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12 November 1990: Tim Berners-Lee sets out to build the World Wide Web
Features On this day in 1990, Sir Tim Berners-Lee set out his proposals for creating the World Wide Web.
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11 November 1887: work begins on the Manchester Ship Canal
Features On this day in 1887, work began on digging the 36-mile-long Manchester Ship Canal, which would enable the city’s exporters to bypass the expensive port of Liverpool.
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10 November 1980: Michael Foot elected Labour leader
Features On this day in 1980, Michael Foot won the Labour party leadership election, steering the party into its worst-ever general election defeat.
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10 November 1908: First Gideon Bibles placed in hotel rooms
Features On this day in 1908, the Gideons placed their first 25 Bibles in the rooms of the Superior Hotel in Superior, Montana.
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9 November 1989: the fall of the Berlin Wall
Features On this day in 1989, thousands of East German citizens flooded over the border between East and West as the Berlin Wall fell.
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7 November 1917: The Russian Winter Palace falls
Features On this day in 1917, the seat of government – the Winter Palace in St Petersburg – fell to the Bolsheviks, cementing communist rule in Russia.
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6 November 1928: Jacob Schick patents the first electric razor
Features On this day in 1928, Jacob Schick was issued a patent for the electric razor after he invented one based on the reloading mechanism of a repeating rifle.
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6 November 1928: Herbert Hoover elected US president
Features On this day in 1928, Herbert Hoover won the US presidential election, ushering in an era of disastrous economic policies.
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5 November 1925: Britain’s real-life James Bond is killed
Features Sidney Reilly, one of Britain's greatest spies, and the inspiration for James Bond, was executed in Russia on this day in 1925.
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