This aerial photograph, dated the 26th of November, 1937, shows the industrial region of Port Kembla, in New South Wales, Australia. The Australian Iron and Steel factory (opened 1928) can be seen.
Today, Port Kembla is part of the coastal city of Wollongong.
25th November 1944: This photograph captures the image a kamikaze hit the American USS Essex in the Second Wold War. Fifteen people were killed and fourteen injured.
An image of the Japanese plane on its suicide attack was also captured.
The Essex survived the attack and was repaired enough to be put back into service by December. The ship went on to be used in three tours during the Korean War.
On the 24th of November, 1995, Ireland became the last country in Europe to legalise divorce. This occurred because of a referendum to change the constitution – not the first attempt to achieve this.
Opposition in the failed 1986 referendum. X
Divorce had been specifically forbidden in the 1937 Irish constitution. A heavily Catholic country, there was very strong opposition to the legal breakup of a marriage, just as there was when it came to the legalisation of contraception, which was only made available in the 1980s.
The success of the 1995 referendum was a close thing; the results were just over 50% in favour and 49.79% opposed.
The film April Fool was released in the United States on the 21st of November, 1920. The image below of Northern Irish actress Thelma Percy (younger sister of Eileen Percy), one of the stars, appeared in the Exhibitors Herald the day before.
Only a fragment of the film – a gag featuring a wallet – is known to have survived.
Daguerre in 1844
Photography pioneer Louis Daguerre was born in Cormeilles-en-Parisis, Val-d’Oise, France on the 18th of November, 1797. He became known as a father of photography after inventing the daguerreotype photography process.
Daguerre’s 1837 photograph recreating a still life is the earliest daguerreotype with a reliable date.
Above is Daguerre’s circa 1838 image of Paris. It is the first known candid photograph of a person. A man having his boots polished stood still long enough to be captured.
Also a painter and the inventor of the diorama theatre, Daguerre died in Paris in July of 1851, at the age of sixty-three.
This aerial photograph of the town of Bega in New South Wales, Australia was taken on the 17th of November, 1937.
Bega, 225 kilometres from the nation’s capital city, Canberra, and near the Pacific coast, is famous for its cheese.
This photograph of the foggy streets of London was taken in November, 1922. The image was taken at Ludgate Circus in the City of London, not far from St Paul’s.
This image of boys and girls dressed as Australian soldiers was taken in the small far-north Queensland town of Irvinebank around 1917.
Henry Dalziel, a recipient of the Victoria Cross after World War One, was born in the town in 1893.
Australia began preparations for the war even before Britain officially joined the conflict in 1914. So closely tied to Britain, and still part of the Empire, Australia was part of the conflict until its conclusion on the 11th of November, 1918.
Australian troops walk through the Ramu Valley in New Guinea on the 9th of November, 1943.
From the collection of the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.
November 1912: Firemen stand outside the fire station in Wagga Wagga in regional New South Wales, Australia. The building was constructed around 1903.
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