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

1903  On this day in history albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist   

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 this day in history.   

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

1908  On November - 07 dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

1909  On this day in history 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  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  Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai on this day in history.   

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 November - 07.   

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

1916  On this day in history grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising   

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

1921  On this day in history ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC   

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 this day in history.   

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on this day in history.   

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  Carlo Cecere, composer was born on this day in history.   

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 November - 07.   

1225  On November - 07 death of engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40   

1550  On this day in history 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 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  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.