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- Oct 19 Tripoli (Libya) passes from Turkish to Italian control
- Oct 20 Cort Theater opens at 148 W 48th St NYC
- Oct 20 Hannes Kolehmainen runs world record marathon (2:29:39.2)
- Oct 26 Serbian troops over run Skopje (Uskup)
- Oct 26 Woolwich Foot Tunnel under the Thames river in England opens
- Nov 5 Arizona, Kansas & Wisconsin vote for female suffrage
- Nov 5 Bulgarian troops in Constantinople blockade drinking water
Election of Interest
Nov 5 Democrat candidate Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States, defeating Republican incumbent William Howard Taft and Progressive candidate Theodore Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
Music Concert
Nov 7 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio.
Ludwig van Beethoven
- Nov 9 Ferenc Molnàr's "Farkas" premieres in Budapest
Event of Interest
Nov 12 British explorer Robert Scott's diary & body found in Antarctica
Robert Falcon Scott
- Nov 18 Cholera breaks out in Constantinople, in the Ottoman Empire
- Nov 23 Hamilton Alerts suspended by ORFU for refusing to field a full team in a replay of a protested game
- Nov 24 Conflict in the Balkans grows into an acute international crisis with major powers supporting either Austria or Serbia
- Nov 25 American College of Surgeons incorporates in Springield, Illinois
- Nov 25 Socialist International rejects that world war is coming
- Nov 27 Albanian National Flag adopted
- Nov 27 Spanish protectorate in Morocco forms
- Nov 28 Ismail Qemali declares Albania independent from Turkey in Vlorë
- Nov 30 CFL Grey Cup, AAA Grounds, Hamilton: Hamilton Alerts win their only title; beat Toronto Argonauts, 11-4
- Nov 30 11th Davis Cup: British Isles beats Australasia in Melbourne (3-2)
- Dec 1 Boston Braves MLB franchise owner James Gaffney buys the Allston Golf Club on Commonwealth Avenue, Boston with a plan to construct a ball park there; ground breaking for Braves Field starts on March 20, 1915
- Dec 3 Gerrit Brinkman becomes 1st Dutch traffic officer
- Dec 3 Turkey, Serbia, Montenegro, Greece & Bulgaria sign weapons pact
- Dec 3 First Balkan War: The Naval Battle of Elli takes place.
- Dec 5 The Triple Alliance among Italy, Austria, and Germany (originally signed in 1882) is renewed for six years, beginning in 1914, a move inspired by instability in the Balkans
- Dec 6 China votes for universal human rights
- Dec 7 Bust of Queen Nefertiti found in El-Amarna, Egypt
Event of Interest
Dec 8 Wilhelm II of Germany calls 'War Council'
Wilhelm II
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 Nobel Prize for Physics awarded to Gustaf Dalén for inventing automatic regulators for gas accumulators for lighthouses and buoys
Gustaf Dalén
- Dec 12 Rudolf Friml and Otto Harbach's musical "Firefly" premieres in New York City
- Dec 16 1st US postage stamp picturing an airplane, 20 cent parcel post, issued
- Dec 16 Austria-Hungary engage in conflict with Serbia
- Dec 16 First Balkan War: The Ottoman Navy is defeated by the Royal Hellenic Navy at the Battle of Eli
- Dec 17 Albania's de facto independence from the Ottoman Empire is recognized at the London Conference of Ambassadors
- Dec 18 Piltdown Man, later discovered to be a hoax, is supposedly found in the Piltdown Gravel Pit, by Charles Dawson.
- Dec 20 J Hartley Manners' "Peg O' My Heart" premieres in NYC
- Dec 20 Paul Claudels "L'Annonce Faite à Marie" premieres in Paris
- Dec 21 Denmark, Norway & Sweden declare neutrality in Comende war
- Dec 23 1st "Keystone Kops" film, entitled "Hoffmeyer's Legacy"
- Dec 23 Aswan Low Dam in Nile begins operation
- Dec 23 In Delhi, India, terrorist agitation continues as British Viceroy Lord Hardinge is wounded by a bomb explosion
- Dec 24 Irving Fisher patents archiving system with index cards
- Dec 28 National Council of Young Israel convenes
- Dec 28 1st municipally owned streetcars take to the streets in San Francisco, California as SF Municipal Railway starts operation at Geary St (MUNI)