Page 4: Historical Events In November - 07

1900  Sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa on November - 07.   

1900  Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses on November - 07.   

1900  Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) on November - 07.   

1901  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies on November - 07.   

1902  On November - 07 rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)   

1903  On this day in history albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist   

1905  On this day in history william Alwyn, composer   

1906  On this day in history eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)   

1907  On November - 07 dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico   

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

1910  On this day in history leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS]   

1911  Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist on this day in history.   

1912  On this day in history the Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.   

1913  Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957) on November - 07.   

1914  Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai on this day in history.   

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

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  Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising on this day in history.   

1916  Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes) on November - 07.   

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

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks on this day in history.   

1917  On November - 07 andras Mihaly, composer   

1918  On this day in history goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

1918  On November - 07 the birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist   

1918  On this day in history united Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed   

1918  Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) on this day in history.   

1919  On November - 07 uS police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers   

1919  On November - 07 hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56   

1921  On this day in history ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC   

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

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0630  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) was born on November - 07.   

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

1619  On November - 07 birth of gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)   

1650  John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723) was born on November - 07.   

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 this day in history birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)   

1706  On November - 07 birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

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

0739  On this day in history 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  Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies on this day in history.   

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 November - 07.