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

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

1907  On November - 07 maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)   

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on November - 07.   

1909  Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama on this day in history.   

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 November - 07.   

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

1911  On this day in history walter Shlomo Gross, journalist   

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 this day in history.   

1914  On November - 07 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 this day in history 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  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on November - 07.   

1918  Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets on this day in history.   

1918  On this day in history the birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist   

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

1918  Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) on November - 07.   

1919  US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers on this day in history.   

1919  Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on November - 07.   

1921  Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC on November - 07.   

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  John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723) was born on this day in history.   

1656  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on this day in history.   

1687  On November - 07 birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)   

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

1706  On November - 07 birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

0644  On this day in history death of umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam   

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

1573  On November - 07 solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies   

1581  On this day in history death of richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar   

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