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 Four years of grueling labor ended with a single gesture: the removal of scaffol
November 2
1947 Howard Hughes pushed the throttles forward on the largest aircraft ever built, a
November 3
1903 Panama declared independence from Colombia on November 3, 1903, in a revolution
November 4
1922 A water boy's donkey stumbled on a stone step in the Valley of the Kings on Nove
November 5
1605 Guards searching the cellars beneath the House of Lords shortly after midnight o
November 6
1869 Twenty-five players from Rutgers College and twenty-five from the College of New
November 7
1917 Armed workers and soldiers loyal to the Bolshevik Party stormed the Winter Palac
November 8
1895 A faint green glow on a fluorescent screen across a darkened laboratory in Wurzb
November 9
1989 East German border guards stepped aside at the Bornholmer Strasse checkpoint in
November 10
1775 The Continental Congress passed a resolution on November 10, 1775, authorizing t
November 11
1918 At the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, the guns fell si
November 12
1927 Leon Trotsky, the architect of the Red Army and co-leader of the Russian Revolut
November 13
1956 The U.S. Supreme Court struck down Alabama's bus segregation laws in Browder v.
November 14
1851 Herman Melville's Moby-Dick arrived in American bookshops on November 14, 1851,
November 15
1777 After sixteen months of fractious debate, the Continental Congress approved the
November 16
1532 Francisco Pizarro and 168 Spanish soldiers ambushed Inca Emperor Atahualpa in th
November 17
1558 Mary I died at St. James's Palace, and England passed to her 25-year-old half-si
November 18
1928 A cartoon mouse whistled at the wheel of a steamboat, and the audience at the Co
November 19
1863 Abraham Lincoln spoke for roughly two minutes at the dedication of a military ce
November 20
1945 Twenty-one men took their seats in the dock at the Palace of Justice in Nurember
November 21
1783 A wicker basket carrying two men rose above the Château de la Muette and drifted
November 22
1963 Twelve seconds of gunfire in a Dallas motorcade shattered the American presidenc
November 23
1924 A single photograph changed humanity's understanding of the universe. Edwin Hubb
November 24
1859 Every copy of the first print run sold out on the first day. Charles Darwin's "O
November 25
1120 A single shipwreck drowned the heir to the English throne and plunged a kingdom
November 26
1789 George Washington issued a proclamation asking Americans to observe a day of pub
November 27
1095 A French pope stood before a crowd in an open field in Clermont, southern France
November 28
1520 Three battered ships sailed out of a narrow, storm-lashed strait and into an oce
November 29
1947 By a vote of 33 to 13, with 10 abstentions, the United Nations General Assembly
November 30
1982 A 24-year-old pop star released an album on November 30, 1982, that would sell m