Historical Events
Crisis
Nov 1 First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois
Nicholas II Visits Wilhelm II
Nov 4 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East
- Nov 4 Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
- Nov 6 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
- Nov 7 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
- Nov 8 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
- Nov 8 For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee
- Nov 8 William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
- Nov 10 The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
- Nov 12 1st possible movie stunt: man jumps into the Hudson river from a burning balloon
- Nov 14 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia
- Nov 19 Ferenc Molnàr's play "Tester" premieres in Budapest
- Nov 20 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero
- Nov 22 Arthur Knight patents steel shaft golf clubs
- Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: University of Toronto Blues retain title; beat Hamilton Tigers, 16-7
- Nov 27 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
- Nov 29 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 2 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt's Wafd Party (d. 1999)
- Nov 3 Richard Hurndall, British actor (Doctor Who, The Inheritors, It's Murder But Is It Art), born in Darlington, Durham, England (d. 1984)
- Nov 6 Arthur Cohn, American composer and writer on music, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1998)
- Nov 11 Franz Kemser, German 4 man bobsled (Olympic gold 1952), born in Partenkirchen, Bayern, Germany (d. 1986)
- Nov 11 Israel Eldad, Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the pre-state underground group Lehi, born in Pidvolochysk, Galicia (d. 1996)
Raemer Schreiber (1910-1998)
Nov 11 American physicist (Manhattan Project) who helped develop the first atomic bomb during World War II and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki, born in McMinnville, Oregon
- Nov 12 lDudley Nourse, South African cricket batsman and captain (34 Tests, 9 x 100s, HS 231; Nata), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1981)
- Nov 13 William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, born in Hartselle, Alabama (d. 1986)
- Nov 14 Eric Malpass, English writer (Pentecost family books), born in Derby, England (d. 1996)
- Nov 14 Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
- Nov 14 Rosemary DeCamp, American actress (Love That Bob, That Girl), born in Prescott Arizona (d. 2001)
- Nov 18 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
- Nov 19 Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex (d. 1970)
- Nov 20 Pauli Murray, African American poet and civil rights activist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1985)
- Nov 20 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist and mathematician, born in Hattem, Netherlands (d. 1944)
- Nov 23 Hal Schumacher, American baseball pitcher (World Series 1933; MLB All-Star 1933, 35; New York Giants), born in Hinkley, New York (d. 1993)
- Nov 24 Lennox Brown, South African cricketer (South African leg-spinner on 1931-32 Aust/NZ tour), born in Randfontein, South Africa (d. 1983)
- Nov 25 Léon Poliakov, French historian (The Aryan Myth), born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1997)
- Nov 26 Cyril Cusack, South African actor (Day of the Jackal, Fahrenheit 451), born in Durban, South Africa (d. 1993)
- Nov 27 Rodolfo Holzmann, Peruvian composer, born in Breslau, Germany (d. 1992)
Famous Deaths
Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)
Nov 20 Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82
- Nov 23 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, dies by hanging at 48
