Month November 1908 Calendar

About Month of November Calendar

• November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning nine) when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
  
  November symbols: The birthstones of November are the topaz (particularly, yellow) which symbolizes friendship and the citrine. Its birth flower is the chrysanthemum. The zodiac signs for the month of November are Scorpio (until November 21) and Sagittarius (November 22 onwards).

Historical Events for November, 1908

• Day of Week 7th » Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid are reportedly killed in San Vicente, Bolivia.
• Day of Week 22nd » The Congress of Manastir establishes the Albanian alphabet.
• Day of Week 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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