Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a third term (1940) - Nov. 5
Guy Fawkes Day celebrates a gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of English Parliament that was uncovered and foiled (1605) - Nov. 5
Hither Green Rail Crash (accident on the British railway system) occurred during the evening crush killing 49 (1967) - Nov. 5
Ludwig III of Bavaria (Prince Regent) deposed his insane cousin King Otto, who was determined incapable of ruling, and became King himself (1913) - Nov. 5
Nat Turner (American Slave Leader) is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virgina (1831) - Nov. 5
Daylight Savings Ends - Turn clocks back first Sunday in November (2017) - 11/5
November 6, 2017
Autumn Halfway Point - Nov. 6
Catherine II of Russia died after suffering a stroke the day before (1796) - Nov. 6
Evansville Tornado was an F3 tornado that lasted just over 10 hours and killed 25 people (2005) - Nov. 6
Charles X of France and Navarre dies in Gorizia Italy from cholera (1836) - Nov. 6
I Love Nachos Day - Nov. 6
Meet the Press premieres on NBC making it the longest-running television show in worldwide broadcasting history (1947) - Nov. 6
Sally Field (American multi-Academy, Emmy and Golden Globe Award-winning actress) is born in Pasadena, CA (1946) - Nov. 6
Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky died in St. Petersburg reportedly from cholera (1893) - Nov. 6
Ufton Nervet rail crash occurred in the Berkshire England village of Ufton Nervet involved a car stopped at a train crossing - 7 died (2004) - Nov. 6
November 7, 2017
Spanish Flu pandemic spread to Western Samoa killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year (1918) - Nov. 7
Democratic Donkey Day - 11/7
Eleanor Roosevelt (First Lady of the USA) dies in her Manhattan apartment at age 78 (1962) - Nov. 7
Hug a Bear Sunday - Nov. 7
Hillary Rodham Clinton is elected to the US Senate becoming the first former First Lady to win public office in the USA (2000) - Nov. 7
Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to the United States House of Representatitives (1917) - Nov. 7
Jesus Garcia Carcona (Mexican Railroad Engineer) died by driving a burning train full of dynamite six kilometers away before it exploded (1907) - Nov. 7
Canadian Pacific Railway has its last spike driven in at Craigellachie, BC (1885) - 11/7
London Gazette (an official journal of record for the British government, and the oldest surviving journal) is first published (1665) - 11/7
MoMA (Museum of Modern Art in New York City) opens (1929) - Nov. 7
Republican elephant first appears as a cartoon by Thomas Nast in Harper's Weekly (1876) - Nov. 7
First Tacoma Narrows Bridge (nicknamed Galloping Gertie that spanned the Tacoma Narrows strait) collapses a mere 4 months after completion (1940) - Nov. 7
USA Election Day - 1st Tuesday after the first Monday in November (2016) - 11/8
November 8, 2017
Bodelian Library in Oxford England opens to the public (1602) - 11/8
Harvey Wallbanger Day - Nov. 8
Lady Louise Windsor (daughter of Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex and Sophie, Countess of Wessex granddaughter of Queen Elizabeth II) is born (2003) - Nov. 8
I Hate to Cook Day - Nov. 8
Madame Roland (supporter of the French Revolution and a Girondist) is guillotined (1793) - Nov. 8
Montana is admitted into the union as the 41st state (1889) - 11/8
Parents as Teachers Day - Nov. 8
World Town Planning Day - Nov. 8
Wilhelm Rontgen discovers the X-ray while experimenting with electricity (1895) - Nov. 8
November 9, 2017
Charles de Gaulle (former President of France) died suddenly two weeks before his 80th birthday (1970) - Nov. 9
The Cullinan Diamond is presented to King Edward VII on his birthday (1907) - 11/9
Dylan Thomas (Welsh Poet and playwright) died from an overdose of morphine (1953) - 11/9
Great Boston Fire begins in the basement of a commercial warehouse taking the lives of at least twenty people (1872) - Nov. 9
Edward VII of England (eldest son of Queen Victoria and Prince Albert) is born at Buckingham Palace (1841) - Nov. 9
Mary Jane Kelly (the last known murder victim of Jack the Rippper) is killed (1888) - Nov. 9
Neon Sign Day - Nov. 9
World Freedom Day was created to celebrate the fall of the Berlin Wall (2001) - Nov. 9
Rolling Stone magazine is first published with John Lennon and the "How I Won the War" movie he starred in on the cover (1967) - 11/9
November 10, 2017
Forget Me Not Day - Nov. 10
Headache Day - Nov. 10
Henry Wirz (superintendent of the Andersonville prison camp) is hanged as the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes (1865) - Nov. 10
Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by being sent through the U.S. Mail in a plain brown paper bag (1958) - Nov. 10
Jack Palance died of natural causes at his home in California (2006) - Nov. 10
Norman Mailer died of acute renal failure a month after undergoing lung surgery (2007) - Nov. 10
Sesame Street has its premiere episode on NET (1969) - Nov. 10
Stockholm Bloodbath involved a series of events culminating on the 10th with 80-90 people executed under the command of Christian II (1520) - Nov. 10
United States Marine Corps is founded (1775) - Nov. 10
Toothpaste Day - 11/10
USS Mount Hood (an ammunition ship) exploded at Seeadler Harbour (1944) - 11/10
Vanilla Cupcake Day - 11/10
November 11, 2017
An unexpected blizzard on Armistice Day kills 144 people in the US midwest (1940) - 11/11
Canadian Remembrance Day (aka Poppy Day and Armistice Day) commemorates the sacrifices made during World war I (1918) - 11/11
Gemini XII is launched (1966) - Nov. 11
Independence Day (Poland from Astro-Hungary, Prussia and Russia) celebrated since (1918) - Nov. 11
Kaprun, Austria disaster involved a fire in an ascending railway car filled with skiers headed to Kitzsteinhorn Glacier, 155 killed (2000) - Nov. 11
Mayflower compact (first governing document of Plymouth Colony) is signed aboard the Mayflower by 41 of the ships passengers (1620) - Nov. 11
Ones Day - 11-11
Poppy Day (UK Remembrance Day) where two minutes of silence are observed for Armistice Day with the main observance held on Sunday (1918) - Nov. 11
Route 66 is established as a US Highway (1926) - Nov. 11
Sundae Day - Nov. 11
Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is dedicated by President Warren G. Harding (1921) - 11/11
Veteran's Day (US - originally Armistice Day) commemorates the symbolic end of World War I with the armistice signing at Compiegne France (1918) - Nov. 11
The state of Washington joins the union as the 42nd state (1886) - Nov. 11
Yasser Arafat died, the exact cause of his illness is unknown (2004) - Nov. 11
Young Readers' Day - Nov. 11
Lord Mayor of London's Show occurs the 2nd Saturday in November (2017) - 11/11
November 12, 2017
American Airlines Flight 587 crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK International Airport (2001) - Nov. 12
Birth of Bahaullah (Founder of the Bahai faith) is born (1817) - Nov. 12
Ellis Island (main entry for immigrants into the USA) closes (1954) - Nov. 12
Eve Arden (Academy Award-nominated and Emmy winning American actress) died of advanced colorectal cancer at age 82 (1990) - Nov. 12
Grace Kelly (Academy Award-winning American actress and former Princess of Monaco) is born in Philadelphia, PA (1929) - Nov. 12
Ira Levin (American novelist, playwright and songwriter best known for Rosemary's Baby and The Stepford Wives) died from a heart attack (2007) - Nov. 12
James Young Simpson (a British physician) becomes the first to use chloroform as an anaesthetic (1847) - Nov. 12
Jean Sylvain Bailly (first mayor of Paris after the storming of the Bastille) is guillotined (1793) - Nov. 12
Voyager 1 space probe reaches Saturn and sends back the first vivid photos of the planet (1980) - Nov. 12
American Airlines Flight 587 crashed shortly after takeoff from JFK International Airport (2001) - Nov. 12
England's one pound note is replaced by a coin after more than 150 years of usage (1984) - Nov. 12
Remembrance Sunday (UK's official observance of Armistice Day) is observed the 2nd Sunday of November since 1918 (2017) - 11/12
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