Historical Events In November - 07

1900  On this day in history sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa  

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

1900  On this day in history efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)  

1901  On November - 07 li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies  

1902  Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) on this day in history.  

1903  Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist on this day in history.  

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 this day in history dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico  

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

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1911  Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist on November - 07.  

1912  The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio on November - 07.  

1913  On November - 07 albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)  

1914  On November - 07 japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai  

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  Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President on this day in history.  

1916  On November - 07 grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising  

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  Andras Mihaly, composer on this day in history.  

1918  Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets on November - 07.  

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

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 November - 07.  

1922  On November - 07 al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)  

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0630  On November - 07 birth of constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)  

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on this day in history.  

1619  On this day in history 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  On this day in history birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen  

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

1692  Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) was born on this day in history.  

1706  Carlo Cecere, composer was born on this day in history.  

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

0739  On November - 07 willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81  

1225  On this day in history 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 this day in history.  

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

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 this day in history.  

1599  On November - 07 death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)