Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 8, 1965 | The 173rd Airborne is ambushed by over 1,200 Viet Cong in Operation Hump during the Vietnam War, while the 1st Battalion, Royal Australian Regiment fight one of the first set-piece engagements of the war between Australian forces and the Viet Cong at the Battle of Gang Toi. |
| November 14, 1914 | The Joensuu City Hall, designed by Eliel Saarinen, was inaugurated in Joensuu, Finland. |
| November 26, 2004 | The last Poʻouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii, before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct. |
| November 27, 1983 | Avianca Flight 011: A Boeing 747 crashes near Madrid's Barajas Airport, killing 181. |
| November 2, 1956 | Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip. |
| November 2, 1984 | Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. |
| November 18, 1991 | After an 87-day siege, the Croatian city of Vukovar capitulates to the besieging Yugoslav People's Army and allied Serb paramilitary forces. |
| November 25, 1947 | New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the United Kingdom. |
| November 7, 1975 | In Bangladesh, a joint force of people and soldiers takes part in an uprising led by Colonel Abu Taher that ousts and kills Brigadier Khaled Mosharraf, freeing the then house-arrested army chief and future president Maj-Gen. Ziaur Rahman. |
| November 7, 1918 | The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year. |
| November 15, 1978 | A chartered Douglas DC-8 crashes near Colombo, Sri Lanka, killing 183. |
| November 10, 1951 | With the rollout of the North American Numbering Plan, direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States. |
| November 20, 1943 | World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins: United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns. |
| November 29, 1963 | "I Want to Hold Your Hand", recorded on October 17, 1963, is released by the Beatles in the United Kingdom. |
| November 11, 1992 | The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests. |
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