chris Morphet

FACT OF THE DAY. 10 November 1871. Journalist Henry Stanley greeted a missing Scottish explorer in Central Africa with the words: “Dr. Livingstone, I presume?” Livingstone was out of contact for 6 years. Stanley was sent to find him by New York Herald. They met on the shore of Lake Tanganyika.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 10 November 1925. Welsh actor Richard Burton was born in Pontrhydyfen. He was noted for his mellifluous voice, his heavy drinking and his highly publicised marriages to Elizabeth Taylor, which often overshadowed his undoubted acting ability. #Burton100

PHOTO OF THE DAY: Customers listening to new records before buying in a UK record shop (1955). 📷 google images

PERSON OF THE DAY. 9 November 1880. Acclaimed architect Giles Gilbert Scott was born in London. He designed Liverpool’s Anglican Cathedral and the iconic red telephone box. He was noted in building design for his blending of the Gothic tradition with modernism.

FACT OF THE DAY. 9 November 1918. Having lost the support of the military and the people, Kaiser Wilhelm II was forced to abdicate his throne and flee Germany for the Netherlands. Power was handed to a Republican government led by the leader of the Social Democratic Party Friedrich Ebert.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Leeds United defender Jack Charlton having a cigarette after a team photo (1970). 📷 Peter Marsh

PERSON OF THE DAY. 8 November 1922. Christian Barnard was born in Beaufort West, South Africa. He performed the world’s 1st heart transplant operation on 3 December 1967 when he transplanted the heart of Denise Darvall into 54-year-old, Louis Washkansky who only survived for 18 days.

FACT OF THE DAY. 8 November 1939. Adolf Hitler narrowly escaped an assassination attempt by Georg Elser (pictured). Hitler was making his annual speech at a Munich beer hall on the anniversary of the 1923 Munich Beer Hall Putsch but he left 13 minutes before the bomb exploded.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. A policeman stops traffic to let a man carrying an inflatable rubber giraffe cross the road on his way to the British Industries Fair in London (1935) 📷 google images

FACT OF THE DAY. 7 November 1917 (Gregorian calendar). The Bolsheviks led by Vladimir Lenin stormed the Winter Palace in Saint Petersburg to begin the Russian Revolution.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 7 November 1980. Steve McQueen known as “The King of Cool”, died (aged 50). Films include: The Great Escape, The Magnificent Seven, Bullitt, The Cincinnati Kid, Papillon, Le Mans, The Towering Inferno and The Thomas Criown Affair.

PHOTO OF THE DAY: This factory worker in California soon changed her name to Marilyn Monroe (1944).📷 David Conover.

PERSON OF THE DAY. 6 November 1893. Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, the acclaimed Russian composer, died (aged 53). His best known musical works were the 1812 Overture and his ballets, Swan Lake, The Nutcracker and Sleeping Beauty.

FACT OF THE DAY. 6 November 1942. Church of England relaxed its rule that women must wear hats in church. Before then church etiquette required women to wear hats during church services because it was considered by male clergy as inappropriate for women to show their hair in church.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Children with a Hitler-style Guy Fawkes, in Waterloo, London, on 5 November, 1944. 📷 D H Appleton

PERSON OF THE DAY. 5 November 1913. Vivien Leigh (Vivian Mary Hartley) was born in Darjeeling, India. She won 2 Academy Awards for Best Actress for her performances as Scarlett O’Hara in Gone with the Wind, her best known role, and as Blanche DuBois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

FACT OF THE DAY. 5 November 1605. The Gunpowder Plot which aimed to start a Catholic uprising and end the religious persecution of Catholics failed when Guy Fawkes was arrested in a cellar under the House of Lords. He wanted to blow up the Houses of Parliament that existed at that time.

PHOTO OF THE DAY. Daleks trying to board a London bus (1963). 📷 Het Parool.