November 1901 calendar

Events

• 01 Nov 1901 Sigma Phi Epsilon, the largest national male collegiate fraternity is established at Richmond College, in Richmond, VA.
• 08 Nov 1901 Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek.
• 13 Nov 1901 The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
• 15 Nov 1901 James J Jeffries TKOs Gus Ruhlin in 6 for heavyweight boxing title
• 27 Nov 1901 Gerhart Hauptmanns Der rote Hahn, premieres in Berlin
• 29 Nov 1901 East 182nd Street in the Bronx is paved and opened.

Famous Birthday

• André Malraux

  French author whose books are difficult to read as their structure is extremely complex.

• Lee Strasberg

  Austria -- Acting coach / actor (Somewhere in the Night).

• Magda Goebbels

  wife of Nazi minister of propaganda, Joseph Goebbels (d. 1945).

• Joaquín Rodrigo

  Spanish pianist and composer (d. 1999).

• Leopold III of Belgium
• Rudolf Höss

  German soldier and Nazi partisan who served as commandant of the Auschwitz extermination camp (1940–45), during a period when as many as...

• Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania)
• André Mutter
• George Gallup

  American statistician and opinion pollster (born 1901).

• Harry-Max (actor)
• Jaroslav Seifert
• William Sterling Parsons
• Edwina Mountbatten

  British noblewoman known as a great lady.

• Alexandre Breffort
• Paul Ford

  Baltimore, Maryland -- Actor (Phil Silvers Show).

• James Luther Adams

  American theologian (d. 1994).

• Sam Spiegel producer (On the Waterfront

  Bridge over River Kwai).

• Max Zehnder

  Composer.

• Princess Bang-ja

  of Korea (d. 1989).

• Philippus J Idenburg

  Dutch statistician.

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Famous Deaths

• Bohdan Borkowski

  Composer, dies at 48.

• Li Hung-Tshang

  Chinese rebel leader / Viceroy of Tsheli.

• Edward J Eyre

  British explorer / Governor (Jamaica), dies at 86.

• Antonio Zamara

  Composer, dies at 72.

• Josef Gabriel Rheinberger

  German Composer / music theorist, dies at 62.

• Edward John Eyre

  British explorer (Born 1815).

• Clement Studebaker

  American businessman co-founded Studebaker (d. 1901).

• Kate Greenaway

  English children book illustrater, dies at 55.

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Top #3 songs in the USA

1. Len Spencer - Scene at a Dog Fight
2. Dan W. Quinn - Good Morning, Carrie
3. Dan Quinn - Tell Us, Pretty Ladies