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 this day in history.   

1900  On November - 07 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  Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) on November - 07.   

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 November - 07.   

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 November - 07.   

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

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

1911  On November - 07 walter Shlomo Gross, journalist   

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

1913  Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957) on November - 07.   

1914  Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai on this day in history.   

1914  R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead) on November - 07.   

1915  On this day in history austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)   

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

1916  Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising on this day in history.   

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  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  On November - 07 andras Mihaly, composer   

1918  On November - 07 goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

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

1918  United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed on November - 07.   

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  Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on this day in history.   

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

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 November - 07.   

1598  On this day in history birth of francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)   

1619  Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692) was born on this day in history.   

1650  On this day in history birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on November - 07.   

1687  On this day in history birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)   

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

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  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 November - 07.   

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

1573  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on November - 07.   

1581  On November - 07 death of richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar   

1599  On this day in history death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)