November 1, 1911 (Wednesday)

• The first aerial bombardment in history took place when 2d.Lt. Giulio Gavotti of the Italian Army threw three Cipelli hand grenades on Turkish troops at Tagiura in Libya, then flew his Etrich Taube monoplane to Ain and dropped an additional grenade. Nobody was injured in the first bombing.
• Robert Falcon Scott
  Robert Falcon Scott
  Captain Robert Falcon Scott, CVO was a Royal Navy officer and explorer who led two expeditions to the Antarctic regions: the Discovery Expedition, 1901–04, and the ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition, 1910–13...
  
   and his party of 12 departed Cape Evans
  Cape Evans
  Cape Evans is a rocky cape on the west side of Ross Island, forming the north side of the entrance to Erebus Bay.The cape was discovered by the Discovery expedition under Robert Falcon Scott, who named it the Skuary. Scott's second expedition, the British Antarctic Expedition , built its...
  
  , at 77°38′ south on their quest to become the first persons to reach the South Pole
  South Pole
  The South Pole, also known as the Geographic South Pole or Terrestrial South Pole, is one of the two points where the Earth's axis of rotation intersects its surface. It is the southernmost point on the surface of the Earth and lies on the opposite side of the Earth from the North Pole...
  
  . Roald Amundsen
  Roald Amundsen
  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....
  
   of Norway had begun his trek to the Pole on October 19
  October 1911
  January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberThe following events occurred in October 1911:-October 1, 1911 :...
  
   and was at the Ross Ice Shelf
  Ross Ice Shelf
  The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...
  
   at 81° south.
• In the largest American fleet of warships ever assembled, more than 100 U.S. Navy ships sailed on the Hudson River off of New York City for review by Secretary of the Navy George von L. Meyer, led by the USS Connecticut
  USS Connecticut (BB-18)
  USS Connecticut , the fourth United States Navy ship to be named after the state of Connecticut, was the lead ship of her class of six. Her keel was laid on 10 March 1903; launched on 29 September 1904, Connecticut was commissioned on 29 September 1906 as the most advanced ship in the U.S...
  
  . "This mobilization has demonstrated the preparedness of the American Navy for any emergency." On the same day, most of the U.S. Navy's Pacific Ocean fleet sailed past Los Angeles, with 22 ships and 2 submarines, led by the USS Oregon
  USS Oregon (BB-3)
  USS Oregon was a pre-Dreadnought of the United States Navy. Her construction was authorized on 30 June 1890, and the contract to build her was awarded to Union Iron Works of San Francisco, California on 19 November 1890. Her keel was laid exactly one year later...
  
  .
• Pope Pius X
  Pope Pius X
  Pope Saint Pius X , born Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto, was the 257th Pope of the Catholic Church, serving from 1903 to 1914. He was the first pope since Pope Pius V to be canonized. Pius X rejected modernist interpretations of Catholic doctrine, promoting traditional devotional practices and orthodox...
  
   issued the papal bull Divino afflatu, requiring that the new breviary
  Breviary
  A breviary is a liturgical book of the Latin liturgical rites of the Catholic Church containing the public or canonical prayers, hymns, the Psalms, readings, and notations for everyday use, especially by bishops, priests, and deacons in the Divine Office...
  
   be used in all Roman Catholic churches no later than October 23, 1917.
• Chinese Imperial troops were successful in recapturing Hankou
  Hankou
  Hankou was one of the three cities whose merging formed modern-day Wuhan, the capital of the Hubei province, China. It stands north of the Han and Yangtze Rivers where the Han falls into the Yangtze...
  
   for the benefit of the Manchu dynasty, but a contingent of troops from the Shanxi
  Shanxi
  ' is a province in Northern China. Its one-character abbreviation is "晋" , after the state of Jin that existed here during the Spring and Autumn Period....
  
   Province, brought along for assistance, mutinied at Shikiatan. The group massacred 1,000 Manchu civilians, including their own commander and the Governor, his family, and their own general.
• Born: Sidney Wood
  Sidney Wood
  Sidney Wood was an American tennis player.Wood was born in Black Rock, Connecticut. He won the Arizona State Men’s Tournament on his 14th birthday, which qualified him for the French Championship and led to him earning a spot at Wimbledon He attended The Hill School in Pottstown, Pennsylvania,...
  
  , American tennis player, Wimbledon champion 1931; in Black Rock, Connecticut
  Black Rock, Connecticut
  Black Rock is a neighborhood in the southwestern section of the city of Bridgeport, Connecticut. It was part of the Town of Fairfield before the State of Connecticut granted the land to Bridgeport...
  
   (d. 2009); Henri Troyat
  Henri Troyat
  Henri Troyat was a Russian born French author, biographer, historian and novelist.-Biography:Troyat was born Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow to parents of mixed heritage, including Armenian, Russian, German and Georgian...
  
  , Russian-born French novelist, as Lev Aslanovich Tarasov, in Moscow (d. 2007); and Slade Cutter
  Slade Cutter
  Slade Deville Cutter was a career U.S. naval officer who was awarded four Navy Crosses and tied for second place for Japanese ships sunk in World War II...
  
  , U.S. Navy officer and World War II hero; in Oswego, Illinois
  Oswego, Illinois
  Oswego is a village in Kendall County, Illinois, United States. As of the 2010 census, the village population was 30,355. Its population has more than doubled since the 2000 census count of 13,326...
  
   (d. 2005)

November 2, 1911 (Thursday)

• U.S. President Taft
  William Howard Taft
  William Howard Taft was the 27th President of the United States and later the tenth Chief Justice of the United States...
  
   received a 3,690 gun salute on "the greatest naval day this country has known in time of peace", as he reviewed most of the fleet of the U.S. Navy. The occasion was marred by the death of Seaman Gustav Frey, who fell overboard and drowned.
• Born: Odysseas Elytis
  Odysseas Elytis
  Odysseas Elytis was regarded as a major exponent of romantic modernism in Greece and the world. In 1979 he was bestowed with the Nobel Prize in Literature.-Biography:...
  
  , Greek poet who won the Nobel Prize in Literature
  Nobel Prize in Literature
  Since 1901, the Nobel Prize in Literature has been awarded annually to an author from any country who has, in the words from the will of Alfred Nobel, produced "in the field of literature the most outstanding work in an ideal direction"...
  
   in 1979; as Odysseas Alepoudellis in Heraklion
  Heraklion
  Heraklion, or Heraclion is the largest city and the administrative capital of the island of Crete, Greece. It is the 4th largest city in Greece....
  
   (d. 1996); and Carlos Bulosan
  Carlos Bulosan
  Also known as Julius Zafra , a Filipino, an English-language novelist and poet who spent most of his life in the United States, and is best known for the semi-autobiographical America Is in the Heart.-Life and career:Carlos Bulosan was born to Ilocano parents in...
  
  , Philippine-born American novelist, in Binalonan

November 3, 1911 (Friday)

• The Chevrolet Motor Company was incorporated by former General Motors Chairman William C. Durant
  William C. Durant
  William Crapo "Billy" Durant was a leading pioneer of the United States automobile industry, the founder of General Motors and Chevrolet who created the system of multi-brand holding companies with different lines of cars....
  
  , to begin manufacture of an inexpensive automobile that had been designed by race car driver Louis Chevrolet
  Louis Chevrolet
  Louis-Joseph Chevrolet was a Swiss-born American race car driver of French descent, co-founder of the Chevrolet Motor Car Company in 1911 and later, the Frontenac Motor Corporation in 1916 which made racing parts for Ford's Model T.-Early life:Born in 1878 in La Chaux-de-Fonds, a center of...
  
  . The Chevrolet would prove so successful that Durant would be able to acquire sufficient GM stock to regain control of that company.
• Shanghai
  Shanghai
  Shanghai is the largest city by population in China and the largest city proper in the world. It is one of the four province-level municipalities in the People's Republic of China, with a total population of over 23 million as of 2010...
  
   was taken over by rebels, led by Chen Qimei
  Chen Qimei
  Chen Qimei was a Chinese revolutionary activist, close political ally of Sun Yat-sen, and early mentor of Chiang Kai-shek. He was as one of the founders of the Republic of China, and the uncle of Chen Guofu and Chen Lifu....
  
  , without resistance.
• Prince Chun
  Zaifeng, 2nd Prince Chun
  The 2nd Prince Chun was born Zaifeng , of the Manchu Aisin-Gioro clan . He was the leader of China between 1908 and 1911, serving as regent for his son Puyi, the Xuantong Emperor.His courtesy name was Yiyun...
  
  , the Regent
  Regent
  A regent, from the Latin regens "one who reigns", is a person selected to act as head of state because the ruler is a minor, not present, or debilitated. Currently there are only two ruling Regencies in the world, sovereign Liechtenstein and the Malaysian constitutive state of Terengganu...
  
   for his young son, the Emperor of China
  Emperor of China
  The Emperor of China refers to any sovereign of Imperial China reigning between the founding of Qin Dynasty of China, united by the King of Qin in 221 BCE, and the fall of Yuan Shikai's Empire of China in 1916. When referred to as the Son of Heaven , a title that predates the Qin unification, the...
  
  , issued an edict accepting the National Assembly's 19 basic points for a new Constitution. The reform, which would have permitted the Emperor to remain on the throne in a constitutional monarchy
  Constitutional monarchy
  Constitutional monarchy is a form of government in which a monarch acts as head of state within the parameters of a constitution, whether it be a written, uncodified or blended constitution...
  
   in a parliamentary government, came too late to prevent the foundation of a republic.
• Born: Vladimir Ussachevsky
  Vladimir Ussachevsky
  Vladimir Kirilovitch Ussachevsky was a composer, particularly known for his work in electronic music.-Biography:...
  
  , Russian-American composer of electronic music (d. 1990)
• Died: Norman J. Colman, 84, the first person to ever serve as U.S. Secretary of Agriculture after the U.S. Agricultural Commission was elevated to cabinet status in 1889; and Daniel Drawbaugh
  Daniel Drawbaugh
  Daniel Drawbaugh was a purported inventor of the telephone for which he sought a patent in 1880. His claims were contested by the Bell Telephone Company, which won a court decision in 1888....
  
  , 84, who claimed to have invented the telephone, pneumatic tools, hydraulic rams, folding lunchboxes, barrel faucets, self-measuring wrapping machines, coin separators, and a wireless burglar alarm.

November 4, 1911 (Saturday)

• The Agadir Crisis
  Agadir Crisis
  The Agadir Crisis, also called the Second Moroccan Crisis, or the Panthersprung, was the international tension sparked by the deployment of the German gunboat Panther, to the Moroccan port of Agadir on July 1, 1911.-Background:...
  
   ended with the signing of Franco-German peace treaty was signed at Berlin between German Foreign Minister Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
  Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter
  Alfred von Kiderlen-Waechter was a German diplomat and politician, who served as Foreign Secretary and head of the Foreign Office from 27 June 1910 to 30 December 1912.-Biography:...
  
   and France's Ambassador to Germany, Jules Cambon
  Jules Cambon
  Jules-Martin Cambon was a French diplomat.He began his career as a lawyer , served in the Franco-Prussian War and entered the civil service in 1871...
  
  , ending Germany's threat to go to war over Morocco. Germany
  Germany
  Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...
  
   withdrew all claims to North Africa, with Morocco
  Morocco
  Morocco , officially the Kingdom of Morocco , is a country located in North Africa. It has a population of more than 32 million and an area of 710,850 km², and also primarily administers the disputed region of the Western Sahara...
  
   being partitioned between France
  France
  The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
  
   (as a protectorate) and Spain
  Spain
  Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
  
   (as the colony the Spanish Sahara
  Spanish Sahara
  Spanish Sahara was the name used for the modern territory of Western Sahara when it was ruled as a territory by Spain between 1884 and 1975...
  
  ). In return, France ceded to Germany 107,270 mi² of the French Congo, as part of Kamerun
  Kamerun
  German Cameroon was a West African colony of the German Empire from 1884 to 1916 in the region of today's Republic of Cameroon.-History:-1800s:...
  
  , and Germany ceded 6,450 mi² of German Kamerun to France as part of Chad. The territorial changes lasted only seven years, and after Germany's defeat in World War One, German Kamerun became French Cameroun.
• The dirigible balloon Akron, piloted by Melvin Vaniman
  Melvin Vaniman
  thumb|200px|right|Drawing of the air ship Akron in which Vaniman lost his lifeChester Melvin Vaniman was an American photographer, adventurer and businessman who specialized in panoramic images taken from heights. Born to a farming family in Virden, Illinois, he was the eldest of four sons, and...
  
  , was tested at Atlantic City in its first flight, but lost altitude and came down nine miles north at Grassy Bay.
• Born: Charles Assalé
  Charles Assalé
  Charles Assalé was a Cameroonian politician of the Union of the Peoples of Cameroon. He served as the second Prime Minister of the federated state of East Cameroon from 15 May 1960 to 19 June 1965.-References:...
  
  , Prime Minister of Cameroon, 1960-61, and of East Cameroon 1961-65; in Ebolowa
  Ebolowa
  Ebolowa is the capital of Cameroon's South Province. It has a population of 79,500 . It is a colonial town and a notable agricultural centre.- Overview :The main crop is cocoa...
  
   (d. 1999); and Dixie Lee Crosby, American actress and first wife of Bing Crosby
  Bing Crosby
  Harry Lillis "Bing" Crosby was an American singer and actor. Crosby's trademark bass-baritone voice made him one of the best-selling recording artists of the 20th century, with over half a billion records in circulation....
  
  , as Wilma Winifred Wyatt, in Harriman, Tennessee
  Harriman, Tennessee
  Harriman is a city in the U.S. state of Tennessee, primarily in Roane County, with a small extension into Morgan County. It is the principal city of and is included in the Harriman Micropolitan Statistical Area, which consists of Roane County and is a component of the Knoxville-Sevierville-La...
  
   (d. 1952),

November 5, 1911 (Sunday)

• Calbraith P. Rodgers arrived in Pasadena
  Pasadena
  -Places:Places in Australia:*Pasadena, South Australia, a suburb of AdelaidePlaces in Canada:*Pasadena, NewfoundlandPlaces in the United States:*Pasadena, California*South Pasadena, California*South Pasadena, Florida*Pasadena, Maryland...
  
  , California
  California
  California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
  
  , landing his airplane, the Vin Fiz Flyer at 4:04 pm, to become the first person to fly across the United States. A crowd of 20,000 greeted him, with a large group breaking through police guards to mob him. Reportedly, "hundreds threw hats and caps into the air, and trampled them into the dirt when they fell". He had started in New York City on September 17
  September 1911
  January - February - March - April - May - June - July - August - September - October - November - DecemberThe following events occurred in September 1911:-September 1, 1911 :*Emilio Estrada was inaugurated as the 23rd President of Ecuador...
  
   and flown 3,220 miles in 69 stops. Rodgers, who replaced 98% of the original wood, wire and fabric of the plane and sustained a dozen crashes on his trip, would be killed in another crash five months later, on April 3, 1912.
• Giovanni Giolitti
  Giovanni Giolitti
  Giovanni Giolitti was an Italian statesman. He was the 19th, 25th, 29th, 32nd and 37th Prime Minister of Italy between 1892 and 1921. A left-wing liberal, Giolitti's periods in office were notable for the passage of a wide range of progressive social reforms which improved the living standards of...
  
  , the Prime Minister of Italy
  Prime minister of Italy
  The Prime Minister of Italy is the head of government of the Italian Republic...
  
  , announced the royal decree annexing the Ottoman Empire provinces of Tripoli
  Tripoli
  Tripoli is the capital and largest city in Libya. It is also known as Western Tripoli , to distinguish it from Tripoli, Lebanon. It is affectionately called The Mermaid of the Mediterranean , describing its turquoise waters and its whitewashed buildings. Tripoli is a Greek name that means "Three...
  
   and Cyrenaica
  Cyrenaica
  Cyrenaica is the eastern coastal region of Libya.Also known as Pentapolis in antiquity, it was part of the Creta et Cyrenaica province during the Roman period, later divided in Libia Pentapolis and Libia Sicca...
  
   (both part of modern Libya
  Libya
  Libya is an African country in the Maghreb region of North Africa bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the north, Egypt to the east, Sudan to the southeast, Chad and Niger to the south, and Algeria and Tunisia to the west....
  
  ) to the Kingdom of Italy. The decree would be confirmed by the Parliament on February 25, 1912.
• Born: Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers
  Roy Rogers, born Leonard Franklin Slye , was an American singer and cowboy actor, one of the most heavily marketed and merchandised stars of his era, as well as being the namesake of the Roy Rogers Restaurants franchised chain...
  
  , American cowboy, singer and actor; as Leonard Slye in Cincinnati (d. 1998)
• Died: Sir Hugh Gilzean Reid, 75, who published the first halfpenny priced newspaper in Great Britain.

November 6, 1911 (Monday)

• The first straight pool
  Straight Pool
  Straight pool, also called 14.1 continuous or simply 14.1, is a pocket billiards game, and was the common sport of championship competition until overtaken by faster-playing games like nine-ball...
  
   tournament, using the rules for "14.1 continuous" pocket billiards, was held, with Alfredo De Oro winning. The game, adapted from the 1888 game of continuous pool on the suggestion of champion Jerome Keogh, scored points by the cumulative number of balls sunk.
• Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician, he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce...
  
   was sworn into office as President of Mexico
  President of Mexico
  The President of the United Mexican States is the head of state and government of Mexico. Under the Constitution, the president is also the Supreme Commander of the Mexican armed forces...
  
  . He left many of the federales, whom he had defeated, in command of the Mexican army, and his attempts at reform led to more rebellion. Emiliano Zapata
  Emiliano Zapata
  Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution...
  
   would declre his own revolution three weeks later. Madero and Vice-President José María Pino Suárez
  José María Pino Suárez
  José María Pino Suárez was a Mexican statesman, revolutionary, poet, journalist and jurist who served as Vice President of Mexico , Secreatry of Education and Governor of Yucatán...
  
   would both be assassinated on February 22, 1913.
• Born: Leonhard Goppelt, German-born Biblical interpreter, in Munich
  Munich
  Munich The city's motto is "" . Before 2006, it was "Weltstadt mit Herz" . Its native name, , is derived from the Old High German Munichen, meaning "by the monks' place". The city's name derives from the monks of the Benedictine order who founded the city; hence the monk depicted on the city's coat...
  
   (d. 1973)

November 7, 1911 (Tuesday)

• It was announced that Marie Curie
  Marie Curie
  Marie Skłodowska-Curie was a physicist and chemist famous for her pioneering research on radioactivity. She was the first person honored with two Nobel Prizes—in physics and chemistry...
  
   had been awarded the Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  Nobel Prize in Chemistry
  The Nobel Prize in Chemistry is awarded annually by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences to scientists in the various fields of chemistry. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895, awarded for outstanding contributions in chemistry, physics, literature,...
  
  . In 1903, she had been co-winner, with Pierre Curie
  Pierre Curie
  Pierre Curie was a French physicist, a pioneer in crystallography, magnetism, piezoelectricity and radioactivity, and Nobel laureate. He was the son of Dr. Eugène Curie and Sophie-Claire Depouilly Curie ...
  
  , for the Nobel Prize in Physics
  Nobel Prize in Physics
  The Nobel Prize in Physics is awarded once a year by the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences. It is one of the five Nobel Prizes established by the will of Alfred Nobel in 1895 and awarded since 1901; the others are the Nobel Prize in Chemistry, Nobel Prize in Literature, Nobel Peace Prize, and...
  
  , making her the first person to win a second Nobel Prize, and one of only two (the other one being Linus Pauling
  Linus Pauling
  Linus Carl Pauling was an American chemist, biochemist, peace activist, author, and educator. He was one of the most influential chemists in history and ranks among the most important scientists of the 20th century...
  
  ) to have won in two different categories.
• Yuan Shih-kai was named as the Prime Minister of the Chinese Empire.
• The legislature of the Fujian
  Fujian
  ' , formerly romanised as Fukien or Huguing or Foukien, is a province on the southeast coast of mainland China. Fujian is bordered by Zhejiang to the north, Jiangxi to the west, and Guangdong to the south. Taiwan lies to the east, across the Taiwan Strait...
  
   Province of China voted to declare its independence from the Empire, and joined the Republic of China four days later.
• General Wu Lu-cheng, the Governor-General of the Shaanxi Province, committed suicide after refusing instructions from the Emperor's court to surrender.

November 8, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Arthur Balfour
  Arthur Balfour
  Arthur James Balfour, 1st Earl of Balfour, KG, OM, PC, DL was a British Conservative politician and statesman...
  
   resigned as leader of the Conservative Party and as Leader of the Opposition in the British House of Commons, after being blamed by the B.M.G. ("Balfour Must Go") campaign for not opposing the Parliament Bill. .
• João Pinheiro Chagas
  João Pinheiro Chagas
  João Pinheiro Chagas was a Portuguese journalist and politician. He was born in Brazil, from Portuguese parents who soon moved back to Portugal. He was an editor at the newspapers "O Primeiro de Janeiro", "Correio do Norte", "O Tempo" and "O Dia"...
  
   resigned as Prime Minister of Portugal
  Prime Minister of Portugal
  Prime Minister is the current title of the chief of the Portuguese Government. As chief executive, the Prime Minister coordinates the action of ministers, representing the Government from the other organs of state, accountable to Parliament and keeps the President informed...
  
   along with his entire cabinet.
• The legislature of the Anhui
  Anhui
  Anhui is a province in the People's Republic of China. Located in eastern China across the basins of the Yangtze River and the Huai River, it borders Jiangsu to the east, Zhejiang to the southeast, Jiangxi to the south, Hubei to the southwest, Henan to the northwest, and Shandong for a tiny...
  
   Province voted to secede from Imperial China.
• At his basement in St. Louis, inventor Anthony F. Wice tested his idea to generate heat by mixing compressed air and gasoline, after telling his son that he was on the verge of a breakthrough. An explosion killed him instantly.
• Born: Jacob B. Agus
  Jacob B. Agus
  Jacob B. Agus was a liberal Conservative rabbi and theologian who played a key role in the Conservative Rabbinical Assembly.- Life :...
  
  , Polish-born American rabbi, as Yakov Dov Agushewitz in Swislocz
  Svislach
  Svislach is a town in the South-West of Hrodna voblast, Belarus, an administrative center of the Svislach district.It is connected with Vaŭkavysk by a railroad branch and with Hrodna by a highway...
  
   (now Svislach, Belarus) (d. 1986)

November 9, 1911 (Thursday)

• At Hodgenville, Kentucky
  Hodgenville, Kentucky
  Hodgenville is a city in and the county seat of LaRue County, Kentucky, United States. It sits along the North Fork of the Nolin River. The population was 2,874 at the 2000 census...
  
  , President Taft dedicated the granite temple surrounding a replica of Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln
  Abraham Lincoln was the 16th President of the United States, serving from March 1861 until his assassination in April 1865. He successfully led his country through a great constitutional, military and moral crisis – the American Civil War – preserving the Union, while ending slavery, and...
  
  's log cabin. "Few men have come into public prominence who came absolutely from the soil as did Abraham Lincoln," said Taft. "With an illiterate and shiftless father and a mother who, though of education and force, died before he reached youth," said Taft, "his future was dark indeed."
• The Kwangtung Province
  Guangdong
  Guangdong is a province on the South China Sea coast of the People's Republic of China. The province was previously often written with the alternative English name Kwangtung Province...
  
   became the latest to secede from China as the National Assembly at Canton (now Guangzhou
  Guangzhou
  Guangzhou , known historically as Canton or Kwangchow, is the capital and largest city of the Guangdong province in the People's Republic of China. Located in southern China on the Pearl River, about north-northwest of Hong Kong, Guangzhou is a key national transportation hub and trading port...
  
  ) proclaimed a republic.
• Sultan Abdelhafid of Morocco
  Abdelhafid of Morocco
  Abdelhafid of Morocco was the Sultan of Morocco from 1908 to 1912 and a member of the Alaouite Dynasty. His younger brother, Abdelaziz of Morocco, preceded him...
  
   announced that he would consent to the conditions of the Franco-German peace treaty, which provided for French protection and control of all of Morocco's foreign affairs.
• Died: Howard Pyle
  Howard Pyle
  Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
  
  , 76, American artist described as "the father of American magazine illustration" and "the most successful of American artists"
  • Last time a November palindrome day occurred was 100 years ago on November 9, 1911 expressed as 1191911! (Note that this is a seven-digit palindrome day which can also be interpreted as the full date number of January 19, 1911 if written as 1-19-1911 instead of 11-9-1911. This was the only November palindrome day that occurred in the 20th century.)

November 10, 1911 (Friday)

• Manchu troops in Nanjing
  Nanjing
  ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
  
  , following the command of their Tartar general, carried out what a reporter described as "a scene of fire, rapine, desolation and butchery unrecorded in modern history" attacking the Chinese residents there indiscriminately, murdering "the aged, the young, and babes in arms". Any rebel who had cut off his queue
  Queue (hairstyle)
  The queue or cue is a hairstyle in which the hair is worn long and gathered up into a ponytail. It was worn traditionally by certain Native American groups and the Manchu of Manchuria.-Manchu Queue:...
  
   was beheaded, but simply wearing the color white (associated with the rebellion), or foreign clothing, was cause for murder.
• Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie
  Andrew Carnegie was a Scottish-American industrialist, businessman, and entrepreneur who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century...
  
   donated $25,000,000 (equivalent to $500,000,000 in 2011) to the Carnegie Corporation to carry on his philanthropic work. His total bequests, to that time, were counted as $208,233,000 of which $50,935,000 had endowed "Carnegie libraries".
• King George V turned over royal authority to a four member Commission, empowered to act on his behalf during his absence. The group consisted of George's cousin, Prince Arthur of Connaught
  Prince Arthur of Connaught
  Prince Arthur of Connaught and Strathearn was a member of the British Royal Family, a grandson of Queen Victoria. Prince Arthur held the title of a British prince with the style His Royal Highness...
  
   (who, at 28, was the only adult male member of the British royal family in the U.K.); the Archbishop of Canterbury
  Archbishop of Canterbury
  The Archbishop of Canterbury is the senior bishop and principal leader of the Church of England, the symbolic head of the worldwide Anglican Communion, and the diocesan bishop of the Diocese of Canterbury. In his role as head of the Anglican Communion, the archbishop leads the third largest group...
  
   (Randall Davidson); the Lord Chancellor
  Lord Chancellor
  The Lord High Chancellor of Great Britain, or Lord Chancellor, is a senior and important functionary in the government of the United Kingdom. He is the second highest ranking of the Great Officers of State, ranking only after the Lord High Steward. The Lord Chancellor is appointed by the Sovereign...
  
   (Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn
  Robert Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn
  Robert Threshie Reid, 1st Earl Loreburn GCMG, PC, QC was a British lawyer, judge and Liberal politician. He served as Lord Chancellor between 1905 and 1912.-Background and education:...
  
  ); and the Lord President of the Council
  Lord President of the Council
  The Lord President of the Council is the fourth of the Great Officers of State of the United Kingdom, ranking beneath the Lord High Treasurer and above the Lord Privy Seal. The Lord President usually attends each meeting of the Privy Council, presenting business for the monarch's approval...
  
   (John Morley). King George V and his wife, Queen Mary departed Portsmouth the next day en route to India, where they were Emperor and Empress.

November 11, 1911 (Saturday)

• Kaiser Wilhelm II rebuked the Crown Prince for openly siding with the opposition to Germany's policy on Morocco, and sent the Prince to Danzig.
• The German battleship SMS Kaiserin
  SMS Kaiserin
  SMS Kaiserin "SMS" stands for "Seiner Majestät Schiff" was the third vessel of the of battleships of the German Imperial Navy. Kaiserins keel was laid in November 1910 at the Howaldtswerke dockyard in Kiel. She was launched on 11 November 1911 and was commissioned into the fleet on 15 May 1913...
  
   was launched at Kiel
  Kiel
  Kiel is the capital and most populous city in the northern German state of Schleswig-Holstein, with a population of 238,049 .Kiel is approximately north of Hamburg. Due to its geographic location in the north of Germany, the southeast of the Jutland peninsula, and the southwestern shore of the...
  
  .
• A tornado struck Janesville, Wisconsin
  Janesville, Wisconsin
  Janesville is a city in southern Wisconsin, United States. It is the county seat of Rock County and the principal municipality of the Janesville, Wisconsin Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 62,998.-History:...
  
  , killing 20 residents
• The French film Zigomar
  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset
  Victorin-Hippolyte Jasset was an early film pioneer in France, active between the years 1905 and 1913. He worked on many genres of film, but was particularly associated with the development of detective or crime serials, such as the Nick Carter and Zigomar series.-Career:Victorin Jasset was born...
  
   premiered in Japan, and became an unexpected hit, particularly among kids who had never seen violence portrayed on stage. When Japanese producers began making their own Zigomar action thrillers, "scores of juvenile offenders were produced", and Japan's Home Ministry responded with strict censorship.
• The temperature in Oklahoma City stood at 83 °F in the afternoon, until a cold front arrived, dropping the mercury to 17 °F in before midnight.

November 12, 1911 (Sunday)

• President Taft returned to the White House
  White House
  The White House is the official residence and principal workplace of the president of the United States. Located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., the house was designed by Irish-born James Hoban, and built between 1792 and 1800 of white-painted Aquia sandstone in the Neoclassical...
  
   after having been away from the nation's capital for a record 87 consecutive days.
• Born: Chad Varah
  Chad Varah
  Reverend Prebendary Edward Chad Varah, CH, CBE was a British Anglican priest. He is best remembered as the founder of The Samaritans, established in 1953 as the world's first crisis hotline organisation, offering non-religious telephone support to those contemplating suicide.-Life:Varah was born...
  
  , British Anglican priest and humanitarian, founder of The Samaritans, in 1953, and the first suicide hotline; in Barton-upon-Humber
  Barton-upon-Humber
  Barton-upon-Humber or Barton is a small town and civil parish in North Lincolnshire, England located on the south bank of the Humber Estuary, and at the end of the Humber Bridge. It lies east of Leeds, southwest of Hull and north northeast of the county town of Lincoln...
  
   (d. 2007); and Buck Clayton
  Buck Clayton
  Buck Clayton was an American jazz trumpet player who was a leading member of Count Basie’s "Old Testament" orchestra and a leader of mainstream-oriented jam session recordings in the 1950s. His principal influence was Louis Armstrong...
  
  , American jazz trumpet player, in Parsons, Kansas
  Parsons, Kansas
  Parsons is a city in the northern part of Labette County, located in Southeast Kansas, in the Central United States. As of the 2010 census, the city population was 10,500...
  
   (d. 1991)

November 13, 1911 (Monday)

• The British Conservative Party selected Andrew Bonar Law
  Andrew Bonar Law
  Andrew Bonar Law was a British Conservative Party statesman and Prime Minister. Born in the colony of New Brunswick, he is the only British Prime Minister to have been born outside the British Isles...
  
   as their new leader (and Leader of the Opposition), a compromise choice after both Austen Chamberlain
  Austen Chamberlain
  Sir Joseph Austen Chamberlain, KG was a British statesman, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize and half-brother of Neville Chamberlain.- Early life and career :...
  
   and Walter Long were both rejected.
• The U.S. Supreme Court ruled that motion pictures could not be adapted from books and plays without consent of the original authors, upholding an appellate court decision, in Kalem Company v. Harper & Brothers, arising from the Kalem Studios 1907 production of Ben Hur
  Ben Hur (1907 film)
  Ben Hur is a 15 minute long 1907 silent film, the first film version of Lew Wallace's novel Ben-Hur, one of the best-selling books at that time....
  
  .
• Born: John Jordan "Buck" O'Neil Negro American League baseball player and manager for the Kansas City Monarchs
  Kansas City Monarchs
  The Kansas City Monarchs were the longest-running franchise in the history of baseball's Negro Leagues. Operating in Kansas City, Missouri and owned by J.L. Wilkinson, they were charter members of the Negro National League from 1920 to 1930. J.L. Wilkinson was the first Caucasian owner at the time...
  
  , and later the first black coach in MLB; in Carrabelle, Florida
  Carrabelle, Florida
  Carrabelle is a city in Franklin County, Florida, United States. The population was 1,303 at the 2000 census. According to the U.S Census estimates of 2009, the city had a population of 1,231.-Location:...
  
   (d. 2006)
• Died: Nehemiah D. Sperry
  Nehemiah D. Sperry
  Nehemiah Day Sperry was a U.S. Representative from Connecticut.Born in Woodbridge, Connecticut, Sperry attended the common schools and a private school in New Haven....
  
  , 84, former U.S. Congressman (R-Ct.) who was known as the Father of Rural Free Delivery

November 14, 1911 (Tuesday)

• The German government announced that the Reichstag's approval would be necessary for any treaties changing boundaries of any part of the German Empire.
• Maurice Bienaime and Rene Rumpelmayer became the first persons to fly an airplane more than 1,000 miles, covering 1,056 miles in 16 1/2 hours.

November 15, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Yuan Shih-kai accepted the nomination to become Prime Minister of China
  Prime Minister of China
  Prime Minister of China may refer to:*Premier of the People's Republic of China*Premier of the Republic of China*Chancellor of China...
  
   and set up a cabinet the next day.

November 16, 1911 (Thursday)

• The American Tobacco Company
  American Tobacco Company
  The American Tobacco Company was a tobacco company founded in 1890 by J. B. Duke through a merger between a number of U.S. tobacco manufacturers including Allen and Ginter and Goodwin & Company...
  
   was reorganized with approval of the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York . The corporation, which had held 92% of the market share of U.S. tobacco sales, split into four smaller entities: Lorillard Tobacco Company
  Lorillard Tobacco Company
  Lorillard Tobacco Company is an American tobacco company marketing cigarettes under the brand names Newport, Maverick, Old Gold, Kent, True, Satin, and Max. Lorillard is a member of the National Black Chamber of Commerce.- History :...
  
   (15% share, Kool); R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Company (20%, maker of Camel cigarettes); Liggett & Myers (28%; Chesterfield, L & M); and a smaller American Tobacco (38%, Lucky Strike). New competition would come in 1919 from Philip Morris, Inc., most famous for Marlboro cigarettes.
• An earthquake struck Switzerland and Germany at 10:27 pm local time.
• Augusto de Vasconcelos
  Augusto de Vasconcelos
  Augusto César de Almeida de Vasconcelos Correia, GCSE , better known as Augusto de Vasconcelos was a Portuguese surgeon, politician and diplomat.-Career:...
  
   became the new Prime Minister of Portugal
  Prime Minister of Portugal
  Prime Minister is the current title of the chief of the Portuguese Government. As chief executive, the Prime Minister coordinates the action of ministers, representing the Government from the other organs of state, accountable to Parliament and keeps the President informed...
  
  .
• Born William "Si" Redd
  Video poker
  Video poker is a casino game based on five-card draw poker. It is played on a computerized console similar in size to a slot machine.-History:...
  
  , American casino games developer described as "King of Video Poker", a sone of sharecroppers who became a multimillionaire in gaming; near Union, Mississippi
  Union, Mississippi
  Union is a town in Neshoba and Newton Counties in the U.S. state of Mississippi. The population was 2,021 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Union is located at . Most of the town is in Newton County with a portion extending north into adjacent Neshoba County...
  
   (d. 2003)

November 17, 1911 (Friday)

• The Omega Psi Phi
  Omega Psi Phi
  Omega Psi Phi is a fraternity and is the first African-American national fraternal organization to be founded at a historically black college. Omega Psi Phi was founded on November 17, 1911, at Howard University in Washington, D.C.. The founders were three Howard University juniors, Edgar Amos...
  
   fraternity, first black fraternity at a historically black college, was founded by three Howard University
  Howard University
  Howard University is a federally chartered, non-profit, private, coeducational, nonsectarian, historically black university located in Washington, D.C., United States...
  
   undergraduates (Edgar Amos Love, Oscar James Cooper and Frank Coleman) and Professor Ernest Everett Just. As of its 100th anniversary, it had more than 700 chapters in nine nations.
• The United States Navy
  United States Navy
  The United States Navy is the naval warfare service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the seven uniformed services of the United States. The U.S. Navy is the largest in the world; its battle fleet tonnage is greater than that of the next 13 largest navies combined. The U.S...
  
   temporarily abandoned the use of fish names for submarine classification, renaming the Adder, Viper, Octopus and Narwhal class subs as A, B, C and D class, respectively. Names would be revived in 1931.

November 18, 1911 (Saturday)

• The Princeton Tigers
  Princeton Tigers football
  The Princeton Tigers football program represents Princeton University college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision...
  
  , unbeaten with a record of 7-0-2, wrapped up their season at New Haven, Connecticut, defeating the 7-1-0 Yale Bulldogs
  Yale Bulldogs football
  The Yale Bulldogs football program represents Yale University in college football at the NCAA Division I Football Championship Subdivision . Yale's football program is one of the oldest in the world, having begun competing in the sport in 1872...
  
   by a score of 6-3. The Helms Athletic Foundation
  Helms Athletic Foundation
  The Helms Athletic Foundation was an athletic foundation based in Los Angeles, founded in 1936 by Bill Schroeder and Paul Helms. It put together a panel of experts to select National Champion teams and make All-America team selections in a number of college sports including football and basketball...
  
  , which would be founded in 1936, would later declare, retroactively, that Princeton had been the best team of the 1911 college football season
  1911 college football season
  The 1911 college football season was the last one before major reforms were made to the American game in 1912. In 1911, touchdowns were worth five points, the field was 110 yards in length, and a team had three downs within which to advance the ball ten yards...
  
  .
• Thirty miners at the Bottom Creek Coal and Coke Company died in an explosion at Vivian, West Virginia
  Vivian, West Virginia
  Vivian is an unincorporated census-designated place in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Vivian is located along U.S. Route 52 southeast of Kimball. As of the 2010 census, its population was 82....
  
   in McDowell County.
• Train robbers in France attacked three cars carrying $600,000 worth of gifts, breaking in through the roofs after the cars departed from Paris
  Paris
  Paris is the capital and largest city in France, situated on the river Seine, in northern France, at the heart of the Île-de-France region...
  
   en route to Lyons. The theft was discovered when the train stopped at Mâcon
  Mâcon
  Mâcon is a small city in central France. It is prefecture of the Saône-et-Loire department, in the region of Bourgogne, and the capital of the Mâconnais district. Mâcon is home to over 35,000 residents, called Mâconnais.-Geography:...
  
  .

November 19, 1911 (Sunday)

• Ramón Cáceres
  Ramón Cáceres
  Ramón Arturo Cáceres Vasquez was the 31st president of the Dominican Republic . Serving as vice president under Carlos Felipe Morales, Cáceres assumed the office in 1906...
  
  , the President of the Dominican Republic, was assassinated in Santo Domingo. Caceres was attacked by assailants while riding in his coach on a public road. His murder was plotted by Luis Tejera, a "Jimenista" who supported former President Juan Isidro Jimenes Pereyra, while Caceres had been a "Horacista" and follower of former President Horacio Vásquez
  Horacio Vásquez
  Felipe Horacio Vásquez Lajara was a Dominican general and political figure. He served as the acting president of the Dominican Republic in 1899, and again between 1902 and 1903. Supporters of Vásquez were known as Horacistas, as opposed to Jimenistas, supporters of Vásquez's main rival, Juan...
  
  . Caceres was succeeded by another Horacista, Eladio Victoria
  Eladio Victoria
  Eladio Victoria y Victoria was a Dominican politician. He served as the provisional president of the Dominican Republic from December 5, 1911 until November 30, 1912.-Reference:...
  
  . Increasing instability led to U.S. troops occupying the Dominican Republic in 1916.
• Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi
  Guglielmo Marconi was an Italian inventor, known as the father of long distance radio transmission and for his development of Marconi's law and a radio telegraph system. Marconi is often credited as the inventor of radio, and indeed he shared the 1909 Nobel Prize in Physics with Karl Ferdinand...
  
   unveiled an advance in wireless radio transmission, telegraphing a greeting to the New York Times between two Marconi stations
  Marconi Station
  The Marconi Wireless Corporation operated numerous pioneering radio stations in Canada, Ireland, Newfoundland, the United States, the United Kingdom and a number of other locations around the world.-Australia:...
  
   located 4,000 miles apart. Marconi's signal went from the newest station in Italy (at Coltano, near Pisa
  Pisa
  Pisa is a city in Tuscany, Central Italy, on the right bank of the mouth of the River Arno on the Tyrrhenian Sea. It is the capital city of the Province of Pisa...
  
  ) was sent to a receiver at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
  Glace Bay, Nova Scotia
  Glace Bay is a community in the eastern part of the Cape Breton Regional Municipality in Nova Scotia, Canada. It forms part of the general area referred to as Industrial Cape Breton....
  
  . The previous record had been 2,250 miles. The Marconigram read "My best greetings transmitted by wireless telegraph from Italy to America—- G. Marconi, Pisa. 5:47 P.M."
• Born: William Attaway
  William Attaway
  William Alexander Attaway was an African American novelist, short story writer, essayist, songwriter, playwright, and screenwriter.-Early Life:...
  
  , African-American novelist and songwriter; in Greenville, Mississippi
  Greenville, Mississippi
  Greenville is a city in Washington County, Mississippi, United States. The population was 48,633 at the 2000 census, but according to the 2009 census bureau estimates, it has since declined to 42,764, making it the eighth-largest city in the state. It is the county seat of Washington...
  
   (d. 1986); and Virginia Barckley, pioneering nurse in oncology, in Burlington, New Jersey
  Burlington, New Jersey
  Burlington is a city in Burlington County, New Jersey, United States and a suburb of Philadelphia. As of the 2010 United States Census, the city population was 9,920....
  
   (d. 1993)

November 20, 1911 (Monday)

• Texas Governor Oscar Colquitt ordered all Mexican rebels in Texas to leave within 48 hours, and deployed the Texas Rangers to the border to enforce the order.
• Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler
  Gustav Mahler was a late-Romantic Austrian composer and one of the leading conductors of his generation. He was born in the village of Kalischt, Bohemia, in what was then Austria-Hungary, now Kaliště in the Czech Republic...
  
  's symphony, Das Lied von der Erde
  Das Lied von der Erde
  Das Lied von der Erde is a large-scale work for two vocal soloists and orchestra by the Austrian composer Gustav Mahler...
  
  , was given its first performance, six months after the composer's death. Conductor Bruno Walter
  Bruno Walter
  Bruno Walter was a German-born conductor. He is considered one of the best known conductors of the 20th century. Walter was born in Berlin, but is known to have lived in several countries between 1933 and 1939, before finally settling in the United States in 1939...
  
   led the orchestra in the performance at Munich.
• The Japanese Antarctic Expedition set off from Sydney, and Dr. Mawson's expedition set off from Adelaide.
• Born: David Seymour
  David Seymour
  Chim was the pseudonym of David Seymour , a Polish photographer and photojournalist. Born Dawid Szymin in Warsaw to Polish Jewish parents, he became interested in photography while studying in Paris...
  
  , Polish war photographer nicknamed "Chim", as Dawid Szymin in Warsaw
  Warsaw
  Warsaw is the capital and largest city of Poland. It is located on the Vistula River, roughly from the Baltic Sea and from the Carpathian Mountains. Its population in 2010 was estimated at 1,716,855 residents with a greater metropolitan area of 2,631,902 residents, making Warsaw the 10th most...
  
   (killed 1956); and Jean Shiley
  Jean Shiley
  Jean Shiley Newhouse was a former American high jumper. She was born Jean Shiley in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, and later moved to Havertown, a Philadelphia suburb, where she joined the team at Haverford High School.Shiley tied with Babe Didrikson in the trials for the 1932 Summer Olympics in Los...
  
  , American athlete who won the 1932 Olympic gold medal for the women's high jump against Babe Didrikson; in Harrisburg, PA (d. 1998)

November 21, 1911 (Tuesday)

• After four days of working their way up the Axel Heiberg Glacier
  Axel Heiberg Glacier
  The Axel Heiberg Glacier is a valley glacier, long, descending from the high-elevations of the Antarctic Plateau into the Ross Ice Shelf between the Herbert Range and Mount Don Pedro Christophersen in the Queen Maud Mountains....
  
  , Roald Amundsen
  Roald Amundsen
  Roald Engelbregt Gravning Amundsen was a Norwegian explorer of polar regions. He led the first Antarctic expedition to reach the South Pole between 1910 and 1912 and he was the first person to reach both the North and South Poles. He is also known as the first to traverse the Northwest Passage....
  
   and his party were able to reach the plateau of the Transantarctic Mountains
  Transantarctic Mountains
  The three largest mountain ranges on the Antarctic continent are the Transantarctic Mountains , the West Antarctica Ranges, and the East Antarctica Ranges. The Transantarctic Mountains compose a mountain range in Antarctica which extend, with some interruptions, across the continent from Cape Adare...
  
  . Amundsen named that part of the range between the Ross Ice Shelf
  Ross Ice Shelf
  The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica . It is several hundred metres thick. The nearly vertical ice front to the open sea is more than 600 km long, and between 15 and 50 metres high above the water surface...
  
   and the plateau after the reigning Queen Consort of Norway, christening them the Queen Maud Mountains
  Queen Maud Mountains
  The Queen Maud Mountains are a major group of mountains, ranges and subordinate features of the Transantarctic Mountains, lying between the Beardmore and Reedy Glaciers and including the area from the head of the Ross Ice Shelf to the polar plateau in Antarctica...
  
  .

November 22, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Russian troops invaded Iran, with several hundred occupying Rasht
  Rasht
  Rasht is a city in and the capital of Gilan Province, Iran. At the 2006 census, its population was 551,161, in 159,983 families.Rasht is the largest city on Iran's Caspian Sea coast. It is a major trade center between Caucasia, Russia and Iran using the port of Bandar-e Anzali...
  
  , the largest port on the Persian side of the Caspian Sea
  Caspian Sea
  The Caspian Sea is the largest enclosed body of water on Earth by area, variously classed as the world's largest lake or a full-fledged sea. The sea has a surface area of and a volume of...
  
  . The conditions given for the troops' withdrawal included the dismissal of W. Morgan Shuster as the Persian Treasurer, and an agreement not to employ foreign advisers without the approval of Russia and Britain.
• Born: Ernie Caceres
  Ernie Caceres
  Ernesto "Ernie" Caceres was an American jazz musician born in Rockport, Texas.Caceres's brothers were both musicians; Emilio was a norteño violinist and Pinero was a trumpeter and pianist. Caceres himself played clarinet, guitar, alto and baritone saxophone, and first played professionally in 1928...
  
  , American jazz musician, in Rockport, Texas
  Rockport, Texas
  Rockport is a city in Aransas County, Texas, United States. The population was 7,385 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Aransas County. The coastal community has approximately 8000 citizens. Large windswept live oaks are a dominating feature of the area and the state's oldest live oak,...
  
   (d. 1971)

November 23, 1911 (Thursday)

• The collapse of a railway bridge in France, near Montreuil-Bellay
  Montreuil-Bellay
  Montreuil-Bellay is a commune in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France.It is located c. 15 km to the south of Saumur, and is famous for the Château de Montreuil-Bellay, which is situated in the town....
  
  , killed 30 people. The cars carried about 100 passengers who were on their way from Angers
  Angers
  Angers is the main city in the Maine-et-Loire department in western France about south-west of Paris. Angers is located in the French region known by its pre-revolutionary, provincial name, Anjou, and its inhabitants are called Angevins....
  
   to Poitiers
  Poitiers
  Poitiers is a city on the Clain river in west central France. It is a commune and the capital of the Vienne department and of the Poitou-Charentes region. The centre is picturesque and its streets are interesting for predominant remains of historical architecture, especially from the Romanesque...
  
  , and sank in the Thouet River. Some persons, who had escaped the cars before they sank, were swept away in the flood-swollen waters.
• Italo-Turkish War
  Italo-Turkish War
  The Italo-Turkish or Turco-Italian War was fought between the Ottoman Empire and the Kingdom of Italy from September 29, 1911 to October 18, 1912.As a result of this conflict, Italy was awarded the Ottoman provinces of Tripolitania, Fezzan, and...
  
  : Italy informed the other European powers that it would send its Navy into Turkish waters to create a blockade of the Dardanelles
  Dardanelles
  The Dardanelles , formerly known as the Hellespont, is a narrow strait in northwestern Turkey connecting the Aegean Sea to the Sea of Marmara. It is one of the Turkish Straits, along with its counterpart the Bosphorus. It is located at approximately...
  
  .
• Wu Tingfang
  Wu Tingfang
  Wu Tingfang was a Chinese diplomat and politician who served as Minister of Foreign Affairs and briefly as Acting Premier during the early years of the Republic of China. He is also known under his Cantonese name Ng Choy -Biography:...
  
  , a leader of the Republican revolution in China
  China
  Chinese civilization may refer to:* China for more general discussion of the country.* Chinese culture* Greater China, the transnational community of ethnic Chinese.* History of China* Sinosphere, the area historically affected by Chinese culture...
  
  , informed foreign diplomats in Nanjing
  Nanjing
  ' is the capital of Jiangsu province in China and has a prominent place in Chinese history and culture, having been the capital of China on several occasions...
  
   an attack would be held off for three days, in order to give foreign residents a chance to evacuate before November 26.
• Died: Bernard Tancred
  Bernard Tancred
  Augustus Bernard Tancred was a leading 19th century South African Test cricketer.Born in Port Elizabeth, South Africa, Tancred attended St...
  
  , 47, South African cricketer

November 24, 1911 (Friday)

• Texas businessman Edward M. House
  Edward M. House
  Edward Mandell House was an American diplomat, politician, and presidential advisor. Commonly known by the title of Colonel House, although he had no military experience, he had enormous personal influence with U.S...
  
   had his first meeting with New Jersey Governor Woodrow Wilson
  Woodrow Wilson
  Thomas Woodrow Wilson was the 28th President of the United States, from 1913 to 1921. A leader of the Progressive Movement, he served as President of Princeton University from 1902 to 1910, and then as the Governor of New Jersey from 1911 to 1913...
  
  , which took place at the Hotel Gotham in Manhattan. House would assist Wilson's election as President of the United States in 1912
• After seven years, the secret articles of the Anglo-French declaration of 1904 (which concerned Egypt and Morocco) was published.
• A boiler explosion at the J. Bibby & Sons oil cake mills in Liverpool
  Liverpool
  Liverpool is a city and metropolitan borough of Merseyside, England, along the eastern side of the Mersey Estuary. It was founded as a borough in 1207 and was granted city status in 1880...
  
   killed 27 people and injured 100.
• Born: Erik Bergman
  Erik Bergman
  Erik Valdemar Bergman was an influential composer of classical music from Finland.Bergman's style ranged widely, from Romanticism in his early works to modernism and primitivism, among other genres...
  
  , Finnish classical music composer (d. 2006)

November 25, 1911 (Saturday)

• Emiliano Zapata
  Emiliano Zapata
  Emiliano Zapata Salazar was a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution, which broke out in 1910, and which was initially directed against the president Porfirio Díaz. He formed and commanded an important revolutionary force, the Liberation Army of the South, during the Mexican Revolution...
  
   proclaimed the Plan de Ayala, blaming revolutionary-turned-President Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco I. Madero
  Francisco Ignacio Madero González was a politician, writer and revolutionary who served as President of Mexico from 1911 to 1913. As a respectable upper-class politician, he supplied a center around which opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz could coalesce...
  
   for failing to redistribute land to Mexico's peasants.
• Born: Roelof Frankot
  Roelof Frankot
  Roelof Frankot was a Dutch painter. By education he was a photographer, but in 1930, he started painting. He later had a strong relation with the CoBrA movement, and his artworks are quite similar to some of the art from the CoBrA movement. They are very abstract and spontaneous paintings in...
  
  , Dutch painter, in Meppel
  Meppel
  Meppel is a municipality and a city in the northeast of the Netherlands, in the south-west of the province Drenthe.It developed in the 16th century as a transport and distribution inland harbour for turf...
  
   (d. 1984)

November 26, 1911 (Sunday)

• In an elaborate ceremony at the ancestral temple, the Regent for China's Emperor took an oath to uphold the 19 Articles of the new Chinese constitution, stating "Following the fall of the sacred dynasty I accept the advice of the national assembly. I swear to uphold the nineteen constitutional articles and organize a parliament, excluding the nobles from administrative posts. I and my descendants will adhere to it forever. Your heavenly spirits will see and understand." Bombardment of Nanjing began the same day.
• Born: Gilbert F. White
  Gilbert F. White
  Gilbert Fowler White was a prominent American geographer, sometimes termed the "father of floodplain management" and the "leading environmental geographer of the 20th century"...
  
  , American geographer described as "The Father of Floodplain Management"; in Chicago
  Chicago
  Chicago is the largest city in the US state of Illinois. With nearly 2.7 million residents, it is the most populous city in the Midwestern United States and the third most populous in the US, after New York City and Los Angeles...
  
   (d. 2006)
• Died: Komura Jutarō
  Komura Jutaro
  was a statesman and diplomat in Meiji period Japan.-Biography:Komura was born to a lower-ranking samurai family in service of the Obi clan at Nichinan, Hyuga province . He attended the Daigaku Nankō...
  
  , 56, Foreign Minister of Japan; and Paul Lafargue
  Paul Lafargue
  Paul Lafargue was a French revolutionary Marxist socialist journalist, literary critic, political writer and activist; he was Karl Marx's son-in-law, having married his second daughter Laura. His best known work is The Right to Be Lazy...
  
  , 69, French philosopher who wrote The Right to Be Lazy, along with his wife in a double suicide

November 27, 1911 (Monday)

• In what may have been the first instance of theatergoers hurling rotten fruit and vegetables at bad acts, Irish-born Americans protested what they perceived as insulting stereotypes of Irish people, shouting insults and throwing produce at the actors during the New York City opening of John Millington Synge
  John Millington Synge
  Edmund John Millington Synge was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the cofounders of the Abbey Theatre...
  
  's production of The Playboy of the Western World
  The Playboy of the Western World
  The Playboy of the Western World is a three-act play written by Irish playwright John Millington Synge and first performed at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin, on January 26, 1907. It is set in Michael James Flaherty's public house in County Mayo during the early 1900s...
  
  
• Spanish commanders in the Sahara agreed to terms with 65 Rif chiefs.
• Born: David Merrick
  David Merrick
  David Merrick was a prolific Tony Award-winning American theatrical producer.-Life and career:Born David Lee Margulois to Jewish parents in St. Louis, Missouri, Merrick graduated from Washington University, then studied law at the Jesuit-run Saint Louis University School of Law...
  
  , American theater producer (including Hello, Dolly!
  Hello, Dolly! (musical)
  Hello, Dolly! is a musical with lyrics and music by Jerry Herman and a book by Michael Stewart, based on Thornton Wilder's 1938 farce The Merchant of Yonkers, which Wilder revised and retitled The Matchmaker in 1955....
  
  )and four time Tony Award winner; as David Lee Margulois in St. Louis (d. 2000); and Fe del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo
  Fe del Mundo was a Filipino pediatrician. The first woman admitted as a student of the Harvard Medical School, she founded the first pediatric hospital in the Philippines...
  
  , Filipino pediatrician and National Scientist of the Philippines
  National Scientist of the Philippines
  The rank and title of National Scientist of the Philippines is the highest award accorded to Filipino scientists by the Philippine government.The award was created on December 16, 1976 by President Ferdinand Marcos through Presidential Decree Nos. 1003 and 1003-A, which also created the National...
  
  , in Intramuros
  Intramuros
  Intramuros is the oldest district in the present day city of Manila, the capital of the Republic of the Philippines. Nicknamed the "Walled City", Intramuros is the historic fortified city of Manila, the seat ot the government during the Spanish Colonial Period. Its name in Latin, intramuros,...
  
  , Manila
  Manila
  Manila is the capital of the Philippines. It is one of the sixteen cities forming Metro Manila.Manila is located on the eastern shores of Manila Bay and is bordered by Navotas and Caloocan to the north, Quezon City to the northeast, San Juan and Mandaluyong to the east, Makati on the southeast,...
  
   (d. 2011)

November 28, 1911 (Tuesday)

• Renowned lawyer Clarence Darrow
  Clarence Darrow
  Clarence Seward Darrow was an American lawyer and leading member of the American Civil Liberties Union, best known for defending teenage thrill killers Leopold and Loeb in their trial for murdering 14-year-old Robert "Bobby" Franks and defending John T...
  
   was accused of attempting to bribe a juror after a detective whom he had hired, Bert Franklin, was arrested in Los Angeles for offering a juror $4,000 to bring about a hung jury in the trial of the McNamara brothers for the bombing of the Los Angeles Times building. After Franklin testified that Darrow had ordered him to attempt bribery, Darrow was indicted on two separate charges, and acquitted in both trials.
• Born: Václav Renč
  Václav Renc
  Václav Renč was a Czech poet, dramatist and translator. Like other catholic ruralistic writers, his themes included God, traditions and the countryside....
  
  , Czech poet, dramatist and translator, in Vodochody
  Vodochody
  Vodochody is a village and municipality in Prague-East District in the Central Bohemian Region of the Czech Republic. There is a small airport, Vodochody Airport, in the village and the aircraft construction company Aero Vodochody.-Notes:...
  
   (d. 1973); and Tawfiq Yusuf Awwad, Lebanese novelist, in Bharsaf (d. 1989)

November 29, 1911 (Wednesday)

• Russia
  Russia
  Russia or , officially known as both Russia and the Russian Federation , is a country in northern Eurasia. It is a federal semi-presidential republic, comprising 83 federal subjects...
  
   delivered its ultimatum
  Ultimatum
  An ultimatum is a demand whose fulfillment is requested in a specified period of time and which is backed up by a threat to be followed through in case of noncompliance. An ultimatum is generally the final demand in a series of requests...
  
   to Persia, giving the government 48 hours to either dismiss American businessman W. Morgan Shuster from his post as Persia's Treasurer General, or to see Tehran invaded.

November 30, 1911 (Thursday)

• In the annual Thanksgiving Day college football game at Jackson
  Jackson, Mississippi
  Jackson is the capital and the most populous city of the US state of Mississippi. It is one of two county seats of Hinds County ,. The population of the city declined from 184,256 at the 2000 census to 173,514 at the 2010 census...
  
   between Mississippi
  Ole Miss Rebels football
  The football history of the University of Mississippi , includes the formation of the first football team in the state and is 26th on the list of college football's all-time winning programs...
  
   and Mississippi State
  Mississippi State Bulldogs football
  The Mississippi State Bulldogs football program represents Mississippi State University in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision, competing as a member of the Western Division of the Southeastern Conference. Mississippi State has produced 38 All-Americans, 171 All-SEC selections, and 124...
  
   (at that time Mississippi A & M), fifty people were injured when a set of bleachers collapsed, throwing 1,000 spectators to the ground. Mississippi Lt. Governor Luther Manship and Secretary of State J.N. Power were hurt slightly in the tumble.
• The keel for White Star Lines' biggest ship ever, HMHS Britannic
  HMHS Britannic
  HMHS Britannic was the third and largest of the White Star Line. She was the sister ship of and , and was intended to enter service as a transatlantic passenger liner. She was launched just before the start of the First World War and was laid up at her builders in Belfast for many months before...
  
  , was laid down in Belfast. The ship would be launched on February 26, 1914, and soon called into World War One service, sinking on November 21, 1916, after striking a mine.
• Born: Tamura Taijiro
  Tamura Taijiro
  was a Japanese novelist. He was born in Yokkaichi, Mie, and was educated at Waseda University in Tokyo where he studied literature. His most famous work is Gate of Flesh, which has been made into a movie four times and most recently in 2008 as a television series....
  
  , Japanese novelist, in Yokkaichi