Historical Events In November - 07

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

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

1900  Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) on November - 07.   

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

1902  On this day in history 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  William Alwyn, composer on November - 07.   

1906  Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72) on November - 07.   

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  On November - 07 dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

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 this day in history.   

1911  On this day in history 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 November - 07.   

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

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

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

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

1916  Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes) on this day in history.   

1917  On November - 07 british capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks   

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

1919  On this day in history uS police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers   

1919  Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on November - 07.   

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

1922  On November - 07 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 this day in history 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 this day in history.   

1656  On this day in history 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  Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) was born on November - 07.   

1706  On November - 07 birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

0644  On November - 07 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  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  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on this day in history.   

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

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