Today in History for November 1880
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 5 of 5
2nd - James A Garfield (R) elected president
8th - Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made US debut at NY's Booth Theater
11th - Australian Bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.
21st - Henry Stanley & Pierre de Brazza quarrel about possession of Congo
24th - Southern University forms
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 20 of 20
1st - Alfred L Wegener, German meteorologist (continental shift)
1st - Grantland Rice, sportswriter (NY Her Trib 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37)
1st - Karel Paul van der Mandele, financier/director (Rotterdamsche Bank)
1st - Sholem Asch, Poland, Yiddish novelist/playwright (Three Cities)
2nd - John Foulds, composer
3rd - Edmond Barrett, heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908)
3rd - Raffaele Casimiro Casimiri, composer
6th - Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
6th - Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (d. 1959)
9th - Rudolph Karel, composer
10th - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange)
10th - Jacob Epstein, sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel)
14th - Eugene O'Brien, Boulder OH, actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm)
16th - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [NS=11/28]
20th - George McBride, baseball player (d. 1973)
21st - Franz Hessel, writer
25th - Leonard S Woolf, English author/husband of Virginia Woolf
25th - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (d. 1960)
28th - Alexander A Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat) [OS=11/16]
28th - Marinus van Meel, 1st Dutch aviator
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
7th - Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, composer, dies at 72
8th - Jacob Edvard Gille, composer, dies at 66
11th - Lucretia Mott, US quaker (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies
11th - Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger (hanged) (b. c. 1855)
19th - Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74
24th - Hanri Reber, composer, dies at 73
26th - Guilherme Antonio Cossoul, composer, dies at 52
28th - Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, (Portuguese) Archbishop of Goa (b. 1837)
