November 1907 calendar

Events

• 02 Nov 1907 Ottawa Mint Proclamation is published
• 07 Nov 1907 Test tokens are struck in 1st production of Canadian coins
• 09 Nov 1907 Edmonton Rugby Foot-ball Club 1st game, loses to Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club 26-5 at Edmonton Exhibition Grounds
• 13 Nov 1907 French cyclist Paul Cornu flies 1st helicopter
• 16 Nov 1907 Oklahoma becomes 46th US state.
• 28 Nov 1907 In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.
• 30 Nov 1907 Pike Place Market dedicated in Seattle.

Famous Birthday

• Astrid Lindgren

  Swedish children book author (Pipi Longstocking).

• Dora Maar

  French artist (photographer and painter), and lover and muse of Pablo Picasso.

• Claus von Stauffenberg

  German, leader of failed plot to assassinate Adolf Hitler (d. 1944).

• Raymond Abellio

  French author, philosopher and essayist; a Marxist.

• Raymond Bussières

  French stage/film/tv actor and cabaret entertainer.

• Renée Saint-Cyr
• Harivansh Rai Bachchan

  Indian poet (d. 2003).

• Alberto Moravia

  Italian writer who was fascinated by the improbable and had a Jekyl and Hyde personality.

• Henri-Georges Clouzot

  French screenwriter and playwright from the early '30s.

• Run Run Shaw
• Burgess Meredith

  Actor (Penguin-Batman, Rocky), dies at 88.

• Francis Regardie

  British occultist, the prolific spokesman for the "Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn.

• Raymond Savignac
• Jean Delay

  French psychologist, physician and professor specializing in f mental diseases and encephalograpy.

• Maurice Henry
• Yves Brayer

  French painter, etcher, lithographer, illustrator, water colorist, muralist and costume and set designer for ballet.

• Thomas Ferguson Rodger
• Luigi Beccali
• Julius Krug

  American government official, engineer and statistician.

• Pierre Dreyfus

  French attorney and Ph.

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Famous Deaths

• Henry Gadsby

  Composer, dies at 64.

• Horatio Richmond Palmer

  Composer, dies at 73.

• Gaetano Braga

  Composer, dies at 78.

• Andrew Inglis Clark

  Australian politician (Born 1848).

• Stanis?aw Wyspianski

  Polish dramatist, poet, painter, and architect (Born 1869).

• Ricardo Castro Herrera

  Mexican pianist and composer, considered as "the last romantic of Porfiriato.

• Alfred Jarry

  French writer, a dramatist noted for his manner style and infantile taste for scatology and anti-religious bias.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Alice Nielsen & Florencio Constantino - Rigoletto - E Il Sol Dell Prima (Love is the Sun)
2. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - Let's Take an Old-Fashioned Walk
3. Harry Lauder - I Love a Lassie (My Scotch Bluebell)
4. Arthur Collins - If I'm Goin' to Die, I'm Goin' To Have Some Fun
5. Frank Stanley & Henry Burr - When Summer Tells Autumn Good-Bye