Events in History
Event of Interest
Nov 1 Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
Woodrow Wilson
- Nov 3 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob
- Nov 5 Ludwig III crowned king of Bavaria
Event of Interest
Nov 6 Mahatma Gandhi arrested for leading Indian miners' march in South Africa
Mahatma Gandhi
- Nov 9 Storm "Freshwater Fury" sinks 8 ore-carriers on Great Lakes
- Nov 17 1st US dental hygienists course forms, Bridgeport, Connecticut
- Nov 17 The first ship sails through the Panama Canal, which connects the Atlantic and Pacific oceans
- Nov 18 Lincoln Deachey becomes the first American pilot to perform an aircraft loop-the-loop in his Curtiss aeroplane near San Diego
- Nov 23 Jim Larkin and James Connolly establish the Irish Citizens Army in order to protect strikers
- Nov 25 The Irish Volunteers founded in Dublin to "secure the rights and liberties common to all the people of Ireland"
- Nov 26 Russian kingdom forbids Polish congregation of speakers
- Nov 26 Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City
Birthdays in History
- Nov 2 Ivor Roberts-Jones, British sculptor (known for sculpted heads of Yehudi Menuhin and George Thomas), born in Oswestry, England (d. 1996)
Albert Camus
Nov 7 Albert Camus, French author (The Just-Nobel 1957), born in Dréan, Algeria (d. 1960)
Albert Camus
- Nov 9 Thelma Hulbert, English painter (Le Sacre du Printemps), born in Bath, Somerset (d. 1995)
- Nov 10 Alvaro Cunhal, Portuguese politician and writer, born in Coimbra, Portugal (d. 2005)
- Nov 13 Lon Nol, Cambodian politician, 7th President of the Khmer Republic (1972-75), born in Kampong Leav, Prey Veng, Cambodia (d. 1985)
- Nov 15 Arthur Haulot, Belgian journalist (d. 2005)
- Nov 22 Cecilia Muñoz-Palma, first female Philippine Supreme Court Justice (d. 2006)
- Nov 25 Lewis Thomas, American physician and essayist (d. 1993)
- Nov 27 Frances Swem Anderson, American technologist (nuclear medicine), born in Grand Rapids, Michigan (d. 2019)
- Nov 28 Hugo Pos, Surinamese-Dutch poet and writer, born in Paramaribo, Suriname (d. 2000)
Weddings in History
- Nov 25 28th US President Woodrow Wilson's daughter Jessie marries in The White House
Deaths in History
Alfred Russel Wallace
Nov 7 Alfred Russel Wallace, British naturalist, explorer and co-discoverer of the theory of evolution through natural selection, dies at 90
Alfred Russel Wallace
- Nov 25 Robert Stawell Ball, Irish mathematician and astronomer (Ball Screw), dies at 73