Editing 1903 (section)

===November===
{{Main|November 1903}}
* [[November 2]] &ndash; [[Maggie L. Walker]] becomes the first African American woman to charter a bank.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nps.gov/mawa/the-st-luke-penny-savings-bank.htm |title=The St. Luke Penny Savings Bank |website=[[Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site|Maggie L. Walker National Historic Site Virginia]] |date=4 January 2017 |publisher=[[National Park Service]], [[U.S. Department of the Interior]] |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116101929/https://www.nps.gov/mawa/the-st-luke-penny-savings-bank.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 3]] &ndash; [[Separation of Panama from Colombia]]: With the encouragement of the United States, [[Panama]] proclaims itself independent of [[Colombia]].<ref name="Secession">{{cite news |title=SECESSION OF PANAMA. |journal=[[The Sydney Morning Herald]] |date=8 January 1909 |at=Page 7, column 2 |url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15027494 |access-date=16 November 2021 |via=[[Trove]] |archive-date=November 16, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211116110638/https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/article/15027494 |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 6]] &ndash; The English-language ''[[South China Morning Post]]'' newspaper is first published in [[Hong Kong]].<ref>{{cite news |url=https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/article/3154851/scmp-118th-anniversary/index.html |last=Arranz |first=Adolfo |title=South China Morning Post: a Hong Kong story |journal=[[South China Morning Post]] |date=6 November 2021 |access-date=16 November 2021 |archive-date=November 24, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211124174051/https://multimedia.scmp.com/infographics/news/hong-kong/article/3154851/scmp-118th-anniversary/index.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 13]] &ndash; The United States recognizes the [[Separation of Panama from Colombia|independence of Panama]].<ref name="Panama">{{cite web |url=http://countrystudies.us/panama/8.htm |author=[[U.S. Library of Congress]] |title=Panama - The 1903 Treaty and Qualified Independence |access-date=16 November 2021 |via=countrystudies.us |archive-date=October 11, 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20111011225556/http://countrystudies.us/panama/8.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
* [[November 17]] &ndash; The [[Russian Social Democratic Labour Party]] splits into two groups: the [[Bolsheviks]] (Russian for "majority") and [[Mensheviks]] (Russian for "minority").<ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=ntiuCwAAQBAJ&pg=PA108 |last=Service |first=Robert |author-link=Robert Service (historian) |title=Lenin: A Political Life |volume=1: The Strengths of Contradiction |location=Houndmills, [[Basingstoke]], [[Hampshire]] and London |publisher=[[Macmillan Press]] |year=1985 |page=108 |isbn=978-1-349-05591-3 |access-date=17 November 2021 |via=[[Google Books]]}} This source mentions a meeting of the Party Council on November 17, 1903, but does not clarify that this was the occasion of the permanent split.</ref>
* [[November 18]] &ndash; The [[Hay–Bunau-Varilla Treaty]] is signed by the United States and [[Panama]], giving the U.S. exclusive rights over the [[Panama Canal Zone]].<ref name="Secession"/>
* [[November 23]] &ndash; [[Colorado]] governor [[James Hamilton Peabody]] sends the state militia into the town of [[Cripple Creek, Colorado|Cripple Creek]] to break up a miners' strike.<ref>{{cite web |author=History.com Staff |website=[[History.com]] |year=2009 |title=Colorado governor sends militia to Cripple Creek |url=https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/colorado-governor-sends-militia-to-cripple-creek |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180310050619/https://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/colorado-governor-sends-militia-to-cripple-creek |archive-date=10 March 2018 |access-date=16 November 2021 |publisher=[[A+E Networks]]}}</ref>
* [[November 28]] &ndash; {{SS|Petriana}} is wrecked on a reef outside [[Melbourne]], Australia, causing one of the world's first major [[List of oil spills|oil spill]]s.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.amsa.gov.au/marine-environment/incidents-and-exercises/petriana-28-november-1903 |title=Petriana, 28 November 1903 |website=[[Australian Maritime Safety Authority]] |department=Historical pollution and casualty incidents |date=9 November 2020 |publisher=[[Australian Government]] |access-date=17 November 2021 |archive-date=November 30, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211130205409/https://www.amsa.gov.au/marine-environment/incidents-and-exercises/petriana-28-november-1903 |url-status=live }}</ref>