What Happened in November 1898

Historical Events

Nov 2 Cheerleading starts at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team

Nov 5 Gerhart Hauptmann's "Fuhrmann Henschel" premieres in Berlin

Nov 15 David Beatty is promoted to commander

Nov 22 Opera "Iris" premieres (Rome)
Nov 24 The International Conference of Rome for the Social Defense Against Anarchists opens.
Nov 26 -27) Snow and ice storm over US kills 455
Nov 26 SS Portland “The Titanic of New England” leaves for Cape Cod, shipwrecked off Cape Ann, all 192 on board killed

Nov 1 Arthur Legat, Belgian racing driver (d. 1960)
Nov 7 Raphaël Salem, Greek mathematician, born in Saloniki, Ottoman Empire (d. 1963)
Nov 8 Marie Prevost, Canadian actress (The Marriage Circle, The Racket), born in Sarnia, Ontario, Canada (d. 1937)
Nov 9 Owen Barfield, British philosopher of language, born in London (d. 1997)
Nov 9 Leonard Carmichael, American Psychologist and secretary of the Smithsonian Institution (1953-64), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1973)
Nov 11 Father Hugo Enomiya-Lassalle, German Jesuit priest/Zen teacher
Nov 11 Rene Clair, director (I Married a Witch, It Happened Tomorrow)
Nov 12 Abraham J D van Oosten, Dutch poet/author (His Master's Voice)
Nov 12 Leon Štukelj, Slovene gymnast (d. 1999)
Nov 13 Earl Sande, American jockey (Hall of Famer), born in Groton, South Dakota (d. 1968)
Nov 14 Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French writer and filmmaker (d. 1944)
Nov 15 Willy Alfredo, [Willem Jue], Dutch entertainer/poet (Fish-Trap)
Nov 18 Joris Ivens, Nijmegen Netherlands, director (Rain)
Nov 18 Oswald Erich Sehlbach, composer
Nov 19 Arthur R. von Hippel, German-born physicist (d. 2003)
Nov 21 René Magritte, Belgian surrealistic painter (This is Not a Pipe)
Nov 22 Wiley Post, Grand Plain Tx, aviator/parachutist (crashed in Alaska)

Nov 26 Karl Ziegler, German chemist and Nobel Laureate (polymers), born in Helsa, German Empire (d. 1973)

Nov 29 C. S. Lewis [Clive Staples], British sci-fi author (Silver Chair), born in Belfast, Northern Ireland (d. 1963)

Nov 29 Rod La Rocque, American actor (The Ten Commandments), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 1969)
Nov 30 Roy "Link" Lyman, NFL tackle (Chicago Bears)

Nov 2 George Goyder, English-born surveyor-general of South Australia (b. 1826)
Nov 4 Charles Jerome Hopkins, American composer, dies at 62
Nov 20 John Fowler, English engineer (London Metropolitan Railway), dies
Nov 28 Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Swiss writer, dies at 73