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 November - 07.   

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

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

1901  On this day in history li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies   

1902  Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow) on this day in history.   

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

1905  William Alwyn, composer on this day in history.   

1906  Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72) on November - 07.   

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

1907  On this day in history maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)   

1908  On this day in history dutch capture Venezuelan navy   

1909  On November - 07 knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama   

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 November - 07 japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai   

1914  On November - 07 r[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)   

1915  On this day in history austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)   

1916  On November - 07 woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President   

1916  On November - 07 grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising   

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

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks on November - 07.   

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

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on November - 07.   

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

1918  On this day in history the birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist   

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

1918  Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) on November - 07.   

1919  US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers on this day in history.   

1919  On this day in history hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56   

1921  On this day in history ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC   

1922  Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World) on this day in history.   

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

1598  On November - 07 birth of francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)   

1619  On this day in history birth of gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)   

1650  On this day in history birth of john Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)   

1656  On November - 07 birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen   

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

1692  Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg) was born on this day in history.   

1706  Carlo Cecere, composer was born on November - 07.   

0644  On this day in history death of umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam   

0739  Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81 on this day in history.   

1225  On November - 07 death of engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40   

1550  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) on this day in history.   

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

1573  On this day in history solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies   

1581  On this day in history death of richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar   

1599  Death of Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546) on November - 07.