November 15th in history
November 15th1899 The SS St. Paul became the first ship to receive radio messages, transmitted from the Needles wireless station off the Isle of Wight.
1899 Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while covering the war as a reporter for the Morning Post. He escaped a few weeks later.
1922 Children's Hour was first broadcast on the radio. It established a tradition of drama and story-telling and built up a devoted audience of over three million at its peak.
1917 – Eduskunta Declares Supreme State Power/Finlands parliament boldly declared itself the supreme governing authority, setting the stage for independence from Russian rule. This pivotal decision challenged centuries of foreign domination over Finnish territory.The declaration represented the first concrete step toward full sovereignty. Finnish lawmakers demonstrated remarkable courage by defying the Russian provisional government during this turbulent revolutionary period.
2014 Pensioner Kelvin Sibthorpe got his hopes up when he discovered he'd been the victim of pension mis-selling, which meant he could be entitled to a 'windfall'. The windfall entitled him to only an extra 18p a month in pension payments. It would consist of seven years of back payments, coming to a grand total of £10.08.
1899 Winston Churchill was captured by the Boers while covering the war as a reporter for the Morning Post. He escaped a few weeks later.
1922 Children's Hour was first broadcast on the radio. It established a tradition of drama and story-telling and built up a devoted audience of over three million at its peak.
1917 – Eduskunta Declares Supreme State Power/Finlands parliament boldly declared itself the supreme governing authority, setting the stage for independence from Russian rule. This pivotal decision challenged centuries of foreign domination over Finnish territory.The declaration represented the first concrete step toward full sovereignty. Finnish lawmakers demonstrated remarkable courage by defying the Russian provisional government during this turbulent revolutionary period.
2014 Pensioner Kelvin Sibthorpe got his hopes up when he discovered he'd been the victim of pension mis-selling, which meant he could be entitled to a 'windfall'. The windfall entitled him to only an extra 18p a month in pension payments. It would consist of seven years of back payments, coming to a grand total of £10.08.
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