November 1910 in History

Events in History

Historic Publication

Nov 1 First issue of "Crisis" published by editor W.E.B. Du Bois

Agreement of Interest

Nov 4 Russian Tsar Nicholas II visits German Emperor Wilhelm II at Potsdam; they force tentative agreements on spheres of influence in the Middle East

Nov 4 Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
Nov 6 SDAP/NVV initiate campaign for general males/female suffrage
Nov 7 The first air freight shipment (from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, Ohio) is undertaken by the Wright Brothers and department store owner Max Moorehouse.
Nov 8 1st Washington State election in which women could vote
Nov 8 For the first time since 1894, the US elects a Democratic Congress, including the first socialist ever to sit in Congress, Victor L Berger of Milwaukee
Nov 8 William H. Frost receives the first U.S. patent for an electrical insect destroyer
Nov 10 The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.
Nov 14 1st airplane flight from deck of a ship, Norfolk, Virginia
Nov 19 Ferenc Molnàr's play "Tester" premieres in Budapest
Nov 20 Revolution breaks out in Mexico, led by Francisco I. Madero
Nov 27 NY's Penn Station opens as world's largest railway terminal
Nov 29 The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest Sirrine

Birthdays in History

Nov 2 Fouad Serageddin, Egyptian politician and leader of Egypt's Wafd Party (d. 1999)
Nov 11 Israel Eldad, Israeli Revisionist Zionist philosopher and member of the pre-state underground group Lehi, born in Pidvolochysk, Galicia (d. 1996)

Raemer Schreiber (1910-1998)

Nov 11 American physicist (Manhattan Project) who helped develop the first atomic bomb during World War II and prepared the Fat Man bomb that was used in the bombing of Nagasaki, born in McMinnville, Oregon

Nov 13 William Bradford Huie, American writer and publisher, born in Hartselle, Alabama (d. 1986)
Nov 14 Eric Malpass, English writer (Pentecost family books), born in Derby, England (d. 1996)
Nov 14 Norman MacCaig, Scottish poet, born in Edinburgh (d. 1996)
Nov 18 Friedrich Weinreb, Polish economist and narrative author, born in Lemberg, Galicia, Austria-Hungary (d. 1988)
Nov 19 Adrian Conan Doyle, youngest son of Arthur Conan Doyle, born in Windlesham, Crowborough, Sussex (d. 1970)
Nov 20 Pauli Murray, African American poet and civil rights activist, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 1985)
Nov 20 Willem Jacob van Stockum, Dutch physicist and mathematician, born in Hattem, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Nov 25 Léon Poliakov, French historian (The Aryan Myth), born in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire (d. 1997)

Deaths in History

Nov 6 Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer, dies at 72
Nov 14 John La Farge, American painter (stained glass), dies at 75
Nov 15 Wilhelm Raabe [Jakob Corvinus], German author (Der Hungerpastor), dies at 79
Nov 19 Rudolf Fittig, German chemist (synthesizing organic compounds), dies at 74

Leo Tolstoy (1828-1910)

Nov 20 Russian novelist (Anna Karenina, War and Peace), dies of pneumonia at 82

Nov 23 Hawley Harvey Crippen [Dr Crippen], American homeopath and first killer to be caught with the aid of wireless telegraphy, dies by hanging at 48