Today in History for November 1897

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 6 of 6

6th - Peter Pan opens in NY at Empire Theater
23rd - Andrew J Beard invents "jerry coupler," to connect railroad cars
23rd - Pencil sharpener patented by J L Love
24th - Canadian Intercollegiate Rugby Football Union forms in Kingston
25th - Spain grants Puerto Rico autonomy
29th - 1st motorcycle race (Surrey England)

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 34 of 34

1st - Naomi Mitchison, author (African Heroes, Return to Fairy Hill)
2nd - Dennis King, Coventry England, comedian (Devil's Brother)
2nd - Jacob A B "Jack" Bjerknes, Norwegian/US meteorologist (USAF in London)
3rd - Karel Salmon, composer
4th - Oscar Lorenzo Fernandez, Brazilian conductor/composer (Imbapara)
7th - Ruth Pitter, British poet and 1st woman to receive the Queen's Gold Medal for Poetry in 1955
8th - Dorothy Day, New York, American journalist, social activist, and devout Catholic convert
9th - Ronald G W Norrish, British chemist (Nobel 1967)
11th - Gordon W Allport, US, psychologist (personalities)
12th - Karl Marx, Germany, composer/conductor
13th - Gertrude Olmstead, American actress (d. 1975)
14th - John Steuart Curry, US painter/lithographer (Baptism in Kansas)
15th - Sacheverell Sitwell, English poet/author (People's Palace)
15th - Aneurin Bevan, British politician (d. 1960)
16th - Halliwell Hobbes, Stratford-on-Avon Engld, actor (Dr Jekyll & Mr Hyde)
16th - Choudhary Rehmat Ali, Pakistani nationalist (d. 1951)
17th - Ed Baker, Davis WV, actor (Keystone Kops)
17th - Frank Fay, SF CA, actor (God's Gift to Women, Love Nest)
17th - Sara Haden, Galveston Tx, actress (A Family Affair)
17th - Frank Fay, American actor (d. 1961)
18th - Jules Buffano, St Louis Mo, pianist (Jimmy Durante Show)
18th - Patrick M S Blackett, British physicist (nuclear reaction, Nobel 1948)
19th - Quentin Roosevelt, son of United States President Theodore Roosevelt (d. 1918)
20th - Lores Bonney, aviator
20th - Margaret Sutherland, composer
21st - Mollie Steimer anarchist agitator (d. 1980)
22nd - Paul Oswald Ahnert, German astronomer (d. 1989)
23rd - Nirad C. Chaudhuri, Indian writer (d. 1999)
23rd - Karl Gebhardt, Nazi doctor (d. 1948)
27th - Vito Genovese, American mafioso (d. 1969)
28th - Uno Choyo, writer
29th - Emiel van Hemeldonck, Belgian writer (Little Emperor)
30th - Andreas Nezertis, composer
30th - Quinto Maganini, composer

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 6 of 6

6th - Edouard Deldevez, composer, dies at 80
9th - Moritz Heuzenroeder, composer, dies at 48
15th - John Mercer Langston, US black jurist, dies at 67
17th - George Hendric Houghton, American Protestant Episcopal clergyman (b. 1820)
19th - William Seymour Tyler, American educator and historian (b. 1810).
30th - Abraham C Wertheim, Dutch banker/MP (Lib), dies at 64