Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 8, 1994 | Republican Revolution: On the night of the 1994 United States midterm elections, Republicans make historic electoral gains by securing massive majorities in both houses of Congress (54 seats in the House and eight seats in the Senate, additionally), thus bringing to a close four decades of Democratic domination. |
| November 3, 1986 | Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon. |
| November 30, 978 | Franco-German war of 978–980: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II lifts the siege of Paris and withdraws. |
| November 9, 1967 | Apollo program: NASA launches the unmanned Apollo 4 test spacecraft, atop the first Saturn V rocket, from Florida's Cape Kennedy. |
| November 29, 1777 | San Jose, California, is founded as Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe by José Joaquín Moraga. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California. |
| November 28, 1991 | South Ossetia declares independence from Georgia. |
| November 1, 2001 | Turkey, Australia, and Canada agree to commit troops to the invasion of Afghanistan. |
| November 22, 2015 | A landslide in Hpakant, Kachin State, northern Myanmar kills at least 116 people near a jade mine, with around 100 more missing. |
| November 1, 1950 | Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House. |
| November 26, 1950 | Korean War: People's Volunteer Army troops from the People's Republic of China launch a massive counterattack in North Korea against South Korean and United Nations forces (Battle of the Ch'ongch'on River and Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict. |
| November 8, 1966 | U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signs into law an antitrust exemption allowing the National Football League to merge with the upstart American Football League. |
| November 25, 1759 | An earthquake hits the Mediterranean destroying Beirut and Damascus and killing 30,000–40,000. |
| November 22, 1718 | Royal Navy Lieutenant Robert Maynard attacks and boards the vessels of the British pirate Edward Teach (best known as "Blackbeard") off the coast of North Carolina. The casualties on both sides include Maynard's first officer Mister Hyde and Teach himself. |
| November 10, 1865 | Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming one of only three American Civil War soldiers executed for war crimes. |
| November 8, 1965 | The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. |
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