- Nov 1 102 die in a NYC BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn
- Nov 1 Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians
- Nov 3 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
- Nov 3 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
- Nov 3 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
- Nov 4 The Allied armistice with Austria-Hungary, signed 3 November, goes into effect
- Nov 6 Republic of Poland proclaimed
- Nov 6 Supreme commander of the army General Cutters resigns
- Nov 6 WWI: On the Western Front, Germany is now retreating as French and American troops cross the Meuse and move to take Sedan
Historic Invention
Nov 7 Robert Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets
End of World War I
Nov 7 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed
- Nov 7 Vladimir Mayakovsky's "Misteriya Buff" premieres in Petrograd
The 1918 Flu Pandemic
Nov 7 The 1918 influenza epidemic spreads to Western Samoa, killing 7,542 (about 20% of the population) by the end of the year
Historic Event
Nov 9 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I
- Nov 9 Following the collapse of Germany in World War I, the Weimar Republic of Germany is proclaimed
- Nov 10 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands
Historic Event
Nov 10 Independence of Poland proclaimed by Józef Piłsudski
- Nov 10 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air
- Nov 11 Dutch SDAP leader Troelstra announces revolution
- Nov 11 Emperor Charles I of Austria abdicates
- Nov 11 Poland declares independence
The War's Over, But Don't Get Too Excited
Nov 11 WWI Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect and World War I hostilities end at 11am, "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"
- Nov 12 Emperor Karl of Austria-Hungary abdicates, Austria becomes a republic
- Nov 13 Prince Friedrich, last reigning Prince of Waldeck and Pyrmont, abdicates
- Nov 13 Russia cancels Treaty of Brest-Litovsk
- Nov 13 Stahlhelm forms (anti communist/Polish/French) in Magdenburg
- Nov 16 Hungarian People's Republic declared
- Nov 17 Social Democratic Party becomes Communistc Party Holland: CPH
- Nov 17 German troops evacuate Brussels
- Nov 18 Latvia declares independence from Russia
- Nov 18 Belgian troops re-enter Brussels, lost to the German invaders on 20 August 1914
- Nov 21 2 German ammunition trains explode in Hamont Belgium, 1,750 die
- Nov 21 Polish soldiers organize a pogrom against Jews of Galicia, Poland
- Nov 21 The German High Seas Fleet of 5 battlecruisers, 9 battleships, 7 cruisers and 49 destroyers surrendered to the British Grand Fleet and were shepherded into the Firth of Forth
- Nov 22 Grand Duke Frederik II, the last Grand Duke of Baden, resigns
- Nov 22 King Albert I's triumphant procession through Brussels
- Nov 22 Marshal Józef Piłsudski becomes 1st President (dictator) of Poland
- Nov 22 Polish forces attack Jewish community of Lemberg (Lvov)
- Nov 24 Béla Can forms Hungarian Communist Party
- Nov 26 The Podgorica Assembly votes for "union of the people", declaring assimilation into the Kingdom of Serbia
- Nov 28 Kaiser Wilhelm II of Prussia & Germany abdicates
- Nov 28 Bucovina voted for the union with the Kingdom of Romania
- Nov 29 Serbia annexes Montenegro