Historical Events
Refrigerating Apparatus
Nov 4 African American inventor Thomas Elkins patents the Refrigerating Apparatus [1]
- Nov 4 James Ritty patents first cash register, to combat stealing by bartenders in his saloon in Dayton, Ohio
- Nov 6 Canada celebrates 1st Thanksgiving Day
- Nov 19 National Association of Trotting Horse Breeders determines what "is" a trotter
- Nov 28 Battle at Lydenburg South Africa: Gen Wolseley beats Sekhukhenes Pedi-Zulu
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Pal Teleki-von Szek, Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Hungary (1920-21, 39-41), born in Budapest, Kingdom of Hungary, Austria-Hungary (d. 1941)
- Nov 2 Marion Jones, American tennis player (US Nat C'ship 1899, 1902), born in Gold Hill, Nevada (d. 1965)
- Nov 3 Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian-American Arctic explorer and ethnologist, born in Arnes, Manitoba (d. 1961)
Will Rogers (1879-1935)
Nov 4 American humorist and actor (Judge Priest), born in Oologah, Oklahoma
Leon Trotsky (1879-1940)
Nov 7 Ukrainian-Russian Marxist revolutionary, political theorist and founder of the Red Army [OS 26-10-1879], born in Yanovka, Ukraine, Russian Empire
- Nov 8 King Baggot, American actor and director (Tumbleweeds), born in St Louis, Missouri (d. 1948)
- Nov 9 Milan Šufflay, Croatian historian and politician, born in Lepoglava, Croatia (d. 1931)
- Nov 10 Nicholas Vachel Lindsay, American poet (Gen William Booth enters Heaven), born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1931)
- Nov 10 Patrick Pearse, Irish poet, nationalist and political activist, born in Dublin, Ireland (d. 1916)
- Nov 13 Maurice Delage, French pianist, and composer (Ragamalika; Seven Haikais), born in Paris, France (d. 1961)
- Nov 14 Geoffrey Turton Shaw, British church composer, born in London, England (d. 1943)
- Nov 15 Lewis Stone, American actor (The Lost World, Prisoner of Zenda), born in Worcester, Massachusetts (d. 1953)
- Nov 19 Karel van den Oever, Flemish author and poet (Geuzenstad), born in Antwerp, Belgium (d. 1926)
- Nov 20 Franz Pfemfert, German journalist and writer, born in Lötzen, East Prussia (d. 1954)
- Nov 22 Ralph Hawtrey, British economist (multiplier, quantity theory of money), born in Slough, England (d. 1975)
- Nov 27 Adam Tadeusz Wieniawski, Polish composer, born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (d. 1950)
- Nov 29 Jacob Gade, Danish violinist and composer (Jalousie ; Cinema Music), born in Vejle, Denmark (d. 1963)
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Zachariah Chandler, American merchant and politician (found Republican Party), dies at 65
James Clerk Maxwell (1831-1879)
Nov 5 Scottish physicist (speed of light), dies of abdominal cancer at 48
