Historical Events
Model T
Nov 3 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
- Nov 4 France & Germany sign treaty about Morocco & Congo
- Nov 5 Italy attacks Turkish North-Africa (Libya), takes Tripoli & Cyrenaica
- Nov 5 Calbraith Rodgers arrives in Pasadena completing 1st transcontinental airplane flight (49 days) (left Sheepshead Bay, NY, Sept 17)
- Nov 6 Francisco Madeiro inaugurated president of Mexico
Event of Interest
Nov 10 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
Andrew Carnegie
- Nov 10 Chinese Imperial army recaptures Nanking (blood bath)
- Nov 11 Many cities in the U.S. Midwest broke their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through. (see The 11/11/11 cold wave).
- Nov 11 Russia issues an ultimatum to Persia and follows it with an invasion of North Persia to impose political control
- Nov 15 Proclamation sets designs for Canadian $5 & $10 gold coins
- Nov 18 Britain's first seaplane flies
- Nov 18 Opera "Lobetanz" first American performance
Guglielmo Marconi
- Nov 20 Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich
Event of Interest
Nov 20 The funeral of Paul and Laura Lafargue (daughter of Karl Marx) in Paris is attended by Lenin; the two socialists died in a suicide pact in the belief that their political usefulness was at an end
Vladimir Lenin
- Nov 23 Post Hospital at Presidio, San Francisco, renamed Letterman General Hospital
- Nov 25 3rd CFL Grey Cup: U of Toronto defeats Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
- Nov 25 7th Australasian Championships: Norman Brookes beats Horace Rice (6-1, 6-2, 6-3)
- Nov 27 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
- Nov 28 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Henri Troyat, French author and historian (d. 2007)
- Nov 1 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Nov 2 Odysseas Elytis, Greek poet (Nobel Prize 1979), born in Heraklion, Greece (d. 1996)
- Nov 2 Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, born in National City, California (d. 1995)
- Nov 3 Vladimir Ussachevsky, Hailar Manchuria, composer (Creation)
- Nov 4 Jack Rose, screenwriter
- Nov 4 Ssamu Shimizu, composer
- Nov 5 Roy Rogers, cowboy (Happy Trails, Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio
- Nov 7 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
- Nov 9 Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet (d. 2004)
- Nov 10 Harry Andrews, English actor (Equus, Man of La Mancha), born in Kent, England (d. 1989)
- Nov 11 Patric Knowles [Reginald Lawrence Knowles], British actor (Chisum, Arnold, Mutiny), born in Horsforth, Yorkshire, England (d. 1995)
- Nov 12 Luc Estang, [Lucien Bastard], French writer (Stigmates)
- Nov 12 William Thomas Pennar Davies, poet author/theologian
- Nov 12 Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991)
Buck O'Neil
Nov 13 Buck O'Neil, American baseball player (Kansas City Monarchs, 1st African-American coach in Major League Baseball), born in Carrabelle, Florida (d. 2006)
Buck O'Neil
- Nov 17 Charles Walters, American actor, choreographer and director (Lili, Easter parade), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1982)
- Nov 17 Nobutaka Shikanai, Japans media CEO (Fujisankei Com Group)
- Nov 17 William Tannen, American actor (Jailhouse Rock, Sitting Bull), born in NYC, New York (d. 1976)
- Nov 17 Christian Fouchet, French diplomat (d. 1974)
- Nov 18 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer (d. 2000)
- Nov 20 Jean Shiley, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1932)
- Nov 23 Peter Saunders, English theater producer (Legend of the Werewolf)
- Nov 24 Kirby Grant, American actor (Rustlers Round-Up, Yukon Gold, Sky King), born in Butte, Montana (d. 1985)
- Nov 24 Walter Goetz, illustrator cartoonist/painter
- Nov 24 Joe Medwick, baseball player (d. 1975)
- Nov 25 Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
- Nov 26 Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs
- Nov 26 Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer/multi-millionaire
- Nov 26 Samuel H Reshevsky, Polish/US chess grandmaster/prodigy
- Nov 27 Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist
- Nov 28 Václav Renč, Czech poet (d. 1973)
- Nov 29 Klaus E J Fuchs, Rüsselsheim Germany, German/British atomic physicist/spy
- Nov 30 Jorge Negrete [Moreno], Mexican singer and actor (The Rebel, La madrina del diablo), born in Guanajuato, Mexico (d. 1953)
Famous Weddings
- Nov 4 Charles I of Austria marries Princess Zita of Bourbon-Parma
Famous Deaths
- Nov 3 Salvador Giner y Vidal, composer, dies at 79
- Nov 8 Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
- Nov 9 Edmund Schuecker, composer, dies at 50
- Nov 9 Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
- Nov 16 Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
- Nov 18 Alfred Binet, French child psychologist who invented the first practical IQ test (Binet–Simon test), dies at 54
- Nov 19 Ramon Caceres, President (Dominican Republic), murdered
- Nov 23 Bernard Tancred, cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies