1822 – Anton Teyber, Austrian composer, dies at 66
1950 – Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
1986 – Gia Carangi, American model (AIDS) (b. 1960)
1993 – Fritz Feld, German actor (Jack Benny Show, At the Circus, Errand Boy, Promises Promises), dies at 93
1999 – Doug Sahm, American roots-rock and Tex-Mex musician (Sir Douglas Quintet – “Mendocino”; Texas Tornadoes – “Adios Mexico”), dies of a heart attack at 58
2003 – Ken Brett, American baseball player, dies at 55
2005 – Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
2015 – Jonah Lomu, New Zealand rugby union winger (youngest ever All Black, 63 internationals), dies of a heart attack linked to kidney disease at 40
2015 – Mal Whitfield, American track athlete (Olympic 3 gold, silver and bronze 1948, 52), dies at 91
2021 – Slide Hampton [Locksley Wellington Hampton], American jazz trombonist, composer and arranger, dies at 89
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Historical Events for 18th November 2023
1105 – Maginulf elected anti-Pope Silvester I
1307 – William Tell reputedly shoots apple off his son’s head
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1667 – Treaty of Bongaja: King Hassan-Udin of Makasar and VOC
1755 – Worst quake in Massachusetts Bay area strikes Boston; no deaths reported
1912 – Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
1943 – 444 British bombers attack Berlin
1959 – Wash Senator Bob Allison wins AL Rookie of Year
1976 – Spain’s parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
1989 – Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
Today in History for 18th November 2023
Historical Events
1833 – Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1904 – General Esteban Huertas steps down after the government of Panama fears he wants to stage a coup
1960 – Charlie Finley makes a bid to purchase expansion LA Angels
1990 – Yugoslavian tennis star Monica Seles beats Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina 6–4, 5–7, 3–6, 6–4, 6–2 to win her first of 3 straight WTA Tour Championships in NYC; first 5-set women’s final since 1901
2005 – 20th Century Fox releases “Walk the Line”, starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, and directed by James Mangold; Witherspoon wins an Academy Award
2012 – 40th American Music Awards: Katy Perry and Justin Bieber win
Famous Birthdays
1832 – Adolf Erik Nordenskiöld, Finnish-Swedish explorer and mineralogist (Vega Expedition), born in Helsinki, Finland (d. 1901)
1845 – John Mellaerts, Flemish social worker (1st Belgian farm gilde) (d. 1925)
1882 – Amelita Galli-Curci, Italian-American operatic soprano (Cave of the Winds), born in Milan, Italy (d. 1963)
1903 – Lillian Fuchs, American violist and composer, born in New York (d. 1995)
1918 – Tasker Watkins, Welsh World War II hero, born in Nelson, Wales (d. 2007)
1951 – Heinrich Schiff, Austrian cellist and conductor, born in Gmunden, Austria (d. 2016)
Famous Deaths
1678 – Giovanni Maria Bononcini, composer, dies at 36
1887 – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist and physicist (Weber–Fechner law), dies at 86
1917 – Henry Spiekman, Dutch journalist and politician (co-founder Social Democratic Workers’ Party), dies of leukemia at 43
1968 – Walter Wanger [Feuchtwanger], American film producer (Cleopatra), dies at 74
2009 – Jeanne-Claude [Denat de Guillebon], French artist who worked with Christo (Running Fence, Wrapped Reichstag), dies at 74
2014 – Dave Appell, American musician, arranger, musical director (Ernie Kovacs), record producer (Charlie Gracie; The Orlons; Tony Orlando and Dawn), and songwriter, dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2023
1494 – Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Italian scholar and Renaissance philosopher (Oration on the Dignity of Man), dies under mysterious circumstances, possibly poisoned, at 31
1512 – Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, commits seppuku (ritual suicide) after defeat at Battle of Sekigahara (b. 1542)
1826 – Louise Reichardt, German composer, dies at 47
1848 – Joseph Bernard Cannaert “Olim”, Flemish lawyer, dies at 80
1862 – Alexey Verstovsky, Russian composer, dies at 63
1905 – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, dies at 68
1985 – Jimmy Ritz [Samuel Joachim], American vaudevillian, actor and comedian (Ritz Brothers – The Gorilla;, Hi’ya, Chum; Straight, Place and Show), dies of heart failure at 81
1989 – Gus Farace, American gangster (b. 1960)
1991 – John Blatnik, (Rep-Minn, 1947-75), dies at 80
Historical Events for 17th November 2023
1774 – First City Troop Philadelphia City Cavalry formed at Carpenter’s Hall, Philadelphia, one of the oldest US military units still in service
1929 – Nikolai Bukharin is expelled from the Soviet Politburo amidst a power struggle with Joseph Stalin
1959 – William Shea shows proposed NYC stadium with transparent roof
1973 – Greek regime attacks students with tanks, 100s killed
1980 – WHHM Television in Washington, D.C., becomes the first African-American public-broadcasting television station
1993 – General Sani Abacha leads a military coup against Ernest Shonekan’s transitional administration and returns the Nigerian government to military control
1996 – Time White and T. Assebework discover the first fossils of 2.5 million year old Australopithecus garhi, an ancestor on the human family tree, in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
1997 – In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
2008 – “Twilight”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres in Los Angeles
2018 – Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured
Today in History for 17th November 2023
Historical Events
1858 – Origin of Modified Julian Period
1876 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky’s patriotic Slavonic March makes its premiere in Moscow to a warm reception
1965 – William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
2002 – Australian Leyton Hewitt scores back-to-back season-ending Tennis Masters Cup titles with a classic 7–5, 7–5, 2–6, 2–6, 6–4 victory over Spaniard Juan Carlos Ferrero in Shanghai, China
2006 – Official naming of element 111, Roentgenium (Rg).
2021 – British Columbia declares a state of emergency after an “atmospheric river” storm causes widespread rain and flooding
Famous Birthdays
1729 – Maria Antonietta of Spain, queen of Sardinia (d. 1785)
1911 – William Tannen, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
1936 – Dahlia Ravikovitch, Israeli poet (d. 2005)
1945 – Roland Joffe, director (City of Joy, Mission, Killing Fields)
1953 – Jilly Johnson, British model and pop vocalist (Blonde on Blonde), born in England
1965 – Paul Sorrento, Somerville MA, infielder (Seattle Mariners)
Famous Deaths
1600 – Kuki Yoshitaka, Japanese naval commander, commits seppuku (ritual suicide) after defeat at Battle of Sekigahara (b. 1542)
1940 – Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
1940 – Eric Gill, British sculptor, engraver and typographer (Perpetua, Gill Sans), dies of cancer at 58
1942 – Ben Reitman, American anarchist, physician (b. 1879)
1995 – Marguerite Young, writer, dies at 87
2019 – Adnan Pachachi, Iraqi and Emirati politician and diplomat (Iraq Minister of Foreign Affairs during Six-Day War), dies at 96
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2023
1603 – Pierre Charron, French philosopher/theologian, dies
1706 – Cornelis Evertsen the Youngest, Dutch admiral and buccaneer, dies at 64
1935 – Kurt Schindler, composer, dies at 53
1964 – Albert Hay Malotte, composer, dies at 69
1986 – Siobhán McKenna [Cionnaith], Irish stage actress (Saint Joan, The Chalk Garden), dies of lung cancer at 63
1989 – Ignacio Ellacuría, Spanish-Salvadoran Jesuit priest, philosopher and human rights activist, assassinated during the Salvadoran Civil War at 59
1993 – Achille Zavatta, French clown (b. 1915)
1996 – John Reginald Bevins, British Conservative politician, dies at 88
2004 – Margaret Hassan, Irish aid worker in Iraq, abducted at 59 (presumed dead)
2007 – Harold Alfond, American businessman and founder of Dexter Shoe Company, dies at 93
Historical Events for 16th November 2023
1856 – Amsterdam post office at Nieuwezijds Voorburgwal opens
1907 – Oklahoma becomes the United States 46th state
1920 – 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
1950 – UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
1984 – Houston blocks 20 Denver shots tying NBA regulation game record
1989 – Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacuría and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army – one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war
1996 – “Into the Whirlwind” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC for 2 performances
2020 – Hurricane Iota makes landfall in Nicaragua as a category four storm, just 15 km south of Hurricane Eta 13 days ago
2021 – Guanyu Zhou confirmed as China’s first F1 driver, racing for Alfa Romeo in 2022
2022 – U.S. Food and Drug Administration gives first safety approval on lab-grown meat, chicken grown from animal cells made by Upside Foods
Today in History for 16th November 2023
Historical Events
1632 – Battle of Lützen: Significant battle of Thirty Years’ War – Swedish and Saxon forces defeat the Holy Roman Empire, at cost of the death of Swedish King Gustavus Adolphus
1840 – New Zealand officially becomes a British colony
1917 – British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
1973 – US President Richard Nixon authorizes construction of the Alaskan pipeline
2003 – CFL Grey Cup, Taylor Field, Regina: Edmonton Eskimos reverse previous year result; beat Montreal Alouettes, 34-22 for 12th title
2022 – NASA’s Artemis I mission carrying the uncrewed Orion spacecraft on a test mission around the Moon and back launches from Florida
Famous Birthdays
1609 – Henrietta Maria, French-born daughter of Henry IV of France and Queen Consort of England (d. 1669)
1730 – Gualtherus van Doeveren, Zealand-Flanders physician, born in Philippine, Zealand, Netherlands (d. 1783)
1874 – Johanna Albregt, Dutch actress (Dumb August) and wife of Henri Dons, born (d. 1946)
1931 – Luciano Bottaro, Italian comic book artist, born in Rapallo, Italy (d. 2006)
1973 – Howard Smothers, NFL guard (Philadelphia Eagles)
1981 – Caitlin Glass, American voice actress, born in Washington, D.C., United States
Famous Deaths
1667 – Nathaniel Schnittelbach, German composer and violinist, dies at 34
1766 – Dominikus Zimmermann, Bavarian Baroque architect and painter (Liebfrauenkirche), dies at 81
1835 – Louis Angely, German comedic poet (Paris in Pommern), dies at 48
1958 – J. W. F. Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread), dies at 67
1980 – O. V. [Overton Vertis] Wright, American blues singer, dies at 41
2005 – Ralph Edwards, American TV host (This is Your Life), dies at 92
Famous Deaths for 15th November 2023
1917 – Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement minister and writer (My Utmost for His Highest), dies at 43
1919 – Alfred Werner, Swiss chemist (Nobel 1913), dies at 52
1967 – Michael J. Adams, USAF pilot (X-15), dies in X-15 crash at 37
1981 – Walter Heitler, German physicist, quantum field theorist, philosopher, and writer (Man and Science), dies at 77
1985 – Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), dies at 90
1994 – Janet Ahlberg (née Hall), British children’s book illustrator (The Jolly Postman; Each Peach Pear Plum), dies of breast cancer at 50
1997 – Saul Chaplin [Kaplan], American Oscar Award-winning stage, and screen composer, arranger, and orchestrator (An American in Paris; “The Anniversary Song”), dies at 85
2000 – Gene Gutche, German-born composer, dies at 93
2005 – Dr. Adrian Rogers, American Southern Baptist Minister and leader (b. 1931)
2009 – Antonio de Nigris, Mexican soccer striker (16 caps; Monterrey, Villarreal), dies from a heart attack at 31