1902 – 1st night football game, Philadelphia Athletics beats Kanaweola AC, 39-0
1945 – General Motors workers go on strike
1955 – Argentina asks Panama for return of ex-president Peron
1959 – Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1963 – US President John F. Kennedy flies to Texas (assassinated the next day)
1964 – Verrazano-Narrows suspension bridge opens in New York City, then the world’s longest
1967 – Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: “I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing.”
1986 – Central African Republic adopts constitution
1993 – “Cyrano – The Musical” opens at Neil Simon Theater NYC for 137 performances
2018 – RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil
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Today in History for 21st November 2021
Historical Events
1789 – North Carolina ratifies constitution, becomes 12th US state
1920 – Mussolini’s squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna, Italy
1959 – Jack Benny (violin) and Richard Nixon (piano) play their famed duet
1978 – Bob Horner of Braves wins NL Rookie of Year Award
1980 – “Hi Infidelity” 9th studio album by REO Speedwagon is released
2020 – Texas National Guard mobilized to help El Paso County, deal with a morgue crisis as COVID-19 cases and deaths surge
Famous Birthdays
1933 – Jean Shepard, American country singer (Ozark Jubilee), born in Pauls Valley, Oklahoma (d. 2016)
1945 – Goldie Hawn, American actress (The First Wives Club, Private Benjamin), born in Washington, District of Columbia
1953 – Asa Brebner, American guitarist and singer-songwriter (Modern Lovers; The Chartbusters), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 2019)
1979 – Alex Tanguay, Canadian hockey player
1979 – Kim Dong Wan, Korean singer (Shinhwa)
1982 – Ryan Starr, American singer
Famous Deaths
1941 – Henrietta Vinton Davis, African-American elocutionist, dramatist, impersonator and public speaker, dies at 81
1952 – Henriette Roland Holst-de Schalk, marxist author, dies at 82
1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (The Church on the Mountain), dies at 86
1987 – Jim Folsom, American politician (Alabama-Gov, 1947-51, 1955-59), dies at 79
1993 – Bill Bixby, American actor (My Favorite Martian), dies from cancer at 59
2017 – Rodney Bewes, English actor (The Likely Lads), dies at 79
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2021
1527 – Wendelmoet “Weyntjen” Claesdochter, 1st Dutch woman burned as heretic
1951 – Thomas Quinlan, English opera impresario, dies at 70
1968 – Helen Gardner, American silent film actress (Sandra), dies at 84
1975 – Francisco Franco, Spanish dictator (1936-75), dies at 82
1986 – William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, dies at 76
2000 – Kalle Päätalo, Finnish novelist (Iijoki), dies at 81
2006 – Robert Altman, American screenwriter, producer and director (The Player, M*A*S*H, Nashville), dies of complications from leukemia at 81
2009 – H.C. Robbins Landon, American musicologist (Haydn: Chronicle and Works), dies at 83
2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
2010 – Danny McDevitt, American baseball player (b. 1932)
Historical Events for 20th November 2021
1889 – Gustav Mahler’s 1st Symphony premieres in Budapest and is not well received
1922 – Zoe Akins’ play “Texas Nightingale” premieres in NYC
1951 – Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
1959 – WABC fires Alan Freed over payola scandal
1964 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 9th/10th String Quartet premieres in Moscow
1977 – Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the 1st Arab leader to address Israeli Knesset
1993 – 5th College Football Holy War: Boston College beats Notre Dame 41-39 in South Bend (Boston College’s first win in the series)
2011 – 38th American Music Awards: Adele, Bruno Mars and Taylor Swift win
2013 – Ben Bradlee is presented with the Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama at a White House ceremony
2018 – Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains
Today in History for 20th November 2021
Historical Events
1890 – Pope Leo XIII encyclical “On Slavery in the Missions”
1911 – The funeral of Paul and Laura Lafargue (daughter of Karl Marx) in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end
1941 – Adm Nomura and Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
1990 – Soviet Union shows reluctance to endorse the use of force against Iraq
2017 – Investment corporation Tencent’s market value hits $511 billion, – first Asian company to join the $500 billion club
2019 – Britain’s Prince Andrew announces he is stepping back from public duties after outcry from disastrous interview on his friendship with Jeffry Epstein
Famous Birthdays
1606 – Abraham de Wicquefort, Dutch diplomat and historian (d. 1682)
1750 – Tipu Sultan, Indian ruler of the Kingdom of Mysore, born in Devanahalli, Bangalore, India (d. 1799)
1761 – Pius VIII [Francesco Saverio Castiglioni], Italian 253rd Pope (1829-30), born in Cingoli, Marche, Papal States (d. 1830)
1841 – Wilfrid Laurier, 7th Prime Minister of Canada (Liberal: 1896-1911), born in Saint-Lin, Quebec (d. 1918)
1949 – William Harry “Billy” Jones, American rock guitarist (The Outlaws), born in Ann Arbor, Michigan (d. 1995)
1959 – James P. McGovern, American politician (Rep-D-Mass 1997-), born in Worcester, Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
1737 – Caroline of Brandenburg-Ansbach, German born Queen of Great Britain, consort to King George II, dies at 54
1856 – Farkas/Wolfgang Bolyai, Hungarian mathematician, dies at 81
1936 – Jose A Primo de Rivera, Spanish lawyer and politician (founder of Spanish Falange), executed at 33
1938 – Edwin Hall, American physicist (discovered Hall effect), dies at 83
1952 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
2009 – Lino Lacedelli, Italian mountaineer (b. 1925)
Famous Deaths for 19th November 2021
498 – Anastasius II, Pope (496-8) dies. Referred to by Dante in his Inferno XI, 8-9
1272 – David of Augsburg, Franciscan minister/author, dies
1389 – Dimitri Ivanovitch “Donskoi”, monarch of Vladimir-Soezdal, dies at 39
1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1828 – Franz Schubert, Austrian composer (Die schöne Müllerin), dies at 31 from typhoid fever
1910 – Rudolf Fittig, German chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74
1959 – Edward C. Tolman, American psychologist (behaviorism), dies at 73
1983 – Tom Evans, English rock musician (Badfinger), commits suicide at 36
2007 – Dick Wilson, British-American actor, dies at 91
2012 – Warren Rudman, American politician (Sen-R-NH, 1980-93), dies at 82
Historical Events for 19th November 2021
1521 – Battle at Milan: Emperor Charles V’s pontifical, Spanish and German troops beat French forces and occupy Milan
1873 – James Reed and two accomplices rob the Watt Grayson family of $30,000 in the Choctaw Nation
1939 – Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1962 – Todor Zjivkov becomes premier of Bulgaria
1976 – Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
1979 – Astros sign Nolan Ryan, to record 4 year, $4.5 million contract
1983 – Edmonton Oilers beat NJ Devils, 13-4, Wayne Gretzky calls the Devils “a Mickey Mouse organization”
1996 – Lieutenant General Maurice Baril of Canada arrives in Africa to lead a multi-national policing force in Zaire
1998 – Vincent van Gogh’s “Portrait of the Artist Without Beard” sells at auction for $71.5 million
2017 – Martin Truex Jr., driving for Furniture Row Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series by 5 points from Kyle Busch
Today in History for 19th November 2021
Historical Events
1621 – Rabbi Isaiah ben Abraham aha-Levi Horowitz arrives in Israel
1903 – Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate
1939 – Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
1955 – KXMB TV channel 12 in Bismarck, ND (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting
1968 – Yankees pitcher Stan Bahnsen wins AL Rookie of Year
1996 – “Sex and Longing” closes at Cort Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1563 – Robert Sidney, 1st Earl of Leicester, English statesman, born in Penshurst, Kent, England (d. 1626)
1909 – Peter Drucker, Austrian-American management theorist, born in Kaasgraben, Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 2005)
1913 – Blue Barron [Harry Freidman], American “sweet music” orchestra leader (“Cruising Down The River”), born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 2005)
1971 – Adrian Griffith, Barbadian cricketer (West Indian Test opening batsman), born in Saint James, Barbados
1976 – Jack Dorsey, American computer programmer, co-founder of Twitter, born in St. Louis, Missouri
1978 – Matt Dusk, Canadian jazz vocalist, born in Toronto, Ontario
Famous Deaths
1672 – John Wilkins, English Bishop of Chester (b. 1614)
1723 – Antoine Nompar de Caumont, French courtier and soldier (b. 1632)
1785 – Bernard de Bury, French musician and composer, dies at 65
1806 – Shah Alam II, 17th Mughal Emperor (1760-1806), dies at 78
1938 – Lev Shestov, Russian existentialist philosopher, dies at 72
1998 – Earl Kim, Korean-American composer, dies at 78
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2021
1929 – Henricus van de Wetering, Archbishop of Utrecht (1895-1929), dies at 78
1946 – Donald Meek, Scottish-American actor (You Can’t Take It with You, Stagecoach), dies at 86
1951 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
1958 – Sivert Samuelson, cricketer (one Test South Africa v England 1910), dies
1984 – Mary Hamman, American writer and editor (Pictorial Review, Good Housekeeping), dies at 77
1987 – Jacques Anquetil, French road cyclist (Tour de France 1957, 61-64; first 5-time winner), dies of stomach cancer at 53
1992 – Herman Musaph, Dutch Holocaust survivor, psychiatrist, dermatologist and sexologist, dies at 76
1999 – Paul Bowles, American novelist (The Sheltering Sky), dies at 88
2015 – Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86
2020 – Pim Doesburg, Dutch soccer goalkeeper (8 caps; Eredivisie record 687 games; Sparta, PSV), dies at 77
Historical Events for 18th November 2021
1874 – National Woman’s Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland
1905 – Prince Carl of Denmark becomes King Haakon VII of Norway
1932 – “Flowers and Trees” receives 1st Academy Award for a cartoon
1939 – Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
1949 – The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days
1956 – Morocco gains independence
1985 – Paul McCartney releases “Spies Like Us”
1991 – Muslim Shi’ites release hostages Terry Waite and Thomas Sutherland
1994 – “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
1999 – In College Station, Texas, 12 are killed and 27 injured at Texas AandM University when a massive bonfire under construction collapses.