Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 29, 1549 | The papal conclave of 1549–50 begins. |
| November 2, 1984 | Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962. |
| November 11, 1724 | Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London. |
| 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 7, 1933 | Fiorello H. La Guardia is elected the 99th mayor of New York City. |
| November 16, 2022 | Artemis Program: NASA launches Artemis 1 on the first flight of the Space Launch System, the start of the program's future missions to the moon. |
| November 10, 2009 | Ships of the South and North Korean navies skirmish off Daecheong Island in the Yellow Sea. |
| November 17, 1953 | The remaining human inhabitants of the Blasket Islands, Kerry, Ireland, are evacuated to the mainland. |
| November 26, 1941 | World War II: The Hull note is given to the Japanese ambassador, demanding that Japan withdraw from China and French Indochina, in return for which the United States would lift economic sanctions. On the same day, Japan's 1st Air Fleet departs Hitokappu Bay for Hawaii. |
| November 14, 2016 | A magnitude 7.8 earthquake strikes Kaikoura, New Zealand, at a depth of 15 km (9 miles), resulting in the deaths of two people. |
| November 7, 335 | Athanasius is banished to Trier, on the charge that he prevented a grain fleet from sailing to Constantinople. |
| November 2, 1917 | The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting. |
| November 10, 1702 | English colonists under the command of James Moore besiege Spanish St. Augustine during Queen Anne's War. |
| November 24, 1877 | Anna Sewell's animal welfare novel Black Beauty is published. |
| November 15, 1939 | In Washington, D.C., U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt lays the cornerstone of the Jefferson Memorial. |
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