November 1917 in History

Events in History

Event of Interest

Nov 2 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine

Nov 2 In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
Nov 2 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
Nov 3 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
Nov 5 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
Nov 5 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
Nov 6 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections

Red October

Nov 6 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution

Protesters scatter in Petrograd shortly after Russian government troops opened fire

Nov 7 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks

Event of Interest

Nov 7 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin

Nov 7 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.
Nov 8 Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants
Nov 10 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
Nov 10 Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate premieres
Nov 10 New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
Nov 16 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
Nov 17 Vladimir Lenin defends "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
Nov 18 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Nov 20 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
Nov 20 Ukrainian Republic declared

Event of Interest

Nov 21 Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer

Nov 24 Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
Nov 26 The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
Nov 28 Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC
Nov 29 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims

Birthdays in History

Nov 1 Clarence E. Miller, American politician (Rep-R-OH, 1967-93), born in Lancaster, Ohio (d. 2011)
Nov 1 Margaret Taylor-Burroughs, American visual artist and co-founder of DuSable Museum of African American History, born in St. Rose, Louisiana (d. 2010)
Nov 1 Zenna Henderson, American sci-fi author (Anything Box), born in Tucson, Arizona (d. 1983)
Nov 5 Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (1975-77), born in Bhiwani, Punjab, British India (d. 2007)
Nov 5 Jacob Everaers, Dutch office clerk and resistance fighter, born in Tholen, Netherlands (d. 1944)
Nov 5 Jacqueline Auriol, French aviator, born in Challans, Vendée, France (d. 2000)
Nov 6 Edgar Whitcomb, American politician and Governor of Indiana (1969-73), born in Hayden, Indiana (d. 2016)
Nov 8 Kamal Ranadive (née Samarth), Indian cancer researcher (Indian Women Scientists' Association; Indian Cancer Research Centre), born in Poona, Bombay presidency, British India (d. 2001)
Nov 11 Mack Reynolds, American sci-fi author (Earth War), born in Corcoran, California (d. 1983)
Nov 12 Joseph Coors, American CEO (Adolph Coors Co Brewery), born in Golden, Colorado (d. 2003)

Indira Gandhi (1917-1984)

Nov 19 4th Prime Minister of India (1966-77, 1980-84), born in Allahabad India

Nov 20 Robert Byrd, US Senator (Democrat-WV, 1959-2010), majority leader and once the longest-serving Senator in history, born in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina (d. 2010)
Nov 21 Sem Presser, Dutch press photographer, born in Amsterdam (d. 1986)
Nov 22 Bridget Bate Tichenor (born Bridget Pamela Arkwright Bate), Mexican surrealist painter, born in Paris, France (d. 1990)
Nov 23 Hugh Joseph Charles James L'Etang, British medical writer (d. 1996)
Nov 27 Tiny Rowland [Roland Fuhrop], German-British businessman and corporate raider (Observer, tried to take over Harrods), born in Calcutta, British India (d. 1998)

Deaths in History

Nov 3 Léon Bloy, French novelist and essayist, dies at 71
Nov 4 Chocolat [Rafael Padilla], Afro-Cuban clown, dies at 52
Nov 11 Liliuokalani [Lydia Kamakaʻeha], last queen of Hawaii (1891-93), dies from a stroke at 79
Nov 13 Émile Durkheim, French sociologist (Le suicide), dies at 59
Nov 14 William Smith, British deserter in France, executed at 20
Nov 15 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Baptist and Holiness Movement minister and writer (My Utmost for His Highest), dies at 43

Auguste Rodin (1840-1917)

Nov 17 French sculptor (Baiser, Thinker), dies at 77

Nov 17 Charles Holroyd, English artist and curator, Director of the National Gallery (1906-16), dies at 56
Nov 18 Henry Spiekman, Dutch journalist and politician (co-founder Social Democratic Workers' Party), dies of leukemia at 43
Nov 22 Teoberto Maler, German-born explorer (b. 1842)
Nov 26 Leander Starr Jameson, British colonial politician (led Jameson raid in attempt to overthrow Boer Transvaal government, Prime Minister of Cape Colony 1904-08), dies at 64