Historical Anniversaries this Week

November 16

 Events (50 years ago today): 1974 – The Arecibo message is broadcast from Puerto Rico.

 Births (250 years ago today): 1774 – Georg von Cancrin, German-Russian Minister of Finance (d. 1845)

 Births (150 years ago today): 1874 – Alexander Kolchak, Russian admiral and explorer (d. 1920)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Sam Farber, American businessman (d. 2013)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Mel Patton, American sprinter and coach (d. 2014)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Brooke Elliott, American actress and singer^[24]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Maurizio Margaglio, Italian ice dancer and coach

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Paul Scholes, English footballer and sportscaster

 Deaths (300 years ago today): 1724 – Jack Sheppard, English criminal (b. 1702)^[55]

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1974 – Walther Meissner, German physicist and engineer (b. 1882)

Commemorations:
International Day for Tolerance
World Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease Day

November 17

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Eunice Barber, Sierra Leonean-French heptathlete and long jumper

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Leslie Bibb, American actress and producer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Berto Romero, Spanish comedian and actor

 Deaths (400 years ago today): 1624 – Jakob Böhme, German mystic (b. 1575)

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – Gregory VII of Constantinople (b. 1850)

Commemorations:
World Day of Remembrance for Road Traffic Victims

November 18

 Births (250 years ago today): 1774 – Wilhelmine of Prussia, Queen of the Netherlands (d. 1837)

 Births (150 years ago today): 1874 – Clarence Day, American author and poet (d. 1935)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Alexander Mackenzie Stuart, Baron Mackenzie-Stuart, Scottish soldier, engineer, and judge (d. 2000)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Anna Elisabeth (Lise) Østergaard, Danish psychologist and politician (d. 1996)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Graham Coughlan, Irish footballer and coach

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Chloë Sevigny, American actress, model, and fashion designer^[40]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Petter Solberg, Norwegian racing driver^[50]

 Deaths (300 years ago today): 1724 – Bartolomeu de Gusmão, Portuguese priest (b. 1685)

November 19

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Jane Freilicher, American painter and poet (d. 2014)^[31]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – William Russell, English actor (d. 2024)^[32]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Knut Steen, Norwegian-Italian sculptor (d. 2011)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Margaret Turner-Warwick, English physician and academic (d. 2017)

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – Thomas H. Ince, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (b. 1880)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1974 – George Brunies, American trombonist (b. 1902)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1974 – Louise Fitzhugh, American author and illustrator (b. 1928)

Commemorations:
International Men's Day

November 20

 Events (50 years ago today): 1974 – The United States Department of Justice files its final anti-trust suit against AT&T Corporation. This suit later leads to the breakup of AT&T and its Bell System.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1974 – The first fatal crash of a Boeing 747 occurs when Lufthansa Flight 540 crashes while attempting to takeoff from Jomo Kenyatta International Airport in Nairobi, Kenya, killing 59 out of the 157 people on board.

 Births (150 years ago today): 1874 – James Michael Curley, American lawyer, politician, 53rd Governor of Massachusetts, and criminal (d. 1958)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Bill Borthwick, Australian politician (d. 2001)^[25]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Timothy Evans, Welshman wrongfully convicted of murder (d. 1950)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Karen Harup, Danish swimmer (d. 2009)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Benoit Mandelbrot, Polish-American mathematician and economist (d. 2010)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Michael Riffaterre, French literary critic and theorist (d. 2006)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Henk Vredeling, Dutch agronomist and politician, Dutch Minister of Defence (d. 2007)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Daniela Anschütz-Thoms, German speed skater

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Jason Faunt, American actor

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Florian David Fitz, German actor, screenwriter and director

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Drew Ginn, Australian rower

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Claudio Husain, Argentine footballer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Jon Knudsen, Norwegian footballer

 Deaths (200 years ago today): 1824 – Carl Axel Arrhenius, Swedish chemist (b. 1757)

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1924 – Ebenezer Cobb Morley, English sportsman and the father of the Football Association and modern football (b. 1831)

Commemorations:
Universal Children's Day
Africa Industrialization Day

November 21

 Events (50 years ago today): 1974 – The Birmingham pub bombings kill 21 people. The Birmingham Six are sentenced to life in prison for the crime but subsequently acquitted.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Joseph Campanella, American actor (d. 2018)^[20]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Milka Planinc, Yugoslav politician, 28th Prime Minister of Yugoslavia (d. 2010)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Christopher Tolkien, English author and academic (d. 2020)^[21]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Marina de Tavira, Mexican actress^[24]

 Deaths (150 years ago today): 1874 – Marià Fortuny, Spanish painter (b. 1838)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1974 – John B. Gambling, American radio host (b. 1897)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1974 – Frank Martin, Swiss-Dutch pianist and composer (b. 1890)

Commemorations:
World Television Day

November 22

 Events (450 years ago today): 1574 – Spanish navigator Juan Fernández discovers islands now known as the Juan Fernández Islands off Chile.^[4]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Les Johnson, Australian politician (d. 2015)^[102]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1924 – Geraldine Page, American actress and singer (d. 1987)^[98]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – Joe Nathan, American baseball player^[180]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1974 – David Pelletier, Canadian figure skater and coach^[181]

 Deaths (250 years ago today): 1774 – Robert Clive, English general, politician and first British governor of Bengal (b. 1725)^[235]

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