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This Day in History for 5th November


Famous Deaths

 
Physician and Nobel Laureate
Christiaan Eijkman (1930)


1370 - Kazimierz III, the Great, King of Poland (1333-70), dies at 61
1515 - Mariotto di Bigio di Bindo Albertinelli, Italian painter, dies at 41
1559 - Kano Motonobu, Zen co-founder (Kano school of painting), dies at 83
1603 - Irini Fedorovna, Russian daughter of Boris Godunov, dies
1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle, English socialite (b. 1599)
1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)
1669 - John Coccejus, German/Neth reformed theologist, dies at about 66
1675 - Kurt S Adeler, Danish admiral/ship designer, dies at 52
1680 - Gillis Valckenier, mayor of Amsterdam (1665..80), dies at about 57
1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield, French-born English politician (bc. 1659)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1737 - Johan W van Ripperda, Dutch diplomat/baron/duke, dies at 55
1743 - Andreas Benedikt Praelisauer, composer, dies at 44
1752 - Carl Andreas Duker, German classical scholar (b. 1670)
1758 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1772 - Johannes Schmidlin, composer, dies at 50
1772 - Pieter Steyn, Dutch grand pensionary (1749-72), dies at 66
1801 - Norinaga Moto'ori, Japanese scientist, dies
1803 - Ch de Laclos, writer, dies
1804 - Elizabeth "Betje" Wolff-Bekker, poetess (Sara Burgerhart), dies at 66
1819 - Dirk van den Boetzelaer, regent of Holland, dies at 55
1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia, second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia (b. 1759)
1834 - Aernout Drost, Dutch literary/founder (The Guide), dies at 24
1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha, Czech poet (b. 1810)
1850 - Ferdinand KJ, archduke of Austria, dies at 69
1854 - Soimonov, Russian general, dies in battle of Inkermann
1860 - Carl Binder, composer, dies at 43
1879 - James Clerk Maxwell, Scotish physicist (speed of light), dies at 48
1883 - William Hicks, British col/commander (Egyptian army), dies in battle
1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen, French novelist (b. 1880)
1930 - Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology
           or Medicine (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress, and musician (b. 1884)
1935 - Mina Dilis-Beersmans, Flemish actress/wife of John Dilis, dies at 71
1941 - Arndt Pekurinen, Finnish pacifist (b. 1905)
1942 - George M Cohan, composer, dies at 64
1943 - Louis Schelfhout, Dutch painter/graphic artist, dies at 62
1944 - Alexis Carrel, French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1873)
1946 - Sigismond Stojowski, composer, dies at 77
1950 - Jacobus J E Hondius, Dutch classicist/graphic artist, dies at 53
1951 - Agrippina J Vaganova, Russian ballet dancers/pegagoge, dies at 72
1951 - Bedrich Antonin Wiedermann, composer, dies at 67
1955 - Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 - Art Tatum, black pianist, dies at 46 in Los Angeles
1956 - Art Tatum, American musician (b. 1909)
1960 - August Gailit, Estonian writer (Ekke Moor), dies at 69
1960 - Johnny Horton, country singer, dies at 33
1960 - Mack Sennett, director/producer (Keystone Cops), dies
1960 - Ward Bond, actor (Wagon Train), dies of heart attack at 57
1964 - Alexander Uriah Boskovich, composer, dies at 57
1964 - Lansdale Sasscer, U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District (b. 1893)
1968 - Estelle Hemsley, actress (Leech Woman, Take aGiant Step), dies at 81
1968 - Robert Ayres, actor (Battle Beneath the Earth), dies at 54
1969 - Itih Walracen, Sudanese widow of author William Walraven, dies
1969 - Lloyd Corrigan, actor (Prof McKillup-Hank), dies at 69
1971 - Sam Jones, baseball player (b. 1925)
1972 - Reginald Owen, actor (Above Suspicion, Love on the Run), dies at 85
1974 - Stafford Repp, actor (Chief O'Hara-Batman), dies at 56
1975 - Annette Kellerman, swimmer (Million Dollar Mermaid), dies at 87
1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or
           Medicine (b. 1909)
1975 - Lionel Trilling, American critic and writer (b. 1905)
1977 - Aleksei G Stachanov, Russian model miner, dies at 72
1977 - Guy Lombardo, orchestra leader (Auld Lang Syne), dies in Houston at 75
1977 - René Goscinny, French writer (Asterix), dies at 51
1978 - Denis O'Dea, actor (Capt Horatio Hornblower), dies at 73
1979 - Al Capp, US cartoonist (Li'l Abner), dies at 70
1982 - Gerda Brautigam, journalist/Dutch MP (PvdA), dies
1982 - Jacques Tati[scheff], French actor/director (Parade), dies at 74
1985 - Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
1986 - Claude Jutra, Québécois actor and film director (b. 1930)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Television Presenter (b. 1922)
1989 - Barry Sadler, singer (Green Berets), murdered at 49 in Murfreesboro Tn
1989 - Vladimir Horovitz, Ukrainian/US pianist, dies at 85
1990 - Bobby Nunn, US bassist (Coasters-Down in Mexico), dies at about 65
1990 - Herbert Berghof, actor (Belarus File), dies of heart failure at 81
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (My Three Sons), dies of pneumonia at 83
1991 - Robert Maxwell, Billionaire publisher (NY Daily News), dies at 68
1992 - Arpad E Elo, Hungarian physicist (chess classification system), dies
1992 - Jan Hendrik Oort, Dutch astronomer (Oort Cloud), dies at 92
1994 - McHenry Boatwright, signer, dies at 66
1995 - Laura Weber, TV Host, dies at 70
1996 - Eddie Harris, saxophonist/composer, dies at 62
1996 - Lars-Ake Nilsson, diplomat, dies at 53
1996 - Paula Hinton, dancer, dies at 72
1996 - Ronald Ogden, engineer, dies at 81
1997 - James Robert Baker, American novelist, screenwriter (b. 1946)
1997 - Isaiah Berlin, Latvian-born historian of ideas (b. 1909)
1997 - Epic Soundtracks, English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal
           Souls) (b. 1959)
2000 - Victor Grinich, American businessman (b. 1924)
2000 - Bibi Titi Mohammed, Tanzanian politician (b.1926)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, singer and politician (b. 1899)
2001 - Roy Boulting, English film director and producer (b. 1913)
2001 - Barry Horne, a British animal liberation activist.
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (The Coasters) (b. 1936)
2003 - Bobby Hatfield, American singer (Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand environmentalist (b. 1957)
2005 - John Fowles, English writer (b. 1926)
2005 - Virginia MacWatters, American soprano (b. 1912)
2006 - Bülent Ecevit, four term Turkish Prime Minister (b. 1925)
2007 - Nils Liedholm, Swedish football midfielder and coach (b. 1922)
2009 - Félix Luna, Argentine historian (b. 1925)
2010 - Adrian Păunescu, Romanian poet and politician (b. 1943)
2010 - Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American operatic mezzo-soprano (b. 1931)
2011 - Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker from Assam
          (b. 1926)
2012 - Charles V Bush, African-American pioneer, dies from colon cancer at 72
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer, dies from natural causes at 103
2012 - Stalking Cat [Dennis Avner], American body modifier, dies at 54

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This Day in History for 6th November


Historical Events

                                   
US President                                     25th US President William McKinley             Pacifist and Spiritual Leader
Abraham Lincoln                                                                                                   Mahatma Gandhi

                                   
32nd US President                               Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin             US President & Actor
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Ronald Reagan

                 
Champion Boxer                                  44th US President Barack Obama
Evander Holyfield


355 - Emperor Constantine II crowns cousin Julianus keizer of Britain
1153 - Treaty of Wallingford (Oxfordshire) signed between King Stephen and the Empress Maude
1528 - Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known
           European to set foot in Texas.
1534 - Zealand hit by heavy storm
1572 - Supernova is observed in constellation known as Cassiopeia
1632 - Battle at Lutzen: Swedish/Saxon army beats imperial armies
1657 - Brandenburg & Poland sign unity of Bromberg
1676 - King Carlos II of Spain comes of age (at 15)
1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1792 - Battle of Jemappes: French army beats Holy Roman Empire
1813 - Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 - Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 - 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 - Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (SF Bay) reserved for military use
1860 - Abraham Lincoln (Rep-R-Ill) elected 16th American President
1861 - Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate president
1862 - NY-SF direct telegraphic link forms
1863 - Battle of Rogersville TN
1864 - Battle of Cane Hill, AK
1864 - Battle of Droop Mountain, WV (Averell's Raid)
1865 - Maastricht-Venlo railway opens in Netherlands
1865 - American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after
           circumnavigating the globe on its cruise that sank or captured 37 vessels.
1869 - 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1871 - Cameroon reaches coast of Angola after trip through Africa
1878 - Henrik Ibsen's "Samfundets Stotter," premieres in Oslo
1879 - Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
1883 - NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 - British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1884 - Montreal Foot Ball Club (QFRU) defeats Toronto Argonauts (ORFU) 30-0 in 1st CRFU
           Championship game
1885 - US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 - Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Ind) beats Pres Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168,
           Cleveland received slightly more votes
1897 - 'Peter Pan' opens in NY at Empire Theater
1900 - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
1900 - Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan.
           Assassinated 1901
1903 - USA recognizes independence of Panama
1906 - Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1908 - Leonid Andreyevs "Dui Nashey Zhizni," premieres in St Petersburg
1910 - SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
1911 - Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
1913 - Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1915 - 1st military flight in Neth East Indies (Tandjong Priok)
1915 - Sophokles Skouloudis forms Greek government
1917 - Bolshevik revolution begins with capture of Winter Palace
1917 - NY allows women to vote
1918 - Republic of Poland proclaimed
1918 - Supreme commander of the army Gen Cutters resigns
1919 - 1st Dutch radio program: Soirée Musicale with "Turf in you(r) ransel"
1923 - USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 - Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of UK
1925 - British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of
           the Soviet Union.
1928 - Clevelanders vote to build a stadium with city bonds
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for pres
1928 - Colonel Jacob Schick patents 1st electric razor
1928 - Swedes start a tradition of eating Gustavus Adolphus pastries to commemorate the king.
1932 - German election - KPD defeats NSDAP
1934 - NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
1935 - 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
1936 - RCA displays TV for press
1936 - Terence Rattigan's "French Without Tears" premieres in London
1938 - 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, charity all star game
1939 - WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st coml TV station, begins service
1939 - WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
1939 - World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau
1940 - Franklin Roosevelt re-elected US President
1941 - Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
1941 - Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
1941 - USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
1942 - Nazis execute 12,000 Minsk ghetto Jews
1942 - Sukarno & Mohammed Hatta found Ampat Serangkai
1943 - Russian troops land on Kertsj peninsula
1943 - Soviet forces reconquer Kiev
1943 - Stalin says: "The issue of German fascism is lost"
1945 - HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators
1949 - Greek civil war ends
1950 - Branch Rickey signs 5-yr contract as VP/GM of Pittsburgh Pirates
1950 - Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
1950 - King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
1952 - Dmitri Sjostakovitch's cantata "About our Fatherland," premieres
1953 - French National Meeting grants Saarland more autonomy
1953 - Jimmy Dykes succeeds Marty Marion as manager of Balt Orioles
1953 - Masao Oki's symphony "Atomic Bomb," premieres
1955 - 11th Ryder Cup: US, 8-4 at Thunderbird Ranch & CC Calif
1955 - USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1956 - Holland & Spain withdraw from Olympics in protest against Soviets in Hungary
1956 - Pres Eisenhower (R) re-elected defeating Adlai E Stevenson (D)
1957 - "Rumple" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 45 performances
1957 - Felix Gaillard becomes premier of France
1958 - AL announces that KC will play AL record 52 night games in 1959
1958 - Belgium government of Eyskens & Lilar forms
1958 - Wilber Snyder beats V Gagne in Omaha, to become NWA wrestling champ
1961 - US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith
1962 - BART bond issue just gets by with a 66.9% favorable vote
1962 - Edward M Kennedy 1st elected (Sen-D-Mass)
1962 - Edward W Brooke (R) elected attorney general of Massachusetts
1962 - Saudi Arabia proclaims abolition of slavery
1962 - UN General Assembly adopts resolution condemning South Africa
1964 - WEIQ TV channel 42 in Mobile, AL (PBS) begins broadcasting
1966 - 1st entire lineup televised in color (NBC)
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Amarillo Ladies' Golf Open
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched
1967 - Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
1967 - US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
1968 - Nixon elected 37th pres of US, defeating Hubert Humphrey
1968 - Students of SF State Counsel go on strike
1969 - 1st Cy Young Award tie (Mike Cuellar, Balt & Denny McLain, Det)
1970 - Boog Powell wins AL MVP
1970 - Twins Jim Perry wins AL Cy Young Award
1971 - "Great Harp" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 7 performances
1971 - US performs underground nuclear test at Amchitka Island Aleutians
1973 - "Man With the Golden Girl" begins shooting
1973 - Abe Beame eleceted 1st Jewish mayor on NYC
1973 - Coleman Young elected mayor of Detroit
1974 - Dodger Mike Marshall is 1st relief pitcher to win Cy Young Award
1975 - "Hello, Dolly" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC for 51 performances
1975 - 1st appearance of Sex Pistols
1976 - Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
1976 - Former Twins relief ace Bill Campbell is 1st free-agent to sign with a new team, joining the
           Red Sox for $1 million over 4 years
1977 - "Hair" closes at Biltmore Theater NYC after 43 performances
1977 - 1st Emmy Sports Award presentation
1977 - 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga
1978 - Iranian general Gholan Reza Azhari forms government
1978 - Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule
1979 - Ayatolla Khomeini takes over in Iran
1981 - Fernando Valenzuela is 1st rookie to win a Cy Young Award
1981 - Larry Holmes TKOs Renaldo Snipes in 11 for heavyweight boxing title
1982 - Joe Altobelli succeeds Earl Weaver as Oriole manager
1983 - Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Sports Nippon Team Match Golf Tournament
1983 - Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, Calif
1983 - Tor Bay Buccaneers' James Wilder rushes for 219 yards vs Minnesota Vikings
1983 - Turkey Turgut Özals Moederland party wins elections
1984 - President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)
1984 - Willie Hernandez wins AL MVP Award
1985 - 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB
1985 - Exploratory well at Ranger, Tx, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil
1985 - M-19 guerrilla's occupies Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
1985 - Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Calif
1986 - Houston's Mike Scott (18-10) wins NL Cy Young
1986 - President Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill
1986 - Rev Donald Wildmon begins a campaign against Howard Stern
1987 - Roger Clemens wins consecutive Cy Young Awards
1988 - 18th NYC Women's Marathon won by Grete Waitz in 2:28:07
1988 - 19th NYC Marathon won by Steve Jones in 2:08:20
1988 - Japan & MLB all stars played to a 6-6 draw (Game 2 of 7)
1988 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 - Steve Jones wins NY men's marathon; Grete Waitz 9th women's title
1989 - US marshals & FCC sieze pirate radio station WJPL in Brooklyn
1990 - Arsenio Hall gets a star on Hollywood's Walk of Fame
1990 - Braves' Dave Justice wins NL Rookie of Year
1990 - Fire destroys some of Universal Studio's stages
1990 - Guam Republican governor Joseph Ada re-elected
1991 - "Moscow Circus Cirk Valentin" opens at Gershwin NYC for 32 perfs
1991 - Grand Duke Vladimir Kirillovitsj returns to St Petersburg
1991 - Keck II, biggest telescope in use at Mauna Kea Hawaii
1991 - Maximus 2.0 BBS released
1991 - Robert M Gates, becomes 15th director of CIA
1991 - Russian president Boris Yeltsin outlaws Communist Party
1993 - Actor Howard Rollins arrested for drunk driving
1993 - Evander Holyfield beats Riddick Bowe in 12 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Arcangues, Brocco, Cardmania, Hollywood Wildcat,
           Kotashaan, Lure, Phone Chatter at Belmont
1994 - 24th NYC Women's Marathon won by Tegla Loroupe in 2:27:37
1994 - 25th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:11:21
1994 - Emomali Rachmonov recognized as president of Tadzjikistan
1994 - Woo-Soon Ko wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Golf Cup
1995 - Art Modell officially announces Cleveland Browns are moving to Balt
1995 - Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by a fellow Jew who opposed peace with Palestinians
1996 - LA Dodger Todd Hollandsworth wins NL Rookie of Year
1997 - "Proposals," opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
1997 - SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
1999 - Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic
           referendum.
2002 - 12 people are killed in a fire on board a train headed for Vienna from Paris.
2004 - An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing
           6 and injuring 150.
2005 - The Evansville Tornado of November 2005 kills 25 in Northwestern Kentucky and
           Southwestern Indiana.
2005 - The military junta of Myanmar (Burma) begins moving its government ministries from Yangon
           to Pyinmana.
2012 - 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California
2012 - Voters go to the polls for the US Presidential election with Barack Obama projected to claim
           an Electoral College victory
2012 - US territory Puerto Rico votes to become a US State
2012 - Green Moon wins the Melbourne Cup race at Flemington

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Weddings

1935 - Engl prince Henry (under George V) weds Alice Montagu-Douglas-Scott
1993 - Actress Allison Angrim (32) weds Robert Schoonover (44)
1998 - "Some Like It Hot" actor Tony Curtis (73) weds horse trainer Jill Vanden Berg at the MGM
           Grand in Las Vegas, Nevada
2010 - "Girls Gone Wild" creator Joe Francis (37) weds CBS News Entertainment Reporter Christina
           McLarty on a civil wedding in Mexico
2010 - Professional golfer Greg Norman (51) weds Australian interior decorator Kirsten Kutner (41)
           on Necker Island in the British Virgin Islands

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Composer John Philip Sousa (1854)       Inventor James Naismith (1861)              Rock Vocalist Glenn Frey (1948)


Actor/Body Builder/Politician
 Arnold Schwarzenegger (1955)


1391 - Edmund de Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425)
1479 - Johanna, the Insane, Queen of Castile (1504-20)
1494 - Suleiman I (the Magnificent), Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566). Longest reigning Sultan from 1520
           till death in 1566.
1550 - Karin Månsdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1558 - Thomas Kyd, English dramatist (Spanish Tragedy)
1566 - Julien Perrichon, composer
1607 - Sigmund Theophil Staden, composer
1613 - Luis de Garay, composer
1659 - Theodor Schwartzkopff, composer
1661 - Charles II, last Habsburg king of Spain (reigns 1665-1700)
1671 - Colley Cibber, England, dramatist/poet laureate (Love's Last Shift)
1692 - Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1746 - African-American abolitionist and clergyman Absalom Jones born into slavery in Delaware
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Sebastien Breval, composer
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1757 - Louis-Abet Deffroy de Reigny, composer
1771 - Alois Senefelder, inventor (lithography)
1779 - Michal Bogdanowicz, composer
1796 - George Back, English sea officer/explorer (North Canada)
1800 - Eduard Grell, composer
1814 - Adolphe Sax, Belgium musician/inventor (saxophone)
1818 - Pavel Melnikov, Russian historian/author (V Lesach) [OS=Oct 25]
1822 - Gordon Granger, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1876
1833 - Jonas Lie, Norwegian author (d. 1908)
1836 - Francis Ellingwood Abbot, Boston, theologian (Scientific Theism)
1838 - John Grant Mitchell, Bvt Mjr General (Union volunteers), died in 1894
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, U.S. Senator from Rhode Island (d. 1915)
1841 - Armand Fallières, French president (d. 1931)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (co-founded Dow Jones/1st editor of Wall St
           Journal) (d.1902)
1854 - John Philip Sousa, Wash DC, march king (Stars & Stripes Forever), (d. 1932)
1855 - Eduard Yosif Kotek, composer
1855 - Ezra Seymour Gosney, American philanthropist and eugenicist (d. 1942)
1856 - Nicholas Nikolajevitsj, ruler of Russia
1861 - James Naismith, Almonte, Canada, inventor (basketball, football helmet), (d.1939)
1867 - Marie Bregendahl, Danish author (Holger Hauge og hans Hustru)
1875 - Pompeo Aloisi, Italian baron/diplomat/senator
1878 - Ernest Irving, English composer
1879 - Eugen Varga, Hungarian/Russian economist/politician
1880 - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
1883 - Hubert Bath, British film composer and music director
1884 - Ludomir Rozycki, Polish composer/conductor (Meduza, Eros i Psyche)
1885 - Emiel Poetou, Flemish sculptor
1887 - Walter Johnson, Kansas, Wash Senator pitcher (1907-27) (414-218)
1892 - John Alcock, English pilot (1st non-stop flight across Atlantic Ocean)
1892 - John Sigvard "Ole" Olsen, Wabash Ind, comedian (Olsen & Johnson)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 - August Defresne, Dutch playwright/director (Uninhabited Island)
1896 - Jim Jordan, Peoria IL, radio comedian (Fibber McGee)
1901 - Juanita Hall, Keyport NJ, actress (Capt Billy)
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1904 - Selena Royale, NYC, actress (Date With Judy, Misleading Lady)
1906 - Francis Lederer, Prague Czech, actor (Diary of a Chambermaid)
1906 - James D. Norris, sportsman and businessman (Chicago Black Hawks) (d. 1966)
1908 - Fanny Leys, Flemish author (Ontwijding)
1909 - Heinz Rottger, composer
1909 - Henk Bijvanck, composer
1910 - Arthur Cohn, composer
1914 - Jonathan Harris, actor (Dr Zachary Smith-Lost in Space)
1916 - Ray Conniff, Attleboro Mass, chorus director (Ray Conniff Singers)
1918 - Ronnie Brody, England, actor (Superman 3, What's Up Nurse, Ritz)
1919 - Alan Lisette, cricketer (NZ slow left-armer vs West Indies 1956)
1920 - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
1921 - Geoff Rabone, cricketer (gifted all-rounder for NZ in 1950's)
1921 - James Jones, Robinson Ill, novelist (From Here to Eternity)
1922 - Lars Edlund, composer
1923 - Aleksandra Chudina, USSR, track jumper (Olympic-2 silver-1952)
1923 - Clay Jones, gardener
1923 - Renato Capecchi, Italian violinist/baritone
1924 - Jeanette Schmid, Austrian professional whistler, AKA Baroness Lips von Lipstrill (d. 2005)
1925 - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS'er
1926 - Brian Abel-Smith, professor of Social Adminstration
1928 - Peter Matz, Pitts Pa, orchestra leader (Hullabaloo, Carol Burnette Show)
1930 - Raymond Baervoets, Belgian composer (Metamorphoses)
1931 - Mike Nichols, [Peschowsky], director (Catch 22, Biloxi Blues)
1931 - Tsvetan Tsvetanov, composer
1931 - Peter Collins, English race car driver (d. 1958)
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, rocker
1933 - Joseph Pope, US singer (Hey Girl Don't Bother Me)
1933 - Knut Johannesen, Norway, 5K/10K speed skater (Olympic-gold-1964)
1936 - David Ward-Steinman, composer
1936 - K Schippers, [Gerard Stigter], Dutch author
1936 - Mikhail Vladimirovich Sologub, Russian cosmonaut
1937 - Bas de Gaay Fortman, Dutch MP (PPR)
1937 - Edwin Roxburgh, composer
1937 - Joe Warfield, American actor
1938 - P J Proby, [James Marcus Smith], Houston Texas, American rocker
1938 - Mack Jones, American baseball player (d. 2004)
1938 - Jim Pike, American singer (The Lettermen)
1938 - Dumitru Rusu, Romanian painter
1939 - Leonardo Quisumbing, Filipino Supreme Court jurist
1940 - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World
           Service
1940 - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
1941 - Doug Sahm, San Antonio Texas, country singer (Texas Tornadoes-Dinero)
1941 - Guy Clark, Rockport Tx, country singer (Heartbroke)
1941 - James Bowman, English contratenor
1943 - Michael Schwerner, civil rights worker, murdered in 1964
1944 - Bill Henderson, Vancouver BC, rock vocalist/guitarist (Chilliwack)
1945 - Robert J Mrazek, (Rep-D-NY, 1983- )
1946 - Sally Field, Pasadena California, we really like her (Gidget, Flying Nun)
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children's entertainer
1947 - Doug Young, rocker (Flash In The Pan)
1947 - Edward Yang, director (Tewrrorizers)
1947 - George Lawrence James, NJ, 4X400m relayer (Olympic-gold-1968)
1947 - George Young, Glasgow, Scotland, rock guitarist (Easybeats, AC/DC)
1947 - Jack Arnold, character on Wonder Years
1947 - John Wilson, rock drummer (Them)
1947 - Jim Rosenthal, English sports presenter
1948 - Glenn Frey, Detroit Mich, rock vocalist (Eagles-Take it Easy)
1949 - Brad Davis, Tallahassee Fla, actor (Roots, Chiefs, Midnight Express)
1949 - Nigel Havers, English actor (Dr Latimer-Don't Wait Up)
1949 - Arturo Sandoval, Cuban-born trumpeter
1949 - Joseph C. Wilson, Vice Chairman of Jarch Capital, LLC
1950 - Ernest Thompson, Bellows Fall Vt, actor (Sierra, Westside Medical)
1951 - Peter Althin, Swedish politician and attorney
1951 - John Falsey, American television writer and producer
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 - Catherine Crier, Dallas, Texas, American journalist and author (The Case Against Lawyers, A
           Deadly Game)
1955 - Maria Shriver, Chicago, newscaster (Sunday Today) and wife of Arnold Schwarzenegger
1956 - Graeme Wood, cricketer (Australian lefty opening batsman 1978-88)
1957 - Klaus Kleinfeld, German industrialist
1957 - Siobhán McCarthy, Irish singer and actress
1957 - Lori Singer, Corpus Christi Texas, actress (Fame, V, Footloose)
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor
1959 - Teri Peterson, Santa Monica Cal, playmate (July, 1980)
1960 - Lance Kerwin, Newport Beach Ca, (James at 15, The Loneliest Runner)
1960 - Michael Cerveris, American actor
1961 - Florent Pagny, French songwriter and singer
1961 - Kazuhiko Aoki, Japanese game creator
1961 - Craig Goldy, guitarist for the band Dio
1962 - Aznil Nawawi, Malaysian host, actor and singer
1963 - Jean-Marc Chouinard, Montreal Quebec, epee (Olympics-96)
1963 - Rozz Williams, American musician (Christian Death) (d. 1998)
1964 - Erik Kramer, NFL quarterback (Chic Bears)
1964 - Kerry Conran, American filmmaker
1964 - Corey Glover, American musician (Living Color)
1964 - Greg Graffin, American singer (Bad Religion)
1965 - Brian Givens, Lompoc CA, pitcher (Milwaukee Brewers)
1965 - Robert Oberrrauch, hockey defenseman (Team Italy 1998)
1966 - Lisa Fuller, Los Angeles California, actress (Dawn-General Hospital)
1966 - Peter DeLuise, Hollywood CA, actor (21 Jump Street, seaQuest DSV)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1966 - Christian Lorenz, German keyboardist (Rammstein)
1967 - Dennis Brown, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers)
1967 - Jackie Auzias de Turenne, Seattle, WPVA volleyballer (Natl-17th-1995)
1967 - Jana McCoy, Portales NM, Miss NM-America (1991)
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, Eugene Oregon, actress (Patti-My Sister Sam)
1967 - Shuzo Matsuoka, Tokyo Japan, tennis star (1995 USTA/Binghampton)
1968 - Alfred Williams, NFL defensive end (SF 49ers, Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1968 - Chad Curtis, Marion IN, outfielder (NY Yankees, Detroit Tigers)
1968 - Edward Linskens, soccer player (PSV)
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, Elizabethtown Kentucky, actress (Generations)
1968 - Vlast Plavucha, hockey forward (Team Slovakia 1998)
1968 - Jerry Yang, Chinese American entrepreneur (Yahoo!, Inc.)
1969 - Bryan Abrams, Oklahoma City, singer (Color Me Badd-I Want to Sex You Up)
1969 - Don Wengert, Sioux City IA, pitcher (Oakland A's)
1970 - Eric Mueller, KC MO, rower (Olympics-silver-1996)
1970 - Ethan Hawke, Austin Texas, actor (Dad, Dead Poets Society, Explorers)
1970 - Maa Tanuvasa, NFL defensive tackle (Denver Broncos-Superbowl 32)
1970 - Patrick Burke, CFL cornerback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1970 - Rich Braham, tackle (Cincinnati Bengals)
1971 - Derrick Alexander, NFL wide receiver (Cleveland Browns, Baltimore Ravens)
1972 - Anthony Brown, NFL tackle (Cin Bengals)
1972 - Vicki Movessian, ice hockey defenseman (USA, Oly-98)
1972 - Garry Flitcroft, English footballer
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1972 - Deivi Cruz, American baseball player
1973 - Taje Allen, kicker (St Louis Rams)
1973 - Nell McAndrew, British model
1974 - Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist
1975 - Mike Maurer, CFL fullback (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1976 - Laurie Baker, ice hockey forward (USA, Oly-gold-98)
1976 - Mike Herrera, American singer and bassist (MxPx)
1976 - Jodi Martin, Australian singer-songwriter
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player (d. 2004)
1976 - Catherine Clark, Canadian journalist; daughter of Joe Clark
1977 - Patrícia Tavares, Portuguese actress
1978 - Nicole Dubuc, actress (Robin-Major Dad)
1978 - Zak Morioka, Brazilian racing driver
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 - Daniella Cicarelli, Brazilian model and television host
1978 - Jolina Magdangal, Filipina singer, actress and television host
1978 - Taryn Manning, American actress
1979 - Lamar Odom, American basketball player
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American murder victim (d. 1999)
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1982 - Sowelu, Japanese pop singer
1983 - Janette McBride, Filipino actress
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer (Evermore)
1987 - Ana Ivanović, Serbian tennis player
1988 - Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1988 - Emma Stone, American actress
1989 - Jozy Altidore, American footballer

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This Day in History for 6th November


Famous Deaths

                 
Composer                                                Actress Gene Tierney (1991)
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (1893)


1231 - Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Innocent VII, [Cosma de' Migliorati], Italian Pope (1404-06), dies
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer
1550 - Ulrich, Duke of Württemberg (b. 1487)
1632 - Gustavus II Adolphus, King of Sweden, dies at battle of Lutzen at 37
1650 - Willem II, earl of Nassau/prince of Orange, dies at 24
1656 - Johan IV, duke of Braganca/king of Portugal (1640-56), dies at 52
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French scientist (b. 1583)
1669 - Laurentius Erhard, composer, dies at 71
1692 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (b. 1619)
1712 - Johann Bernhard Staudt, composer, dies at 58
1730 - Hans Hermann von Katte, Prussian lieutenant, beheaded
1752 - Ralph Erskine, Scottish minister (b. 1685)
1771 - Hermanus Noordkerk, Dutch jurist, dies at 69
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, American Revolutionary leader and politician (b. 1726)
1795 - Jiri Antonin Benda, composer, dies at 73
1801 - Christian Friedrich Gregor, composer, dies at 78
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 - Hendrik van Stralen, Secretary of Interior, dies at 71
1822 - Claude Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1835 - Ignaz Schuster, composer, dies at 56
1836 - Charles X, King of France (1824-30), dies at 79
1839 - Hayim Rapoport, Rabbi of Ostrowiec/author (Maxim Chayyim), dies
1846 - Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general
1862 - Charles Davis Jameson, US Union brig-gen (Fair Oaks), dies at 35
1865 - Atale Therese Annette Wartel, composer, dies at 51
1875 - John Baptist van Son, Dutch Catholic politician, dies at 71
1876 - Giacomo Antonelli, secretary of state of Pius IX, dies at 70
1893 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (Swan Lake), dies at 53
1897 - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
1900 - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
1901 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer, dies at 48
1901 - Kate Greenaway, English children book illustrater, dies at 55
1912 - Mykola Vytal'yevich Lysenko, composer, dies at 70
1914 - Allessandro d'Ancona, Italian philologist (Dante), dies at 79
1922 - William Baines, composer, dies at 23
1925 - Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
1929 - Max von Bathe, German prince/Chancellor (1910-11, 18), dies at 62
1936 - Henry Bourne Joy, American automobile executive (b. 1864)
1939 - Adolphe Max, Belgian liberal MP, dies at 69
1941 - Maurice Leblanc, French novelist (b. 1864)
1944 - Hannah Senesh, Jewish poetess, executed by Nazis in Budapest
1944 - Lord Moyne, British prefect (Middle-East), murdered
1944 - Segundo "Boy" Ecury, Aruba, WW II resistance fighter, executed at 22
1946 - Zygmunt Denis Antoni Stojowski, composer, dies at 76
1947 - Kristian Elster, Norwegian author (Paradisets Have), dies at 66
1953 - John Parsons Beach, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Charley Toorop, [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1955 - Cornelis GN de Vooys, translator, dies at 82
1958 - Francis George Scott, composer, dies at 78
1960 - Erich Raeder, German grand admiral (b. 1876)
1963 - Djuanda Kartawidjaja, premier (Indonesia), dies at 52
1964 - Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (b. 1863)
1964 - Hugo Koblet, Swiss cyclist (b. 1925)
1965 - Clarence Williams, composer, dies at 67
1965 - Edgard Victor Achille Charles Varese, composer, dies at 81
1968 - Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63
1968 - Charles Munch, French conductor and violinist (b. 1891)
1968 - Charles B. McVay III, Ex-U.S. Navy Captain (b. 1898)
1969 - Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Agustín Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1900)
1972 - Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21
1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (Gray Ghost, Counterthrust), dies at 52
1978 - Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67
1978 - Heiri Suter, Swiss cyclist (b. 1899)
1980 - Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77
1983 - Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69
1984 - Gastón Suárez, Bolivian novelist and dramatist (b. 1929)
1985 - Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44
1986 - Elisabeth Grümmer, Alsatian soprano (b. 1911)
1987 - Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89
1987 - William C Pahlmann, interior decorator (4 Seasons NYC), dies at 80
1987 - Zohar Argov, Israeli singer (b. 1955)
1989 - Yusaku Matsuda, Japanese actor (b. 1949)
1989 - Dickie Goodman, creator of "break-in" records (b. 1934)
1990 - Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73
1991 - Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64
1991 - Gene Tierney, American actress (Laura, Whirlpool), dies of emphysema at 70
1995 - Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90
1995 - Philip Rawson, artist/teacher, dies at 71
1995 - Stanley Oliphant Stewart, librarian, dies at 82
1995 - Aneta Corsaut, American actress (b. 1933)
1996 - Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53
1996 - Patience Edney, nurse/communist, dies at 85
1996 - Tommy Lawton, footballer, dies at 80
1997 - Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
1998 - Marcel Gauthier, Canadian wrestler (b. 1928)
2000 - David R. Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2000 - L. Sprague de Camp, American writer (b. 1907)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, English dramatist (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Sackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 - Crash Holly, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2003 - Rie Mastenbroek, Dutch swimmer (b. 1919)
2003 - Eduardo Palomo, Mexican actor (b. 1962)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, English television personality (b. 1938)
2004 - Johnny Warren, Australian soccer player (b. 1943)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2005 - Rod Donald, New Zealand Politician, Green Party Co-leader (b. 1957)
2005 - Miguel Aceves Mejía, Mexican actor, composer and singer (b. 1915)
2006 - Federico (Fico) López, Puerto Rican basketball player (b. 1962)
2006 - Francisco Fernández Ochoa, Spanish alpine skier (b. 1950)
2007 - Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 - Hilda Braid, English actress (b. 1929)
2007 - George Grljusich, Australian sports broadcaster (b. c1939)
2007 - Sayed Mustafa Kazemi, Afghan politician (b. c1962)
2007 - George Osmond, Osmond family patriarch (b. 1917)
2007 - Hank Thompson, American singer (b. 1925)
2009 - Ron Sproat, American TV writer and playwright (b. 1932)
2010 - Jo Myong-Rok, North Korean military official (b. 1928)
2010 - Robert Lipshutz, American attorney and counsel to the Carter Adminisrtation (b. 1921)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, dies from complications following an operation at 92
2012 - M-16 [Ernest Mateen], American cruiserweight boxing champion, dies at 46

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This Day in History for 7th November


Historical Events

                                   
The Sun King of France                           Political Cartoonist Thomas Nast           1st Woman Elected to Congress
 Louis XIV                                                                                                            Jeannette Rankin

                                   
31st US President                                     32nd US President                                  36th US President
Herbert Hoover                                        Franklin D. Roosevelt                             Lyndon B. Johnson


Radio shock jock
Howard Stern


680 - 3rd Council of Constantinople (6th ecumenical council) opens
921 - Treaty of Bonn: East France & West France recognize each other
1492 - The Ensisheim Meteorite, the oldest meteorite with a known date of impact, strikes the earth
           around noon in a wheat field outside the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, France.
1512 - Medici's discharge Niccolo Machiavelli from Florence
1519 - University of Leuven convicts teaching of Luther
1558 - French king Henri II occupies Calais
1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler
1637 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts Bay colony as a heretic
1651 - King Louis XIV of France (13) declared of full age
1659 - Peace of Pyreneeen: French king Louis XIV & Spanish king Philip IV
1665 - 1st edition of "London Gazette"
1667 - Jean Racines "Andromaque," premieres in Paris
1722 - Richard Steele's "Conscious Lovers," premieres in London
1733 - France & Spain sign the Treaty of the Escorial (the first 'Pacte de Famille' between the
           Bourbon kings of France and Spain)
1747 - Organgist in Netherlands revolt under Daniel Raap
1775 - Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1786 - The oldest musical organization in the United States is founded as the Stoughton Musical
           Society.
1794 - French troops conquer Nijmegen
1805 - Lewis and Clark sight Pacific Ocean
1811 - Battle of Tippecanoe: Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated the Native Americans of the
           Tecumesh Confederation
1814 - 1st sitting of States-general in Hague
1820 - James Monroe elected 5th US president
1824 - St Petersburg flood
1831 - State of Gran Colombia disbands
1837 - In Alton, Illinois, abolitionist printer Elijah P. Lovejoy shot dead (age 34) by pro-slavery mob
           while attempting to protect his printing shop from being destroyed a third time.
1848 - General Zachary Taylor elected as 12th President of US
1861 - Battle of Belmont, MO
1861 - Battle of Port Royal Bay, SC (Ft Walker, Ft Beauregard)
1863 - Battle of Rappahannock Station & Kelly's Ford, VA
1864 - 2nd session of congress of Confederate States of America reconvenes
1872 - Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from NY to Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned 4 weeks later
1874 - 1st cartoon depicting elephant as Republican Party symbol, by Thomas Nast
1875 - Verney Cameron is 1st European to cross equitorial Africa
1876 - Edward Bouchet, is 1st black to receive a PhD from a US college (Yale)
1876 - Meharry Medical College forms at Central Tennesse College
1876 - Pres Rutherford B Hayes & Samuel J Tilden claim presidential victory Tilden (D) wins election
           but Electoral college selects Hayes (R)
1885 - Canadian Pacific Railway completed at Craigellachie
1893 - US State Colorado accepts female suffrage
1900 - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria
           Crosses.
1907 - Dynamite explodes on locomotive kills engineer Jesus Garcia in Mexico
1907 - Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
1907 - Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
1908 - Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
1909 - Knights of St Peter Claver founded in Mobile, Alabama; Ladies Auxiliary formed in 1922
1910 - The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the
           Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
1912 - The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of
           Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
1914 - Japanese attack German concession on Chinese peninsula of Shanghai
1914 - The first issue of The New Republic magazine is published.
1914 - The German colony of Kiaochow Bay and its centre at Tsingtao are captured by Japanese
           forces.
1915 - Austrian submarine torpedoes Italian passenger ship (272 kill)
1916 - Grand duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns czar of uprising
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Mont) elected to Congress as its 1st woman Representative
1916 - Woodrow Wilson (D) re-elected president
1917 - British capture Gaza Palestine from Turks
1917 - October Revolution (Oct 26 OS) in Russia, Lenin seizes power
1918 - Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
1918 - United Press erroneously reports WW I armistice had been signed
1918 - Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff," premieres in Petrograd
1918 - The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the
           population) by the end of the year.
1918 - Kurt Eisner overthrows the Wittelsbach dynasty in the Kingdom of Bavaria.
1919 - US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
1921 - Ed Wynn's musical "Perfect Fool," premieres in NYC
1925 - Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
1928 - Herbert Hoover (R) elected president
1929 - Museum of Modern Art opens (NYC)
1931 - Chinese People's Republic proclaimed by Mao Tse Tung
1932 - 1st broadcast of "Buck Rogers in the 25th century" on CBS-radio
1932 - Bradman scores 238 NSW v Victoria, 200 mins, 32 fours
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn blue law, by permitting Sunday sports
1933 - Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City.
1934 - Arthur L Mitchell, becomes 1st black Democratic congressman (Ill)
1935 - 23rd CFL Grey Cup: Winnipeg Winnipegs defeats Hamilton Tigers, 18-12
1936 - Battle of Madrid begins
1940 - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
1940 - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
1941 - British air attack on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
1942 - 1st US president to broadcast in a foreign language-FDR in French
1942 - Bicyclist Fausto Coppi establishes world record (45,848 km)
1943 - Detroit Lions 0, NY Giants 0; last scoreless tie in NFL
1944 - FDR wins 4th term in office, defeating Thomas E Dewey (R)
1944 - Train crashes in tunnel of Aguadilla Spain; about 500 die
1946 - "Bal Negre" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 54 performances
1949 - King Faruk disbands Egyptian parliament
1950 - Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti," premieres in Milan
1950 - French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
1951 - Constitution of Jordan passes
1953 - WIS TV channel 10 in Columbia, SC (NBC) begins broadcasting
1954 - US spy plane shot down North of Japan
1954 - Cleveland Browns' Chet Hanulak sets club record with 7 punt returns & win by their largest
           margin of victory (59) beating Wash 62-3
1955 - Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1957 - Phillies pitcher Jack Sanford wins NL Rookie of Year
1957 - WEEQ (now WWTO) TV channel 35 in La Salle, IL (IND) 1st broadcast
1957 - Cold War: The Gaither Report calls for more American missiles and fallout shelters.
1959 - 13th Ryder Cup: US wins 8½-3½ at Eldorado Golf Club (Indian Wells, California)
1960 - KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcsting
1961 - France performs underground nuclear test at Ecker Algeria
1962 - Nixon tells press he won't be available to kick around any more after losing election for
           Governor of California
1962 - Glenn Hall set NHL record of 503 consecutive games as goalie
1963 - Carole Joan Crawford, 20, wins Miss World
1963 - NY Yankee Elston Howard is 1st black ever voted AL MVP
1963 - Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14
           days.
1964 - NL keeps Braves in Milwaukee in 1965, may move to Atlanta in 1966
1965 - Marlene Hagge wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1966 - Jean-Claude van Itallie's "America Hurrah," premieres in NYC
1966 - Kathy Whitworth wins LPGA Titleholders Golf Championship
1966 - Lunar Orbiter 2 launched by US
1967 - Carl B Stokes elected 1st black mayor of a major city-Cleveland, Ohio
1967 - LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1967 - Richard G Hatcher elected mayor of Gary Indiana
1967 - St Louis Cards Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
1967 - Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
1968 - USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1969 - John & Yoko release their 2nd album "Wedding Album" in UK
1970 - "Purlie" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 689 performances
1970 - Race riots in Daytona Beach Florida
1972 - Pres Nixon (R) re-elected defeating George McGovern (D)
1973 - NJ becomes 1st state to allow girls into little league
1973 - US & Egypt announce restoration of full diplomatic links
1974 - 63rd Davis Cup: South Africa beats India in (w/o)
1975 - Kidnapped AKZO director Herrema freed in Ireland
1976 - "Gone With the Wind" televised
1978 - Boston Red Sox Jim Rice wins AL MVP
1978 - CDA-chairman W Aantjes resigns due to his war past
1979 - Cub reliever Bruce Sutter wins NL Cy Young Award
1981 - France performs nuclear test
1982 - "Your Arms are Too Short to Box" closes at Alvin NYC after 69 perfs
1982 - Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)
1982 - Nancy Lopez wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1982 - Turkey adopts constitution
1983 - Ali Haji-Sheikh kicks his 2nd NY Giant record 56 yard field goal
1983 - Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1984 - STS 51-A launch scrubbed because of high shear winds
1985 - Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
1987 - Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
1988 - MLB all stars beats Japan 16-8 (Game 3 of 7)
1988 - Sugar Ray Leonard KO's Donnie LaLonde
1989 - Balt's Gregg Olson is 1st relief pitcher to win AL Rookie of Year
1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (D-Va)
1989 - NYC elects it's 1st black mayor (Dinkins) & female comp (Holtzman)
1990 - "Little Night Music" closes at New York State NYC after 11 perfs
1990 - "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater NYC for 126 performances
1990 - Cleve Indian Sandy Alomar Jr wins AL Rookie of Year, unanimously
1990 - Mary Robinson elected as 1st female president of Ireland
1991 - "Brigadoon" opens at New York State Theater NYC for 12 performances
1991 - "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box NYC
1991 - 1st NBA game in Delta City, Utah Jazz beats Seattle 103-95
1991 - Magic Johnson announces he has HIV virus & retires from LA Lakers
1992 - 1st NBA game at America West Arena, Phoenix Suns beat Clippers 111-105
1993 - Betsy King wins LPGA Toray Japan Queens Cup Golf Tournament
1995 - Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
1995 - Howard Stern's 2nd book "Miss America" released (fastest selling ever)
1996 - "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
1996 - NFL/Heisman Trophy Winner Mike Rozier, is shot several times
1996 - Wasim Jaffer gets 314* in 2nd cricket FC game for Mumbai v Saurashtra
1997 - "Bean" opens in US
2000 - Controversial US presidential election that was later resolved in the Bush v. Gore Supreme
           Court Case.
2000 - The U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration discovers one of the country's largest LSD labs
           inside a converted military missile silo in Wamego, Kansas.
2000 - Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first former First
           Lady to win public office in the United States, although actually she still was the First Lady.
2001 - The supersonic commercial aircraft Concorde resumes flying after a 15-month hiatus.
2002 - Iran bans advertising of United States products.
2004 - War in Iraq: The interim government of Iraq calls for a 60-day "state of emergency" as U.S.
           forces storm the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2007 - Jokela school shooting in Tuusula, Finland, resulting in the death of nine people.
2012 - 48 people are killed by a magnitude 7.3 earthquake in Guatemala
2012 - Voters in Maine, Maryland and Washington approve measures for same-sex marriage

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This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Weddings

1597 - Emilia of Nassau weds Dom Emanuel of Portugal
1951 - Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)
2006 - NASCAR racer Jeff Gordon (38) weds Belgian model and actress Ingrid Vandebosch (36) at
           the Hacienda de San Antonio Resort in Colima, Mexico
2010 - Supermodel and who's also the face of L'Oreal Paris Doutzen Kroes (25) weds DJ Sunnery
           James in Amsterdam, Netherlands

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This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Divorces

1982 - Liz Taylor's 7th divorce (John Warner)

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This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Discoverer of Radium                              Russian Revolutionary                           Author Albert Camus (1913)
 Marie Curie (1867)                                  Leon Trotsky (1879)


Economist Michael Spence (1943)


630 - Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668)
994 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian/jurist/author of Islamic Spain
1598 - Francisco Zurbarán, Spanish painter (d. 1664)
1619 - Gédéon Tallemant des Réaux, French writer (d. 1692)
1650 - John Robinson, English diplomat (d. 1723)
1656 - Walraad the Younger, earl of Nassau-Ottweiler/gov of Nimegen
1687 - William Stukeley, English archaeologist (d. 1765)
1692 - Johannes G Schnabel, German author/surgeon (Insel Felsenburg)
1706 - Carlo Cecere, Italian composer
1750 - Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg, German poet (d. 1819)
1758 - Edouard viscount de Walckiers, South Netherland banker/politician
1786 - Francisco Andrevi y Castellar, Spanish choirmaster and composer of Italian parentage
1797 - Silas Horton Stringham, Rear Admiral (Union Navy), died in 1876
1805 - Thomas Brassey, English civil engineering contractor (d. 1870)
1810 - Fritz Reuter, German novelist
1811 - Karel J Erben, Czech poet (Bouquet)
1818 - Emil du Bois-Reymond, German physician (d. 1896)
1822 - Edouard Gregoir, Belgian composer
1828 - Ludwig Deppe, composer
1832 - Andrew Dickson White, educator/1st president of Cornell
1838 - Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam, French writer (d. 1889)
1839 - Henry Holmes, composer
1846 - Ignaz Brull, composer
1851 - Chris von der Ahe, German born entrepreneur (d. 1913)
1852 - Bohdan Borkowski, composer
1855 - Edwin H Hall, US physicist (Hall effect)
1856 - Semyon Zonovyevich Alapin, Vilna, tied for chess 1st place (1878)
1858 - Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian freedom fighter, (d. 1932)
1860 - Jean-Baptiste Eugène Estienne, French general (d. 1936)
1861 - Jeff Milton, American lawman (d. 1947)
1866 - Carl Emil Paul Lincke, composer
1866 - Paul Lincke, German composer/conductor/publisher (Frau Luna)
1867 - Marie Curie, Warsaw, discovered radium (Nobel 1903, 1911), (d. 1934)
1874 - Joseph Willoughby, cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96)
1875 - Mikhail Kalinin, Soviet politician (d. 1946)
1876 - Culbert Olson, Fillmore Utah, (Gov-D-Cal)
1876 - Ted Arnold, cricketer (England all-rounder in 10 Tests 1903-05)
1876 - Charlie Townsend, English cricketer (d. 1958)
1877 - Henry Balfour Gardiner, composer
1878 - Lise Meitner, Austrian/Swedish physicist (Protactinium)
1879 - Eugeen Yoors, Flemish etcher/glass painter
1879 - Leon Trotsky[Leib Bronstein], Bronshtein, Russian Empire, Russian revolutionary and
           Theorist [OS 26-10-1879], (d. 1940)
1883 - Elder Lightfoot Solomon Michaux, Newport New Va, TV preacher
1886 - Aaron Nimzowitsch, Latvian chess player (openings theorist)
1886 - Mark Aldanov, [Landau], Russian/French chemist/writer [OS=Oct 26]
1888 - Chandrasekhara Raman, India, physicist (Nobel 1930)
1889 - George Davis, Netherlands, actor (Devil May Care)
1889 - Lord Tennyson III, cricketer (England batsman & captain)
1893 - Leatrice Joy, American actress (d. 1985)
1895 - Jakob Kaplan, French head rabbi (1955-81)
1896 - Herbert R O'Connor, Balt Md, (Sen-Md)/TV narrator (Crime Syndicate)
1896 - Esdras Minville, Quebec writer, economist and sociologist (d. 1975)
1897 - Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955
1898 - Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician (d. 1963)
1900 - Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
1902 - Rob van der de Bas, [Barend Robberts], troubadour (Klucht of the Cow)
1903 - Albert Helman, [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician/novelist
1903 - Dean Jagger, Lima Ohio, actor (Albert Vane-Mr Novak, Elmer Gantry)
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist/ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel 1973)
1903 - Lodewijk AM "Lou" Lichtveld, [Albert Helman], Suriname author
1903 - Grace Stafford, American actress (d. 1992)
1905 - William Alwyn, composer
1906 - Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
1906 - Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
1906 - Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
1907 - Maurits Mok, Dutch author/poet (Cheese & Bread Game)
1911 - Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
1913 - Albert Camus, Algeria, author (The Just-Nobel 1957), (d. 1960)
1914 - R[aphael] A[loysius] Lafferty, US, sci-fi author (Devil is Dead)
1915 - Philip Morrison, American scientist (d. 2005)
1916 - Joe Bushkin, NYC, jazz pianist (A Couple of Joes)
1917 - Andras Mihaly, composer
1918 - Billy Graham, Charlotte NC, Baptist evangelist (Crusades)
1918 - Maria Teresa de Noronha, Portuguese Fado singer (d. 1993)
1918 - Paul Aussaresses, French general
1922 - Al Hirt, New Orleans LA, jazz trumpeter (Greatest Horn in the World)
1923 - Matthew Coady, journalist
1924 - Wolf Mankowitz, British(?) playwright
1926 - Joan Sutherland, Sydney Australia, operatic soprano (Met Opera)
1927 - Hiroshi Yamauchi, Kyoto Japan, owner (Seattle Mariners)
1927 - Ivor Emmanuel, Welsh singer and actor (d. 2007)
1928 - Richard G. Scott, LDS apostle
1928 - Norton Zinder, New York City, NY, biologist (genetic transduction), (d. 2012)
1929 - Ruggero Mastroianni, film editor
1930 - Peter Woods, newsreader
1930 - Rudy Boschwitz, (Sen-R-Mn, 1978- )
1931 - Gerald Humel, composer
1932 - Harry Lammertink, [Yrrah], Dutch cartoonist (Vrij Netherland)
1933 - George Tibbits, composer
1934 - Stephen L Neal, (Rep-D-NC, 1975- )
1935 - Willibrordus S Rendra, Indonesia, poet (Ballad orang-orang tertjina)
1936 - Barry Newman, Boston Mass, actor (Amy, Deadline, Petrocelli)
1936 - Jaap Stobbe, Dutch actor (Dageraad)
1938 - Dee Clark, Arkansas, singer (Hambone, Nobody But You)
1938 - James Katt, pitcher/sportscaster (NY Yankees, Minnesota Twins)
1938 - Jim Kaat, American baseball player
1939 - Daniel Manneke, composer
1940 - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
1942 - Jean Shrimpton, British model/actress (Privilege)
1942 - Johnny Rivers, [Ramistella], NYC, singer (Secret Agent Man)
1943 - Joni Mitchell, [Roberta J Anderson], Alberta Canada, singer (Clouds)
1943 - Judith Frost, British Columbia, artist (To Red, Dust Drawings)
1943 - Wensley Haydon-Baillie, English pharmaceutical manufacturer
1943 - Michael Byrne, English actor
1943 - Stephen Greenblatt, American literary critic
1943 - Boris Gromov, Russian general
1943 - Michael Spence, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
1944 - James Dashow, Chicago, American/Italian composer
1944 - Jim Watkins, Phila, actor (Jerry-Magician)
1944 - Joe Niekro, baseball knuckler (NY Yankees)
1944 - Luigi Riva, Italian footballer
1944 - Ken Patera, American professional wrestler
1947 - Bob Anderson, English darts player
1947 - Yutaka Fukumoto, Japanese professional baseball player
1948 - Alex Ribeiro, Brazilian racing driver
1949 - Steven Stucky, American composer
1950 - Alexa Canady, 1st black woman neuro-surgeon/educator
1950 - Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, Buenos Aires, 1st South American Zen teacher
1951 - Dan Duva, boxing promoter/producer (Howard Stern New Years Party)
1951 - Nick Gilder, London England, singer (Hot Child in the City)
1952 - David Petraeus, Commanding General of Multinational Force Iraq
1953 - Lucinda Green, English equestrian
1954 - Kamal Haasan, Indian actor
1955 - Detlef Ultsch, German judoka
1956 - Denise Jannah, [Zeefuik], Suriname jazz singer (Farmer's Market)
1956 - Judy Tenuta, Chicago, Illinois, American comedian
1957 - Christopher Knight, NYC, actor (Peter-Brady Bunch)
1957 - Jonathan Palmer, formula-1 racer
1957 - Kathy McMillan, long jumper (Olympic-silver-1976)
1958 - Jack Wyngaard, dancer
1958 - Lori Saldaña, American politician
1959 - Billy Gillispie, American basketball coach
1959 - Alexandre Guimarães, Costa Rican football manager
1960 - Tommy Thayer, American guitarist (Kiss)
1961 - Mintcho Pachov, Bulgaria, 67.5kg weightlifer (Olympic-bronze-1980)
1962 - Arend Bouwmeester, Dutch saxophonist (Bob Color)
1962 - Wayne Norman Phillips, Vic opener cricketer (Test for Aust v Ind 1992)
1963 - John Barnes, British soccer player
1963 - Michael Heidt, Calgary Alberta, hockey defenseman (Team Germany)
1963 - Shelly Miller, Youngstown Oh, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-25th-1994)
1963 - Todd McKee, actor (Ted-Santa Barbara, Bold & Beautiful)
1964 - Dana Plato, Maywood California, actress (Kimberly-Diff'rent Strokes)
1964 - Liam O'Maonlai, Irish vocalist/pianist (Hothouse Flowers-I'm Sorry)
1964 - Gill Holland, American producer
1965 - Sigrun Wodars, German athlete
1966 - Andy Tomberlin, Monroe NC, outfielder (NY Mets)
1966 - Lisa Canning, Virgin Islands, hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1966 - Murphy Logo Su'a, cricket pace bowler (NZ left-arm of Samoan parents)
1967 - Sharleen Spiteri Scottish singer and songwriter (Texas)
1968 - Russ Springer, Alexandria VA, pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies)
1968 - Greg Tribbett, American musician (Mudvayne)
1968 - Mark Preston, Australian engineer
1969 - Michelle Morse, Ft Rucker Ala, WPVA volleyballer (US Open-13th-1995)
1969 - Tanya Dubnicoff, Winnipeg Manitoba, cyclist (Olympics-6th-92, 96)
1969 - Hélène Grimaud, French pianist
1969 - Michelle Clunie, American actress
1970 - Andre Hastings, NFL wide receiver (Pittsburgh Steelers, NO Saints)
1970 - Kris[ten] Fillat, San Diego California, field hockey forward (Olympics-96)
1970 - Marc Rosset, Geneva Switz, tennis star (1992 French Doubles)
1970 - Neil Hannon, Northern Irish musician (The Divine Comedy)
1970 - Andy Houston, American NASCAR driver
1970 - Morgan Spurlock, American director and producer
1971 - Jamie Drummond, Scottish/Canadian Sommelier
1971 - Robin Finck, American musician
1972 - Christopher Daniel Barnes, ME, actor (Ross-Day by Day, As World Turns)
1972 - Clive B Barnes, Portland Me, actor (Scott Hayden-Starman)
1972 - Emily Porter Lesueur, Glendale California, synchro swimmer (Oly-gold-96)
1972 - Jane Taylor, Maitland NSW Aust, tennis star (1995 Futures-Wagga Waga)
1972 - Jeremy London, actor (I'll Fly Away, Party of Five)
1972 - Jimmy Gary, NFL running back (Seattle Seahawks)
1972 - Mike Goldman, Australian media personality
1972 - Marcus Stewart, English football player
1973 - Yunjin Kim, South Korean actress
1973 - Martín Palermo, Argentine footballer
1974 - Kris Benson, Konnesaw TX, baseball pitcher (Olympics-bronze-96)
1974 - Tarek Saleh, linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1974 - Chris Summers, Norwegian drummer (Turbonegro)
1975 - Suesan Rajabi, Miss Colorado USA (1996)
1976 - Mark Philippoussis, Australia, tennis star (140 MPH serve)
1976 - Zahir Raheem, Phila, bantamweight boxer (Olympics-96)
1976 - One Be Lo, hip-hop artist
1978 - Rio Ferdinand, English footballer
1978 - Jan Vennegoor of Hesselink, Dutch footballer
1978 - Tomoya Nagase, Japanese actor and singer (TOKIO)
1979 - Danny Fonseca, Costa Rican footballer
1979 - Barney Harwood, CBBC presenter
1979 - Will Demps, American football player
1979 - Joey Ryan, American professional wrestler
1979 - Jon Peter Lewis, American singer
1979 - Mike Commodore, American professional hockey player
1980 - Gervasio Deferr, Spanish gymnast
1980 - James Franklin, New Zealand Cricket player
1980 - Luciana Salazar, Argentine model and actress
1981 - Muhammad Hassan, professional wrestler
1981 - Anthony Moffat, Scottish musician, writer and film-maker
1981 - Anushka Shetty, Tollywood Film Actress
1986 - Sol Aranza, Mexican voice actress
1990 - Matt Corby, Australian singer

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 7th November


Famous Deaths

                 
Outlaw Butch Cassidy (1908)             US First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt (1962)


644 - Umar ibn al-Khattāb, Second caliph of Islam dies of injuries after assassination attempt 4 days
         earlier
739 - Willibrord, [Clemens], 1st bishop of Utrecht/saint 695-739, dies at 81
1225 - Engelbert I, the Saint, archbishop of Cologne, murdered at 40
1550 - 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
1573 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal), talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar
1599 - Gasparo Tagliacozzi, Italian surgeon (b. 1546)
1608 - Adolf, earl of Nassau-Siegen/cavalry commander, dies in battle
1620 - Hetman Stanisław Żólkiewski polish commander in the Battle of Ţuţora (1620) (b. 1547)
1633 - Cornelis Drebbel, physicist/chemist/inventor (submarine), dies
1639 - William Cobbold, composer, dies at 79
1639 - Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour, English politician
1642 - Henry Montagu, 1st Earl of Manchester, English politician
1678 - Erasmus Quellinus II [Quellien], Flemish painter/etcher, dies at 70
1708 - Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter/cartoonist, dies at 76
1713 - Elizabeth Barry, English actress (b. 1658)
1723 - Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1802 - Johann Georg Joseph Spangler, composer, dies at 50
1817 - Francesco Pasquale Ricci, composer, dies at 85
1827 - Bartolomeo Campagnoli, Ital violinist/composer/conductor, dies at 76
1857 - Charles Heinrich Christoph Zeuner, composer, dies at 62
1859 - Carl Gottlieb Reissiger, composer, dies at 61
1872 - Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
1876 - Albertus C van Raalte, Dutch/US vicar (Michigan), dies at 65
1880 - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
1881 - John MacHale, Irish Archbishop (Tuam) and writer (b. 1791)
1893 - Constantly Lievens, Flemish missionary in India, dies at 37
1901 - Li Hung-Tshang, Chinese rebel leader/viceroy of Tsheli, dies
1908 - Butch Cassidy [Robert LeRoy Parker], American train and bank robber, shot by Bolivian
           soldiers at 42
1913 - Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist and biologist (b. 1823)
1919 - Hugo Haase, German MP (SPD), murdered at 56
1922 - Sam Thompson, baseball player (b. 1860)
1935 - Lidj Jasu, emperor of Ethiopia, dies at 39
1938 - Earnest von Rath, German antifascist/diplomat, murdered
1941 - Albin Zollinger, Swiss poet/author (Das Gewitter), dies at 46
1943 - Dwight Frye, actor (Vampire Bat, Dracula), dies at 44
1944 - Richard Sorge & Ozaki, spies, hanged in Tokyo
1945 - Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1956 - Una Mae Carlisle, US pianist/singer, dies at 40
1959 - Victor McLaglen, actor (Gunga Din), dies of heart attack at 72
1960 - Alvin Carter, vocalist (Carter Family), dies at 69
1961 - Antonius F "Anton" Coolen, author (Peelwerkers), dies at 64
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, 1st Lady (1933-1945), dies at 78 in NYC
1965 - Friedrich Wildgans, composer, dies at 52
1966 - Rube Bressler, Baseball player (b. 1894)
1967 - John Nance Garner, (VP-D, 1933-41), dies at 98
1967 - Juan Tomas Perez, composer, dies at 71
1967 - Larry Kent, director (High Stakes), dies at 67
1968 - Willem A Wagenaar, Dutch journalist/author (3,000 meter), dies
1968 - Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1972 - Tod Andrews, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage), dies at 51
1974 - Rodolfo Acosta, actor (Passion, Littlest Outlaw), dies at 54
1974 - Eric Linklater, British author (b. 1899)
1978 - Gene Tunney, former heavyweight boxing champ (1926-28), dies at 80
1978 - Janet Flanner, writer, dies at 86
1979 - Amedeo Nazzari, actor (Lure of Sila, Night of Cabiria), dies at 71
1979 - Paolo Carlini, Italian actor (It Started in Naples), dies at 53
1980 - Steve McQueen, actor (Tom Horn, Bullitt), dies at 50
1981 - Will Durant, US author (story of civilization), dies at 96
1983 - David Alexandrovich Toradze, composer, dies at 61
1983 - Germaine Tailleferre, Fren composer (Le Marin du Bolivar), dies at 91
1984 - George Matthews, actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73 of heart disease
1986 - Tracy Pew, Australian musician (The Birthday Party) (b. 1957)
1990 - Josephine Wilson, actress (We Dive at Dawn), dies at 86
1990 - Lawrence Durrell, Indian/English author (Alexandria Quartet, Mount Olive), dies at 78
1991 - Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist (b. 1920)
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, premier Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies at 70
1992 - Jack Kelly, US actor (Maverick, Vega$), dies following a stroke at 65
1993 - Adelaide Hall, US jazz singer (Cotton Club), dies at 92
1993 - Charles Aidman, actor (Kotch, Zoot Suit), dies of cancer at 68
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, comedian (SNL), dies at about 54
1994 - Milton "Shorty" Rogers [Rajonsky], US jazz trumpeter, dies at 70
1995 - Jerry Daniels, singer/guitarist, dies at 79
1995 - John Patrick, screenwriter, dies at 90
1995 - Melvin "Slappy" White, comedian, dies of heart attack at 74
1996 - Brian Keith-Lucas, political scientist, dies at 84
1996 - Claude Ake, political scientist, dies at 57
1996 - Michael Fenton Haddon, mining engineer, dies at 81
1996 - Jaja Wachuku, Nigerian Lawyer and First Foreign Affairs Minister (b. 1918)
2000 - Chidambaram Subramaniam, Indian politician (b. 1910)
2000 - Queen Ingrid, Queen Dowager of Denmark (b. 1910)
2001 - Nida Blanca, Filipino actress (b. 1936)
2002 - Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (b. 1923)
2004 - Howard Keel, American actor (b. 1919)
2005 - Anthony Sawoniuk, Belarusian-born Nazi war criminal (b. 1921)
2005 - Harry Thompson, English-born comedian and novelist (b. 1960)
2006 - Bryan Pata, American football defensive tackle (University of Miami) (murdered) (b. 1981)
2006 - Johnny Sain, American baseball pitcher (b. 1917)
2006 - Jean-Jacques Servan-Schreiber, French journalist (b. 1924)
2007 - Earl Dodge, American politician (Prohibition Party) (b. 1932)
2011 - Joe Frazier, Olympic Heavyweight Boxer (b. 1944)
2012 - Carmen Basilio [Carmine], American world welter and middleweight boxing champion, dies
           from pneumonia at 85

[MysteRy]

This Day in History for 8th November


Historical Events

                                   
United States Founding Father                Physicist and Nobel Laureate                 Dictator of Nazi Germany
Benjamin Franklin                                    Wilhelm Röntgen                                  Adolf Hitler 

                                   
32nd US President                                   Writer Jean-Paul Sartre                            US President & Actor
Franklin D. Roosevelt                                                                                             Ronald Reagan

                                   
Playwright Tom Stoppard                   Baseball Player Darryl Strawberry              Iraqi President Saddam Hussein


392 - Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion, state religion
911 - Duke Koenraad I chosen German king
1322 - Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht
1494 - Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy
1519 - 1st meeting of Montezuma & Hernán Cortés in Mexico
1520 - Stockholm Bloodbath begins: A successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces results in the
           execution of around 100 people.
1575 - French Roman Catholics & Huguenots signs treaty
1576 - Eighty Years' War: Pacification of Ghent - 17 Dutch provinces sign anti-Spanish covenant
1598 - Spanish troops under Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem
1602 - The Bodleian Library at Oxford University is opened
1620 - Battle of White Mountain, Prague
1627 - English fleet under George Villiers leaves Île de Ré
1638 - Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts
1658 - Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch
1701 - William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges
1731 - In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st US library
1734 - Vincent la Chapelle, master cook to various nobility and royalty, forms Free Masons Lodge in
           Netherlands
1789 - Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon Ky)
1793 - Louvre in Paris opens
1833 - Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die
1837 - Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st US college founded for women
1838 - Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas" premieres in Paris
1842 - Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889)
1861 - Battle of Mount Ivy, KY
1861 - US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 - Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as American President
1870 - Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1880 - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
1883 - English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage)
1884 - German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State
1889 - Montana admitted as 41st state of the Union
1892 - Grover Cleveland (D) elected president
1895 - German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a
           wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1900 - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1901 - Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic
           Greek.
1904 - American President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 - 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
1917 - People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky & Stalin
1917 - Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants
1918 - Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs
1920 - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
1920 - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
1923 - Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Muenchen (Munich)
1924 - Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt
1924 - Fortune Theatre opens in London
1926 - George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC
1928 - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC
1929 - Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38" premieres in Paris
1929 - NYC Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building
1930 - Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro" premieres in Berlin
1932 - "Make Mine Music" debuts
1932 - Franklin Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd President for 1st time
1933 - FDR creates Civil Works Administration
1934 - Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
1937 - The Nazi exhibition Der ewige Jude ("The Eternal Jew") opens in Munich.
1938 - 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Phila
1938 - A pogrom against the Jews of Germany and Austria takes place in response to the
           assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.
1939 - Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
1939 - H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
1940 - RAF bombs Munich
1941 - The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
1942 - 1st WW II American expeditionary force lands in Africa (Gold Coast)
1942 - Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
1942 - Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
1942 - Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
1944 - 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor
1944 - Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders
1945 - "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater NYC for 12 performances
1945 - Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550
1946 - Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse" premieres in Paris
1947 - Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA v Victoria
1950 - 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War
1950 - Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year
1950 - Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year
1951 - NY Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards
1953 - Salazar's party wins all parliamentary seats in Portugal
1954 - AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City
1956 - UN demands USSR leave Hungary
1957 - Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island
1958 - "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC after 5 performances
1959 - KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, CA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1959 - Tunisian president Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every seat
1960 - JFK (Sen-D-Mass) beats VP Richard Nixon (R) to become 35th US president
1961 - Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn
1962 - Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape
1964 - IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion
1964 - KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1964 - Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open
1964 - Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP
1965 - "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV
1965 - British Indian Ocean Territory formed
1966 - Edward W Brooke (Rep-R-Mass) becomes 1st black elected to Senate
1966 - Frank Robinson selected AL MVP
1966 - Movie actor Ronald Reagan elected Governor of California
1966 - Pres Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger
1967 - 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester)
1967 - Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London
1967 - US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John
1970 - Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal
1973 - Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai
1974 - British Lord ('Lucky') Lucan disappears
1974 - Ted Bundy victim Debi Kent disappears in Salt Lake City, Utah
1975 - Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St Paul, to become NWA champ
1976 - A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated.
1977 - Manolis Andronikos, a Greek Archaeologist and professor at the Aristotle University of
           Thessaloniki, discovers the tomb of Philip II of Macedon at Vergina.
1978 - Tom Stoppard's "Night & Day" premieres in London
1979 - Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy" premieres in NYC
1979 - ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to
           "Nightline")
1979 - The Chilean Communist Party (Proletarian Action) is formed.
1980 - Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn
1981 - Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
1981 - Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1983 - Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky
1983 - STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad
1983 - W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia
1984 - 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test
1984 - Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit
1984 - STS 51-A mission launches
1985 - Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS 61-B mission
1986 - "Song & Dance" closes at Royale Theater NYC after 474 performances
1987 - Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup
1987 - IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, North Ireland, 11 killed
1987 - Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1988 - 900 die as earthquake hits China
1988 - Arco Arena in Sacramento CA opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75
1988 - George W H Bush (R) beats Mike Dukakis (D) for presidency
1988 - Rafael Fernandez Colón elected as president of Puerto Rico
1989 - Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
1989 - David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of NYC
1989 - Douglas Wilder elected 1st US black governor (Virginia)
1989 - Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service.
1990 - "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont NYC for 496 perfs
1990 - 100,000 additional US troops are sent to Persian gulf
1990 - Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with LA Dodgers
1990 - Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World
1990 - Saddam fires his army chief & threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula
1991 - Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV
1991 - Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal
1992 - "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater NYC for 25 perfs
1992 - 300,000 demonstrate against racism in Berlin
1992 - Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic
1994 - Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98
1994 - Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms
1997 - Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
1997 - Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World,
           Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
1998 - Japan Golf Classic
2002 - Iraq disarmament crisis: UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - The United Nations Security
           Council unanimously approves a resolution on Iraq, forcing Saddam Hussein to disarm or face
           "serious consequences".
2004 - War in Iraq: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate
           in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah.
2011 - The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about
           324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its
           brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.

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This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Weddings

2006 - Malaysian actress Sazzy Falak (25) weds co-founder of LVG Consultants and LVG MoneySkool
           Nazril Idrus
2009 - "The Practice" actress Marla Sokoloff (29) weds composer Alec Puro (34) at Il Cielo restaurant

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This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Divorces

1968 - Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from Beatle member John
1970 - "Easy Rider" director and actor Dennis Hopper (34) divorces singer Michelle Phillips (26) only 8
           days after getting married

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This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Birthdays

                                   
Novelist Bram Stoker (1847)                 Author Margaret Mitchell (1900)                Engineer Jack Kilby (1923)


Singer Patti Page (1927)


35 - Nerva, Roman Emperor (d. 98)
1342 - Julian of Norwich, English saint (d. 1416)
1431 - Vlad III the Impaler, Wallachian prince (d. 1476)
1491 - Teofilo Folengo, Italian poet (d. 1544)
1572 - Johan Sigismund, elector of Brandenburg/duke of Prussia
1590 - Francesco Gonzaga, composer
1592 - Domenico Mazzocchi, composer
1622 - Galenus Abrahamsz de Haen, Dutch baptist pastor (Lambs' War)
1622 - Karl X Gustaf, King of Sweden (1654-60)
1647 - Pierre Bayle, French/Neth theologist/philosopher/writer
1656 - Edmund Halley, English astronomer (comet of Halley) [OS=Oct 29]
1657 - Thomas Bullis, composer
1693 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer
1706 - Johann Ulrich von Cramer, German judge and philosopher (d. 1772)
1710 - Sarah Fielding, English writer (d. 1768)
1715 - Elisabeth C van Brunswick-Bevern, wife of Frederik II "the Great"
1723 - John Byron, British naval officer (d. 1786)
1760 - Jean-Baptiste Dumonceau de Bergendael, South Neth earl/general
1768 - Princess Augusta Sophia of the United Kingdom, (d. 1840)
1770 - Friedrich Witt, composer
1777 - Désirée Clary, queen of Sweden (d. 1860)
1785 - Friedrich Wilhelm Michael Kalkbrenner, composer
1814 - Girolamo/Jeromin de Rada, Albanian poet (Skanderbeku)
1817 - Claudius Wistar Sears, Brigadier General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1817 - Theodoor J Canneel, Flemish painter
1829 - Samuel Wylie Crawford, Bvt Major General (Union Army), died in 1892
1830 - Oliver Otis Howard, Major General (Union volunteers), died in 1909
1831 - Edward R L Bulwer-Lytton, English statesman and Viceroy of India (1876-1880)
1836 - Milton Bradley, American game manufacturer (d. 1911)
1847 - Bram Stoker, Irish theater manager/author (Dracula)
1847 - Jean Casimir-Perier, French politician (d. 1907)
1848 - Gottlob Frege, Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1849 - Edward Julius Biedermann, composer
1850 - Karel Komzak, composer
1854 - Johannes Rydberg, Swedish physicist (d. 1919)
1863 - René [Raphael] Viviani, French historian/social premier (1914-15)
1866 - Herbert Austin, English automobile pioneer (d. 1941)
1867 - Ilmari Henrik Reinhold Krohn, composer
1868 - Felix Hausdorff, German mathematician (d. 1942)
1876 - Frank L Gillespie, Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 - Marshall Walter "Major" Taylor, world champion cyclist (1899)
1879 - King Baggot I, St Louis MO, director (Tumbleweeds)
1882 - Lazare Saminsky, composer
1883 - Arnold Edward Trevor Bax, London England, composer (Farewell My Youth) (d. 1953)
1883 - Ethel Clayton, MO, actress (Hotel Continental)
1884 - Hermann Rorschach, Swiss psychiatrist (d. 1922)
1885 - Hans Cloos, German geologist (d. 1951)
1885 - Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japanese general (d. 1946)
1885 - Emil Fahrenkamp, German architect (d. 1966)
1887 - Yury Alexandrovich Shaporin, composer
1888 - David Monrad Johansen, composer
1893 - John Miljan, Lead City SD, actor (Possessed, Final Extra, Susan Lenox)
1893 - Clarence Williams, American composer (d. 1965)
1893 - Prajadhipok, Rama VII, king of Thailand (d. 1941)
1895 - Hermann Schey, German/Neth singer
1895 - Photios Kontoglou, Greek writer, painter and iconographer (d. 1965)
1896 - Bucky Harris, baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1897 - Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert
1898 - Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (d. 1937)
1900 - Georges Lonque, composer
1900 - Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949)
1900 - Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
1901 - Gheorge Gheorghiu Dej, Romania party leader/president
1901 - Szymon Laks, composer
1902 - Mihail A Suslov, Soviet-party ideologist [NS=Nov 22]
1902 - Walerian Josef Gniot, composer
1904 - Cedric Belfrage English-born writer (d. 1990)
1905 - Richard Nicholson, musician
1907 - Otto Brenner, German worker's union leader
1908 - Martha Gellhorn, American writer (d. 1998)
1909 - Alberto Erede, Italian conductor
1912 - Jean-Louis Martinet, composer
1912 - Joseph Fattorini, businessman
1913 - Robert Strauss, NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1913 - June Havoc, American actress
1914 - Lute T de Cock, student/resistance fighter
1914 - Norman Lloyd, Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 - Frank McGuire, basketball coach (won 550 games in 30 college seasons)
1916 - June Havoc, Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
1916 - Peter Weiss, Germany, Swedish author/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1918 - Hermann Zapf, German designer
1919 - P. L. Deshpande, Indian author (d. 2000)
1920 - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
1920 - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
1921 - Douglas Townsend, composer
1921 - Gene Saks, NY, actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 - Jerome Hines, [Heinz], Hollywood California, basso (I am The Way)
1922 - Christiaan Barnard, South African surgeon (perform 1st heart transplant)
1922 - Esther Rolle, Pompano Beach Fla, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1922 - Ademir Marques de Menezes, Brazilian footballer (d. 1996)
1923 - Dmitri T Jazov, Russian minister of defense (1991 coup)
1923 - Jack Kilby, Jefferson City, Missouri, electrical engineer and Nobel laureate (handheld calculator,
           integrated circuit), (d. 2005)
1924 - Joe Flynn, Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 - Patti Page, [Clara Ann Fowler], Claremont Ok, singer (Tennessee Waltz), (d. 2012)
1927 - Ken Dodd, English comedian
1929 - Trevor McMahon, NZ cricket wicketkeeper (v India & Pak 1955-56)
1929 - António Castanheira Neves, Portuguese philosopher
1929 - Bobby Bowden, American football coach
1930 - Bob Harris, Long Beach California, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1930 - Edmund Happold, engineer
1931 - Morley Safer, Toronto California, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1932 - Richard E Lawyer, Los Angeles California, astronaut
1932 - Stephane Audran, Versailles France, actress (Just Before Nightfall)
1932 - Ben[jamin William] Bova, US, sci-fi author (Exiled from Earth)
1934 - Roberta Hazard, USN Admiral
1935 - Alain Delon, France, actor (Honor Among Thieves, Return of Zorro)
1935 - Alfonso López Trujillo, Colombian Cardinal Bishop
1936 - Edward George Gibson, Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1936 - Viscount Mountgarret, [Butler], English large landowner
1938 - John Asprey, British jeweler/multi-millionaire
1938 - Pleuni Touw, Dutch actress (Black Rider)
1938 - Pleuntje "Pleuni" Cordon, actress (Dear Guys)
1938 - Richard Stoker, composer
1938 - Driss Basri, Moroccan Interior Minister (d. 2007)
1942 - Aleksandr Yakovlevich Kramarenko, Russia, cosmonaut
1942 - Angel Cordero Jr, jockey (won over 6,000 races) [or May 8]
1942 - Gerald Alston, US singer (Manhattans-Crazy)
1943 - Martin Peters, British soccer player
1944 - Bonnie Bramlett, rock vocalist (Delandy & Bonnie)
1944 - Rodney Desborough Slater, rocker (Bonzo Dog Band)
1945 - Arnold Rosner, composer
1945 - David Jessel, British TV-reporter
1945 - Judith Lang Zaimont, composer
1945 - Tony Mann, Aust cricket leggie (1977 century as nightwatchman v India)
1946 - Roy Wood, Birmingham England, rock vocalist/cellist (ELO)
1947 - Margaret Rhea Seddon, Murfreesboro Tenn, MD/astro (STS 51D, 40, SK:58)
1947 - Minnie Ripperton, Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 - Dale A Gardner, Fairmont Minn, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 - Al Berger, rocker
1949 - Bonnie Raitt, Burbank CA, country singer (Green Light, The Glow)
1949 - Wayne LaPierre, Executive Vice Presidenf of the National Rifle Association.
1951 - Larry Burnette, rocker (Firefall)
1951 - Mary Hart, Sioux Falls SD, TV hostess (Entertainment Tonight)
1951 - Alfredo Astiz, Argentine general
1952 - Alfre Woodard, Tulsa,Oklahoma, American actress (Primal Fear, Cross Creek)
1952 - Christie Ann Hefner, daughter of Hugh Hefner, CEO (Playboy)
1952 - Jan Raas, Dutch bicyclist
1952 - Jerry Remy, American baseball player, color commentator
1952 - John Denny, American baseball player
1953 - John Musker, American animation director
1954 - Rickie Lee Jones, Chicago, singer (Chuck E's in Love)
1954 - David Bret, Anglo-French biographer and broadcaster
1954 - Michael D. Brown, U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency director
1954 - Kazuo Ishiguro, British author
1954 - Jeanette McGruder, American musician (P Funk)
1956 - Beverly Klass, LPGA golfer
1956 - Randi Brooks, NYC, actress (Man With 2 Brains, Tightrope)
1956 - Steven Miller, American record producer
1956 - Richard Curtis, British screenwriter
1957 - Yohan Gunasekera, cricketer (2 Tests for Sri Lanka 1983)
1957 - Porl Thompson, British musician (The Cure)
1957 - Alan Curbishley, English football manager
1958 - Terry Lee Miall, England, rock drummer (Adam & The Ants)
1958 - Don Byron, American clarinetist
1959 - Simon Davis, Victorian cricket pace bowler (Test v NZ 1986, no wkts)
1960 - Oleg Menshikov, Russian actor
1960 - Michael Nyqvist, Swedish actor
1961 - Leif Garrett, Hollywood Cal, singer/actor (Devil x 5, 3 for the Road)
1962 - Ron Johnson, Australian baseball hitting coach (Olympics-1996)
1963 - Dwight Smith, Tallahassee FL, outfielder (Atlanta Braves)
1963 - Paul Butcher, NFL linebacker (Carolina Panthers)
1964 - Chuck Cecil, NFL safety (Houston Oilers)
1965 - Bart Latuheru, soccer player (Vitesse)
1965 - Jeff Blauser, Los gatos CA, infielder (Atlanta Braves)
1965 - Mike Peluso, Pengilly Canada, NHL left wing (NJ Devils)
1965 - Craig Chester, American actor and screenwriter
1966 - Michael Soles, CFL fullback (Montreal Alouettes)
1966 - Ulrich Cruden, soccer player (NEC)
1966 - Gordon Ramsay, British chef and reality television personality
1967 - Courtney Thorne-Smith, actress (Day by Day, Lucas, Summer School)
1967 - Henry Rodriguez, Santo Domingo Dom Rep, outfielder (Montreal Expos)
1967 - Jay Taylor, NFL cornerback (KC Chiefs)
1967 - Kim Dugger, Wichita Kansas, Miss Kansas-America (1991)
1967 - Mark Zollitsch, Orono Maine, kayak (alt-Olympics-96)
1967 - Rhonda Kottke, Minneapolis Minn, WPVA volleyballer
1968 - Jose Offerman, San Pedro de Macoris, infielder (KC Royals)
1968 - Keith Jones, Brantford, NHL right wing (Washington Capitals)
1968 - Michelle Kline, Circle Pines Minn, speed skater (Olympics-1994)
1968 - Parker Posey, Balt Md, actress (Tess Shelby-As the World Turns)
1968 - Zara Whites, Dutch actress
1968 - Sergio Porrini, Italian footballer
1969 - Devon McDonald, NFL linebacker (Indianapolis Colts)
1969 - Ricardo McDonald, NFL linebacker (Cincinnati Bengals)
1969 - Roxana Zal, American actress
1970 - Qadry Ismail, NFL wide receiver (Minnesota Vikings, Miami Dolphins)
1970 - Tom Anderson, co-founder of MySpace
1970 - José Francisco Porras, Costa Rican footballer
1970 - Diana King, Jamaican singer
1971 - Anna Katrina Simcic, Christchurch NZ, backstroker (Olympics-96)
1971 - Twan Scheepers, soccer player (MVV)
1971 - Carlos Atanes, Spanish film director
1972 - Chris Fydler, Sydney NSW NSW Australia, swimmer (Olympics-96)
1972 - Ken Blackman, NFL guard (Cincinnati Bengals)
1972 - Gretchen Mol, American actress
1973 - Frantisek Kaberle, hockey defenseman (Team Czech Oly-gold-1998)
1973 - Nicole Teter, San Diego California, 800m runner
1973 - Tara Johnson, Miss USA-Wisconsin (1997)
1973 - Vanesa Littlecrow, Puerto Rican cartoonist, dancer, writer and model
1974 - Masashi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1974 - Seishi Kishimoto, Japanese manga author
1975 - Brevin Knight, NBA guard (Cleveland Cavaliers)
1975 - Stephen Saber, drummer/songwriter
1975 - Tara Reid, American actress
1975 - José Pinto, Spanish footballer
1976 - Brett Lee, cricketer (brother of Shane, AIS representative)
1976 - Colin Strause, American director
1977 - Bucky Covington, American entertainer
1977 - Jully Black, Canadian R&B singer
1977 - Nick Punto, American baseball player
1978 - Ali Karimi, Iranian footballer
1978 - Júlio Sérgio Bertagnoli, Brazilian footballer
1978 - Spyros Gogolos, Greek footballer
1978 - Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer
1978 - Maurice Evans, American basketball player
1979 - Aaron Hughes, Northern Irish footballer
1979 - Dania Ramírez, Dominican actress
1980 - Ana Vidovic, classical guitarist
1980 - Luis Fabiano, Brazilian footballer
1981 - Joe Cole, English footballer
1982 - Lynndie England, former U.S. Army reservist, associated with Abu Ghraib
1982 - Mika Kallio, Finnish Grand Prix motorcycle racer
1982 - Sam Sparro, Australian producer, songwriter, performer, former child actor
1983 - Blanka Vlašić, Croatian high jumper
1983 - Remko Pasveer, Dutch footballer
1983 - Kat Shoob, British television presenter
1985 - Jack Osbourne, English television star
1986 - Aaron H. Swartz, Chicago, Illinois, computer programmer and internet activist (Demand
           Progress), (d. 2013)
1987 - Samantha Droke, American actress
2003 - Lady Louise Windsor, British royal

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This Day in History for 8th November


Famous Deaths

 
Poet John Milton (1674)


397 - Martin of Tours, [St Martin], bishop of Tours, dies
618 - St Deusdedit/Adeodatus I, Italian Pope (615-18), dies
955 - Pope Agapetus II
1171 - Baldwin IV, Count of Hainaut (b. 1108)
1195 - Conrad of Hohenstaufen
1226 - Louis VIII, the Lion, King of France (1223-26), dies at 39
1228 - Dirk I, ruler of Heinsberg/Valkenburg, dies
1246 - Berenguela of Castile, wife of Alfonso IX of Castile (b. 1180)
1308 - Duns Scotus, Scottish philosopher (coined the word dunce), dies at 42
1494 - Melozzo da Forli, Italian painter, dies at about 56
1517 - Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, cardinal/Chancellor of Castilia, dies
1527 - Jerome Emser, German theologian (b. 1477)
1578 - Johann Walter, composer, dies at 51
1590 - Joost Jansz Bilhamer, master builder/cartographer, dies at about 49
1595 - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1599 - Francisco Guerrero, Spanish composer (b. 1528)
1600 - Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1605 - Robert Catesby, English conspirator (b. 1573)
1638 - Johann H Alsted, German theologist/philosopher, dies at 50
1658 - Pieter Floriszoon, Dutch admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound at about 50
1658 - Witte de With, Dutch vice-admiral, dies in naval Battle of the Sound, at age 59
1674 - John Milton, English poet (Paradise Lost), dies at 65
1694 - Ulrik Huber, Frisian lawyer/law historian/polemist, dies at 58
1719 - Michel Rolle, French mathematician (b. 1652)
1757 - Pierre Prowo, composer, dies at 60
1805 - Francois-Thomas de Baculard d'Arnaud, French writer, dies at 87
1811 - Charles F Bentinck, Dutch minister of Colonies, dies at 47
1817 - Andrea Appiana, Italian royal painter of Napoleon, dies at 63
1830 - King Francis I of the Two Sicilies (b. 1777)
1833 - Maximilian Stadler, composer, dies at 85
1873 - Manuel Breton de los Herreros, Span poet/comic playwright, dies at 76
1880 - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
1885 - Johannes Kneppelhout, [Klikspaan], Dutch humorist/author, dies at 71
1886 - Frederick J "Fred" Archer, English jockey, commits suicide at 29
1887 - Doc Holliday, American gambler and gunfighter (b. 1851)
1890 - Caesar-Auguste Franck, Belgian organist/composer, dies at 67
1905 - Victor Borisov-Musatov, Russian painter (b. 1870)
1908 - Victorien Sardou, French opera author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77
1909 - Charles Bordes, composer, dies at 46
1909 - Eduard de Hartog, composer, dies at 80
1917 - Colyn Blythe, cricketer (2509 F-C wickets), dies during WW I
1920 - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
1920 - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1921 - Pavol Országh Hviezdoslav, Slovak poet (b. 1849)
1924 - Sergey Mikhaylovich Lyapunov, composer, dies at 64
1928 - Mauritz Stiller, Swedish actor/director (Streets of sin), dies at 45
1933 - Mohammed Nadir Shah, king of Afghanistan, assassin by Abdul Khallig
1934 - Carlos Chagas, Brazilian physician (b. 1879)
1937 - James Ramsay MacDonald, British PM (Lab, 1924, 29-35), dies at 71
1941 - Gaetano Mosca, Italian sociologist (Elite Circle), dies at 83
1944 - Walter Nowotny, German combat/jet fighter pilot, dies
1949 - Cyriel Verschaeve, Belgian clergyman (b. 1874)
1952 - Claude Carter, cricketer (took 28 wkts 10 Tests for South Africa), dies
1953 - Iwan Bunin, writer, dies at 83
1953 - John van Melle, South African writer (Bart Nel), dies at 66
1959 - Frank Sherman Land, founder of DeMolay International (b. 1890)
1963 - Simon Jurovsky, composer, dies at 51
1965 - Dorothy Kilgallen, American newspaper columnist (b. 1913)
1966 - Bernhard Zondek, German/Israeli gynaecologist, dies at 75
1968 - Wendell Corey, actor (11th Hour, Peck's Bad Girl), dies at 54
1969 - Kam Tong, actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Mr Garlund), dies at 62
1970 - Huw Thomas Edwards, Welsh trade unionist and politician (b. 1892)
1974 - Ivory Joe Hunter, rocker, dies at 60
1977 - Bucky Harris, American baseball player (b. 1896)
1978 - Norman Rockwell, artist (Saturday Evening Post covers), dies at 84
1979 - Sydney Tafler, actor (Too Many Crooks), dies at 63
1979 - Yvonne de Gaulle, wife of Charles de Gaulle (b. 1900)
1983 - Robert Agnew, director, dies at 84 of kidney failure
1983 - Mordecai Kaplan, Rabbi, founded Reconstructionist Judaism (b. 1881)
1984 - Carl Gustav Sparre Olsen, composer, dies at 81
1985 - Nicolas Frantz, Luxembourgish cyclist (b. 1899)
1986 - Beatrice Kay, singer/actress (Sister Sue-Calvin & the Col), dies at 78
1986 - Vyacheslav Molotov, Russian politician (b. 1890)
1989 - Andre Kloos, Dut trade union leader (NVV)/chairman (VARA), dies at 67
1990 - Anya Seton, US author, dies
1990 - Grampy Davis, dies of heart attack at 87
1991 - Christine Felsmann, dies
1991 - Frances Faye, singer/actress (Pretty Baby), dies after strokes
1991 - John Kirckpatrick, US musicologist (Charles Ives Archives), dies
1991 - Patrick Hamilton, author (Gaslight, Rope, Angel Street), dies at 45
1992 - Alexander Dubcek, pres of Czechoslovakia (1968-69), dies
1992 - Kees [Cornelis] Broekman, speed skater (Olympic-silver-1952), dies
1992 - Keith "Red" Mitchell, US/Swedish jazz bassist, dies
1993 - Andrey Nikolayevich Tychonoff, Russian mathematician (b. 1906)
1994 - Marianne Straub, weaver, dies at 85
1994 - Michael O'Donoghue, American comedy writer (SNL), dies of a cerebral hemorrhage at 54
1995 - Country Dan Dick Montana McLain, singer, dies at 40
1995 - Neil Blaney, politician, dies at 73
1996 - Edward Albert Radice, economist, dies at 89
1996 - Peter Fowler, physicist, dies at 73
1998 - Jean Marais, French actor (b. 1913)
1999 - Lester Bowie, American jazz trumpet player (b. 1941)
1999 - Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (b. 1898)
2002 - Jon Elia, Pakistani scholar, poet and philosopher (b. 1931)
2003 - Bob Grant, English actor (b. 1932)
2003 - C. Z. Guest, American socialite (b. 1920)
2003 - Guy Speranza, American singer, original Riot frontman (b. 1956)
2004 - Peter Mathers, English-born Australian novelist (b. 1931)
2005 - David Westheimer, American novelist (b. 1917)
2005 - Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor (b. 1928)
2006 - Basil Poledouris, American film score composer (b. 1945)
2006 - Hannspeter Winter, Austrian plasma physicist
2007 - Dulce Saguisag, Filipino politician and former DSWD Secretary. (b. 1943)
2007 - Chad Varah, English founder of charity The Samaritans (b. 1911)
2009 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist (b. 1916)
2010 - Emilio Eduardo Massera, Argentine naval officer and National Reorganization Process figure (b.
           1925)
2010 - Jack Levine, American painter (b. 1915)
2010 - Quintin Dailey, American basketball player (b. 1961)
2010 - Alex Fagan, American law enforcement official (b. 1950)
2011 - Heavy D, American hip-hop artist. (b. 1967)
2011 - Bil Keane, American cartoonist (b. 1922)
2012 - Lucille Bliss, American voice artist, dies from natural causes at 96