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 November - 07.   

1900  Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses on November - 07.   

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

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

1902  On November - 07 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  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on this day in history.   

1909  On November - 07 knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama   

1910  On November - 07 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  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 November - 07.   

1915  On November - 07 austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)   

1916  Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President on November - 07.   

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

1916  On this day in history joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)   

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

1917  On November - 07 british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on this day in history.   

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

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

1919  On November - 07 uS police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers   

1919  On this day in history hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56   

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

1922  Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) on November - 07.   

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0630  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) was born on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  On November - 07 birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen   

1687  William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765) was born on this day in history.   

1692  On November - 07 birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)   

1706  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)