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Dr. Crippen is convicted in London for the murder of his wife, making it one of the first cases solved with the help of wireless communication.
The Mexican Revolution begins as Francisco Madero, speaking at San Luis Potosi, in San Antonio, Texas, calls for an uprising against the elitist government and oligarchical policies of Porfirio Díaz who had already being in power for 33 years and had just just declared himself the winner after a mock election against Madero and was starting his 7th term as president.
Although the revolt failed, it kindled revolutionary movements led by Pascual Orozco, Pancho Villa and Emiliano Zapata. All culminating with Díaz resignation in May 25,1911 and Madero being elected president, Madero was assassinated early in 1913 by Victoriano Huerta, a commander of the federal forces who dissolved the congress and assumed power. More upheavals followed and the revolution continued until 1920 when General Álvaro Obregón rose to power. More
The Bulgarian siege of the fortress city of Adrianople (modern-day Edirne) begins. The siege ended on March 26, 1913, when Bulgarian and Serbian forces captured the city. The decisive victory was a significant blow to the Ottoman army leading to the end of the First Balkan War.
Woodrow Wilson is elected the 28th President of the U.S. by defeating the incumbent William H. Taft and former president Theodore Roosevelt in the 1912 presidential election with a landslide victory in the electoral college and just 41.8% of the popular vote, the lowest vote share for a victorious presidential candidate since 1860. More
Great Britain and France declared war on Turkey respecting their agreement with Russia, widening the conflict of World War I.
Russia declares war on Turkey, following the shelling of Russian ports and the sinking of Russian ships in the Black Sea by Turkey. Three days later, on November 5, 1914, Great Britain and France, declared war on the Ottoman Empire, respecting their agreement with Russia, widening the conflict of World War I.
Jeannette Rankin becomes the first woman in the history of the nation to win a seat in the U.S. Congress. when she is elected to the U.S. House of Representatives for the State of Montana. More
The Hospital ship HM Britannic, Sister ship to the Titanic, sinks on her sixth voyage when she struck a mine and sank off the Greek coast in the Agean Sea. More than 1,000 crew, doctors and nurses were on board, and 30 people lost their lives. The Britannic sank in 55 minutes and was the largest ship lost in the First World War. More
The Balfour Declaration was a public statement issued by the British government in 1917 during the First World War announcing its support for the establishment of a "national home for the Jewish people" in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small minority Jewish population. The statement came in the form of a letter from Britain’s then-foreign secretary, Arthur Balfour, addressed to Baron Lionel Walter Rothschild, More
The "October" Revolution in Russia begins on November 7, 1917, (October 25 - Julian calendar) as the Bolshevik Party, led by Vladimir Lenin, seizes power in Petrograd (now St. Petersburg) where the Bolsheviks launched a nearly bloodless coup against the Provisional Government and eventually formed a new government with Lenin at its head.
The WWI Armistice between Germany and the Allies on the Western Front also known as the Armistice of Compiègne is officially signed, after more than four years of fighting and the loss of millions of lives. The armistice was basically a cease fire agreement which is widely considered the end of World War I.
The Armistice was followed by the Treaty of Versailles which was the official peace treaty that ended World War I. It was signed in France seven months later, on June 28, 1919. More
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated in Arlington Cemetery in Washington DC. On November 11, 1921, The prior month, in the French town of Chalons-sur-Marne, U.S. Army Sgt. Edward F. Younger, a decorated World War I veteran, had selected the "Unknown Soldier" to be interred in the planned Tomb at Arlington National Cemetery, by laying a spray of white roses upon one of four caskets.
The following day, the Unknown Soldier’s casket departed from the port of Le Havre on board the USS Olympia. In Washington DC, The Unknown Soldier was placed on a horse-drawn caisson and carried in a procession through Washington, D.C. and across the Potomac River. A state funeral ceremony was held at Arlington National Cemetery's new Memorial Amphitheater and buried in the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Arlington National Cemetery, near Washington, D.C. More
The first successful transfer of fuel in mid-air. On November 12, 1921, while circling over Long Beach, California as wing walker Wesley May climbed from the wingtip of a Standard J-1 biplane to a Curtiss JN-4 “Jenny” biplane with a five-gallon can of gasoline strapped to his back and successfully poured the gas into the Jenny’s fuel tank.
The J-1 was piloted by Frank Hawks and the Jenny was piloted by Earl Daugherty. The first transfer of fuel using the more conventional fuel hose system took place in 1923.
The entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun (King Tut) is discovered in Egypt's Valley of the Kings by British archaeologist Howard Carter and his sponsor Lord Carnarvon. on November 4, 1922. After years of searching they found a step cut into the bedrock that led to a staircase and a sealed doorway.
Closer examination of the doorway seal revealed an inscription with the name of Tutankhamun, suggesting that this was his tomb. The discovery was made more than 3,300 years after Tutankhamun's death and burial.The excavators continued their exploration, entering the first antechamber which was full of treasures on November 26, 1922 and finally the most important burial chamber on February 16, 1923.
Twenty two days after British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to the tomb of Tutankhamun (King Tut) the excavators reached another sealed doorway on November 26, 1922 and opened the antechamber, the first of four chambers which was filled with treasures.
As the event is recalled in Carters book, when Carter peered into a hole in the door, he famously replied to Lord Carnarvon's anxious question, "Yes, wonderful things". The discovery of the largely intact burial site full of treasures and artifacts, became a worldwide sensation.
Almost three months later, on February 16, 1923, after clearing the outer chambers, Carter and Lord Carnarvon opened the sealed door to the burial chamber, the final and most important chamber of the tomb.
Adolf Hitler's first attempted coup, the Beer Hall Putsch, is foiled in Munich, Germany.
The fifth Imperial conference, hosted by King-Emperor George V in London, concludes on November 23, 1926. The Imperial Conference brought together the prime ministers of the Dominions of the British Empire and declared the Dominions as equal, autonomous communities within the British Empire, officially adopting the term "Commonwealth" to describe the community.
The conclusions arrived at the conference laid the foundation for the Statute of Westminster in 1931, which legislated the principles of dominion autonomy and granted legislative independence. No centralized constitution: Rejected the idea of a single, codified imperial constitution in favor of a more flexible arrangement.
The first U.S. federal prison for women officially opens in Alderson, West Virginia. The prison had a capacity for 700 inmates. All women serving federal sentences of more than a year were to be sent there.
The Soviet Union announces its policy of forced agricultural collectivization of agriculture on November 7, 1929 although the process began earlier; leading to significant upheaval in rural areas leading to massive rural upheaval, forced grain procurements, and the devastating Holodomor famine (1930-1933) as peasants resisted.