Historical Events
- Nov 3 First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
Spain Declares War Against the United States
Nov 5 Under US military control since the end of the Spanish–American War in 1898, Cuba now calls its own constitutional convention
- Nov 6 Battle at Bothaville: Major General Charles Knox beats Boers
McKinley Defeats Bryan
Nov 6 Republican US President William McKinley and his Vice President, Theodore Roosevelt, defeat Democrat William Jennings Bryan
- Nov 7 Battle of Leliefontein, a battle during which the Royal Canadian Dragoons win three Victoria Crosses.
Laurier Government
Nov 7 In Canada, the Liberal Government led by Wilfrid Laurier retains its majority
Beatty made Captain
Nov 8 British naval officer David Beatty takes part in the successful relief of the naval brigade at Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion and is promoted to captain
Sister Claire
Nov 8 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
- Nov 9 China has resumed nominal control of Manchuria, but in a secret agreement the Chinese governor of Manchuria grants Russia such rights as keeping troops along the railroad lines and controlling civil administration
- Nov 12 Exposition Universelle (World's Fair) in Paris closes after 50 million visitors - Art Nouveau style dominates
- Nov 13 Baltimore Orioles (now NY Yankees) enter baseball's American League
- Nov 15 Dutch soccer club NEC is established in Nijmegen
- Nov 17 5th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 53-5 in Montgomery
Kruger lands at Marseille
Nov 22 Paul Kruger, exiled President of the Boer Republic of South Africa, is given a popular welcome when he lands at Marseilles, France
Kitchener Assumes Command
Nov 29 General Horatio Kitchener assumes command of the British forces in South Africa from General Lord Roberts
- Nov 30 A German engineer patents front-wheel drive for automobiles
- Nov 30 The First Isthmian Canal Commission, appointed by the President having examined possible routes for a canal, issues its report favoring that through Nicaragua over the Panama route
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 3 Adolf Dassler, German entrepreneur (founder sportswear company Adidas), born in Herzogenaurach, Germany (d. 1978)
- Nov 3 Roger Blunt MBE, New Zealand cricket all-rounder and broadcaster (9 Tests; BBC), born in Durham, England (d. 1966)
- Nov 4 Don Alvarado [Jose Page], American actor (Captain Thunder, Morning Glory, Big Steal), born in Albuquerque, New Mexico (d. 1967)
- Nov 4 Lucreţiu Pătrăşcanu, Romanian communist activist and sociologist, born in Bacău, Romania (d. 1954)
- Nov 4 Luigi Lucioni, Italian-American landscape painter (opera stars), born in Malnate, Italy (d. 1988)
- Nov 5 Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Texas), born in Colorado City, Texas (d. 1972)
- Nov 5 Natalie Schafer, American actress (Gilligan's Island, Anastasia), born in New York City (d. 1991)
- Nov 7 Efrem Kurtz, Russian conductor (Houston Symphony, 1948-54), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1995)
- Nov 8 Albert F. Frey-Wyssling, Swiss botanist and pioneer of submicroscopic morphology and the discipline of molecular biology, born in Küsnacht, Switzerland (d. 1988)
- Nov 8 Georges Lonque, Belgian composer, born in Ghent, Belgium (d. 1967)
Margaret Mitchell (1900-1949)
Nov 8 American author (Gone With The Wind), born in Atlanta, Georgia
- Nov 8 Mihailo Vukdragović, Serbian composer, conductor and pedagogue, born in Okučani, Austria-Hungary (now Croatia) (d. 1956)
- Nov 11 Hugh Scott, American lawyer and politician (Senate Minority Leader 1969-77), born in Fredericksburg, Virginia (d. 1994)
- Nov 11 John Longden, British actor (Man From Interpol), born in the West Indies (d. 1971)
- Nov 13 Edward Buzzell, American film director (Child of Manhattan), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1985)
Aaron Copland (1900-1990)
Nov 14 American composer (Billy the Kid; Appalachian Spring), born in Brooklyn, New York
- Nov 14 Clara Fasano, Italian-American sculptor, born in Castellaneta, Italy (d. 1990)
- Nov 18 Constantin Alajalov, Armenian-American illustrator (The New Yorker; Saturday Evening Post; Dithers & Jitters), and painter, born in Rostov-on-Don, Russia (d. 1987)
- Nov 18 George Kistiakowsky, Ukrainian-American chemist who helped develop the first atomic bomb (Manhattan Project), but later opposed nuclear weapons, born in Kyiv, Ukraine (d. 1982)
- Nov 19 Anna Seghers [Netty Reiling], German author (The 7th Cross), born in Mainz, Germany (d. 1983)
- Nov 19 Anton Walbrook [Adolf Wohlbrook], Austrian actor (Laura, I Accuse), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1967)
- Nov 19 Bunny Ahearne, Britsih ice hockey promoter, born in County Wexford, Ireland (d. 1985)
- Nov 19 Mikhail Lavrentyev, Russian hydrodynamicist and mathematician, born in Kazan, Russian Empire (d. 1980)
- Nov 20 Chester Gould, American cartoonist (Dick Tracy), born in Pawnee, Oklahoma (d. 1985)
- Nov 21 Alice Calhoun, American silent film actress (Flowing Gold; Between Friends; Pampered Youth), and movie theater owner, born in Cleveland, Ohio (d. 1966)
- Nov 22 Bennie Borgmann, American Basketball Hall of Fame forward and coach (Kingston Colonials, Original Celtics; coach Syracuse Nationals), born in Haledon, New Jersey (d. 1978)
- Nov 22 Hugo Godron, Dutch composer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1971)
- Nov 22 Tom Macdonald, Welsh journalist and writer (The White Lanes of Summer), born in Capel Bangor, Dyfed, Wales (d. 1980)
- Nov 24 Cornelius Kee, Dutch organist and composer, born in Zaandam, Netherlands (d. 1997)
- Nov 24 Jerzy Bonawentura Toeplitz, Ukrainian-Polish filmmaker and film educator (Polish Film School), born in Kharkov, Ukraine (d. 1995)
- Nov 25 Arthur Schwartz, American composer (I Guess I'll Have To Change My Plans; That's Entertainment), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1984)
- Nov 25 Helen Gahagan Douglas, American actress and politician (Nixon's 1st opponent for the United States Senate in 1950), born in Boonton, New Jersey (d. 1980)
- Nov 25 Rudolf Höss, German commandant of the Auschwitz concentration camp, born in Baden-Baden, German Empire (d. 1947)
- Nov 27 Léon Barzin, Belgian-American conductor (NY City Ballet 1948-58), born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1999)
- Nov 27 Robert Blum, Swiss composer, born in Zurich, Switzerland (d. 1994)
- Nov 29 Håkan Malmrot, Swedish swimmer (Olympic gold 200m & 400m breaststroke 1920), born in Örebro, Sweden (d. 1987)
- Nov 30 Korneel Goossens, Flemish literary figure and art historian (d. 1971)
Famous Weddings
Hiram Bingham
Nov 20 Archaeologist Hiram Bingham (25) weds Tiffany heiress Alfreda Mitchell in Honolulu, Hawaii
Famous Deaths
Arthur Sullivan (1842-1900)
Nov 22 British composer (The Golden Legend; Onward, Christian Soldiers), major-generally remembered for his comic operas with W.S. Gilbert (The Pirates of Penzance:, H.M.S Pinafore; The Mikado), dies of heart failure at 58
Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)
Nov 30 Irish playwright and novelist (Importance of Being Earnest, The Picture of Dorian Gray), dies of cerebral meningitis in Paris at 46
