Page 5: Historical Events In November - 20

1916  Ferdinand AM van der Ham, Dutch WW II resistance fighter   

1917  Ukrainian Republic declared.   

1917  USS Kanawha, Noma and Wakiva sink German sub off France.   

1917  1st tank battle (Britain breaks through German lines)   

1917  Max Georg Baumann, composer.   

1918  By order in Council P.C. 2854 the management of the Canadian Government Railways is entrusted to the Board of Directors of the Canadian Northern Railway Co. On the same day the Government takes over the Canadian Northern Railway and appoints a new Board of Directors.   

1918  Dora Ratjen, Germany, man possing as woman high jumper (Oly-4th-1936).   

1919  inaugural municipally owned airport in US opens in Tucson, Az   

1919  1st municipally owned airport in US opens (Tucson Az).   

1919  Dulcie Gray, Kuala Lampur, Malaysia, actress (Mine Own Executioner)   

1920  Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson.   

1920  Armin Schibler, composer.   

1921  Phyllis Thaxter, Portland Maine, actress (Nora, Ft Worth).   

1922  Zoe Akins' "Texas Nightingale," premieres in NYC.   

1923  Garrett Morgan invents and patents traffic signal.   

1923  Beryl Sprinkel, Missouri, economist (Council of Economic Advisers).   

1924  Benoit Mandelbrot, Warsaw Poland, mathematician (proved Zipf's law)   

1925  American politician Robert F. Kennedy is born.   

1925  Queen Alexandra, widow of King Edward VII and mother of King George V dies in England.   

1925  Maya Plisetskaya, Russian Ballerina is born.   

1925  Robert Kennedy, American politician is born.   

1925  Judy Woodruff, news analyst and commentator   

1925  Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80   

1927  Karl Wilhelm Eugen Stenhammer, composer, dies at 56   

1928  Boston Gardens opens, Mont Canadiens beat Boston Bruins, 1-0   

1929  1st broadcast of "Goldbergs" on US radio.   

1931  Commercial teletype service begins.   

1931  The inaugural commercial teletype service was inaugurated on this day.   

1931  Commercial teletype service begins (AT and T).   

1932  Earthquake at Uden Netherlands.   

1933  Navy crew (LCDR Thomas G. W. Settle, USN, and MAJ Chester I. Fordney, USMC) sets a world altitude record in balloon (62237 ft.) in flight into stratosphere   

1934  Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, Japan beats US 1-0.   

1936  Jose Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange is killed by a republican execution squad.   

1936  Jose A Primo de Rivera y Saenz de Heredia, Spanish Falange, executed.   

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0270  Maximinus: Roman emperor   

1327  Bassui tokusho: Zen founder (kogakuji monastery in nakamura japan)   

1602  Otto von guericke: Inventor (air pump)   

1606  Abraham de wicquefort: Dutch diplomat/historian   

1620  Peregrine white: Son of wm & susanna white, born aboard mayflower   

1621  Avvakum: Russian priest and writer   

1625  Artus ii quellinus "the young": Flemish sculptor, baptised   

1625  Paulus potter: Dutch painter   

0869  King edmund of east anglia: King edmund of east anglia   

0967  Death of Aboe al-faradj al-isfahani: Arabic author (book of liederen),   

1347  Stefano colonna: Roman senator,   

1437  Death of Thomas langley: Bishop of durham, cardinal and lord chancellor (b. 1363)   

1480  Eleonora van austrian: Translator,   

1518  Death of Pierre de la rue/peter van straten: Flemish composer,   

1527  Wendelmoet "weyntjen" claesdochter: 1st dutch woman burned as heretic   

1529  Death of Karl von miltitz: Papal nuncio