This week that year: Nov. 24-30

• November 24, 1963 – Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of US President John Fitzgerald Kennedy was murdered on live television by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas Police Department headquarters.

 

• November 25, 1487 – Elizabeth of York is crowned the Queen of England

 

 

• November 26, 1865 – Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll published in USA

 

• November 27, 1978 – In San Francisco, city Mayor George Mascone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk assassinated by former supervisor Dan White

 

• November 28, 1814 – The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam-powered presses built by German inventors Friedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signalling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.

 

• November 29, 1877 – Thomas Edison demonstrated his phonograph for the first time

 

• November 30, 1872 – The first ever international football match takes place at Hamilton Crescent, Glasgow; between Scotland and England.