- Oct 27 Axeman of New Orleans claims last victim
Historic Event
Oct 28 Volstead Act passed by US Congress, establishing prohibition, despite President Woodrow Wilson's veto
Historic Event
Nov 1 British Admiral David Beatty becomes First Sea Lord
- Nov 7 US police raid offices of Union of Russian Workers
- Nov 10 1st observance of National Book Week
- Nov 10 American Legion's 1st national convention (Minneapolis)
- Nov 11 Pope Benedictus XV states Roman Catholics political and business views
- Nov 12 Ross & Keith Smith start a 1 month flight from London to Australia
- Nov 14 Red Army captures Omsk, Siberia
- Nov 15 US Senate 1st invokes the Cloture Rule to end a filibuster, passes Versailles Treaty [1]
- Nov 16 Admiral Miklós Horthy, head of the Hungarian National Army, seizes Budapest and will later become regent of the restored Kingdom of Hungary
Signing of the Treaty of Versailles
Nov 19 US Senate rejects the Treaty of Versailles by a vote of 55 to 39; Congress two years later approves resolution ending hostilities with Germany and Austria-Hungary
Election of Interest
Nov 28 American-born Lady Nancy Astor elected as the 1st female member of the British House of Commons
- Dec 1 Lady Nancy Astor sworn-in as 1st female member of British Parliament
- Dec 10 Nobel Peace Prize awarded to US President Woodrow Wilson
- Dec 11 Boll weevil monument dedicated in Enterprise, Alabama
- Dec 13 Ross & Smith land in Australia from a flight from London
- Dec 15 Edna St Vincent Millay's play "Aria da Capo" premieres in NYC
- Dec 15 Fiume (Rijeka, modern Croatia) declares its Independence
- Dec 17 Austrian parliament approves 8-hour working day
- Dec 19 American Meteorological Society found
- Dec 20 Canadian National Railways established (N America's longest, 50,000 KM)
- Dec 20 US House of Representatives restricts immigration
Historic Event
Dec 21 J. Edgar Hoover deports anarchists/feminist Emma Goldman to Russia
