Historical Events
George McClellan Takes Charge
Nov 1 General George McClellan made general in chief of Union armies
Davis Confederate President
Nov 6 Jefferson Davis elected to 6 year term as US Confederate President
Battle of Belmont
Nov 7 Battle of Belmont, fought in Mississippi County, Missouri begins, first combat test for Brigadier General Ulysses S. Grant, Union victory (US Civil War)
- Nov 7 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina ends, Union forces capture Fort Walker and Fort Beauregard (US Civil War)
- Nov 8 Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky: Union Commander General William "Bull" Nelson breaks up Confederate recruiting camp
USS San Jacinto
Nov 8 USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the US and the UK
- Nov 9 1st documented Canadian football game (at U of Toronto)
- Nov 13 A letter is written by Reverend Mark R. Watkinson petitioning the Treasury Department to "recognize Almighty God" on American coins; the department eventually decides on the motto "In God We Trust"
- Nov 18 The first provisional meeting of the Confederate Congress is held in Richmond, Virginia
- Nov 19 American poet and abolitionist Julia Ward Howe commits lyrics of "Battle Hymn of the Republic" to paper
- Nov 19 The first petroleum shipment (1,329 barrels) from the U.S. to Europe leaves Philadelphia, USA, for London, England on the Elizabeth Watts
- Nov 20 Secession ordinance is filed by Kentucky's Confederate government
- Nov 22 Battle of Fort McRee, Florida
- Nov 24 Luik-Visé-Maastricht railway opens
- Nov 26 West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
- Nov 28 Confederate congress officially admits Missouri to Confederacy
- Nov 30 Harper's Weekly publishes EE Beers' "All quiet along the Potomac"
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian and archaeologist, born in Dippach, Luxembourg (d. 1941)
James Naismith (1861-1939)
Nov 6 Canadian-American physical educator and inventor (basketball, football helmet), born in Almonte, Ontario
- Nov 7 Jeff Milton, American lawman, born in Marianna, Florida (d. 1947)
- Nov 10 Robert T. A. Innes, Scottish astronomer (Proxima Centauri), born in Edinburgh, Scotland (d. 1933)
- Nov 14 Frederick Jackson Turner, American historian and educator (known for his "frontier thesis"), born in Portage, Wisconsin (d. 1932)
- Nov 16 Václav Suk, Czech-born Russian composer and violinist, born in Kladno, Bohemia (d. 1933)
- Nov 18 Dorothy Dix [Elizabeth Meriwether Gilmer], American journalist and columnist, born in Woodstock, Tennessee (d. 1951)
- Nov 22 Ranavalona III, Queen of Madagascar (1883-1897) last sovereign of Madagascar, born in Amparibe, Madagascar (d. 1917)
- Nov 23 Konstantin Korovin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
- Nov 24 João da Cruz, Brazilian poet, born in Florianópolis, Santa Catarina, Brazil (d. 1898)
Albert B. Fall (1861-1944)
Nov 26 American Senator (R-New Mexico 1912-21) and US Secretary of the Interior (1921-23), convicted for his part in the Teapot Dome scandal, born in Frankfort, Kentucky
- Nov 30 Franz Gailliard, Belgian painter (Zeustempel in Athens), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1932)
- Nov 30 Ludwig Thuille, Austrian composer (sextet for piano and wind quintet), born in Bozen, Tyrol (now Bozano, Italy) (d. 1907)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 7 Isobel Gunn, Orkney women who disguised herself as a man to work for the Hudson Bay Company (one of the first women in Western Canada), dies at 81 [1]
- Nov 11 Pedro V, King of Portugal (1853-61), known as "The Hopeful", dies of typhoid and/or cholera at 24
- Nov 13 Arthur Hugh Clough, English poet, friend of Matthew Arnold, dies at 42
- Nov 28 Robert Führer, Czech composer of sacred music, and music theorist, dies at 54
