Historical Events
Republican Party
Nov 7 First cartoon depicting an elephant as the Republican Party symbol is published by Thomas Nast
The Shaughraun
Nov 14 Dion Boucicault's stage drama "The Shaughraun" opens at Wallack's Theatre, NYC
- Nov 17 Emigrant ship Cospatrick catches fire & sinks off Auckland, New Zealand
- Nov 18 National Woman's Christian Temperance Union organizes in Cleveland, Ohio
- Nov 24 American inventor Joseph Glidden patents barbed wire
- Nov 25 The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 4 Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander, born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1920)
- Nov 7 Joseph Willoughby, South African cricketer (2 Tests for South Africa 1895-96), born in Aldershot, Hampshire, England (d. 1952)
- Nov 9 Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist, born in Geneseo, New York (d. 1954)
- Nov 12 Bert Williams, African American comedian and entertainer, born in Nassau, Bahamas (d. 1922)
- Nov 13 Henry Kolker, German-American actor and director (Holiday, Baby Face, Mad Love), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1947)
- Nov 13 Marguerite Long, French concert pianist (Ravel) and teacher (Paris Conservatoire, 1906-40), born in Nîmes, France (d. 1966)
August Krogh (1874-1949)
Nov 15 Danish zoophysiologist (arterioles and capillaries, Nobel 1920), born in Grenaa, Jutland, Denmark
- Nov 15 Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (d. 1941)
- Nov 18 Clarence Day, American author (Life With Father), born in New York City (d. 1935)
- Nov 18 Riccardo Martin, American tenor and composer, born in Hopkinsville, Kentucky (d. 1952)
- Nov 19 Karl Adrian Wohlfart, Swedish composer, born in Hycklinge, Sweden (d. 1943)
- Nov 20 James Michael Curley, American politician (53rd Governor of Massachusetts, 1935-37), born in Boston, Massachusetts (d. 1958)
- Nov 22 Herman Harrell Horne, American philosopher (idealism), born in Clayton, North Carolina (d. 1946)
- Nov 24 Charles William Miller, Brazilian footballer (d. 1953)
- Nov 25 Joe Gans, American boxer (world lightweight champion 1902–08; International Boxing HOF), born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1910)
- Nov 26 Edmond Fleg[enheimer], Swiss-French author (Ecoute Israel), born in Geneva, Switzerland (d. 1963)
Chaim Weizmann (1874-1952)
Nov 27 Israeli statesman and Zionist leader (1st President of Israel 1949-52), born in Motal, Russian Empire
- Nov 27 Charles A. Beard, American historian (American Continentalism), born in Knightstown, Indiana (d. 1948)
- Nov 29 Antonio Egas Moniz, Portuguese neurosurgeon (Nobel Prize 1949 for developing lobotomy procedure), born in Avanca, Portugal (d. 1955)
- Nov 29 Francis Dodd, British artist, born in Holyhead, Wales (d. 1949)
Lucy Maud Montgomery (1874-1942)
Nov 30 Canadian author (Anne of Green Gables), born in Clifton, Prince Edward Island
Winston Churchill (1874-1965)
Nov 30 British Prime Minister (Conservative: 1940-45, 1951-55) during World War II, and writer (Nobel Prize in Literature, 1953), born in Blenheim Palace, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, England
