November 1900 calendar

Events

• 06 Nov 1900 Battle at Bothaville: General Major Charles Knox beats Boers
• 07 Nov 1900 Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
• 29 Nov 1900 Lord Kitchener succeeds lord Roberts up as Supreme Commander in South Africa
• 30 Nov 1900 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles

Famous Birthday

• Margaret Mitchell

  American author of a book that took her ten years to write and became one of the best-selling novels of all time, "Gone With The Wind.

• Aaron Copland

  American musician and composer, a concert pianist and conductor.

• Adi Dassler
• Léo Lagrange

  Bourg sur Gironde Politician.

• Pierre Véry

  French novelist and screenwriter, who died on 12 October 1960 in Paris.

• Luxor massacre
• Don Alvarado

  Actor (Morning Glory, Big Steal), dies at 62.

• Alexander Semmler

  German musician, a concert pianist, conductor and composer of hundreds of scores.

• Anna Seghers

  German author and politician (d. 1983).

• Helen Gahagan Douglas
• Maria Richard

  French supercentenarian, second oldest woman in France, died shortly before her 112th birthday on 11 October 2012.

• Natalie Schafer

  American actress (d. 1991).

• Edward Buzzell

  American actor director and screenwriter (d. 1985).

• René Julliard
• Cornelius Kee

  Composer.

• Hugo Godron

  Composer.

• Helena Konopacka

  Poland -- Discus thrower (1928 Olympics - Gold Medalist).

• Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrook]

  Vienna, Austria -- Actor (Laura).

• Anna Seghers [Netty Radvanyi-Reiling]

  German author (7th Cross).

• Kathy Negrin
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Famous Deaths

• PWJ Le Gallais

  British Lieutenant Colonel, dies in battle at Bothaville.

• Arthur S Sullivan

  England, Composer (Mikado, Ivanhoe), dies at 58.

• Oscar Wilde

  Irish-British writer, poet and dramatist who had a great wit and was, at the peak of his career, accused of a homosexual affair.

Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Len Spencer - Arkansaw Traveler
2. Harry Macdonough - I Can't Tell Why I Love You, But I Do
3. George J. Gaskin - When You Were Sweet Sixteen
4. Harry Macdonough - The Holy City
5. Harry Macdonough - I Love You Just the Same