November 1909 calendar

Events

• 02 Nov 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
• 07 Nov 1909 Knights and Ladies of Saint Peter Claver organizes in Mobile Alabama.
• 11 Nov 1909 Construction of navy base at Pearl Harbor begins
• 13 Nov 1909 Ben Simpson of Hamilton Tigers kicks 9 singles in a game.
• 16 Nov 1909 EVV Eindhoven soccer team forms
• 18 Nov 1909 US invades Nicaragua, later overthrows President Zelaya.
• 19 Nov 1909 Former Dutch Premier Abraham Kuyper denies corruption
• 20 Nov 1909 Jack Williams of Ottawa Rough Riders kicks 9 singles in a game.
• 23 Nov 1909 Wright Brothers forms million dollar corp to manufacture airplanes
• 26 Nov 1909 Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.

Famous Birthday

• Eugène Ionesco

  Romanian writer, a playwright whose plays have been translated and staged all over the world.

• Frances Dee

  American actress and singer (d. 2004).

• Geddes MacGregor

  Scottish-American educator, Professor of Philosophy of Religion, Dean of USC Graduate School of Religion, 1960, and author of many books,...

• Pierre Repp
• James Agee

  US critic / writer (Death in Family), dies in New York.

• James Reston

  Scottish-American author, journalist, columnist, correspondent and Executive Director of The New York Times.

• Louis de Polignac
• Mona Goya
• Jacques Mercanton (director of photography)
• Jacques Griffe

  French fashion designer.

• Kay Thompson

  Author.

• Donald John Urquhart

  Librarian.

• Hendrik van Randwijk

  Dutch author / founder (Vrij Netherland).

• Aleksandar Rankovic

  Yugoslavic partisan / Vice Premier.

• Hugh Davson

  Physiologist / writer.

• Theodorus H J Zwartkruis

  Bishop of Haarlem Netherlands (1966-83).

• Alberto Erede

  Italian conductor.

• James "Scotty" Barrett Reston

  Clydebank, Scotland -- Journalist (NY Times).

• Rose Isabel Williams

  Sister of Tennessee Williams.

• Pawe? Jasienica

  Polish historian (d. 1970).

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Famous Deaths

• Theodor W Ahlwardt

  German orientalist, dies at 81.

• Charles Bordes

  Composer, dies at 46.

• Eduard de Hartog

  Composer, dies at 80.

• Francis Thome

  Composer, dies at 59.

• George Essex Evans

  Australian poet (Born 1863).

• Renee Vivien

  English-born French poet (Born 1877).

• Edward P Allen

  American politician (Born 1839).

• Aeneas Mackay

  Dutch Anti-Revolutionary politician who served as Prime Minister of the Netherlands from 1888 to 1891.

• Ludvig Schytte

  Danish pianist composer and educator (d. 1909).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Ada Jones - I've Got Rings on My Fingers
2. Henry Burr - Honey On Our Honeymoon
3. Walter Van Brunt - When I Dream in the Gloaming of You
4. Elizabeth Wheeler - The Last Rose of Summer
5. Byron G. Harlan - Lonesome