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On this day November 10-16 (week 46)
November 10, 2024 - November 16, 2024 - Graphics show birthdays and anniversaries on each day for the week. This week features the Great Wall of China, Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, trapeze artist Jules Leotard, the Rotolactor milking platform, the high-speed Eurostar rail service, the republic of Brazil and the Murray River of Australia.
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November 10, 1957: The Great Wall of China opened to tourists for the first time. The section that was opened was built in the Ming Dynasty, between 1368 and 1644
November 11, 2004: Veteran Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat, symbol of his people’s struggle for nationhood for 40 years, died in a French military hospital at the age of 75
November 12, 1859: Jules Leotard performed the world’s first flying trapeze act at the Cirque Napoleon in Paris. The body-hugging costume he wore was later named after him
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, 1889: Brazil was declared a republic when the country’s second and final emperor, Pedro II, was deposed in a coup d’etat led by Marshal Deodoro da Fonseca
November 16, 1824: Australia’s longest waterway, the Murray River, was discovered. Much of its 2,508km course forms the border between the states of New South Wales and Victoria