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November 1 : Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively; Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
- 1141 – After Empress Matilda released her rival King Stephen , he in turn released Robert of Gloucester, her strongest supporter, thus prolonging the Anglo-Norman civil war known as The Anarchy.
- 1824 – The disposable ship Columbus (pictured) arrived in the The Downs off England, becoming, at that time, the largest vessel to have crossed the Atlantic Ocean.
- 1914 – World War I: The first contingent of the First Australian Imperial Force departed Albany, Western Australia.
- 1956 – The Indian states Kerala , Andhra Pradesh , and Karnataka were formally created under the States Reorganisation Act.
- 1972 – Elvis on Tour , a concert film that documented Elvis Presley's tour throughout the United States, opened.
- Lie Kim Hok (b. 1853)
- Peter Ostrum (b. 1957)
- Fred Thompson (d. 2015)
- Lady Elizabeth Shakerley (d. 2020)
- 1880 – James A. Garfield was elected as president of the United States; the election is the closest to date by popular vote margin.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus ", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- 1994 – A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
- 2000 – As members of Expedition 1 , American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.
- John J. Loud (b. 1844)
- William Pūnohu White (d. 1925)
- Gao Qifeng (d. 1933)
- Shah Rukh Khan (b. 1965)
November 3 : Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2025); Culture Day in Japan
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma .
- 1881 – Indigenous Mapuche began an uprising against the occupation of Araucanía by Chile.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: The largest massacre of Jews by German forces began at Majdanek concentration camp.
- 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released (poster pictured) nationwide in Japan.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı , a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Turkey, sparking a scandal that exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
- Andrew Báthory (d. 1599)
- Bert Jansch (b. 1943)
- Anna Wintour (b. 1949)
- Kim Yong-nam (d. 2025)
November 4 : National Unity and Armed Forces Day in Italy
- 1780 – Túpac Amaru II led a rebellion of Aymara, Quechua, and mestizo peasants in protest against the Bourbon Reforms in the Spanish Viceroyalty of Peru.
- 1924 – In a special election in Wyoming , Nellie Tayloe Ross became the first woman to be elected as a governor in the United States.
- 1970 – Authorities in California discovered a 13-year-old feral child, pseudonymously known as Genie , who had spent nearly her entire life in social isolation.
- 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin (pictured) was assassinated by Yigal Amir, a right-wing extremist, at a peace rally at Kings of Israel Square in Tel Aviv.
- 2010 – In the first aviation incident involving an Airbus A380, Qantas Flight 32 suffered an uncontained engine failure and made an emergency landing at Changi Airport in Singapore with no casualties.
- Mary, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange (b. 1631)
- Antoine Le Maistre (d. 1658)
- Joseph Rotblat (b. 1908)
- Elsie MacGill (d. 1980)
November 5 : Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries; Guru Nanak Gurpurab (Sikhism, 2025)
- 1556 – At the Second Battle of Panipat , forces of the Mughal emperor Akbar captured Hemu, the Hindu emperor of north India.
- 1854 – Crimean War: Despite being severely outnumbered, and fighting in heavy foggy conditions, the allied armies of the United Kingdom and France defeated the Russians in present-day Inkerman, Ukraine.
- 1916 – An armed confrontation in Everett, Washington, between local authorities and members of the Industrial Workers of the World resulted in seven deaths.
- 1944 – World War II: Allied forces began a military campaign on Japanese-occupied Singapore.
- 1990 – Israeli ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane (pictured) was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
- James Clerk Maxwell (d. 1879)
- Vivien Leigh (b. 1913)
- Edward Tatum (d. 1975)
- Eliud Kipchoge (b. 1984)
November 6 : Gustavus Adolphus Day in Estonia, Finland, and Sweden
- 1856 – The first story from the collection Scenes of Clerical Life by the English author George Eliot was submitted for publication.
- 1939 – As part of their plan to eradicate the Polish intellectual elite, the Gestapo arrested 184 professors, students and employees of the Jagiellonian University (location pictured) in Kraków.
- 2004 – A man committing suicide parked his car on the railway tracks in Ufton Nervet, Berkshire, England, causing a derailment that also killed six people on the train.
- 2012 – Tammy Baldwin became the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
- Stanisław Staszic (bap. 1755)
- Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (d. 1893)
- Ida Lou Anderson (b. 1900)
- Hilda Braid (d. 2007)
- 680 – The Third Council of Constantinople convened to settle the Christological controversies of monoenergism and monothelitism.
- 1825 – Jereboam O. Beauchamp murdered Kentucky legislator Solomon P. Sharp; Beauchamp later became the first person legally executed in the state.
- 1917 – World War I: British forces captured Gaza following the retreat of the Ottoman garrison.
- 1972 – A ship collision with the Sidney Lanier Bridge in the U.S. state of Georgia resulted in a bridge collapse (pictured), which killed ten people.
- 1987 – Tunisian prime minister Zine El Abidine Ben Ali deposed and replaced President Habib Bourguiba by declaring him medically unfit for the duties of the office.
- Maldeo Rathore (d. 1562)
- Thomas Brassey (b. 1805)
- Emanuele Luigi Galizia (b. 1830)
- Ri Ul-sol (d. 2015)
- 960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
- 1520 – After his coronation as king of Sweden, Christian II (pictured) gave the order to execute nearly 100 people, mostly noblemen, despite promises of general amnesty.
- 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas .
- 2013 – Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history.
- Nyaungyan Min (b. 1555)
- Subroto Mukerjee (d. 1960)
- Dorothy Kilgallen (d. 1965)
- Tom Anderson (b. 1970)
- 1822 – USS Alligator engaged three pirate schooners off the coast of Cuba in one of the West Indies anti-piracy operations of the United States.
- 1913 – A severe blizzard reached its maximum intensity in the Great Lakes Basin of North America, destroying 19 ships and 68,300 tons of cargo, and killing more than 250 people.
- 1918 – The government of the Azerbaijan Democratic Republic adopted a tricolour national flag (pictured), which is again in use today, with slight modifications, by the present-day Republic of Azerbaijan.
- 1985 – At age 22, Garry Kasparov became the then-youngest World Chess Champion by defeating then-champion Anatoly Karpov.
- 2019 – The Alabama Crimson Tide and LSU Tigers football teams, both with undefeated records thus far that season, played in a "Game of the Century" .
- Johannes Narssius (b. 1580)
- Elizabeth Schuyler Hamilton (d. 1854)
- Bob Gibson (b. 1935)
- Charles de Gaulle (d. 1970)
- 1599 – At the culmination of a Swedish civil war, supporters of the deposed King Sigismund III Vasa were publicly executed in the Åbo Bloodbath .
- 1898 – White supremacists seized power and massacred black Americans during the Wilmington massacre ,(newspaper headline depicted) the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1940 – An earthquake registering 7.7 Mw struck the Vrancea region of Romania.
- 1995 – Writer and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People were executed by the Nigerian military regime led by Sani Abacha.
- 2009 – A skirmish occurred between South Korean and North Korean naval ships off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea.
- Władysław Umiński (b. 1865)
- Richard Burton (b. 1925)
- Halina Reijn (b. 1975)
- Klaus Roth (d. 2015)
November 11 : Armistice Day (known as Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth of Nations and Veterans Day in the United States); Singles' Day in China and Southeast Asia
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units suffered heavy losses at the Battle of Dürenstein .
- 1920 – In London, the Cenotaph was unveiled and the Unknown Warrior was buried in Westminster Abbey in remembrance of the First World War.
- 1940 – Second World War: The Royal Navy launched the first all-aircraft ship-to-ship naval attack in history against the Italians in the Battle of Taranto .
- 1960 – A coup attempt by the Army of the Republic of Vietnam against President Ngô Đình Diệm was crushed after he falsely promised reform, allowing loyalists to rescue him.
- 1965 – Rhodesia, led by Prime Minister Ian Smith (pictured), unilaterally declared independence from the United Kingdom.
- Arsacius of Tarsus (d. 405)
- George S. Patton (b. 1885)
- Jeanne Demessieux (d. 1968)
- Francisco Blake Mora (d. 2011)
- 1330 – Led by the voivode Basarab I, Wallachian forces defeated the Hungarian army in an ambush at the Battle of Posada (depicted).
- 1920 – The Kingdom of Italy and the Kingdom of Serbs, Croats and Slovenes signed the Treaty of Rapallo to establish national borders east of the Adriatic Sea.
- 1940 – World War II: Free French forces captured Gabon from Vichy France.
- 1970 – The deadliest tropical cyclone in history made landfall on the coast of East Pakistan (present-day Bangladesh), killing at least 250,000 people.
- 2011 – An explosion in the Shahid Modarres missile base led to the deaths of 17 members of the Revolutionary Guards, including Hassan Tehrani Moghaddam , a key figure in Iran's missile program.
- Auguste Rodin (b. 1840)
- Liu Shaoqi (d. 1969)
- Anne Hathaway (b. 1982)
- Stan Lee (d. 2018)
- 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: American forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec .
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia , the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
- 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.
- Dorothea Erxleben (b. 1715)
- Moshe Pesach (d. 1955)
- Franz Joseph II, Prince of Liechtenstein (d. 1989)
- Giovanni Reyna (b. 2002)
November 14 : World Diabetes Day ; Dobruja Day in Romania
- 1680 – German astronomer Gottfried Kirch discovered the Great Comet of 1680 , the first comet to be discovered by telescope.
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship (pictured), flying from a makeshift deck on USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia.
- 1967 – American physicist Theodore Maiman was given a patent for his ruby laser systems, the world's first laser.
- 1970 – Southern Airways Flight 932 , chartered by the Marshall University football team, crashed into a hill near Ceredo, West Virginia, killing all 75 people on board.
- 2010 – Red Bull Racing's Sebastian Vettel won the Drivers' Championship after winning the final race of the season, becoming the youngest Formula One champion.
- Fanny Mendelssohn (b. 1805)
- Claude Monet (b. 1840)
- Mary Greyeyes (b. 1920)
- Neil Heywood (d. 2011)
- 655 – Penda of Mercia and Æthelhere of East Anglia were defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in Yorkshire, England.
- 1864 – American Civil War: Union army general William Tecumseh Sherman (pictured) began his March to the Sea, inflicting significant damage to property and infrastructure using scorched-earth tactics on his way from Atlanta to Savannah, Georgia.
- 1908 – As a result of numerous atrocities in the territory , the Congo Free State was annexed to Belgium to form the Belgian Congo.
- 1922 – Fountain of Time , in Chicago's Washington Park, was dedicated as a tribute to 100 years of peace between the United States and Great Britain following the Treaty of Ghent.
- 2000 – Edoardo Agnelli , son of the industrialist patriarch Gianni Agnelli, was found dead under a bridge on the outskirts of Turin, Italy.
- Johannes Kepler (d. 1630)
- Eugénie Hamer (b. 1865)
- Howard Baker (b. 1925)
- Yuriko, Princess Mikasa (d. 2024)
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: A Dutch fort on Sint Eustatius fired The First Salute to an American brig (pictured) marking the first international recognition of the American flag.
- 1885 – After a five-day trial following the North-West Rebellion, the Canadian Métis leader and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel was hanged for high treason.
- 1938 – Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann first synthesized the psychedelic drug LSD in Basel, Switzerland.
- 1967 – Aeroflot Flight 2230 crashed after takeoff from Koltsovo Airport, Russia, killing all 107 people aboard.
- 1981 – About 30 million people watched the fictional couple Luke Spencer and Laura Webber wed on the television show General Hospital in the highest-rated hour in American soap opera history.
- Ælfric of Abingdon (d. 1005)
- Charles-Antoine Campion (b. 1720)
- Clark Gable (d. 1960)
- Hannah Hampton (b. 2000)
- 1592 – Sigismund III Vasa , who was already King of Poland, succeeded his father John III as King of Sweden.
- 1921 – Rioting broke out in Bombay, India, during the visit of Edward, Prince of Wales, leading to at least 58 deaths.
- 1943 – World War II: Australian forces launched an assault on Sattelberg, New Guinea, against Japanese forces, initiating the Battle of Sattelberg .
- 1950 – The 14th Dalai Lama (pictured) assumed full temporal power as ruler of Tibet at the age of 15.
- 2013 – Tatarstan Airlines Flight 363 crashed during an aborted landing at Kazan International Airport, Russia, killing all 50 people on board and leading to the revocation of the airline's operating certificate.
- Zanobi Strozzi (b. 1412)
- Bernardo Bellotto (d. 1780)
- Ng On-yee (b. 1990)
- Rikard Wolff (d. 2017)
- 1210 – Otto IV , Holy Roman Emperor, was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after Otto commanded him to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1865 – "The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County " was published, becoming the first great success of American author Mark Twain.
- 1872 – American suffragette Susan B. Anthony (pictured) was arrested and later fined 100ドル for having voted in the presidential election two weeks earlier.
- 1987 – An underground fire killed 31 people at King's Cross St Pancras tube station in London.
- 2011 – The sandbox video game Minecraft exited beta with the official release of version 1.0.
- Thomas of Bayeux (d. 1100)
- Asa Gray (b. 1810)
- Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830)
- Wilma Mankiller (b. 1945)
November 19 : International Men's Day ; World Toilet Day ; Liberation Day in Mali (1968)
- 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. president Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1942 – World War II: Soviet troops launched Operation Uranus at the Battle of Stalingrad with the goal of encircling Axis forces, turning the tide of the battle in their favour.
- 1985 – The first of five summits (pictured) between Soviet general secretary Mikhail Gorbachev and U.S. president Ronald Reagan began in Geneva.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha.
- 2010 – The first of four explosions occurred at the Pike River Mine in the West Coast in New Zealand's worst mining disaster in nearly a century.
- Nicolas Poussin (d. 1665)
- Jean-Antoine Nollet (b. 1700)
- Lydia Brown (d. 1865)
- Mikhail Kalinin (b. 1875)
November 20 : Transgender Day of Remembrance
- 1845 – Anglo-French blockade of the Río de la Plata: The Argentine Confederation was defeated in the Battle of Vuelta de Obligado , but the losses ultimately made the United Kingdom and France give up the blockade.
- 1902 – While discussing how to promote the newspaper L'Auto , sports journalist Géo Lefèvre came up with the idea of holding a cycling race that later became known as the Tour de France .
- 1945 – The Nuremberg trials (defendants pictured) of 24 leading Nazis involved in the Holocaust and various war crimes during World War II began in Nuremberg, Germany.
- 1990 – Andrei Chikatilo , one of the Soviet Union's most prolific serial killers, was arrested in Novocherkassk.
- 2003 – Suicide bombers blew up the British consulate and the headquarters of HSBC Bank in Istanbul, killing 31 people, including consul general Roger Short and actor Kerem Yılmazer.
- Theoktistos (d. 855)
- Robert F. Kennedy (b. 1925)
- Alexandra of Denmark (d. 1925)
- Bruno Retailleau (b. 1960)
November 21 : Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
- 1620 – The Mayflower Compact , the first governing document of the Plymouth Colony, was signed by 41 of the Mayflower 's passengers while the ship was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor.
- 1920 – Irish War of Independence: On Bloody Sunday in Dublin, the IRA assassinated a group of British intelligence agents, and British forces killed 14 civilians at a Gaelic football match at Croke Park.
- 1945 – Manzanar , a camp in California for the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II, was closed.
- 1980 – A fire broke out at the MGM Grand Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip in Paradise, Nevada killing 85 people and injuring 650 others.
- 2015 – The Belgian government imposed a four-day security lockdown in Brussels based on information about potential terrorist attacks.
- Columbanus (d. 615)
- Georgius Agricola (d. 1555)
- Joe Darling (b. 1870)
- Carly Rae Jepsen (b. 1985)
- 1718 – The pirate Blackbeard was killed in battle by a boarding party of British sailors off the coast of the Province of North Carolina.
- 1873 – The French steamship Ville du Havre collided with a Scottish iron clipper in the North Atlantic and sank with the loss of 226 lives.
- 1910 – The crews of three Brazilian warships – all commissioned only months before – and several smaller vessels mutinied against perceived "slavery" being practised in the Brazilian Navy.
- 1975 – Two days after the death of Francisco Franco, Juan Carlos I (pictured) was declared King of Spain according to the law of succession promulgated by Franco.
- 1995 – Toy Story , the first feature film created using only computer-generated imagery, was released in theaters in the United States.
- Antipope Felix II (d. 365)
- Émile Lemoine (b. 1840)
- Tina Weymouth (b. 1950)
- Kim Young-sam (d. 2015)
- 1635 – Dutch pacification campaign on Formosa : Soldiers from the Dutch East India Company (flag depicted) razed the village of Mattou, now part of modern-day Tainan, Taiwan.
- 1700 – A papal conclave , which had been deadlocked due to concerns over how a successor would respond to the impending death of Charles II of Spain, ended with the election of Clement XI.
- 1733 – African slaves in the Danish West Indies began an insurrection in one of the earliest and longest slave revolts in the Americas.
- 1980 – An earthquake struck the Irpinia region of Italy, killing at least 2,483 people, injuring more than 7,700 and leaving 250,000 homeless.
- 2007 – MS Explorer became the first cruise ship to sink in the Southern Ocean.
- Eadred (d. 955)
- Anne Burns (b. 1915)
- Mary Landrieu (b. 1955)
- Yusof Ishak (d. 1970)
November 24 : Feast day of the Vietnamese Martyrs (Catholicism)
- 1750 – Tarabai , the former regent of the Maratha Empire, had Rajaram II, whom she had previously claimed to be her grandson, arrested as an impostor.
- 1863 – American Civil War: As part of the Chattanooga campaign in Chattanooga, Tennessee, Union forces captured Lookout Mountain, helping them to begin breaking the Confederate siege of the city.
- 1925 – The Eugene O'Neill Theatre (pictured) opened on Broadway, New York, with a production of the musical Mayflowers.
- 1950 – The "Great Appalachian Storm ", a large extratropical cyclone, struck the east coast of the United States before moving northeast.
- 2015 – A Russian Sukhoi Su-24 attack aircraft was shot down by a Turkish fighter jet after the former allegedly strayed into Turkish airspace and ignored warnings to change course.
- Laurence Sterne (b. 1713)
- William F. Buckley Jr. (b. 1925)
- Anna Jarvis (d. 1948)
- Pat Morita (d. 2005)
November 25 : Evacuation Day in New York City (1783)
- 1510 – Afonso de Albuquerque, the governor of Portuguese India, led an armada to conquer Goa .
- 1940 – The de Havilland Mosquito , one of the most successful military aircraft in the Second World War, made its first flight.
- 1960 – Three of the four Mirabal sisters , who opposed the dictatorship of military strongman Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, were beaten and strangled to death.
- 1970 – After failing to instigate a military coup to restore the powers of the Emperor of Japan, author Yukio Mishima and a member of his militia publicly committed ritual suicide.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier (pictured) became its first president.
- Hu Zongxian (d. 1565)
- Maurice Denis (b. 1870)
- Thomas A. Hendricks (d. 1885)
- Alexis Wright (b. 1950)
November 26 : Feast day of Saint Sylvester Gozzolini (Catholicism); Constitution Day in India (1949)
- 1835 – Texas Revolution: Texian forces attacked a Mexican pack train, capturing 40 saddlebags of grass.
- 1914 – A large internal explosion destroyed HMS Bulwark near Sheerness, killing 741 people on board.
- 1940 – The Iron Guard killed 64 political detainees at a penitentiary near Bucharest and followed up with several high-profile assassinations, including that of former Romanian prime minister Nicolae Iorga.
- 1942 – A riot involving infantrymen, military police, and local law enforcement officers killed three people in Phoenix, Arizona.
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing at least 174 people and wounding more than 300 others.
- William Derham (b. 1657)
- Rachel Roberts (d. 1980)
- Silvester Belt (b. 1997)
- Bernardo Bertolucci (d. 2018)
November 27 : Thanksgiving in the United States (2025)
- 1095 – At the Council of Clermont , Pope Urban II called for the First Crusade, declaring holy war against the Muslims who had occupied the Holy Land and were attacking the Eastern Roman Empire.
- 1895 – Swedish chemist and industrialist Alfred Nobel (pictured) signed his last will and testament, setting aside the bulk of his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after his death.
- 1945 – A consortium of twenty-two U.S. charities founded CARE with the mission of delivering food aid to Europe in the aftermath of World War II.
- 1989 – A bomb placed by the Medellín Cartel in an attempt to kill Colombian presidential candidate César Gaviria destroyed Avianca Flight 203 , killing all 107 people on board, excluding Gaviria, who was not on the flight.
- 2020 – Nuclear physicist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh , regarded as the chief of Iran's nuclear program, was assassinated, allegedly by Mossad.
- Françoise d'Aubigné, Marquise de Maintenon (b. 1635)
- Rachel Brooks Gleason (b. 1820)
- George Moscone (d. 1978)
- Ciputra (d. 2019)
November 28 : Black Friday in the United States (2025); Bukovina Day in Romania
- 1660 – Robert Boyle, John Wilkins, Christopher Wren and other leading scientists met at Gresham College in London to found a learned society, now known as the Royal Society (coat of arms pictured).
- 1811 – Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 5 in E-flat major, Op. 73, premieres at the Gewandhaus in Leipzig.
- 1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë was constituted, which declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1925 – Grand Ole Opry , the longest-running radio broadcast in the United States, first aired on WSM in Nashville, Tennessee.
- 1975 – The Democratic Republic of East Timor, the precursor of Timor-Leste , declared independence from Portugal; it would only really gained independence in 2002, after decades of occupation by Indonesia.
- Esther Wheelwright (d. 1780)
- Richard Osman (b. 1970)
- Whitney Engen (b. 1987)
- Leslie Nielsen (d. 2010)
November 29 : Liberation Day in Albania
- 1781 – The crew of the British slave ship Zong , running low on water, began the killing of more than 130 enslaved African people by throwing them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1810 – Napoleonic Wars: British troops rendezvoused at Grand Baie to launch an invasion of Isle de France , now known as Mauritius.
- 1924 – The Bronx County Bird Club was formed and would go on to lead the Audubon Society's Christmas Bird Count in the eastern US for three years in a row.
- 1963 – Five minutes after taking off from Montréal–Dorval, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed in bad weather, killing all 118 people on board.
- 1972 – Atari announced the release of Pong (screenshot pictured), one of the first video games to achieve widespread popularity in both the arcade and home-console markets.
- 2012 – In resolution 67/19 , the United Nations General Assembly voted to accord the status of a non-member observer state to Palestine.
- Christian Doppler (b. 1803)
- George Brown (b. 1818)
- Adam Clayton Powell Jr. (b. 1908)
- Yōichi Masuzoe (b. 1948)
November 30 : Saint Andrew's Day (Christianity)
- 1700 – Great Northern War: Swedish forces led by King Charles XII defeated the Russian army at the Battle of Narva .
- 1934 – Flying Scotsman (pictured) became the first steam locomotive officially to exceed 100 miles per hour (161 km/h).
- 1953 – Mutesa II , Kabaka of Buganda, was temporarily deposed and exiled to London by Andrew Cohen, the British governor of Uganda.
- 1954 – A meteorite crashed through a roof in Sylacauga, Alabama, and hit a sleeping woman in the first verified case of a human being injured by an extraterrestrial object.
- 1999 – A series of protests by anti-globalization activists against the World Trade Organization Ministerial Conference of 1999 in Seattle forced the cancellation of the opening ceremonies.
- Richard Farrant (d. 1580)
- Jagadish Chandra Bose (b. 1858)
- Ben Stiller (b. 1965)
- Eir Aoi (b. 1988)
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