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. Guest speaker is Steve Burns on his book Once a Splendid Coin.

November 18

* 5pm: Monthly meeting of the Wagga Rail Heritage Association at Wagga Railway Station

November 19

* 7.30pm: Monthly meeting, Wagga and District Family History Society, Tarakan Avenue. Guest speaker is Sharryn O'Shaughnessey. Phone 6925 0319 for details.

Compiled from The Daily Advertiser by the Wagga and District Historical Society

25 years ago

* Former Wagga Tigers Australian Rules fullback and Kangaroos Rugby League centre and winger Col Lyons along with former Turvey Park Australian Rules wingman Fred Arrowsmith are competing in this year’s San Isadore Gift sprint event.

* Kendell Airlines has lodged a submission with the Air Transport Council and if successful will begin Sydney-Wagga and Sydney-Griffith-Narrandera flights in May 1990.

* Wagga City Council’s Sport, Recreation and Parks committee has approved an application from the Wagga sub-branch of the RSL to build a circular memorial with an eternal flame behind the existing memorial arch. However the committee knocked back a request to contribute $15,000 towards the expected cost of $45,000.

* The recent Wagga Police Charity Golf Day raised $5,000 which was donated to the Kurrajong Complex and the Police Citizens Youth Club. Pictured at the presentation ceremony were Snr Const Fred Loneragan of the PCYC and Cathie Smith from Kurrajong along with Det Sgt Graeme Winson, Chief Inspector, Kevin Wales and Snr Const Mick Bish.

* Her great-grandmothers broach was worn as something old by Tanya Maree Pascoe for her marriage to Michael Francis Wealands in St Michael’s Cathedral. Tanya is the eldest daughter of Robert and Kerry Pascoe of Wagga and Michael is the only son of Lorna Wealands of Wagga and the late Ralph Wealands.

* Wagga’s Town Clerk and city engineer have been asked to look at sources of additional funding for rural roads. Vice chairman of Council’s works committee, Ald Bob Osborne said new construction of rural roads was delayed last year for economic reasons but he did not want to see it done again.

50 years ago

* Wagga Beach Lifesaving Club patrols rescued three young people at the Wagga Beach yesterday. Patrol captain Bruce Inglis, club captain Roy Cox and vice-president Albert Burgmann went to the aid of a 17 year old Canberra girl who got into difficulties about 30 yards from shore. Burgmann who was fully dressed stripped to his under-clothes as he dashed into the water.

* Fire completely destroyed a house in the Wagga Agricultural College grounds. The fouse was the residence of deputy principal of the College, Mr. J. Sutherland and his family.

* A 160 acre property, four miles from Wagga, “Portion Eunonyhareenyha”was sold for £126 per acre.

* “Milton Park” four miles south of The Rock is one of the likely sites for the proposed hill climb being planned by the Wagga and District Car Club.

* A two over par 72 by Jack Lovett, playing off 14 handicap, highlighted the stableford event at the Country Club.

* The Mayor, Ald. I.J. Jack said numerous convictions with heavy fines were needed to prevent people from riding bicycles at night without lights.

* Wagga City Council has approved the errection of a £60,000 supermarket in Baylis Street on the site of the existing St John’s Hall.

November 15

* 565: Justin II succeeds his uncle Justinian I as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.

* 1859: The first modern revival of the Olympic Games takes place in Athens, Greece.

* 1922: Over 1000 are massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.

* 1943: The Holocaust: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)

November 16

* 1272: While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne.

* 1938: LSD is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland.

November 17

* 1558: Elizabethan era begins: Queen Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by her half-sister Elizabeth I of England.

* 1903: The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").

* 1947: The Screen Actors Guild implements an anti-Communist loyalty oath.

* 1973: Watergate scandal: In Orlando, Florida, U.S. President Richard Nixon tells 400 Associated Press managing editors "I am not a crook."

* 2012: At least 50 schoolchildren are killed in an accident at a railway crossing near Manfalut, Egypt.

November 18

* 326: The old St Peter's Basilica is consecrated.

* 401: The Visigoths, led by king Alaric I, cross the Alps and invade northern Italy.

* 1307: William Tell shoots an apple off his son's head.

* 1926: George Bernard Shaw refuses to accept the money for his Nobel Prize, saying, "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize."

* 1928: Release of the animated short Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchronized sound cartoon, directed by Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks, featuring the third appearances of cartoon characters Mickey Mouse and Minnie Mouse. This is considered by the Disney corporation to be Mickey's birthday.

November 19

* 1493: Christopher Columbus goes ashore on an island he first saw the day before. He names it San Juan Bautista (later renamed Puerto Rico).

* 1990: Pop group Milli Vanilli are stripped of their Grammy Award because the duo did not sing at all on the Girl You Know It's True album. Session musicians had provided all the vocals.

November 20

* 1945: Nuremberg Trials: Trials against 24 Nazi war criminals start at the Palace of Justice at Nuremberg.

* 1992: In England, a fire breaks out in Windsor Castle, badly damaging the castle and causing over £50 million worth of damage.

November 21

* 164 BC: Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. This event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.

* 1877: Thomas Edison announces his invention of the phonograph, a machine that can record and play sound.

* 1905: Albert Einstein's paper, "Does the Inertia of a Body Depend Upon Its Energy Content?", is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. This paper reveals the relationship between energy and mass. This leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula E = mc².