Page 3: Historical Events In November - 25

1863  Battle of Missionary Ridge, Tennessee.   

1864  Confederate plot to burn NYC, fails   

1865  Heinrich Barth, German historian/geographer (Central Africa), dies.   

1867  Alfred Nobel invents dynamite.   

1867  Alfred Nobel patents dynamite   

1871  Cornelis J "Cor" van Ast, actor/director (Ghost Hotel).   

1874  The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.   

1875  Financial difficulties force the ruler of Egypt to seel his shares in the Suez Canal to England and France giving them effective control of the waterway.   

1876  Indian Wars: In retaliation for the American defeat at the Battle of the Little Bighorn, United States Army troops sack Chief Dull Knife's sleeping Cheyenne village at the headwaters of the Powder River.   

1877  Harley Granville-Barker, London, dramatist/producer/critic   

1878  Georg Kaiser, writer   

1880  Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf   

1881  John XXIII, [Angelo Roncalli], Bergamo Italy, 261st pope (1958-63).   

1883  Percy Marmont, London England, actor (Capt Apache)   

1883  Ludwig Erk, composer, dies at 76.   

1884  John B Meyenberg of St Louis patents evaporated milk   

1885  The inaugural Canadian National Park is established at Banff as Rocky Mountains Park.   

1885  Alfonso XII, king of Spain (1874-85), dies at 27.   

1886  Percy Holmes, cricketer (Engl, 555 partners with Sutcliffe for Yorks)   

1887  Johann J Bachofen, Swiss historic rights, dies at 71.   

1894  Greenback (Independent) Party organizes in Indianapolis.   

1895  Anastas I Mikoyan, Armenia, member of Supreme Soviet.   

1895  Edmond van der Straeten, Belgian lawyer/musicologist, dies at 68   

1896  Virgil Thomson, KC Mo, composer/music critic (4 Saints in 3 Acts).   

1897  Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy   

1899  Battle at Graspan, Cape colony: general Methuen beats Farmers   

1899  Vera Reynolds, Richmond VA, silent screen actress (Lawless Woman)   

1899  Robert Lowry, composer, dies at 73   

1900  Arthur Schwartz, composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust)   

1901  Tibor Serly, Losonc Hungary, violinist/composer (American Elegy)   

1901  Josef Gabriel Rheinberger, German composer/music theorist, dies at 62.   

1902  Franz Lehars opera "Wiener Fraueen," premieres in Vienna   

1902  Eddie Shore, Boston Bruins (#2), hall of famer   

1903  Martin Soames, traveller   

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1454  Catherine cornaro: Queen of cyprus   

1501  Yi hwang: Confucian scholar   

1507  Joost de damhoudere: Flemish lawyer (praxis rerum criminalium)   

1562  Lope felix de vega: Madrid spain, dramatist/poet (angelica, arcadia)   

1577  Piet hein: Dutch naval commander and folk hero   

1638  Catherine of braganza: Queen of charles ii of england   

1697  Gerhard tersteegen: German evangelist/poet (wrote in blood)   

1703  Jean-françois séguier: French astronomer and botanist   

0311  Peter of alexandria: Christian martyr   

0992  Mieszko i: Polish advisor to pope john xv,   

1034  Death of King malcolm ii of scotland: King malcolm ii of scotland (b. 980)   

1120  Countess of perche: Bastard daughter of english king henry i, drowns   

1185  Death of Lucius iii: [ubaldo allucingoli], italian pope (1181-85),   

1326  Death of Prince koreyasu: Japanese shogun (b. 1264)   

1374  Death of Philip ii of taranto: Titular emperor of costantinople (b. 1329)   

1456  Jacques coeur: French merchant/banker,