Historical Anniversaries this Week

November 6

Commemorations:
International Day for Preventing the Exploitation of the Environment in War and Armed Conflict

November 7

 Events (250 years ago today): 1775 – John Murray (also known as Lord Dunmore), the Royal Governor of the Colony of Virginia, starts the first mass emancipation of slaves in North America by issuing Lord Dunmore's Offer of Emancipation, which offers freedom to slaves who abandoned their colonial masters to fight with Murray and the British.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Major General Ziaur Rahman.

 Births (500 years ago today): 1525 – Georg Cracow, German lawyer and politician (died 1575)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter

 Deaths (800 years ago today): 1225 – Engelbert II of Berg, German archbishop and saint (born 1186)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Piero Dusio, Italian footballer, businessman and race car driver (born 1899)

November 8

 Births (300 years ago today): 1725 – Johann George Tromlitz, German flute player and composer (died 1805)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Antony Hickling, English film maker, actor^[27]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Brevin Knight, American basketball player and sportscaster

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Tara Reid, American actress^[24]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Alena Va?ková, Czech tennis player

November 9

 Births (200 years ago today): 1825 – A. P. Hill, American general (died 1865)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Alistair Horne, English-American journalist, historian, and author (died 2017)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Gareth Malone, English singer and conductor

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mathew Sinclair, New Zealand cricketer

November 10

 Events (250 years ago today): 1775 – The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – The 729-foot-long freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Treaty of Osimo between Yugoslavia and Italy^[8]

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Israeli-Palestinian conflict: the United Nations General Assembly passes Resolution 3379, determining that Zionism is a form of racism.^[9]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Richard Burton, Welsh actor and singer (died 1984)^[25]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Jim Adkins, American singer-songwriter and guitarist^[35]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Markko Märtin, Estonian race car driver

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Ernest M. McSorley, Canadian-American captain (born 1912)

Commemorations:
World Science Day for Peace and Development

November 11

 Events (350 years ago today): 1675 – Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of y = ?(x).

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Independence of Angola.

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – John Guillermin, English-American director, producer, and screenwriter (died 2015)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – June Whitfield, English actress (died 2018)^[32]

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Jonathan Winters, American actor and screenwriter (died 2013)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Daisuke Ohata, Japanese rugby player

 Deaths (1150 years ago today): 875 – Teutberga, queen of Lotharingia

Commemorations:
Armistice Day

November 12

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – The Comoros joins the United Nations.

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Kiara Bisaro, Canadian mountain biker^[41]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Jason Lezak, American swimmer

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Amy Neighbors, American politician^[42]

 Deaths (1050 years ago today): 975 – Notker Physicus, Swiss painter

 Deaths (650 years ago today): 1375 – John Henry, Margrave of Moravia (born 1322)^[66]

Commemorations:
World Pneumonia Day