Historical Anniversaries this Week

November 1

 Births (400 years ago today): 1625 – Oliver Plunkett, Irish archbishop and saint (died 1681)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Bo Bice, American singer and musician^[32]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Keryn Jordan, South African footballer (died 2013)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Megan Wing, Canadian figure skater and coach

 Deaths (100 years ago today): 1925 – Max Linder, French actor, director, screenwriter, producer and comedian (born 1883)

November 2

 Events (350 years ago today): 1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.^[3]

 Births (550 years ago today): 1475 – Anne of York, seventh child of King Edward IV of England and Elizabeth Woodville (died 1511)^[51]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician^[153]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver^[192]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer^[193]

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)^[267]

November 3

 Events (50 years ago today): 1975 – Four Bangladeshi politicians are killed in the Dhaka Central Jail.

 Births (150 years ago today): 1875 – Em?ls D?rzi??, Latvian composer and conductor (died 1910)

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Darren Sharper, American football player and sportscaster

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Tajuddin Ahmad, Bangladeshi politician, 1st Prime Minister of Bangladesh (born 1925)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Muhammad Mansur Ali, Bangladeshi captain and politician, 3rd Prime Minister of Bangladesh (born 1919)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Syed Nazrul Islam, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician, President of Bangladesh (born 1925)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Abul Hasnat Muhammad Qamaruzzaman, Bangladeshi lawyer and politician (born 1926)

November 4

 Births (450 years ago today): 1575 – Guido Reni, Italian painter and illustrator (died 1642)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Gamani Corea, Sri Lankan economist and diplomat (died 2013)

 Births (100 years ago today): 1925 – Doris Roberts, American actress (died 2016)^[16]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Éric Fichaud, Canadian ice hockey player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Eduard Koksharov, Russian handball player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Mikki Moore, American basketball player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Orlando Pace, American football player

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Heather Tom, American actress and director^[19]

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lorenzen Wright, American basketball player (died 2010)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Francis Dvornik, Czech priest and academic (born 1893)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Izzat Husrieh, Syrian journalist, historian, and academic (born 1914)

November 5

 Events (100 years ago today): 1925 – Secret agent Sidney Reilly, the first "super-spy" of the 20th century, is executed by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

 Births (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter^[25]

 Deaths (1600 years ago today): 425 – Atticus, archbishop of Constantinople

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Edward Tatum, American geneticist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1909)

 Deaths (50 years ago today): 1975 – Lionel Trilling, American critic, essayist, short story writer, and educator (born 1905)

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)