Historical Events In November - 07

1900  On this day in history sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa   

1900  On this day in history battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.   

1900  On this day in history efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)   

1901  On this day in history li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies   

1902  On this day in history rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)   

1903  Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist on November - 07.   

1905  On this day in history william Alwyn, composer   

1906  Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72) on November - 07.   

1907  Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico on this day in history.   

1907  Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) on this day in history.   

1908  On this day in history dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

1909  On this day in history knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama   

1910  On this day in history the first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.   

1910  Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] on November - 07.   

1911  Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist on November - 07.   

1912  The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio on November - 07.   

1913  On this day in history albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)   

1914  On this day in history japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai   

1914  R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead) on this day in history.   

1915  On this day in history austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)   

1916  On November - 07 woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President   

1916  On November - 07 grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising   

1916  Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes) on this day in history.   

1917  On November - 07 british capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks   

1917  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on this day in history.   

1918  On November - 07 goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

1918  The birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist on November - 07.   

1918  On November - 07 united Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed   

1918  On this day in history billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)   

1919  US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers on November - 07.   

1919  Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on this day in history.   

1921  Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1922  Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) on this day in history.   

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0630  On this day in history birth of constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)   

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on November - 07.   

1619  On this day in history birth of gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)   

1650  On this day in history birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  On November - 07 birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen   

1687  On this day in history birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)   

1692  On November - 07 birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)   

1706  On this day in history birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

0644  Death of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam on this day in history.   

0739  On November - 07 willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81   

1225  On November - 07 death of engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40   

1550  Death of Jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484) on November - 07.   

1560  On November - 07 peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies   

1573  On this day in history solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies   

1581  Death of Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar on November - 07.   

1599  Death of Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) on this day in history.