History by month
November
30 days of history. Every date is an entry point to the events, births, and moments that shaped our world.
November 1
1512 Michelangelo unveiled his completed Sistine Chapel ceiling after four grueling y
November 2
1947 Howard Hughes piloted the massive H-4 Hercules, known as the Spruce Goose, throu
November 3
1903 Panama declares independence from Colombia after the United States encourages th
November 4
1922 Howard Carter and his team burst through a sealed doorway to reveal the untouche
November 5
1605 Guy Fawkes stood guard over thirty-six barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of
November 6
1869 Rutgers College and Princeton University traded six touchdowns in a chaotic 6-4
November 7
1917 Bolshevik Red Guards seized the Winter Palace on October 25, 1917, triggering a
November 8
1895 Wilhelm Röntgen spotted a faint green glow from a fluorescent screen while testi
November 9
1989 Communist-controlled East Germany suddenly opened checkpoints along the Berlin W
November 10
1775 Samuel Nicholas raised the first colors of the Continental Marines at Philadelph
November 11
1918 Allies and Germany signed the Armistice of Compiègne at 11 a.m. on November 11,
November 12
1927 Leon Trotsky's expulsion from the Soviet Communist Party handed Joseph Stalin un
November 13
1956 The Supreme Court struck down Alabama's bus segregation laws, mandating the imme
November 14
1851 Herman Melville published Moby-Dick, launching a monomaniacal quest that would e
November 15
1777 The Continental Congress finally approved the Articles of Confederation after si
November 16
1532 Spanish forces unleashed gunfire and cavalry charges against the stunned Incans
November 17
1558 Queen Elizabeth I’s 1558 accession launched a golden age where Britannia first s
November 18
1928 Walt Disney and Ub Iwerks unleashed Steamboat Willie, the first fully synchroniz
November 19
1863 Lincoln delivered a two-minute address that redefined the Civil War as a struggl
November 20
1945 Allied forces convened military tribunals in Nuremberg to prosecute 23 top Nazi
November 21
1783 Jean-François Pilâtre de Rozier and François Laurent, Marquis d'Arlandes, lifted
November 22
1963 Lee Harvey Oswald fired fatal shots from the Texas School Book Depository, insta
November 23
1924 Edwin Hubble proved Andromeda is a separate galaxy rather than a nebula inside t
November 24
1859 Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species, presenting twenty years of ac
November 25
1120 The White Ship capsizes in the English Channel, killing William Adelin, the only
November 26
1789 President George Washington proclaimed a day of thanksgiving that Congress immed
November 27
1095 Pope Urban II's call mobilized knights and peasants from across Western Europe t
November 28
1520 Magellan's fleet pushed through a treacherous 373-mile channel at Cape Virgenes,
November 29
1947 The U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolution 181(II) on November 29, 1947, recom
November 30
1982 Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones poured $750,000 into recording session