Page 4: Historical Events In November - 23

1890  king William III of the Netherlands dies without a male heir and a special law is passed to allow his daughter Princess Wilhelmina to become his heir.   

1890  Willem III, King of Netherland (1849-1890), dies at 73   

1892  battle of Lomani Congo: Belgian unit beats Arabs, 1000-3000 killed.   

1893  Harpo (Adolph) Marx comedian was born   

1893  jimmy Blanckenberg, cricket pace bowler (took 60 wickets for S Africa).   

1894  ture Persson, Sweden, sprinter (Olympic-silver-1912).   

1896  joris Vriamont, Flemish author/music publisher.   

1897  eli Olds of Lansing, Michigan, is issued a U.S. patent for his "motor carriage," a gasoline-powered vehicle that he constructed the year before.   

1897  Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars   

1899  The inaugural jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, San Francisco)   

1899  1st jukebox (Palais Royal Hotel, SF).   

1899  norman Hunter, writer.   

1901  lieutenant LC Maygar, 5th Victorian Mounted Rifles, is recorded as becoming the sixth and last Australian to be awarded a Victoria Cross in the Boer War.   

1902  Walter Reed, US bacteriologist (Yellow Fever), dies   

1903  Enrico Caruso, famed Italian tenor, made his debut in the United States at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York City. He sang in the role of the Duke in Rigoletto   

1903  Enrico Caruso US debut (Metropolitan Opera House, NY) in "Rigoletto"   

1904  3rd Olympic games close in St Louis   

1905  henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physician, named minister of Haiti.   

1905  henry Watson Furness, an Indiana physican, named minister of Haiti.   

1906  joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy.   

1906  mervyn Roberts, composer.   

1908  leendert P J Braat, Dutch sculptor/screenwriter.   

1909  18.2 cm (7.17") of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state record)   

1909  7.17" (18.2 cm) of rainfall, Rattlesnake Creek, Idaho (state rec).   

1909  Nigel Tranter, author/historian (River Realm, Robert the Bruce)   

1910  Hal Schumacher, baseball player   

1910  Hawley H Crippen, doctor/murderer, executed   

1911  Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco renamed Letterman General Hospital   

1911  post Hospital at Presidio, SF renamed Letterman General Hospital.   

1911  Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)   

1911  Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 S Afr v England), dies   

1912  Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game   

1912  Det Glynn, teacher/anti-apartheid activist   

1914  the US Army retreats from Mexico.   

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1221  On November - 23 birth of alfonso X (the Wise), king of Castile & Leon (1252-84)   

1402  On November - 23 birth of jean de Dunois, French soldier (d. 1468)   

1417  On this day in history birth of william FitzAlan, 16th Earl of Arundel, English politician (d. 1487)   

1553  Prospero Alpini, Italy, botanist/physician (De Medocoma Aegyptorum) was born on this day in history.   

1616  John Wallis, English mathematician/cryptographer (product of Wallis) was born on November - 23.   

1632  Jean Mabillon, French palaeographer and diplomat (d. 1707) was born on November - 23.   

1641  On this day in history birth of anthonie Heinsius, Dutch statesman (d. 1720)   

1669  On November - 23 birth of johann K Amman, Swiss/Dutch deaf-mute teacher (Surdus Loquens)   

0615  Columbanus, Irish monastery founder/poet/saint (Poenitentiale), dies on November - 23.   

0947  On November - 23 death of berthold, Duke of Bavaria   

0955  On November - 23 death of edred, King of England (b. c. 923)   

1249  Ajjoeb, sultan of Egypt, dies on November - 23.   

1407  On November - 23 death of louis, duke of Orleans, murdered   

1457  Ladislaus V Posthumus, king of Hungary/Bohemia, dies at 17 on this day in history.   

1499  Death of Perkin Warbeck, Flemish sailor, hanged on this day in history.   

1503  Death of Bona of Savoy, Italian noblewoman (b. 1449) on November - 23.