Historical Events
Italo-Turkish War
Nov 1 The first aerial bomb is dropped by an Italian pilot on Turkish troops in Libya during the Italo-Turkish War
- 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
Historic Event
Nov 10 Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works
- 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 Ludwig Thuille's opera "Lobetanz" first American performance
- Nov 20 Gustav Mahler's "Das Lied von der Erde" (Song of the Earth) premieres in Munich
Sports History
Nov 25 Australasian Championships Men's Tennis, Melbourne: 1907 Wimbledon champion Norman Brookes of Australia beats countryman Horace Rice 6-1, 6-2, 6-3
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Henri Troyat, Russian-French author and historian, born in Moscow (d. 2007)
- Nov 1 Donald William Kerst, American Physicist who developed the betatron (device to accelerate electron beams), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- Nov 1 Sidney Wood Jr, American tennis player (Wimbledon 1931), born in Black Rock, Connecticut (d. 2009)
- 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, Manchurian-American composer (Creation), born in Hulun, Manchuria [now Hailar, Inner Mongolia, China] (d. 1990)
- Nov 3 Kick Smit, Dutch soccer striker and manager (29 caps; HFC Haarlem), born in Bloemendaal, Netherlands (d. 1974)
- Nov 3 Johnny Keane, American baseball manager (World Series 1964 St. Louis Cardinals; NY Yankees), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1967)
- Nov 4 Jack Rose, American screenwriter, born in Warsaw, Russian Empire (d. 1995)
- Nov 4 Osamu Shimizu, Japanese composer, born in Osaka, Japan (d. 1986)
- Nov 5 Roy Rogers, American cowboy actor and singer ("Happy Trails"; Roy Rogers Show), born in Cincinnati, Ohio (d. 1998)
- Nov 7 Walter Shlomo Gross, journalist
- Nov 9 Tabish Dehlvi, Pakistani poet, born in Delhi, India (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 Pennar Davies, Welsh poet, author and theologian, born in Mountain Ash, Wales (d. 1996)
- Nov 12 (Wilbur) "Buck" Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (Count Basie; Billie Holiday; Lester Young), and bandleader, born in Parsons, Kansas (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)
- Nov 17 Charles Walters, American actor, choreographer and director (Lili, Easter parade), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1982)
- Nov 17 Nobutaka Shikanai, Japanese media CEO (Fujisankei Communications Group), born in Hokkaido, Japan (d. 1990) [1]
- 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 17 Jimmy DeBerry, American blues guitarist, banjo player, and singer, born in Gumwood, Arkansas (d. 1985)
- Nov 18 Attilio Bertolucci, Italian poet and writer, born in San Lazzaro Parmense, Italy (d. 2000)
- Nov 20 Jean Shiley, American high jumper (Olympic gold 1932), born in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania (d. 1998)
- Nov 22 Ralph Guldahl, American golfer (US Masters 1939, US Open 1937-38), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 1987)
- 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 "Ducky" Medwick, American baseball player, born in Carteret, New Jersey (d. 1975)
- Nov 25 Roelof Frankot, Dutch painter (d. 1984)
- Nov 26 Raymond Scheyven, Belgian minister of Economic Affairs, born in Brussels, Belgium (d. 1987)
- Nov 26 Ronald Diggens, English fabric manufacturer and multi-millionaire
- Nov 26 Samuel Reshevsky, Polish-American chess grandmaster, born in Ozorków, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1992)
- Nov 27 David Merrick, American theatrical producer (Hello Dolly), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2000)
- Nov 27 Fe del Mundo, Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines, born in Manila, Philippine Islands (d. 2011)
- Nov 28 Václav Renč, Czech poet, dramatist and translator, born in Vodochody, Czech Republic (d. 1973)
- Nov 29 Klaus Fuchs, German-British atomic physicist and spy, born in Rüsselsheim Germany (1988)
- 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, Spanish composer, dies at 79
- Nov 8 Samuel Wilks, British Physician and founding father of clinical science, dies at 87
- Nov 9 Edmund Schücker, Austrian composer, dies at 50
- Nov 9 Howard Pyle, American author (b. 1853)
- Nov 16 Albert Alonzo Ames, Mayor of Minneapolis (b. 1842)
- Nov 19 Ramon Caceres, President of the Dominican Republic (1906-11), murdered at 44
- Nov 23 Bernard Tancred, South African cricketer (87 runs in 1888-89 South Africa v England), dies at 46
