Page 6: Historical Events In November - 04

1951  In this year, 9th Ryder Cup: US claims 9½-2½ at Pinehurst Resort (Pinehurst, North Carolina, US).   

1952  Eisenhower (R) elected 34th President beating Adlai Stevenson (D)   

1952  Earthquake and flood strike Kamshatka-South America.   

1953  Eddie Joost succeeds Jimmy Dykes as the manager of Phila A's.   

1953  Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge, composer, dies at 89.   

1954  "Fanny" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 888 performances   

1954  Stig H Dagerman, Swedish author (Burned Child), dies at 31.   

1955  The rebuilt Vienna State Opera reopens with Ludwig van Beethoven's Fidelio after it was totally destroyed in World War II.   

1956  200000 Russian troops attack anti-Stalinist revolt in Budapest.   

1956  Israel captures Straits of Tiran from Egypt.   

1956  Art[hur] Tatum, US jazz pianist/composer, dies at 46.   

1957  2nd Soviet Earth-satellite launched.   

1957  Marie Joseph Canteloube de Malaret, composer, dies at 78   

1963  John Lennon utters his infamous "Rattle your jewelry" line   

1965  Lee Breedlove sets female land speed record (308.56 MPH).   

1965  Krsto Odak, composer, dies at 77   

1966  Flooding of Arno River (Italy) destroys countless art works.   

1967  Landing craft from USS Navarro (APA-215) rescue 43 men from British SS Habib Marikar aground on a reef at Lincoln Island in the Tonkin Gulf   

1967  June Thorburn, actress (Tom Thumb), dies in plane crash at 36.   

1968  Paul JM Lindemans, Flemish agricultural engineer/author, dies at 78.   

1969  Carlos Marighela, Brazilian guerilla, dies in battle.   

1971  USS Nathanael Greene (SSBN-636) launches a Poseidon C-3 missile in inaugural surface launch of Poseidon missile   

1973  Karl H Waggerl, Austria author (Green Friends), dies at 75.   

1974  Edgar Fernhout, Dutch painter/son of Charley Toorop, dies at 62.   

1975  Sheila Ryan, actress(Song of Texas, Great Guns), dies at 54.   

1978  Iranian troops fire on anti-Shah student protesters by Tehran U   

1979  500 Iranian "students" seize US embassy, take 90 hostages (444 days).   

1980  Ronald Reagan (R) beats President Jimmy Carter (R) by a landslide.   

1980  Ronald Reagan elected 40th President of the US.   

1981  Columbia shuttle launch scrubbed with 31 secs remaining   

1982  Dominique Dunne, actress (Poltergeist), murdered by boyfriend at 23   

1984  Nicaragua holds inaugural free elections in 56 years; Sandinistas win 63%   

1984  Merie Earle, actress (Maude-Waltons), dies of uremic poisoning at 95   

1986  Democrats gain control over the US Senate   

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1448  King alphonso ii of naples: King alphonso ii of naples (d. 1495)   

1575  Guido reni: Italian painter   

1587  Samuel scheidt: German organist/composer, baptised   

1590  Gerard van honthorst: Dutch painter   

1640  Carlo mannelli: Composer   

1650  William iii of orange: King of england (1689-1702)   

1656  Leonard sailer: Composer   

1661  Karl iii philip: Elector palatine   

0644  Omar i: Arabic 2nd kalief of islam, murdered   

1203  Dirk vii: Count of holland (1190-1203),   

1411  Khalil sultan: Ruler of transoxonia (b. 1384)   

1652  Jean-charles de la faille: Flemish mathematician (b. 1597)   

1658  Antoine le maistre: French jansenist (b. 1608)   

1669  Death of Johannes cocceius: Dutch theologian (b. 1603)   

1674  Death of Kano tanjoe: Japanese painter (palaces, portraits),   

1698  Death of Rasmus bartholin: Danish physician and mathematician (b. 1625)