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Did you know? QF Focus Magazine
Events throughtout the years on November 14th - QF distribution day
1380 King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12. 1666 Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs). 1680 Gottfried Kirch discovers the Great Comet of 1680 (Kirch's Comet/Newton's Comet). 1698 Spanish king Carlos appoints grandson prince Jozef Ferdinand as heir. 1775 (14 & 15th) Floods ravage Dutch coast provinces. 1792 Captain George Vancouver is first Englishman to enter San Francisco Bay. 1881 Charles J. Guiteau put on trial for the assassination of US President Garfield. 1881 Leon Gambetta forms French government. 1888 St Andrews Golf Club, Yonkers NY, opens with just 6 holes. 1896 Power plant at Niagara Falls begins operation. 1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade. 1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light. 1921 The Communist Party of Spain is founded. 1939 Oil refinery fire kills 500 & destroys Lagunillas, Venezuela. 1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before. 1952 First regular UK singles chart published by the New Musical Express. 1960 2 passenger trains collided at high-speed killing 110 (Czech). 1960 Ray Charles' "Georgia On My Mind" reaches Nº1. 1965 US government sends 90,000 soldiers to Vietnam. 1966 Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title. 1968 First European lung transplant. 1970 DC-9 crashes in West Virginia, 75 killed. 1970 Marshall U football team wiped out in air crash at Kenova WV. 1972 Dow Jones closes above 1,000 for 1st time (1003.16). 1990 Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher's leadership of the British Conservative Party. 1991 Michael Jackson's "Black or White" video premieres on FOX TV. 1994 1st trains for public run in Channel Tunnel under English Channel. 1997 Disney's "Lion King" sets Broadway record of $2,700,000 daily sale. 2001 "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone" the 1st film adaptation of the books by J. K. Rowling, is released starring Daniel Radcliffe. 2006 "Casino Royale", 21st James Bond film premieres in London, starring Daniel Craig. 2010 61st Formula One WDC: Sebastian Vettel wins by four points. 2012 "The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2", based on the book by Stepenie Meyer, directed by Bill Condon, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattison, is released.
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