Page 4: Historical Events In November - 07

1900  On November - 07 sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa   

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

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  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 this day in history william Alwyn, composer   

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

1907  On this day in history dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico   

1907  Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) on November - 07.   

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on November - 07.   

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

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 this day in history.   

1910  Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] on November - 07.   

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  R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead) on this day in history.   

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

1916  Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President on this day in history.   

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

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

1917  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks   

1917  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on November - 07.   

1918  On this day in history 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  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  On this day in history ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC   

1922  Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) on this day in history.   

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

1598  On November - 07 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 this day in history.   

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

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

1706  Carlo Cecere, composer was born on November - 07.   

0644  Death of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam on this day in history.   

0739  On this day in history 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  On November - 07 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)   

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

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