November 1902 calendar

Events

• 15 Nov 1902 Leopold II, King of Belgium almost assassinated by Italian anarchist
• 18 Nov 1902 Brooklyn toymaker Morris Michton names teddy bear after Teddy Roosevelt
• 20 Nov 1902 Geo Lefevre and Henri Desgrange create Tour de France bicycle race
• 30 Nov 1902 American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.

Famous Birthday

• Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Philippe Leclerc de Hauteclocque

  French general (d. 1947).

• Eugen Jochum

  German orchestral conductor who was noted for the music of Brahms and Bruckner.

• Alfred Métraux
• Carlo Levi

  Italian writer, artist, painter and political journalist.

• Gianpiero Combi
• Anthony Asquith

  British director (Carrington V C (Court martial)).

• Robert Denoël

  French publisher.

• Gustav von Koenigswald

  Paleontologist (found Pithecanthropus erectus).

• Frederico Freitas

  Composer.

• Murk Ozinga

  Dutch building historian (Monuments of Curacao).

• Eugene Paul Wigner

  Mathematician / physicist (A Bomb, Nobel 1963).

• Barbara Giuranna

  Composer.

• Wolfgang Kunkel

  German law historian.

• Rob van der de Bas [Barend Robberts]

  Troubadour (Klucht of the Cow).

• Alberto Morin

  Puerto Rico -- Actor (Armando-Dallas).

• Joe Adonis

  Italian-American gambler and mafia boss.

• Giuseppe Savagnone

  Composer.

• Antonio Maria Valencia

  Composer.

• Eddie Shore Boston Bruins (number 2)

  hall of famer.

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Famous Deaths

• Paulus T van der Maesen the Sombreff

  Foreign minister.

• Friedrich A Krupp

  Cannon manufacturer, commits suicide.

• Septimus Winner

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Walter Reed

  U.

Top #4 songs in the USA

1. Dan Quinn - Mister Dooley
2. Frank Stanley & Byron G. Harlan - Two Rubes in a Tavern
3. Byron G. Harlan & Joe Belmont - The Birds
4. Edward M. Favor - I Want to Be a Lidy