On the 28th of November, 1894, Miss Evelyn Mary Griffith married Mr Thomas Herbert Brown at St John’s Pro Cathedral.
The bride is on the left and is being escorted by her father, Sir Samuel Walker Griffith, who was the Chief Justice of Queensland, Australia.
Western Australia, 27th November, 1941.
Eight days after the Battle between HMAS Sydney and the German Kormoran, German lifeboats with survivors are towed to shore by the British Merchant Vessel Centaur.
The battle between Australia and Nazi Germany resulted in all 645 Australians on board the Sydney killed, and 82 Germans killed and 317 captured. Both ships were destroyed.
The Barham explodes.
British battleship HMS Barham was sunk by Germany on the 25th of November, 1941.
Launched in December 1914, the Bahram was used both in the First and Second World Wars.
She was named after Charles Middleton, 1st Baron Barham, who was both a politician and a British naval officer.
On the day of its sinking, the ship was hit by three torpedoes from a German submarine. 841 people died.
Famous English actress Sarah Booth made her debut at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden on the 23rd of November, 1810. She played Amanthis in the play Child of Nature.
The new Opera House, drawn in 1810.
At the time, the Opera House was brand new, as the previous one had been destroyed by fire.
An 1815 portrait.
Booth was born in 1793 in Birmingham, and had a sister who also performed on the stage. Both were dancers at the time they were discovered in Manchester. Small in stature and with hair that was tinged red, Sarah was often cast in roles like Juliet, roles that required her to look younger.
A Qantas aeroplane arrives at Longreach in Queensland, Australia on the 22nd of November, 1922. The photograph was taken to commemorate the first flight from Charleville to Cloncurry.
This photograph was taken in the Australian city of Brisbane, Queensland on the 21st of November, 1941. A soldier returns home to visit his family from his posting in Darwin.
Darwin was bombed by the Japanese three months later, in what was the biggest attack ever launched on Australia by a foreign power.
Margate is a seaside town in Kent, England. This is a photochrom of the harbour, created between 1890 and 1900. It is credited in some places as 1897.
The future Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh were married in Westminster Abbey in London on the 20th of November, 1947. The wedding took place at 11:30am.
British designer Norman Hartnell created the dress, which was bought with ration coupons, as rationing was still in place following the Second World War.
Steamboat Willie, a Disney animation that is credited with making Mickey and Minnie Mouse famous, premiered on the 18th of November, 1928. It was the first Disney cartoon to have synchronised sound.
The 50th anniversary poster. 1978.
Qantas’ second office, photographed in mid-1921. Source
Australia’s national airline, Qantas, was founded on the 16th of November, 1920 in Winton, Queensland. It was called Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited.
The airline is the third oldest in the world, after the Dutch airline, KLM and Colombian airline, Avianca.
Arrival at Longreach in 1922
Qantas began flying internationally in 1935, with flights from Darwin to Singapore, with connections to Imperial Airways for passengers to continue on to London.
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