Coming events collated by the Wagga and District Historical Society
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November 1
* 10am: Wagga and District Family History Society. Open morning for beginners. Phone 6925 0319 for details.
November 2
* 10.30am: Historic Engine Club Museum, Baden Powell Drive opens today.
November 9
* 2pm: Tumbarumba Historical Society meeting, recent local Aboriginal heritage research and findings, Wenoma Gallery Phone 6948 3262.
November 15
* Wagga Antiques Society AGM and Christmas party, 98 Gurwood Street.
November 16
* 10.30am: Historic Engine Club Museum, Baden Powell Drive opens today.
November 17
* 7.30pm: Wagga and District Historical Society meeting, Museum of the Riverina, Botanic Gardens. Stuart Webster will be the guest speaker.
November 18
* 5pm: Monthly meeting Wagga Rail Heritage Association at Wagga Railway Station.
Compiled from The Daily Advertiser by the Wagga and District Historical Society
25 years ago
* Spectacular fireworks and first class music from five bands ended the annual Beating the Retreat Ceremony at Kapooka. More than 3000 people attended and the ceremony aided the Kapooka Chapel Appeal.
* Bi-Lo “Cheap Groceries” Supermarket opens at the Riverina Plaza on the corner of Berry and Forsyth Streets.
* The cream of this season’s flower crop are displayed at this year’s St Aidan’s Flower Show. Thelma Harrison, Sylvia Murrell and Shirley Crowley are pictured in The Daily Advertiser admiring Ruth Lennon’s champion entry of Azaleas.
* Dr Ken Osmond advises that he will soon be ceasing general medical practice at Wall Street, North Wagga and will confine himself to the role of student health officer at Charles Sturt University.
* The Imperial Hotel advertised that every Wednesday night was College Night with drinks from $1.10
* Finco Road Pantry in Edward Street announce that their convenience store and Ampol filling station will commence 24-hour trading
* Clare Brassil was awarded the Wagga Eisteddfod Cup for best overall effort. She spends four hours a day practising the cello and travels to Canberra once a week for lessons. She also studies elective music at Mt Erin High School.
* The SRCC Green Light tree safety awareness campaign was launched by SRCC Chairman, Cr Rob Yates and assistant general manager, Mr Max Smith.
50 years ago
* Charles Price opens a new £21,000 Pharmacy at 6 Baylis Street next to the South Wagga Post Office.
* Recently engaged couple, Mr John Power of Wagga and Miss Marjorie Smith of Barellan are pictured at Romanos dinner-dance on Saturday night.
* Also at Romano’s dinner dance were Lockhart residents, Miss Leonie Carter, Mr Ian McLeod, Miss Helen Bennett and Mr John Bingham. The two girls were celebrating birthdays.
* Davis Cup tennis player, Tony Roche was best man at the marriage of his sister Carmel to Mr Barry McAlister. The bride is the only daughter of Mr and Mrs A D Roche of Tarcutta.
* Ed Farrah retired as Commodore of the Wagga Boat Club and has been replaced by Bill Cosier who was previously Rear Commodore.
* Wagga Schoolboy, John Worthington, 14, is pictured along Coursing Park with a Patterson’s Curse plant which has grown to the extraordinary height of five foot.
* Wagga Beach Life Saving Club activities will continue as usual despite the river’s rise in height during the week. Fifteen new recruits have joined the club swelling the membership to 65.
* Secretary of the Wagga Association of Civilian Widows, Mrs A Hallam, has been elected country state vice-president of the association.
November 1
1512: Michelangelo paintings on ceiling of Vatican's Sistine Chapel are first exhibited.
1755: Lisbon earthquake kills 60,000.
1945: British announce that all evidence indicates that Adolf Hitler has killed himself in a bunker in Berlin.
1989: After travel restrictions are lifted, hundreds of East Germans throng to the West German embassy in Prague seeking passage to the West.
November 2
1483: Henry Stafford, Duke of Buckingham, is beheaded for his rebellion against King Richard III.
1788: NSW colonial settlement is established at Rose Hill (Parramatta.)
1902: Sydney bather William Gocher is arrested at Manly Beach for wearing a swimsuit in daylight.
1917: Arthur Balfour, British foreign secretary, submits a declaration of intent known as the Balfour Declaration to establish a Jewish homeland in Palestine.
1947: US billionaire-aviator Howard Hughes pilots his huge wooden airplane known as Spruce Goose on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbour, California.
November 3
1534: England's parliament confirms King Henry VIII in all judicial and political powers formerly exercised by the Pope in England.
1824: The first trial by jury is held in Australia.
1957: Soviet Union launches the first inhabited space capsule, Sputnik II, carrying dog Laika.
November 4
1605: In London, Guy Fawkes is arrested under the House of Commons preparing gunpowder to blow up the building when Parliament re-assembled the next day.
1854: Florence Nightingale and team of 38 nurses arrives in the Crimea to set up a hospital for British troops at Scutari.
1993: Thousands of people who received transfusions demand AIDS tests, terrified they may have been given tainted blood from a company in Germany accused of improper testing.
November 5
1556: Akhbar the Great Mughal routes rebelling Hindus under Hemu by turning their elephants against them at the battle of Panipat.
1799: Governor of NSW John Hunter is recalled and Philip Gidley King is named his successor.
1803: First birth in Victoria officially recorded.
1997: A German state court rejects claims of reparation by elderly Jewish women for their slave labour in Auschwitz during WWII.
2013: After two decades of trying, horse trainer Gai Waterhouse wins the Melbourne Cup with Fiorente.
November 6
1429: Henry VI is crowned king of England, seven years after acceding to the throne at the age of eight months.
1860: Abraham Lincoln is elected president of the United States.
1917: In World War I, third battle of Ypres ends after five months when Australians and Canadians take Passchendaele. The advance was just 8km at a cost of at least 240,000 men.
1992: Nuclear technicians begin loading 1.7 tonnes of highly toxic plutonium onto trucks in La Hague for a controversial voyage that will end in Japan.
November 7
335: Athanasius is banished to Trier, on charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople.
1908: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
