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Slaughter Month, Aviation History Month, Child Safety and Protection Month, Diabetic Eye Disease Month, Good Nutrition Month, International Creative Child and Adult Month, National Raisin Bread Month, International Drum Month, National Moral Indignation, Jewish Book Month, National Alzheimer's Disease Month, National Epilepsy Month, National Diabetes Month, National Hospice Month, National Stamp Collecting Month, One Nation Under God Month, Peanut Butter Lover's Month, National Christmas Seal Month, National Pepper Month, Real Jewelry Month, Jewish Book Month (mid-Nov. to mid-Dec.) |
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| 1st Week | 2nd Week | ||
| American Art Week National Card & Letter Writing Week French Conversation Week National Fig Week World Communication Week National Notary Public Week |
Red Flannel Days (Michigan) American Education Week National Eating Disorders Week National Chemistry Week National Notary Public Week National Split Pea Soup Week World Mutual Services Week National Children's Book Week Key Club International Week National Osteopathic Medicine Week International Week of Science and Peace (UN) National Rediologic Technology Week | ||
| 3rd Week | 4th Week | Book Week National Geography Awareness Week American Education Week National Culinary Week National Bible Week Operating Room Nurse Week National Children's Book Week National Adoption Week National Family Week |
National Home Care Week Make Up Your Own Week Week National Cookie Week |
| Thanksgiving Week | |||
| National Game and Puzzle Week Adoption Week National Bible Week National Farm/City Week National Leftover Awareness Week | |||
| November Movable Daily Holidays | |
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| Day | Holiday |
| 1st Sunday | New York City Marathon RAC London to Brighton Veteran Car Run (UK) |
| 1st Monday | Recreation Day (Australia, Tasmania) Black Solidarity Day (Yale University) |
| 1st Tuesday | Melbourne Cup Day (Victoria) |
| 1st Wednesday | Wet Wellington Wednesday (Imps and Gremlins) |
| 1st Friday | World Community Day Arbor Day (Western Samoa) |
| 1st Saturday | Sadie Hawkins Day Fish Returning Weekend begins (Fairy) National Service Day All Saint's Day (Sweden) |
| 1st Tuesday after 1st Monday | Election Day (US) |
| Sunday before Martinmas (11th) | Rebenlichter (Switzerland) |
| 2nd Sunday | Tree Festival (Tunisia) New York City Marathon La Quintane (France) Remembrance Say or Sunday (fka Poppy Day) |
| 2nd Saturday | Lord Mayor Day (London) |
| 3rd Weekend | Elephant Round-Up (Surin, Thailand) |
| 3rd Thursday | Great American Smokeout Noveau Beaujolais wine released (France) |
| 4th Monday | Zibelemarit (Onion Market Day; Berne, Switzerland) |
| Sunday before Thanksgiving | National Bible Sunday |
| 4th Thursday | Thanksgiving Day Israa W Miiraj (Night Journey) St. Pumpkin's Day (aka St. Pompon's Day; Puritan) |
| Monday after Thanksgiving | You're Welcomegiving Day |
| Friday after Thanksgiving | Black Friday Christmas Shopping Season begins Buy Nothing Day |
| Sunday after Thanksgiving | Pasadena Doo Dah Parade |
| Sunday before Totensonntag | Volkstrauertag (Memorial Day; Germany) |
| Wednesday before Advent | Buss Und Bettag (Repentence Day; Germany) |
| Sunday before Advent | Stir-Up Sunday (UK) Totensonntag (Germany) |
| 4th Sunday before Christmas (12/25) | Advent begins |
| Last Sunday | JFK Day (Mass.) |
| Last Workday | International Computer Security Day |
| November Indeterminate Holidays The holidays in this table are either based on calendars other than the Gregorian Calendar or are keyed to natural events such as seasons or cosmological phenomena |
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| Time Period | Holiday |
| 25th Day of Kislev, 3rd Jewish month (@ Nov/Dec) | Hannukah begins |
| 2 days before Full Mon Day of 12th lunar month (@ Nov/Dec) | Wat Simouang Festival (Laos) |
| Full Moon Day of 12th lunar month (@ Nov/Dec) | Loy Krathong (Thailand) |
| Full Moon Day of Tazauungmon, Burmese month | Tazaundaing (Burma) |
| Sometime in November | Wax Festival (honoring Sidi Abdallah Ben Houssoun;
Morocco) Basari Initiation Rites (Senegal) |
| Sometime in November (every three years) | Habye Festival (Togo) |
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| 1 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Stephen Crane Larry Flynt Benvenuto Cellini Walter Matthau Jenny McCarthy (Pb 10/93) William Merrit Chase Keith Emerson Martin Luther Jules Bastien-Lepage Alfred Wegener Gary Player L.S. Lowry Spencer Perceval Rick Grech Ted Hendricks Lyle Lovett Fernando Valenzuela Betsy Palmer Lauren-Marie Taylor Sholem Asch Barbara Bossom Rick Allen |
All Saint's Day All Hallow's Day Old Celtic New Year Invention of Sex Day National Author's Day Day of the Dead (Mexico) CrossQuarter Day Soul-Caking Day St. Mathurin's Day (patron of fools) Graveyards Day Yemen Independence Day Liberty Day (Virgin Islands) Samhain (Celtic, 3rd Station) Antigua and Barbuda Independence Day Isia National Doubletalk Day Recreation Day (Tasmania) St. Cosmas' and Damian's Day Gooseberry Humble's Tummy-Rumbling Contest (Fairy) Anniversay of the Revolution (Algeria) London Film Festival begins National French Fried Clam Day St. Marcel of Paris' Day (patron against vampires) |
| November 1 Events | Harvey premiered on Broadway (1944) 1st Department Store opened Susan B. Anthony & friends arrested for registering to vote (1872) Rolling Stone 1st published (1967) Seminole War began (1836) 1st Money Order written (1864) M1 Motorway opened Sex invented by microorganisms (Sagan calendar) Edison got patent for electric lightbulb (1879) Robin, Batman's sidekick, killed by the Joker (1988) 1st Air Raid Shelter built Harvey premiered Mission San Juan Capistrano founded 1st Prepaid Envelope sent New York County, New York founded (1683) African Free School opened (NYC; 1787) Queen Victoria proclaimed India's ruler (1858) 1st US Auto Club founded (1895) Vespucci discovered Rio De Janeiro Bay Algerian War of Independence began (1954) 1st Royal Command Performance (1946) Alfred Jarry died (suicide?; 1907) Radio Licences 1st for sale (UK; 1922) Suffolk County, New York founded (1683) US tested 1st Hydrogen Bomb (1952) American Motor League founded (1895) Continental Congress adjourned for the last time (1788) 1st Forward Pass thrown in a football game (Notre Dame 35, Army 13; 1913) Asassination attempt made on US President Harry Truman (1950) Lisbon, Portugal destroyed by earthquake, tidal wave, and fire (1755) Nighthawks' Roodles recorded US Film Rating System (G/PG/R/X) established |
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| 2 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Warren G. Harding Marie Antoinette Daniel Boone William Cullen Bryant k.d. lang Shere Hite Burt Lancaster Mardi Jacquet (Pb 10/80) James Dunn Bunny Berigan Willie McGee Brandi Brandt (Pb 10/87) Rose Bird Harlow Shapley Ray Walston Jean Chardin Luchino Visconti James K. Polk Melissa Evridge (Pb 8/90) Jean-Baptiste-Simeon Chardin Helle Michaelsen (Pb 8/88) Jim Bakken Ken Rosewell Susie Scott (Pb 5/83) Ann Rutherford Cookie Monster Alfre Woodard Larry Little David Stockton William D. Schaefer Travis Jackson Kevin Grogan Stephanie Powers |
All Soul's Day Dia de Finados (Day of the Dead; Portugal) Panama Independence Day St. Eustace's Day (Eastern) Soulcaker's Play (Cheshire, UK) Plan Your Epitaph Day Dead Relative's Day (Sicily) Balfour Declaration Day (Israel) St. Victorinius' Day Dia de Muertos (Mexico) Bahrain Independence Day National Deviled Egg Day |
| November 2 Events | North Dakota became the 39th state (1889) South Dakota became the 40th state (1889) 1st Regular Radio Station (KDKA) began broadcasting (1920) Harper's Bazzar published 1st Newspaper crossword puzzle Howard Hughes' Spruce Goose made its only flight (1947) London Daily Mirror 1st published (1903) Charge of the Light Brigade premiered 1st Color TV broadcasts began (1950) BBC Broadcast service established (1936) Lady Chatterly's Lover finally found not obscene in Britian (1960) Fantastic Four 1st published Cool Hand Luke premiered Evidence of Vikings in America 500 years before Columbus discovered (1963) Gypsy premiered Soup Nazi introduced on Seinfeld (1995) Haile Selassie crowned King of Ethiopia (1930) US established free trade with France (1810) Stevie Wonder's Part-Time Lover reached No. 1 (1985) Cord Model 810 automobile introduced (1935) Ivanna Trump filed for divorce from Donald (1990) Pakistan announcd adoption of Islamic law (1953) Townspeople of Levelland, Texas signted a UFO (1957) Susan B. Anthony & Elizabeth Cady Stanton stopped trying to vote in US national election (1899) Weavers and Knitters destroy machines at Sutton & Ashfield (UK; 1811) |
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| 3 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Dennis Miller Karl Baedeker William Cullen Bryant Bob Feller Vincenzo Bellini Adam Ant Kimberly Evenson (Pb 9/84) Edward D. White James Renwick Lulu Edward Emmers John Montague, Earl of Sandwich Lois Mailou Jones Stephen Austin Charles Bronson Michael Dukakis Bronko Nagurski Roseanne Barr Steve Landesberg James Reston Phil Simms Monica Vitti Ken Holtzman Bob Welch Phil Simms Greg Townsend Andre Malraux Terence McNally Dolph Lundgren Larry Holmes Ken Berry Alfredo Stroessner |
Housewife's Day St. Hubert's Day (patron of hunters, mathematicians, foresters, furriers, makers of precision Instruments, Belgium; against dog bites, rabies) Culture Day (Japan) Andorra Independence Day Sandwich Day Panama Independence Day Isis Cult Feast (Ancient Rome) St. Malachy's Day (The "Irish Nostradamus"; Celtic) Dominica Independence Day St. Pirminius' Day (patron against snakebites. poisoning) Chili Cook-Off Micronesia Independence Day St. Winifred's Day Meiji Setsu (Japan) Parsley Scattering Season ends (Fairy) Give Someone a Dollar Today Day St. Martin de Porres' Day (patron of hairdressers, persons of mixed race, public-health workers, race relations, TV in Peru) |
| November 3 Events | Sandich invented (1718) Treasure Island published 1st Dog in space (1957) US Supreme Court declared Native Americans to be "aliens" (1883) Frozen Bread for sale Wizard of Oz debuted on TV (1956) Opium War began (China; 1839) Chevrolet Motors incorporated (1911) Different Strokes debuted (1979) 1st Truth-in-packaging law requiring food ingredients to be listed established (1966) Bank of Italy changed its name to Bank of America Yeat Preparation patented "Dewey Defeats Truman" read the Chicago Daily Tribune's premature headline 1st National Auto Show held North Sea oil pipeline opened (1975) Idaho became 1st US state to grant women the vote (1896) Billy Ocean's Caribbean Queen reached No. 1 (1984) Photographing of prisoners made compulsory (UK; 1870) Abruzzi, Italy wiped out by an earthquake, killing 15,000 (1706) Massachusetts offers £20 bounty for scalps of indian boys & girls under 12 (1755) Koo Stark awarded 1/2 million in libel damages from Sunday People (1988) 2 French Agents plead guilty to sinking Greepeace ship Rainbow Warrior in New Zealand (1985) |
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| 4 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Chris Difford Art Carney Robert Mapplethorpe Walter Cronkite James Honeyman-Scott Will Rogers Eden Phillpotts Peter Boynton William III James Fraser Martin Balsam Gig Young Petra Verkaik (Pb 12/89) C.K. Williams Eugene Berman Guido Reni Martin Balsam Ralph Macchio Alfred Heineken Loretta Young Richard Sheridan Cameron Mitchell Dick Groat Bobby Wallace Monte Coleman Erik Norgard Bubba McDowell Loretta Swit Markie Post Andrea McArdle |
Chair Day World Community Day Mischief Night (UK, Australia, New Zealand) Tonga Independence Day Waiting for the Barbarians Day Suez Day National Candy Day St. Americus' Day (patron of America) Flag Day (Panama) St. Vitalis and Agricola's Day Will Rogers Day (Oklahoma) St. Charles Borromeo's Day (patron of apple orchards, catechists, seminarians, starch makers; against stomachaches, ulcers) |
| November 4 Events | King Tutankhamen's Tomb discovered (1922) London's Tube opened (1890) Cash Register patented 1st National Roller Derby Iran took US hostages (1979) 1st Wagon Train reached California Artificial Leg patented Robert Wyatt broke his back UNESCO established (1946) Slicing Machine patented 1st Fashion Show (Vogue; Ritz-Carlton, NYC; 1914) Israeli President Itzhak Rabin assassinated (1995) Gatling Gun, the 1st machine gun, patented 1st Gumball Machine appeared Greg Bear's Blood Music published Beatles played Royal Command Performance (1963) Shostakovich's 8th Symphony premiered Concorde airplane 1st exceeded Mach 2 (1970) 1st Sadie Hawkins Day (Lil' Abner; 1939) Nelson Monument completed (Trafalgar Square, London; 1843) Freud's Interpretation of Dreams published (1899) US agreed to pay anti-piracy tribute to Tripoli (1797) House of Commons Press Gallery opened (1852) Bob Dylan played his 1st concert in New York City (1961) Anne Murray's You Needed Me reached No. 1 (1978) Japanese Prime Minister assassinated by a Korean (1921) Iranian "students" seized US embassy in Tehran (1979) Johnny Nash's I Can See Clearly Now reached No. 1 (1972) United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization established (1946) Neutrality Act signed allowing US arms sales to foreign nations (1939) Abraham Lincoln married Mary Todd (1842) Massachusetts Bay Colony, having come to America for religious freedom, make heresy by others punishable by death (1646) |
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| 5 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Will Durant Vivien Leigh Washington Allston Roy Rogers Tatum O'Neal Sam Shepard Paul Simon Cindy Brooks (Pb 4/85) Washington Allston Raymond Loewy Elke Sommer Charles II (1661) Thomas Kyd Bill Walton Ida Tarbell John Haldane Art Garfunkel Paul Sabatier Bryan Adams Joel McCrea Eugene Debs Patricia Kuhl Ray Conniff Lloyd Anthony Moseby Earle "Greasy" Neale Chris Robinson John Cleves Symmes Walter Stanley Earle "Greasy" Neale Bill Pickel Ike Turner Lloyd Moseby Mantovani |
World Community Day Recreation Day (Australia) Gunpowder Day Feast of No Return St. Elizabeth's Day (patron of pregnant women) Guy Fawkes' Day (UK) Pope Day Arbor Day (Western Samoa) National Doughnut Day |
| November 5 Events | Professor Brown invented the Flux Capacitor (Back to the
Future; 1955) Automobile patented (1895) 1st Crossword Puzzle Book published Gunpowder Plot (1605; UK) Susan B. Anthony illegally votes (1872) Guys & Dolls premiered 1st Stereo radio broadcast British Board of Film Censors appointed (1912) Cyprus annexed to Great Britain (1914) 1st flight coast-to-coast (US: 1911) Battle of Inkerman (Crimean War; 1854) Chinese Boy Emperor, Pu-yi, expelled from Forbidden City (1924) 1st Photo taken of US President (former Pres. John Quincy Adams; 1848) Gulliver washed up on Lilliput shore New York Weekly Journal 1st published (1773) USSR tanks crushed Hungarian revolt (1956) 1st Woman sailed around the world alone (1987) Mick Jagger and Bianca divorced (1980) 1st Oldsmobile drove from Detroit to New York City (1901) Redwood cross-section with 1,021 annual rings arrived at Muir Woods (1930) Mogul leader Akbar defeated Afghan general Hemu at 2nd Battle of Panipat (1526) President Lincoln put General Ambrose Burnside in charge of Union Army (1862) Rudolph Valentino married actress Jean Acker and was locked out on his wedding night (1919) |
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| 6 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Noah John Philip Sousa Sally Field James A. Naismith Adolphe Sax James Gregory Ignace Paderewski Robert Musil Teri Peterson (PB 7/80) William Leishman Everett Shinn Mike Nichols Walter Johnson Lori Singer John Alcock Edsel Ford Angela Summers Fibber McGee Gustavas Adolphus Maria Shriver James Jones Glenn Frey Ray Conniff Lance Kerwin Wild Man Fischer Ray Perkins Mark Haynes Carlo Abarth John Candelaria Heinrich Himmler |
United Americas Day Saxophone Day Festival of Total Submission Marooned Without a Compass Day St. Leonard's Day (patron of prisoners, blacksmiths, porters, horses, locksmiths, coal miners, greengrocers; against robbery) Dominican Republic Independence Day National Nachos Day St. Paul of Constantinople's Day (Eastern) Chad Independence Day Gustavas Adolphus Day (Sweden) National Notary Public Day Potting Shed Investitures (garden fairies; Fairy) St. Illtyd's Day Do Tater Tots Ever Grow Up? Day |
| November 6 Events | 1st College Football game (Rutgers beat
Princeton) Disney's Peter Pan premiered Iran-Contra Scandal began (1986) Mexico proclaimed independence from Spain (1813) 1st Electric Sign Flasher lit up Electric Shaver patented Kiwanis Club established Battle of Lutzen (Sweden) Meet the Press debuted (1947) Sex Pistols' 1st concert (lasts 10 minutes; 1975) Phil Donohue Show debuted I, Claudius debuted (1977) RAF's 1st monoplane, Hawker Hurricane, flew (1935) Henry VI crowned King of England (1429) Pearl Jam's album Vs. reached No. 1 (1993) Kariba High Dam construction began (Zambezi River; 1956) Red Ryder comic strip began (1938) Discovery of King Tut's tomb announced (1922) USSR President Boris Yeltsin disbanded the Communist Party (1991) Spanish explorers 1st reached Santa Clara Valley near present-day Palo Alto Joe Cocker & Jennifer Warnes' Up Where We Belong reached No. 1 (1981) Patna Railroad Station TV screens on the platforms accidently showed a pornographic movie instead of railway times (India; 1987) |
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| 7 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Albert Camus Marie Curie Al Hirt Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman Herman J. Mankiewicz Francisco de Zubaran Todd McKee Dean Jagger Helen Suzman Joan Sutherland Muhammad ibn Hazm (994) Andrew Dickson White Judith Frost Billy Graham Joni Mitchell Kathy McMillan Leon Trostsky Johnny Rivers Mary Travers Dana Plato Ken Miles Joe Niekro Frank Adams Jim Kaat Dick "Dr. Strangelove" Stuart |
Magazine Day Feast of Stolen Fire Bangladesh Revolution Day St. Willibrord's Day (patron against epilepsy, convulsions) National Bittersweet Chocolate with Almonds Day St. Florentius' Day (patron against gallstones, ruptures) Ecuador Independence Day National Notary Public Day St. Willibrord's Day (patron of Holland; against convulsions) |
| November 7 Events | Lewis & Clark reached the Pacific Ocean
(1805) Pocket Lighter 1st manufactured (1865) Battle of Tippecanoe (1811) 1st Cigarette Manufacturing Machine made Chicago's Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is? released Tacoma, Washington bridge collapsed in wind storm (1940) Gatling Gun patented (1862) 1st Woman elected to US Congress (Montana; 1916) Republican elephant symbol 1st printed (in Harper's Weekly; 1874) Bolshevik Revolution began (1917) Face the Nation debuted (1954) Coast-to-coast Canadian Railroad completed (1885) London Gazette 1st published (1565) Frank Sinatra married Ava Gardner (1951) NBC became 1st network to broadcast in color only (1966) Gone With the Wind 1st shown on TV (1976) Franco-Spanish War ended (1659) Columbus returns from his 4th voyage Asassination attempted on Mikhail Gorbachev (1990) Victor Herbert's Naughty Marietta premiered on Broadway (1910) Hall & Oates' Private Eyes reached No. 1 (1981) Transcontinental Canadian railroad completed (1885) Missiles 1st appeared in a parade in Red Square, Moscow (1960) Benito Mussolini became official leader of Italy's National Facist Party (1921) |
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| 8 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Katherine Hepburn Edmund Halley Charles Demuth Arnold Bax Christie Hefner Bonnie Raitt June Havoc Andy Kieran Christiaan Barnard Margaret Mitchell Rickie Lee Jones Morley Safer Patti Page Gene Saks Esther Rolle Jeff Blaser Jimmie Giles Chuck Cecil Kazuo Ishiguro Qadry "Missile" Ismail Leon Trotsky Mary Hart Bucky Harris Robert Dale Owen Minnie Ripperton |
Abet & Aid Punsters Day Mania Festival (Old
Roman) Gwynn ap Nudd (Celtic lord of faerie kingdom) Tragedy Day Dunce Day St. Claude's Day (patron of sculptors) Merchant Sailing Ship Preservation Day Feast of Pamphleteers Crystal Night (Hebrew) St. Elizabeth's Day (Eastern) National Harvey Wallbanger Day Wish-Granting Championship (Fairy) St. Willehad's Day Feast of the Four Crowned Martyrs (patrons of stonemasons, Freemasons) Saints, Doctors, Missionaries, and Martyr's Day (Church of England) |
| November 8 Events | Louvre opened to the public (1793) X-Rays discovered (1895) Montana became the 41st state (1889) Beer Hall Putsch (Germany; 1923) Museum of Modern Art opened (NYC; 1929) Dial Phone service 1st began (1919) HBO debuted (Wilkes-Barre, PA; 1972) Disney's Robin Hood premiered (1973) 1st Jet Dogfight Battle of Mt. White Days of Our Lives debuted (1965) Electric Attachment Plug patented 1st Black elected to US Senate (1966) Allied troops landed in North Africa (WW2; 1942) Hernando Cortez met Montazuma (1519) Mount Holyoke, 1st women's college, opened (1837) 5th Dimension's Wedding Bell Blues reached No. 1 (1969) Covent Garden stopped being site of the flower & vegetable market (1974) 1st Black elected as US State Governor (Virginia; 1989) Tom Dempsey kicked the longest field goal, to lead the Saints to victory over the Lions (63 yards; 1970) USS Mary Celeste sailed from NYC (found in Atlanta 4 weeks later: all crew was gone & never heard from again) 11 People killed & 63 injured by bomb explosion on Remembrance Day (Northern Ireland; 1987) Winnetka, Illinois' high school physical education department renamed Department of Kinetic Wellness (1994) |
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| 9 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Carl Sagan Clifton Webb Gail Borden Ivan Turgenev Allama Iqbal Bob Gibson Paul Serusier Augustus Vincent Tack Benjamin Bannekar Mugsy Spanier Elijah Lovejoy Anne Sexton Florence Sabin Ronald Harwood Mona Michael (inventor of paper poppy) Hedy Lamarr Carl Perkins Pepa Tom Fogerty Florence Chadwick Herbert Thomas Kalmus Ed Wynn Richard Abegg Anthony Asquith James William Fulbright Mary Travers Whitey Herzog Sargent Shriver Tom Weiskopf Ward Bond Leonard Grimes Dorothy Dandridge Elijah P. Lovejoy Muggsy Spanier Charles Bickford David Jones Spiro T. Agnew Lou Ferrigno Bob Graham Edward VII |
Parade Day Sadie Hawkins Day Remembrance Day (Bahamas) Chaos Never Died Day Tree Festival Day (Tunisia) Go To An Art Museum Today Day Feast of St' Leo I, the Great Cambodia Independence Day Four Crowned Martyrs St. Simeon Metaphrastes' Day (Eastern) National Scrapple Day Lord Mayor's Day (London) Dedication of the Lateran Basilica St. Benen's Day (patron against worms) Kristallnacht (Crystal Night) Couch Beachcombing Day Wish-Granting Championship (Leprechaun) Sprat Day (UK) Minature Golf National Championship (@) St. Theodore the Recruit's Day (patron of the military) |
| November 9 Events | Texas Rangers (1st state police) established Rolling Stone magazine 1st published (1967) Berlin Wall came down (1989) 1st Wizard of Id comic strip Brian Epstein lunched at the Cavern, saw Beatles for 1st time Vietnam Veterans Memorial Statue unveiled (1984) 1st New York City blackout (1965) Billy Joel's Piano Man released Napoleon Bonaparte became ruler of France (1799) German S.S. formed (1922) US Defense computers reported Russia was attacking (1979) 1st See-Going Steamship CIO established Mutiny On the Bounty premiered(1962) Stealth Bomber 1st unveiled (1988) National Child Safety Council founded (1955) John Lennon met Yoko Ono Boston Fire (1872) New York Symphony debuted Stealth aircraft, Lockheed F-117A, introduced (1988) Ford made the 1st Tri-Motor Airplane (1925) Jack the Ripper killed his 5th and last victim (1888) King's College opened (became Columbia University; 1767) New York Herald ran hoax story that zoo animals were loose in the city (1874) Jan Hammer's Miami Vice Theme reached No. 1 (1985) East Germany allowed citizens to pass through the Berlin Wall (1989) US Supreme Court ruled baseball not subject to anti-trust laws (1953) Israel admitted having Atomic Energy Commission worker Mordechai Vanunu but refused to say who he got from London to Israel undetected (1986) |
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| 10 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Martin Luther William Hogarth Tommy Dorsey Roy Scheider Victoria "Bushie" Jasinski Francis Couperin Richard Burton Oliver Goldsmith Francis Balfour Theophile Alexandre Steinlein Jacob Epstein Fumika Suzuki George II Claude Rains Ann Reinking Holly Joan Hart (Pb 4/98) Greg Lake Jared Kirtland Tim Rice John S.D. Thompson Clyde "Bulldog" Turner Frederich Von Schiller MacKenzie Phillips Russell Charles Means Jack Scalia Chuck Connors Donna Fargo Cyrus West Field Jack Anthony Clark Cyde "Bulldog" Turner Troy Johnson Larry Parrish Norm Cash Sinbad |
Festival of Spiritual Indulgence St. Martin's Eve (Portugal) Festival of St. Bebiana (from Beber: "to drink") Premiere Day Forget-Me-Not Day Tulip Lantern Festival (Switzerland) Polish Solidarity Day St. Aedh Mac Breic's Day (patron against headaches) Goddess of Reason's Day (Revolutionary France) Nincnevin (Old Scots festival honoring Diana) Festival of Cybergnosticism Guinea Independence Day St. Andrew Avellino's Day (patron of a holy death, Sicily; against apoplexy, sudden death) National Vanilla Cupcake Day St. Justo's Day (aka Justus) Old November Eve Wish-Granting Championship (Sprite) St. Leo I's Day (aka the Great; patron of choirs, musicians) |
| November 10 Events | Stanley Found Livingstone, he presumed (1871) 1st Motorcycle tested US Marine Corps established (1775) Sesame Street debuted (1969) 1st Coast-to-coast direct dial phone service Verdi's La Forza Del Destino premiered Edmund Fitzgerald sank in Lake Superior (1975) Conway Twitty's It's Only Make Believe reached No. 1 (1958) 1st Recorded solar eclipse (1206 BCE) Columbus discovered Antigua Pollyanna published Berlin Wall bulldozed in places (1989) Ybor City Brewing Co. opened (Tampa, Florida; 1994) Kate Smith premiered Irving Berlin's God Bless America (1939) Leonid Breshnev died (1982) Unknown Soldier laid to rest in Washington, DC (1921) Kaiser Wilhelm II arrived in the Dutch frontier after abdicating (1918) Ghost Ship USS Somers rediscovered off the coast of Veracruz (1987) Australian Cruiser Sydney sank German cruise (Emden off Sumatra (WW1; 1914) Drake, North Dakota school board burned copies of Kurt Vonnegut's Slaughterhouse Five as a "tool of the devil," and fired the teacher who assigned it (1973) |
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| 11 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Kurt Vonnegut Jr. Fyodor Dostoyevsky George S. Patton Mickey Mouse Jimi Hendrix Edouard Vuillard Abigail Adams Richard Lindner Vesto Slipher Henry IV Shione Miyagi Demi Moore Sabrina Gellink Hypatia Lee Matta Pat O'Brien Mose Allison Jonathan Winters Bibi Andersson Charles IV (1748) Robert Ryan Lisa Welch (Pb 9/80) Yen Jo-chi (1636) Fuzzy Zoeller Daniel Ortega Saavedra Antoine de Bougainville Sam Spiegel Jesse Colin Young Rene Clair Surrey Marshe (Pb 1/67) Walter "Rabbit" Maranville Harold "Pie" Traynor Thomas Aldrich Philip McKeon Carlos Fuentes Steve Foley Phillip Epps Ricky Hunley Barbara Boxer |
Veteran's Day (US) St. Martin's Day (aka St. Martin of Tours; patron of beggars, drunkards, equestrians, harvests, horses, innkeepers, new wine, tailors) Education Day Martinmas (Old England) Tear-Stomach Day Air Day Turnip Lantern Festival (Richterswil, Switzerland) Beggar's Day (Netherlands) Einherjar (Asatru) Remembrance Day (Canada) Angola Independence Day Lunantishees (Ireland) Martinigian (Switzerland) Feast of Dionysus Eleven Eleven Eleven Day (Netherlands) National Sundae Day St. Menas of Egypt's Day (patron of caravans, merchants) Concordia Day (St. Marten Island) Rhodesia Independence Day St. Theodore of Studios' Day King's Birthday (Bhutan) Bonza Bottler Day Maldives Republic Day Old November Day St. Martin of Tours' Day (Western) National Day (Angola) Armistice Day Wish-Spoiling Sports Day (Imps, Gremlins, and grumpy Goblins) Original Poppy Day Circle K International Service Day |
| November 11 Events | Mayflower Compact signed Washington became the 42nd state (1889) 1st Pinball Tournament played World War I ended (1918) Cherry Valley Massacre Jeep prototype 1st manufactured (1940) Louis Armstrong made his 1st record (1925) 1st Illustrated Advertisement Unknown Soldier entombed 1st Dance Course taught Cosmic Rays discovered Haymarket martyrs executed (1887) Slave Leader Nat Turner hanged (1831) How To Marry a Millionaire premiered 1st Poppy Day held by British Legion (1921) Ground-breaking ceremony held for Route 66 (1926) Bad English's When I See You Smile reached No. 1 (1989) Civil Rights Memorial in Montgomery, Alabama dedicated (1989) Hitler arrested after Beer Hall Putsch (1923) Van Gogh's painting Irises sold at Sotheby's for $53.9 million (1987) Unknown Soldiers from Britain & France buried at Westminster Abbey & Arc de Triomphe (1920) 1st Woman, Dr. Mary E. Walker, received the US Medal of Honor (1865) Labour Government in Australia dismissed until free election could be held in December (1975) |
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| 12 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edvard Munch Alexander Borodin Bjork Gudmundsdottir Grace Kelly Auguste Rodin Harry Blackmun Elizabeth Cady Stanton Booker T. Jones Neil Young Juana Ines de La Cruz Louis Brandeis Sun Yat-Sen Nadia Comaneci Baha'u'llah (Baha'i) Alphonse "Tuffy" Leemans Ken Houston Steve Bartkowski Kim Hunter Roland Barthes Jack Oakie Bruce Bochte Greg Gagne Stephanie Powers Charles Manson |
Order of Fools Indian Summer Festival Exotic Dancer's Day Republic Day (Austria) Israel Independence Day St. Emillion's Day (patron of Spain, finding lost objects) Old Teutonic Yule Festival Feast of St. Frances Xavier Cabrini (patron of hospital administrators) Runic half-month of Hagal ends St. Lebuin's Day (patron of the dying) Remembrance Day (UK) St. Josaphat's Day (patron of Ukraine) Feast of St. Martin of Tours (Eastern) St. Nilus the Ascetic's Day National Pizza with the Works Except Anchovies Day |
| November 12 Events | 1st Air Raid in US (by rival beer
factories) Brotherhood of Fools founded (1381) University of Pennsylvania founded (1749) 1st Drive-in Bank opened (1946) Autobank established 1st Flying Trapeze Act flew Hovercraft patented Chloroform 1st demonstrated (1847) Johnny Rivers' Poor Side of Town reached No. 1 (1966) 1st Appearance of the Lizard (Spiderman Comics) Joan of Arc premiered Disney's Song of the South premiered (1946) Oldest known photosynthetic plant fossils formed (Sagan calendar) 1st ATM Machine opened Madonna's Like a Virgin releasd (1984) Oldsmobile became part of GM (1908) San Francisco's Bay Bridge opened (1936) 1st Flight from UK to Australia began (1919) Danish King of England, Canute II, died (1035) John Bunyan arrested for preaching without a licenese (1660) French trapeze artists Jules Leotard debuted (1859) Rudolph Valentino in The Shiek premiered (1921) 1st Sit-Down Strike held (Hormel Packing Co., Austin, Minnesota; 1933) German battleship Tirpitz sank in Norwegian fjord (1944) Magic Johnson announced he was HIV-positive (1991) Japanese Emperor sentenced to death after World War 2 (1948) Iraq gave Kuwait 13 days to take up Iraqi identity cards (1990) 200,000 Paris schoolchildren rioted for better education (1990) Zonker talked about Hashish in a sandbox, sparking a lot of criticism (Doonesbury; 1982) West Indies cricket captain Viv Richards scored his 100th century (1988) |
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| 13 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Chuang Tzu James Clerk Maxwell Robert Louis Stevenson Thomas Chippendale Richard Mulligan Edward Trelawney St. Augustine Hermione Baddeley Oskar Warner Robert Sterling Louis Brandeis Garry Marshall Edward John Trelawney Marianne Gaba (Pb 9/59) George V. Higgins John Hammond Edward III (1312) Jean Seberg Whoopi Goldberg Joseph Mantegna Adrienne Corri Charlie Tickner Edwin Booth Peter Arnett Madeline Sherwood Ezra "Salt Rock" Midkiff Charles Frederick Worth Vinny Testaverde Mel Stottlemyre Kevin Call Jon Hand Dan Petry Jack Elam Dick Rambo Jimmy Swinnerton Topher the bartender |
Chuang Tzu's Day Actor's Day Politzania Independence Day (Klaatu) St. Diego Alacala's Day (patron of cooks) Feronia (Roman Festival for Juno, Minerva & Jupiter) Sheik Day National Indian Pudding Day St. Brice's Day (protector from stomach diseases) Feast of St. Nicholas I St. Abbo's Day Runic half-month of Nyd (necessity) begins St. John Chrysostom's Day (Eastern) Festival of Jupiter (Ancient Rome) Tooth Collection Days begin (Fairy) St. Nicholas I's Day St. Homobonus' Day (patron of garment workers, tailors) St. Stanislaus Kostka's Day (patron of Poland, young people; against broken limbs, doubt, palpitations) St. Frances Xavier Cabrini's Day (patron of hospital administrators, emigrants, imigrants) |
| November 13 Events | Brassiere patented (1914) 1st Sit Down Strike Hair premiered on Broadway (1967) Last Lil' Abner comic strip (1977) 1st Artificial Snow made Disney's Fantasia premiered (1940) Holland Tunnel, 1st underwater vehicle tunnel, opened (1927) 1st Milking Machine demonstrated Pacific Ocean 1st crossed by balloon Vietnam Veterans Memorial dedicated Studebaker Hawk introduced (1926) California Constitution approved Helicopter 1st tested (Normandy, France; 1907) 1st Appearance of Red Sonja (Marvel Feature) Yellow Submarine premiered Henry the Navigator died (1460) League of Nations held its 1st full session (1920) Telegraph Service between Paris and London began (1851) US Supreme Court ruled segregation is unconstitutional on public buses (1956) 1st Black Sunday political demonstration (London; 1887) Mark Twain's Following the Equator published (1897) Italian submarine sank HMS Royal Ark near Gibralter (WW2; 1941) Rod Stewart's Tonight's the Night reached No. 1 (1976) David Duchovny came on to Larry Sanders (on the Larry Sanders Show; 1996) South African govenment called for more black segregation (1925) Mussolini introduced a bill to Italian Parliament giving women the vote (1923) Karen Silkwood killed under mysterious circumstances for knowing too much (1974) |
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| 14 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Aaron Copland Claude Monet Robert Fulton Louise Brooks Johann Hummel McClean Stevenson Trost Richards Sonia Delaunay Leo Baekeland Henri Dutrochet Jawaharlal Nehru Mamie Eisenhower Fred Haise Dick Powell Frederick Jackson Turner Astrid Lindgren Charles Lyell Barbara Hutton Julie Lynn Cialini (Pb 2/94) William Steig Boutros Boutros-Ghali Jimmy Piersall Willie Hernandez Brian Keith Harrison Salisbury Joe Fields Fredd Young Don Stewart Jack Sikma Freddie Garrity Dana Stubblefield Prince Charles King Hussein Yanni Joseph McCarthy |
Inuit Asking Festival (Eskimo) Jordan Independence Day National Guacamole Day St. Dubricus' Day (crowned King Arthur) Moccas (Celtic Pig Goddess Festival) Children's Day (India) St. Gregory Palamas' Day Operating Room Nurse Day Works Getting into Championship (Gremlins) St. Lawrence O'Toole's Day (patron of Dublin) Re-Adjustment Movement's Day (Guinea-Bissau) |
| November 14 Events | 1st Surrealist Art exhibition (1925) BBC-1 began broadcasting in color 1st Cement Stadium built ASCAP established Whole Earth Catalog published 1st Blood Transfusion (1666) Surtsey, a new volcanic island appeared near Iceland (1963) 1st Top Ten song list (NME; UK; 1952) Moby Dick published (1851) 1st Streetcar built Murphy Brown debuted (1988) Jailhouse Rock premiered 1st Librarian hired BBC Radio on the air 1st Nuclear Reactor stupidly built Blood groups discovered (1st 3; 1900) John Gilpin's Ride published (1782) Namibia's 1st elections held (1989) Coventry blitzed by 500 German bombers (WW2; 1940) English actress & Charles II's mistress Nell Gwynn died (1689) All Jews expelled from German colleges (1938) Sherman began his march to the sea (1864) Largest airport opened (King Khalid International, Saudia Arabia; 86 sq. mi.; 1983) Michael Jackson married pregnant dermatologist's aide Debbie Rowe (1996) Palestine National Council declared Gaza & the West Bank Palestine States (1988) New volcanic island appeared near Surtsey, Iceland (1963) Ray Charles' Georgia On My Mind reached No. 1 (1960) Carribean Pirates raided Japan to steal the Emperor's Gold (1842) Nellie Bly set off to duplicate Phileas Fogg's journey around the world (1889) |
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| 15 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Georgia O'Keefe Felix Frankfurter Lewis Stone J.G. Ballard William Herschel Petula Clark Sam Waterson Yaphet Kotto William Pitt the Elder Ashley Cox (Pb 12/77) Ed Asner Albertus Magnus Gephart Hauptmann Daniel Barenboim Veronica Lake Mantovani George Spelvin Marianne Moore Wayne Thiebaud Joseph A. Wapner Karin & Mirjam von Breescholen (Pb 9/89) Jimmy Williams Anni-Frid Lyngsdtad Daniel M. Pinkwater Clyde McPhatter Joanna Barnes Gerhart Hauptmann Anthony Morgan John Coleman Gus Bell Janet Lennon Erwin Rommel |
Dynasty Day (Belgium) American Enterprise Day National Clean Out Your Refrigerator Day Seven-Five-Three Festival Day (Japan) Festival of Total Submission St. Gertrude's Day Republic Day (Brazil) Changeling Restitution Day (Goblin) St. Albertus Magnus' Feast (aka Albert the Great; patron of science students, scientists, technologists) George Spelvin Day St. Machutus' Day National Spicy Hermit Day St. Leopold's Day (patron of Austria) Shichi-Go-San (Japan/China; Shrine Visting Day) |
| November 15 Events | Pike discovered his peak Columbus notes Indian use of tobacco (1492) 1st Trombones in US NBC 1st on the air Disposable razor blades patented 1st Poultry Show Articles of Confederation adopted (1777) Ford made its 100 millionth car (1977) 1st Film Magazine published Mason-Dixon Line established Largest US anti-war demonstration held (1969) John Lennon's Double Fantasy released League of Nations 1st meeting held Sherman burned Atlanta (1864) American Federation of Labor founded (1881) 1st Stenography book published (1837) Hearing Aid patented (1901) Fahrenheit 451 premiered Love Me Tender premiered (1956) Anglo-Irish Agreement signed (1985) Mutt and Jeff comic strip began (1907) Pancho Villa captured Ciudad Juarez (Mexico; 1913) Eukaryotes, 1st cells with nuclei, appeared (Sagan calendar) German government issued currency worth 1,000,000,000 marks (1923) Passenger Liner Queen Elizabeth completed her last voyage (1968) 250,000 marched on Washington to protest Vietnam War (1969) Cornerstone laid for the Jefferson Memorial (1939) President Fernando Collor de Mello signed a decree returning all original lands to the Yanomami Indians (1991) |
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| 16 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| George S. Kaufman Paul Hindemith W.C. Handy Tiberius Burgess Meredith Jean D'Alembert George H. Gallup Francis Danby William de Morgan Dick Smothers Lisa Bonet Dwight Gooden Rodolphe Kreutzer Suzie Simpson (Pb 1/92) Elizabeth Drew Bob Gibson Raghib "Rocket" Ismail Harvey Martin Martine Van Hammel Dwight Gooden Jo Jo White Chinua Achebe Rollie "Bunions" Zeider Derrick Hoskins Patti Santos Frank Bruno |
Hecate Night (Wicca) St. Matthew's Day (Eastern) Cote-d'Or begins (Wine Festival) National Moms and Dads Day St. Margaret of Scotland's Day (patron of Scotland) National Library Button Day St. Gertrude the Great's Day (patron of the West Indies) Dahomey Independence Day National Fast Food Day St. Edmund of Abingdon's Day Resident Aliens' Day St. Echerius' Day Elephant Roundup begins (Thailand) Statia and America Day (St. Eustatius, West Indies) |
| November 16 Events | 1st Atheism Society established Coke's contour bottle introduced (1915) Jerry Lee Lewis' Great Balls of Fire released 1st Hydrogen Bomb made Oklahoma became the 46th state (1907) Battle of Ft. Mifflin Sound of Music opened on broadway 1st Automobile went 60 mph Bilbo reached Lonely Mountain (Hobbitt) Gay Divorcee premiered 1st Relay Race held Knowles Riot (Boston, Mass.; 1747) Love Me Tender premiered Bolshevik troops captured Moscow (1917) Murray River discovered (Australia; 1824) 1st Federal Reserve Bank opened (1914) Estonia demanded sovereignty from USSR (1988) Disney's The Rescuers Down Under premiered (1990) British Navy blockaded Long Island Sound (War of 1812; 1813) National Program to build air-raid shelters approved (UK; 1937) Russian Civil War ended with Bolshevik defeating White Russians (1920) Obscenity trial began for publication of Well of Loneliness (1928) Highwayman Jack Sheppard hanged at Tyburn, UK (1724) John Lennon's Whatever Gets You Thru the Night reached No. 1 (1974) Margaret Sanger arrested for running a birth control clinic (1916) Toscanini made his US debut conducting Verdi's Aida at the Met (NYC; 1908) Oklahoma Territory consolidated with Indian Territory, ending the experiment of a separate Indian section under tribal government within US borders (1907) |
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| 17 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Sophocles David Bushnell Martin Scorsese Lee Strasberg Rock Hudson August Mobius Titian Peale Henry A. Shute Danny Devito Tom Seaver Henry Gellibrand Charles Mackerras Bernard Law, 1st Viscount Kristina Semenovskaia Field Marshall Montgomery of Alamein Jean d'Alembert Il Bronzino Shelby Foote Bob Mathias Frank Maxwell Lauren Hutton Peter Cook Gordon Lightfoot Howard Dean Leonard Russell Howard Griffith Mitch Williams Terry E. Branstad Louis XVIII |
Homemade Bread Day Knight Festival Here To Go Day Anniversary of Broadway Creative Alienation Day Morocco Independence Day Feast of St. Hilda (patron of business women) National Baklava Day Penance Day (Germany) Take A Hike Day St. Elizabeth of Hungary's Day (patron of nursing, bakers; against plague) Homemade Bread Day Winter Welcome Quadrilles and Dainty-Sixes (Fairy) St. Hugh of Lincoln's Day (patron of sick children) Feast of Gregory Thaumaturgus St. Gregory of Tours' Day (aka Gregory Wonderworker; patron of desperate situations; against floods, earthquakes) |
| November 17 Events | Clock patented 1st Session of US Congress Calvin and Hobbes comic strip began (1985) Queen Elizabeth I coronated (1558) 400 Blows premiered Denver founded (1858) USSR government agreed to change constitution (1990) 1st Stamps with Animals released Goldeneye premiered (17th James Bond film; 1995) Suez Canal opened (1869) Disney's The Little Mermaid premiered (1989) 1st Underwater submarine journey (1904) Mary Tudor (aka Mary Queen of Scots) died (1553) American Theosophical Society founded (1875) London University graduated its 1st 3 women (1880) 1st Ship traveled through the Panama Canal (1913) 46,000 Meteroites fell on Arizona for 20 minutes (1966) Tango dancing banned by Kaiser Wilhein (1913) Girl with No Name 1st Appeared (Conan Comics) 1st Old-car club formed (Brighton, UK; 1930) Catherine the Great of Russia died (1796) Sir Walter Raleigh tried for treason (1603) Unmanned USSR ship Luna 17 landed on the Moon (1970) Irish nationalist leader Wolfe Tone commited suicide in jail (1798) Richard M. Nixon stated today, "I am not a crook." 4 Seasons' Big Girls Don't Cry reached No. 1 (1962) Dancing the Tango banned by German Kaiser Wilhelm (1913) Siberia voted to join the USSR (1922) Explorer David Livingstone discovered Victoria Falls (1855) United Nations Industrial Development Organization established (1966) Explorer Sebastian Viscaino 1st sighted Monterey "Bay of Pines", California (1542) Mass Grave discovered near Bridge over the River Kwai (Thailand; 1990) Sacramento, California reported 1st of dozens of UFO sightings over 6 months (1896) Wham's Wake Me Up Before You Go-Go reached No. 1 (1984) 75-year old Tony Randall married 25-year old understudy in the play he's in, School for Scandal (1995) Simon Templar broke into Professor Emma Russell's apartment (in the film, The Saint; 1997) Russia's Social Democrats split into Bolsheviks & Mensheviks (London; 1903) |
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| 18 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Carl Maria Von Weber Alan B. Shepard Louis Deguerre Margaret Atwood Graham Parker Johnny Mercer Sojourner Truth Percy Wyndham Lewis Ignacy Paderewski George Gallup William S. Gilbert Clarence S. Day Asa Gray Gwendolyn Hajek (Pb 9/87) Wyndham Lewis Christopher Pinchbeck Alec Issigonis Kevin Nealon Hank Ballard Cheryl Bachman (Pb 10/91) Warren Moon Cesare Lombroso Imogene Coco Eugene Ormandy Dorothy Collins Christopher Pinchbeck Amelita Galli-Curci Linda Evans Susan Sullivan Warren Moon Todd Bowles Seth Joyner Tom Gordon Gene Mauch Steve Henderson Wilma Mankiller Brenda Vaccaro Ted Stevens Mickey Mouse |
Occult Day World Fellowship Day Volkstrauertag (German Memorial Day) Mother Goose Parade Vertieres Day (Haiti) St. Odo of Cluny's Day (patron of rain, music) Latvia Independence Day Country Days Hap-Dancing and Tiger-Turning (Fairy) St. Romanus' Day Ned Ludd Memorial Machine-Smashing Festival Oman National Day National French Vichyssoise Day |
| November 18 Events | Calvin & Hobbes 1st published William Tell shot the apple Noah left the Ark 1st Teddy Bear made Steamboat Willie, 1st sound cartoon, premiered (1928) Antarctica discovered (1820) 1st Plane did a loop-the-loop Standard Time Zones adopted by US (1883) Jonestown Genocide began (1978) Invisible Man premiered US & Panama signed Canal Treaty Robin Hood died King's Cross tube station fire killed 34 (London; 1987) Disney's Oliver & Company premiered (1988) Associated Publishers founded (1920) St. Peter's in Rome consecrated (1626) Battle Hymn of the Republic written (1861) She Wore a Yellow Ribbon premiered Duke of Wellington state funeral held (1852) Gold discovered in Rhodesia (1904) Suffragettes attacked UK House of Commons (1910) Anwar Sadat became 1st Egyptian leader to visit Israel (1977) Women's Christian Temperance Union formed (Cleveland, OH; 1874) Seattle Printers refused to print anti-labor ad in newspaper (1919) Prince Joachim of Denmak married Alexandra Manley of Hong Kong (1995) Seinfeld's The Contest aired to determine who could remain "master of their domain" (1992) Terry Waite & Thomas Sutherland released by Islamic Jihad for the Liberation of Palestine after being held hostages for 4 and 6 years, respectively (1991) |
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| 19 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Franciscus Sylvius Jodie Foster Clifton Webb Prince Ranier III of Monaco Dick Cavett Calvin Klein Ted Turner James Garfield Charles I Tommy Dorsey Gail Stanton (Pb 6/78) Meister Eckhardt Justine Greiner (Pb 2/84) George Rogers Clark Victoria Silvstedt (Pb 12/96) Alan Young Hiram Bingham Roy Campanella Larry King Glynis O'Connor Indira Gandhi Jeanne Kirkpatrick Garrick Utley Estelle Parsons Laura Lessiter Dan Haggerty Kathleen Quinlan Ahmad Rashad John Francis Welch Jr. Bob Boone Richard Todd Jamir Miller Ferdinand de Lesseps Anton Walbrook Thomas Harkin Charles I |
Have a Bad Day Day Thrift Day Garifuna Day (Belize) Equal Opportunity Day National Flag Day (Brazil) Alascattalo Day (Alaskan Humor Festival @) Mali Army Coup Day Discovery Day (Puerto Rico) Monaco National Day Group Rates for Group Souls Day St. Nerses' Day Please Maintain Your Focus Today Day National Carbonated Beverage with Caffeine Day Alligator Wrestling Day Have a Bad Day Day St. Mechchild's Day |
| November 19 Events | Jay's Treaty signed (no relation) Columbus discovered Puerto Rico (1493) Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address (1863) 1st Woman's Life insured Mayflower sighted Cape Cod (1620) It's a Mad, Mad, Mad World premiered Nathaniel Palmer discovered Antarctica Ben Hur premiered 1st Dipsea Race held (California; 1905) Columbus discovered Puerto Rico (1493) 1st Presidential Library dedicated (FDR; 1941) Ford halted production of the Edsel (1959) Michael Rockefeller eatan by Cannibals (1961) 1st Jazz concert at the White House (1962) Supremes' You Keep Me Hangin' On reached No. 1 (1966) 100,000 White Russian refugees arrived in Constantinople (1920) Truman asked US Congress to create National Health Insurance (1945) Boss Tweed found guilty of corruption (NYC; 1874) Mark Twin completed his voyage aboard the Quaker City (1867) 172 Suffragists tested the 14th Amendment by trying to vote (1868) Austrian & German internees rioted at detention camp on Isle of Wight (WW1; 1914) Joint exhibition of Salvador Dali & Joan Miro opened at New York's Museum of Modern Art (1942) Bon Jovi's Bad Medicine reached No. 1 (1988) |
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| 20 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Edwin Hubble Ming-Na Wen Thomas Chatterton Kent McCord Alistair Cooke Don DeLillo Robert F. Kennedy Chester Gould Peregrine White (born on the Mayflower; 1620) Gene Tierney Thomas Chatterton Oliver Wolcott Norman Thomas Robert Lipton Chester Gould Kaye Ballard Richard Dawson Veronica Hamel Selma Lagerlof Andres Bello Vivian Chow Samuel Cunard Nadine Gordimer Joe Walsh Bo Derek Judy Woodruff Meredith Monk Edsel Ford Duane Allman Mark Gastineau Bello Andres David Walters Beryl Sprinkel Dick Smothers Nadine Gordimer Ruth Laredo Clark Griffith Steve Dahl Rick Monday Dwight Stephenson Norman Greenbaum Robert C. Byrd Joseph Biden Jr. |
Absurdity Day Beautiful Day (Fairy) Zaire Independence Day National Peanut Butter Fudge Day Writing On the Wall Day Mexico Revolution Day Rights of the Child Day (UN) St. Edmund the Martyr's Day (patron against plagues) African Industrialization Day (UN) St. Bernward's Day (patron of architects, goldsmiths, painters, sculptors) Praetextatus and Paulina's Day (Guardians of the Eleusinian Mysteries) |
| November 20 Events | Time Clock patented Passport Photo began being required in US (1914) Elizabeth II married Prince Philip Mountbatten Nuremberg Trials began (1945) Sony Walkman 1st appeared for sale Rio Grande premiered 1st Municipal Airport opened (1919; Tuscon, AZ) Battle of Ft. Mercer DDT banned (1969) Salvador Dali's 1st solo exhibition (1929) Beethoven's Fidelio premiered (1805) 1st US State ratified Bill of Rights (New Jersey; 1789) Paper Pencil patented The Day After TV movie debuted (1983) Simon Bolivar declared Venezuela independent from Spain 1st National Crocheting Contest Freemasons and other secret socities banned in Italy (1925) Darius Milhaud's ballet, The Creation of the World, premiered (1924) George Harrison's Greatest Hits released 78 Indians from 20 tribes seized Alcatrazz (1969) Isaac Hayes' Theme from Shaft reached No. 1 (1971) Alcatraz Island seized by 78 Native Americans from 20 tribes (1969) Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco died (1975) Princess Elizabeth married Philip Mountbatten (1947) Russian nuclear physicist Andrei Sakharov joined peace demonstration (1972) Princess Diana admitted to infidelity in a BBC interview (1995) Whaling ship, The Essex, rammed and sank by a sperm whale (1820) Canada, New Zealand, South Africa, Irish Free State, and Newfoundland granted self-governing dominions by Great Britain (1926) |
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| 21 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Rene Magritte Jean Francois Voltaire Coleman Hawkins Josiah Bartlett Graham Bell Harpo Marx Dr. John Ralph Meeker Mariel Hemingway Vladimir Ipatieff Selma Lagerlof Hetty Green Stan Musial Terri Welles (Pb 12/80) Goldie Hawn Tina Howe Marlo Thomas Harold Ramis James DePreist Alexander Berkman Natalia Makarova William Beaumont Sid Luckman Benedict XV Eleanor Powell Kelly Gallagher (Pb 9/94) Jim Bishop Vivian Blaine David Hemmings Livingston Taylor Ken Giffey Jr. Lisa Wilkinson Mark Malone Eric Allen Hetty Green Paul Richards |
World Hello Day Community Day Nostalgia For the Future Day Ugly Day (Fairy) Buss & Bettag (Ancient Greece) National Stuffing Day False Confessions Day St. Gelasius' Day Scorpio zodiac sign ends |
| November 21 Events | Phonograph invented (1879) North Carolina became the 12th state (1789) US Freedom of Information Act passed (1974) Mayflower landed at Plymouth Rock (1620) Anything Goes premiered on Broadway (1934) 1st Flight of a man in a balloon (1783) Verrazano-Narrows Bridge opened (1964) Prokofiev's Cinderella premiered Alaska Highway opened Henry Purcell died (1695) Who Killed J.R. revealed (1980) Suez Canal opened (1869) N.O.W. founded (1966) Confucius died (479 BCE) Disney's Anastasia premiered (1997) National Organization for Women (NOW) founded (1966) Fireside Summit ended between Reagan & Gorbachev (1985) Piltdown Man revealed as a hoax (1953) Congress of Aix-la-Chapelle ended (1818) Gerard D'Aboville rowed solo across the Pacific Ocean (1991) Last Japanese Shogun, Tokugawa Keiki, died (1913) 1st Hungarian escapees arrived in US after unsuccessful revolution (1956) Etienne Marchand completed 60-day journey across the Pacific (1791) Olivia Newton-John's Physical reached No. 1 (1981) Francis Xavier returned from missionary to Japan (1551) Michael "Junk Bond King" Milken sentenced to only 10 years |
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| 22 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Robin Hood Terry Gilliam Benjamin Britten George Eliot Hoagy Carmichael Wilhelm Friedemann Bach (1710) Mariel Hemingway Kristina Barrington Thomas Cook Rodney Dangerfield Jamie Lee Curtis Tarzan of the Apes Boris Becker Tom Conti Roy Crane Billie Jean King Roy Thomas Wiley Post Charles de Gaulle Robert Vaughan Harry Edwards Lew Hays Greg Luzinski Jack "Hacksaw" Reynolds Frank Armstrong Geraldine Page Claiborne Pell |
Start Your Own Country Day Dispute-Settling Assizes (Fairy) St. Cecilia's Day (patron of music, composers, musicians) National Roast Turkey Day Sagittarius zodiac sign begins Go For A Ride Day Lebanon Independence Day Swine Time (Climax, Georgia) National Stop the Violence Day Scottish Open Badminton Championship begins (@) Ydalir (Celebration of wintertime god of skiing & archery, Ullr) |
| November 22 Events | Beatles' White Album released (UK) Distress Call S.O.S. established Steel Pen patented John F. Kennedy assassinated (1963) Beatles With the Beatles released Nation of Islam founded (1930) Rocky premiered (1976) Policewomen 1st went on patrol in London (1918) Mauretania completed her maiden voyage (1907) Toy Story premiered (1995) Steel golf club shaft patented Ball Point Pen 1st for sale to the public (1946) China Clipper began trans-Pacific airmail service (1935) Elvis Presley signed record deal with RCA (1955) Blackbeard killed (it took 25 bullets; 1718) Star Trek: First Contact premiered (1996) Disney's Beauty and the Beast premiered (1991) Lebanon President Rene Moawad killed by remore-control bomb (1989) New York City's Williamsburg Bridge destroyed by fire (1902) Vasco da Gama rounded the Cape of Good Hope (1497) Regular Concorde air service began between New York & Paris (1977) KC & The Sunshone Band's That's the Way (I Like It) reached No. 1 (1975) Clive of India dies of opium overdose shortly after being acquitted for improper behavior (1774) |
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| 23 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Franklin Pierce Krzysztof Penderecki Erte William "Billy the Kid" Bonney Edward Rutledge Abigail Adams Prosper Alpinus Jose Clemente Orozco Alexander Rodchenko Charles Berlitz Boris Karloff Jerry Bock Valdemar Poulson Alfonso X, the Wise Prospero Alpini Susan Anspach Ellen Drew Laura Misch (Pb 2/75) Manuel de Falla Peter Saunders Lew Hoad Andrew Toney Harpo Marx Maurice Zolotow Emmett Littleton Ashford Bruce Hornsby Michael Gough Luis Tiant Jose Gonzalez Darrell Thompson Johnnie Cooks Otto I, the Great Francois-Noel Babeuf |
Wayland Opera Day Niger Independence Day St. Clement's Day (invented felt; patron of blacksmiths, hatters, stonecutters, tanners) Niiname-Sai (Japan Grain Festival) Big Help Day St. Felicity's Day Repudiation Day (Maryland) National Cashew Day St. Columban's Day (patron against depression, floods) Labor Thanksgiving Day (Japan) St. Amphilochius' Day Great Tinker Toy Extravaganza St. Gregory of Agrigentum's Day |
| November 23 Events | 1st Jukebox installed (San Francisco; 1889) Life Magazine 1st published (1936) Dr. Who debuted (1963) Horatio Alger Society founded College Football Asociation organized Horseshoe manufacturing machine patented Battle of Chattanooga 1st play-by-play football game broadcast (1919) Red Mailboxes introduced (UK; 1852) 3rd Myst date needed to raise the ship (9791) Antique Automobile Club of America formed (1935) 1st TV show sponsored by Coke aired (1950) Enrico Caruso debuts at Metropolitan Opera House (1903) UK began withdrawing troops from Suze (1956) Dr. Harvey Crippen hanged for poisoning his wife (1910) Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme premiered in Paris (1670) Perkin Warbeck hanged for impersonating the Duke of York (1499) Sumo champion Chionofuji won his 50th consecutive match (1988) 1st Recorded Strike (1170 BCE; workers on the Egyptian pyramids) President Harding banned doctors from prescribing beer (1921) Joe Simpson's Touching the Void published Billy Swan's I Can Help reached No. 1 (1974) Hans Mullikan crawled from Texas to Washington, DC (1978) |
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| 24 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Baruch Spinoza Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec Laurence Sterne Billy Connolly Scott Joplin Zachary Taylor Junipero Serra Benjamin Spinoza Denise Crosby Frances E.H. Burnett Carlo Collodi Dale Carnegie Cass Gilbert Anna Louis Strong Grace Darling Lesa Ann Pedriana (Pb 4/84) Donald "Duck" Dunn Alben Barkley Oscar Robertson William F. Buckley Garson Kanin Stanley Livingston Alfredo Kraus Erich von Manstein Stan Jones Alben Barkley Joe Medwick Yale Lary Lee Michaels John Henry Johnson Mike Reid Steve Yeager Howard Duff |
Venus Day Festival of Silence Womens' Merrymaking Day Children's Field Day Feast Day of St. Catherine of Alexandria (patron of philosophers, maidens, jurists) Kuwait Independence Day Celtic tree month of Ngetal ends Sinkie Day (celebrate by eating over the sink) Persephone (aka Kore; celebration for wheel goddess of underworld) National Espresso Day St. Mercurius' Day Use Even If Seal Is Broken Day Third Bash of the Tree-Toppers (Fairy) St. Mesrob's Day New Regime Day (Zaire) St. Colman of Cloyne's Day Christkindlesmarkt begins (Ed Stoudt's Black Angus; Adamstown, PA) |
| November 24 Events | Tasmania discovered (1642) Darwin's Origin of the Species published (1859) Barbed Wire patented (1874) 1st Gallery exhibited photography as fine art (1904) Guys & Dolls premiered on Broadway Battle of Chattanooga (1863) Lee Harvey Oswald assassinated by Jack Ruby (1963) Nixon ordered US stockpiles of germ warfare destroyed (1969) Last Carrera Pan Americana race held (1954) Freddie Mercury died of AIDS (1991) Texas Rangers founded (1835) 1st Conference for professional photographers opened (1902) US Troops captured Luzon (Spanish-American War; 1899) 300 Black Children in a park attacked by white extremists in South Africa (1990) Saudi Arabian troops attacked Iranian religious fanatics in the Great Mosque of Mecca (1979) Coronado returned to Mexico City after 2 years searching for the Golden Cities of Cibola (1642) Senator Joe McCarthy claimed Truman administration was "crawling with communists" (1953) D.B. Cooper successfully parachuted from a plane above Seattle with $200,000 and was never seen again (1971) |
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| 25 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Virgil Thompson Paul Desmond Christina Applegate Lenny Moore Joe DiMaggio Carrie Nation Sean Topping Maurice Denis Herschel Savage John F. Kennedy Jr. Karl Benz Henry Purcell Laurence Stalling Tina Turner John Larroquette Andrew Carnegie Robert Ripley Monique St. Pierre (Pb 11/78) Ricardo Montalban Arthur Schwartz Stacy Lattislaw Cynthia Gwyn Brown (Pb 5/95) Art Shell Bucky Dent Kathryn Crosby Bernie Kosar Chris Carter Amy Grant Rosalyn Drexler Augusto Pinochet John XXIII |
Evacuation Day St. Mercury's Day (patron of the military) Celtic tree month of Ruis (Elder) begins Suriname Independence Day Cathern Day National Parfait Day Cat-Nipping Convention (Fairy) National Don't Utter a Word Day St. Catherine of Alexandria's Day (patron of philosophers, maidens, mechanics, lawyers, librarians, nurses, secretaries, schoolgirls, spinsters, teachers, universities; against tongue disease) |
| November 25 Events | 1st Typewriter made Evaporated Milk patented (1884) Beatles' White Album released US Speed Limit changed from 70 to 55 (1973) 1st Brain Surgery performed Dynamite invented 1st Gift Coupons given out JFK's state funeral began (1963) Greek Monarchy restored (1935) Disney's Aladdin premiered (1992) Band Aid's Do They Know It's Christmas? recorded (1984) Silk Power Loom patented Mr. Bojangles, Bill Robinson, died (1949) Japanese novelist, Yukio Mishima, committed hari kari (1970) 1st Sword-swallowing exhibition performed Agatha Christie's play The Mousetrap opened in London (1952) Humbolt County, Nevada founded (home of Winnemucca; 1861) Strawberry Alarm Clock's Incense and Peppermint reached No. 1 (1967) Ku Klux Klan refounded in Atlanta by idiots (1915) Segregation prohibited in public transportation (1955) Hollywood Ten banned after refusing to testify before House UnAmerican Committee (1947) |
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| 26 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Charles Schulz Paracelsus Ilona "Cicciolina" Staller William Cowper Eugene Ionesco Little Richard Jean De Brunhoff Eric Sevareid Rich Little John Harvard Gail Sheehy Tina Turner Sarah Grimke Mary Edwards Walker Jan Stenerud Wendy Turnbell Joe Guyon Cyril Cusack Harry Carson Johnny Hector Vernon "Lefty" Gomez Chuck Finley Robert Goulet |
Festival of Big Talk Shopping Reminder Day Festival of Shadow Economies Columbia Independence Day Sojourner Truth Day National Cake Day St. Siricius' Day Day of the Tan-Wallopers (Fairy) St. John Berchmans' Day (patron of altar boys, teenage boys) |
| November 26 Events | Alice in Wonderland published (1865) 1st Streetcar Railway in US (NYC; 1832) Casablanca premiered (1942) Angels With Dirty Faces premiered 1st Tram Cars built First Men To the Moon premiered American Dental Association founded 1st US Holiday observed (1789) John Lennon returned his MBE Vikings attacked Paris Brink's Gold Truck robbed (UK; 1983) Disney's Alice in Wonderland premiered 1st Tidal Power Station opened (1966) Japan finally agreed not to use drift nets (1991) The Price Is Right debuted France declared war on the Netherlands (1688) Cream played their last concert (Albert Hall; 1968) 1st Whitney Museum Biennial opened (1932) France launched its 1st satellite (1965) US Military draft lottery established (1969) 1st Twins delivered by Caesarian birth (Manchester, UK; 1928) Teddy Roosevelt returned from 1st US President's trip abroad (1906) 1st Contestant on The Price Is Right came on down (1956) Archeologist Howard Carter made a hole in the door of Tutankhamun's tomb (1922) Tennessee Ernie Ford's Sixteen Tons reached No. 1 (1955) 1st US college fraternity founded (Kappa Alpha; 1825) Warsaw jews forced to live "Ghetto" district surrounded by an 8-foot concrete wall (1940) Japanese naval forces left Tokyo heading for Pearl Harbor, Hawaii (1941) |
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| 27 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Thomas Malory Robert R. Livingston Jimi Hendrix Bruce Lee Jose Asuncion Silva Anders Celsius Johnny Blood McNally Monty Hall Kelly Bundy Julius Benedict Gail Sheehy David Merrick Caroline Kennedy Robin Givens "Buffalo" Bob Smith Rhonda Adams (Pb 6/95) Fanny Kemble Arlene Baxter (Pb 12/93) Charles Beard Boris Grebenshikov David Merrick Chaim Weizmann Eddie Rabbitt Mona Washbourne Rebecca Michelle Ferratti (Pb 6/86) Chaim Weizmann Fanny Kemble Mike Scioscia Jose Tartabull Curtis Dickey Ken O'Brian James Agee Alexander Dubcek Jayne Kennedy |
Solemn Day Pins and Needles Day Bargle Day (Fairy) Paraguay Independence Day Day of the Covenant (Baha'i) Festival of Solitude National Bavarian Cream Pie Day Runic half-month of Nyd ends St. Maximus' Day (patron of babies, the dying) Goddess Month of Cailleach/Samhain ends Zibelemarit (Onion Market; Switzerland) St. Barlam and Josaphat's Day |
| November 27 Events | Nobel Peace Prize established Casablanca premiered 1st Thanksgiving Seminole War began 1st Public expermients with LSD began (1965) Samantha Mulder abducted by aliens (X-Files) Beatles Magical Mystery Tour released 1st Jewish American settlement founded (South Carolina; 1755) Friction Match invented (1826) Snowchasers Club founded Michael Palin's Confessions of a Train Spotter debuted White Shadow debuted Meteor landed in Lake Michigan (1919) France refused to join the Common Market (1967) Richard Strauss' Thus Spake Zarathustra premiered Huge Meteor landed in Lake Michigan (1919) De Tomaso Mangusta introduced (1966) Lionel Richie's Truly reached No. 1 (1982) Women 1st voted in New Zealand (1893) Magellan rounded the Horn (1520) Pennsylvania Station opened (New York City; 1910) Gay Liberation Front held its 1st demonstration (London; 1970) 1st Policewomen began patrolling Grantham, Lincolnshire, UK (1914) Lt. Col. George Custer killed Cheyenne Chief Black Kettle (1868) Rev. Francis Gastrell kicked out of Stratford-uon-Avon for cutting down a tree Shakespeare planted (1759) |
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| 28 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| William Blake Claude Levi-Strauss Jean-Baptiste Lully Anton Rubenstein Friedrich Engels Brooks Atkinson Ed Harris Gary Hart John Hyatt Nancy Mitford John Bunyan Alexander Godunov Karin Taylor (Pb 6/96) Alberto Moravia Louis Morris Anna Nicole Smith Judd Nelson Paul Warfield Alberto Moravia Berry Gordy Jr. Randy Newman James O. Eastland Roy Tarpley Paul Shaffer Vickie Smith (Pb 5/92) Rita Mae Brown Emmet Grogan Matt Williams Henry Bacon Joni Mattis (Pb 11/60) Randy Newman Gloria Grahame Hope Lange Dave Righetti Jeff Jaeger Rita Mae Brown |
Make Your Own Head Day National French Toast Day Mauritania Independence Day Goddess Month of Astraea begins Runic half-month of Is (stasis) begins Ascension of 'abdu'l-Baha (baha'i) Feast of the Miraculous Medal St. Catherine Laboure's Day Panama Independence Day Albania Independence Day St. Simeon Metaphrastes' Day Chad Republic Day |
| November 28 Events | Chewing Gum patented 1st Polaroid Camera for sale (1948) John Lennon performed on stage for last time Margaret Thatcher finally stood down (1990) 1st Floodlights used Magellan became 1st European in Pacific Ocean (1520) 1st Automobile Race (1895) Cocoanut Grove, Boston burned down (1941) 1st German Air Raid on London (WW 1) Washington Irving died (1859) Coffee 1st rationed in WW2 (1942) 1st US Post Office established (1783) Chinese entered the Korean War (1950) Women got the vote in Austria (1905) 1st Female MP elected (UK; 1919) Maternity Leave 1st legally allowed (France; 1909) 100,000 demonstrated in Rome against fascism (1970) Iranian government banned religious marches (1978) Cape Canaveral renamed Cape Kennedy ShangriLas' Leader of the Pack reached No. 1 (1964) Bill Medley & Jennifer Warnes' (I've Had) The Time of My Life reached No. 1 (1987) Frank "Whispering Jack" Carter made head of Scotland Yard's Flying Squad, Robbery Division On his 2nd voyage, Columbus found the Hispaniola colony destroyed (1493) Caracas, Venezuela residents witness UFOs and aliens resembling small, hairy apemen (1954) |
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| 29 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| C.S. Lewis Louis May Alcott Garry Shandling Christian Doppler John Mayall C. Monteverdi Busby Berkeley Gregory Gillespie James Rosenquist Gaetano Donizetti Madeleine L'Engle Ted Danson Charles Thomson Meco Petra Kelly Chuck Mangione Walter Brendt Morrison R. Waite Wendell Phillips Robert Devereux Suzy Chaffee Antonio Moniz Cathy Moriarity Howie Mandel Diane Ladd Jacques Rene Chirac Christian Doppler Vin Scully Paul Simon Bill Freehan Minnie Minoso Tracy Johnson Rich Camarillo Nellie Tayloe Ross |
Feast of Great Expectations Newspaper Day Festival of the Sons of Saturn National Chocolates Day St. Saturnius' Day Fairy Flute Fantasy (Fairy) Parliament Night Square Dance Day Yugoslavia Old Independence Day St. Cuthbert Mayne's Day International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People (UN) St. Sernin's Day |
| November 29 Events | 1st Paper made in US Stock Market Crash 1st English newspaper published (1641) King Tut's Tomb discovered (1922) San Jose founded Cary Grant died (1987) Technicolor US Money 1st proposed 1st Army-Navy Football Game (Navy won 24-0; 1890) Czechoslovakia voted out Communist Rule (1989) Ice discovered on the Moon (1996) Compulsory education began in UK (1870) LBJ appointed the Warren Commission (1963) 1st English newspaper published (1641) Natalie Wood drowned (1981) Carl Nielsen's Saul and David premiered (1902) Allied leaders FDR, Churchill, and Stalin 1st met (Tehran; 1943) Novelist Maxim Gorky expelled from USSR Communist Party (1909) Haiti cancelled its presidential elections (1987) Richard Byrd flew over the South Pole (1929) National Viewers' and Listeners' Association formed (UK; 1965) 1st Nationally broadcast NFL football game (Thanksgiving, 1934) 93-car pile-up on Interstate 5, Los Angeles, California (17 died; 1991) Gymnist Nadia Comaneci escaped Hungary and asked for political asylum (1989) 150 Indian warriors, women & children killed by US Calvary at San Creek, Colorado (1864) Beatles' Come Together/Something reached No. 1 (1969) |
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| 30 November | |
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| Birthdays | Holidays - Observances |
| Adolphe-William Bouguereau Mark Twain Jonathan Swift Winston Churchill David Mamet Andrea Palladio Clyfford Still Leonard Marinaccio Abbie Hoffman Virginia Mayo Andrea Palladio Mandy Patinkin Bo Jackson Dick Clark Eric Edwards Robert Guillaume Efrem Zimbalist Jr. Shirley Chisholm Anres Bonifacio Philip Sidney Bob Grill Richard Crenna Carrie Jean Yazel (Pb 5/91) Paul Stookey Bill Walsh Roy "Link" Lyman Andrea Doria Billy Idol Mike Espy G. Gordon Liddy |
Stay Home Because You're Well Day Judge A Book By Its Cover Day Squirrel Hunt Day You're Welcome Day St. Andrew's Day (patron of Scotland, Greece, Russia, golfers, fishermen, sailors, spinsters; against gout, neck problems) Ham and Roast Beef Night Computer Security Day North Vietnam Old Independence Day Barbados Independence Day Whisp and Thread Fair (Fairy) National Mousse Day Youth Day (Upper Volta) Benin National Day St. Frumentius' Day (Greek) Aden Independence Day International Night II (David Letterman) Bonifacio Day (aka Heroes' Day; Philippines) |
| November 30 Events | 1st Detective Story published Kukla, Fran & Ollie debuted Oat Crushing Machine patented 1st Meteor to hit a woman Dahomey changed its name to Benin (1975) Threshing Machine invented Statute of Ramses II found (1991) Claude Monet died (1954) Oscar Wilde died (1900) Crystal Palace destroyed by fire (1936) Mother Jones died (1930) Women 1st voted in France (1919) US sent warships to Hankow, China (1925) 1st Australian Grand Prix held (1985) Brewery millionaire Alfred Heineken kidnapped (1983) Red Army blew up head of Deutsche Bank in Frankfurt (1989) John Poindexter and Oliver North fired by Ronald Reagan after Iran-Contra scandal (1986) Provisional Treaty signed ending American Revolutionary War (1782) Ground broken on El Pueblo de San Jose de Guadelupe |
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