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Today in History for 29th November 2021

Historical Events

1516 – Treaty of Freiburg: French/Swiss “eternal” peace treaty
1791 – Chatham Islands sighted by HMS Chatham commanded by William Broughton
1945 – “The Lost Weekend”, based on Charles R. Jackson’s novel, directed by Billy Wilder and starring Ray Milland and Jane Wyman premieres in Los Angeles (Academy Awards Best Picture 1946)
1970 – England cricket batsman Colin Cowdrey reaches 22 on Day 3 of the drawn 1st Test against Australia in Brisbane to become Test Cricket’s leading run scorer; passes countryman Wally Hammond’s world Test-record aggregate of 7,249 runs
1992 – CFL Grey Cup, SkyDome, Toronto: Calgary Stampeders beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 24-10: MVP QB Doug Flutie, 33 of 49 for 480 yards, 2 TDs
2010 – “Rolling in the Deep” single is released by Adele (Billboard Song of the Year 2011, Grammy Award for Record of the Year and Song of the Year 2012)

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Famous Birthdays

1899 – Genevieve Tobin, American actress (Zaza, Great Gambini, Uncertain Lady), born in NYC, New York (d. 1995)
1954 – Joel Coen, American filmmaker (Fargo, No Country for Old Men), born in St. Louis Park, Minnesota
1971 – Gena Lee Nolin, American actress and model (Baywatch), born in Duluth, Minnesota
1972 – Jamal Mashburn, American NBA forward (Miami Heat, Dallas Mavericks), born in The Bronx, New York City
1973 – Craig Glassock, Australian cricketer (NSW wicket-keeper 1994-95), born in Mona Vale, New South Wales, Australia
1982 – Gemma Chan, English actress (Crazy Rich Asians), born in London, England

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Famous Deaths

1695 – James Dalrymple, 1st Viscount Stair, Scottish lawyer and statesman (b. 1619)
1847 – Marcus Whitman, American physician and missionary (Oregon Trail), killed at 45
1985 – Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
1985 – Bill Scott, American voice actor, producer and writer (Mr Peabody, Bullwinkle), dies of a heart attack at 65
2007 – Ralph Beard, American basketball guard (Olympic gold 1948; NBA All Star 1951; life ban point shaving scandal 1951), dies at 79
2010 – Mario Monicelli, Italian film director (b. 1915)

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Famous Deaths for 28th November 2021

1788 – Charles C of Nassau-Weilburg, governor of Maastricht, dies at about 53
1815 – Johann Peter Salomon, composer, dies at 70
1861 – Robert Fuhrer, composer, dies at 54
1878 – Orson Hyde, American religious leader (b. 1805)
1963 – Fred Uttal, TV host (QED), dies at 55
1971 – Wasfi Tal, Jordan’s PM, assassinated by Black Sept in Cairo
1987 – Choh Hao Li, bio-chemist prof (isolated growth hormones), dies at 74
1997 – William “Smitty” Smith, American rock keyboardist and session musician (Motherlode – “When I Die”), dies of a heartattack at 53
2000 – Liane Haid, Austrian actress (Lady Hamilton), dies at 105
2011 – Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87

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Historical Events for 28th November 2021

1847 – Church of San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali in Bologna, Italy initiated with premier of Rossini’s Tantum ergo
1906 – Canadian Tommy Burns retains his world heavyweight boxing title after being pushed to a 20-round draw by “Philadelphia” Jack O’Brien in Los Angeles, California
1907 – In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater
1931 – Australian cricket master batsman Don Bradman scores 226 in his first Test appearance v South Africa in 1st Test in Brisbane
1944 – 400 Rotterdammers attack coal warehouse
1954 – KCKT (now KSNC) TV channel 2 in Great Bend, KS (NBC) 1st broadcast
1958 – KCOO (now KABY) TV channel 9 in Aberdeen, SD (ABC) begins broadcasting
1972 – LA Dodgers trade Frank Robinson to California Angels
2017 – Uhuru Kenyatta sworn in for a second term as president of Kenya
2018 – French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public

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Today in History for 28th November 2021

Historical Events

1864 – 3rd day of Battles at Waynesboro/Jones’s Plantation, Georgia
1914 – World War I: Following a war-induced closure in July, the New York Stock Exchange re-opens for bond trading.
1956 – Photography begins on “… and God Created Women”
1964 – 1965 NFL Draft: Tucker Frederickson from Auburn University first pick by New York Giants
2010 – CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton: Montreal Alouettes retain Championship with 21-18 win over Saskatchewan Roughriders; Alouettes’ quarterback Anthony Calvillo’s 3rd title
2019 – European parliament declares a climate emergency

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Famous Birthdays

1704 – Jacob Mossel, Dutch Governor-General of the Dutch East Indies (1750-61), born in Enkhuizen, Dutch Republic (d. 1761)
1883 – Paul Hastings Allen, American composer, born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1952)
1887 – Bobby Watson, American comedian (Hitler Gang, Boys Town), born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1965)
1887 – Ernst Röhm, German army officer and chief organizer of Adolf Hitler’s Storm Troopers (Sturmabteilung, or SA; Brownshirts), born in Munich (d. 1934)
1953 – Nadezhda Olizarenko, USSR, 800m/1500m runner (Olympic gold 1980)
1977 – Angela Stanford, American golfer (Evian C’ship 2018), born in Fort Worth, Texas

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Famous Deaths

1170 – Owain Gwynedd, King of Gwynedd (c. 1100)
1912 – Walter Benona Sharp, American oil tycoon, dies at 41
1927 – C. E. A. Wichmann, German-Dutch geologist, dies at 76
1962 – Wilhelmina of the Netherlands, Queen of the Netherlands (1890-1948), dies at 82
1983 – Christopher George, American actor (Chisum, Heist), dies of heart attack at 52
1994 – Al Levitt, American jazz drummer, dies at 63

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Famous Deaths for 27th November 2021

1632 – John Eliot, English parliament leader, dies at 40
1680 – Athanasius Kircher, German Jesuit priest and inventor (magic lantern), dies at 79
1852 – Ada Lovelace, English mathematician and writer and daughter of poet Lord Byron, considered the first computer programmer, dies of uterine cancer at 36
1955 – Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (King David, Pacific 231), dies of a heart attack at 63
1959 – Gérard Philipe, French actor (Caligula, Devil in the Flesh), dies of cancer at 36
1968 – Hans Redlich, Austrian composer, dies at 65
1973 – Frank Christian, American jazz trumpeter, dies at 86
1987 – Babe [Floyd Caves] Herman, Brooklyn Dodgers’ slugger (.324 lifetime average), dies at 84
1995 – Simon Bailey, 1st British priest to say he had AIDS, dies at 40
2007 – Sean Taylor, American NFL free safety (Pro Bowl 2006, 07; All Pro 2007; Washington Redskins), dies when shot by an armed intruder at 24

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Historical Events for 27th November 2021

1382 – Battle of Westrozebeke/Roosebeke. French army defeats the Flemish army. Flemish leader Philip Van Artevelde killed and corpse displayed
1493 – Christopher Columbus returns to La Navidad colony, finding it destroyed by the 1st native American uprising against Spanish rule. Taíno cacique Caonabo led his people to attack the settlement after the brutal treatment they received from the garrison who disobeyed Columbus’s orders.
1864 – 2nd day of Battles at Waynesboro, Georgia
1912 – Albanian National Flag adopted
1924 – 57,000 watch a High School football game (LA and Polytechnic tie 7-7)
1970 – Test Cricket debut of Rodney “Iron Gloves” Marsh v England, Brisbane
1982 – 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn’s first win in the series in 10 years
1987 – Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
2006 – Ballon d’Or: Italy defender Fabio Cannavaro (Juventus/Real Madrid) is named best football player in Europe ahead of Juventus goalkeeper Gianluigi Buffon and Arsenal forward Thierry Henry
2017 – 8 Donkeys freed from jail after 4 days in Orai, Uttar Pradesh, India for eating plants

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Today in History for 27th November 2021

Historical Events

1809 – Berners Street hoax: Theodore Hook bets he can make any address the most talked-about in London, proceeds to win by bringing London to a standstill
1863 – -29] Battle at Fort Esperanza, Texas
1889 – Hermann Sudermann’s “Ehre” premieres in Berlin
1980 – Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
1987 – Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
2018 – US accuses Nicaragua’s Vice-President Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega of human rights abuses and imposes sanctions

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Famous Birthdays

1741 – Jean-Pierre Duport, French composer (d. 1818)
1750 – Anton Thadaus Johann Nepomuk Stamitz, German violinist and composer, baptised in Deutschbrod, Bohemia (now Havlíčkův Brod, Czech Republic), (d. between 1798–1809)
1935 – Al Jackson, Jr., American session drummer, known as “The Human Time Keeper” (Stax; Booker T. and MGs – “McLemore Avenue”), born in Memphis, Tennessee (d. 1975)
1954 – Kimmy Robertson, American actress (Lucy Moran in TV series Twin Peaks), born in Hollywood, California
1957 – Caroline Kennedy. American attorney and diplomat ,daughter of JFK and Jackie Kennedy, born in New York City
1960 – Kevin Henkes, American children’s book writer/illustrator (Caldecott Medal), born in Racine, Wisconsin

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Famous Deaths

1916 – James Cutler Dunn Parker, composer, dies at 88
1944 – Leonid Isaakovich Mandelshtam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
1977 – John Little McClellan, American lawyer and politician (Sen-D-Ark), dies at 81
1981 – Lotte Lenya, Austrian singer/actress (From Russia With Love), dies of cancer at 83
2006 – Bebe Moore Campbell, American author (b. 1950)
2014 – P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy], Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime and mystery writer (Cover Her Face, Death in Holy Orders), dies at 94

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Famous Deaths for 26th November 2021

1653 – Maximilian Teellinck, vicar, dies at about 51
1836 – John Loudon McAdam, Scottish engineer and road builder who created macadam road surface (asphalt), dies at 80
1882 – Otto Theodor von Manteuffel, Prussian conservative statesman and Minister-President of the Kingdom of Prussia (1850-88), dies at 77
1956 – Tommy Dorsey, American trombonist and big band leader (“Opus No. 1”; “I’ll Never Smile Again”; “Yes, Indeed!”), dies at 51
1957 – Aleksei M Remizov, Russian author (Iveren), dies at 80
1973 – John Rostill, English rocker (The Shadows), electrocuted at 31
1979 – Marcel L’Herbier, French director and screenwriter (El Dorado), dies at 91
1988 – Antonio Estévez, Venezuelan composer and conductor (Cantata Criolla), dies at 72
1993 – Imad Aqal, Palestinian Izz-Danish al-Qassem-leader, shot to death
2008 – De’Angelo Wilson, American actor (b. 1979)

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Historical Events for 26th November 2021

1913 – Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
1944 – Himmler orders destruction of Auschwitz and Birkenau crematoria
1956 – Egil Danielsen of Norway sets a new world record throw of 85.71m to win the men’s javelin gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics
1956 – “The Price Is Right” debuts on NBC
1960 – 25th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 3-0 in Birmingham
1975 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1984 – After 518 goals and 14 years with Montreal Canadiens, Guy LaFleur retires
1992 – 57th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 17-0 in Birmingham
1998 – Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland’s parliament.
2008 – Terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India: Ten coordinated attacks by Pakistan-based terrorists kill 164 and injure more than 250 people in Mumbai, India.

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Today in History for 26th November 2021

Historical Events

1688 – Duke of Savoye signs on to League of Augsburg
1716 – 1st lion exhibited in America in Boston
1894 – King Lafia “Absalamu” of Nikki signs accord with France
1949 – CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: Montreal Alouettes beat Calgary Stampeders, 28-15 for their first Championship
1953 – WJHL TV channel 11 in Johnson City, TN (CBS) begins broadcasting
2018 – Ukraine declares martial law in areas bordering Russia after Russia seizes three of its naval vessels

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Famous Birthdays

1906 – Sandro Fuga, Italian composer and painist, born in Mogliano, Veneto (d. 1994)
1927 – Ernie Coombs, American-Canadian children’s entertainer (Mr. Dressup), born in Lewiston, Maine (d. 2001)
1938 – Rodney Jory, Australian physicist, born in Adelaide, Australia
1962 – Mike Johnson, American NFL inside linebacker (Detroit Lions), born in Southport, North Carolina
1964 – Jeff Jaeger, American NFL kicker (Oakland Raiders, Chicago Bears), born in Tacoma, Washington
1985 – Lil’ Fizz [Dreux Pierre Frédéric], American singer (B2K), born in New Orleans, Louisiana

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Famous Deaths

399 – Siricius, Pope (384-99) and Saint whose feast day is November 26, dies at about 65
1717 – Daniel Purcell, British composer (b. 1664)
1855 – Adam B Mickiewicz, Polish poet (Polish Legion), dies at 56
1971 – Joe Adonis, US crime-syndicate boss in NY and NJ, dies at 68
1993 – Mart Kempers, Dutch graphic artist and sculptor, dies at 69
2010 – Palle Huld, Danish actor (b. 1912)

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