Page 4: Historical Events In November - 07

1900  On November - 07 sgt. Edward J. G. Holland (Royal Cdn. Dragoons) wins the Victoria Cross at Leliefontein South Africa   

1900  Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses on this day in history.   

1900  Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54) on this day in history.   

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

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  William Alwyn, composer on November - 07.   

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  Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game) on this day in history.   

1908  Dutch capture Venezuelan navy on this day in history.   

1909  Knights & Ladies of St Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama on November - 07.   

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 November - 07.   

1912  On November - 07 the Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.   

1913  On this day in history albert Camus, Algeria, novelist/director (The Just-Nobel 1957)   

1914  Japan attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai on November - 07.   

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

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

1916  On this day in history woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected President   

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

1916  On November - 07 joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)   

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

1917  On November - 07 british capture Gaza Palestine from Turks   

1917  Andras Mihaly, composer on November - 07.   

1918  On this day in history goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets   

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  Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades) on this day in history.   

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

1919  On November - 07 hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56   

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

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

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

1687  On November - 07 birth of william Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)   

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 November - 07.   

1225  Death of Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40 on this day in history.   

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

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

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