1591 – Christopher Hatton, English politician (b. 1540)
1669 – Arnold Geulincx, Flemish philosopher (Cholera), dies at 45
1778 – Francesco Cetti, Italian Jesuit priest and scientist, dies at 52
1889 – August Ahlqvist, Finnish poet (Suomalainen Runousoppi), dies at 63
1959 – Alfonso López Pumarejo, 16th President of Colombia (Liberal: 1934-38 and 1942-46) and statesman (President of UN security council 1948), dies at 73
1978 – Giorgio De Chirico, Italian painter (founded the scuola metafisica art movement), dies at 90
1991 – Gina Petrushka, actress (Exorcist, Sybil), dies at 82
2003 – James “Jim” Siedow, American actor (The Texas Chain Saw Massacre), dies from emphysema at 83
2005 – James King, American tenor, dies at 80
2009 – H.C. Robbins Landon, American musicologist (Haydn: Chronicle and Works), dies at 83
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Historical Events for 20th November 2020
1719 – Sweden and Hannover sign for peace Treaty of Stockholm
1934 – Lillian Hellman’s “Children’s Hour” premieres in NYC
1947 – UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
1951 – Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
1990 – US 68th manned space mission STS 38 (Atlantis 7) returns from space
1995 – “Racing Demon” opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 48 performances
2000 – 52nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Bobby Labonte wins
2013 – US President Barack Obama posthumously awards civil rights activist Bayard Rustin the Presidential Medal of Freedom
2017 – German Chancellor Angela Merkel announces that coalition talks to form a government have collapsed
2018 – Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Today in History for 20th November 2020
Historical Events
1431 – First meeting of Order of the Golden Fleece
1461 – Astronomer Regiomontanus returns with Cardinal Basilios Bessarion’s to his house in Rome, home to one of largest libraries in Europe
1755 – English minister William Pitt the Elder resigns
1951 – Snowdonia becomes a British National Park
1972 – 2 British soldiers are killed in a booby trap bomb in Cullyhanna, County Armagh
1997 – Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
Famous Birthdays
1620 – Peregrine White, First English child born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony, born aboard the Mayflower (d. 1704)
1890 – Robert Armstrong, American actor (Mighty Joe Young, King Kong), born in Saginaw, Michigan (1973)
1934 – Valentine J. Peter, American priest (Boy’s Town ), born in Omaha, Nebraska
1936 – Don DeLillo, American author (Underworld), born in New York City
1951 – David Walters, American politician, Governor of Oklahoma (1991-95), born in Canute, Oklahoma
1969 – Chris Harris, New Zealand cricketer (NZ all-rounder in ODI’s), born in Christchurch, New Zealand
Famous Deaths
1750 – Wilhelmus Schortinghuis, Dutch Christian theologist, dies at 50
1952 – Benedetto Croce, Italian philosopher (La Critica), dies at 86
2006 – Robert Altman, American screenwriter, producer and director (The Player, M*A*S*H, Nashville), dies of complications from leukemia at 81
2010 – Rob Lytle, American football player (b. 1954)
2013 – Sylvia Browne, American author and self-proclaimed medium dubbed “America’s most controversial psychic,” dies at 77
2019 – Fred Cox, American NFL kicker (NFL champion 1969; Pro Bowl 1970; Minnesota Vikings all-time leading scorer), dies at 80
Historical Events for 19th November 2020
1850 – Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
1893 – 1st newspaper color supplement (NY World)
1909 – Former Dutch premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
1942 – Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
1959 – “Rocky and His Friends” debuts on ABC
1984 – NY Met Dwight Gooden, 20, is youngest to be named NL Rookie of Year
1987 – France performs nuclear test
1995 – “Sacrilege” closes at Belasco Theater NYC after 21 performances
1997 – McCaughey septuplets born to Bobbi McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
2018 – Ivanka Trump sent “hundred” of emails from her personal account about government business according to Washington Post report
Today in History for 19th November 2020
Historical Events
1274 – Mongol army lands at Hakata Bay in Japan during their first invasion attempt and are defeated; a typhoon destroys most of their fleet as they withdraw
1872 – E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first ‘calculator’, an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
1911 – NY receives first Marconi wireless transmission from Italy
1932 – Shaft and Thyssen demand Adolf Hitler become German chancellor
1985 – Herb Gardner’s “I’m Not Rappaport” premieres in NYC
1996 – “God Said, Ha!” opens at Lyceum Theater NYC for 22 performances
Famous Birthdays
1899 – Abu al-Qasim al-Khoei, Iranian influential Shia Islamic scholar, born in Khoy, West Azerbaijan Province, Iran (d. 1992)
1919 – Angus “Alan” Young, British actor and voice actor (Mister Ed, Scrooge McDuck), born in North Shields, England (d. 2016)
1936 – Yuan T. Lee, Taiwanese-born chemist, Nobel Prize laureate
1938 – Richard Dumbrill, cricketer (South African all-rounder in 5 Tests 1965-67)
1975 – Ju-Yeon Choi, Pusan Korea, tennis star (1995 Futures-Seoul-KOR II)
1997 – Nathaniel Roy McCaughey, Iowa, septuplets (6)
Famous Deaths
1692 – Georg F von Waldeck, German commander-in-chief (Colors), dies
1899 – John William Dawson, Canadian geologist, dies at 79
1917 – Basil Grieve, cricketer (batted in 2 Tests England v South Africa 1889), dies
1974 – George Brunies, American musician (b. 1902)
2013 – Charlotte Zolotow, American author and publisher of children’s books (When the Wind Stops), dies at 98
2014 – Mike Nichols [Mikhail Peschkowsky], German-American film director (Catch 22, The Graduate, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?), dies from cardiac arrest at 83
Famous Deaths for 18th November 2020
1559 – Cuthbert Tunstall, English churchman (b. 1474)
1919 – Adolf Hurwitz, German mathematician (Riemann–Hurwitz formula), dies at 60
1946 – Johnny Lush, American MLB pitcher (2 no-hitters), dies at 61
1951 – Johan van Maarseveen, Dutch Minister of Justice and Internal minister, dies at 57
1986 – Lajos Bárdos, Hungarian conductor, composer, musicologist and professor, dies at 87
1992 – Herman Musaph, psychiatrist/sexologist/co-founder (NVSH), dies
1996 – Douglas Guest, British organist (For the Fallen), dies at 80
2005 – Harold J Stone, American actor (Spartacus, The Wrong Man), dies at 92
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2015 – Mal Whitfield, American track athlete (Olympic 3 gold, silver and bronze 1948, 52), dies at 91
Historical Events for 18th November 2020
1477 – First English dated printed book “Dictes and Sayengis of the Phylosophers” by William Caxton
1776 – Hessians capture Ft Lee, NJ
1803 – Battle of Vertieres, in which Haitians defeat French
1833 – Netherlands and Belgium sign Treaty of Zonhoven
1894 – Richard Outcault’s early comic strip “Origin of a New Species” published in World
1984 – The Soviet Union helps deliver American wheat during the Ethiopian famine
1985 – Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
1994 – “Star Trek: Generations” film directed by David Carson and starring Patrick Stewart premieres
2000 – 65th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 9-0 in Tuscaloosa
2003 – Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rules the state’s ban on same-sex marriages is unconstitutional
Today in History for 18th November 2020
Historical Events
1421 – Southern sea floods 72 villages, killing estimated 10,000 in Netherlands
1424 – Storm flood ravages Dutch coast
1964 – J. Edgar Hoover describes Martin Luther King as “most notorious liar”
1966 – US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
1985 – Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
2002 – “Up!” 4th studio album by Shania Twain is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2003)
Famous Birthdays
1856 – Nicholas Nikolaevich Romanov, Grand Duke of Russia and general in World War I (1914-18), born in St. Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1929)
1877 – Arthur Cecil Pigou, English economist (Economics of Welfare), born in Ryde, Isle of Wight, England (d. 1959)
1900 – Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American artist (Ditters and Jitters), born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1987)
1972 – Jessica “Jessi” Alexander, American country music singer and songwriter (“The Climb”), born in Jackson, Tennessee
1975 – Shawn Camp, American baseball player
1983 – Jon Johansen, Norwegian software developer
Famous Deaths
1965 – Henry A Wallace, VP (1941-45)/founder (Progressive Party), dies at 77
1977 – Davey O’Brien, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback (Heisman Trophy 1938, Texas Christian University; NFL: Philadelphia Eagles), dies from cancer at 60
1997 – Joyce Wethered, British golfer (English Ladies’ champion 1920–24), dies at 96
2009 – Red Robbins, American basketball player (b. 1944)
2012 – Elena Donaldson-Akhmilovskaya, Russian Woman Grandmaster of chess, dies from brain cancer at 55
2015 – Jim Slater, British financier and writer, dies at 86
Historical Events for 17th November 2020
1659 – Peace of the Pyrenees is signed between France and Spain
1734 – John Zenger, arrested for libel against NY colonial governor; later acquitted
1958 – KAII TV channel 7 in Wailuku, HI (NBC) begins broadcasting
1962 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh, Semipalitinsk USSR
1968 – Alexandros Panagoulis is condemned to death for attempting to assassinate Greek dictator George Papadopoulos
1974 – Aliança Operário-Camponesa (Worker-Peasant Alliance) founded in Portugal as a front of PCP(m-l).
1979 – Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black and female US hostages
1997 – Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
2003 – Britney Spears, at 21 years old, becomes the youngest singer to get a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame
2008 – “Twilight”, based on the book by Stephenie Meyer, directed by Catherine Hardwicke, starring Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson, premieres in Los Angeles
Today in History for 17th November 2020
Historical Events
1965 – William Eckert is unanimously elected commissioner of baseball
1970 – Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse
1973 – US President Richard Nixon tells AP “…people have got to know whether or not their president is a crook. Well, I’m not a crook”
1974 – Union of Banana Exporting Countries (UPEB) forms
1984 – Islanders score 20 assists against Rangers
1989 – Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
Famous Birthdays
1685 – Pierre Gaultier, French-Canadian trader and explorer (d. 1749)
1878 – Grace Abbott, Grand Island Neb, social worker (US Children Bureau)
1925 – Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
1961 – Merete Van Kemp, Danish actress (Grace-Dallas, Princess Daisy)
1965 – Rob Koll, Bellefonte PA, 163 lbs/74 kg freestyle wrestler (Olymp-96)
1966 – Jeff Nelson, pitcher (NY Yankees), born in Baltimore, Maryland
Famous Deaths
375 – Valentinian I “The Great”, Roman Co-Emperor and Ruler of Western Roman Empire (336-75), dies at 54
1856 – William Knyvett, British singer and composer, dies at 77
1905 – Prince Philippe, Count of Flanders and son of Leopold I, dies at 68
1936 – Ernestine Schumann-Heink, Austrian contralto (b. 1861)
1995 – Edward LeBone Molotlegi, chief of the Bafokeng, dies at 66
2013 – Doris Lessing, Iranian novelist and Nobel laureate (Adore, Memoirs of a Survivor, Golden Notebook), dies at 94