1872 – Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), American poet/Comanche chief, dies
1937 – George Albert Boulenger, Belgian naturalist (b. 1858)
1943 – Ernie Jones, Australian cricket fast bowler (19 Tests, 64 wickets; first bowler to be called for throwing in a Test), dies at 74
1989 – Armand Salacrou, French playwright, dies at 90
1992 – Ray Acuff, country singer (Wahbash Cannonball), dies
1994 – Tommy Boyce, American songwriter (Boyce and Hart, Monkees), commits suicide at 55
1994 – Art Barr, American professional wrestler, dies at 28
2007 – Óscar Carmelo Sánchez, Bolivian footballer (b. 1971)
2012 – Larry Hagman, American actor (I Dream of Jeannie, Dallas), dies of complications from throat cancer at 81
2017 – Fred van der Spek, Dutch 2nd chamber member (PSP), dies at 93
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Historical Events for 23rd November 2020
1834 – Hector Berlioz’s “Harold in Italy” premieres
1869 – The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
1911 – Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, renamed Letterman General Hospital
1953 – KVFD (now KTIN) TV channel 21 in Ft Dodge, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast
1963 – LBJ proclaims Nov 25 a day of national mourning (for JFK)
1977 – “Jesus Christ Superstar” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 performances
1984 – Test Cricket debuts of Australians David Boon aged 23 and Bob Holland aged 38 (v WI)
2003 – Presidents Cup Golf, Fancourt Hotel and CC: US and International team tie, 17-17; after 3 tied playoff holes between Tiger Woods and Ernie Els, captains and players decide Cup to be shared
2008 – 97th Davis Cup: Spain beats Argentina in Mar del Plata (3-1)
2019 – Sumatran rhino officially declared extinct in Malaysia after last known specimen, 25-year-old Iman, dies of cancer in Sabah, Malaysian Borneo
Today in History for 23rd November 2020
Historical Events
1577 – Water Geuzen under Captain Slope enters Amsterdam
1904 – III Summer (Modern) Olympic Games close in St Louis
1971 – Danny Murtaugh, manager of MLB world champions Pittsburgh Pirates, announces his retirement
1977 – “Jesus Christ Superstar” opens at Longacre Theater NYC for 96 performances
1991 – Evander Holyfield TKOs Bert Cooper in 7 for heavyweight boxing title
1993 – “Doggystyle” debut album by Snoop Doggy Dogg is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1994)
Famous Birthdays
1878 – Holcombe Ward, American tennis player (US Nat C’ship 1904; President USLTA 1937-47), born in New York, NY (d. 1967)
1888 – Harpo Marx [Adolph], American actor and comedian (Marx brothers), born in NYC, New York (d. 1964)
1902 – Aaron Bank, American OSS officer and founder of the US Army Special Forces (d. 2004)
1946 – Diana Quick, English actress (Brideshead, Big Sleep, Odd Job), born in London
1978 – Kayvan Novak, English actor, born in Cricklewood, London
1991 – Anurag Kashyap, 2005 Scripps National Spelling Bee champion, born in Muzaffarpur, India
Famous Deaths
1503 – Margaret of York (Margaret of Burgendy), wife of Charles I, Duke of Burgundy, dies at 57
1616 – Richard Hakluyt, English writer (b. 1552)
1752 – Conrad Michael Schneider, composer, dies at 79
1990 – Renate Rubinstein, German-Dutch author and columnist (Tamar), dies at 61
1992 – Rita Corday, actress (Dick Tracy vs Cueball), dies at 68
1996 – Art Porter, saxophonist, dies at 35
Famous Deaths for 22nd November 2020
1318 – Mikhail Yaroslavich, Russian prince (b. 1271)
1594 – Martin Frobisher, English privateer, explorer (Canada) and later vice-admiral who helped defeat the Spanish Armada, dies aged between 55 and 59
1782 – John de Mol, porcelein manufacturer, dies
1890 – Johanne Luise Heiberg, Danish actress, dies at 77
1954 – Andrej J. Vysjinski, Russian lawyer and UN ambassador, dies at 70
1963 – Wilhelm Beiglböck, Nazi physician (b. 1905)
1979 – Anne Vondeling, Male Dutch soc democratic party-minister, dies at 63
1982 – Max Deutsch, Austrian-French composer, dies at 90
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2018 – Imrat Khan, Indian sitar and surbahar player and composer, dies of a stroke at 83
Historical Events for 22nd November 2020
1683 – Purcell’s “Welcome to All the Pleasures” premieres in London
1714 – King Karel XII leaves Turkish captivity to return to Sweden
1918 – Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
1918 – Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1927 – 1st snowmobile patent granted to Carl Eliason (Sayner, Wisconsin)
1927 – Belgian government of Henri Jaspar falls
1960 – French National Meeting decide to build own nuclear weapons
1991 – NY Knicks pay Patrick Ewing a record $18.8 million for 2 yr extension
2017 – Ratko Mladic the “Butcher of Bosnia” is convicted of genocide and other atrocities during the Bosnian war and jailed for life in The Hague
Today in History for 22nd November 2020
Historical Events
1908 – 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda U, 5-0
1910 – Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
1914 – Ypres, Belgium, burned by German bombing
1928 – “Bolero” by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)
1966 – 32nd Heisman Trophy Award: Steve Spurrier, Florida (QB)
1999 – Elian Gonzalez, Cuban boy at the center of a heated 2000 controversy involving the governments of Cuba and the United States, and his mother are sighted off of Florida’s coast by U.S. Coast Guard
Famous Birthdays
1808 – Thomas Cook, British founder and CEO of Thomas Cook and Son travel agency (Cook Travel Bureau), born in Derbyshire, England (d. 1892)
1877 – Endre Ady, Hungarian lyric poet (Még egyzer, Uj versek), born in Ermindszent, Hungary (d. 1919)
1902 – Humphrey Gibbs, Governor of Southern Rhodesia (1959-69), born in London (d. 1990)
1950 – Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
1950 – Steven Van Zandt, American guitarist, songwriter, producer (E-Street Band; Asbury Jukes), and actor (The Sopranos), born in Winthrop, Massachusetts
1959 – Frank McAvennie, Scottish footballer
Famous Deaths
1758 – Richard Edgcumbe, 1st Baron Edgcumbe, British politician (b. 1680)
1943 – Pietro Alessandro Yon, composer, dies at 57
1955 – Guy Ropartz [Joseph Guy Marie Ropartz], French composer, dies at 91 (b. 1864)
1997 – Tom Blackburn, writer, dies at 71
2006 – Pat Dobson, American baseball player (b. 1942)
2011 – Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), dies at 73
Famous Deaths for 21st November 2020
1775 – John Hill, British writer
1953 – Larry Shields, American jazz clarinetist (Original Dixieland Jazz Band), dies at 60
1957 – Francis Burton Harrison, American political figure (b. 1873)
1963 – Robert Stroud, American convict “Birdman of Alcatraz”, dies at 73
1970 – Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, Indian physicist (Nobel Prize 1930 for light scattering), dies at 82
1975 – Gunnar Gunnarsson, Icelandic writer (The Church on the Mountain), dies at 86
1991 – Prior Jones, West Indian cricketer (WI pace bowler in 9 Tests 1948-52), dies at 74
1995 – Peter Grant, English rock band manager, dies at 60
2007 – Fernando Fernán Gómez, Spanish actor, director, academic and playwright (All About My Mother), dies at 86
2013 – Bernard Parmegiani, French composer (L’Oeil écoute – The Eye Listens), dies at 86
Historical Events for 21st November 2020
1813 – Stettin surrenders to allied armies
1848 – Alfred de Musset’s “Andre del Sarto” premieres in Paris
1934 – “Uiver” returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
1938 – Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
1974 – Freedom of Information Act passed by Congress over President Ford’s veto
1992 – Jani Sievinen swims world record 100m medley (53.78 sec)
1996 – A propane explosion at the Humberto Vidal shoe store and office building in San Juan, Puerto Rico kills 33.
1998 – 63rd Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 31-17 in Birmingham
2004 – 56th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Kurt Busch wins
2019 – WHO says Measles has killed more than 5,000 people in Democratic Republic of Congo in 2019, in world’s largest and fastest-moving epidemic
Today in History for 21st November 2020
Historical Events
1905 – 1st match ever played in the Australian National Tennis Championships
1976 – 26th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Cale Yarborough wins
1977 – First flight of Concorde (London to New York)
2002 – NATO invites Bulgaria, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania, Romania, Slovakia and Slovenia to become members.
2006 – Daughtry release their debut album “Daughtry” (2007 Billboard Album of the Year, American Music Awards Favorite Pop-Rock Album 2007)
2017 – Robert Mugabe’s resignation after 37 years in power is read out in Zimbabwe’s parliaments during impeachment proceedings
Famous Birthdays
1924 – Christopher Tolkien, British author and son of J. R. R. Tolkien, born in Leeds, England (d. 2020)
1943 – Jacques Laffite, French former racing driver
1948 – George Zimmer, American entrepreneur
1954 – Thomas Rothman, American film executive
1956 – Mariana Simionescu, Romanian tennis player (1st wife of Björn Borg), born in Tirgu Neamt, Romania
1985 – Carly Rae Jepsen, Canadian singer (“Call Me Maybe”), born in Mission, British Columbia
Famous Deaths
1566 – Annibale Caro, Italian writer and poet (Lettere familiare), dies at 59
1900 – J. J. Ferris, Australian cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880’s), dies at 33
1932 – Pietro Bonfante, Italian lawyer (Roman law) and historian, dies at 68
1967 – C. M. Eddy, Jr., American writer (b. 1896)
2009 – Konstantin Feoktistov, Soviet cosmonaut (b. 1926)
2017 – David Cassidy, American singer and actor (Keith-Partridge Family), dies at 67
Famous Deaths for 20th November 2020
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