Historical Events
- Nov 1 Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra
- Nov 3 Canada's Hamilton Football Club forms
- Nov 6 1st US college football game, players used their hands or feet, Rutgers 6 Princeton 4
- Nov 15 Free postal delivery formally inaugurated
- Nov 17 Englishman James Moore wins 1st bicycle race, racing 13K Paris to Rouen
- Nov 17 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking Mediterranean and Red seas
- Nov 19 Hudson Bay Company signs deed of transfer of Prince Rupert's Land (3.9 million sq. km) to the British Crown, who then cedes it to Canada for £300,000, or $1.5 million (effective 1870) [1]
- Nov 23 The clipper Cutty Sark is launched In Dumbarton, Scotland, one of the last clippers ever built and the only one still surviving
- Nov 24 American Woman's Suffrage Association forms (Cleveland)
Famous Birthdays
Victor Emmanuel III (1869-1947)
Nov 11 King of Italy (1900-46), Emperor of Ethiopia and King of the Albanians, born in Naples, Kingdom of
- Nov 13 Ariadna Tyrkova-Williams, Russian politician, writer, and feminist, born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1962)
- Nov 13 Helene Stöcker, German feminist, pacifist, and writer, born in Elberfeld, Germany (d. 1943)
- Nov 20 Clark Griffith, American Baseball HOF pitcher (MLB ERA leader 1898 Chicago Colts/Orphans) and manager (Chicago WS, NY Highlanders, Cincinnati Reds, Washington Sens [owner]), born in Clear Creek, Missouri (d. 1955)
André Gide (1869-1951)
Nov 22 French writer (Lafcadio's Adventures-Nobel 1947), born in Paris
- Nov 23 Valdemar Poulsen, Danish engineer who invented devices for radio broadcasting, born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 1942)
- Nov 24 António Óscar Carmona, 97th Prime Minister of Portugal and 11th President of Portugal (d. 1951)
- Nov 25 Ben Lindsey, American judge and social reformer, born in Jackson, Tennessee (d. 1943)
- Nov 26 Maud of Wales, Queen of Norway, spouse of King Haakon VII, born in Marlborough House, London (d. 1938)
Gustaf Dalén (1869-1937)
Nov 30 Swedish physicist and industrialist (AGA, Nobel Prize in Physics 1912), born in Stenstorp, Sweden
Born in 1869
Famous Deaths
- Nov 3 Andreas Kalvos, Greek poet, dies at 77
- Nov 4 George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
- Nov 5 Otis Tufts, American machinist and inventor who built printing machines, steam engines, firefighting equipment and invented the steam pile driver, dies at 65
- Nov 12 Gheorghe Asachi, Moldovian-Romanian author, poet, polyglot and humanist (1st newspaper in Moldavia), dies at 81
- Nov 13 Iskandar Ali Mirza, Bengali-Pakistani general and 1st President of Pakistan (1956-58), dies of a heart attack at 70
- Nov 16 Hamiora Pere is hanged for treason at the Terrace Gaol, Wellington - only New Zealander ever to be executed for treason
