Historical Events
James Cook
Nov 12 Meeting of the Royal Society appoints James Cook as head of an expedition to the Pacific Ocean to observe the transit of Venus on Tahiti in 1769 (will be Cook's 1st voyage aboard HMS Endeavour) [1]
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 11 Bernhard Romberg, German cellist, composer and royal chaplain bandmaster, born in Dinklage, Germany (d. 1841)
- Nov 22 Andreas Hofer, Tyrolean innkeeper, drover and leader of the Tyrolean Rebellion against the revolutionary Napoleonic invasion during the War of the Fifth Coalition, born in Sankt Leonhard, South Tirol, Austrian Empire (d. 1810)
Admirals
Aviators
Gangsters
Generals
Industrialists
Suffragists