1812 – Eagle Fokke Simonsz, writer (Year 3000), dies at about 57
1815 – Johann Lukas Schubaur, composer, dies at 65
1863 – Frederik VII, 1st constitutional king of Denmark (1848-63), dies at 55
1978 – Dick Chapman, American golfer (1940 US amateur, 1951 British amateur), dies of a stroke at 67
1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1993 – Mouin Shabaita, Palestinian al-Fatah commandant, murdered
1995 – Billy Hughes, British educationist and Labour Party politician, dies at 81
2004 – Elmer L. Andersen, 30th Governor of Minnesota (1961-63), dies at 95
2010 – Imre Polyák, Hungarian featherweight (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 78
2016 – Sixto Durán Ballén, Ecuadorian politician, President of Ecuador (1992-96), dies at 95
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Historical Events for 15th November 2020
1492 – In La Guardia, Spain, 6 Jews and 5 Conversos are accused of ritual murder
1938 – Farewell Parade of International Brigades in Barcelona
1959 – Richard “Dick” Hickock and Perry Smith murder four members of the Clutter Family at their farm outside Holcomb, Kansas (subject of Truman Capote book In Cold Blood)
1959 – Cleveland Browns’ halfback Bobby Mitchell sets club record for longest run from scrimmage (90-yards), beat Wash 31-17
1966 – Gemini XII (Lovell and Aldrin) returns to Earth
1974 – Ringo Starr releases “Goodnight Vienna” and “Only You” in UK
1980 – Pope John Paul II began 5 day visit to West Germany
1987 – Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
2000 – New state of Jharkhand comes into existence in India
2012 – The Eurozone economy returns to recession with a fall of 0.1% in GDP in the third quarter of 2012 following a fall of 0.2% in the previous quarter
Today in History for 15th November 2020
Historical Events
1835 – Charles Darwin reaches Tahiti on board HMS Beagle, the location where he would formulate his ideas later written in The Structure and Distribution of Coral Reefs
1932 – Walt Disney Art School created
1955 – Poland and Yugoslavia sign trade agreement
1972 – Small Astronomy Satellite Explorer 48 launched to study gamma rays
1987 – USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
1993 – Joe Buttafuoco sentence to 6 months for statutory rape of Amy Fisher
Famous Birthdays
1498 – Eleanor of Austria, Queen of Portugal and France, born in Leuven, Belgium (d. 1558)
1874 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
1925 – Jurriaan Andriessen [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
1933 – Barbara Carson, actress (Comedy Tonight, Carter Country), born in Memphis, Tennessee
1941 – Daniel Manus Pinkwater, American sci-fi author (Magic Moscow)
1955 – Oliver Conant, American actor (Summer of ’42), born in NYC, New York
Famous Deaths
1795 – Charles-Amédée-Philippe van Loo, French painter (b. 1719)
1928 – Thomas Chrowder Chamberlin, American Geologist and educator, dies at 85
1983 – Dai Rees, Scottish golfer (British Open runner-up 1953-54, 61), dies of car accident injuries at 70
1990 – Alydar, American racehorse (b. 1975)
1998 – Stokely Carmichael, American civil rights activist (b. 1941)
2004 – Ben Cami, Flemish writer and poet (Rose from Mud), dies at 84
Famous Deaths for 14th November 2020
1673 – Michael Wisniowieki, King of Poland, dies
1687 – Eleanor “Nell” Gwyn, English mistress of King Charles II of England, dies from apoplexy at 37
1797 – Ivan Shuvalov, 1st Russian Minister of Education and founder of the Moscow University, dies at 70
1831 – Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, German philosopher and inventor (dialectic), dies at 61
1914 – Vengayil Kunhiraman Nayanar, Malayalin journalist (b. 1861)
1975 – Max Ackermann, German “entartet” painter, dies at 88
1977 – A.C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada, Indian guru, founder of International Society for Krishna Consciousness, dies at 81
1984 – George Matthews, Brooklyn New York, American actor (Chick-Glynis), dies at 73
1995 – Les Horvath, American College Football Hall of Fame quarterback and halfback (Heisman Trophy 1944; first Ohio State player to win the award; National C’ship 1942), dies of heart failure at 74
2015 – Warren Mitchell, English actor (Alf Garnett in Till Death Us Do Part), dies at 89
Historical Events for 14th November 2020
1380 – King Charles VI of France crowned at age 12
1888 – USC Trojans (then Methodists) play their 1st football game
1968 – U.S. premiere of film version of Morris L. West’s best seller “The Shoes of the Fisherman”
1969 – 2nd Vietnam Moratorium Day in US
1976 – Cleveland Browns’ Jerry Sherk sets club record with 4 sacks
1981 – Pakistan all out 62 v Australia at WACA, Lillee 5-18
1981 – “Raise!” 11th studio album by Earth, Wind and Fire is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1982)
1990 – Michael Heseltine contests Margaret Thatcher’s leadership of the British Conservative Party
2000 – Geddy Lee releases his first solo album, “My Favourite Headache”
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 2020
Historical Events
1957 – Henry Aaron wins NL MVP
1966 – Muhammad Ali TKOs Cleveland Williams in 3 for heavyweight title
1973 – Jim Palmer is named AL Cy Young winner
1980 – Guinee-Bissau Premier Vieira fires President Luis Cabral
2001 – War in Afghanistan: Afghan Northern Alliance fighters takeover the capital Kabul
2018 – Large impact crater, 31 km wide, from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
Famous Birthdays
1567 – Maurice of Nassau, Prince of Orange (d. 1625)
1893 – Evert S J Kruythoff, Ned Antillean author (conservation flora)
1923 – Margaret Courtenay, Welsh actress, singer and entertainer (Royal Flash, Duet for One), born in Cardiff, Glamorgan, Wales (d. 1996)
1966 – Carl Coulter, CFL corner (Saskatchewan Roughriders)
1966 – Eric Hill, NFL middle linebacker (Arizona Cardinals)
1970 – Darrien Gordon, NFL cornerback (San Diego Chargers, Broncos-Super Bowl 32)
Famous Deaths
1556 – Giovanni Della Casa, Italian poet (Galateo), dies at 53
1780 – Jacobus Houbraken, engraver/illustrator, dies at 81
1831 – Ignaz Joseph Pleyel, Austrian-French composer and piano builder, dies at 74
1842 – Henry de Cock, Dutch reformed vicar and secession leader, dies at 41
1935 – J Wouter[us] van Dieren, biologist (Terschelling), dies
2001 – Charlotte Coleman, British actress (Four Weddings and a Funeral), dies of an asthma attack at 33
Famous Deaths for 13th November 2020
1771 – Konrad Ernst Ackermann, German actor and theatre director (Die Oberpfalz), dies at 61
1861 – Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
1903 – Camille Pissarro, Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, dies at 73
1975 – R. C. Sherriff, English playwright (Journey’s End), dies at 79
1982 – Hugues Lapointe, Canadian politician, lieutenant governor of Quebec (b. 1911)
1982 – Dorothy [Little-]Round, England, tennis star (Never on Sunday), dies
1992 – Maurice Ohana, pianist/composer, dies
2004 – John Balance, English musician (Coil, Psychic TV), dies from a fall from a two-storey balcony at his home at 42
2007 – Wahab Akbar, Filipino politician and Congressman, dies at 47
2014 – Alvin Dark, American baseball player and manager, dies from Alzheimer’s disease at 92
Historical Events for 13th November 2020
1781 – British troops occupy Negapatam, Ceylon (Sri Lanka)
1789 – Benjamin Franklin writes “Nothing . . . certain but death and taxes”
1916 – Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription
1920 – Hudson River freezes at Albany
1921 – US, France, Japan and British Empire sign a Pacific Treaty
1980 – US spacecraft Voyager 1 sends back 1st close-up pictures of Saturn
1996 – Joel Armengaud discovers 2^1398269 – 1 (35th known Mersenne prime)
2002 – Iraq disarmament crisis: Iraq agrees to the terms of the UN Security Council Resolution 1441
2008 – Germany’s economy, Europe’s largest, contracts by 0.5% in the third quarter after GDP fell 0.4% in the second quarter, putting it in recession for the first time in five years
2019 – South Korean girl group Blackpink are the first K-pop group to have a single reach 1 billion views on YouTube for “Ddu-Du Ddu-Du”
Today in History for 13th November 2020
Historical Events
1642 – Battle at Turnham Green outside London: King Charles I vs English parliament
1864 – The new Constitution of Greece adopted
1937 – NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
1956 – US Supreme court rules race separation on buses in Alabama unconstitutional
1989 – Paul McCartney releases “Figure of 8” and “Ou Est Le Soleil”
1996 – “Three Sisters” closes at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
Famous Birthdays
1833 – Edwin Booth, American Shakespearean actor (Hamlet), born in Bel Air, Maryland (d. 1893)
1907 – Lewis Boddington, British aerospace engineer (RAE)
1947 – Joe Mantegna, American actor (House of Games, Weeds), born in Chicago, Illinois
1965 – Sheryl Boyle, Renfrew Ontario, kayaker (Olympics 1996)
1967 – Steve Christie, NFL kicker (Buffalo Bills)
1990 – Jibbs [Jovan Campbell], American rapper (Chain Hang Low), born in St. Louis, Missouri
Famous Deaths
1620 – Louise de Coligny, French 4th wife of Willem of Orange, dies at 65
1977 – Ingrid Schubert, German terrorist (b. 1944)
1982 – Chesney Allen, English actor (Flanagan and Allen), dies at 88
2001 – Margaret “Peggy” Mount, British actress (Oliver!, Panic in the Parlor), dies following a stroke at 86
2013 – Barbara Lawrence, American model, actress, and real estate agent (Oklahoma!, A Letter to Three Wives), dies of kidney failure at 83
2016 – Leon Russell, American musician and singer-songwriter (Carny), dies at 74
Famous Deaths for 12th November 2020
1555 – Stephen Gardiner, English bishop of Winchester, dies at about 65
1912 – Jose Canalejas bon Mendez, premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58
1939 – Norman Bethune, Canadian doctor, communist and humanitarian (Spanish Civil War, Second Sino-Japanese War), dies of blood poisoning from a cut on his finger from operating on a wounded soldier at 49
1942 – ‘Philadelphia’ Jack O’Brien, American boxer (World light heavyweight champion 1905), dies at 64
1962 – Alexander Spitzmuller-Harmersbach, composer, dies at 68
1966 – Quincy Porter, American composer, dies at 69
1991 – Christopher Hayes, dies of heart attack
1995 – Marion Pitt, social worker/writer, dies at 56
2000 – Leah Rabin, wife of Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, (b. 1928)
2007 – Ira Levin, American author (Rosemary Baby, Boys From Brazil, This Perfect Day), dies at 78