Events in History
- Nov 3 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help
Election of Interest
Nov 6 Charles Evans Hughes (R) elected NY Gov beats William Randolph Hearst

William Randolph Hearst
- Nov 6 Chinese Government ministries are reorganized as part of the movement towards constitutional government; but in fact the Manchu princes retain control and there is little gain for the Chinese people
Event of Interest
Nov 9 Theodore Roosevelt is 1st US President to visit another country (Puerto Rico and Panama)

Theodore Roosevelt
- Nov 11 Ethel Smyth's "Standrecht" premieres in Leipzig
- Nov 12 C W Gregory (NSW v Qld) starts day at 48*, is 366* at stumps
- Nov 13 C W Gregory out for 383 as NSW make 763 v Queensland
- Nov 14 US President Theodore Roosevelt visits Panama
- Nov 18 Langdon Mitchell's "New York Idea" premieres in NYC
- Nov 18 Anarchist's bomb St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
Event of Interest
Nov 20 George Bernard Shaw's "Doctor's Dilemma" premieres in London

George Bernard Shaw
Birthdays in History
- Nov 2 Luchino Visconti, Italian director (The Leopard, Death in Venice), born in Milan (d. 1976)
- Nov 2 Daniil Andreev, Russian writer, poet and Christian mystic, born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1959)
- Nov 2 Bengt Edlén, Swedish Astrophysicist who specialized in spectroscopy and discovered the source of unidentified emission lines in solar spectrum, born in Gusum, Sweden (d. 2003)
- Nov 4 Roswell Leavitt Gilpatric, lawyer/diplomat
- Nov 5 George Lowthian Trevelyan, designer/visionary
- Nov 5 Fred Lawrence Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
- Nov 7 Eugene Carson Blake, US sec-gen of World council of Churches (1966-72)
- Nov 7 Jan Vercammen, Flemish author/chief inspector LO (Primary Education)
- Nov 7 Margaret Barbara Lambert, British historian (Saar)
- Nov 9 Arthur Rudolph, German rocket engineer, born in Meiningen, Germany (d. 1996)
- Nov 10 Josef Kramer, German concentration camp Commandant dubbed "The Beast of Belsen", born in Munich, Germany (d. 1945)
- Nov 13 Eva Zeisel, American industrial designer, born in Budapest, Hungary (d. 2011)
- Nov 14 Louise Brooks, silent screen star (American Venus, Pandora's Box)
- Nov 15 Curtis E Le May, air force general/VP candidate
- Nov 17 Soichiro Honda, Japan, founder/CEO (Honda Motor Co)
George Wald
Nov 18 George Wald, American physiologist and biologist (Nobel Prize 1967, vitamin A in retina), born in NYC, New York (d. 1997)

George Wald