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Today is

Sunday

17

November

2024

Sunday, November 17, 2024, 10:50 (GMT).
The current time in London is 10:50.

Samantha Harvey

Samantha Harvey (pictured) wins the Booker Prize for her novel Orbital.
Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby announces his resignation as a result of the John Smyth abuse scandal in the Church of England.
In Zhuhai, China, 35 people are killed in a vehicle-ramming attack.
Alliance for Change, led by Navin Ramgoolam, wins the Mauritian general election.

Campaign poster for the 1917 Łódź City Council election

... that socialists received 31 percent of the vote in the 1917 Łódź City Council election (campaign poster pictured), but the system implemented by the German occupying authorities only gave them 8 percent of the seats?
... that Samuel Lander founded the Williamston Female College in an abandoned hotel?
... that Leon Trotsky frequented a Jewish dairy restaurant in the Bronx but refused to tip, and the waiters retaliated by spilling hot soup on him?
... that Roger Farmer, the first NFL player from Barbados, reached the league after playing for schools that a newspaper described as having "terrible records"?
... that a recurrent famine has haunted Madagascar's southern regions since the 1930s?
... that Georgina Sutton was the first woman to be appointed the chief pilot of an Australian airline?
... that the ballot summary for 2024 Ohio Issue 1 was a flashpoint for legal action?
... that ballerina Marina Kondratyeva served the Bolshoi Ballet and its school for over 70 years?
... that Eternity in Flames, now commonly shown in Chinese schools, was banned during the Cultural Revolution?

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