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 this day in history.   

1901  Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies on this day in history.   

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

1903  On this day in history albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist   

1905  On this day in history william Alwyn, composer   

1906  On November - 07 eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)   

1907  Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico on this day in history.   

1907  On November - 07 maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)   

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 this day in history.   

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

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

1913  Albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957) on this day in history.   

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 November - 07.   

1915  On November - 07 austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)   

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

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

1916  Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes) on this day in history.   

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

1917  British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks on this day in history.   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on this day in history.   

1918  Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets on November - 07.   

1918  The birth of Billy Graham, American evangelist on November - 07.   

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

1918  On this day in history billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)   

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  Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) was born on November - 07.   

1598  Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664) was born on November - 07.   

1619  Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692) was born on November - 07.   

1650  John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723) was born on November - 07.   

1656  On this day in history birth of walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen   

1687  William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765) was born on November - 07.   

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

1706  On this day in history birth of carlo Cecere, composer   

0644  Death of Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam on this day in history.   

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

1225  On this day in history 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 November - 07.   

1560  On this day in history peter S Lotichius, [Peter Lotz], German poet (Opera omnia), dies   

1573  Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies on this day in history.   

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.