📅 #OnThisDay in 1895 (130 years ago): America's first automobile race is held from Chicago to Evanston and back; six cars participated in the 55-mile race, and Frank Duryea wins after over 10 hours, averaging 11 km/h (7 mph). #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1972 (53 years ago): Last executions in Paris took place. Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems was guillotined at La Santé Prison. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1990 (35 years ago): British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher resigns as leader of the Conservative Party and, therefore, as Prime Minister. She is succeeded in both positions by John Major. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1895 (130 years ago): Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel establishes the Nobel Prizes through his will, dedicating the bulk of his fortune to funding annual awards for those who have conferred the "greatest benefit to humankind". #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1964 (61 years ago): Filming starts for the first Star Trek pilot "The Cage". NBC rejected it and called it "too intellectual", and "too slow" with "not enough action." The network commissioned a second pilot which became the basis for The Original Series. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1989 (36 years ago): The Medellín Cartel led by Pablo Escobar planted a bomb on an Avianca flight to assassinate presidential candidate César Gaviria. The plane exploded midair, killing 107 people. Gaviria was not on board and was later elected president. #OTD

📷 Picture of the Day: November 26, 2025 The Basilica of Superga is a hilltop Catholic basilica in Superga, in the vicinity of Turin, Italy. It was built from 1717 to 1731 for Victor Amadeus II, the duke of Savoy and future king of Sicily, to a design by Filippo Juvarra. 📸 Domeian

📅 #OnThisDay in 1922 (103 years ago): Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Tutankhamun in over 3,000 years. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 2011 (14 years ago): NASA launches Mars rover Curiosity from Cape Canaveral in Florida. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 2003 (22 years ago): Concorde made its last-ever flight, departing London's Heathrow Airport and landing in Bristol, England. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1984 (41 years ago): Thirty-six top musicians gather in a Notting Hill studio and record Band Aid's "Do They Know It's Christmas?" in order to raise money for famine relief in Ethiopia. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1905 (120 years ago): Prince Carl of Denmark arrives in Norway to become King Haakon VII of Norway. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1963 (62 years ago): State funeral of John F. Kennedy; after lying in state at the United States Capitol, a Requiem Mass takes place at Cathedral of St. Matthew the Apostle and the President is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1969 (56 years ago): The Apollo 12 command module splashes down safely in the Pacific Ocean, ending the second crewed mission to land on the Moon. #OTD

📷 Picture of the Day: November 24, 2025 Renate Reinsve (born 24 November 1987) is a Norwegian actress. She made her film debut in Joachim Trier's film Oslo, August 31st (2011). 📸 Harald Krichel

📅 #OnThisDay in 1976 (49 years ago) A magnitude-7.3 earthquake struck eastern Turkey, destroying 80 per cent of buildings in the region and causing at least 4,000 casualties. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1963 (62 years ago) During a live television broadcast, businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, who assassinated U.S. president John F. Kennedy, fueling numerous conspiracy theories. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 2015 (10 years ago) A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course. #OTD

📅 #OnThisDay in 1971 (54 years ago) After collecting a ransom payout of $200,000, D. B. Cooper (depicted) parachuted out of the rear stairway of the airplane he had hijacked over the Pacific Northwest and disappeared. #OTD

📅 November 23, 2007 (18 years ago) #OTD MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.

📷 Picture of the Day: November 23, 2025 Lactarius resimus is a species of mushroom in the Russulaceae family. It has a cap which ranges from 4–15 cm in diameter, while its stalk has a length from 2–6 cm and a width of 1–3 cm in width. 📸 Avustfel

📅 November 23, 1980 (45 years ago) #OTD An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing at least 2,483 people, injuring more than 7,700 and leaving 250,000 homeless.

📅 November 23, 1963 (62 years ago) #OTD The first episode of Doctor Who, the world's longest-running science fiction television show, was broadcast on BBC television, starring William Hartnell as the first incarnation of the title role.

📅 November 23, 2003 (22 years ago) #OTD Rose Revolution: Eduard Shevardnadze resigned as President of Georgia following weeks of mass protests over disputed election results.

📅 November 23, 2009 (16 years ago) #OTD A crowd of people on their way to register Esmael Mangudadatu's candidacy for governor of Maguindanao, Philippines, were kidnapped and killed by supporters of his rival, resulting in 58 deaths.

📅 November 22, 1968 (57 years ago) #OTD The Beatles released their eponymous double album, popularly known as the White Album.

📅 November 22, 1967 (58 years ago) #OTD The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 242 in the aftermath of the Six-Day War between Israel and Egypt, Jordan, and Syria.

📷 Picture of the Day: November 22, 2025 The white-lipped tree frog (Nyctimystes infrafrenatus) is a species of tree frog in the subfamily Pelodryadinae of the family Hylidae. 📸 JJ Harrison (https://www.jjharrison.com.au/)

📅 November 22, 1963 (62 years ago) #OTD John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas; hours later, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson was sworn in as the 36th president of the United States (pictured).

📅 November 22, 1995 (30 years ago) #OTD Toy Story, the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.

📅 November 21, 1877 (148 years ago) #OTD Thomas Edison announced his invention of the phonograph, a device able to record and play sound.

📅 November 21, 1945 (80 years ago) #OTD Manzanar (pictured), a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.

📅 November 21, 1964 (61 years ago) #OTD The Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, connecting Staten Island and Brooklyn in New York City, opened to traffic as the longest suspension bridge in the world at the time.

📷 Picture of the Day: November 21, 2025 C/2014 Q2 (Lovejoy) is a long-period comet discovered in 2014 by Australian astronomer Terry Lovejoy using a Schmidt–Cassegrain telescope. 📸 John Vermette

📅 November 21, 1980 (45 years ago) #OTD A fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada, killing 85 people and injuring 650 others.

📅 November 21, 1977 (48 years ago) #OTD "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the King", which had been the traditional anthem since 1840.

📷 Picture of the Day: November 20, 2025 Otto von Habsburg (20 November 1912 4 July 2011) was the last crown prince of Austria-Hungary from 1916 until the dissolution of the empire in November 1918. 📸 Oliver Mark

📅 November 20, 1990 (35 years ago) #OTD Andrei Chikatilo, one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.

📅 November 20, 1947 (78 years ago) #OTD Princess Elizabeth, daughter of King George VI, married Lieutenant Philip Mountbatten, who was given the title Duke of Edinburgh.

📅 November 20, 1991 (34 years ago) #OTD First Nagorno-Karabakh War: An Azerbaijani military helicopter carrying a peacekeeping mission team was shot down in Nagorno-Karabakh, disrupting ongoing peace talks.

📅 November 20, 1979 (46 years ago) #OTD Armed insurgents attacked and took over the Masjid al-Haram in Mecca, declaring that one of their leaders was the Mahdi, the prophesied redeemer of Islam.

📅 November 20, 1985 (40 years ago) #OTD Windows 1.0, the first version of Microsoft Windows available to the public, was released.