November 1928

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November 10, 1928: Hirohito of Japan formally enshrined as the Showa Emperor
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November 6, 1928: Herbert Hoover defeats Alfred Smith to win U.S. presidential election
November 13, 1928: Capsizing of SS Vetris Kills 124 people
Hoover carried 41 of the 48 states, including Governor Smith's New York, and got 444 of the 531 electoral votes

The following events occurred in November 1928:

Thursday, November 1, 1928

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Friday, November 2, 1928

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  • The trial of José de León Toral, the assassin of Mexican president-elect Álvaro Obregón, opened in San Ángel. Toral, a Roman Catholic, testified that he felt he could "save the church from its enemies and herself, by ridding the country of the intellectual head of this terrible state of affairs."[3]
  • After months of earthquakes and collapses of Mount Etna's central crater, a lateral fault located halfway up the northeast slope of the volcano ripped open. Over the course of the next three weeks, roads and a portion of the Circumetnea train track were covered in molten rock, nearly two-thousand acres of historic vineyards and agricultural space were destroyed, and the village of Mascali was buried.[4]

Saturday, November 3, 1928

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Sunday, November 4, 1928

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Monday, November 5, 1928

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Tuesday, November 6, 1928

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Wednesday, November 7, 1928

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Thursday, November 8, 1928

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Friday, November 9, 1928

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Saturday, November 10, 1928

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Sunday, November 11, 1928

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  • A massive "moving day" of radio station frequencies took place in the United States due to General Order 40. Listeners around the country had to readjust their dials to find their favorite stations, but they also found programming they had never before been able to receive.[22]
  • Born: Carlos Fuentes, writer, in Panama City (d. 2012)
  • Died: Oyster Burns, 64, American baseball player

Monday, November 12, 1928

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  • The British steamship SS Vestris sent out an SOS when it began to sink off the coast of Virginia after listing in a storm. Passengers and crew took to the lifeboats for fear that the ship would sink entirely and carry them to the bottom.[23]
  • Died: Oskar Victorovich Stark, 82, Russian admiral and explorer

Tuesday, November 13, 1928

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  • Rescuers saved 215 of the 339 known passengers and crew of the SS Vestris. One was found dead, and the other 123 remained unaccounted for.[24]
  • Died: Enrico Cecchetti, 78, Italian ballet dancer and mime

Wednesday, November 14, 1928

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Prime Minister Coates defeated

Thursday, November 15, 1928

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Kipling
  • Rudyard Kipling declared a copyright on his speeches, handing out advance copies of a speech he was about to make to the Royal Society of Medicine with a notice stating that all rights to the speech would revert to him on Sunday. "I have never heard of it being done before", said newspaper proprietor Lord Riddell. "What Mr. Kipling apparently is trying to do is to give a license to newspapers for the reproduction of his speech for forty-eight hours after it is delivered. What legal force the condition has I do not know. I do not believe such a demand ever has been tested."[28]
  • The British lifeboat RNLB Mary Stanford capsized and sank in Rye Harbour, drowning the entire 17-man crew.
  • Born: Gus Bell, baseball player, in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 1995)

Friday, November 16, 1928

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Saturday, November 17, 1928

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Australia's Prime Minister Bruce
  • Federal elections were held in Australia for the 36 seats of the Australian Senate and the 75 seats of the House of Representatives. "The Coalition" (legislators of the Liberal Party and of the Country Party, led by Prime Minister Stanley Bruce), maintained control of the House and the Senate. Australian voters also carried a referendum amending the constitution concerning financial relations between the federal and state governments.
  • Boston Madison Square Garden, later shortened to Boston Garden, officially opened with a boxing card. Featherweight champion André Routis lost a non-title match to Dick Finnegan.[30]
  • Notre Dame lost a football game on home field for the first time in 23 years when Carnegie-Mellon beat them, 27–7.[31]
  • Born:
  • Died: Lala Lajpat Rai, 63, Indian Punjabi author and politician

Sunday, November 18, 1928

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Monday, November 19, 1928

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Tuesday, November 20, 1928

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  • An ammunition factory exploded outside Paris, killing 12 people.[35]
  • Born: Franklin Cover, American TV and film actor best known for The Jeffersons, in Cleveland (d. 2006)

Wednesday, November 21, 1928

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Thursday, November 22, 1928

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Friday, November 23, 1928

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Saturday, November 24, 1928

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Sunday, November 25, 1928

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  • Twenty people were reported dead in storms that sank shipping in the Atlantic and Mediterranean. The French vessel Le Cesare went down off the coast of Algiers.[42]
  • Leon Trotsky's secretary died after going on a hunger strike in protest at the alleged torture of Trotskyists.[29]

Monday, November 26, 1928

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Tuesday, November 27, 1928

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Wednesday, November 28, 1928

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Thursday, November 29, 1928

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  • The Italian government announced changes to the country's labour system, practically dissolving the syndicalist hierarchy and giving more self-autonomy to each of the six federations organized by the categories of workers.[49]
  • Born: Paul Simon, U.S. Senator for Illinois; in Eugene, Oregon (d. 2003)

Friday, November 30, 1928

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Mexico's President Emilio Portes

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  12. ^ "Fiery Finger of Etna Wipes Out 2 Towns". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 8, 1928. p. 1.
  13. ^ "Doom of Naval Pact Sealed in House of Lords". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 8, 1928. p. 20.
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  26. ^ "Survivors Charge 108 Vestris Deaths to Criminal Neglect and Her Captain". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 14, 1928. p. 1.
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  41. ^ "Set Up New Air Service From Berlin to China". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 26, 1928. p. 3.
  42. ^ "20 Die as Boats Go Down; Storm Lashes France". Chicago Daily Tribune. November 26, 1928. p. 3.
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  46. ^ "Floods Ravage Lowland Europe as Dykes Crash". Brooklyn Daily Eagle. November 27, 1928. p. 2.
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