- Nov 2 British newspaper "Daily Mirror" begins publishing
- Nov 2 Lyceum Theater (New Lyceum) opens at 149 W 45th St NYC
- Nov 2 New Amsterdam Theater opens at 214 W 42nd St NYC
- Nov 3 Colombia grants independence to Panama
Election of Interest
Nov 3 Giovanni Giolitti becomes Prime Minister of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms
- Nov 4 Panama and Colombia wake up to news that the insurrectionists have declared an independent Republic of Panama
- Nov 6 USA recognizes independence of Panama
- Nov 15 Eugen d'Albert's opera "Tiefland" premieres in Prague
- Nov 16 V Herbert & H Smith's musical "Babette" premieres in NYC
- Nov 17 Dahomey (Benin) becomes a French protectorate
- Nov 17 In the Treaty of Petropolis, Bolivia cedes the territory of Arce to Brazil; Bolivia gains rail and water outlets in the east
- Nov 18 Hay-Bunau-Varilla Treaty gives US exclusive canal rights in Panama
- Nov 19 Temperance activist Carrie Nation attempts to address the US Senate
Franklin and Eleanor Engaged
Nov 22 Franklin Roosevelt and Eleanor Roosevelt are engaged
- Nov 23 Colorado Governor James Peabody sends the state militia into the town of Cripple Creek to break up a miners' strike.
Caruso's MET Debut
Nov 23 Italian tenor Enrico Caruso makes his US debut at the Metropolitan Opera House, in New York in Giuseppe Verdi's "Rigoletto"
- Nov 24 Clyde Coleman of NYC patents automobile electric starter
- Nov 24 George Ade's "County Chairman" premieres in NYC
Die Neugierigen Frauen
Nov 27 Opera "Die Neugierigen Frauen" by Ermanno Wolf-Ferrari is produced in Munich
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