1226 – Frederick of Isenberg, German politician (executed) (b. 1193)
1829 – Louis Nicolas Vauquelin, French pharmacist (b. 1763)
1842 – Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar and secession leader, dies at 41
1909 – Joshua Slocum, Canadian-American seaman and adventurer, departs from Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts, sailing south for the winter, and is lost at sea, at 65
1915 – Theodor Leschetizky, Polish pianist, composer, and teacher (Contes de Jeunesse), dies at 85
1944 – Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist, dies at 71
1964 – Hendrik Gerrit Cannegieter, meteorology/director KNMI, dies at 85
1965 – Russell Collins, American actor (Niagara, Close Up, Shockproof), dies at 68
1990 – Robert Mariano, entertainer, dies at 21
2012 – Ahmed Jabari, Palestinian political activist, killed by an airstrike at 53
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Historical Events for 14th November 2021
1550 – Pope Julius III proclaims new seat on Council of Trente
1893 – Gerhart Hauptmann’s play “Hanneles Himmelfahrt” premieres in Berlin
1910 – 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia
1923 – Kentaro Suzuki completes his ascent of Mount Iizuna.
1938 – Dutch DC3 crashes at Schiphol, 6 die
1942 – Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
1960 – Belgium threatens to leave UN due to criticism on its policy on Congo
1967 – The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as “Day of the Colombian Woman”
1991 – Cambodian Prince Norodom Sihanouk returns to Phnom Penh after thirteen years of exile
2010 – German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel wins the Abu Dhabi Grand Prix at Yas Marina Circuit to claim his first F1 World Drivers Championship by 4 points from Fernando Alonso; Red Bull’s first Constructors title
Today in History for 14th November 2021
Historical Events
1666 – Samuel Pepys reports on 1st blood transfusion (between dogs)
1936 – More than 21,000 watch Don Bradman score 192 for South Australia v Victoria in a drawn Sheffield Shield match at the Melbourne Cricket Ground
1968 – Yale University announces it is going co-educational
1976 – “Network”, directed by Sidney Lumet, starring Faye Dunaway, Peter Finch and William Holden, premieres in Los Angeles and New York City (Finch – Academy Awards Best Actor 1977)
1981 – In the first world championship fight between 2 Puerto Ricans in boxing history, WBC Super Welterweight champion Wilfred Benitez beats Carlos Santos in a 15-round unanimous decision at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas
1994 – Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), lands
Famous Birthdays
1814 – Michael Kelly Lawler, Brevet Major General (Union Army), born in County Kildare, Ireland (d. 1882)
1875 – Jakob Schaffner, Swiss writer: Conrad Pilater
1883 – Nikolaos Plastiras, Greek premier (1945, 50, 51-52)
1932 – Ramon Zupko, American composer, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1966 – Eric Hill, NFL middle linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1982 – Joy Williams, American singer-songwriter (the Civil Wars), born in West Branch, Michigan
Famous Deaths
1780 – Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81
1946 – Herman de Man [Salomon H Hamburger], author/Radio Orange, dies
1996 – Virginia Cherrill, American actress (City Lights; Lake Extra; Brat), dies at 88
1997 – Stefan Lorant, Hungarian-American writer, photojournalist and filmmaker, dies at 96
2001 – Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), dies of an asthma attack at 33
2004 – Michel Colombier, French composer (b. 1939)
Famous Deaths for 13th November 2021
1359 – Ivan II, great ruler of Moscow and Vladimir, dies
1893 – Arnaud-Michel d’Abbadie, French explorer (Ethiopia), dies at 78
1902 – Evander McNair, American Brigadier General (Confederate Army), dies at 82
1939 – George Nicholls Jr, actor (Finishing School), dies at 42
1939 – Lois Weber, American film director who became the first American woman to direct a full feature-length film (The Merchant of Venice) and the first to own her own studio, dies of a stomach ulcer at 60
1963 – Margaret Murray, English anthropologist and Egyptologist (b. 1863)
1984 – Dorothy Arnold, actress (House of Fear, Phantom Creeps), dies at 66
1989 – Franz Josef II, Prince of Liechtenstein (1938-89), dies at 83
1998 – Valerie Hobson, British actress (Great Expectations), dies at 81
2013 – Hans-Jürgen Heise, German writer, dies at 83
Historical Events for 13th November 2021
1887 – Bloody Sunday clashes in central London
1922 – Marc Connelly and George Kaufman’s “’49ers” premieres in NYC
1922 – George Cohan’s musical “Little Nellie Kelly” premieres in NYC
1946 – First artificial snow produced from a natural cloud, Mt Greylock, Massachusetts
1953 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 4th String Quartet premieres
1977 – 25th Islander shut-out Resch 6-0 Gilles scores on 5th penalty shot
1985 – Dwight Gooden, youngest 20 game winner, wins Cy Young award
1991 – Bomb destroys Dutch Labour party politician Aad Kosto’s house in a failed assassination attempt, he survives and in a famous image finds and cuddles his cat
2016 – Federation Cup Women’s Tennis, Strasbourg, France: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková and Barbora Strýcová beats Caroline Garcia and Kristina Mladenovic of France 7-5, 7-5 to wrap up 3-2 win and 3rd straight title
2020 – Kylie Minogue becomes the first woman to top the UK album chart over five consecutive decades with “Disco”
Today in History for 13th November 2021
Historical Events
1002 – English king Ethelred II (the ‘Unready’) launches ‘St Brice’s Day’ massacre of Danish settlers
1839 – 1st US anti-slavery party, Liberty Party, convenes in NY
1875 – Harvard-Yale game is 1st college football contest with uniforms
1960 – Fire in movie theater kills 152 children in Amude, Spain
1984 – Ryne Sandberg wins the NL MVP Award
2007 – An explosion hits the south wing of the House of Representatives of the Philippines in Quezon City, killing four people, including Congressman Wahab Akbar, and wounding six
Famous Birthdays
1792 – Edward John Trelawny, English traveler and author (Adv of Younger Son), born in London (d. 1881)
1854 – George Whitfield Chadwick, American composer (Judi Van Winke), born in Lowell, Massachusetts (d. 1931)
1894 – Nita Naldi [Anita Donna Dooley], American stage and silent film actress (Blood and Sand; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde), born in New York City (d. 1961)
1938 – Jean Seberg, American actress (Breathless, Paint Your Wagon), born in Marshaltown, Iowa (d. 1979)
1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois
1963 – Thilo Timothy Newman, writer (Freejack, Alien), born in Hamburg, Germany
Famous Deaths
1606 – Geronimo Mercuriali, Italian philologist and physician (b. 1530)
1841 – Caroline of Baden, Queen of Bavaria, dies at 65
1909 – Aeneas Mackay, Dutch Internal minister (ARP)/Colonization, dies at 70
1994 – Joseph H. Hazen, US Lawyer/producer/VP (Warner Bros), dies at 96
1998 – Edwige Feuillère, French actress (b. 1907)
2004 – Thomas Foglietta, American politician (b. 1928)
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2021
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1757 – Colley Cibber, English actor, dramatist and Poet Laureate (1730-57), dies at 86
1809 – Karel van Poucke, Flemish sculptor, dies at 69
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1949 – Hendrik A. de Fish [Henri Pauwels], Flemish philological, dies at 64
1965 – Syedna Taher Saifuddin, Bohra Spiritual Leader, dies at 77
1976 – Walter Hamor Piston, Jr, American two-time Pulitzer Prize winning composer (Incredible Flutist), music theorist, and educator (Harvard, 1926-60), dies at 82
2014 – Marge Roukema, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), dies at 85
2014 – Warren Clark, British actor, dies at 67
2015 – Márton Fülöp, Hungarian footballer and goalkeeper, dies of cancer at 32
Historical Events for 12th November 2021
1847 – Sir James Young Simpson, a British physician, is the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic
1915 – Theodore William Richards is 1st American to win Nobel Prize in Chemistry
1947 – KPO-AM in San Francisco CA changes call letters to KNBC (now KNBR)
1948 – Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal
1973 – Dmitri Shostakovich’s 14th String Quartet premieres
1979 – US President Carter announces a halts to Iranian oil imports and freezes Iranian assets
1995 – 26th NYC Marathon won by German Silva in 2:10:00
2003 – Iraq war: In Nasiriya, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 Iraq war are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2016 – Jackie Chan awarded honorary Oscar for his film achievements at 8th Annual Governors Awards ceremony
2019 – Disney launches its streaming service Disney+
Today in History for 12th November 2021
Historical Events
1727 – France and Bavaria renew secret treaty
1859 – Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
1940 – Blizzard strikes North American midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
1960 – Coup against South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm fails
1980 – US space probe Voyager I approaches 77,000-mi (124,000 km) of Saturn
1984 – NBC premiere of “Victims for Victims: The Theresa Saldana Story”, fact based telepic of actress Saldana’s near fatal attack and its aftermath
Famous Birthdays
1896 – Salim Ali, Indian ornithologist ‘Birdman of India’, born in Bombay, British India (d. 1987)
1915 – Roland Barthes, French literary critic (L’Empire des Signer)
1917 – Jo Stafford, American singer (You Belong to me, Never Smile Again), born in Coalinga, California (d. 2008)
1976 – Scott Mark Cameron, NZ 4x200m relay swimmer (Olympics 1996), born in Dunedin, New Zealand
1980 – Trent Acid, American professional wrestler, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
1984 – Sepp De Roover, Belgian footballer, born in Geel, Belgium
Famous Deaths
1823 – Emmanuel Aloys Förster, Bohemian composer and music teacher, dies at 75
1836 – Juan Ramón Balcarce, Argentine military leader and politician (b. 1773)
1962 – Sid Tomack, American actor (The Life of Riley, Adventures of Superman), dies from a heart ailment at 55
1987 – Roger Lewis, aviation exec (Lockheed, C Wright, Pan Am), dies at 75
1993 – Bill Dickey, American Baseball Hall of Fame catcher (11 × MLB All-Star; 14 × World Series; NY Yankees) and manager (NY Yankees), dies at 86
2013 – Allan Blank, American composer, dies at 87
Famous Deaths for 11th November 2021
397 – Martinus, (St Maarten), Roman bishop of Tours, dies at about 81
1528 – Lucas van Prague, Czech leader of Bohemian Brothers, dies at about 68
1886 – Paul Bert, Auxerre, French Zoologist, Physiologist and pioneer of aerospace medicine whose study of the effects of air pressure on the body made possible space and ocean exploration, dies of dysentery at 53
1942 – Anton Hendrik Blaauw, Dutch botanist (Perception of the Lichtes), dies at 60
1942 – Hector Abbas, Flemish actor and director (Rosa Lynd Company), dies at 58
1945 – Jerome Kern, American composer (Sally, Leave it to Jane), dies at 60
1967 – Jordan Whitfield, American actor (Bomba the Jungle Boy, Lord of the Jungle, Swamp Fox), dies of heart attack at 49
1994 – Ernest Clark, British actor (Ghandi, The Dam Busters, Doctor in the House), dies at 82
1999 – Mary Kay Bergman, American voice actress (b. 1961)
2011 – Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game), dies at 91