Balfour Declaration
Nov 2 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
- Nov 2 In WWI the 1st US soldiers are killed in combat: James Gresham, Thomas Enright and Merle Hay
- Nov 2 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
- Nov 3 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
- Nov 5 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time
- Nov 5 Supreme Court decision (Buchanan v Warley) strikes down Louisville, Kentucky, ordinance requiring backs & whites to live in separate areas
- Nov 6 New York State adopts a constitutional amendment giving women the right to vote in state elections
Red October
Nov 6 [OS Oct 24] Bolshevik revolution begins with bombardment of the Winter Palace in Petrograd during the Russian October Revolution
- Nov 7 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks
Soviet Government Forms
Nov 7 The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic is proclaimed; first Council of People's Commissars is formed with Vladimir Lenin as leader and including Leon Trotsky and Joseph Stalin
- Nov 7 [OS Oct 25] October Revolution in Russia; Lenin and the Bolsheviks seize power, capture the Winter Palace and overthrow the Provisional Government.
- Nov 8 Telephone Co runs 1st advertisement for Army operators, receives 7,000 applicants
- Nov 10 41 suffragists are arrested in front of White House
- Nov 10 Faure's 2nd Violo Sonate premieres
- Nov 10 New bolshevik government under Lenin suspends freedom of press (temporary) during October Revolution
- Nov 16 British occupy Tel Aviv and Jaffa
- Nov 17 Vladimir Lenin defends "temporary" removal of freedom of the press
- Nov 18 Sigma Alpha Rho, a Jewish high school fraternity, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Nov 20 1st successful tank use in battle, at the Battle of Cambrai in World War I as Britain uses the new technology to break through German lines
- Nov 20 Ukrainian Republic declared
Gorky Insults Lenin
Nov 21 Maxim Gorky calls Vladimir Lenin a blind fanatic and unthinking adventurer
- Nov 24 Nine police officers and one civilian are killed when a bomb explodes at the Milwaukee, Wisconsin police headquarters building.
- Nov 26 NHL forms with Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Maroons, Toronto Arenas, Ottawa Senators & Quebec Bulldogs; National Hockey Association disbands
- Nov 26 The new government of Russia offers an armistice to Germany and Austria-Hungary
- Nov 28 Sigmund Romberg's revue "Over the Top" premieres in NYC
- Nov 29 A Supreme Allied War Council meets at Versailles to define war aims
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