Today in History for November 1920
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 23 of 23
1st - Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in NYC
1st - Warren Harding elected 29th president
1st - American Fishing Schooner Esperanto defeats the Canadian Fishing Schooner Delawana in the First International Fishing Schooner Championship Races in Halifax.
2nd - KDKA (Pittsburgh) goes on air as 1st commercial radio station
2nd - Warren G Harding elected president
3rd - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
8th - Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn
8th - Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th
10th - George Bernard Shaw's "Heartbreak House," premieres in NYC
12th - Judge Kennesaw Mountain Landis elected 1st baseball commissioner
13th - Hudson River frozen at Albany
14th - American Pro Football League's Chic Tiger Joe Guyon punts 95 yards
15th - Ernst Toller's "Massen und Menschen," premieres in Neurenberg
15th - Free City of Danzig forms under League of Nations protection
15th - League of Nations holds 1st meeting, in Geneva
16th - 1st postage stamp meter is set in Stamford Conn
18th - Apollo Theater (Academy, Bryant) opens at 221 W 42nd St NYC
20th - Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US president W Wilson
21st - Karel Capék's "Vec Makropulos," premieres in Prague
21st - Mussolini's squad begins terror, 11 die in Bologna Italy
25th - 1st Thanksgiving Parade (Phila)
25th - WTAW of College Station, Tx, broadcast 1st football play-by-play
28th - Kilmichael Ambush, Battle of the Irish War of Independence.
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 48 of 48
1st - James J Kilpatrick, Okla City Okla, columnist (60 Minutes)
1st - Ted Lowe, English former snooker commentator
2nd - Fabio Gonzalez-Zuleta, composer
2nd - Lewis Charles, NYC, actor (Feather & Father Gang)
2nd - Ann Rutherford, American actress
3rd - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)
4th - Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game)
5th - Douglass North, American economist, Nobel Prize laureate
6th - John Smith, CEO (Liverpool FC)
8th - Esther Rolle, American actress (d. 1998)
8th - Eugênio de Araújo Sales, Brazilian cardinal
9th - Byron de la Beckwith, American assassin, white supremacist (d. 2001)
10th - Tod Andrews, NYC, actor (From Hell it Came, Outrage)
10th - Rafael del Pino, Spanish entrepreneur
11th - Roy Jenkins, British MP (Labour)
12th - Richard Quine, Detroit MI, actor/director (Clay Pigeon)
14th - Johnny Desmond, Detroit Mich, singer (Your Hit Parade)
16th - Betty Hicks, LPGA golfer
17th - Camillo Felgen, Luxembourgish singer (d. 2005)
18th - Alfred William Bedford, test pilot
18th - Louis Alfred Mennini, composer
18th - Mustafa Khalil, Prime Minister of Egypt (d. 2008)
19th - Ursula Heathcote Nicholls, campaigner
20th - Armin Schibler, composer
20th - Douglas Dick, Charlestown WV, actor (Carl-Waterfront)
20th - Gene Tierney, Bkln, actress (Laura, Razor's Edge, Ghost & Mrs Muir)
21st - Ralph Meeker, Minneapolis MN, actor (Anderson Tapes, Night Stalker)
21st - Stan Musial, outfielder (St Louis Cardinal, 7 times NL bat champ)
22nd - Anne Crawford, British film actor (d. 1956)
23rd - Chalmers P Wylie, (Rep-R-OH, 1967- )
23rd - Herman Nieland, Dutch organist/pianist/composer (Te Deum Laudamus)
23rd - Paul Celan, [Antschell], German/Romanian poet (Collected Prose)
23rd - Wayne Thiebaud, American painter
24th - Anthony Griffin, sailor
24th - Joseph Olutola Olu Odutola Oguntala, soho club owner
25th - Tuanku Syed Putra ibni Almarhum Syed Hassan Jamalullail, King of Malaysia (d. 2000)
25th - Noel Neill, American actress
26th - Istvan Sarkozy, composer
26th - Paul T B Rodenko, poet/author (Stolen Lover)
26th - Daniel Petrie, Canadian-born television and movie director (d. 2004)
27th - Abe Lenstra, Dutch soccer star
27th - David Waller, actor (Shadowlands, Work is a 4 Letter Word)
27th - Elaine Greene, literary Agent
27th - John Richard Ravensdale, historian
27th - Max Tripels, attorney/Dutch MP
28th - Cecilia Colledge, England, figure skater (Olympic-silver-1936)
29th - Yegor Ligachev, Soviet politician
30th - Virginia Mayo, St Louis Mo, actress (Out of the Blue, White Heat)
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 8 of 8
2nd - Andre Dumont, Belgian mine engineer (Limburgs coal basin), dies at 73
8th - Abraham Kuyper, clergyman/Dutch premier (AR 1908-12), dies at 83
8th - Salomon Anski, Russian/Polish yiddish author (Dibboek), dies at 57
21st - Caryl Florio, composer, dies at 77
21st - William James Robjohn, composer, dies at 77
22nd - Manuel Pérez y Curis, Uruguayan poet (b. 1884)
23rd - Mohammed ibn Addoellah, Somalian resistances leader "Mad Molla", dies
25th - Gaston Chevrolet, French-born American race car driver and automobile pioneer (b. 1892)
