1527 – Princess Catherine of York, 9th child and sixth daughter of King Edward IV by his wife Elizabeth Woodville, dies at 48
1848 – P Rossi, Italian, murdered
1910 – Wilhelm Raabe [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor), dies at 79
1916 – Luis Muñoz Rivera, Puerto Rican journalist (founded Federalist Party), dies at 57
1928 – Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85
1954 – Lionel Barrymore [Blythe], American actor (It’s A Wonderful Life; Dr. Kildare (films); Key Largo), dies at 76
1965 – John Geoghegan, U.S. Army infantry lieutenant and Silver Star recipient, killed during the Battle of Ia Drang in Vietnam War at 24
2002 – Myra Hindley, English murderess (murdered 5 small children with Ian Brady), dies at 60
2010 – Imre Polyák, Hungarian featherweight (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 78
2011 – Mark “Moogy” Klingman, American rock musician and songwriter (Utopia) dies of bladder cancer at 61
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Historical Events for 15th November 2021
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1837 – Isaac Pitman introduces his shorthand system of writing
1898 – David Beatty is promoted to commander
1920 – Ernst Toller’s “Massen und Menschen” premieres in Nuremberg
1946 – Ted Williams is picked as AL MVP
1955 – Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1961 – Roger Maris is voted AL MVP
1989 – Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
1993 – 13 Cuban refugees land in Florida after stealing a crop-duster in Cuba.
2005 – 39th Country Music Association Award: Keith Urban and Gretchen Wilson wins
Today in History for 15th November 2021
Historical Events
1315 – Battle of Morgarten: Swiss beat duke Leopold I of Austria
1887 – British SS Wah Yeung catches fire on Canton River off Hong Kong
1901 – 6th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 17-0 in Tuscaloosa
1945 – The rules are revised for election of modern players to the Hall of Fame
1961 – UN bans nuclear arms
2017 – Argentine submarine San Juan goes missing in the Atlantic after reporting mechanical failure
Famous Birthdays
1604 – Davis Mell, English composer, born in Wilton (d. 1662)
1741 – Johann Kaspar Lavater, Swiss writer, philosopher and founder of physiognomics, born in Zürich, Switzerland (d. 1801)
1868 – Ferruccio Giannini, Italian-American operatic tenor (one of the first to be recorded), teacher, and impresario (Verdi Opera House, Philadelphia), born in Barga, Italy (d. 1948)
1928 – John Orchard, British actor (Capone, M*A*S*H), born in Kennington, London (d. 1995)
1930 – Whitman Mayo, American actor (Grady Wilson-“Sanford and Son”), born in NYC, New York (d. 2001)
1954 – Mitch Easter, American record producer (REM), born in Winston-Salem, North Carolina
Famous Deaths
1579 – Ferenc Dávid, Hungarian religious reformer (b. 1510)
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
1918 – Georges Antoine, Belgian composer, dies at 26
2010 – Ed Kirkpatrick, American baseball player (b. 1944)
2011 – Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer, dies at 65
2020 – Campbell Forsyth, Scottish soccer goalkeeper (4 caps; St Mirren, Kilmarnock, Southampton), dies at 86
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2021
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
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