Events in History
- Nov 2 British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing
- Nov 2 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
- Nov 2 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
- Nov 3 Colombia grants independence to Panama
- Nov 3 Giovanni Giolitti becomes Prime Minister of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
- Nov 4 Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama
- Nov 6 USA recognizes independence of Panama
- Nov 17 Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate
- Nov 17 In the Treaty of Petropolis, Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil; Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east
- Nov 18 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
- Nov 19 Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate
Event of Interest
Nov 22 Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
Birthdays in History
- Nov 1 Edward "Carji" Greeves, Australian Rules Football midfielder (winner inaugural Brownlow Medal 1924), born in Warragul, Victoria (d. 1963)
- Nov 1 Gerard Nabrink, Dutch anarchist and co-founder (NVSH), born in The Hague, Netherlands (d. 1993)
- Nov 1 Jean Tardieu, French dramatist, born in St Germain de Joux (d. 1995)
- Nov 3 Walker Evans, American photographer (Fortune Magazine), born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 1975)
- Nov 7 Albert Helman [Lou Lichtveld], Suriname politician and novelist, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 1996)
- Nov 7 Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist and ethologist (Man & His Ideas, Nobel Prize 1973), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1989)
- Nov 9 Leon-Etienne Duval, French prelate and cardinal of the Catholic Church in Algeria, born in Chênex, Haute-Savoie, France (d. 1996)
- Nov 9 Margaret Fay Shaw, American photographer and folklorist known for her work in the Scottish Hebrides, born in Glenshaw, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
- Nov 11 Charles Bruce Perry, Professor of Medicine (Bristol University) (d. 1996)
- Nov 11 Thomas Allibone, English physicist (Manhattan Project, high-voltage particle acceleration), born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England (d. 2003)
- Nov 19 Fritz Schmidt, German Commissioner-General for Political Affairs and Propaganda (Netherlands, 1940-43), born in Porta Westfalica, Westphalia, Germany (d. 1943)
- Nov 20 Ishtiaq Hussain Qureshi, Pakistani historian and educationist, born in Patyali, near Allahabad, United Provinces of British India (d. 1981)
- Nov 22 Herbert Sally Frankel, South African born economist (d. 1996)
- Nov 30 Madame Grès [Germaine Emilie Krebs], French haute couturier (Grès), born in Paris, France (d. 1993)
Deaths in History
Theodor Mommsen (1817-1903)
Nov 1 German historian and scholar (Nobel Prize in Literature 1902), dies at 85
Camille Pissarro (1830-1903)
Nov 13 Danish Antillean and French Impressionist painter, dies at 73
- Nov 13 Wilhelm von Polenz, German author (Country of Zukunft), dies
Tom Horn (1860-1903)
Nov 20 American gunfighter and outlaw, hanged to death at 42
- Nov 25 Harriet Hubbard Ayer, American cosmetics manufacturer and columnist, dies at 54
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