November 2022: Events and Anniversaries Preview

Welcome to your akg-images November preview tool, covering November 2022, to February 2023. Each date links to an album of imagery and brief text. ​

November is here, bringing with it Guy Fawkes Day, when a plot to blow up the Houses of Parliament in London was foiled, and World Hello Day, which many of you have been unwittingly observing each year.

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Featured Story:

Catacomb Saints: To mark All Saints Day on November 1, we look at the fascinating story behind these skeleton remains that became relics.


November 2022

4 November: Howard Carter discovers Tutankhamun's tomb - 100th anniversary

4 November: Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy - 175th anniversary of his death

5 November: Ida Tarbell - 165th anniversary of her birth

8 November: Bram Stoker - 175th anniversary of his birth

10 November: William Hogarth - 325th anniversary of his birth

11 November: Armistice Day / Remembrance Day

15 November: Georgia O'Keeffe - 135th anniversary of her birth

14 November: King Charles III - 74th birthday

18 November: Marcel Proust - 100th anniversary of his death

20 November: World Children's Day

23 November: Agnolo Bronzino - 450th anniversary of his death

24 November: Thanksgiving

27 November: Jimi Hendrix - 80th anniversary of his birth

29 November: Jacques Chirac - 90th anniversary of his birth


December 2022

2 December: Hernán Cortés - 425th anniversary of his death

2 December: St Paul's Cathedral opens in London - 325th anniversary

5 December: Great Smog of London - 70th anniversary

6 December: Everglades National Park is established - 75th anniversary

10 December: Cesar Franck - 200th anniversary of his birth

13 December: Nicholas Roerich - 75th anniversary of his death

18 December: Hanukkah begins

20 December: Tony Vaccaro - 100th birthday

21 December: Robert Seldon Duncanson - 150th anniversary of his death

21 December: HMS Challenger Expedition begins - 150th anniversary

24 December: Ava Gardner - 100th anniversary of her birth

25 December: Christmas Day - contemporary or classic style

27 December: Louis Pasteur - 200th anniversary of his birth

28 December: Stan Lee - 100th anniversary of his birth

30 December: Founding of the Soviet Union - 100th anniversary

31 December: New Year's Eve


January 2023

(exact date unknown) 2023: Pietro Perugino - 500th anniversary of his death

4 January: Myanmar (formerly Burma) gains independence - 75th anniversary

7 January: Nikola Tesla - 80th anniversary of his death

8 January: Alfred Russel Wallace - 200th anniversary of his birth

9 January: Gracie Fields - 125th anniversary of her birth

14 January: Lewis Carroll - 125th anniversary of his death

19 January: Janis Joplin - 80th anniversary of her birth

20 January: Audrey Hepburn - 30th anniversary of her death

22 January: Roe vs Wade, landmark case in the USA - 50th anniversary

24 January: Vasily Ivanovich Surikov - 175th anniversary of his birth

24 January: Sharon Tate, American actress - 80th anniversary of her birth

29 January: Elihu Vedder - 100th anniversary of his death

30 January: Mahatma Gandhi - 75th anniversary of his death


February 2023

2 February: The Battle of Stalingrad ends - 80th anniversary

2 February: Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo is signed - 175th anniversary

4 February: Alice Cooper - 75th birthday

7 February: George Washington Wilson - 200th anniversary of his birth

13 February: Chuck Yeager - 100th anniversary of his birth

14 February: St Valentine's Day

16 February: Carter enters the burial chamber of Tutankhamun - 100 years

18 February: Louis Comfort Tiffany - 175th anniversary of his birth

19 February: Nicolaus Copernicus - 550th anniversary of his birth

20 February: Blaine Act ends US Prohibition - 90th anniversary

22 February: Sophie Scholl - 80th anniversary of her death

25 February: Enrico Caruso - 150th anniversary of his birth

27 February: Reichstag fire - 90th anniversary

 

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