November 1910

November 1, 1910 (Tuesday)

• In legislative elections in Cuba, the Liberal Party retained control despite gains by the Conservatives.
• A plot to overthrow the government of Peru was foiled.
• Tsar Nicholas II of Russia approved a measure extending the area in which Russian Jews could reside.

  November 2, 1910 (Wednesday)

• Portugal's military forces threatened to overthrow the newly created Republic after pay raises were slow in coming.

  November 3, 1910 (Thursday)

• General Tanaka Giichi established the Teikoku Zaigo Gunjinkai, open to former members of Japan's Army as well as to civilian volunteers. By 1936, there were three million members of the association, providing political support for military control of Japan.
• The expulsion of the last of the religious orders from Portugal was concluded, with the deportation of 50 Jesuits.
• President Taft issued "an emphatic denial", following a meeting with the Panamanian ambassador, C.C. Arosemena, of rumors that the United States was considering the annexation of the Republic of Panama,.
• Born: Agda Rössel, Swedish diplomat who served as Sweden's ambassador to the United Nations from 1958 to 1964; in Gällivare
• Died: Hugh Grant, 55, former mayor of New York City

  November 4, 1910 (Friday)

• Prince Arthur, Duke of Connaught, appearing on behalf of his nephew, George V of the United Kingdom, opened the very first session of the Parliament of the Union of South Africa.
• An Imperial edict directed that all Chinese diplomats abroad must cut their hair to remove their queues, and to "wear their hair as is the practice of the countries in which they are stationed."
• Another Imperial decree was issued by the regent in the name of the Emperor of China, moving up the date for the creation of the first Chinese Parliament, from 1915 to 1913.
• Tsar Nicholas II of Russia arrived in Potsdam as a guest of Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany. From their discussions came the Potsdam agreement of 1910 signed on 19 August 1911 to divide their spheres of influence in Persia.
• The Insane Asylum in Brandon, Manitoba, was destroyed by fire, but all 600 of the inmates were rescued.

  November 5, 1910 (Saturday)

• Portugal's government granted amnesty to all political prisoners and cut the sentences of other criminals by one-third.
• Indiana University held what it claims to be the first homecoming game, a football game that would coincide with an invitation for the alumni to visit the campus after graduation. Credit for inventing the idea of an alumni "homecoming" has also been claimed for earlier games by Baylor University, and Indiana's opponent that day, the University of Illinois. Indiana and Illinois played to a 0–0 tie that day.
• Residents of Boggy, Florida, gave their city the more pleasant name of Niceville.
• What has been described as "The Post-Impressionist Scandal" took place in London, where the Grafton Galleries displayed the paintings of Paul Cézanne, Henri Matisse, Paul Gauguin, and Vincent van Gogh. British critics compared Post-Impressionism to anarchism in the art world.

  November 6, 1910 (Sunday)

• The five masted sailing rigger Preussen, at 408 feet and 5,081 tons, the largest non-engine powered ship of all time, was destroyed after being rammed in the English Channel by the steamer SS Brighton.
• Sculptures of Vishnu, dating from the 9th Century, were unearthed by archaeologists at Sahebganj in Jharkhand in northern British India.
• Born: Erik Ode, German film and TV actor who starred as the title character in the West German detective series Der Kommissar from 1969 to 1976; in Berlin
• Died: Giuseppe Cesare Abba, 72, Italian patriot and writer

  November 7, 1910 (Monday)

• The first commercial airplane flight in history was carried out by Wright Company pilot Philip Parmalee, who transported two bolts of silk from Dayton, Ohio, to Columbus, for delivery to the Morehouse-Martens Department Store in Columbus.
• HMCS Rainbow arrived at Esquimault, British Columbia, to begin her service as the second ship of the Royal Canadian Navy, and the only RCN ship to patrol Canada's Pacific coast. The other RCN ship, HMCS Niobe was used in the Atlantic.
• The towns of Taft, California, and Granum, Alberta, were both incorporated.
• The comic operetta Naughty Marietta, produced by Victor Herbert, premiered on Broadway, at The New York Theatre.
• Some sources list November 7 as the date of Leo Tolstoy's death, based on the old-style Julian calendar used in Russia at the time. In the Gregorian calendar used by the rest of the world and later adopted by Russia, the date was November 20.
• Died: Florencio Sánchez, 35, a Uruguayan playwright, died of tuberculosis.

  November 8, 1910 (Tuesday)

• In elections for the U.S. Congress, the Republican Party lost 57 seats and its 219 to 172 majority in the House. The 62nd United States Congress would have 230 Democrats, 162 Republicans, one Progressive Republican, and the first Socialist ever elected to Congress, incoming U.S. Representative Victor L. Berger of Milwaukee. At the time, United States Senators were elected by the legislatures in the 46 states, rather than popular vote, and the Republicans retained a 50–44 majority in the Senate. The race for New York's 36th congressional district, which included Buffalo, Democrat Charles Bennett Smith defeated the incumbent, Republican De Alva S. Alexander, by a single vote, 20,685 to 20,684.
• An explosion at a Victor-American Fuel and Iron Company mine at Delagua, Colorado, killed 76 coal miners.
• Canadian entrepreneur P. L. Robertson received a patent for the Robertson screwdriver, designed to turn a square-holed screw that he had created in 1907. The Robertson screw is not common in the U.S. but "accounts for over 75% of all screws sold in Canada".
• Industrial action in the coal mining Rhondda Valley led to clashes between striking miners and police forces, culminating in the Tonypandy riots. Winston Churchill damaged his reputation in south Wales by quelling the trouble with troops.

  November 9, 1910 (Wednesday)

• Twenty-six people were convicted of conspiracy to assassinate the Emperor of Japan. "In the 2,500 years of that empire's history", noted the New York Times, "the reverence of the people for the sovereign had been such that there had never been even a suggestion of an attack on the life of a Mikado."
• French colonial troops fought a battle in the Ouaddai War at Doroté in the Masalit occupied region of eastern Chad against 5,000 soldiers in the combined armies of the sultans Doudmourah of Ouadai and the Tadj ed Din of the Masalit. France reported that the Sultan of Masalit and 600 of the African soldiers were killed, and that the French forces lost 34 of their tirailleurs infantry men and an officer, Lieutenant Colonel Henri Moll. News did not reach France for nearly a month.

  November 10, 1910 (Thursday)

• In what was described as "the first conviction on finger print evidence in the history of this country", a jury in Chicago found Thomas Jennings guilty of the September 19 murder of Clarence A. Hiller.
• President Taft left the United States to visit Panama, on board the, for an inspection of construction on the Panama Canal, arriving there on November 14. "Taft Sails For Panama", New York Times, November 11, 1910, p7
• An agreement for a four-nation loan of to China was signed in London.

  November 11, 1910 (Friday)

• The governments of the United States, Germany, Russia, Sweden and Norway gave diplomatic recognition to the newly created Republic of Portugal, which had overthrown the Kingdom of Portugal one month earlier.
• The village of Kinney, Minnesota, was incorporated.

  November 12, 1910 (Saturday)

• Rudolph Munk, captain of the West Virginia Mountaineers football team, died from injuries sustained in an October 15 game against visiting Bethany College. Thomas McCoy, a right end for Bethany, was charged the next day with murder, but exonerated by a coroner's jury a day later.

  November 13, 1910 (Sunday)

• General Jose Valladares, leader of an insurgency against the government of the Honduras, surrendered control of the town of Amapala and gave himself up after a promise of leniency by Honduran President Miguel R. Dávila.
• Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted wireless signals between Nova Scotia and Italy.
• Sun Yat-sen and other Chinese exiles met in the Malayan city of Panang to plan the Huanghuagang Uprising, which would take place on April 27, 1911, and would precede the 1911 Revolution.
• Died:
• *Alexander S. Clay, 56, U.S. Senator from Georgia since 1897
• *William W. Foulkrod, 64, U.S. Representative from Pennsylvania since 1907. Representative Foulkrod had lost his bid for re-election five days earlier.
• *Louis Nels, 54, German diplomat and former Reichskommissar of German South-West Africa
• *Isabel Richey, 52, American poet

  November 14, 1910 (Monday)

• The feasibility of an aircraft carrier was demonstrated for the first time, as Eugene B. Ely climbed into his airplane on the deck of the cruiser and executed a takeoff, then flew five miles and landed at Hampton Roads, Virginia. On January 18, 1911, Ely would also become the first person to land an airplane on a ship, bringing his plane down onto the deck of the.
• The town of Souris, Prince Edward Island, was incorporated.
• Died: John LaFarge, 75, American stained glass painter.

  November 15, 1910 (Tuesday)

• Morocco ceded the territory around Melilla to Spain, and agreed to pay reparations for the Spanish campaign against the Rif tribesmen.
• The Oklahoma Supreme Court ruled that the state's capital should continue to be Guthrie, despite the overwhelming approval of Oklahoma City in a statewide referendum. The decision would be reversed the following year and the capital transferred from Guthrie to Oklahoma City, about south.
• Hermes da Fonseca was inaugurated as the eighth President of Brazil.
• Died: Wilhelm Raabe, 79, German novelist who also wrote under the pen name Jakob Corvinus.