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
November 13, 2017
Actor's Day - Nov. 13
Holland tunnel (1st Hudson River vehicular tunnel linking NJ to NYC) is opened for traffic by President coolidge (1927) - Nov. 13
Nevado del Ruiz (volcano in Colombia) erupts melting a glacier that caused several mudflows killing over 23,000 people (1985) - Nov. 13
The Prestige (a single-hulled oil tanker) had one of its 12 tanks burst during a storm off coast of Spain, but was refused landing rights (2002) - 11/13
SS Yarmouth Castle departed Miami for Nassau when a mattress stored too close to a lighting circuit caught fire taking 90 lives (1965) - 11/13
St. Brice's Day Massacre occurred when Ethelred (the Unready) ordered the slaughter of all Danes (including women and children) in England (1002) - 11/13
Start a Rumor Day - Nov. 13
Whoopi Goldberg (American actress and comedienne) is born in New York City (1955) - Nov. 13
World Kindness Day - Nov. 13
November 14, 2017
Apollo XII (sixth manned mission in the Apollo program and second to land on the Moon) is launched (1969) - Nov. 14
Children's Day (India) - Nov. 14
Coventry Cathedral is blitzed during World War II in a raid comprised of 515 German Bombers (1940) - Nov. 14
Princess Anne marries Captain Mark Phillips at Westminster Abbey (1973) - Nov. 14
Southern Airways Flight 932 (a chartered DC-9 commercial jet flight) crashed into a hill just short of the airport (1970) - Nov. 14
World Diabetes Day - Nov. 14
Claude Monet (Frech impressionist painter) is born in Paris (1840) - Nov. 14
Prince Charles of Great Britain is born at Buckingham Palace (1948) - Nov. 14
Guru Nanak's Birthday is celebrated (2016) - Nov. 14
Proxigean Spring Tides Day (day when the moon is closest to the Earth causing tides to spring up with potentially intense flooding along coastal regions) (2016) - 11/14
November 15, 2017
America Recycles Day - Nov. 15
Articles of Confederation are approved by the Continental Congress after 16 months of debate (1777) - Nov. 15
General Tecumseh Sherman burns Atlanta as part of his Special Field Order 120 and as a prelude to his "March to the Sea" (1864) - Nov. 15
I love to write day - Nov. 15
The Clutter Family is found murdered in their home - a murder made famous by Truman capotes "In Cold Blood" (1959) - Nov. 15
Cyclone Sidr (category 5) makes landfall in Bangladesh killing between 3 and 10,000 people (2007) - Nov. 15
Peter Mark Matthew Phillips (son of Princess Anne and Captain Mark Phillips) is born (1977) - Nov. 15
Zebulon Pike first sees the mountain that is later to be named "Pike's Peak" (1806) - Nov. 15
Shichi-Go-San (Japan) is a traditional rite of passage and festival day for young boys and girls held annually - Nov. 15
Nativity Fast (a period of abstinence and penance practiced by Orthodox and catholic churches) runs for 40 days - Nov. 15 thru to Dec. 24
Joe Nuxall (an American left-handed baseball pitcher who played for the Cincinnati Reds) died after a long battle with cancer (2007) - Nov. 15
November 16, 2017
Birth of the Blues Day celebrates the birth of W. C. Handy (blues composer and musician often known as the father of the Blues) in Memphis, TN (1873) - Nov. 16
Clark Gable (American Academy award-winning actor best known for playing Rhett Butler in Gone With the Wind) died (1960) - Nov. 16
National Fast Food Day - Nov. 16
International Day for Tolerance - Nov. 16
Jack Sheppard (notorious English robber, burgler and thief) is executed at Tyburn (1724) - 11/16
William Holden (American Academy Award-winning actor) is found dead in his Santa Monica, CA apartment, having bled to death after falling (1990) - Nov. 16
Clarence House announces the engagement of Prince William to Kate Middleton at with pictures taken at St. James Palace (2010) - Nov. 16
November 17, 2017
Take a Hike Day - 11/17
Elizabeth I succeeds to the throne of England after the death of her half-sister Mary (1558) - Nov. 17
Douglas C. Engelbart (American inventor of Swedish and Norwegian descent) receives a patent for his design of the first computer mouse (1970) - Nov. 17
The Heidi Bowl occurs when NBC terminates an AFL broadcast between the NY Jets and Oakland Raiders with 65 secons left to play to show Heidi (1968) - 11/17
Homemade Bread Day - Nov. 17
Lung Cancer Awareness Day - Nov. 17
Mary I of England dies and is succeeded by Elizabeth I (both daughters of Henry VIII-1558) - Nov. 17
Charlotte of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (Consort to George III) dies while seated in an armchair at Kew Palace with her eldest son present (1818) - 11/17
World Peace Day - 11/17
November 18, 2017
Ballantyne's Department Store fire (department store in New Zealand) kills 41 (mostly employees) in New Zealand's worst fire ever (1947) - 11/18
Buffalo on the Block Day - when American Buffalos are put up for auction - Nov. 18
Calvin and Hobbes (a comic strip written and illustrated by Bill Watterson) first premieres (1985) - 11/18
Chester A. Arthur (US 21st President) dies from a cerebral hemmorage (1886) - Nov. 18
Grand Banks earthquake (a magnitude 7.2 earthquake) snapped 12 submarine cables and led to a tsunami that killed 28 and left 10,000 homeless (1929) - 11/18
Prince Karl of Iceland and Denmark is elected as King Haakon VII of Norway (1905) - 11/18
King's Cross fire (a fatal underground fire in London) kills 31 people (1987) - 11/18
Latvia declares its independence from Russia (1918) - Nov. 18
Old Saint Peter's Basilica is consecrated in Rome (326) - Nov. 18
Steamboat Willie (cartoon short featuring Micky Mouse) is released becoming Mickey Mouse's official birth date (1928) - Nov. 18
William Tell (legendary hero of disputed historical authenticity) shoots an apple off the head of his son (1307) - Nov. 18
Zuiderzee (a shallow inlet of the North Sea) had one of its seawalls break flooding 72 villages in Holland and killing about 10,000 people (1421) - 11/18
November 19, 2017
Apollo 12 lands at Oceanus Procellarum on the moon (1969) - Nov. 19
Bobbi McGaughey gives birth in Des Moines, IA to the first set of septuplets to survive infancy with all seven alive 10 years after (1997) - 11/19
Equal Opportunity Day - Nov. 19
Goldwyn Pictures is formed by Samuel Goldfish with Edgar and Archibald Selwyn after which Goldfish legally changed his name to Goldwyn (1916) - 11/19
National Review (bi-weekly magazine) publishes its first issue (1955) - Nov. 19
Vincent Van Gogh's "Self-Portrait withou beard" sold at auction for $71.5 million in New York City (1998) - Nov. 19
Doo Dah Parade Day - a Farcical parade held in Pasadena, CA since 1976 with the date varying each year (2017) - Nov. 19
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