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3rd November 1976

Democrat Jimmy Carter won the US presidential election

4th November 1970

Genie a feral child is taken to Children’s Hospital Los Angeles after her mother enters a welfare office in Temple City, California, to seek benefits for the blind.

5th November 1967

A Commuter express train careered off the tracks at Hither Green coming into London.

6th November 1956

Suez Crisis was the abortive military invasion of Egypt by British and French troops

7th November 1954

Armistice Day renamed Veteran’s Day

8th November 1960

John F. Kennedy Elected

Charles and Diana9th November 1985

Charles and Diana make their first official visit to the United States Of America, and visit the White House for a Gala party  

10th November 1938

Kate Smith sings a rendition of Irvin Berlin’s ‘God Bless America’ during a special Armistice Day

11th November 1921

President Warren G. Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier a white marble sarcophagus in Arlington National Cemetery  

12th November 1970

The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting eight-ton sperm whale near Florence, Oregon

13th November 1940

Walt Disney releases “Fantasia” an experiment in animation and classical music

14th November 1940

Coventry Bombing  in which German bombers devastate the British industrial city of Coventry

15th November 1934

Sir Oswald Mosley and Black-Shirt fascist followers were put on Trial.

16th November 1945

German V2 Rocket Scientists Come To US  

17th November 1973

Marks the thirty-fifth anniversary of President Richard Nixon’s his famous “I am not a crook” line at the height of the Watergate scandal

18th November 1987

A fire in a King’s Cross underground station kills 30 commuters and injures dozens of others.

19th November 1967

Beatles Release “Magical Mystery Tour”
 
Windsor Castle20th November 1992

Fire damages a major part of Windsor Castle Fire  

21st November 1980

Fire At MGM Grand Hotel

22nd November 1935

The China Clipper took off from San Francisco, California on its way to Manila.

23rd November 2001

Convention on Cybercrime which aimed at the protection of society against cybercrime.
 
24th November 1963

Lee Harvey Oswald was shot dead

25th November 1984

Band Aid recorded single “Do They Know It’s Christmas”
 
26th November 1922

The British Lord Carnarvon and the archaeologist Howard Carter enter King Tut’s Tomb  King Jut's Tomb

27th November,1910

Penn Station opens in New York.

28th November,1960

Rioting broke out in several areas of the capital city of Caracas, Venezuela.

29th November 1922Penn Station New York

Federal authorities have been called upon to help state authorities enforce prohibition laws

30th November 1936

Crystal Palace which had been built for the Great Exhibition was  destroyed by fire.