Historical Events
- Nov 6 1st Hawaiian fire engine
- Nov 6 Yerba Buena & Angel Islands (San Francisco Bay) reserved for military use
Tennyson Poet Laureate
Nov 19 Alfred Tennyson becomes British Poet Laureate, succeeding William Wordsworth
- Nov 29 The treaty, Punctation of Olmütz, signed in Olomouc means diplomatic capitulation of Prussia to Austrian Empire, taking over the leadership of German Confederation
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Mary Florence Potts, American businesswoman and inventor of the cold-handle sad iron, born in Ottumwa, Iowa (d. 1922) [1]
- Nov 5 Ella Wheeler Wilcox, American author and poet (Poems of Passion), born in Johnstown, Wisconsin (d. 1919)
- Nov 8 Karel Komzák II, Bohemian-Viennese violinist, and composer of marches and dances (Bad’ner Mad’ln), born in Prague, Kingdom of Bohemia (now Czech Republic) (d. 1905) [1]
- Nov 9 Lewis Lewin, German toxicologist (father of psychopharmacologist), born in Tuchel, West Prussia (d. 1929)
Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894)
Nov 13 Scottish novelist (Treasure Island; Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde), born in Edinburgh, Scotland
