This day in history...

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Deaths which occurred on November 01:
1927 Florence Mills dancer/singer, dies at 32 in NYC
1947 Man O' War dies
1956 Lajos Asztalos International Chess Master (1950), dies at 67
1959 Gershon Agron mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 66
1961 Joan McCracken actress (Claudie The Story of a Marriage), dies at 38
1963 Elsa Maxwell writer (Jack Paar Show), dies at 80
1963 Ngo Dinh Diem, South Vietnamese PM, assassinated in a military coup
1967 Benita Hume actress (Vicky-Thew Halls of Ivy), dies at 61
1975 Doro Merande actress (That Was The Week That Was), dies at 77
1982 James Broderick actor (Doug-Family), dies of cancer at 55
1982 King Vidor director, dies at 88 of a heart ailment
1984 Norman Krasna writer/director, dies of a heart attack at 74
1985 Phil Silvers comedic actor (Sgt Bilko), dies at 73 in his sleep
1986 Paul Frees animation voice (Bullwinkle), dies at 66
1987 Rene Levesque Quebec premier (1976-85), dies at 65
1994 Noah Beery Jr in California, actor (Rockford Files, Quest, Doc Elliot), dies at 81

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In 1512,Michelangelo finished painting the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel at the Vatican.

In 1604, William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.

In 1611, Shakespear's romantic comedy "The Tempest" was first presented at Whitehall.

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Birthdates which occurred on November 02:
1470 King Edward V of England (1483); deposed, murdered? by Richard III
1734 Daniel Boone frontiersman/explorer (US Hall of Fame-1915)
1755 Marie-Antoinette Queen of France, let them eat cake
1795 James Knox Polk NC, 11th President (D) (1845-1849)
1815 George Boole mathematician (Boolean algebra)
1847 George Sorel French Socialist thinker, writer (violent revolutions)
1865 Warren Gamaliel Harding (R), 29th President (1921-23)
1885 Harlow Shapley US, astronomer (studied the galaxies)

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Deaths which occurred on November 03:
1864 Antonio Gonsalves Dias Brazilian national poet, dies at sea
1926 Annie Oakley dies
1962 Harlow H Curtice President of General Motors (1953-8), dies at 69
1983 Alfredo Antonini conductor (Jane Froman Canteen), dies at 82
1990 Mary Martin actress (Peter Pan), dies at 76

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Birthdates which occurred on November 05:
1818 Benjamin F Butler Union general/presidential candidate (anti-monopoly)
1849 Rui Barbosa Brazil, statesman/jurist/essayist/civil liberties
1855 Eugene V Debs labor organizer, Socialist presidential candidate
1857 Ida Tarbell muckraker (Standard Oil was very unhappy)
1876 Raymond Duchamp-Villon cubist sculptor (Head of Baudeaire)
1884 James Elroy Flecker English poet/dramatist (Hassan)
1885 Will Durant writer/historian (Story of Civilization)
1887 Paul Wittgenstein Vienna Austria, left hand specialist pianist
1891 Earle (Greasy) Neale NFL coach (Philadelphia Eagles)
1894 Eugen Zador Bataszek, Hungary, Hungarian/American composer (Diana)
19-- Brian Wheat rock bassist (Tesla-Psychotic Supper)
19-- Jan Shutan Los Angeles CA, actress (Ruth-Sons & Daughters)
1905 Joel McCrea South Pasadena CA, actor (Marshal-Wichita Town)
1911 Roy Rogers Cincinnati Ohio, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show)
1912 Natalie Schaeffer Rumson NJ, actress (Lovey Howell-Gilligan's Island)
1913 John McGiver NYC, actor (Patty Duke Show, Jimmy Stewart Show)
1913 Vivien Leigh (Gone With Wind) Frankly my dear, I don't give a darn
1915 Moe Biller NYC, labor union officer (AFL-CIO, Postal Workers)
1919 Myron Floren Webster San Diego CA, accordionist (Lawrence Welk Show)
1927 Robert Abernethy Geneva Switzerland, Newscaster (NBC News Encore)
1930 Herb Edelman Brooklyn NY, actor (Good Guys, Strike Force, 9 to 5)
1931 Ike Turner AKA Mr Tina Turner!, singer (A Fool in Love)
1932 Arthur L Liman NYC, trial lawyer (Oliver North)
1935 Dick Davalos Bronx, actor (Jeff-The Americans)
1938 Chris Robinson Florida, actor (Stanley, General Hospital, Another World)
1941 Patricia Harty Wash DC, actress (Occasional Wife, Blondie)
1942 Art Garfunkel NYC, singer/actor (Sounds of Silence, Carnal Knowledge)
1942 Elke Sommer Berlin Germany, actress (Oscar, 10 Little Indians)
1942 Richie Scheinblum Bronx-born outfielder for the Kansas City Royals (Sporting News All Star Right fielder 1972 American League)

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In 1605,the "Gunpowder Plot" failed as Guy Fawkes was seized before he could blow up the English Parlument.

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On this day...
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use
1860 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President
1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Indiana) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1900 President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico
1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace
1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

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On this day...
1572 Supernova is observed in the constellation known as Cassiopeia
1813 Chilpancingo congress declares Mexico independent of Spain
1844 Spain grants Dominican Rep independence
1850 1st Hawaiian fire engine
1850 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use
1860 Abraham Lincoln (R-Ill-Rep) elected 16th President
1861 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as Confederate President
1862 NY-San Francisco direct telegraphic link established
1869 1st intercollegiate football (soccer) game (Rutgers 6, Princeton 4)
1883 NYAC organizes 1st American cross-country championship race
1884 British protectorate proclaimed over southeast New Guinea
1885 US mint at Carson City, Nevada directed to close
1888 Benjamin Harrison (R-Sen-Indiana) beats President Grover Cleveland (D), 233 electoral votes to 168, Cleveland received slightly more votes
1900 President William McKinley (R) re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan
1906 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY gov beats William Randolph Hearst
1911 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated President of Mexico
1913 Mohandas K Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners march in South Africa
1917 Bolshevik revolution begins with the capture of the Winter Palace
1918 Republic of Poland proclaimed
1923 USSR adopts experimental calendar, with 5-day "weeks"
1924 Stanley Baldwin becomes PM of England
1928 Herbert Hoover (R) beats Alfred E Smith (D) for President
1935 Maiden flight by Canada's Hawker Hurricane military plane
1936 RCA displays TV for the press
1939 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
1945 HUAC begins investigation of 7 radio commentators

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Deaths which occurred on November 07:
1573 Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1837 Elijah P Lovejoy publisher, murdered by proslavery mob
1962 Eleanor Roosevelt Former 1st Lady, dies at 78 in NYC
1978 Gene Tunney former heavyweight boxing champ, dies at 80
1980 Steve McQueen Slater MO, actor, dies at 50
1984 George Matthews actor, dies at 73 of heart disease

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In 1917, Russia's Bolshvil Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Ilyich Lenin overthrew the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky.

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Birthdates which occurred on November 08:
1656 Sir Edmond Halley 1st to calculate comet's orbit (Halley's Comet)
1848 Gottlob Frege Germany, mathematician/logician (Begriffsschrift)
1876 Frank L Gillespie Ark, founded Supreme Life Insurance Company
1878 Marshall Walter "Mayor" Taylor famous African
1883 Sir Arnold Bax London, England, composer (Farewell My Youth)
1896 Bucky Harris baseball manager (Phillies, Yankees)
1897 Dorothy Day author (Stump the Authors)
19-- Hortensia Colorado Blue Island IL, actress (Maria-Passions)
19-- Margaret Ladd RI, actress (Emma-Falcon Crest, As the World Turns)
1900 Margaret Mitchell writer (Gone With the Wind)
1913 Robert Strauss NYC, actor (Sgt Gruzewsky-Mona McCluskey)
1914 Norman Lloyd Jersey City NJ, actor (Auschlander-St Elsewhere)
1916 June Havoc Seattle Wash, actress (Willy, Panic, GE Theater)
1916 Peter Weiss Germany, Swedish writer/dramatist/novelist (Marat/Sade)
1921 Gene Saks actor/director (One & Only, Prisoner of 2nd Ave)
1921 Jerome Hines Hollywood CA, basso (I am The Way)
1922 Christiaan Barnard South Africa, surgeon (performs 1st heart transplant)
1922 Esther Rolle Pompano Beach FL, actress (Florida-Good Times, Maude)
1924 Joe Flynn Youngstown Ohio, actor (McHale's Navy)
1927 Patti Page Claremont Oklahoma, singer (Tennessee Waltz)
1930 Bob Harris Long Beach CA, actor (Jim-Troubleshooters)
1931 Morley Safer Toronto Canada, TV newscaster (60 Minutes)
1935 Alain Delon France, actor (Honor Among Thieves)
1936 Edward G Gibson Buffalo NY, astronaut (Skylab 4)
1942 Angel Cordero Jr jockey (won over 6,000 races)
1947 Margaret Rhea Seddon Murfreesboro TN, MD/astro (STS 51D, STS 40)
1947 Minnie Ripperton Chicago, singer (Loving You)
1948 Dale A Gardner Fairmont MN, Cmdr USN/astronaut (STS 8, STS 51A)
1949 Bonnie Raitt LA, singer/guitarist (Green Light, The Glow, Thing Called Love)

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Deaths which occurred on November 09:
1874 Israel Bak created 1st hebrew printing press, dies
1952 Chaim Weizmann 1st President of Israel, dies at 57
1953 Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud founder of Saudi Arabia, dies (born c 1880)
1953 Dylan Thomas author-poet, dies in NY at 39
1967 Charles Bickford actor (Johnny Belinda, Virginian), dies at 68
1970 Charles DeGaulle French President, dies at 79
1970 William L Dawson (Rep-D-Ill), dies at 84
1976 Billy Halop actor (Bert Munson-All in the Family), dies at 56
1978 Joe Wong actor (Ken Murray Show), dies at 75
1979 Lewis Charles actor (Feather & Father Gang), dies at 59
1980 Carmel Myers actress (Carmel Myers Show), dies at 79
1980 Victor Sen Yung actor (Bonanza, Bachelor Family), dies at 65
1985 Helen Rose costume designer, dies at 81
1985 Mary MacLaren actress, dies at 85 of respiratory problems
1988 John Mitchell former Attorney General, dies of heart attack in Washington
1991 Yves Montand actor, dies at 70 from a heart attack

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On this day...
1526 Jews are expelled from Pressburg Hungary by Maria of Hapsburg
1720 Rabbi Yehuda Hasid synagogue set afire
1799 Napoleon becomes dictator (1st consul) of France
1821 1st US pharmacy college holds 1st classes, Philadelphia
1848 Post office at Clay & Pike opens
1853 Origin of Carrington rotation numbers for rotation of the Sun
1858 1st performance of NY Symphony Orchestra
1861 Battle of Piketon, KY
1862 US Grant issues orders to bar Jews from serving under him
1864 1st export of goods from Burrard Inlet, BC to a foreign country
1865 Conf Gen Lee surrenders to Union Gen Grant at Appomattox
1872 Fire destroys nearly 1,000 buildings in Boston
1877 American Chemical Society chartered in NY
1885 The opera "Ermine" is produced (London)
1904 1st airplane flight to last more than 5 minutes
1913 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
1915 Italian liner Ancona sinks by German torpedoes, killing 272
1918 Bavaria proclaims itself a republic
1918 Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in WW I
1923 Beer Hall Putsch-NAZIs fail to overthrow government in Germany
1924 Miriam (Ma) Ferguson becomes 1st elected woman governor (of Texas)
1927 Giant Panda discovered, China
1930 1st nonstop airplane flight from NY to Panama
1932 Hurricane storm wave sweeps over Santa Cruz del Sur Cuba kills 2,500
1935 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
1938 "Kristallnacht" (Crystal Night)-Nazi stormtroopers attacked Jews
1938 Al Capp, cartoonist of Lil' Abner creates Sadie Hawkins Day
1953 Cambodia (now Kampuchea) gains independence within French Union

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In 1918, it was announced that Germany's Kasiser Wilhelm II would abdicate. He then fled to the Netherlands.

In 1938, Nazis looted and burned synagogues as well as Jewish-owned stores and houses in Germany and Austria in what became known as "Kristallnacht."

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Birthdates which occurred on November 10:
1483 Martin Luther Eisleben, Germany, founded Protestantism
1668 Francois Couperin Paris France, composer/organist (Concerts Royaux)
1683 George II king of England (1727-60)
1697 William Hogarth England, satiric painter/engraver (Rake's Progress)
1730 Oliver Goldsmith Ireland, novelist/dramatist (She Stoops to Conquer)
1759 Frederich von Schiller Germany, poet/lyricist (Ode to Joy)
1793 Jared Kirtland US, physician/naturalist/reformed penitentiaries
1819 Cyrus West Field financier/success of 1st transatlantic cable
1844 Sir John SD Thompson (C), 4th PM of Canada (1892-94)
1851 Waldemar Brígger Norway, geologist/mineralogist (Metamict State)
1861 Robert TA Innes Edinburgh Scotland, astronomer (Proxima Centauri)
1873 Henri Rabaud Paris France, composer (Le Premer Glaire)
1879 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay US, poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven)
1879 Vachel Lindsay Springfield IL, poet (Johnny Appleseed)
1880 Sir Jacob Epstein sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
1882 Frances Perkins 1st woman Cabinet member (Secretary of Labor 1933-45)
1889 Claude Rains London, actor (Invisible Man, Casablanca)
1895 John Knudsen Northrop aircraft designer (Northrop Air)
19-- Loanne Bishop actress (General Hospital)
1907 Jane Froman St Louis MO, singer (Jane Froman's USA Canteen)
1911 Harry Andrews Kent England, actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha)
1916 Billy May Pittsburgh PA, orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show)
1916 Guido Turchi Rome Italy, composer (Invettiva)
1918 Jack McCoy Akron Ohio, TV host (Live Like a Millionaire)
1919 Clyde (Bulldog) Turner NFL center (Chicago Bears)
1919 George Fenneman TV announcer (You Bet Your Life)
1919 Moise Tshombe President of Katanga, then premier of the Congo (Zaire)
1925 Richard Burton South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
1930 Clarence M Pendleton Jr chairman of US comm on Civil Rights (1981-88)
1934 Norm Cash Eldorado Texas, 1st baseman (Detroit Tigers)

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On this day...
461 St Leo I ends his reign as Catholic Pope
1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherlands (NY) to English
1775 US Marine Corps established by Congress
1801 Kentucky outlaws dueling
1808 Osage Treaty signed
1836 Louis Napoleon banished to America
1864 Austrian Archduke Maximilian became emperor of Mexico
1871 Stanley presumes to meet Livingston in Ujiji, Central Africa
1891 1st Woman's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
1898 Race riot in Wilmington NC (8 blacks killed)
1917 41 suffragists are arrested in front of the White House
1918 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Jozef Pilsudski
1919 1st observance of National Book Week
1919 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
1926 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
1928 Hirohito enthroned as Emperor of Japan
1940 Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
1945 College football's #1 Army beats #2 Notre Dame 48-0
1945 General Enver Hoxha becomes leader of Albania
1950 Jacobo Arbenz Guzm n elected President of Guatemala
1951 1st long distance telephone call without operator assistance
1954 Iwo Jima Memorial (servicemen raising US flag) dedicated in Arlington
1954 Lt Col John Strapp travels 632 MPH in a rocket sled
1957 NFL record crowd (102,368), '49ers vs Rams in LA
1960 Senate passes landmark Civil Rights Bill

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In 1871,journalist-explorer Henry M. Stanley found Scottish missionary David Livington, who had not been heard from for years, near Lake Tanganyika in central Africa.

In 1928,Japanese Emperor Hirohito was formally enthroned , almost two years after his ascension.

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Deaths which occurred on November 11:
1831 Nat Turner former slave, led a violent insurrection, hanged in VA
1956 Victor Young orchestra leader (Milton Berle Show), dies at 56
1962 Rene Coty President of France, dies at 80
1973 Stringbean [David Akeman], banjoist/comedian (Hee Haw), dies at 58
1974 Jane Ace comedian (Easy Aces), dies at 74
1975 Marty May (Fireball Fun For All), dies at 79
1984 Rev Martin Luther King Sr dies in Atlanta at 84
1986 Roger C Carmel actor (Mudd-Star Trek, Mothers-in-Law), dies at 54
1987 L T Coggeshall medical scientist (Secretary of HEW 1956-58), dies at 86

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Birthdates which occurred on November 13:
354 St Augustine of Hippo Numidia, Algeria, convert/Christian philosopher
1312 Edward III king of England (1327-77)
1792 Edward John Trelawney England, traveler/author (Adv of Younger Son)
1831 James Maxwell Edinburgh Scot, physicist (Treatise on Electricity)
1833 Edwin Thomas Booth US, US Hall of Fame/actor (Hamlet)
1838 Joseph F Smith 6th President of Mormon church
1850 Robert Louis Stevenson Scotland, author (Treasure Island)
1854 George Whitefield Chadwick Lowell MA, composer (Judi Van Winke)
1856 Louis D Brandeis Massachusetts, Supreme Court Justice (1916-39)
1882 John Lowry Mount Vernon NY, NYC builder (Radio City Music Hall)
1898 Earl Sande jockey (Hall of Famer)
19-- Aldo Nova rocker (Blood on the Bricks)
19-- Daniel Pilon Montreal Canada, actor (Nick-Hamptons)
19-- J.A. Preston Washington DC, actor (Mayor Cleveland-Hill St Blues)
19-- Tom Atkins Pittsburgh PA, actor (Lt Diehl-Rockford Files)
1906 Conrad Thibault Northbridge MA, singer (Jacques Fray Music Room)
1906 Hermione Baddeley England, actress (Camp Runamuck, Maude, Good Life)
1915 Howard Cooke Jamaica, (1991 Mico Gold Medal Award)
1916 Jack Elam Miami AZ, actor (The Dakotas, East Street, Rio Lobo)
1917 Robert Sterling Newcastle PA, actor (George Kirby-Adv of Topper)
1922 Jack Narz Louisville KY, TV gameshow host (Dotto, Video Village)
1922 Madeleine Sherwood Montreal, actress (Mother Superior-Flying Nun)
1922 Oskar Werner film actor/director (Shoes of the Fisherman, Das Ekel)
1923 Linda Christian Tampico, Mexico, actress (Athena, VIPs, Battle Zone)
1930 Fred Harris (Sen-D-Oklahoma)
1932 Olga Fikotova Czech, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1956)
1932 Richard Mulligan Bronx NY, actor (Soap, Empty's Nest, Big Bus)
1933 Adrienne Corri Glasgow Scotland, actress (River, Dr Zhivago)
1938 Jean Seberg Marshaltown Iowa, actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon)
1941 Dack Rambo Delano CA, actor (Guns of Will Sonnett, Dallas)
1941 Mel Stottlemyre Wash, pitcher (NY Yankee)/pitching coach (NY Met)
1942 Beth Brickell Camden Arkansas, actress (Gentle Ben)
1943 John Paul Hammond NYC, blues singer (So Many Roads)
1947 Joe Mantegna Chicago IL, actor (House of Games, Weeds)
1948 Sheila Frazier NYC, actress (Gloria-Lazarus Syndrome)
1949 Terry Reid guitarist (River, Bang Bang You're Terry Reid)
1949 Whoopi Goldberg [Caryn Johnson], NYC, actress (Color Purple, Burglar)
1953 Tracy Scoggins Galveston TX, actress (Colbys, Gumshoe Kid)
1971 John Francis Zingg Boston MA, rocker (4 Fun-Unbelievable Fun Boys)
1972 Shom-Rock rocker (Young Nation)
1972 T-Haxx rocker (DYC)

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In 1985, some 23,000 residents of Armero Columbia, died when a gigantic mudslide buried the city.

In 1997, The United Nations decided to withdraw all weapons inspectors from Iraq after Saddam Hussein ordered Americans on the U.N. team out.