November 1--
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith, born 1500.--
Crawford W. Long, physician who first used ether as an anesthetic in surgery, born 1815.
November 2--
Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, born 1734.--
Marie Antoinette, French queen, born 1755.--
A Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portola reached San Francisco Bay, 1769.--
James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States, born near Pineville, N.C., 1795.--
Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States, born near Blooming Grove, Ohio,
1865.--
North Dakota became the 39th state, 1889.--
South Dakota became the 40th state, 1889.--
Arthur Balfour, British Foreign Secretary, proposed settlement of Jewish people in
Palestine, 1917.--
First regular radio broadcasts began, over station KDKA in Pittsburgh, 1920.
November 3--
Stephen Austin, colonizer of Texas, born 1793.--
Canadian explorer Vilhjalmur Stefansson born 1879.
November 4--
Erie Canal formally opened at New York, 1825.--
Will Rogers, American humorist, born 1879.--
Iranian revolutionaries took over the U.S. Embassy in Teheran and seized a group of U.S.
citizens as hostages, 1979.
November 5--
Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament failed, 1605.
England celebrates this day as Guy Fawkes Day.--
Eugene V. Debs, American socialist and labor leader, born 1855.--
Will Durant, American historian, philosopher, and educator, born 1885.
November 6--
John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster, born 1854.--
Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, born 1860.--
First intercollegiate football game in United States, Rutgers v. Princeton, at Rutgers,
1869.
November 7--
Gen. William Henry Harrison defeated Indians in Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811.--
Marie Curie, French physicist, born 1867.--
Last spike driven in Canadian Pacific Railway (now CP Rail), 1885.--
French author Albert Camus born 1913.--
Bolsheviks ousted provisional Russian government, 1917. The date was October 25 in the
Russian calendar then in use.
November 8--
Edmond Halley, British astronomer, born 1656.--
Mount Holyoke Seminary (today Mount Holyoke College) opened for women, 1837.--
Montana became the 41st state, 1889.
November 9--
Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, born 1818.--
Edward VII of England born 1841.--
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated German throne, 1918.November 10--
Martin Luther, German religious leader, born 1483.--
William Hogarth, English painter, born 1697.--
German poet Friedrich Schiller born 1759.--
Sir John S. D. Thompson, Canadian prime minister, born 1844.--
Arctic explorer Donald MacMillan born 1874.
November 11--
Russian novelist Fyodor M. Dostoevsky born 1821.--
Washington became the 42nd state, 1889.--
Armistice signed ending World War I, 1918.--
Veterans Day first celebrated in United States, 1954.
November 12--
Joseph Hopkinson, American jurist and author of "Hail Columbia," born
1770.--
Reformer Elizabeth Cady Stanton born 1815.--
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, born 1840.
November 13--
James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist, born 1831.--
Novelist Robert Louis Stevenson born 1850.--
Louis D. Brandeis, American jurist, born 1856.--
Holland Tunnel opened in New York City, 1927.
November 14--
Robert Fulton, American inventor, born 1765.--
Claude Monet, French painter, born 1840.--
Indian leader Jawaharlal Nehru born 1889.--
Canadian physician Frederick Grant Banting, famous for discovering insulin, born 1891.--
Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900.--
Prince Charles, heir to British throne, born 1948.
November 15--
William Pitt, British statesman, born 1708.--
William Herschel, English astronomer, born 1738.--
Draft of Articles of Confederation approved by Congress, 1777.--
Zebulon Pike sighted Pikes Peak, 1806.--
American jurist Felix Frankfurter born 1882.--
First meeting of League of Nations Assembly, 1920.--
Manuel Quezon inaugurated as first president of the Philippines, 1935.
November 16--
Canadian poet Louis H. Frechette born 1839.--
Composer Paul Hindemith born 1895.--
Oklahoma became the 46th state, 1907.
November 17--
Congress first met in Washington, D.C., 1800.--
Suez Canal opened, 1869.
November 18--
Louis Jacques Daguerre, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, born
1787.--
Standard time began in the United States, 1883.--
Sir William S. Gilbert, English dramatist who worked with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan,
born 1836.--
United States and Panama signed treaty providing for Panama Canal, 1903.--
Asa Gray, American botanist, born 1810.--
Eugene Ormandy, American conductor, born 1899.
November 19--
Frontiersman George Rogers Clark born 1752.--
Ferdinand de Lesseps, French promoter of Suez Canal, born 1805.--
James A. Garfield, 20th President of the United States, born 1831.--
Abraham Lincoln delivered Gettysburg Address, 1863.--
Indira Gandhi, first woman prime minister of India, born 1917.
November 20--
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian statesman, born 1841.--
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of professional baseball, born 1866.--
Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist, born 1858.--
United States forces landed on Tarawa, 1943.
November 21--
Voltaire, French author and philosopher, born 1694.--
North Carolina ratified the Constitution, 1789.
November 22--
French explorer Sieur de La Salle born 1643.--
George Eliot, English novelist, born 1819.--
Charles de Gaulle, French statesman, born 1890.--
Benjamin Britten, British composer, born 1913.--
First transpacific air-mail flight began, 1935.--
U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated, 1963.November 23--
Franklin Pierce, 14th President of the United States, born in Hillsboro, N.H., 1804.
November 24--
Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, born 1632.--
Franciscan missionary Father Junipero Serra born 1713.--
Laurence Sterne, British novelist, born 1713.--
Zachary Taylor, 12th President of the United States, born near Barboursville, Va., 1784.--
French painter Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec born 1864.
November 25--
Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright, born 1562.--
American industrialist Andrew Carnegie born 1835.--
Pope John XXIII born 1881.--Joe DiMaggio, American baseball star, born 1914.
November 26--
First national Thanksgiving Day in United States proclaimed by President George
Washington, 1789.
November 27--
Charles A. Beard, American historian, born 1874.
November 28--
William Blake, English poet and artist, born 1757.--
Stefan Zweig, Austrian biographer, born 1881.
November 29--
Louisa M. Alcott, American author, born 1832.--
Commander Richard E. Byrd and crew of three became first to fly over South Pole, 1929.
November 30--
Jonathan Swift, who wrote Gulliver's Travels, born 1667.--
Mark Twain, American author, born 1835.--
British statesman Sir Winston Churchill born 1874.