November 1900 - November 13, 1900 (Tuesday)

November 13, 1900 (Tuesday)

• Arthur Jenner, Britain's Sub-Commissioner assigned to the Jubaland province in colony of British Somaliland, was murdered on orders of two of the Chiefs of the Ogaden, Hassan Yera and Hassan Odel. Yera had been arrested earlier on Jenner's orders as part of a murder investigation.
• Valdemar Poulsen of Denmark was awarded U.S. Patent No. 661,619 for the first sound recording device, which he called the telegraphone. In the summer of 1898, Poulsen found that a telephone, connected to an electromagnet, which in turn moved along a piece of piano wire could store the sound of his voice; and that the sound could be "played back" to a telephone receiver by moving the magnet back over the wire.
• Born: "Carbine" Williams, American inventor, in Cumberland County, North Carolina (d. 1975)