1727 – Alphonse de Tonty, French explorer and American settler (b. 1659)
1938 – Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, 1st President of Turkey (1923-38) and founder of the Republic of Turkey, dies of cirrhosis of the liver at 57
1948 – Julius Curtius, German Foreign Minister of the Weimar Republic (1929-31) and Minister for Economic Affairs (1926-29), dies at 71
1954 – Édouard Le Roy, French mathematician and philosopher, dies at 84
1964 – Jimmie Dodd, American actor (The Mickey Mouse Club; Thundering Trails; Riders of the Rio Grande), and singer-songwriter, dies of cancer at 54
1996 – Hugo Buchthal, German art historian, dies at 87
2001 – Ken Kesey, American author (One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest: Sometimes a Great Notion), dies of liver tumor surgery complications at 66
2004 – (Catalina) “Katy” de la Cruz, Filipina bodabil singer and actress, dies at 97
2007 – Augustus F. Hawkins, American politician (Rep-D-CA, 1963-75), dies at 100
2015 – Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist who designed the IBM mainframe, dies at 92
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Historical Events for 10th November 2023
1908 – 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
1938 – Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1950 – Clifford Odet’s “Country Girl” premieres in NYC
1966 – Lunar Orbiter 2 reaches 196-1871 km around Moon
1978 – Israel’s top negotiators broke away from Middle East peace talks
1982 – IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
2012 – 17 people are killed in a helicopter crash as a result of bad weather in Turkey
2015 – Portugal’s minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 million barrels of oil in Khuzestan province
2020 – Ceasefire announced signed between Armenia, Azerbaijan and Russia ending military conflict over Nagorno-Karabakh region after over a month of fighting
Today in History for 10th November 2023
Historical Events
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
1978 – Larry Holmes KOs Alfredo Evangelist in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1984 – Australia all out for 76 v West Indies at cricket WACA, Holding 6-21
1988 – China confirms earthquake death toll will rise above current 938
1989 – Bulgarian Communist party president Todor Zhikov (78) resigns
1997 – “Jackie – An American Life” opens at Belasco Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1668 – François Couperin, French composer and organist (Les Concerts Royaux), born in Paris, France (d. 1733)
1916 – Guido Turchi, Italian composer (Invettiva), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2010)
1943 – George Sauer, Jr., American football wide receiver (AFL All Star 1996-99; Super Bowl 1969; New York Jets), born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin (d. 2013)
1972 – Virág Csurgó, Hungarian tennis star (1993 Futures-Freeport), born in Siófok, Hungary
1985 – Ricki-Lee Coulter, Australian singer (Hell No!), born in Auckland, New Zealand
1999 – (Armand) “Mondo” Duplantis, American-Swedish athlete (Olympic gold pole vault 2020; World C’ship gold 2019; WR 6.18m), born in Lafayette, Louisiana
Famous Deaths
627 – Justus, Archbishop of Canterbury
1617 – Barnabe Rich, English soldier and writer
1843 – John Trumbull, American painter (Declaration of Independence), dies at 87
1909 – Ludvig Schytte, Danish pianist, composer, and educator, dies at 61
1917 – Harry Trott, Australian cricket all-rounder (24 Tests, 1 x 100, 4 x 50, HS 143, 29 wickets; Victoria CA), dies for cancer at 51
2006 – Nadarajah Raviraj, Sri Lankan politician (b. 1962)
Famous Deaths for 9th November 2023
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
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