Jespersen, Wilhelm Ostwald and Roland Eötvös, meet in Paris to select a language for international use. The committee ultimately decides to reform Esperanto. October 8 – Edvard Grieg's Olaf Trygvason, his only opera, is produced posthumously in Christiania, Norway. October 17 – Guglielmo Marconi initiates commercial transatlantic radio communications between his high power longwave wireless telegraphy stations in Clifden, Ireland, and Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. October 18 – The Hague Convention is revised by the (second) Hague Peace Conference (effective 26 January 1910). October 24 – A major United States financial crisis is averted when J. P. Morgan, E. H. Harriman, James Stillman, Henry Clay Frick and other Wall Street financiers create a $25,000,000 pool to invest in the shares on the plunging New York Stock Exchange, ending the bank panic of 1907. October 27 – Černová massacre: Fifteen people are shot during the consecration of a Catholic church in Hungary (modern-day Slovakia). October 31 – The Parliament of Finland approves the Prohibition Act, but the law was not implemented because it was not ratified by Tsar Nicholas II of Russia. November November 4 – Russian immigrant bakers Perry and Ben Feigenson begin transforming their cake frosting flavors into The Feigenson Brothers Bottling Works soft drink recipe, later shortened to Faygo. November 16 British passenger liner RMS Mauretania, the world's largest and fastest at this date, sets out on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to New York. President Theodore Roosevelt proclaims that Oklahoma has become the 46th state in the United States. November 21 – Washington State College defeats the University of Washington 10-5 in the Apple Cup in college football, played in Seattle. November 25 The Church of God in Christ, which becomes the fifth-largest African-American Pentecostal-Holiness Christian denomination in the United States, is founded by Bishop Charles Harrison Mason in Memphis, Tennessee. Edeka, a major retailer group in Europe, was founded in Germany. December December 6 – Monongah Mining disaster: A coal mine explosion kills 362 workers in Monongah, West Virginia. December 8 – Upon the death of Oscar II, he is succeeded by his son Gustaf V, as king of Sweden. December 14 – The largest sailing ship ever built, the 7-masted Thomas W. Lawson, is wrecked in the Isles of Scilly. December 16 – The American Great White Fleet begins its circumnavigation of the world. December 17 – Ugyen Wangchuck becomes the first Druk Gyalpo (king