Today in History for November 1925

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Historical Events

Events 1 - 22 of 22

1st - VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam
5th - Mussolini disbands Italian socialist parties
6th - Secret agent Sidney Reilly is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.
7th - Italians liberal-national party joins fascist
9th - German NSDAP form SS
11th - Earnest Thalmann becomes chairman of German KPD
11th - Louis Armstrong records 1st of Hot Five & Hot Seven recordings
11th - Night of Kersten - Colijn Dutch government falls by SGP-amendement
11th - Robert Millikan announces discovery of cosmic rays
12th - US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
16th - American Association for Advancement of Atheism forms (NY)
16th - Philip Barry's "In a Garden," premieres in NYC
21st - Red Grange plays final Univ of Illinois game, signs with Chicago Bears
22nd - Red Grange signs with Chicago Bears directly out of college
24th - 1st radio-broadcast of Dutch KRO (Catholic Radio Broadcast)
24th - Eugene O'Neill Theater (Coronet, Forrest) opens at 230 W 49th St NYC
25th - KPD proposes German Parliament expropriate possession of monarchy
26th - Neth & Germany sign trade agreement
27th - German Parliament ratifies treaty of Locarno
Jazz Trumpeter Louis Armstrong 28th - 7th French government of Briand sworn-in
28th - Grand Ole Opry premieres as WSM Barn Dance on WSM radio Nashville Tn
28th - NHL goalie Georges Vezina collapses & dies of TB 4 months later

Famous Birthdays

Birthdays 1 - 40 of 40

3rd - Dieter Wellershoff, German author (Minotaur)
6th - Dirk de Vroome, [Red Giant], SS'er
9th - Sir Alistair Horne, British historian
10th - Richard Burton, South Wales, actor (Cleopatra, Virginia Woolf)
11th - Jonathan Winters, Dayton OH, comedian (J Winters Show, Mork & Mindy), (d. 2013)
11th - June Whitfield, British comedian
13th - Inez van Dullemen, Dutch author
15th - Howard Baker, (Sen-R-Tenn), presidential chief of staff
15th - Jurriaan Andriessen, [Leslie Cool], Dutch pianist/composer
15th - Yuli Daniel, Russian writer (d. 1988)
17th - Charles Mackerras, Schenectady NY, Australian conductor
17th - Colin Campbell Mitchell, soldier
17th - Libby Newman, painter/printmaker/curator
17th - Rock Hudson, Winnetka, Ill, actor (Pillow Talk, A Farewell to Arms)
18th - Alex Macintosh, broadcaster/actor (Hell Fight)
18th - William Robert Mayer, composer
19th - Zygmunt Bauman, Polish Sociologist
20th - Judy Woodruff, news analyst & commentator
20th - June [Shirley L] Christy, US, jazz singer (Tampico)
20th - Maya Plisetskaya, prima ballerina (Bolshoi Ballet)
US Attorney General Robert Francis Kennedy (20th) 20th - Robert Francis Kennedy, Brookline, Mass (D-Sen-NY, US Attorney General), (d. 1968)
21st - Johan "Poncke" Princen, KNIL-defector/civil rights in Djakarta
22nd - Gunther Schuller, NYC, hornist/composer (Visitation)
23rd - Johnny Mandel, American songwriter
24th - Alun Owen, North Wales, writer (Hard Days Night)/actor (Servant)
24th - William F. Buckley Jr, New York, American conservative author and commentator (National Review, Firing Line)
24th - Simon van der Meer, Nobel Prize laureate
25th - Jeffrey Hunter, Orleans La, actor (Christopher Pike-Star Trek Cage)
25th - Jose Napoleon Duarte, president El Salvador
26th - Eugene Istomin, NYC, pianist (Leventritt Award-1943)
26th - Linda Hunt, Morriston NJ, actress (Bostonians, Eleni, Silverado)
27th - Ernie Wise, England, comedian (Morecambe & Wise)
27th - Marshall Thompson, Peoria Ill, actor (Bog, To Hell & Back, Daktari)
27th - Michael Tolan, Detroit Mich, actor (Nurses, Senator)
27th - John Maddox, British science writer and editor
28th - Aurelio de la Vega, composer
28th - Gloria Grahame, LA California, actress (Sue-Rich Man Poor Man)
28th - Virginia Hewitt, Shreveport La, actress (Carol-Space Patrol)
28th - József Bozsik, Hungarian footballer (d. 1978)
30th - Maxwell Street Jimmy Charles Davis Thomas, blues musician

Famous Deaths

Deaths 1 - 9 of 9

2nd - Antonius J Derkinderen, Dutch painter/etcher, dies at 65
6th - Khải Định, Emperor of Vietnam
9th - Daniel Josephus Jitta, lawyer/Dutch state advisor, dies at 71
12th - Roman Statkowski, composer, dies at 65
14th - Agnes Marie Jacobina Zimmermann, composer, dies at 78
20th - Alexandra, Danish princess/Queen of Great Britain, dies at 80
26th - Johannes Haarklou, composer, dies at 78
27th - Roger de la Fresnaye, French sculptor/painter, dies
29th - Karl Flodin, composer, dies at 67