1068 – Agnes of Poitou, duchess of Aquitania/mother of German Empress, dies
1829 – Jean Xavier Lefevre, composer, dies at 66
1862 – John Bordenave Villepigue, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 32
1919 – Eduard Müller, member of the Swiss Federal Council (b. 1848)
1939 – Dirk Klop, Dutch intelligence lt, shot by German Abwehr
1955 – Tom Powers, American actor (Station West, Destination Moon), dies at 65
1974 – Egon Wellesz, Austrian-British composer (Alkestis; The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo), teacher, and musicologist (Byzantine), dies at 89
2004 – Stieg Larsson, Swedish author (Girl with the Dragon Tattoo), dies of a heart attack at 50
2012 – Major Harris, American RandB singer (Love Won’t Let Me Wait), dies from congestive heart and lung failure at 65
2018 – Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57
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Historical Events for 9th November 2023
1872 – The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
1907 – Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
1950 – White Sox release Luke Appling, who had been a Sox since 1930
1966 – “Let’s Sing Yiddish” opens at Brooks Atkinson NYC for 107 performances
1983 – Discovery flies from Vandenberg AFB to Kennedy Space Center
2003 – A suicide-terrorist attack in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, kills 17 people.
2015 – San Diego’s SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
2018 – Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
2019 – YouTubers KSI and Logan Paul’s second boxing match; KSI wins by split decision
2020 – 2020 becomes busiest Atlantic hurricane season ever as tropical storm Theta named record 29th storm
Today in History for 9th November 2023
Historical Events
1313 – Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria at the Battle of Gammelsdorf
1905 – Swedish mine workers win 5 month strike for minimum wages
1936 – American fashion designer Ruth Harkness captures a panda cub (Su Lin) in China – becomes 1st live panda cub to enter the US
1971 – David Storey’s “Changing Room” premieres in London
2005 – The Venus Express mission of the European Space Agency is launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.
2015 – “Reclining Nude” by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
Famous Birthdays
1802 – Elijah Parish Lovejoy, American newspaper publisher and abolitionist, born in Albion, Maine (d. 1837)
1880 – Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man), born in Pilseň, Czech Republic (d. 1945)
1922 – Raymond Devos, Belgian-French humorist, born in Mouscron, Belgium (d. 2006)
1941 – Tom Fogerty, American rocker (Creedence Clearwater Revival), born in Berkeley, California (d. 1990)
1955 – Don Schiff, American guitarist, born in Wilmington, Delaware
1956 – Eve de Castro-Robinson, New Zealand classical composer (Other Echoes; A Chaos Of Delight), music director (Karlheinz Company), and educator (University of Auckland), born in London, England
Famous Deaths
1208 – Sancha of Castile, wife of Alfonso II of Aragon (b. 1155)
1924 – Henry Cabot Lodge, American Senator (b. 1850)
1976 – Billy Halop [William Halop Cohen], American actor (Angels with Dirty Faces, All in the Family), dies of a heart attack at 56
2003 – Binod Bihari Verma, Indian Maithili literateur (b.1937)
2006 – Ed Bradley, American journalist and CBS news correspondent (60 Minutes), dies of complications from lymphocytic leukemia at 65
2018 – Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57
Famous Deaths for 8th November 2023
1609 – Elisabeth of Anhalt-Zerbst, Electress of Brandenburg, by marriage, dies at 44
1811 – Charles Ferdinand Bentinck, Dutch military officer (Governor of Suriname 1809-11), dies at 47
1909 – Eduard de Hartog, Dutch composer, dies at 80
1928 – Mauritz Stiller [Moshe Stiller], Swedish actor and director (The Saga of Gösta Berling, Erotikon), dies from an infective pleurisy at 45
1991 – Frances Faye, American cabernet singer and actress (Pretty Baby), dies after a stroke ay 79
1998 – Stuart Sutherland, British psychologist, educator (Sussex University’s Laboratory of Experimental Psychology), and writer (Breakdown), dies of a heart attack at 76
1998 – Jean Marais, French actor (Donkey Skin, Orpheus), dies of cardio-vascular disease at 84
2005 – Alekos Alexandrakis, Greek actor and director (Oi Kyries tis avlis), dies of lung cancer at 76
2009 – Patrick Howard-Dobson, British general (last Chief of Staff at British Far East Command in Singapore), dies at 88
2011 – Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89
Historical Events for 8th November 2023
392 – Roman Emperor Theodosius declares Christian religion the state religion
1861 – Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky: Union Commander General William “Bull” Nelson breaks up Confederate recruiting camp
1904 – Inventor and manufacturer Harvey Hubbell receives the first U.S. patent for a separable electric attachment plug
1917 – Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants
1935 – “Mutiny on the Bounty” directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
1956 – NYT critic Brooks Atkinson writes of Eugene O’Neill’s latest play ‘With the production of ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’ at the Helen Hayes last evening, the American theater acquires size and stature.”
1961 – Imperial Airlines Flight 201/8, a Lockheed Constellation aircraft, crashes near Richmond, Virginia, 77 die
1981 – Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election
2009 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Reggio Calabria, Italy: Flavia Pennetta beats American Melanie Oudin 7-5, 6-2 to give the home team an unassailable 3-0 lead (ends 4-0) and their 2nd title
2014 – US President Obama authorises deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants
Today in History for 8th November 2023
Historical Events
1701 – William Penn presents Charter of Privileges, guaranteed religious freedom for the colony in Pennsylvania
1923 – Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stage “Beer Hall Putsch” in Munich, Germany
1932 – Amidst the Great Depression, Democrat candidate Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent Herbert Hoover
1964 – KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting
1978 – Tom Stoppard’s play “Night and Day” premieres in London
2022 – Kathy Hochul becomes the first elected female Governor of New York, continuing in the role she held since replacing Andrew Cuomo mid-term
Famous Birthdays
30 – Nerva, Roman Emperor (96-98), born in Narni, Italy (d. 98)
1927 – Samuel Irving Newhouse Jr., American magazine publisher (Parade, Vogue, Vanity Fair), born in Manhattan, New York (d. 2017)
1941 – Nerys Hughes, Welsh actress (The Liver Birds; The District Nurse), born in Rhyl, Flintshire, Wales
1958 – Terry Lee Miall, British rock drummer (Adam and The Ants), born in London, England
1978 – Tim de Cler, Dutch footballer, born in Leiden, Netherlands
1982 – Sam Sparro [Falson], Australian producer, singer, songwriter (Boombox Eternal), and former child actor, born in Sydney
Famous Deaths
1111 – Otto II, Count of Habsburg, one of the founders of the Habsburg family, murdered
1600 – Natsuka Masaie, Japanese warlord (b. 1562)
1638 – Johann H. Alsted, German theologist and philosopher, dies at 50
1920 – Salomon Anski, Russian-Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
1933 – Mohammed Nadir Shah, King of Afghanistan (1929-33), assassinated at 50 by Abdul Khaliq during a graduation ceremony at a high school in Kabul
1969 – Kam Tong, Chinese American actor (Have Gun Will Travel, Across the Pacific, Flower Drum Song), dies at 62
Famous Deaths for 7th November 2023
1678 – Erasmus Quellinus II, Flemish painter and etcher, dies at 70
1723 – Godfrey Kneller, English painter (74-77), dies
1935 – Lidj Jasu [Iyasu], Emperor of Ethiopia (1913-16), dies under mysterious circumstances under guard at 39
1965 – Friedrich Wildgans, Austrian composer, dies at 52
1968 – Alexander Gelfond, Russian mathematician, dies at 62
1978 – Gene Tunney, American boxer (world heavyweight champion 1926-28), dies at 80
1994 – Shorty Rogers [Milton Rajonsky], American jazz trumpeter, flugelhorn player, arranger, and composer, dies of melanoma at 70
2017 – Robert De Cormier, American conductor and musical director (The Belafonte Folk Singers), dies at 95
2017 – Paul Buckmaster, British Grammy Award-winning artist, arranger, conductor and composer, dies at 71
2018 – Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Irish pianist, composer and educator (University of Limerick), dies at 67
Historical Events for 7th November 2023
1775 – Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join British army
1900 – In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
1967 – LBJ signs a bill establishing Corporation for Public Broadcasting
1972 – Attorney Joe Biden is elected to the US Senate, representing the state of Delaware after defeating longtime incumbent J. Caleb Boggs by just over 3,000 votes; Biden would win re-election 6 times
1983 – Bomb explodes in US Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries
1990 – New York City Opera’s limited run production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical “A Little Night Music” closes at New York State, NYC, after 11 performances
2000 – Margaret Atwood wins the Booker Prize for her novel “The Blind Assassin”
2001 – 35th Country Music Association Award: Tim McGraw, Lee Ann Womack and Toby Keith win
2018 – Actress Emma Thompson is made a Dame of the British Empire by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, London
2019 – Queen Elizabeth II confirms she is no longer buying clothes made with real fur
Today in History for 7th November 2023
Historical Events
1722 – Richard Steele’s sentimental comedy play “The Conscious Lovers” premieres in London
1946 – Katherine Dunham’s song and dance revue “Bal Nègre” opens at Belasco Theater, NYC; runs for 54 performances
1955 – Supreme Court of Baltimore bans segregation in public recreational areas
1960 – KNRR TV channel 12 in Pembina, ND (IND) begins broadcasting
1963 – Wunder von Lengede: In Germany, eleven miners are rescued from a collapsed mine after 14 days.
2020 – Rudy Giuliani holds infamous Trump Campaign press conference at Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia to contest the US election results
Famous Birthdays
1810 – Fritz Reuter, German novelist, born in Stavenhagen, Germany (d. 1874)
1879 – Leon Trotsky, Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army [OS 26-10-1879], born in Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire (d. 1940)
1898 – Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician, born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (d. 1963)
1900 – Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1995)
1943 – Stephen Greenblatt, American literary historian and author (The Swerve: How the World Became Modern), born in Boston, Massachusetts
1968 – Russ Springer, American MLB pitcher (Philadelphia Phillies), born in Alexandria, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
1708 – Ludolf Backhuysen, Dutch seascape painter and cartoonist, dies at 76
1880 – Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, German composer, conductor, and music theorist, dies at 72
1945 – Alfred Dipper, cricketer (England batsman scored in only Test), dies
1974 – Eric Linklater, British novelist and poet (Blue Swallows), dies at 75
1996 – Carmell Jones, American bebop jazz and session trumpet player (Bud Shank; Horace Silver), dies of heart failure at 60
2018 – Oskar Rabin, Russian painter and dissident during Soviet era, dies at 90
Famous Deaths for 6th November 2023
1835 – Ignaz Schuster, Austrian composer, dies at 56
1955 – Charley Toorop [Annie CP Fernhout-Toorop], Dutch painter, dies at 64
1982 – Frank Swinnerton, English novelist and critic (Summer Storm, Sanctuary), dies at 98
1987 – William Pahlmann, American interior designer (4 Season restaurant, NYC), dies at 80
1989 – Dickie Goodman, American parody singer and producer (“The Flying Saucer”; “Energy Crisis ’74”; “Mr. Jaws”), dies from a self-inflicted gunshot wound at 55
1994 – Dean Gallo, American politician (Rep-R-NJ, 1985-94), dies of cancer at 58
1997 – Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67
2014 – Carole Mathews [Jean Deifel], American actress (The Californians, Swamp Women), dies at 94
2018 – Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra – “Strange Magic”; “Evil Woman”), dies of cancer at 65
2020 – Barbara York, Canadian composer (A Butterfly in Time), dies of pulmonary fibrosis at 71