What Happened In November 1898 - Historical Events 1898 November

Historical Events for November, 1898

2nd » Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the American football named football team.
3rd » France withdraws its troops from Kodok known as Fashoda (now in Sudan), ending the Fashoda Incident.
10th » Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.

1st » Arthur Legat, Belgian race car driver (d. 1960)
1st » Sippie Wallace, American singer-songwriter and pianist (d. 1986)
7th » Margaret Morris (actress) called Margaret Morris, American actress (d. 1968)
7th » Raphaël Salem, Greek-French mathematician and academic (d. 1963)
8th » Marie Prevost, Canadian-American actress and singer (d. 1937)
11th » René Clair, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (d. 1981)
12th » Leon Štukelj, Slovenian gymnast (d. 1999)
14th » Benjamin Fondane, Romanian-French philosopher, poet, and critic (d. 1944)
18th » Joris Ivens, Dutch director and producer (d. 1989)
19th » Klement Jug, Slovenian philosopher and mountaineer (d. 1924)
19th » Arthur R. von Hippel, German-American physicist (d. 2003)
21st » René Magritte, Belgian painter (d. 1967)
22nd » Wiley Post, American pilot (d. 1935)
25th » Debaki Bose, Indian actor, director, and screenwriter (d. 1971)
25th » Aarne Viisimaa, Estonian tenor and director (d. 1989)
26th » Karl Ziegler, German chemist and engineer, Nobel Prize in Chemistry called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1973)
27th » Fredric Warburg, English author and publisher (d. 1981)
29th » C. S. Lewis, Irish-English author and poet (d. 1963)
30th » Firpo Marberry, American baseball player and manager (d. 1976)