I often wonder what significant anniversaries are due at some point in the future as some of them might be of interest as triggers for blog posts or visits somewhere. However, it is often difficult to find out quickly what events have significant anniversaries - hence this section on the website.
By "significant anniversaries", I mean dates that are not, for example, the 73rd anniversary of something, but the 50th, 100th, 200th etc.
It should help to flag up interesting events.
Significant anniversaries during November 2015
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | The launch is announced of The National, Scotland's first daily newspaper to take a pro-independence stance. (21st Nov 2014) |
| 1st | The Scottish Parliament elects Nicola Sturgeon as the first female First Minister of Scotland. (19th Nov 2014) |
| 1st | Band Aid 30 release their cover of the track "Do They Know It's Christmas?", thirty years after the original, this time to raise money towards the Ebola crisis in Western Africa. (17th Nov 2014) |
| 1st | A case of bird flu is confirmed at a duck breeding farm in Yorkshire. The deadly H5N1 strain is ruled out and officials say that the risk to public health is low. (16th Nov 2014) |
| 1st | Former BBC DJ Chris Denning pleads guilty to further sexual abuse of boys aged nine to sixteen during the 1970s, and 1980s. (14th Nov 2014) |
| 1st | The last ceramic poppy is laid at the Tower of London memorial art installation and joins the 888,245 flowers commemorating the armistice and centenary of World War I. (11th Nov 2014) |
| 5th | The UK Government is to pay millions of pounds in compensation to around a dozen British citizens who were held in detention overseas, including the camp at Guantanamo Bay, and claim British security services colluded in their torture. (16th Nov 2010) |
| 5th | The government unveils plans for the biggest shake up of the welfare system since the 1940s. (11th Nov 2010) |
| 10th | The Safeway name disappears from Britain after 43 years with the rebranding of the last remaining store by its owner Morrisons, which took over the supermarket chain in March 2004. (24th Nov 2005) |
| 10th | Andrew Stimpson, a 25-year-old man from Scotland, is reported as the first person proven to have been "cured" of HIV. (13th Nov 2005) |
| 40th | The Provisional IRA assassinates Ross McWhirter, after a press conference in which McWhirter had announced a reward for the capture of those responsible for multiple bombings and shootings across England. (27th Nov 1975) |
| 40th | The first public performance by punk rock band the Sex Pistols took place. (6th Nov 1975) |
| 50th | Mary Whitehouse founds the National Viewers' and Listeners' Association. (29th Nov 1965) |
| 50th | The word "fuck" is spoken for the first time on British television by the theatre critic Kenneth Tynan. (13th Nov 1965) |
| 50th | The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. (8th Nov 1965) |
| 50th | The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act 1965 is given Royal Assent, formally abolishing the death penalty in the United Kingdom. (8th Nov 1965) |
| 50th | The Murder (Abolition of Death Penalty) Act suspends capital punishment for murder in England, Scotland and Wales, for five years in the first instance, replacing it with a mandatory sentence of life imprisonment. (8th Nov 1965) |
| 50th | Three cooling towers at the uncompleted Ferrybridge C electricity generating station in West Yorkshire collapse in high winds (1st Nov 1965) |
| 60th | Milton rail crash: an excursion train takes a crossover too fast and derails at Milton, near Didcot: 11 killed, 157 injured. (20th Nov 1955) |
| 70th | British fascist John Amery pleads guilty to treason and is immediately sentenced to hang. (28th Nov 1945) |
| 70th | David Lean's film of Noël Coward's Brief Encounter starring Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard goes on general release. (26th Nov 1945) |
| 75th | World War II: In England, the city of Coventry is heavily bombed by German Luftwaffe bombers. Coventry Cathedral is almost completely destroyed. (14th Nov 1940) |
| 75th | The Royal Navy launches the first aircraft carrier strike in history, on the Italian fleet at Taranto. (11th Nov 1940) |
| 80th | Maiden flight of the RAF's Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft. (6th Nov 1935) |
| 80th | First flight of the Hawker Hurricane. (5th Nov 1935) |
| 80th | Opening of Hornsey Town Hall, London, designed by Reginald Uren, the first major UK building in the International style. (4th Nov 1935) |
| 90th | Eigiau Dam disaster kills seventeen in the North Wales village of Dolgarrog. (2nd Nov 1925) |
| 100th | Government introduces legislation to restrict housing rents to their pre-war level following Glasgow rent strikes led by Mary Barbour. (27th Nov 1915) |
| 125th | City & South London Railway: London's first deep-level tube railway opens between King William Street and Stockwell. (4th Nov 1890) |
| 200th | Sir Humphry Davy announces his discovery of the Davy lamp as a coal mining safety lamp. (3rd Nov 1815) |
| 250th | The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America. (1st Nov 1765) |
| 300th | Government forces defeat a Jacobite incursion at the conclusion of a five-day siege and action, the last battle fought on English soil. (14th Nov 1715) |
| 350th | The London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is first published. (7th Nov 1665) |
| 500th | Thomas Wolsey is invested as a Cardinal (15th Nov 1515) |
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