Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 13, 2000 | Philippine House Speaker Manny Villar passes the articles of impeachment against Philippine President Joseph Estrada. |
| November 18, 2013 | NASA launches the MAVEN probe to Mars. |
| November 16, 1938 | LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. |
| November 15, 2020 | Lewis Hamilton wins the Turkish Grand Prix and secures his seventh drivers' title, equalling the all-time record held by Michael Schumacher. |
| November 17, 1603 | English explorer, writer and courtier Sir Walter Raleigh goes on trial for treason. |
| November 7, 1956 | Hungarian Revolution: János Kádár returns to Budapest in a Soviet armored convoy, officially taking office as the next Hungarian leader. By this point, most armed resistance has been defeated. |
| November 12, 1892 | Pudge Heffelfinger becomes the first professional American football player on record, participating in his first paid game for the Allegheny Athletic Association. |
| November 24, 380 | Theodosius I makes his adventus, or formal entry, into Constantinople. |
| November 18, 1929 | Grand Banks earthquake: Off the south coast of Newfoundland in the Atlantic Ocean, a Richter magnitude 7.2 submarine earthquake, centered on the Grand Banks, breaks 12 submarine transatlantic telegraph cables and triggers a tsunami that destroys many south coast communities in the Burin Peninsula. |
| November 21, 164 | Judas Maccabeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, rededicates the Temple in Jerusalem, an event is commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah. (25 Kislev 3597 in the Hebrew calendar.) |
| November 1, 1555 | French Huguenots establish the France Antarctique colony in present-day Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. |
| November 5, 2007 | China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon. |
| November 18, 1943 | World War II: Battle of Berlin: Four hundred and forty Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew. |
| November 10, 1969 | National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts Sesame Street. |
| November 3, 1492 | Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France. |
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