November 1891 in History

Events in History

Nov 10 1st Women's Christian Temperance Union meeting held (in Boston)
Nov 10 Granville T Woods patents electric railway

Catholic Encyclical

Nov 30 Pope Leo XIII's encyclical "Rerum novarum" published

Birthdays in History

Nov 5 Mary Dorna [Mary Jeanette Tenkink-Stoppelman], Dutch author, born in Amsterdam (d. 1971)
Nov 12 Seth Barnes Nicholson, American astronomer who discovered four satellites of Jupiter, born in Springfield, Illinois (d. 1963)

Frederick Banting (1891-1941)

Nov 14 Canadian physician, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine, born in Alliston, Ontario

Erwin Rommel (1891-1944)

Nov 15 German World War II Field Marshal (North African campaign, Battle of Normandy) known as the Desert Fox, born in Heidenheim, Württemberg, Germany

Nov 15 W. Averell Harriman, American politician (Gov-D-NY) and ambassador to USSR (1943-46), born in New York City (d. 1986)
Nov 22 Edward Bernays, Austrian-American pioneer in the field of public relations and propaganda, born in Vienna, Austria-Hungary (d. 1995)
Nov 22 Erik Lindahl, Swedish economist (Theory of Money & Capital), born in Stockholm, Sweden (d. 1960)
Nov 27 Pedro Salinas, Spanish writer (Generation of 1927), born in Madrid (d. 1951)
Nov 28 Gregorio Perfecto, Filipino jurist (48th Associate Justice of the Philippine Supreme Court) and politician, born in Mandurriao, Iloilo, Captaincy General of the Philippines (d. 1949)
Nov 29 Julius Raab, Austrian politician (Chancellor 1953-61), born in Sankt Pölten, Austria (d. 1964)