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
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Model T
Nov 3 Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T
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- 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
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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
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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 CFL Grey Cup, Varsity Stadium, Toronto: UT Blues win 3rd straight title; beat Toronto Argonauts, 14-7
- 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
- Nov 27 Audience throws vegetables at actors for 1st recorded time in US
- Nov 28 Zapata proclaims Plan of Ayala Mexico