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 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  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 November - 07.   

1905  William Alwyn, composer on this day in history.   

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

1907  On November - 07 dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico   

1907  On November - 07 maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)   

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on this day in history.   

1909  On this day in history 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 November - 07.   

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

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 this day in history.   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

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

1916  On November - 07 joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)   

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks on this day in history.   

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks on this day in history.   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on November - 07.   

1918  On this day in history goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

1918  On this day in history 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 this day in history.   

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

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0630  On November - 07 birth of constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)   

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on November - 07.   

1619  On this day in history 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  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on this day in history.   

1687  On November - 07 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 this day in history.   

0644  Death of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam on November - 07.   

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 this day in history.   

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 November - 07 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 this day in history.   

1599  Death of Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) on November - 07.