Page 4: Historical Events In November - 15
Tuesday, 03 February 2026
1898 Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap) 

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill and wife captured in Natal 

1901 Hearing aid patented in New York, by Miller Reese 

1901 Heavyweight James J Jeffries KOs Gus Ruhlin in SF 

1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist. 

1902 Frederico Freitas, composer 

1903 Eugen d'Alberts opera "Tiefland," premieres in Prague. 

1903 Stewie Dempster, cricketer (1st great NZ Test batsman) 

1904 King C Gillette patents Gillette razor blade 

1904 Tilly Losch, Vienna Austria, actress (Garden of Allah) 

1906 Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate 

1907 Count Claus von Stauffenberg, Involved in the attempt on the life of Hitler is born 

1907 Count Claus Schenck von Stauffenberg, German anti fascist colonel 

1907 Horatio Richmond Palmer, composer, dies at 73. 

1908 Cixi [the old Buddha], empress-widow of China, dies 

1909 Don Large, Canada, choral director (Wayne King). 

1910 Wilhelm Raabe, [Jakob Corvinus], German author, dies at 79. 

1911 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 and $10 gold coins. 

1913 Rick Schagen, Dutch actress (Saartje-Swiebertje) 

1914 Ital socialist Benito Mussolini founds newspaper Il populo d'italia. 

1914 Gheorghe Dumitrescu, composer. 

1916 Dame Ruth Nita Barrow, governor-general of Barbados. 

1917 Gerardus H de Bold, bishop of Breda (1962-67) 

1918 Victory' day celebrated in Britain to mark the ending of the inaugural World War 

1918 Georges Antoine, composer, dies at 26 

1919 Senate 1st invokes cloture to end a filibuster (Versailles Treaty). 

1919 Carol Bruce, [Shirley Levy], Great Neck NY, actress (Lillian-WKRP) 

1919 Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies. 

1920 Free City of Danzig established under League of Nations protection. 

1920 League of Nations holds inaugural meeting, in Geneva 

1920 Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg 

1921 KYW-AM in Philadelphia PA begins radio transmissions 

1922 In this year, British Conservative claims election/Labour 2nd party. 

1922 Francesco Rosi, Naples Italy, director (Lucky Luciano). 

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