2009: International agreement The Treaty of Lisbon, also known as the Reform Treaty, came into force.
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ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Being HIV positive or taking preventative treatment for the disease was no longer a barrier for serving in the armed forces, the Ministry of Defence announced.
NOVEMBER 30 - 1667: Author Jonathan Swift (Gulliver’s Travels) was born in Dublin.
DECEMBER 2 - 1697: The new St Paul’s Cathedral was opened.
1835: Mark Twain, author of The Adventures Of Tom Sawyer and The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn, was born in Missouri.
1804: Napoleon was crowned Emperor in Paris by Pope Pius VII. On this day one year later, he defeated Austro-Russian forces at the Battle of Austerlitz. 1814: The Marquis de Sade, French aristocrat whose perverted lifestyle gave the word sadism to the language, died in an asylum. 1859: John Brown, anti-slavery campaigner whose soul marched on in the famous song, was executed for treason in Charleston,West Virginia.
1874: Sir Winston Churchill, a descendant of the great Duke of Marlborough, was born in Blenheim Palace.
1900: Oscar Wilde, Irish-born playwright, died in Paris aged 46.
1936: The Crystal Palace was destroyed by fire.
1955: The first floodlit football match at Wembley was played, between England and Spain.
1901: King Camp Gillette patented the safety razor.
1957: The great Italian tenor Beniamino Gigli died.
1907: English footballers formed the Professional Footballers’ Association.
1968: The Trades Description Act came into force.
2009: The European Organisation for Nuclear Research announced that the Large Hadron Collider set a new world record for energy – making it the world’s highest energy particle accelerator. ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: The Queen sent the new republic of Barbados her “warmest good wishes for your happiness, peace and prosperity in the future” as it celebrated its “momentous day”.
1923: Greek-American operatic soprano Maria Callas was born in New York.
1927: Ford’s Model A went on sale as a successor to the Model T.
1954: Four years of anti-Communist witch-hunts in America came to an end when its instigator, Joseph McCarthy, was condemned for conduct unbecoming a senator.
DECEMBER 1 - 1135: Henry I died “of a surfeit of lampreys”.
1990: West German Chancellor Helmut Kohl won the first all-German election since 1933.
1581: Jesuit martyr Edmund Campion was hanged at Tyburn.
ON THIS DAY LAST YEAR: Kellogg’s trialled fully recyclable packaging for its boxes of Corn Flakes, with the plastic liner replaced with paper.
1640: The Portuguese drove out the Spanish to reclaim their independence.
DECEMBER 3 - 1552: Death of Spanish missionary Francis Xavier, who helped Ignatius Loyola found the Jesuits.
1761: Madame Marie Tussaud, wax-works modeller, was born in Strasbourg.
1836: Three people died at Great Corby, near Carlisle in Cumbria, in the first fatal railway derailment.
1887: The 28th Beeton’s Christmas Annual went on sale. It featured A Study In Scarlet by A Conan Doyle, which introduced the detective Sherlock Holmes.
1894: Robert Louis Stevenson, author of Treasure Island and other works, died of a stroke at his villa in Samoa.
1906: The Cinema Omnia Pathe, the world’s first purpose- built picture palace, opened in Paris.
1910: Neon lighting, developed by French physicist Georges Claude, was displayed for the first time at the Paris Motor Show.
1959: Twelve countries signed an agreement to preserve Antarctica for peaceful scientific research.
1919: French Impressionist painter Auguste Renoir died near Cannes. He was 78.
1989: Pope John Paul II and Mikhail Gorbachev met in Rome to end 70 years of hostility between USSR and the Vatican.
1926: Novelist Agatha Christie disappeared from her
1990: The two halves of the Channel Tunnel were joined
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