Today in History for November 1940
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Historical Events
Results 1 - 49 of 49
1st - 1st US air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa
1st - Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM)
4th - Eggs & cake rationed in Netherlands
5th - Dutch submarine departs Dundee
5th - Pres FDR (D) wins unprecedented 3rd term beating Wendell Willkie (R)
5th - Walter Johnson, won 416 games for Wash Senators, loses Maryland congressional race (R)
6th - Franklin D Roosevelt re-elected president
7th - Stravinsky's Symfonie in C premieres in Chicago
7th - Tacoma Narrows (Galloping Gertie) Bridge collapses, Wash
8th - RAF bombs Munich
9th - Germany invades Norway & Denmark in WW II
10th - Pittsburgh & Philadelphia play a penalty free NFL game
10th - Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.
11th - 1,000s Paris students lay reath at Grave of Unknown Soldier
11th - Blizzard strikes midwestern US killing over 100
11th - British air attack destroys half of Italian fleet
11th - Willys unveiled its General Purpose vehicle ("Jeep")
12th - Blizzard strikes midwest, 154 die (69 on boat on Great Lakes)
13th - Walt Disney's "Fantasia" released
14th - During WW II, German planes destroy most of Coventry, England
15th - 1st 75,000 men called to armed forces duty during peacetime
15th - 1st black to sign hockey contract-Arthur Dorrington & AC Seagulls
15th - NY Midtown tunnel linking Manhattan and Queens opens to traffic
16th - World War II: In response to Germany's leveling of Coventry, England two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg.
17th - Green Bay Packers become 1st NFL team to travel by plane
18th - George Matesky Mad Bomber's 1st time-bomb
18th - New York City's Mad Bomber places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison.
19th - Belgian King Leopold III visits Adolf Hitler
19th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
20th - German air raid on Birmingham fails
20th - Hungary joins 3 Power pact
20th - World War II: Hungary, Romania and Slovakia join the Axis Powers.
21st - Nazi occupiers forbid building schools in Netherlands
22nd - 500 students in Delft demonstrate against nazis
23rd - 1st edition of illegal "The Truth" publishes
23rd - Romania signs Driemogendheden pact
23rd - SD arrested resistance fighter Bernard Iron wire
25th - Patria, carrying illegal immigrants, sinks in port of Haifa, 200 die
25th - U of Mich retires Tom Harmon's #98
25th - Woody Woodpecker debuts with release of Walter Lantz's "Knock Knock"
25th - First flight of the deHavilland Mosquito and Martin B-26 Marauder.
26th - Leidse students strike
26th - Nazi Germany began walling off the Jewish Ghetto in Warsaw
27th - 6th Heisman Trophy Award: Tom Harmon, Michigan (HB)
27th - Nazis signs Technical Hague court Delft
28th - Cleveringa arrested by nazis
30th - 28th CFL Grey Cup (Game 1): Toronto Balmy Beach defeats Ottawa, 8-2
30th - 32 U boats sunk this month (147,000 ton)
30th - Lucille Ball weds Desi Arnaz
Famous Birthdays
Results 1 - 49 of 49
1st - Ramesh Chandra Lahoti, Chief Justice of India
1st - Barry Sadler, American singer (d. 1989)
2nd - Gigi Proletti, Italian entertainer
3rd - Dieter Acker, composer
4th - Delbert McClinton, Lubbock Tx, singer (Gonna Find a Good Woman)
5th - Elke Sommer, [Elke Schletz], Berlin Germany, actress (A Shot in the Dark, The Oscar)
6th - Ruth Messinger, Manhattan Borough President and President of the American Jewish World Service
6th - Dieter F. Uchtdorf, LDS apostle
7th - Guido Provoost, Belgian historian
9th - Sergio Cervetti, composer
10th - Screaming Lord Sutch, rocker
11th - Barbara Boxer, (Rep-D-CA, 1983-92/Sen-D-CA, 1993- )
12th - Ria Lubbers, wife of Dutch premier Ruud Lubbers
12th - Michel Audet, Quebec economist and politician
12th - Jürgen Todenhöfer, German politician
13th - Jack Birkenshaw, cricketer (England off-spinner 1973-74)
13th - Joan Haanappel, figure skater/sports reporter
13th - Justine "Baby" Washington, US singer (Only Those in Love)
13th - Daniel Pilon, Canadian actor
14th - Freddie Garrity, rocker (Freddie & the Dreamers-I'm Telling You Now)
15th - Sam Waterson, Cambridge Mass, actor (Capricorn One, Heaven's Gate)
15th - Ulf Pilgaard, Danish actor
15th - Sam Waterston, American actor
16th - Chris Balderstone, cricket batsman (England, belated faced WI in 1976)
17th - Luke Kelly, Irish folk music singer and banjo player
18th - Qaboos bin Sa’id, Sultan of Oman
19th - Alberto Villalpando, composer
20th - Bob Einstein, LA Calif, comedian (Officer Judy, Super Dave Osborne)
20th - Helma Sanders-Brahms, Emden Germany, director (Apple Trees, Manoever)
21st - Dr John, [Rebennack], New Orleans La, vocalist (I Was in Right Place)
21st - Javed Akhtar, cricketer (Pakistani off-spinner took 0-52 in 1962 Test)
21st - Natalia Makarova, Leningrad, ballerina (Kirov)/defected 1970
21st - Dr. John, American musician
21st - Richard Marcinko, American author
22nd - Terry Gilliam, Minneapolis, comedy author-animator (Monty Python)
23rd - Luis Tiant, Cuba, baseball pitcher (Boston Red Sox, NY Yankees)
24th - Paul Tagliabue, commissioner (NFL)
24th - Wendell Morris Logan, composer
24th - Don Metz, American architect
24th - Eric Wilson, Canadian children's author.
25th - Percy Sledge, soul singer (When A Man Loves A Woman)
25th - Richard Furrer, Worgl Germany, astronaut (STS 22)
25th - Joe Gibbs, American football coach
27th - Bruce Lee, [Lee Yuen Kam], SF Calif, karate star/actor (Green Hornet)
27th - John Alderton, Gainsborough England, actor (Zardoz)
28th - Bruce Channel, rocker
28th - Clem Curtis, rocker
29th - Chuck Mangione, Rochester NY, jazz hornist (Chasing the Clouds Away)
30th - Glenn English, (Rep-D-OK, 1975- )
Famous Deaths
Results 1 - 11 of 11
4th - Manuel Azaña y Diez, Spanish PM (1932..4)/pres (1936-39), dies at 60
9th - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Portuguese Catholic prelate (b. 1876)
10th - Arthur Neville Chamberlain, British premier (1937-40), dies at 71
12th - Alejandro Garcia Caturla, composer, dies at 34
17th - Eric Gill, British sculptor (b. 1882)
17th - Raymond Pearl, American biologist (b. 1879)
21st - Geoffrey Legge, cricketer (WWII 196 Eng v NZ Auckland 1930), dies
22nd - Waclaw Berent, Polish novelist, dies at 67
23rd - Catherina van Rennes, composer, dies at 82
28th - Nicolae Iorga, author/president of Romania, murdered by fascist
30th - Fritz Volbach, German musicologist/conductor/composer, dies at 78
