Abdur Rahman Khan was Emir of Afghanistan from 1880 to 1901. He is known for uniting the country after years of internal fighting and negotiation of the Durand Line Agreement with British India. Abdur Rahman Khan was the first child and only son of Mohammad Afzal Khan, and grandson of Dost Mohammad Khan.
Blue Whale Challenge
The Blue Whale Challenge, also called Blue Whale game, or simply Blue whale is an internet phenomenon that started in 2016, in Russia. Over a period of 50 days, participants are assigned tasks. Each participant gets one task a day. At first, the tasks are harmless (such as: get up at 4.30am, and watch a horror movie). Later, the tasks require the participants to hurt themselves. The final task requires the player to commit suicide.
When people want to quit, they are threatened. Sometimes, this includes threats to the family of the participant.
The first to report on this was the Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, in 2016. It linked many suicides of children. All these children had been members of the group "F57", in the Russian social network called VK. The article claimed there were 130 suicides because of the challenge. The article was later criticized, because it made connections where none existed. None of the suicides were found to be related to the activities of the group. There were several suicides which have been linked to the challenge. So far, no link has been proven.
Two girls in Irkutslk, aged 14 and 15 years committed suicide together, after solving 50 tasks. They jumped off a building. Another 14 year old threw herself in front of a train.
The Way It Is (Keyshia Cole album)
The Way It Is is the debut studio album by American R&B singer Keyshia Cole; it was released on June 21, 2005, by A&M Records. The album debuted at number 6 on the US "Billboard" 200 and it was supported by five singles, including "Never", "I Changed My Mind", "(I Just Want It) To Be Over", "I Should Have Cheated" and "Love". The album sold 89,000 units in its first week.
The album was certified gold within 17 weeks, and then platinum, only eight weeks later. The album stayed on the charts for over a year, eventually selling over 1.6 million copies and it is Cole's second highest-selling album to date.
Upon its release, "The Way It is" garnered generally favorable reviews from music critics. At Metacritic, which assigns a rated mean out of 100 from mainstream critics, the album received a score of 77. Andy Kellman of Allmusic rated the album four out of five stars. He felt that "from the opener, the album seems to be set up like a linear narrative about a crumbling relationship, but it doesn't quite play out that way, with the scenes shuffled out of order. None of it's all that profound, but Cole sells it all extremely well. [Her] voice is sweet and ringing, like a wiser version of Lil' Mo who has had to weather a tremendous amount of drama. She could be around for a while." Janet Tzou, writing for "Entertainment Weekly" found that "Cole certainly nails all the basics on "The Way It Is": big-name guest talent and husky ballads lamenting those tricky matters of the heart. But Cole's native Oakland, California upbringing gives her vocals depth and her songs a genuine, lived-in feel."
Arecibo Telescope
The Arecibo Telescope is now destroyed by a collapse.
The radio telescope was a spherical reflector dish built into a natural sinkhole at the Arecibo Observatory which was completed in November 1963.
For more than 50 years, the Arecibo Telescope was the world's largest single-aperture telescope. In July 2016 the Five-hundred-meter Aperture Spherical Telescope (FAST) in China was put into service.
On 19 November 2020, the National Science Foundation announced that they would close and dismantle the telescope. On 1 December 2020, the telescope collapsed.
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine
Pfizer–BioNTech COVID-19 vaccine is a COVID-19 vaccine, developed by BioNTech, Pfizer and Fosun Pharmaceutical.
The vaccine is given by injection. It is an RNA vaccine made of nucleoside-modified mRNA which is meant to create spike protein of SARS-CoV-2.
Mony Elkaïm
Mony Elkaïm (7 November 1941 – 20 November 2020) was a Moroccan-Belgian psychiatrist and psychotherapist. He was a part of the anti-psychiatry movement in the 1970s. He was born in Marrakesh, French Morocco.
Elkaïm died on 20 November 2020 in Brussels at the age of 79.
Bonifácio Piccinini
Bonifácio Piccinini (13 May 1929 – 28 November 2020) was a Brazilian Roman Catholic archbishop. He became a priest in 1960. He was titular archbishop of Turres in Byzacena and as coadjutor archbishop of the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Cuiabá Brazil, from 1975 to 1981 and as archbishop of the archdiocese from 1981 to 2004.
Piccinini died on 28 November 2020 at the age of 91.
Peg Murray
Margaret L. "Peg" Murray (February 14, 1924 – November 29, 2020) was an American actress. She was born in Denver, Colorado. She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical for her performance as the villain "Fräulein Kost" in the original Broadway production of "Cabaret" (1966).
Murray died on November 29, 2020 in Southold, New York at the age of 96.
Southold, New York
The Town of Southold is one of ten towns in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The population was 21,968 at the 2010 census.
Southold (CDP), New York
Southold is a census-designated place (CDP) that is in the Town of Southold in Suffolk County, New York, United States. The CDP population was 5,748 at the 2010 census.
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi
Ali-Asghar Shahbazi (; November 1922 – 29 November 2020) was an Iranian actor. He was born in Tehran. He was known for his role as Nader's father in the 2011 drama "A Separation".
Shahbazi died on 29 November 2020 in Tehran from cardiopulmonary arrest at the age of 98.
Liliane Juchli
Liliane Juchli (19 October 1933 – 30 November 2020) was a Swiss nurse and writer. She was a member of the Merciful Sisters of the Holy Cross. She was the main author of an important German-language nursing textbook which was called "the Juchli". She was born in Obersiggenthal, Switzerland.
Juchli died in Bern, Switzerland from COVID-19 on 30 November 2020 at the age of 87.
Roger Chappot
Roger Chappot (17 October 1940 – 7 April 2020) was a Swiss professional ice hockey player. He played for HC Villars and Genève-Servette HC in the National League A. He also represented the Swiss national team at the 1964 Winter Olympics.
Chappot died from COVID-19 during the pandemic on 8 April 2020 at the age of 79.
Aleksandr Shatskikh
Aleksandr Shatskikh (21 January 1974 – 30 November 2020) was a Kazakh footballer. He played as a striker. He was born in Taldıqorğan, Kazakhstan. His career lasted from 1990 to 2009.
Shatskikh played club football for Zhetysu / Taldykorgan, Qaynar, Chkalovets, Astana Aqmola / Zhenis Astana, Irtysh Pavlodar, CSKA-Qayrat Almaty, Esil Bogatyr, Megasport and Lokomotiv Astana.
He appeared once for the Kazakhstan national team in 2003.
Shatskikh died on 30 November 2020, aged 46.
Anne Sylvestre
Anne Sylvestre (, born Anne-Marie Beugras 20 June 1934 – 30 November 2020) was a French singer-songwriter and guitarist. She was born in Lyon, France. She was known for her children's songs such as "Fabulettes" (1962). She also appeared many times as a musical guest on the television program "Discorama".
Sylvestre died in Paris on 30 November 2020 from problems caused by a stroke, aged 86.
Dennis W. Sciama
Dennis William Siahou Sciama, (; 18 November 1926 – 18/19 December 1999) was a British physicist. He was an important scientist for the development of British physics after the Second World War.
He was the PhD supervisor to many famous cosmologists, including Stephen Hawking, Martin Rees and David Deutsch. He is seen as one of the fathers of modern cosmology.
Jane Hawking