November 21
Born on this day Saturday, November 21, 1936. : Victor Chang, Australian heart surgeon and a pioneer of modern heart transplantation, is born. Victor Peter Chang Yam Him was born in Shanghai, China, on 21 November 1936. Chang’s mother died of cancer when he was just twelve years old, and this was a deciding factor in his […]
November 20
Born on this day Friday, November 20, 1925. : Robert Kennedy, younger brother of assassinated President John F Kennedy, and who would himself be assassinated, is born. Robert Francis “Bobby” Kennedy was born on 20 November 1925 in Brookline, Massachusetts. He was the younger brother of assassinated American President John F Kennedy, and ran JFK’s successful Presidential […]
November 23
Australian History Friday, November 23, 1923. : Australia’s first public wireless broadcast begins. The development of the wireless telegraphy system, which came to be known as “radio” is attributed to Guglielmo Marconi. Marconi first demonstrated the transmission and reception of Morse Code based radio signals over a distance of 2 or more kilometres in England in 1896, […]
November 26
Born on this day Sunday, November 26, 1922. : The creator of Snoopy and the ‘Peanuts’ comic strip, Charles M Schulz, is born. Charles Monroe Schulz was born in St Paul, Minnesota, on 26 November 1922. As a teenager he was shy and introverted, and when he created his comic strip ‘Peanuts’, he based the character of […]
November 08
Born on this day Wednesday, November 8, 1922. : Christiaan Barnard, the cardiac surgeon who performed the world’s first open heart transplant, is born. Christiaan Barnard was born on 8 November 1922, in Beaufort West, South Africa. After studying and practising medicine in South Africa for many years, in 1956 he travelled to America to study surgery […]
November 16
Born on this day Tuesday, November 16, 1920. : Colin Thiele, Australian writer and author of ‘Storm Boy’, is born. Colin Thiele was born on 16 November 1920, in Eudunda, a small town north of the Barossa Valley in South Australia. After graduating from the University of Adelaide, he served in the Royal Australian Air Force during […]
November 29
Born on this day Tuesday, November 29, 1898. : C S Lewis, author of the ‘Narnia’ series of books, is born. C S Lewis was born Clive Staples Lewis on 29 November 1898, in Belfast, Ireland. As a young teenager, he abandoned the Christian faith with which he was raised, but returned to it when he was […]
November 22
Born on this day Tuesday, November 22, 1898. : Wiley Post, who was the first pilot to fly solo around the world, is born. Wiley Hardeman Post was born on 22 November 1898, in Van Zandt County, Texas. Always keen to fly, Post became a parachutist for the flying circus “Burrell Tibbs and His Texas Topnotch Fliers” […]
November 06
Born on this day Monday, November 6, 1893. : Edsel Ford, after whom the failed Edsel car was named, is born. Edsel Bryant Ford, the only child of Henry Ford, was born in Detroit, Michigan, on 6 November 1893. He became secretary of the Ford Motor Company in 1915, and president of Ford from 1919 to 1943. […]
November 27
Born on this day Saturday, November 27, 1880. : Sir Ralph Freeman, designer of the Sydney Harbour Bridge, is born. Ralph Freeman was born on 27 November 1880 in London, England. After studying civil engineering at the City and Guilds of London Institute, he joined Douglas Fox & Partners, a firm of consulting engineers specialising in the […]