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