Page 4: Historical Events In November - 07

1900  Sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa on this day in history.   

1900  Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses on November - 07.   

1900  Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) on November - 07.   

1901  On November - 07 li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies   

1902  Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) on November - 07.   

1903  Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist on November - 07.   

1905  On this day in history william Alwyn, composer   

1906  On this day in history eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)   

1907  On this day in history dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico   

1907  Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) on November - 07.   

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on November - 07.   

1909  Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama on this day in history.   

1910  The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse on this day in history.   

1910  Leo Tolstoi, Russian earl/writer (War & Peace), dies at 82 [OS] on November - 07.   

1911  Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist on this day in history.   

1912  On this day in history the Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.   

1913  On November - 07 albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)   

1914  On this day in history japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai   

1914  R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead) on this day in history.   

1915  Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill) on this day in history.   

1916  Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President on November - 07.   

1916  On this day in history grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising   

1916  On this day in history joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)   

1917  On November - 07 british capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks   

1917  On this day in history british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on this day in history.   

1918  On November - 07 goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

1918  The birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist on this day in history.   

1918  On November - 07 united Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed   

1918  On November - 07 billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)   

1919  On November - 07 uS police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers   

1919  Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56 on this day in history.   

1921  On November - 07 ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC   

1922  On November - 07 al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)   

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0630  On November - 07 birth of constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)   

1598  On this day in history birth of francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)   

1619  On November - 07 birth of gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)   

1650  On November - 07 birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen was born on this day in history.   

1687  William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765) was born on this day in history.   

1692  On November - 07 birth of johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)   

1706  On November - 07 birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

0644  On November - 07 death of umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam   

0739  Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81 on November - 07.   

1225  On this day in history death of engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40   

1550  On November - 07 death of jon Arason, the last Roman Catholic bishop of Iceland prior to the reformation, beheaded in Skalholt with his two sons Are and Bjorn. (b. 1484)   

1560  Peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies on November - 07.   

1573  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on November - 07.   

1581  On November - 07 death of richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar   

1599  On this day in history death of gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)