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Table : Important November events
(from the November article)

November 1

—All Saints' Day observed by Christians.

—Edward V, king of England, born 1470.

—Crawford W. Long, American physician who first used ether as an anesthetic in surgery, born 1815.

November 2

—All Souls' Day observed by Christians and celebrated as Diá de los muertos in Mexico.

—Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, born 1734.

—Marie Antoinette, French queen, born 1755.

—Spanish expedition led by Gaspar de Portola reached San Francisco Bay, 1769.

—James K. Polk, 11th U.S. president, born 1795.

—Warren G. Harding, 29th U.S. president, born 1865.

—North Dakota became the 39th U.S. state, 1889.

—South Dakota became the 40th U.S. state, 1889.

—Luchino Visconti, Italian film director, born 1906.

—Arthur Balfour, British foreign secretary, declared British government support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, 1917.

—Haile Selassie I was crowned emperor of Ethiopia, 1930.

November 3

—Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith, born 1500.

—Stephen Austin, colonizer of Texas, born 1793.

—Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian explorer, born 1879.

—Panama declared itself independent from Colombia, 1903.

November 4

—Erie Canal formally opened at New York, 1825.

—Will Rogers, American humorist, born 1879.

—Tomb of Tutankhamun, king of Egypt, discovered, 1922.

—Iranian revolutionaries took over U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized U.S. citizens as hostages, 1979.

—Yitzhak Rabin, prime minister of Israel, assassinated in 1995.

November 5

—Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom; Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament failed, 1605.

—Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader, born 1855.

—Will Durant, American historian, born 1885.

November 6

—John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster, born 1854.

—First intercollegiate football game in the United States, Rutgers v. College of New Jersey (Princeton), at Rutgers, 1869.

November 7

—General William Henry Harrison defeated American Indians in the Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811.

—Marie Skłodowska Curie, French physicist, born 1867.

—Albert Camus, French author, born 1913.

—Bolsheviks ousted provisional Russian government, 1917. (October 25 on the Russian calendar then in use.)

—Joan Sutherland, Australian opera singer, born 1926.

—Charles Kingsford Smith, Australian aviator, disappeared after leaving Allahabad, India on a long-distance flight 1935.

November 8

—Edmond Halley, British astronomer, born 1656.

—Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (today Mount Holyoke College) opened for women, 1837.

—Montana became the 41st U.S. state, 1889.

November 9

—Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, born 1818.

—Edward VII of the United Kingdom, born 1841.

—Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated German throne, 1918.

—Kristallnacht, when Jewish businesses and synagogues throughout Germany were attacked by the Nazis, 1938.

—Cambodia became independent, 1953.

—Opening of the Berlin Wall, Germany, 1989.

November 10

—Martin Luther, German religious leader, born 1483.

—William Hogarth, English painter, born 1697.

—Friedrich Schiller, German playwright and poet, born 1759.

—Sir John S. D. Thompson, Canadian prime minister, born 1844.

—Donald MacMillan, American Arctic explorer, born 1874.

November 11

—Remembrance Day, Canada.

—Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, born 1821.

—Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, hanged in 1880.

—Washington became the 42nd U.S. state, 1889.

—Armistice signed ending World War I, 1918.

—Poland was proclaimed an independent republic, 1918.

—Veterans Day first celebrated in United States, 1954.

November 12

—Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American reformer, born 1815.

—Baha'u'llah, Baha'i prophet, born 1817.

—Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, born 1840.

November 13

—Edward III, king of England, born 1312.

—Battle of Preston, when English government troops defeated rebels supporting the Jacobite cause, 1715.

—Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, born 1850.

—Louis D. Brandeis, American jurist, born 1856.

—Holland Tunnel opened in New York City, 1927.

—Sukarno became president of Indonesia, 1945.

—Mariner 9, the first human-made object to orbit another planet, began orbiting Mars, 1971.

November 14

—Robert Fulton, American inventor, born 1765.

—Claude Monet, French painter, born 1840.

—Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman, born 1889.

—Frederick Grant Banting, Canadian physician who discovered insulin, born 1891.

—Aaron Copland, American composer, born 1900.

—Prince Charles, heir to the British throne, born 1948.

November 15

—Shichi-Go-San (3-5-7) festival, Japan.

—William Pitt the Elder, British statesman, born 1708.

—William Herschel, British astronomer, born 1738.

—Draft of Articles of Confederation approved by U.S. Congress, 1777.

—Felix Frankfurter, American jurist, born 1882.

—First meeting of League of Nations Assembly, 1920.

—Manuel Quezon inaugurated as first president of the Philippines, 1935.

November 16

—Paul Hindemith, German American composer, born 1895.

—Oklahoma became the 46th U.S. state, 1907.

November 17

—U.S. Congress first met in Washington, D.C., 1800.

—Suez Canal opened, 1869.

November 18

—Louis Jacques Daguerre, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, born 1787.

—Asa Gray, American botanist, born 1810.

—Sir William S. Gilbert, English dramatist who worked with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, born 1836.

—Ignace Jan Paderewski, Polish pianist, composer, and statesman, born 1860 (November 6 on the Russian calendar then in use).

—The use of Standard time in the United States began with the system's adoption by railroads, 1883.

—Eugene Ormandy, American conductor, born 1899.

—United States and Panama signed a treaty providing for the Panama Canal, 1903.

November 19

—George R. Clark, American frontiersman, born 1752.

—Ferdinand de Lesseps, French promoter of the Suez Canal, born 1805.

—James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. president, born 1831.

—U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address, 1863.

—Indira Gandhi, first woman prime minister of India, born 1917.

November 20

—Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian statesman, born 1841.

—Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist, born 1858.

—Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of professional baseball, born 1866.

—United States forces landed on Tarawa, World War II, 1943.

November 21

—René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle, French explorer, born 1643.

—Voltaire, French author and philosopher, born 1694.

—North Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1789.

November 22

—Independence Day, Lebanon.

—George Eliot, English novelist, born 1819.

—Charles de Gaulle, French statesman, born 1890.

—Benjamin Britten, British composer, born 1913.

—First transpacific airmail flight began, 1935.

—U.S. President John F. Kennedy assassinated, 1963.

November 23

—Franklin Pierce, 14th U.S. president, born 1804.

—Manuel de Falla, Spanish composer, born 1876.

—Radio broadcasting began in Australia, 1923.

November 24

—Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, born 1632.

—Father Serra, Junípero, Franciscan missionary, born 1713.

—Laurence Sterne, British novelist, born 1713.

—Zachary Taylor, 12th U.S. president, born 1784.

—Charles Darwin's book, On the Origin of Species, published 1859.

—Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, French painter, born 1864.

November 25

—Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright, born 1562.

—Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, born 1835.

—John Flynn, founder of the Royal Flying Doctor Service of Australia, born 1880.

—Pope John XXIII, born 1881.

—Joe DiMaggio, American baseball star, born 1914.

November 26

—First national Thanksgiving Day in the United States proclaimed by President George Washington, 1789.

—The name Van Diemen's Land was officially replaced by Tasmania, 1855.

—Eugene Ionesco, French playwright, born 1909.

November 27

—Charles A. Beard, American historian, born 1874.

November 28

—William Blake, English poet and artist, born 1757.

—Stefan Zweig, Austrian biographer, born 1881.

—Mauritania became independent, 1960.

November 29

—Louisa M. Alcott, American author, born 1832.

—American Commander Richard E. Byrd and crew of three became first to fly over South Pole, 1929.

November 30

—Jonathan Swift, English author, born 1667.

—Mark Twain, American author, born 1835.

—Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman, born 1874.