Today in History for November 1900

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 9 of 9

3rd - 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
6th - Battle at Bothaville: gen-mjr Charles Knox beats Boers
6th - Pres William McKinley (R) 25th American President re-elected, beating William Jennings Bryan. Assassinated 1901
7th - Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
8th - Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
12th - World's Fair in Paris opens (50 million visitors)
13th - Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
29th - Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as supreme commander in S Afr
30th - A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 37 of 37

3rd - Roger Blunt, cricketer (NZ all-rounder in 9 Tests 1930-32)
3rd - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)
4th - Luigi Lucioni, Italian, landscape painter (opera stars)
4th - Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist (d. 1954)
5th - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
7th - Efrem Kurtz, St Petersburg Russia, conductor (Houston Symph 1948-54)
8th - Georges Lonque, composer
8th - Margaret Mitchell, Atlanta, Georgia, author (Gone With the Wind), (d. 1949)
8th - Mihailo Vukdragovic, composer
9th - Kathy Negrin
11th - Helena Konopacka, Poland, discus thrower (Olympic-gold-1928)
11th - Hugh Scott, (Sen-R-Penn), minority whip
11th - John Longden, West Indies, actor (Man From Interpol)
13th - Edward Buzzell, American film director (d. 1985)
14th - Clara Fasano, sculptor
14th - Aaron Copland, American composer (Billy the Kid, Appalachian Spring) (d. 1990)
17th - Marcel Dalio, Paris, actor (Casablanca)
18th - Constantin Alajalov, Russia, artist (Ditters & Jitters)
18th - Howard Thurman, theologian/author (Deep River, Deep in the Hunger)
Author Margaret Mitchell (8th) 19th - Anna Seghers, [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling], German author (7th Cross)
19th - Anton Walbrook, [Adolf Wohlbrook], Vienna Austria, actor (Laura)
19th - Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian scientist (d. 1980)
19th - Bunny Ahearne, Irish ice hockey promoter (d. 1985)
20th - Chester Gould, cartoonist (Dick Tracy)
21st - Alice Calhoun, Cleveland OH, Silent film actress (Flowing Gold)
21st - Jobyna Ralston, South Pittsburgh TN, actress (For Heaven's Sake)
22nd - Hugo Godron, composer
22nd - Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and novelist (d. 1980)
24th - Cornelius Kee, composer
24th - Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, film maker/teacher
25th - Arthur Schwartz, composer (Girl from Paris, Excuse my Dust)
25th - Helen Gahagan Douglas, Nixon's 1st opponent/(Rep-D-Ca)
25th - Rudolf Höß, commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp (d. 1947)
27th - Leon Barzin, Brussels Belgium, conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58)
27th - Robert Blum, composer
28th - Lester Vail, actor (Dance Fools Dance, Consolation Marriage)
30th - Korneel Goossens, Flemish literature/art historian

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 4 of 4

6th - PWJ Le Gallais, British lt-colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville
21st - J J Ferris, cricketer (48 wickets for Aust in 8 Tests in 1880's), dies
22nd - Arthur S Sullivan, England, composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58
30th - Oscar Wilde, Irish author, dies in Paris at 46

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