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
1765 The British Parliament forces a tax on paper goods across the thirteen colonies
November 2
1948 Harry Truman defies every poll to snatch victory from Thomas Dewey, securing the
November 3
1957 Soviet engineers strapped Laika into Sputnik 2 and launched her into orbit, know
November 4
1979 Iranian students storm the US embassy in Tehran and seize 90 hostages, including
November 5
1605 Guy Fawkes stood guard over thirty-six barrels of gunpowder beneath the House of
November 6
1860 Abraham Lincoln's election in 1860 triggered immediate secession by seven Southe
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
1980 NASA's Voyager 1 probe zooms past Saturn, snapping the first close-up photograph
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
1989 Riot police crush a student demonstration in Prague, igniting a mass uprising th
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
1971 A man named Dan Cooper parachuted out of a Northwest Orient Airlines plane over
November 25
1120 The White Ship capsizes in the English Channel, killing William Adelin, the only
November 26
1922 Howard Carter chiseled a tiny breach into King Tutankhamun's sealed doorway and
November 27
1978 Former supervisor Dan White gunned down Mayor George Moscone and City Supervisor
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
1999 Anti-globalization protesters in Seattle overwhelmed unprepared police forces, p