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 this day in history.   

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

1900  Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) on this day in history.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1905  On November - 07 william Alwyn, composer   

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

1907  Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico on November - 07.   

1907  On this day in history maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)   

1908  On November - 07 dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

1909  On November - 07 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 this day in history.   

1912  On November - 07 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 this day in history.   

1914  Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai on November - 07.   

1914  On November - 07 r[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)   

1915  Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill) on November - 07.   

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

1916  Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising on November - 07.   

1916  On November - 07 joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)   

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

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks on November - 07.   

1917  On November - 07 andras Mihaly, composer   

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

1918  The birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist on this day in history.   

1918  United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed on this day in history.   

1918  On November - 07 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  On November - 07 al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)   

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

1598  On this day in history birth of francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)   

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

1650  On November - 07 birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on November - 07.   

1687  William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765) was born on November - 07.   

1692  Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) was born on November - 07.   

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  Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1225  Death of Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

1573  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on this day in history.   

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

1599  Death of Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) on November - 07.