Event of Interest
Oct 16 Margaret Sanger opens 1st birth control clinic in the US at 46 Amboy St, Brooklyn
Meeting of Interest
Oct 16 T. E. Lawrence (of Arabia) meets with Fasal Hoessein
- Oct 17 Dutch women demonstrate for female suffrage
Event of Interest
Oct 19 France extends formal recognition of the Provisional Government in Crete proclaimed Eleftherios Venizelos
Event of Interest
Oct 22 US suffragette Inez Milholland collapses during a speech in Los Angeles (dies weeks later). Her last word's are to President Woodrow Wilson “Mr. President, how long must women wait for liberty?”
- Oct 24 Moroccan troops capture Ft Douaumont
- Oct 26 American sex educator Margaret Sanger arrested for obscenity (advocating birth control)
- Oct 27 Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
- Oct 28 Australian government holds a national referendum seeking support for the proposal of compulsory conscription; it is rejected
- Oct 31 Clare Kummer's play "Good Gracious Annabelle" premieres in NYC
- Nov 1 Paul Miliukov delivers in the Russian State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government
- Nov 2 Battle of Verdun: Fort Vaux reconquered from Germans by French troops without firing a shot
- Nov 3 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
Event of Interest
Nov 5 German Emperor Wilhelm II and Austro-Hungarian Emperor Franz Joseph I establish the Kingdom of Poland
- Nov 5 Second Chamber accept initial impetus to general males/female suffrage
- Nov 5 The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police.
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Amidst the Mexican Revolution and World War I, Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President of the United States, defeating Republican candidate Charles E. Hughes
- Nov 7 Grand Duke Nikolai Nikolayevich warns Tsar of uprising
Election of Interest
Nov 7 Jeannette Rankin (Rep-R-Montana) is elected to Congress as its first woman Representative
Event of Interest
Nov 15 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross
Event of Interest
Nov 16 Eugene O'Neill's "Bound East for Cardiff" premieres in NYC
- Nov 16 Russian La Satannaya ammunition factory explodes, killing 1,000
Five Miles of Mud Costs a Million Casualties
Nov 18 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the 1st Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers had been killed or wounded
- Nov 21 HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people
- Nov 24 Mexican and US representatives sign a protocol at Atlantic City, under which Pershing's troops will withdraw and each nation's army will guard the border. President Carranza of Mexico will refuse to accept it
- Nov 26 Addressing the Chamber of Commerce in Cincinnati, US President Woodrow Wilson declares that 'The business of neutrality is over. The nature of modern war leaves no state untouched'
- Nov 26 Greece declares war on Germany
- Nov 28 1st German air attack on London
- Nov 29 US declares martial law in Dominican Republic
- Nov 30 Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
- Dec 1 There is virtual civil war in Greece as royalists fight Eleftherios Venizelos' Liberal Party, the Allies ensure a Venizelist victory
- Dec 6 World War I: The Central Powers under General Mackensen capture Bucharest
Event of Interest
Dec 7 David Lloyd George replaces resigning H. H. Asquith as British Prime Minister
- Dec 11 David Lloyd George forms British war government
- Dec 13 Avalanche kills 10,000 Austrian and Italian troops in 24 hrs in Tyrol
- Dec 13 Esme Stuart Lennox Robinsons premieres in Dublin
- Dec 13 French chief of staff Joffre replaced by Nivelle
- Dec 14 America's first board certified doctors are named by the American Board of Ophthalmology following an examination at the University of Tennessee Medical School in Memphis, Tennessee
- Dec 15 Battle of Verdun: French launch major offensive against German lines after a six-day artillery bombardment
- Dec 18 Battle of Verdun, longest of World War I, officially ends in German defeat after nine months of fighting and almost 1 million total casualties
- Dec 19 Suriname Bauxite Company forms in Paramaribo
- Dec 23 World War I: Battle of Magdhaba - Allied forces defeat Turkish forces in Egypt's Sinai peninsula
- Dec 26 Joseph Joffre becomes marshal of France