Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 20, 1900 | The French actress Sarah Bernhardt receives the press at the Savoy Hotel in New York at the outset of her first visit since 1896. She talked about her impending tour with a troupe of more than 50 performers and her plans to play the title role in Hamlet. |
| November 8, 1620 | The Battle of White Mountain takes place near Prague, ending in a decisive Catholic victory in only two hours. |
| November 10, 1942 | World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa. |
| November 20, 1936 | José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, is killed by a republican execution squad. |
| November 15, 2012 | Xi Jinping becomes General Secretary of the Chinese Communist Party and a new seven-member Politburo Standing Committee is inaugurated. |
| November 18, 1095 | The Council of Clermont begins: called by Pope Urban II, it led to the First Crusade to the Holy Land. |
| November 8, 1981 | Aeroméxico Flight 110 crashes near Zihuatanejo, Mexico, killing all 18 people on board. |
| November 27, 1917 | P. E. Svinhufvud becomes the chairman of his first senate, technically the first Prime Minister of Finland. |
| November 13, 1917 | World War I: beginning of the First Battle of Monte Grappa (in Italy known as the "First Battle of the Piave"). The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces, despite help from the German Alpenkorps and numerical superiority, will fail their offensive against the Italian Army now led by its new chief of staff Armando Diaz. |
| November 24, 1917 | In Milwaukee, nine members of the Milwaukee Police Department are killed by a bomb, the most deaths in a single event in U.S. police history until the September 11 attacks in 2001. |
| November 4, 1962 | The United States concludes Operation Fishbowl, its final above-ground nuclear weapons testing series, in anticipation of the 1963 Partial Nuclear Test Ban Treaty. |
| November 27, 1918 | The Makhnovshchina is established. |
| November 29, 1776 | During the American Revolutionary War, the Battle of Fort Cumberland, Nova Scotia, comes to an end with the arrival of British reinforcements. |
| November 23, 1985 | Gunmen hijack EgyptAir Flight 648 en route from Athens to Cairo. When the plane lands in Malta, Egyptian commandos storm the aircraft, but 60 people die in the raid. |
| November 14, 1920 | Pesäpallo, the Finnish version of baseball developed by Lauri Pihkala, is played for the first time at Kaisaniemi Park in Helsinki. |
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