This Day in History : [ 03 / Nov ]

1957 Dogs in space

The Soviet Union sent the first animal a dog named Laika into space aboard the Sputnik II.Laika died in orbit.

Nov 03 1560

Annibale Carracci Italian painter born in Bologna Italy (d. 1609)

Nov 03 1587

Samuel Scheidt German baroque composer born in Halle (d. 1654)

Nov 03 1604

Osman II Sultan of the Ottoman Empire (1618-22) born in Topkapi Palace Constantinople Ottoman Empire (d. 1622)

Nov 03 1611

Henry Ireton English general and parliament leader (Marston Moor) born in Attenborough Nottinghamshire England (d. 1651)

Nov 03 1618

Aurangzeb 6th Mughal Emperor (1658-1707) born in Dahod Mughal Empire (d. 1707)

Nov 03 1619

Willem Kalf Dutch painter (still lifes) born in Rotterdam Netherlands (d. 1693)

Nov 03 1621

Renatus Rapinus [Ren Rapin] French Jesuit theologian and poet (Hortorum libri IV) born in Tours France (d. 1687)

Nov 03 1656

Georg Reutter Austrian composer and organist born in Vienna (d. 1738)

Nov 03 1689

Jan Josef Ignc Brentner Bohemian composer born in Dobany Bohemia (d. 1742)

Nov 03 1718

John Montagu 4th Earl of Sandwich British statesman who claimed to have invented the sandwich born in Chiswick England (d. 1792)

Nov 03 1736

Christiaan Brunings Dutch hydraulic engineer born in Mannheim-Neckarau Germany (d. 1805)

Nov 03 1749

Daniel Rutherford Scottish chemist and physician (isolation of nitrogen in 1772) born in Edinburgh Scotland (d. 1819)

Nov 03 1753

August Gottlieb Meiner German Enlightenment author who helped develop the detective story genre in German literature born in Bautzen Electorate of Saxony Holy Roman Empire (d. 1807)

Nov 03 1753

Friedrich Christoph Gebtewitz German composer born in Prieschka Meissen (d. 1805)

Nov 03 1780

Victor Dourlen French composer born in Dunkerque France (d. 1864)

Nov 03 1781

Johann Ernst Friedrich Wollank German composer born in Berlin (d. 1831)

Nov 03 1794

William Cullen Bryant American poet (Thanatopsis) born in Cummington Massachusetts (d. 1878)

Nov 03 1798

Mason James Murray American senator and Confederate diplomat (Trent Affair) born in Fairfax Virginia (d. 1871)

Nov 03 1799

William Sprague III American politician (U.S. Senator from Rhode Island 1842-44)) born in Cranston Rhode Island (d. 1856)

Nov 03 1801

Karl Baedeker German publisher (known for guidebooks for tourists) born in Essen Germany (d. 1859)

Nov 03 1801

Vincenzo Bellini Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula Norma) born in Catania Sicily (d. 1835)

Nov 03 1815

Adrien Louis Boieldieu French composer born in Paris (d. 1883)

Nov 03 1815

John Mitchel Irish nationalist (Jail Journal) born in Camnish County Londonderry (d. 1875)

Nov 03 1816

Jubal Early American General (Confederate Army) born in Franklin County Virginia (d. 1894)

Nov 03 1818

Gustavus Adolphus DeRussy American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Brooklyn New York (d. 1891)

Nov 03 1826

Jasper Adalmorn Maltby American Brigadier General (Union Army) born in Kingsville Ohio (d. 1867)

Nov 03 1830

John Esten Cooke American novelist (The Virginia Comedians) and Confederate States Army born in Winchester Virginia (d. 1886)

Nov 03 1830

Jacob Maarten van Bemmelen Dutch physicist and chemist born in Almelo Netherlands (d. 1911)

Nov 03 1833

Edward D. Tracy American Brigadier General (Confederate Army) born in Macon Georgia (d. 1863)

Nov 03 1841

Johannes Eugenius Blow Warming Danish botanist (plant ecology environment-organism interactions) born in Mand Denmark (d. 1924)

Nov 03 1845

Edward Douglass White American politician and jurist (9th Chief Justice of the United States) born in Thibodaux Louisiana (d. 1921)

Nov 03 1852

Emperor Meiji [Mutsuhito] 122nd emperor of Japan (1867-1912) born in Kyto Japan (d. 1912)

Nov 03 1854

Jokichi Takamine Japanese-American biochemist who isolated adrenalin (epinephrine) which causes the body to respond to emergencies the first pure hormone isolated from natural sources born in Takaoka Toyama Japan (d. 1922)

Nov 03 1468 Lige is sacked by Charles I of Burgundys troops.

Nov 03 1527 Ferdinand of AustriaBohemia chosen as king of Hungary

Nov 03 1529 London - 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament

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