November
"Nothing is worth more than this
day." -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
November is the eleventh month of the year having 30 days.
Name comes from the Latin Novembris
(mensis), ninth month of the Roman
year. November's birthstone is topaz and its flower is chrysanthemum.
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1
All Saints' Day
Feast of All Saints in Portugal
Austria-Hungary become two separate nations,
1918
Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill Truman
at the Blair House, 1950
Samhain or Beginning of the Celtic year
2
German Luftwaffe completes 57 consecutive
nights of bombing of London, 1940
Two Frenchmen make the first free hot air
balloon flight, 1783
All Souls' Day in Bolivia, Brazil, El Salvador,
and Uruguay
Memorial Day in Ecuador
3
Cost of beef rises to 3 cents a pound in
Illinois, 1837
Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize,
1954
Sputnik II launched in 1957 with space dog
Laika
Culture Day in Japan
Thanksgiving Day in Liberia
Independence from Columbia in Panama
Independence of Cuenca in Ecuador
James Taylor and Carly Simon are married
in Manhattan, 1972
4
Univac I program predicts Eisenhower victory
based on 7% of votes, 1952
Iranian militants seize US embassy personnel
in Teheran, 1979
Soviet forces crush the anti-communist revolt
in Hungary, 1956
Flag Day in Panama
Will Rogers' Day
5
Guy Fawkes' Plot, 1605
6
Anniversary of the October Socialist Revolution
(2 days) in USSR
Green March Day in Morocco
Prophet Mohammed's Birthday in Malaysia
7
Abolitionist newspaperman Elijah P. Lovejoy
murdered by mob, 1837
Lewis and Clark Expedition sights Pacific
Ocean, 1805
National Revolution Day
October Revolution Day in Hungary
Anniversary of Great October Revolution in
Bulgaria
Joni Mitchell (Roberta Joan Anderson) is
born in Alberta, Canada, 1943
8
Queen's Birthday in Nepal
Patti Page born, 1927
9
Blackout of New York, New England, and Eastern
Canada, 1965
Giant panda discovered in China, 1927
Jack the Ripper kills fifth and final victim,
Jane Kelly, 1888
Margaret Sanger forms American Birth Control
League, 1921
Franklin D. Roosevelt establishes the Civil
Works Administration, 1933
First issue of "Rolling Stone"
is published, 1967
10
41 Women arrested in suffragette demonstrations
near White House, 1917
Henry Stanley asks David Livingston, "Dr.
Livingston, I presume?", 1871
King's Birthday in Bhutan
Greg Lake is born in Bournemouth, England,
1948
11
Washington becomes the 42nd state, 1889
Independence Day in Angola
Remembrance Day in Canada
Republic Day in Maldives
Angola gains independence from Portugal,
1975
Independence of Cartagena in Colombia
12
Dr. Sun Yat-sen's birthday in Taiwan
U.S. first exports oil to Europe, 1861
Prince Charles' Birthday in Fiji
Neil Young is born in Toronto, 1945
13
Paul Simon born, 1942
14
McDonald's raised the price of a Quarter
Pounder from $0.53 to $0.55 in violation of President Nixon's
price controls (but was okayed by Price Commission after a formal
request from McDonald's), 1971
King Hussein's Birthday in Jordan
15
Niagara Falls power plant startup, 1896
Dynasty Day in Belgium
Proclamation of the Republic in Brazil
Thatlouang Festival in Laos
16
Opening of the Suez Canal, 1869
Oklahoma Heritage Week in Oklahoma
Bill Ham performs his first psychedelic "Light
Show," 1965
17
46,000 meteoroids fall over Arizona in 20
minutes, 1966
Richard Nixon says "I am not a crook.",
1973
Army Day in Zaire
Corrective Movement in Syrian Arab Republic
18
First hydrogen bomb blasts Enewetok, 1952
Local standard time zones established for
US, 1883
Independence Day in Morocco
National Days (4 days) in Oman
Battle of Viertieres in Haiti
19
Gettysburg Address delivered by Abraham Lincoln,
1863
Discovery Day in Puerto Rico
Feast Day of S.A.S. Prince Rainier in Monaco
Anniversary of the 1968 Coup by the Army
in Mali
Garifuna Settlement in Belize
Prince of Wales Birthday in Fiji
20
Revolution Day in Mexico
Duane Allman is born in Nashville, Tennessee,
1946
Joe Walsh is born in Cleveland, 1947
21
Announcement of 18.5-minute gap on Watergate
tape, 1973
Day of Prayer and Repentance in Federal Republic
of Germany
22
John F. Kennedy shot and killed in Dallas,
by Lee Harvey Oswald, 1963
Independence Day in Lebanon
Anniversary of Portuguese Aggression in Guinea
23
First broadcast of Dr. Who (longest running
TV series), 1963
Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
24
Lee Harvey Oswald shot and killed by Jack
Ruby, 1963
Anniversary of the New Regime in Zaire
Scott Joplin born, 1868
25
Alfred Nobel invents dynamite, 1867
Independence Day in Suriname
"The Last Waltz" concert is played
by The Band at Winterland, 1976
Johann Strauss, Jr., writes "On the
Beautiful Blue Danube," 1867
26
Cream performs their farewell concert at
Royal Albert Hall, 1968
27
Alfred Nobel establishes Nobel Prize, 1895
Friction match invented, England, 1826
Hoosac Railroad Tunnel completed, 1873, in
NW Massachusetts
Jimi Hendrix is born in Seattle, 1942
28
Independence Day in Albania, Mauritania
Independence from Spain in Panama
Proclamation of the Republic in Chad
29
King Tut's tomb opened, 1922
Day of the Republic (2 days) in Yugoslavia
Goodwill Day in Liberia
Liberation Day in Albania
National Day in Burma
30
Independence Day in Barbados, Yemen Democratic
Republic
National Day in Benin
National Heroes Day in Philippines
Saint Andrew's Day
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