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

1902  Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) on November - 07.   

1903  On November - 07 albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist   

1905  William Alwyn, composer on November - 07.   

1906  On November - 07 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  Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) on November - 07.   

1908  On this day in history dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

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

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 November - 07.   

1911  On November - 07 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  On this day in history albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)   

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

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 this day in history.   

1916  On this day in history woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President   

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

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 this day in history.   

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

1918  On this day in history united Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed   

1918  On this day in history billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)   

1919  US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers on November - 07.   

1919  On November - 07 hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56   

1921  Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC on this day in history.   

1922  On this day in history al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)   

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0630  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) was born on November - 07.   

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  John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723) was born on November - 07.   

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 November - 07.   

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

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

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

0739  Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

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 this day in history solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies   

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

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