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 2016
| Anniversary | Details |
| 1st | Energy Secretary Amber Rudd proposes that the UK's coal plants should be phased out by 2025. (18th Nov 2015) |
| 1st | Storm Abigail is the first storm to be officially named by the Met Office. It leaves many travel services disrupted, schools closed, and 20,000 homes without power. (10th Nov 2015) |
| 1st | A temperature of 22.4C is recorded in Trawsgoed, Ceredigion in Wales, making it the warmest November day on record in the UK, breaking the previous record set nearly seventy years ago. (1st Nov 2015) |
| 5th | The UK Government sold the Northern Rock Bank - which was nationalised in 2008 - to Virgin Money for £747m. (17th Nov 2011) |
| 5th | Unemployment rose to more than 2,600,000 (the highest level since 1994) during September. Sir Mervyn King, governor of the Bank of England, warned that the UK is now at a great risk from the Eurozone debt crisis. Youth unemployment has now passed the 1,000,000 mark for the first time since 1986. (16th Nov 2011) |
| 5th | Seven people died and dozens were injured after 34 vehicles collided - many bursting into flames - on the M5 motorway near Taunton in Somerset. 7 people died and 51 were injured. (4th Nov 2011) |
| 10th | Alexander Litvinenko dies in London having been poisoned by Polonium-210. (23rd Nov 2006) |
| 10th | Dhiren Barot sentenced to life imprisonment for plotting large scale terrorist attacks in Britain and abroad. The Court of Appeal noted that Barot's "businesslike" plans would have caused carnage on a "colossal and unprecedented scale" if they had been successful. (7th Nov 2006) |
| 10th | 53 year old Ronald Castree arrested in connection with the murder of eleven year old Lesley Molseed in 1975. Stefan Kiszko had spent 16 years in jail for the crime before his conviction was quashed in 1992. Castree would be convicted of the crime in November 2007. (5th Nov 2006) |
| 40th | The seven perpetrators of an £8 million van robbery at the Bank of America in Mayfair are sentenced to a total of 100 years in jail. (16th Nov 1976) |
| 50th | The BBC television drama Cathy Come Home, filmed in a docudrama style, is broadcast on BBC1. Viewed by a quarter of the British population, it is considered influential on public attitudes to homelessness and the related social issues it deals with. (16th Nov 1966) |
| 60th | Petrol rationing introduced because of petrol blockades from the Middle East due to the Suez Crisis. (29th Nov 1956) |
| 60th | At the Lord Mayor's Show in London, the first Routemaster forms part of the procession, advertised as "London's Bus Of The Future". (9th Nov 1956) |
| 60th | Long-running television programme What the Papers Say airs for the first time. (5th Nov 1956) |
| 70th | Eight British Army servicemen are killed in Jerusalem by Jewish terrorists. (17th Nov 1946) |
| 70th | Stevenage is designated by the government as Britain's first new town to relieve overcrowding and replace bombed homes in London. (11th Nov 1946) |
| 70th | Peter Scott opens the Slimbridge Wetland Reserve in Gloucestershire. (10th Nov 1946) |
| 70th | Shooting of Margaret Cook in Carnaby Street, London. (9th Nov 1946) |
| 70th | First Royal Command Performance at a public cinema, the Empire, Leicester Square: premiere of the Powell and Pressburger film A Matter of Life and Death starring David Niven. (1st Nov 1946) |
| 75th | The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. (13th Nov 1941) |
| 80th | In London, the Crystal Palace is destroyed by fire. (30th Nov 1936) |
| 80th | Alan Turing's paper "On Computable Numbers" is formally presented to the London Mathematical Society, introducing the concept of the "Turing machine". (12th Nov 1936) |
| 80th | The BBC initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. (2nd Nov 1936) |
| 100th | First bombing of central London by a fixed-wing aircraft when a German LVG C.II biplane drops 6 bombs near Victoria station. (28th Nov 1916) |
| 100th | Hospital ship HMHS Britannic, designed as the third Olympic-class ocean liner for White Star Line, sinks in the Kea Channel of the Aegean Sea after hitting a mine. 30 lives are lost and, at 48,158 gross register tons, she is the largest ship lost during WW1. (21st Nov 1916) |
| 400th | Sir Edward Coke is dismissed as Chief Justice of the King's Bench by royal prerogative. (14th Nov 1616) |
| 400th | Prince Charles, the 15-year-old surviving son of King James and Anne of Denmark, is invested as Prince of Wales at Whitehall, the last such investiture until 1911. (4th Nov 1616) |
| 800th | Marshal and the papal legate to England, Guala Bicchieri, issue a Charter of Liberties, based on the Magna Carta, in the King's name from Bristol. (12th Nov 1216) |
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