HISTORY
On this day November 10-16 2019 (week 46)
November 10, 2019 - November 16, 2019 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries for each day of the week.This week features the AK47, the Louvre Abu Dhabi, Marvel comics, the Rotolactor milking platform, the Eurostar rail service connecting London with Paris and Brussels, David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist, and the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan
November 10, 1919: Mikhail Kalashnikov, Russian general and military engineer who designed the AK-47, the world’s most widely used assault rifle, and its variants, was born
November 11, 2017: The Louvre Abu Dhabi, under construction for 10 years, opened. Featuring a vast silver dome filled with art, it was the first museum of its kind in the Arab world
November 12, 2018: Stan Lee, the mastermind behind Marvel comics and creator of iconic characters such as Spider-Man, the Incredible Hulk and the X-Men, died aged 95
November 13, 1930: The Rotolactor, a rotating milking platform invented by Henry W. Jeffers that could milk 1,680 cows in seven hours, was installed at a dairy in New Jersey
November 14, 1994: The first fare-paying passengers travelled on the new high-speed Eurostar rail service, connecting London with Paris and Brussels via the Channel Tunnel
November 15, 2018: David Hockney’s Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures) sold for over $90m at Christie’s, the highest ever auction price for a work by a living artist
November 16, 2018: The wreck of the Argentinian submarine ARA San Juan, which disappeared in November 2017 with 44 crew on board, was found in the South Atlantic