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Birthdays

January 3 - Betty Furness, American actress (d. 1994)
January 3 - Maxene Andrews, American singer (The Andrews Sisters) (d. 1995)
January 3 - Bernard Greenhouse, American cellist
January 4 - Lionel Newman, American film music composer (d. 1989)
January 4 - Robert Parrish, U.S. film editor and director (d. 1995)
January 6 - Vincent Serventy, Australian writer and conservationist (d. 2007)
January 7 - Paul Keres, Estonian chess player (d. 1975)
January 9 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
January 9 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
January 10 - Sune Bergström, Swedish biochemist
January 10 - Don Metz, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 2007)
January 11 - Bernard Blier, French actor (d. 1989)
January 12 - Pieter Willem Botha, South African politician (d. 2006)
January 12 - Jay McShann, American musician (d. 2006)
January 12 - William Pleeth, British cellist (d. 1999)
January 16 - Philip Lucock, Australian politician and Presbyterian minister (d. 1996)
January 22 - Bill Durnan, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1972)
January 22 - Henri Dutilleux, French composer
January 22 - Harilal Upadhyay, Gujarati Author
January 23 - Airey Neave, British Major
January 23 - David Douglas Duncan, American photo-journalist
January 24 - Jack Brickhouse, American sports broadcaster (d. 1998)
January 25 - Frank "Pop" Ivy, American and Canadian football coach (d. 2003)
February 2 - Xuân Diệu, Vietnamese poet (d. 1985)
February 4 - Shah Maghsoud Sadegh Angha, 41st master of the Oveyssi-Shahmaghsoudi Sufi Order (d. 1980)
February 6 - John Crank, British mathematician (d. 2006)
February 9 - Tex Hughson, American baseball player (d. 1993)
February 12 - Joseph Alioto, Mayor of San Francisco (d. 1998)
February 14 - Marcel Bigeard, French general
February 14 - Masaki Kobayashi, Japanese director (d. 1996)
February 14 - Edward Platt, American actor (d. 1974)
February 15 - Mary Jane Croft, American actress (d. 1999)
February 16 - Bill Doggett, American jazz and rhythm and blues pianist and organist (d. 1996)
February 17 - Raf Vallone, Italian actor (d. 2002)
February 17 - Alexander Obolensky, Russian prince and famed Rugby Union footballer who played for England.(d. 1940)
February 18 - Jean Drapeau, Quebec politician
February 19 - Eddie Arcaro, American jockey (d. 1997)
February 25 - Reinhard Bendix, German sociologist (d. 1991)
February 26 - Jackie Gleason, American actor
February 28 - Cesar Climaco, Filipino politician (d. 1984)
February 29 - Dinah Shore, American singer and actress (d. 1994)
March 4 - William Alland, American actor
March 4 - Giorgio Bassani, Italian writer (d. 2000)
March 4 - Hans Eysenck, German-born psychologist (d. 1997)
March 8 - John Seybold, American economist (d. 2004)
March 11 - Harold Wilson, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 1995)
March 11 - Ezra Jack Keats, children's literature author (d. 1983)
March 14 - Horton Foote, American author
March 15 - Harry James, American musician and band leader (d. 1983)
March 15 - Fadil Hoxha, Yugoslav politician (d. 2001)
March 16 - Mercedes McCambridge, American actress (d. 2004)
March 17 - Ray Ellington, British singer (d. 1985)
March 19 - Eric Christmas, British actor (d. 2000)
March 19 - Irving Wallace, American novelist (d. 1990)
March 20 - Pierre Messmer, French politician and Prime Minister (d. 2007)
March 24 - Donald Hamilton, Swedish-American novelist (d. 2006)
March 26 - Christian B. Anfinsen, American chemist
March 26 - Bill Edrich, English cricketer (d. 1986)
March 26 - Sterling Hayden, American actor (d. 1986)
March 29 - Eugene McCarthy, American politician (d. 2005)
March 31 - Lucille Bliss, American voice actress
March 31 - John H. Wood, Jr.
April 3 - Herb Caen, American newspaper columnist (d. 1997)
April 4 - Nikola Ljubicic, Yugoslav general
April 4 - Mickey Owen, American baseball player (d. 2005)
April 4 - David White, American actor (d. 1990)
April 5 - Gregory Peck, American actor (d. 2003)
April 7 - Anthony Caruso, American actor (d. 2003)
April 11 - Alberto Ginastera, Argentine composer (d. 1983)
April 11 - Howard W. Koch, American film director (d. 2001)
April 12 - Beverly Cleary, American writer
April 12 - Benjamin Libet, American scientist (d. 2007)
April 13 - Phyllis Fraser Cerf Wagner, American actress
April 15 - Alfred S. Bloomingdale, American businessman (d. 1982)
April 17 - Helenio Herrera, French footballer player and manager (d. 1997)
April 22 - Yehudi Menuhin, American-born violinist (d. 1999)
April 24 - Lou Thesz, American professional wrestler (d. 2002)
April 26 - Morris West, Australian writer (d. 1999)
April 26 - Vic Perrin, American actor (d. 1989)
April 27 - Enos Slaughter, American baseball player (d. 2002)
April 28 - Ferruccio Lamborghini, Italian automobile manufacturer (d. 1993)
April 30 - Claude Shannon, American engineer and mathematician (d. 2001)
April 30 - Robert Shaw, American conductor (d. 1999)
May 1 - Glenn Ford, Canadian actor (d. 2006)
May 3 - Léopold Simoneau, French Canadian tenor (d. 2006)
May 4 - Jane Jacobs, American-Canadian author and activist (d. 2006)
May 5 - Zail Singh, President of India (d. 1994)
May 6 - Robert H. Dicke, American physicist (d. 1997)
May 7 - Huw Wheldon, British broadcaster (d. 1986)
May 8 - João Havelange, Brazilian industrialist
May 8 - Swami Chinmayananda, Indian spiritualist (d. 1993)
May 10 - Milton Babbitt, American composer
May 11 - Camilo José Cela, Spanish writer
May 14 - Lance Dossor, British-born concert pianist (d. 2005)
May 14 - Del Moore, American comedian (d. 1970)
May 14 - Marco Zanuso, Italian architect
May 16 - Adriana Caselotti, American actress (d. 1997)
May 20 - Trebisonda Valla, Italian athlete (d. 2006)
May 20 - Alexei Petrovich Maresiev, Russian flying ace (d. 2001)
May 21 - Tinus Osendarp, Dutch runner (d. 2002)
May 21 - Harold Robbins, American novelist (d. 1997)
May 24 - Roden Cutler, Australian diplomat (d. 2002)
May 26 - Moondog, American composer
May 26 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
May 28 - Walker Percy, American author (d. 1990)
May 31 - Bert Haanstra, Dutch filmmaker (d. 1997)
June 4 - Robert F. Furchgott, American chemist
June 4 - Fernand Leduc, Canadian painter (The Automatistes)
June 6 - Henriette Roosenburg, Dutch journalist (d. 1972)
June 8 - Francis Crick, English molecular biologist; Nobel laureate (d. 2004)
June 8 - Luigi Comencini, Italian film director (d. 2007)
June 9 - Robert McNamara, United States Secretary of Defense and president of the World Bank
June 12 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
June 14 - Dorothy McGuire, American actress (d. 2001)
June 15 - Herbert Simon, American economist
June 16 - Hank Luisetti, American basketball player (d. 2002)
June 18 - Julio César Turbay Ayala, Colombian politician (d. 2005)
June 20 - Jean-Jacques Bertrand, premier of Quebec (d. 1973)
June 21 - Joseph Cyril Bamford, English inventor and industrialist (d. 2001)
June 21 - Buddy O'Connor, Canadian ice hockey player (d. 1977)
June 22 - Johnny Jacobs, American television announcer (d. 1982)
June 23 - Len Hutton, English cricketer (d. 1990)
July 1 - Olivia de Havilland, British-born actress
July 2 - Ken Curtis, American actor and singer (d. 1991)
July 2 - Hans-Ulrich Rudel, Combat pilot and highest-decorated German soldier of WWII (d. 1982)
July 4 - Iva Toguri D'Aquino, American World War II figure (d. 2006)
July 9 - Sir Dean Goffin, New Zealand composer (d. 1984)
July 9 - Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom (d. 2005)
July 11 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Prokhorov, Russian physicist
July 11 - Reg Varney, English actor
July 11 - Gough Whitlam, 21st Prime Minister of Australia
July 18 - Johnny Hopp, baseball player (d. 2003)
July 22 - Gino Bianco, Brazilian racing driver (d. 1984)
July 22 - Marcel Cerdan, French boxer (d. 1949)
July 24 - John D. MacDonald, American novelist
July 25 - Lucien Saulnier, Quebec politician (d. 1989)
July 27 - Elizabeth Hardwick, American literary critic and novelist (d. 2007)
July 27 - Keenan Wynn, American actor (d. 1986)
July 28 - David Brown, American film producer
July 29 - Charlie Christian, American jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
July 29 - Budd Boetticher, American film director (d. 2001)
July 30 - Dick Wilson, American actor (d. 2007)
July 31 - Billy Hitchcock, American baseball player and official (d. 2006)
July 31 - Bill Todman, American game show producer (d. 1979)
July 31 - Sibte Hassan, Pakistani activist
August 1 - Anne Hébert, French Canadian author and poet (d. 2000)
August 3 - Shakeel Badayuni, Indian poet and lyricist (d. 1970)
August 3 - José Manuel Moreno, Argentine footballer (d. 1978)
August 6 - Richard Hofstadter, American historian (d. 1970)
August 6 - Dom Mintoff, Maltese Prime Minister
August 11 - Johnny Claes, Belgian racing driver (d. 1956)
August 14 - Wellington Mara, Co-Owner of the New York Giants (d. 2005)
August 15 - Aleks Çaçi, Albanian writer
August 16 - Iggy Katona, American race car driver (d. 2003)
August 18 - Dame Moura Lympany, British pianist (d. 2005)
August 20 - Paul Felix Schmidt, Estonian–German chess player (d. 1984)
August 24 - Léo Ferré, French composer and singer (d. 1993)
August 24 - Hal Smith, American actor (d. 1994)
August 25 - Van Johnson, American actor
August 25 - Frederick Chapman Robbins, American pediatrician and virologist; Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2003)
August 25 - Saburo Sakai, Japanese aviator (d. 2000)
August 27 - Martha Raye, American actress (d. 1994)
August 27 - Tony Harris, South African cricketer (d. 1993)
August 28 - Jack Vance, American author
August 28 - Hélène Baillargeon, Quebec singer and folklorist (d. 1997)
August 29 - Luther Davis, American playwright (d. 2008)
August 29 - George Montgomery, American actor (d. 2000)
August 31 - Daniel Schorr, American journalist
September 3 - Eddie Stanky, American baseball player (d. 1999)
September 5 - Frank Yerby American novelist, (d. 1991)
September 5 - Frank Shuster, Canadian comedian (Wayne and Shuster) (d. 2002)
September 12 - Tony Bettenhausen, American race car driver (d. 1961)
September 13 - Roald Dahl, British writer (d. 1990)
September 13 - Dick Haymes, Argentine vocalist (d. 1980)
September 14 - John Heyer, Australian documentary filmmaker (d. 2001}
September 15 - Margaret Lockwood, English actress (d. 1990)
September 16 - Robert Bradshaw, Saint Kitts and Nevis politician (d. 1978)
September 16 - M.S. Subbulakshmi, Indian singer (d. 2004)
September 16 - Frank Leslie Walcott, Barbadian labour leader (d. 1999)
September 18 - Rossano Brazzi, Italian singer and actor (d. 1994)
September 18 - John Jacob Rhodes, Jr.
September 18 - Frank Bell, British educator (d. 1989)
September 20 - Malik Meraj Khalid, Former Caretaker Prime Minister of Pakistan (d. 2003)
September 21 - Françoise Giroud, French journalist and politician (d. 2003)
September 23 - Aldo Moro, Italian politician (d. 1978)
September 25 - Jessica Anderson, Australian author
September 27 - Frank Handlen, American artist
September 28 - Peter Finch, English-born actor (d. 1977)
October 3 - James Herriot, English veterinarian and author (d. 1995)
October 3 - Shelby Storck, American television producer (d. 1969)
October 4 - Vitaly Ginzburg, Russian physicist
October 4 - Jan Murray, American comedian (d. 2006)
October 4 - George Sidney, American film director (d. 2002)
October 12 - Alice Childress, American actress and playwright (d. 1994)
October 14 - C. Everett Koop, United States Surgeon General
October 16 - George Turner, Australian author (d. 1997)
October 19 - Jean Dausset, French immunologist
October 19 - Emil Gilels, Ukrainian pianist (d. 1985)
October 26 - François Mitterrand, President of France (d. 1996)
October 30 - Leon Day, American baseball player (d. 1995)
October 31 - Carl Johan Bernadotte, formerly Prince of Sweden
November 4 - Walter Cronkite, American news broadcaster
November 6 - Ray Conniff, American composer and conductor (d. 2002)
November 10 - Billy May, American composer
November 12 - Jean Papineau-Couture, French Canadian composer (d. 2000)
November 12 - Paul Emery, British racing driver (d. 1993)
November 12 - Rogelio de la Rosa, Filipino actor and politician (d. 1986)
November 14 - Roger Apéry, Greek-French mathematician (d. 1994)
November 14 - Sherwood Schwartz, American television writer and producer
November 16 - Daws Butler, American voice actor (d. 1988)
November 17 - Shelby Foote, American historian (d. 2005)
November 20 - Evelyn Keyes, American actress (d. 2008)
November 21 - Sid Luckman, American football player (d. 1998)
November 24 - Forrest J. Ackerman, American writer
November 24 - Irwin Allen, American film producer (d. 1991)
November 27 - Chick Hearn, American sportscaster (d. 2002)
November 28 - Mary Lilian Baels, Princess of Rethy
November 29 - Fran Ryan, American actress (d. 2000)
December 4 - Ely Jacques Kahn, Jr.
December 6 - Hugo Peretti, American songwriter and record producer (d. 1986)
December 6 - Kristján Eldjárn, Curator at the National Museum of Iceland and 3rd president of Iceland (d. 1982)
December 7 - Jean Carignan, French Canadian fiddler (d. 1988)
December 8 - Richard Fleischer, American film director (d. 2006)
December 9 - Kirk Douglas, American actor
December 11 - Dámaso Pérez Prado, Cuban-born bandleader (d. 1989)
December 14 - Shirley Jackson, American writer (d. 1965)
December 15 - Buddy Cole, American pianist (d. 1964)
December 15 - Maurice Wilkins, New Zealand-born physicist
December 17 - Penelope Fitzgerald, English writer (d. 2000)
December 18 - Douglas Fraser, Scottish-born American trade unionist (d. 2008)
December 18 - Betty Grable, American actress (d. 1973)
December 20 - Michel Chartrand, Quebec union leader
December 23 - Dino Risi, Italian film director and screenwriter
December 27 - Werner Baumbach, German bomber pilot (d. 1953)

Deaths

January 3 - Grenville M. Dodge, American Civil War Union Army Major General (b. 1831)
January 8 - Ada Rehan, Irish-born American actress (b. 1860)
January 8 - Rembrandt Bugatti, Italian sculptor (b. 1884)
January 15 - Modest Tchaikovsky, Russian writer (b. 1850)
February 6 - Rubén Darío, Nicaraguan writer (b. 1867)
February 12 - Richard Dedekind, German mathematician (b. 1831)
February 19 - Ernst Mach, Austrian-Czech physicist and philosopher (b. 1838)
February 20 - Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist
February 28 - Henry James, American writer (b. 1843)
March 4 - Franz Marc, German artist (b. 1880)
March 12 - Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, Austrian writer (b. 1830)
March 19 - Vasily Surikov, Russian painter (b. 1848)
March 20 - Ota Benga, Congolese pygmy (b. 1884)
March 24 - Enrique Granados, Spanish composer (b. 1867)
April 11 - Richard Harding Davis, American author (b. 1864)
April 19 - Ephraim Shay, American inventor (b. 1839)
April 29 - Jørgen Pedersen Gram, Danish mathematician (b. 1850)
May 4 - Joseph Mary Plunkett, Irish revolutionary (b. 1887)
May 11 - Max Reger, German composer (b. 1873)
May 11 - Karl Schwarzschild, German astronomer and physicist (b. 1873)
May 12 - James Connolly, Irish socialist (b. 1868)
May 13 - Sholom Aleichem, Russian author (b. 1859)
May 17 - Boris Borisovich Galitzine, Russian physicist (b. 1862)
May 28 - Ivan Franko, Ukrainian writer (b. 1856)
June 5 - Horatio Kitchener, Lord Kitchener
June 6 - Yuan Shikai, Chinese military officer and politician (b. 1859)
June 7 - Émile Faguet, French writer and critic (b. 1847)
June 14 - João Simões Lopes Neto, Brazilian writer (b. 1865)
June 18 - Max Immelmann, German flying ace (b. 1890)
June 25 - Thomas Eakins, American artist (b. 1844)
June 28 - Ştefan Luchian, Romanian painter (b. 1868)
July 3 - Hetty Green, American businesswoman (b. 1834)
July 4 - Alan Seeger, American war poet (b. 1888)
July 6 - Odilon Redon, French painter (b. 1840)
July 16 - Ilya Mechnikov, Russian microbiologist
July 18 - Benjamin C. Truman, American journalist and author
July 22 - James Whitcomb Riley, American author and poet (b. 1849)
July 23 - Sir William Ramsay, Scottish chemist
August 3 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish rebel (hanged) (b. 1864)
September 4 - José Echegaray y Eizaguirre, Spanish writer
October 28 - Cleveland Abbe, American meteorologist (b. 1838)
October 28 - Oswald Boelcke, German pilot (b. 1891)
October 31 - Charles Taze Russell, American founder of the Jehovah's Witnesses (b. 1852)
November 12 - Percival Lowell, American amateur astronomer
November 14 - Henry George, Jr.
November 14 - Saki, British writer (b. 1870)
November 15 - Henryk Sienkiewicz, Polish author
November 21 - Emperor Franz Josef I of Austria, (b. 1830)
November 22 - Jack London, American writer (b. 1876)
November 24 - Sir Hiram Stevens Maxim, American-born gunsmith (b. 1840)
December 1 - Charles de Foucauld, French religious leader (b. 1858)
December 9 - Natsume Sōseki, Japanese novelist (b. 1867)
December 25 - St. Albert Chmielowski, Polish Catholic saint (b. 1845)
December 28 - Eduard Strauss, Austrian composer (b. 1835)
December 29 - Grigori Rasputin, Russian monk (b. 1869)

Events

January 1 - German troops abandon Yaoundé and their Kamerun colony to British forces and begin the long march to Spanish Guinea.
January 8 - World War I: Allied forces withdraw from Gallipoli.
January 9 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
January 18 - A 611 gram chondrite type meteorite stikes a house near the village of Baxter in Stone County, Missouri.
January 24 - In Brushaber v. Union Pacific Railroad, the Supreme Court of the United States declares the federal income tax constitutional.
January 28 - Louis D. Brandeis becomes the first Jew appointed to the United States Supreme Court.
January 29 - World War I: Paris is first bombed by German zeppelins.
February 3 - Parliament buildings in Ottawa, Canada burn down.
February 11 - Emma Goldman is arrested for lecturing on birth control.
February 21 - World War I: In France, the Battle of Verdun begins.
February 29 - Child labor: In South Carolina, the minimum working age for factory, mill, and mine workers is raised from twelve to fourteen years old.
March 9 - Pancho Villa leads 1,500 Mexican raiders in an attack against Columbus, New Mexico, killing 17.
March 15 - President Woodrow Wilson sends 12,000 United States troops over the U.S.-Mexico border to pursue Pancho Villa.
March 16 - The 7th and 10th US cavalry regiments under John J. Pershing cross the US-Mexico border to join the hunt for Pancho Villa.
March 19 - Eight American planes take off in pursuit of Pancho Villa, the first United States air-combat mission in history.
March 20 - Albert Einstein publishes his general theory of relativity.
April 8 - In Corona, California, racecar driver Bob Burman crashes, killing three and badly injuring five spectators.
April 9 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun
April 10 - The Professional Golfers Association of America (PGA) is created in New York City.
April 20 - Chicago Cubs played their first game at Weeghman Park (currently Wrigley Field), defeating the Cincinnati Reds 7-6 in 11 innings
April 24 - Easter Rising begins: The Irish Republican Brotherhood led by nationalists Patrick Pearse, James Connolly, and Joseph Plunkett start a rebellion in Ireland.
April 24 - Ernest Shackleton and five men of the Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition launch a lifeboat from uninhabited Elephant Island in the Southern Ocean to organise a rescue for ice-trapped ship Endurance.
April 25 - Easter Rebellion: The United Kingdom declares martial law in Ireland.
April 25 - Anzac Day commemorated for the first time, on the first anniversary of the landing at Anzac Cove.
April 29 - World War I: The British 6th Indian Division surrenders to Ottoman Forces at Kut. One of the largest surrenders of British forces up to that point.
April 29 - Easter Rebellion: Martial law in Ireland is lifted and the rebellion is officially over with the surrender of Irish nationalists to British authorities in Dublin.
May 3 - The leaders of the Easter Rising are executed in Dublin.
May 5 - American marines invade the Dominican Republic.
May 20 - The Saturday Evening Post publishes its first cover with a Norman Rockwell painting ("Boy with Baby Carriage").
May 20 - The small town of Codell, Kansas is struck by a tornado. Incredibly, the same town was also hit in 1917 and 1918 on the exact same date.
May 31 - World War I: Battle of Jutland
June 3 - The Reserve Officer Training Corps or ROTC is established by the U.S. Congress.
June 3 - The National Defense Act is signed into law, increasing the size of the United States National Guard by 450,000 men.
June 5 - Louis Brandeis is sworn in as a Justice of the United States Supreme Court.
June 15 - U.S. President Woodrow Wilson signs a bill incorporating the Boy Scouts of America, making them the only American youth organization with a federal charter.
June 24 - Mary Pickford becomes the first female film star to get a million dollar contract.
June 24 - World War I: The Battle of the Somme begins with a week long artillery bombardment on the German Line.
June 29 - Sir Roger Casement, Irish Nationalist and British diplomat is sentenced to death for his part in the Easter Rising.
July 1 - World War I: First day on the Somme
July 15 - In Seattle, Washington, William Boeing and George Conrad Westervelt incorporate Pacific Aero Products (later renamed Boeing).
July 20 - World War I: In Armenia, Russian troops capture Gumiskhanek.
July 22 - In San Francisco, California, a bomb explodes on Market Street during a Preparedness Day parade killing 10 and injuring 40.
July 30 - Black Tom Island explosion in Jersey City, NJ.
August 2 - World War I: Austrian sabotage causes the sinking of the Italian battleship Leonardo da Vinci in Taranto.
August 3 - World War I: Battle of Romani
August 4 - World War I: Liberia declares war on Germany.
August 25 - The United States National Park Service is created.
August 27 - Romania declares war against Austria-Hungary, entering World War I as one of the Allied nations. It is soon occupied by German and Bulgarian forces.
August 28 - World War I: Germany declares war on Romania.
August 28 - World War I: Italy declares war on Germany.
September 11 - The Quebec Bridge's central span collapses, killing 11 men. The bridge initially collapsed in toto on August 29, 1907.
September 15 - World War I: Tanks are used for the first time in battle, at the Battle of the Somme.
September 17 - World War I: Manfred von Richthofen ("The Red Baron"), a flying ace of the German Luftstreitkräfte, wins his first aerial combat near Cambrai, France.
September 27 - Iyasu is proclaimed deposed as ruler of Ethiopia in a palace coup in favor of his aunt Zauditu.
September 29 - John D. Rockefeller becomes the first billionaire.
October 7 - Georgia Tech defeats Cumberland University 222-0 in one of the most lopsided college football games in American history.
October 14 - Sophomore tackle and guard Paul Robeson is excluded from the Rutgers football team when Washington and Lee University refused to play against a black person.
October 14 - The Perm State University was founded in Russia.
October 16 - Margaret Sanger founds Planned Parenthood by opening the first U.S. birth control clinic.
October 27 - Battle of Segale: Negus Mikael, marching on the Ethiopian capital in support of his son Emperor Iyasus V, is defeated by Fitawrari abte Giyorgis, securing the throne for Empress Zauditu.
November 1 - Paul Miliukov delivers in the State Duma the famous "stupidity or treason" speech, precipitating the downfall of the Boris Stürmer government.
November 5 - The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
November 5 - The Everett Massacre takes place in Everett, Washington as political differences lead to a shoot-out between the Industrial Workers of the World organizers and local police.
November 7 - Jeannette Rankin is the first woman elected to the United States Congress.
November 13 - Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.
November 18 - World War I: First Battle of the Somme ends
November 19 - Samuel Goldwyn and Edgar Selwyn establish Goldwyn Pictures (the company later became one of the most successful independent filmmakers).
November 21 - HMHS Britannic sinks in the Aegean Sea after a mine explodes, killing 30 people.
November 30 - Costa Rica becomes a signatory to the Buenos Aires copyright treaty.
December 6 - World War I: The Central Powers capture Bucharest.
December 18 - World War I: The Battle of Verdun ends when forces under Chief of Staff Erich Von Falkenhayn suffers 337,000 casualties by the French.
December 19 - World War I: Battle of Verdun
December 23 - World War I: Battle of Magdhaba
December 26 - Joseph Joffre is made Marshal of France.

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