Page 4: Historical Events In November - 01
Monday, 16 February 2026
1887 Max Trapp, composer. 

1889 North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states. 

1889 Philip John Noel-Baker, statesman/disarmament advocate (Nobel 1959). 

1890 James Barton, NJ, Broadway actor (Tobacco Road, Iceman Cometh) 

1891 Dirk Vollenhoven, Dutch composer/philosopher. 

1891 John A Neuhuys, painter, dies at 59 

1892 Alexander Alekhine, Russia, world chess champion (1927-35, 37-46) 

1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr Roux of Paris 

1894 Aleksandr III A Romanov, czar of Russia (1881-94), dies at 49 

1895 Aleksander Zarzycki, composer, dies at 61 

1896 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag 

1896 Edmund Blunden, English poet/critic (Undertones of War) 

1897 Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill) 

1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA. 

1902 Eugen Jochum, Babenhausen Bavaria, German conductor (Hamburg Orch). 

1903 Don Robey, US gospel singer. 

1903 [Christian M] Theodor Mommsen, German historian (Nobel 1902), dies 

1904 George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London. 

1904 Laura Laplante, St Louis MO, actress (Cat and Canary). 

1907 Rio Gebhardt, composer 

1907 Alfred Jarry, writer, dies at 33 

1909 Bruno Bjelinski, composer. 

1910 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois. 

1911 Introduction of compulsory military training 

1913 Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively. 

1914 The inaugural Division of the AIF sails from Albany, Western Australia, for Egypt 

1914 Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby 

1914 William "Sabby" Lewis, jazz pianist/arranger. 

1914 Christopher "Kit" Cradock, English admiral, dies in battle. 

1915 Parris Island is officially designated a Marine Corps Recruit Depot. 

1915 Carlos A Nicolaas, Bonaire, teacher/poet. 

1916 Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government 

1917 In WW I, the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat. 

1917 Clarence E Miller, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- ) 

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