1804 – Pietro Alessandro Guglielmi, Italian opera composer, dies at 75
1868 – Ivane Andronikashvili, Georgian general (b. 1798)
1975 – Roger D. Branigin, American politician (b. 1902)
1984 – George D. Aiken, American politician (Senator-R-Vermont, 1941-75), dies at 92
1988 – Christina Onassis, Greek heiress, daughter of Aristotle Onassis, dies of heart failure at 37
1992 – Bobby Russell, American songwriter (“Honey”; “Little Green Apples”), dies at 52
1995 – Shirley Bergeron, American Cajun singer and guitarist, dies at 62
1995 – Martha Hill, American modern dancer and teacher (Juilliard), dies at 94
1995 – Gwen Swire, British social worker, dies at 61
2008 – Carole Caldwell Graebner, American tennis player (US Open doubles 1965, Australian Open doubles 1966), dies of cancer at 65
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Historical Events for 19th November 2022
1798 – Dutch Rijksmuseum founded in the Hague (moved to Amsterdam 1808)
1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1944 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling $14 billion USD in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
1952 – North American F-86 Sabre sets world aircraft speed record, 1124 KPH
1970 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1972 – “Dear Oscar” closes at Playhouse Theater NYC after 5 performances
1986 – Phillies 3rd baseman Mike Schmidt wins NL MVP
1996 – “Sex and Longing” closes at Cort Theater NYC
1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of the Artist Without Beard” sells at auction for $71.5 million
1999 – In Istanbul, the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ends a two-day summit by calling for a political settlement in Chechnya and adopting a Charter for European Security.
Today in History for 19th November 2022
Historical Events
1894 – Dutch troops occupy and plunders palace of Tjakra Negara, Lombok
1923 – Béla Bartòk’s “Tancsuite” premieres
1950 – US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
1955 – KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, North Dakota (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1958 – First 2 F-27 Fokker’s Friendships delivered on Aer Lingus
2020 – Inquiry find “credible evidence” elite Australian troops unlawfully killed 39 Afghan civilians
Famous Birthdays
1906 – Jacques Leguerney, French composer, born in LeHarve, France, (d. 1997)
1907 – Jack Schaefer, American author (Shane), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1991)
1927 – Joe Hunter, American pianist and bandleader of Motown’s house band – The Funk Brothers (1959-64), born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 2007)
1944 – Dennis Hull, Canadian ice hockey player
1954 – Annette Guest, American pop singer (First Choice – “Smarty Pants”), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1971 – Alice Peacock, American folk singer, born in White Bear Lake, Minnesota
Famous Deaths
1557 – Bona Sforza, Queen of Sigismund I of Poland (b. 1494)
1915 – Joe Hill [Joel Hägglund], Swedish-American labor activist and protest songwriter “The Preacher and the Slave”; “There Is Power in a Union”), executed at Sugar House Prison in Salt Lake City, Utah for murder at 36
1940 – Charles W. Woodworth, American entomologist, dies at 75
1967 – Charles J. Watters, US Army chaplain, Medal of Honor recipient (b. 1927)
1990 – Sun Li-jen, Chinese general (best known for his leadership in the Second Sino-Japanese War and the Chinese Civil War), dies at 89
1995 – Bruce Trent [William Butters], British singer and actor (The Passing Show, Band Waggon), dies at 83
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2022
1170 – Albrecht I “Bear”, 1st margrave of Brandenburg (1150-70), dies at 70
1854 – Edward Forbes, English Naturalist and pioneer in the field of biogeography, dies of an illness at 39
1887 – Gustav Fechner, German psychologist and physicist (Weber–Fechner law), dies at 86
1904 – Justus van Maurik, Dutch author and cigar manufacturer, dies at 58
1919 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
1984 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
1999 – Patrick Bowles, American writer and translator, dies at 88
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
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2016 – Denton Cooley, American heart surgeon (1st artificial heart transplant), dies at 96
Historical Events for 18th November 2022
1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama reaches the Cape of Good Hope
1745 – Bonnie Prince Charlie’s troops occupy Carlisle
1942 – Thornton Wilder’s “Skin of our Teeth” premieres in NYC
1956 – Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev says the phrase “we will bury you!” to Western ambassadors at a reception at the Polish embassy in Moscow
1984 – “3 Musketeers” closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 9 performances
1993 – WWF boss Vince McMahon charged with steroid distribution
2007 – 35th American Music Awards: Fergie, Justin Timberlake and Carrie Underwood win
2013 – 20 people are killed after a train collides with a minibus in Cairo, Egypt
2020 – US COVID-19 death toll passes 250,000, recorded cases at 11.5 million, hospitalizations at 76,830 amid a country-wide surge
2021 – Longest partial lunar eclipse since 1440, lasting 3 hours, 28 minutes and 23 seconds
Today in History for 18th November 2022
Historical Events
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1943 – U-211 sinks in Atlantic Ocean
1989 – Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
2001 – Phillips Petroleum and Conoco merge into a new company as ‘ConocoPhillips’, the third-largest oil and natural gas company in the US
2003 – The congress of the Communist Party of Indian Union (Marxist-Leninist) decides to merge the party into Kanu Sanyal’s CPI(ML).
2021 – US judge exonerates two men for the killing of Malcolm X in 1965, saying they were “wrongly convicted”
Famous Birthdays
1861 – Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], American journalist and columnist, born in Woodstock, Tennessee (d. 1951)
1900 – Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American illustrator (The New Yorker; Saturday Evening Post; Dithers and Jitters), and painter, born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1987)
1901 – Craig Wood, American golfer (US Masters, US Open 1941), born in Lake Placid, New York (d. 1968)
1912 – Jaap Meijer, Dutch historian and rabbi in Paramaribo, born in Winschoten, Netherlands (d. 1993)
1925 – Yvonne Bryceland, South African stage actress (Road to Mecca), born in Cape Town, South Africa (d. 1992)
1934 – Vassilis Vassilikos, Greek writer (Z) and diplomat, born in Kavala, Greece
Famous Deaths
1919 – Ferdinand Domela Newenhouse, anarchist (free socialist), dies
1946 – Donald Meek, Scottish-American actor (You Can’t Take It with You, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1966 – Bela Tardos, Hungarian composer, dies at 56
1980 – Conn Smythe, Canadian Hockey Hall of Fame team owner (Toronto Maple Leafs 1927-61; Stanley Cup x 8), dies of heart failure at 85
1996 – Douglas Guest, British organist (For the Fallen), dies at 80
2009 – Jeanne-Claude [Denat de Guillebon], French artist who worked with Christo (Running Fence, Wrapped Reichstag), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 17th November 2022
1608 – Adolf, count of Nassau-Siegen, dies in battle at 22
1808 – Mustafa IV, 29th Sultan of Ottoman Empire (1807-08), dies at 29
1858 – Robert Owen, British father of the cooperative movement (b. 1771)
1862 – Alexey Verstovsky, Russian composer, dies at 63
1931 – Hara Prasad Shastri, Indian academic, Sanskrit scholar, archivist and historian of Bengali literature, dies at 77
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2002 – Leo P. Kelley, American sci-fi author (Dead Moon, Vacation in Space), dies at 74
2003 – Arthur Conley, American singer (“Sweet Soul Music”), dies of intestinal cancer at 57
2005 – Marek Perepeczko, Polish actor (Janosik), dies at 63
2021 – Keith Alison, American session and touring guitarist (Paul Revere and The Raiders, 1968-75), and songwriter, dies at 79
Historical Events for 17th November 2022
1183 – Battle of Mizushima: Japanese Taira clan defeat the Minamoto
1292 – (O.S.) John Balliol becomes King of Scots
1839 – Giuseppe Verdi’s opera “Oberte Conti Di” premieres in Milan
1869 – Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race, racing 13K Paris to Rouen
1877 – Gilbert and Sullivan’s operette “Sorcerer” premieres in London
1885 – The Serbian Army, with Russian support, invades Bulgaria
1953 – The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland are evacuated to the mainland
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1981 – “1st” opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC for 37 performances
1984 – Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
Today in History for 17th November 2022
Historical Events
1853 – Street signs authorized at San Francisco intersections
1928 – Boston Garden officially opens
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
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
1982 – Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
Famous Birthdays
1917 – Jack Lescoulie, American TV host (Jackie Gleason Show), born in Sacramento, California (d. 1987)
1963 – Pedro Luis Estrada, American murderer (FBI Most Wanted List), born in Brooklyn, New York
1965 – Grant Connell, Canadian tennis player who was the world’s #1 doubles player in the 1990s, born in Regina Saskatchewan
1966 – Daisy Fuentes, model/MTV veejay (America’s Funniest Videos)
1966 – Jeff Buckley, American musician and singer (“Hallelujah”), Anaheim, California (d. 1997)
1980 – [Clarke] Isaac Hanson, American pop singer and guitarist (Hanson – “MMMbop”), born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Famous Deaths
1512 – Kempo Roeper, Frisian rebel, quartered
1770 – Gian Francesco de Majo, Italian composer, dies at 38
1922 – Robert Comtesse, Swiss politician and member of the Swiss Federal Council (1899-1912), dies at 75
1986 – Georges Besse, French president-director of Renault, murdered
1990 – Robert Hofstadter, American atomic physicist and Nobel laureate (electron scattering in atomic nuclei), dies at 75
2017 – Earle Hyman, American stage and screen actor (The Cosby Show – “Russell Huxtable”; ThunderCats; Coriolanus), dies at 91
Famous Deaths for 16th November 2022
1512 – Jemme Herjuwsma, Fries rebel, beheaded
1909 – Francis Thome, French composer, dies at 59
1954 – Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist, dies at 80
1958 – J. W. F. Werumeus Buning, Dutch poet (Daily Bread), dies at 67
1971 – Edie Sedgwick, American actress (Andy Warhol) and socialite, dies of alcohol and barbiturate intoxication at 28
1999 – Daniel Nathans, American microbiologist (Nobel 1978 – discovery of restriction enzymes and their application in restriction mapping), dies at 71
2003 – Bettina Goislard, French relief worker (b. 1974)
2008 – Reg Varney, British actor (On The Buses) (b. 1916)
2015 – David Canary, American actor (Bonanza, All My Children), dies at 77
2020 – Antonis Georgiadis, Greek soccer manager (Greece, South Africa; AEK Athens, Olympiacos), dies at 87