Page 5: Historical Events In November - 12

1936  Mort Shuman, rocker   

1937  Ina Balin, Brooklyn NY, actress (Danger in Paradise).   

1937  Harry Smith, England cricket wicket-keeper (v WI 1928), dies.   

1938  Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland   

1939  Jews of Lodz Poland are ordered to wear yellow armbands   

1939  Jews in Lodz Poland ordered to wear yellow star of David.   

1939  Ruby Nash Curtis, US singer (Romantics-Our Day Will Come)   

1939  (Ernest YY) Oscar Tourniaire, actor (Bluejackets), dies at 59   

1940  Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)   

1940  Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers.   

1940  Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34   

1941  Germany's drive to take Moscow halted   

1941  Frank Rosenthal, rocker   

1941  Abe "Kid Twist" Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed.   

1942  North Africa west of Algiers is subdued by Allied forces   

1942  In World War II, battle of Guadalcanal began   

1943  Landwacht (NSB-political party) forms in Netherlands.   

1943  Brian Hyland, Queens NY, rocker (She Wore an Itsy Bitsy ... Bikini).   

1944  The German battleship Tirpitz is sunk off the Norwegian coast.   

1944  RAF sink German battleship "Tirpitz" at Tromso Fjord Norway.   

1944  Edgar Stillman Kelley, US composer (Gulliver), dies at 87   

1945  Canadian rock musician Neil Young is born   

1945  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Cordell Hull (establishing UN)   

1946  inaugural drive-in bank window established (Chicago).   

1946  Walt Disney's "Song Of The South" released.   

1946  1st "autobank" (banking by car) forms (Chicago)   

1947  KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)   

1947  Emmuska Orczy, British author (Scarlet Pimpernel), dies at 82.   

1948  Japanese premier Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal   

1948  Umberto Giordano, composer, dies at 81   

1949  Hendrik A de Fish, [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64   

1950  Gene Roberts sets NFL NY Giant rushing record (218 yds) vs Chic Cards   

1951  17 die in a train crash in Woodstock AL.   

1951  "Paint Your Wagon" opens at Shubert Theater NYC for 289 performances   

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1493  Bartolomeo bandinelli: Italian sculptor   

1528  Qi jiguang: Chinese general   

1547  Claude of valois: French princess   

1606  Jeanne mance: French canadian settler   

1615  Richard baxter: English clergyman   

1651  Juana ines de la cruz: Mexico, poet/nun/feminist (primero sueno)   

1676  Giovanni antonio pollarolo: Composer   

1729  Louis antoine de bougainville: French explorer   

0607  Boniface iii: Italian pope (607),   

1035  Death of Canute "the great": King of the danes (1016-1035),   

1094  King duncan ii of scotland: King duncan ii of scotland (b. 1060)   

1202  Knut vi: King of the denen/turn (1182-1202),   

1434  Death of King louis iii of naples: King louis iii of naples   

1555  Death of Stephen gardiner: English bishop of winchester,   

1558  Shalom shakna ben joseph: Rabbi (founder of 1st polish yeshiva),   

1567  Death of Anne pierre adrien duke of montmorency: Marshal of france,