The day was the first, and only, time a November palindrome day occurred in the 20th Century.
Kwangtung Province seceded from China as the National Assembly at Canton (now Guangzhou) proclaimed a republic.
Sultan Abdelhafid of Morocco announced that he would consent to the conditions of the Franco-German peace treaty making Morocco a French protectorate.
President Taft dedicated a memorial to the replica of Abraham Lincoln's childhood log cabin in Kentucky.
Howard Pyle,"the father of American magazine illustration" died at age 76.
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