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9 May: Thomas Blood attempts to steal the Crown Jewels from the Tower of London whilst disguised as a clergyman. [50] 6 June: The rebuilt Vintners' Company Hall is in use in the City. [44] 9 November: The Duke of York's Theatre is opened at Dorset Garden by the players of the Duke's Company. [122] The Merchant Taylors' Hall is rebuilt. [56]
1998 – A U.S. federal judge, in the largest civil settlement in American history, orders 37 U.S. brokerage houses to pay US$1.03 billion to cheated NASDAQ investors to compensate for price fixing. 1998 – Capital punishment in the United Kingdom , already abolished for murder, is completely abolished for all remaining capital offences.
In London, the show occurred annually on 29 October. [8]: 187–188 In 1751, Great Britain replaced the Julian calendar with the Gregorian calendar; the Lord Mayor's Show was then moved to 9 November. In 1959, another change was made: the Lord Mayor's Show is now held on the second Saturday in November.
Horse Guards Parade, Westminster [9] Barnes Children's Literature Festival [10] Barnes, London: 2015 City of London Festival: City of London [11] 1962 Carnival de Cuba: Southwark Park [12] 2005 Pride London: Westminster [13] 1972 Motorexpo: Canary Wharf [14] 1996 World Naked Bike Ride: Central London: 2001 London Festival of Architecture: All ...
5 November – Belfast is granted city status by Queen Victoria. [16] 8 November – Joseph Assheton Fincher files a patent for the parlour game which he calls "Tiddledy-Winks". [17] 9 November – Whitechapel murders: the mutilated body of London prostitute Mary Jane Kelly is found.
9 November – Shooting of Margaret Cook in Carnaby Street, London. 10 November – Peter Scott opens the Slimbridge Wetland Reserve in Gloucestershire. 11 November – Stevenage, a village in Hertfordshire, is designated by the Attlee government as Britain's first new town to relieve overcrowding and replace bombed homes in London. The new ...
27 October–2 November: 2,200 deaths in London over this period due to the "Spanish flu". [9] 11 November: The Armistice: World War I ends at 11.00. From 1919, a minute's silence on this date commemorates the lives lost; this is increased to 2 minutes after World War II.
6 November – British and French forces seize control of two major ports in the Suez Canal in Egypt before declaring a ceasefire. [36] 9 November – At the Lord Mayor's Show in London, the first AEC Routemaster forms part of the procession, advertised as "London's Bus of the Future". [6]