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November 1: All Saints' Day in Western Christianity; Independence Day in Antigua and Barbuda (1981); Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
- 996 – Holy Roman Emperor Otto III issued a document containing the earliest known use of "Osterrîchi", the Old High German name of Austria.
- 1611 – The first recorded performance of William Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello was held in the same building.
- 1755 – A 9.0 Mw earthquake and subsequent tsunami devastated Lisbon, an event which led to the birth of modern seismology and earthquake engineering.
- 1928 – Turkish President Mustafa Kemal Atatürk (pictured) introduced the current 29-letter Turkish alphabet to replace the Ottoman Turkish alphabet as the official writing system of the Turkish language.
- 1998 – The European Court of Human Rights was instituted as a permanent court with full-time judges to monitor compliance by the signatory parties of the European Convention on Human Rights.
More anniversaries: October 31 – November 1 – November 2
November 2: All Souls' Day in Western Christianity; Day of the Dead in Mexico
- 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and admitted to the Union as the states of North and South Dakota.
- 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic "high-definition" television service.
- 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.
- 1960 – The Central Criminal Court of England and Wales acquitted publisher Penguin Books of obscenity in the publishing of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence (pictured).
- 1963 – President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Duong Van Minh.
More anniversaries: November 1 – November 2 – November 3
November 3: Independence Day in Dominica (1978), the Federated States of Micronesia (1986), and Panama (1903); Culture Day in Japan
- 644 – Umar, the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II (pictured) as King of the Hellenes.
- 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
- 2007 – Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution.
More anniversaries: November 2 – November 3 – November 4
November 4: First day of Hajj (Islam, 2011); Flag Day in Panama; Unity Day in Russia
- 1889 – Menelik II (pictured), who would later introduce several technological and administrative advances under his reign, was crowned Emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1921 – After a speech by Adolf Hitler in the Hofbräuhaus in Munich, members of the Sturmabteilung, known as "brownshirts", physically assaulted his opposition, an event which assumed legendary proportions over time.
- 1960 – At the Kasakela Chimpanzee Community in Tanzania, Dr. Jane Goodall observed a chimpanzee using a grass stalk to extract termites from a termite hill, the first recorded case of tool use by animals.
- 1966 – The Arno River flooded Florence, Italy, to a maximum depth of 6.7 m (22 ft), leaving thousands homeless and destroying millions of masterpieces of art and rare books.
- 1970 – Authorities in Temple City, California, discovered a 13-year-old feral child known as "Genie", who had spent almost her entire life in social isolation.
More anniversaries: November 3 – November 4 – November 5
November 5: Guy Fawkes Night in Great Britain and some Commonwealth countries (1605)
- 1605 – The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foiled Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and all within it.
- 1838 – The collapse of the Federal Republic of Central America (flag pictured) began with Nicaragua seceding from the union.
- 1950 – Korean War: The 27th British Commonwealth Brigade succeeded in preventing a Chinese break-through at Pakchon in the Battle of Pakchon.
- 1990 – Ultra-nationalist rabbi Meir Kahane was assassinated in a New York City hotel by an Arab gunman.
- 2009 – Major Nidal Malik Hasan of the United States Army went on a shooting rampage at Fort Hood, the worst shooting ever to take place on an American military base.
More anniversaries: November 4 – November 5 – November 6
November 6: First day of Eid ul-Adha (Islam, 2011); Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (1844) and Tajikistan (1994); Finnish Swedish Heritage Day in Finland
- 1856 – Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work by English author George Eliot (pictured), was submitted for publication.
- 1860 – Abraham Lincoln became the first Republican Party candidate to win the U.S. presidential election.
- 1917 – First World War: Canadian forces captured Passendale, Belgium, after three months of fighting against the Germans at the Third Battle of Ypres.
- 1935 – Before the Institute of Radio Engineers in New York, American electrical engineer and inventor Edwin Howard Armstrong presented his study on using frequency modulation for radio broadcasting.
- 1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission conducted the largest underground nuclear test in U.S. history, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
More anniversaries: November 5 – November 6 – November 7
November 7: October Revolution Day in Belarus and other various regions of the former Soviet Union
- 1665 – The London Gazette, the oldest surviving English-language newspaper, was first published as the Oxford Gazette.
- 1885 – Construction of the Canadian Pacific Railway, the first transcontinental railroad across Canada, concluded with the driving of the "last spike" (pictured) in Craigellachie, British Columbia.
- 1917 – Vladimir Lenin led a Bolshevik insurrection against the Provisional Government of Alexander Kerensky, starting the Bolshevik Revolution.
- 1940 – Four months after the bridge's completion, the middle section of the Tacoma Narrows Bridge across the Tacoma Narrows in the U.S. state of Washington collapsed in a windstorm.
- 1991 – Professional basketball player Magic Johnson announced his retirement from the game because of his infection with HIV.
More anniversaries: November 6 – November 7 – November 8
November 8: St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church)
- 1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country.
- 1861 – American Civil War: The USS San Jacinto stopped the British mailship Trent and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray (example pictured).
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack in the Battle of Gang Toi.
- 1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which would go on to be one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
More anniversaries: November 7 – November 8 – November 9
November 9: Inventors' Day in Austria, Germany and Switzerland; Independence Day in Cambodia (1953); Muhammad Iqbal's Day in Pakistan
- 1867 – Tokugawa Yoshinobu (pictured), the last shogun of Japan, tendered his resignation to the Emperor Meiji.
- 1938 – Kristallnacht began as SA stormtroopers and civilians destroyed and ransacked Jewish homes, businesses and synagogues in Germany and Austria, resulting in at least 90 deaths and the deportation of over 25,000 others to concentration camps.
- 1989 – East Germany announced the opening of the inner German border and the Berlin Wall, marking the symbolic end of the Cold War, impending collapse of the Warsaw Pact, and beginning of the end of Soviet communism.
- 1998 – With the passing of the Human Rights Act, the United Kingdom abolished capital punishment for all criminal offences.
- 2005 – Suicide bombers attacked three hotels in Amman, Jordan, killing a total of about 60 people and injuring at least 115 others.
More anniversaries: November 8 – November 9 – November 10
November 10: Heroes' Day in Indonesia (1945)
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- 1898 – White supremacists seized power in Wilmington, North Carolina, in the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in United States history.
- 1945 – Indonesian National Revolution: Following the killing of the British officer Brigadier A. W. S. Mallaby a few weeks prior, British forces began their retaliation by attacking Surabaya, Indonesia.
- 1958 – Merchant Harry Winston donated the Hope Diamond (pictured), the "most famous diamond in the world", to the Smithsonian Institution.
- 2006 – Prominent Sri Lankan Tamil politician and human rights lawyer Nadarajah Raviraj was assassinated in Colombo.
- 2007 – At the Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, King Juan Carlos I of Spain asked President of Venezuela Hugo Chávez "¿Por qué no te callas?" after Chávez repeatedly interrupted a speech by Spanish Prime Minister José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero.
More anniversaries: November 9 – November 10 – November 11
November 11: Armistice Day in Europe; Remembrance Day in the Commonwealth; Independence Day in Angola (1975) and Poland (1918); Veterans Day in the United States
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- 1215 – The Fourth Lateran Council, which defined the Roman Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation, convened.
- 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.
- 1805 – War of the Third Coalition: French, Austrian and Russian units all suffered heavy losses in the Battle of Dürenstein.
- 1918 – The armistice treaty between the German Empire and the Allies was signed in a railway carriage in the Forest of Compiègne of France (signatories pictured).
- 1940 – World War II: The German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis captured top secret documents from SS Automedon that would later influence Japan's decision to enter the war.
More anniversaries: November 10 – November 11 – November 12
November 12: Birth of Bahá'u'lláh, a holy day in the Bahá'í Faith
- 1028 – Future Byzantine empress Zoe first took the throne as empress consort to Romanos III Argyros.
- 1893 – Mortimer Durand, Foreign Secretary of British India, and Abdur Rahman Khan, Amir of Afghanistan, signed the Durand Line Agreement, establishing what is now the international border between Afghanistan and Pakistan.
- 1936 – The San Francisco – Oakland Bay Bridge, connecting San Francisco and Oakland, California across San Francisco Bay, opened to traffic.
- 1942 – World War II: The Naval Battle of Guadalcanal (Japanese air attack pictured), the decisive engagement in a series of naval battles between Allied and Japanese forces during the months-long Guadalcanal campaign in the Solomon Islands, began.
- 1991 – In Dili, East Timor, Indonesian forces opened fire on student demonstrators protesting the occupation of East Timor, killing at least 250 people.
More anniversaries: November 11 – November 12 – November 13
November 13: Feast Day of Saint John Chrysostom (Christianity); Remembrance Sunday
- 1002 – St. Brice's Day massacre: King Ethelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1927 – The Holland Tunnel, connecting New York City's Manhattan with Jersey City, New Jersey, under the Hudson River, opened.
- 1965 – The steamship SS Yarmouth Castle burned and sank about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, killing about 90 people.
- 1970 – The Bhola tropical cyclone hit the densely populated Ganges Delta in East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia ruled in Dietrich v The Queen that although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, in most circumstances a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay when an accused is unrepresented.
More anniversaries: November 12 – November 13 – November 14
November 14: World Diabetes Day; Children's Day in India; Day of the Colombian Woman in Colombia
- 1910 – Aviator Eugene Burton Ely performed the first takeoff from a ship, flying from a makeshift deck on the USS Birmingham in Hampton Roads, Virginia, US.
- 1940 – Second World War: Coventry Cathedral (ruins pictured) and much of the city centre of Coventry, England, were destroyed by the German Luftwaffe during the Coventry Blitz.
- 1971 – NASA's Mariner 9 reached Mars, en route to becoming the first spacecraft to orbit another planet.
- 1984 – Cesar Climaco, mayor of Zamboanga City, the Philippines, was assassinated.
- 1990 – Germany and Poland signed the German–Polish Border Treaty, confirming their border at the Oder-Neisse line, which was originally defined by the Potsdam Agreement in 1945.
More anniversaries: November 13 – November 14 – November 15
November 15: Republic Day in Brazil (1889); Shichi-Go-San in Japan
- 655 – Penda of Mercia was defeated by Oswiu of Northumbria at the Battle of the Winwaed in modern-day Yorkshire, England.
- 1859 – Sponsored by businessman Evangelos Zappas (pictured), the first modern revival of the Olympic Games took place in Athens, Greece.
- 1935 – The Commonwealth of the Philippines was officially established, with Manuel L. Quezon inaugurated as its president.
- 1943 – The Holocaust: Heinrich Himmler ordered that Romanies were to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps".
- 1983 – Turkish Cypriots on the northeastern portion of Cyprus declared the creation of a new state known as the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus, which currently remains recognised only by Turkey.
More anniversaries: November 14 – November 15 – November 16
- 1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.
- 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units captured Fort Washington from the Patriots.
- 1944 – Operation Queen commenced in Düren, Germany, with one of the heaviest Allied tactical bombing attacks of the Second World War.
- 1959 – The Sound of Music, a musical by Rodgers and Hammerstein based on The Story of the Trapp Family Singers, opened on Broadway at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre.
- 1997 – Chinese dissident Wei Jingsheng (pictured) was released for "medical reasons" after spending 17½ of the previous 18 years in prison, and was deported to the United States.
More anniversaries: November 15 – November 16 – November 17
- 1292 – John Balliol was chosen to be King of Scots over Robert de Brus.
- 1869 – The Suez Canal opened, allowing shipping to travel between Europe and Asia via the Mediterranean Sea and the Red Sea.
- 1950 – Tenzin Gyatso, the 14th Dalai Lama (pictured), was enthroned as Tibet's head of state at the age of fifteen.
- 1970 – The Soviet Union's Lunokhod 1 landed on the Moon to become the first roving remote-controlled robot to operate on another celestial body.
- 2009 – Administrators at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia discovered that their servers had been hacked and thousands of emails and files on climate change had been stolen.
More anniversaries: November 16 – November 17 – November 18
November 18: Independence Day in Latvia (1918); National Day in Oman (1940)
- 1210 – Otto IV, Holy Roman Emperor was excommunicated by Pope Innocent III after he commanded the Pope to annul the Concordat of Worms.
- 1928 – Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie, the first completely post-produced synchronized sound animated cartoon, was released.
- 1943 – Second World War: The Royal Air Force began its bombing campaign against Berlin.
- 1978 – Jim Jones led more than 900 members of the Peoples Temple to mass murder/suicide in Jonestown, Guyana, hours after some of its members assassinated U.S. Congressman Leo Ryan.
- 1999 – Texas A&M University's Aggie Bonfire collapsed (remains pictured), killing 12 people and injuring 27 others, and causing the university to officially declare a hiatus on the 90-year-old annual event.
More anniversaries: November 17 – November 18 – November 19
November 19: International Men's Day; Liberation Day in Mali
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- 1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.
- 1794 – The United States and Great Britain concluded the Jay Treaty, the basis for ten years of peaceful trade between the two nations.
- 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
- 1941 – World War II: The Australian light cruiser HMAS Sydney (pictured) and the German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran destroyed each other in the Indian Ocean.
- 2005 – Iraq War: A group of United States Marines allegedly massacred twenty-four people in the town of Haditha in Iraq.
More anniversaries: November 18 – November 19 – November 20
November 20: Day of National Sovereignty in Argentina; Teachers' Day in Vietnam
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- 284 – Diocletian (sculpture pictured) became Roman Emperor, eventually establishing reforms that ended the Crisis of the Third Century.
- 1695 – Zumbi, the last of the leaders of Quilombo dos Palmares in early Brazil, was executed.
- 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.
- 1917 – First World War: The Battle of Cambrai began with British forces having initial success over Germany's Hindenburg Line.
- 1952 – The Slánský trial, a show trial against Czech General Secretary Rudolf Slánský and 13 other members of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia, was held.
More anniversaries: November 19 – November 20 – November 21
November 21: Armed Forces Day in Bangladesh
- 1386 – Turco-Mongol conqueror Timur captured and sacked the Georgian capital of Tbilisi, forcing King Bagrat V to convert to Islam.
- 1894 – First Sino-Japanese War: The Japanese Second Army killed more than 1,000 Chinese servicemen and civilians in the city of Lüshunkou.
- 1910 – The crews of the Brazilian warships Minas Geraes, São Paulo, Bahia, and Deodoro mutinied in what became known as the Revolt of the Lash (pictured).
- 1977 – "God Defend New Zealand" became New Zealand's second national anthem, on equal standing with "God Save the Queen", which had been the traditional one since 1840.
More anniversaries: November 20 – November 21 – November 22
November 22: Alphabet Day in Albania (1908); Independence Day in Lebanon (1943)
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- 498 – Following the death of Anastasius II, both Symmachus and Laurentius were elected pope, causing a schism that would last until 506.
- 1635 – Dutch colonial forces on Taiwan launched a three-month pacification campaign against Taiwanese aborigines.
- 1928 – Boléro, Maurice Ravel's most famous musical composition, made its debut at the Paris Opéra.
- 1988 – The first B-2 stealth bomber of the United States Air Force was first displayed in public at Air Force Plant 42 in Palmdale, California.
- 2005 – Angela Merkel (pictured) assumed office as the first female Chancellor of Germany.
More anniversaries: November 21 – November 22 – November 23
November 23: St George's Day in Georgia; Labor Thanksgiving Day in Japan
- 1867 – The Manchester Martyrs were hanged in Manchester, England, for killing a police officer while helping two Irish nationalists escape from police custody.
- 1876 – William "Boss" Tweed, a New York City politician who had been arrested for embezzlement, was handed to US authorities after having escaped from prison to Spain.
- 1934 – An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden encountered a garrison of Somalis in Italian service at Walwal, which led to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- 1996 – Ethiopian Airlines Flight 961 was hijacked, then crashed into the Indian Ocean near Comoros after running out of fuel, killing 125 of the 175 people on board.
- 2005 – Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf (pictured) won the Liberian general election, making her the first democratically elected female head of state in Africa.
More anniversaries: November 22 – November 23 – November 24
November 24: Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism); Teachers' Day in Turkey; Thanksgiving in the United States (2011)
- 1542 – Anglo-Scottish Wars: England captured about 1,200 Scottish prisoners with its victory in the Battle of Solway Moss.
- 1859 – On the Origin of Species by British naturalist Charles Darwin was first published, and sold out its initial print run on the first day.
- 1906 – A local newspaper accused members of two teams of conspiring to deliberately lose games, the first major scandal in American football.
- 1963 – Businessman Jack Ruby shot and fatally wounded Lee Harvey Oswald, the alleged assassin of U.S. President John F. Kennedy, during a live television broadcast, fueling conspiracy theories on the matter.
- 1974 – A group of paleoanthropologists discovered a 3.2-million-year-old skeleton of an Australopithecus afarensis in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia, nicknaming it "Lucy" (reconstruction pictured).
More anniversaries: November 23 – November 24 – November 25
November 25: National Day in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1943); Teachers' Day in Indonesia; Independence Day in Suriname (1975)
- 1034 – After Malcolm II of Scotland (pictured) died at Glamis, Duncan, the son of his second daughter, instead of Macbeth, the son of his eldest daughter, inherited the throne to become the King of Scots.
- 1863 – American Civil War: Confederate forces were defeated at the Battle of Missionary Ridge in Chattanooga, Tennessee, opening the door to the Union's invasion of the Deep South.
- 1917 – World War I: German troops invaded Portuguese East Africa in an attempt to escape superior British forces to the north and resupply from captured Portuguese materiel.
- 1952 – Agatha Christie's mystery play The Mousetrap, the play with the longest initial run in history, opened at the Ambassadors Theatre in London.
- 1975 – Upon Suriname's independence from the Netherlands, Johan Ferrier became its first president.
More anniversaries: November 24 – November 25 – November 26
November 26: Islamic New Year (2011, 1433 AH)
- 1805 – The Pontcysyllte Aqueduct (pictured), the longest and highest aqueduct in Great Britain, opened.
- 1939 – The Soviet Red Army shelled Mainila and then claimed that the fire originated from Finland, giving them a casus belli to launch the Winter War a few days later.
- 1950 – Korean War: With the battles of Chosin Reservoir and the Ch'ongch'on River, China launched a massive counterattack against United Nations forces.
- 1977 – A speaker claiming to represent the "Intergalactic Association" interrupted the Southern Television broadcast in South East England, warning viewers that "All your weapons of evil must be destroyed."
- 2008 – A coordinated group of shooting and bombing attacks across Mumbai began, ultimately killing a total of 173 people and wounding more than 300 others.
More anniversaries: November 25 – November 26 – November 27
- 1815 – As specified by the Congress of Vienna, the Constitution of the Kingdom of Poland was signed for the newly recreated Polish state that was under Russian control.
- 1868 – American Indian Wars: George Armstrong Custer's 7th U.S. Cavalry attacked the encampment of Chief Black Kettle and the Cheyenne on the Washita River near present-day Cheyenne, Oklahoma.
- 1978 – The Kurdistan Workers' Party, which has been in conflict with Turkey over the formation of an autonomous Kurdish state, was founded.
- 1999 – The Labour Party defeated the governing National Party in the New Zealand general election, making the Labour Party's Helen Clark the first female to win the office of Prime Minister at an election.
- 2001 – The Hubble Space Telescope detected sodium in the atmosphere of the extrasolar planet HD 209458b (artist's impression pictured), the first planetary atmosphere outside our solar system to be measured.
More anniversaries: November 26 – November 27 – November 28
November 28: Independence Day in Albania (1912), Mauritania (1960) and Panama (1821); Navy Day in Iran (1980)
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- 1443 – Rebelling against the Ottoman Empire, Skanderbeg and his forces liberated Kruja in Middle Albania and raised the Albanian flag.
- 1895 – The first automobile race in the United States, the Chicago Times-Herald race, was held in Chicago.
- 1905 – Irish nationalist Arthur Griffith (pictured) first presented his Sinn Féin Policy, declaring that the 1800 Act of Union of Great Britain and Ireland was illegal.
- 1912 – At the All-Albanian Congress, the Assembly of Vlorë declared the independence of the Albanian Vilayet from the Ottoman Empire.
- 1987 – South African Airways Flight 295 suffered a catastrophic in-flight fire and crashed into the Indian Ocean east of Mauritius, killing all 159 on board.
More anniversaries: November 27 – November 28 – November 29
November 29: Liberation Day in Albania (1944)
- 1781 – The crew of the overcrowded British slave ship Zong killed 133 African slaves by dumping them into the sea to claim insurance.
- 1854 – The Eureka Flag (pictured) was flown for the first time during the Eureka Stockade rebellion in Australia.
- 1864 – American Indian Wars: A 700-man Colorado Territory militia attacked a village of Cheyenne and Arapaho, killing 133 Cheyenne and Arapaho men, women, and children.
- 1963 – Five minutes after takeoff from Montreal, Trans-Canada Air Lines Flight 831 crashed, killing all 118 people aboard.
- 2007 – Philippine soldiers led by Senator Antonio Trillanes, on trial for the 2003 Oakwood mutiny, staged a mutiny and temporarily seized a conference room in The Peninsula Manila hotel.
More anniversaries: November 28 – November 29 – November 30
November 30: Independence Day in Barbados (1966); Bonifacio Day in the Philippines; Saint Andrew's Day in Scotland
- 1829 – The first Welland Canal opened, allowing ships to travel between Lake Erie and Lake Ontario and bypass the Niagara Falls.
- 1947 – As the United Nations voted to terminate the British Mandate of Palestine, civil war broke out between the region's Jewish and Arab communities.
- 1962 – Burmese diplomat U Thant (pictured) became United Nations Secretary-General, following the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in September 1961.
- 1982 – Michael Jackson's Thriller, the best-selling album of all time, was released.
- 2005 – John Sentamu was enthroned as Archbishop of York, becoming the first member of an ethnic minority to serve as an archbishop in the Church of England.
More anniversaries: November 29 – November 30 – December 1
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