November 1912 calendar

Events

• 05 Nov 1912 Arizona, Kansas andWisconsin vote for female suffrage
• 07 Nov 1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
• 12 Nov 1912 The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica.
• 18 Nov 1912 Albania declares independence from Turkey.
• 23 Nov 1912 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
• 25 Nov 1912 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
• 27 Nov 1912 Spanish protectorate in Morocco established.
• 28 Nov 1912 Albania declares its independence from the Ottoman Empire.
• 30 Nov 1912 4th CFL Grey Cup: Hamilton Alerts defeats Toronto Argonauts, 11-4

Famous Birthday

• Claude Pompidou

  French philanthropists who was the wife of President of France Georges Pompidou.

• Doris Duke

  American heiress, No.

• Barbara Hutton

  American heiress to the Woolworth Dime Store millions.

• Otto von Habsburg
• Marie-Claude Vaillant-Couturier

  French politician who was a member of the French Resistance.

• Pierre Grimal

  French educator and writer; a university professor from 1938, emeritus from 1982.

• Alfredo Stroessner

  Paraguayan general and politician 46th President of Paraguay (d. 2006).

• Eleanor Powell

  American tap dancer/wife of Glenn Ford, dies of cancer at age 69 (born 1912).

• Bertrand Goldschmidt
• Robert Ballanger

  French politician who died on 26 January 1981.

• Jean-Louis Martinet

  Composer.

• Eric Sevareid

  American broadcast journalist and correspondent with CBS News from 1939 through 1977, commentator on TV's CBS Evening News from 1964-1977,...

• Paul Augier
• George Emil Palade

  Romanian cell biologist, Nobel laureate (d. 2008).

• Morris Louis

  US Painter (post painterly abstraction), dies at 49.

• Garson Kanin

  Rochester, New York -- Playwright / producer (Double Life).

• David Merrick [Margulois]

  Hong Kong -- Broadway producer (Hello Dolly).

• Theodore "Teddy" Wilson

  US jazz pianist / arranger.

• Joseph Fattorini

  Businessman.

• Eric Stuart Woord

  Archaeologist.

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Famous Deaths

• Jose Canalejas Y Mendez

  Premier Spain, murdered.

• Joseph Wieniawski

  Composer, dies at 75.

• Jose Canalejas bon Mendez

  Premier of Spain (1910-12), murdered at 58.

• Walter Benona Sharp

  American oil tycoon (Born 1870).

• Louis Cyr

  Canadian strongman (Born 1863).

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Top #5 songs in the USA

1. Heidelberg Quintet - On a Beautiful Night with a Beautiful Girl
2. American Quartet - Mary Was My Mother's Name
3. Arthur Collins - In Ragtime Land
4. American Quartet - Everybody Two-Step
5. Will Oakland - I'll Take You Home Again, Kathleen