What Happened in November 1880

Historical Events

Nov 2 James A. Garfield (R) elected 20th President of the United States

Nov 8 French actress Sarah Bernhardt makes her US debut at NY's Booth Theater

Nov 11 Australian Bushranger and outlaw Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol

Nov 12 Best selling American novel "Ben-Hur: A Tale of The Christ" by soldier Lew Wallace is published

Nov 21 Competing explorers Henry Morton Stanley, in the service of Belgian King Leopold II and Italian-French explorer Pierre Savorgnan de Brazza, working for France, meet in the lower Congo

Nov 1 German polar researcher, geophysicist and meteorologist (continental drift), born in Berlin

Nov 1 Grantland Rice, American sportswriter (New York Herald Tribune 1914-30, Colliers 1925-37), born in Murfreesboro, Tennessee (d. 1954)
Nov 1 Karel Paul van der Mandele, Dutch financier and director (Rotterdam Bank), born in Delft, Netherlands (d. 1975)
Nov 1 Sholem Asch [Szalom Asz], Polish-Jewish-American novelist and playwright (East River; Three Cities), born in Kutno, Congress Poland, Russian Empire (d. 1957)
Nov 2 John Foulds, British cellist, musicologist, and composer (World Requiem; Three Mantras), born in Hulme, Manchester, England (d. 1939)
Nov 3 Edward Barrett, Irish heavyweight wrestler and all-round sportsman (Olympic gold tug-of-war 1908), born in Ballyduff, County Kerry (d. 1932)
Nov 3 Raffaele Casimiri, Italian musicologist and composer, born in Gualdo Tadino, Italy (d. 1943)
Nov 6 Chris van Abkoude, Dutch-American writer and novelist (Pietje Bell, Kruimeltje), born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1959)

Nov 6 Austrian writer (Mann ohne Eigenschaften), born in Klagenfurt, Austria

Nov 9 Rudolf Karel, Czech composer (Three Hairs of the Wise Old Man), born in Pilseň, Czech Republic (d. 1945)
Nov 10 Aart A. van Schelven, Dutch church historian (Willem of Orange) (d. 1954)
Nov 10 Jacob Epstein, American-English sculptor (Adam, Jacob & the Angel), born in New York City (d. 1959)
Nov 14 Eugene O'Brien, American actor (Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm), born in Boulder, Colorado (d. 1966)
Nov 20 George McBride, American baseball shortstop (AL fielding leader 1912-15 Washington Senators) and manager (Washington Senators 1921), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 1973)
Nov 21 Franz Hessel, German writer, born in Szczecin, Poland (d. 1941)
Nov 25 Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (Abbey Series), born in Southport, Lancashire, England (d. 1960)
Nov 25 Leonard Woolf, English author and husband of Virginia Woolf, born in London (d. 1969)
Nov 28 Alexander Block, Russian poet (Dvenatsat), born in St. Petersburg, Russia (d. 1921)
Nov 28 Marinus van Meel, Dutch aviator and aircraft manufacturer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1958)
Nov 30 Herbert Jones, British thoroughbred jockey (British Triple Crown [Diamond Jubilee] 1900; 8 x British Classic Race wins), born in Epsom, England (d. 1951)

Nov 3 Solon Robinson, American journalist (New York Tribune), writer (Hot Corn: Life Scenes in New York Illustrated), and agriculturist, dies at 77
Nov 7 Carl Friedrich Weitzmann, German composer, conductor, and music theorist, dies at 72
Nov 8 Jacob Edvard Gille, Swedish composer, dies at 66

Nov 11 American Quaker, abolitionist and women's right activist (1st Woman's Rights Convention), dies at 87

Nov 11 Australian outlaw and bushranger, executed at 25

Nov 19 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch poet (Herbert and Clara) and church historian, dies at 74
Nov 24 Napoléon Henri Reber, French composer, dies at 73
Nov 26 Guilherme Cossoul, Portuguese composer, dies at 52
Nov 28 Aires de Ornelas e Vasconcelos, Portuguese Roman Catholic Archbishop of Goa, dies at 43