21 November 1974 -Two bombs rip through the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 and injuring 220. The IRA are blamed for the attack which was eventually to lead to the conviction of several innocent Irish citizens.

Among  the victims were 17 year old Paul Anthony Davis ( pictured) and his friend Neil Marsh who at the age of 16 was the youngest victim of the most murderous terrorist attack on British mainland.   

21 November 1974 -Two bombs rip through the Mulberry Bush and Tavern in the Town pubs in Birmingham, killing 21 and injuring 220. The IRA are blamed for the attack which was eventually to lead to the conviction of several innocent Irish citizens.

Among  the victims were 17 year old Paul Anthony Davis ( pictured) and his friend Neil Marsh who at the age of 16 was the youngest victim of the most murderous terrorist attack on British mainland.   

20 November 2015 - Benjamin Clementine debut album At Least for Now wins the 2015 Mercury Prize

20 November 2015 - Benjamin Clementine debut album At Least for Now wins the 2015 Mercury Prize

19 November 2019 -A Metropolitan police chief who was sent an unsolicited video of child sexual abuse via WhatsApp is convicted of possessing indecent images on her phone.

Supt Robyn Williams, 54, was found guilty by a jury at the Old Bailey and potentially faces being sacked after 36 years of distinguished service.

Williams was at a gym class in February 2018 when she was sent the video via WhatsApp on her phone by her sister, who was outraged by its content and wanted the person behind it caught.

Under the law on possessing indecent images, it was for Williams to prove she had a legitimate reason to have it, or that she had not seen the video and did not have reason to believe it was indecent.

Williams, who had denied possessing an indecent image of a child, looked stunned as the jury delivered its 10-to-one majority verdict after more than 10 hours of deliberation. She was found not guilty of corruptly failing to report the image, after the jury rejected the prosecution’s claim that Williams had seen a thumbnail of the image, and thus was aware of its serious nature, but failed to report it because she feared getting her sister into trouble.

Williams maintained she never saw the thumbnail; it was accepted she never played the 1min video. The prosecution alleged Williams was lying to protect her sister.

Williams, who was honoured for her work after the Grenfell fire disaster, is one of the most senior female African-Caribbean police officers.

The jury heard she was a founder member of the National Black Police Association, helped set up a gay police association, campaigned for more women in policing and had received the Queen’s police medal.

With thanks to The Guardian for the above information.

18 November 1990 -  Nigel Benn vs. Chris Eubank I  professional boxing match takes place.Both Benn and Eubank fought at middleweight and super middleweight around the same time in 1985–97, and became rivals on both the domestic and world boxing scene.Eubank's constant pressure and surprisingly hard punching, combined with his unusual style, slowly but surely wears Benn down, as Michael Watson had done 18 months earlier. The fight ends by TKO at 2:56 in round 9 of 12.

17 November 2001- Lennox Lewis regains his undisputed World Heavyweight Title by winning the rematch vs Hasim Rahman

16 November 1985 -My Beautiful Laundrette is released. This was a  British comedy-drama film directed by Stephen Frears from a screenplay by Hanif Kureishi. The film was also one of the first films released by Working Title Films.

The story is set in London during the Thatcher years, as reflected in the complex—and often comical—relationships between members of the Pakistani and English communities. The story focuses on Omar, played by Gordon Warnecke, a young Pakistani man living in London, and his reunion and eventual romance with his old friend, a street punk named Johnny, played by Daniel Day-Lewis. The two become the caretakers and business managers of a launderette originally owned by Omar's uncle Nasser.

The British Film Institute ranked My Beautiful Laundrette the 50th greatest British film of the 20th century.

15 November 1974 - Pick a Dub becomes the first Dub alum to be released in the UK 

The  1974 album was produced by Jamaican producer and musician Keith Hudson. Critically well received, it is widely regarded as an important work in the dub music genre which evolved out of reggae. Featuring remixes of earlier material, it focuses on heavy drums and bass guitar, with echoing vocals to underscore the intense percussive rhythm. Carlton and Aston Barrett and Augustus Pablo contributed music, while vocal fragments include Hudson, Horace Andy and Big Youth

14 November 2015 -  The Prime Minister of India Narendra Modi unveils the Memorial and Blue Plaque for Dr. Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar at a North London Townhouse , 10 King Henry's Road. 

B. R. Ambedkar was the Indian polymath  and the architect of the Constitution of India, and he lived there during his post-graduate student days in 1921-22. 

13 November 2013 - John Archer Blue Plaque unveiled at his former home. He was the former Mayor of Battersea and the first black person to hold a senior public office in London. He lived at 55 Brynmaer Road in Battersea for almost 20 years, including the period of his most significant political achievements.

• 12 November 2015 -'Jihadi John' real name, real name is Mohammed Emwazi. an ISIS fighter, believed to be from Britain,is killed in a US Drone strike in Raqqa , Syria. Emwazi  appeared in a number of Islamic State videos. He was first seen in the brutal beheading of American journalist James Foley, and was heard speaking with a London accent.

11 November 2014 - The Black Cultural Archives host a 100th Anniversary Memorial Event of the beginning of the 1st World War to honour the nearing 2 million Solidrs of African & Carribean descent and nations that fought across the two great wars.

7 November 2019 -  A police constable is  charged with murdering Dalian Atkinson in a clash during which a stun gun and other force was used on the former footballer.

Atkinson, who played for Aston Villa and Manchester City, died, aged 48, after the fracas outside his father’s home in Telford, Shropshire, in the early hours of 15 August 2016.

The Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) said on Thursday that two officers, both police constables with the West Mercia force, were facing charges. One had been charged with murder, which carries a sentence of life imprisonment, and also faced an alternate charge of manslaughter. The other had been charged with assault causing actual bodily harm.

Neither officer has been named.

The incident was investigated by the police watchdog after officers from the West Mercia force used a Taser as they tried to detain Atkinson, and other force.

The Independent Office for Police Conduct then referred the case to the CPS in October 2018 to consider whether any criminal charges should be brought.

The IOPC had previously said of its inquiry: “The investigation gathered evidence which indicates that police contact with Mr Atkinson involved the use of a Taser, followed by a period of restraint and other uses of force.”

It is rare for an officer to face a charge of murder for their actions while performing their duties.

Those involved in this case face a further wait until criminal trials next year.

See Also Timeline 15 August 2016

With thanks to The Guardian for the above information. 

5 November 2009 - The Octavia Foundation in partnership with the Nubian Jak Community Trust  unveila Blue Plaque to commemorate and celebrate the life and achievements of Amy Ashwood Garvey.

The unveiling took place at 1 Bassett Road, London W10 , conducted by Jamaican High Commissioner, Burchell Whiteman and the Mayor of RBKC, Timothy Coleridge.

Amy Ashwood Garvey was the first wife of Marcus Garvey and lived at 1 Bassett Road from 1934 until 1960. She was a highly influential figure in west London during her lifetime, both as a campaigner for human rights and a pan-Africanist.- See Hall of Fame for a Biography of Amy Garvey.

4 November 2015 -This year’s Mobo awards are  a triumph for UK rap and grime artists, with south London MC Stormzy picking up best male act and best grime act and rap duo Krept and Konan also taking home two awards.Section Boyz are awarded Best Newcomers Act.Actor Sir Lenny Henry is presented with a Paving the Way Award. 

3 November 2019 -Lewis Hamilton seals his sixth world drivers' title with second place in the United States Grand Prix.

The result means Hamilton becomes the second most successful F1 driver of all time - moving him to within one championship of all-time record-holder Michael Schumacher, whose tally of seven is now within his reach.

Hamilton failed in a valiant attempt to win the race by trying a different strategy to Mercedes team-mate Valtteri Bottas but that did not matter such was his points advantage.

Hamilton held off Max Verstappen for second as Bottas stroked to victory.

2 November 2006 -SBTV is formed. SB.TV Global Ltd,  a multi-faceted company run by a small team of young people who work on web-based content, generally with a new music angle. The media platform has its origins and roots in urban music. Within a decade its Founder (Jamal Edwards) still only 23 , is an MBE and multi-millionare 

1 November 2018 - The Mental Health Units (Use of Force) Act 2018 gains Royal Assent. This  Act to make provision about the oversight and management of the appropriate use of force in relation to people in mental health units; to make provision about the use of body cameras by police officers in the course of duties in relation to people in mental health units. 

The Act is known as Seni’s Law, after 23 year-old Seni Lewis who died after being restrained by 11 police officers called to the Bethlem Royal hospital in London on 31 August  2010. Seni, an IT graduate, had been admitted to the hospital as a voluntary patient.. The bill was the result of a passionate campaign by the local Labour MP(Steve Reed) that won the support of the Conservative Government to make parliamentary time available to enact this legislation.   

31 October 1978 -Empire Road a soap-style drama created by Michael Abbensetts and set in Birmingham's West Indian and Asian communities, begins a two-series run on BBC2.

The series was the first British television series to be written, acted and directed predominantly by black artists. A soap opera, similar in format to Coronation Street, Empire Road depicted life for the African-Caribbean, East Indian and South Asian residents of a racially diverse street in the city of Birmingham.

Cast members included Norman Beaton, Corinne Skinner-Carter, Wayne Laryea, Joseph Marcell, Rudolph Walker and Rosa Roberts. The programme also provided early TV exposure for Julie Walters who appeared in a few episodes. 

The eponymously named theme song was recorded by Matumbi and also released as a single in 1978.

The general premise of the series concerns the day-to-day life of a residential property landlord who also owns a minimarket - where his brother-in-law is a junior partner - and sometimes deals with social concerns of the time, namely race issues, family issues and mixed relationships. Problems that arise are usually solved or at least calmed by the protagonist family's patriarch using reasoning based on his life experience, wisdom and common sense. Some of the younger characters affectionately regard him as a benign 'godfather' figure. The patriarch's son runs a dry-cleaning business.

30 October 1997 -Patricia Janet Scotland becomes First BME female government Minister –as Baroness Scotland of Asthal

29 October 1993 , billed as "The Tulsa Shootout",  for the WBO Heavyweight Championship. -Michael Bentt  beats  Tommy Morrison. Morrison had reached an agreement to face the undefeated Lennox Lewis for Lewis' WBC heavyweight title.However, before moving on to face Lewis, Morrison chose to first defend his WBO title against the virtually unknown Michael Bentt, who was a highly decorated amateur, but had only 11 fights in five years as a professional.

28 October 2012 - A blue plaque, organised by the Nubian Jak Community Trust, is  unveiled at Tottenham Old Town Hall in tribute to Bernie Grant

27 October 1943 - Nigeria’s Nurse Ademola (Pictured),  trained as a midwife at Guy’s Hospital during the Second World War. There was a small black presence in British hospitals long before Windrush - See Timeline 25 August 1939  

26 October 2019 -A new public artwork commemorating the 1977 Battle of Lewisham was formally unveiled at Goldsmiths, University of London 

On 13 August 1977 an estimated 500 National Front marchers were met by 4,000 counter-protestors as they attempted to march from New Cross to Lewisham, south east London, resulting in violent clashes.

The Battle of Lewisham, as it became known, marked the first time a National Front march was prevented from reaching its destination, and also saw the first deployment of riot shields by police on the UK mainland.

The mural was created through a collaboration between local community groups and graphic designer Ted Low, a Goldsmiths graduate, and is formed from a collage of images by five photographers who captured the events of 13 August 1977.

Printed on vinyl mounted on aluminium sheeting, the mural is 8.5 metres long by 3 metres high and has been installed on the wall of the Rutherford Building (housing the Goldsmiths Library) facing onto Lewisham Way in New Cross. 

With thanks to Goldsmith University for the abobe information.