November 1908 calendar

Events

• 03 Nov 1908 William Howard Taft (Republican) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan.
• 04 Nov 1908 Brooklyn Academy of Music, opens in New York City
• 06 Nov 1908 Leonid Andreyevs Dui Nashey Zhizni, premieres in St. Petersburg
• 07 Nov 1908 Dutch capture Venezuelan navy
• 10 Nov 1908 1st Gideon Bible put in a hotel room
• 14 Nov 1908 Albert Einstein presents his quantum theory of light.
• 22 Nov 1908 1st US-Japanese baseball game Reach All-Americans defeat Waseda University, 5-0
• 25 Nov 1908 Dorando Pietri (It) beats Johnny Hayes (US) in Madison Square Gardens marathon by 60 yards.
• 28 Nov 1908 154 men die in coal mine explosion at Marianna Pennsylvania.
• 30 Nov 1908 A mine explosion in the mining town of Marianna, Pennsylvania kills 154.

Famous Birthday

• Soeur Emmanuelle
• Françoise Dolto

  French doctor, catholic psychanalist, famous for her research on babies and childhood.

• Claude Lévi-Strauss

  Belgian-French social anthropologist and leading exponent of Structuralism.

• Joseph R McCarthy
• Raymond Peynet

  French artist, cartoonist, designer, illustrator, known for his exceptional drawings of lovers in lanes on porcelain.

• André Alfred Dumas
• Raja Rao
• Imogene Coca

  American comedienne, wide-eyed, rubber-faced, petite and winsome, a co-star with Sid Caesar at the dawn of the TV medium on the hit comedy...

• Charles Forte

  Italian entrepreneur, the head of one of the world's greatest hotel and catering organizations.

• Sylvia Bataille

  French actress, of Romanian-Jewish descent.

• Joseph Rotblat

  Polish-born British physicist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize (Born 1908).

• Jean-Jacques Gautier

  French novelist, essayist, journalist and theatre critic.

• Bunny Berigan

  American musician, a trumpeter and bandleader of the swing of the '30s.

• Leonard Spigelgass

  American film writer who, from 1933, wrote many screenplays alone and in collaboration.

• Daniel Lesur
• Louis Terrenoire

  French journalist and politician who died in Paris on 9 January 1992.

• Giovanni Leone

  Italian politician.

• Lefty Gomez

  New York Yankees pitching great, dies at age 80.

• C Vann Woodward

  American historian (d. 1999).

• Harry Kemelman

  US detective author (rabbi-omnibus).

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Famous Deaths

• Cixi [the old Buddha]

  Empress-widow of China.

• Albert Dietrich

  Composer, dies at 79.

• Kwang-siu

  Emperor of China.

• Empress Dowager Cixi

  Chinese ruler (Born 1835).

• Jean Albert Gaudry

  French geologist (Born 1827).

• Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbiniere

  French-born Canadian politician (Born 1829).

• Nishinoumi Kajiro I

  Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Yokozuna (Born 1855).

• Georgy Voronoy

  Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (d. 1908).

• Guangxu Emperor

  Guangxu Emperor of China (d. 1908).

• Victorien Sardou

  French opera Author (Madame Sans-Gene), dies at 77.

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Harry Macdonough & John Bieling - When Sweet Marie was Sweet Sixteen
2. Ada Jones & Billy Murray - By the Old Oaken Bucket, Louise
3. Haydn Quartet - Sunbonnet Sue
4. Peerless Quartet - Rah, Rah, Rah
5. Billy Murray & Haydn Quartet - Yankee Doodle's Come to Town