What Happened In November 1908 In History

Historical Events for November, 1908

• 7th » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
• 22nd » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• 30th » A mine explosion in Marianna, Pennsylvania, kills 154.

Famous Birthdays on November in 1908

• 2nd » Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (d. 1983)
• 2nd » Bunny Berigan, American singer and trumpet player (d. 1942)
• 3rd » Giovanni Leone, Italian politician, 6th President of Italy (d. 2001)
• 3rd » Bronko Nagurski, Canadian-American football player, wrestler, and coach (d. 1990)
• 4th » Stanley Cortez, American cinematographer (d. 1997)
• 4th » Joseph Rotblat, Polish-English physicist and academic, Nobel Peace Prize known as Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2005)
• 7th » Marijac, French author and illustrator (d. 1994)
• 8th » Martha Gellhorn, American journalist and author (d. 1998)
• 10th » Charles Merritt, Canadian colonel and politician, Victoria Cross recipient (d. 2000)
• 12th » Harry Blackmun, American judge and educator (d. 1999)
• 13th » C. Vann Woodward, American historian, author, and academic (d. 1999)
• 14th » Joseph McCarthy, American captain, lawyer, and politician (d. 1957)
• 18th » Imogene Coca, American actress and singer (d. 2001)
• 20th » Alistair Cooke, English-American journalist (d. 2004)
• 21st » Leo Politi, Italian-American author and illustrator (d. 1996)
• 21st » Elizabeth George Speare, American author (d. 1994)
• 23rd » Nelson S. Bond, American author and playwright (d. 2006)
• 24th » Libertad Lamarque, Argentinian actress and singer (d. 2000)
• 26th » Charles Forte, Baron Forte, Italian-Scottish businessman, founded Forte Group (d. 2007)
• 26th » Lefty Gomez, American baseball player and manager (d. 1989)
• 28th » Michael Adekunle Ajasin, Nigerian politician, 3rd Governor of Ondo State (d. 1997)
• 28th » Claude Lévi-Strauss, Belgian-French anthropologist and ethnologist (d. 2009)
• 29th » N. S. Krishnan, Indian actor, singer, and director (d. 1957)
• 29th » Adam Clayton Powell, Jr., American pastor and politician (d. 1972)

Famous Deaths for November 1908

• 14th » Guangxu Emperor of China (b. 1871)
• 15th » Empress Dowager Cixi of China (b. 1835)
• 16th » Henri-Gustave Joly de Lotbinière, French-Canadian politician, 4th Premier of Quebec (b. 1829)
• 20th » Georgy Voronoy, Ukrainian-Russian mathematician and academic (b. 1868)
• 21st » Carl Friedrich Schmidt, German-Russian geologist and botanist (b. 1832)
• 27th » Jean Albert Gaudry, French geologist and palaeontologist (b. 1827)
• 30th » Nishinoumi Kajirō I, Japanese sumo wrestler, the 16th Makuuchi Yokozuna named Yokozuna (b. 1855)

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