What Happened in November 1872

Historical Events

Nov 5 American women's right to vote advocate Susan B. Anthony votes for Ulysses S. Grant

Nov 5 Ulysses S. Grant re-elected US President

Nov 7 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa; mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later
Nov 9 The Great Boston Fire of 1872. Close to 1,000 buildings destroyed
Nov 18 Suffragette Susan B. Anthony is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting
Nov 19 E.D. Barbour of Boston is awarded the first U.S. patent for the first 'calculator', an adding machine capable of printing totals and subtotals
Nov 22 Franz Grillparzer's "Die Judin von Toledo" premieres in Prague
Nov 29 Indian Wars: The Modoc War begins with the Battle of Lost River
Nov 30 First international soccer game, Scotland draws with England (0-0) in Glasgow

Nov 3 Paul Panzer, German-American silent film actor (The Perils of Pauline, Mildred Pierce, Hotel Berlin), born in Würzburg, Bavaria, Germany (d. 1958)
Nov 3 Wilfred Trotter, English surgeon who was a pioneer in neurosurgery, popularized the concept of herd instinct, and was an authority in cancers of the head and neck, born in Coleford, Gloucestershire, England (d. 1939)
Nov 4 Herman Finck, British conductor (Palace Theatre (London), 1900-20), theater and light classical composer (In The Shadows), born in London, England (d. 1939)
Nov 9 Bohdan Lepky, Ukrainian writer and poet, born in Zhukiv, Ukraine (d. 1941)
Nov 11 David I. Walsh, 46th Governor of Massachusetts, born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1947)
Nov 11 Maude Adams, American actress (Baldwin's Theatre - Peter Pan), born in Salt Lake City, Utah (d. 1953)
Nov 15 Robert de Flers, French author and playwright (Habit Vert), born in Pont-l'Évêque, France (d. 1927)
Nov 18 Margaret Seddon, American stage and screen actress (Mr. Deeds Goes to Town), born in Washington, DC (d. 1968)
Nov 29 Anna von Mildenburg, Austrian Wagnerian soprano, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1947)

Nov 30 Canadian physician, soldier and poet (In Flanders Fields), born in Guelph, Ontario

Nov 5 Thomas Sully, American portrait painter (Queen Victoria), dies at 89
Nov 7 Alfred Clebsch, German mathematician (b. 1833)
Nov 23 Ten Bears (Parra-Wa-Samen), American poet/Comanche chief, dies
Nov 28 Mary Fairfax Somerville, British scientific writer (b. 1780)
Nov 29 Cornelius Kreighoff, Canadian painter, dies at 56
Nov 29 Giovanni Tadolini, Italian composer, dies at 83
Nov 29 Horace Greeley, American founder and editor of the New-York Tribune ("Go west, young man"), dies at 61