Historical Events
- Nov 1 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
John Brown Guilty of Murder
Nov 2 American abolitionist John Brown found guilty of murder, inciting slaves to revolt, and treason against the Virginia Territory during his raid of Harpers Ferry Armory, and sentenced to hang
- Nov 12 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
Groza
Nov 16 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play "Groza" (The Storm) premieres in Moscow
On the Origin of Species
Nov 24 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology
A Tale Of Two Cities
Nov 26 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale Of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical "All the Year Round"
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Bid McPhee, American Baseball HOF second baseman (AA HR leader 1886 Cincinnati Reds; last 2nd baseman to play without a glove), born in Massena, NY (d. 1943)
- Nov 1 Charles Brantley Aycock, 50th Governor of North Carolina (1901-05), born in Wayne County, North Carolina (d. 1912)
- Nov 1 W. H. Grattan Flood, Irish author and composer, born in Lismore, County Waterford, Ireland (d. 1928)
- Nov 4 Stanisław Niewiadomski, Polish composer, born in Soposzyn, Kingdom of Galicia, Austrian Empire (now Ukraine) (d. 1936)
- Nov 13 Georg Knorr, German engineer (brake system trains), born in Ruda bei Neumark, West Prussia (d. 1911)
- Nov 14 Alexander Samsonov, Russian general (Battle of Tennenberg), born in Kherson Governorate, Russian Empire (d. 1914)
- Nov 15 Christopher Hornsrud, Prime Minister of Norway (3 weeks), born in Skotselv, Øvre Eiker, Norway (d. 1960)
- Nov 17 Gerhard Schjelderup, Norwegian opera composer and musicologist, born in Kristiansand, Norway (d. 1933)
- Nov 19 Mikhail Ippolitov-Ivanov, Russian composer and musician (Armenian Rhapsody), born in Gatchina, Russia (d. 1935)
- Nov 22 Cecil Sharp, British collector of English folk music and dance, born in London, England (d. 1924)
Billy the Kid (1859-1881)
Nov 23 American frontier outlaw and gunfighter of the Wild West, born in New York City
Famous Deaths
Washington Irving (1783-1859)
Nov 28 American author (Legend of Sleepy Hollow), dies of a heart attack at 76
