Event of Interest
Nov 2 MLB All-Star team led by Connie Mack and including Babe Ruth, Jimmie Foxx and Lou Gehrig starts 18-game tour against Japanese Big-Six University League
Baseball Record
Nov 3 NY Yankees 1st baseman Lou Gehrig wins American League Triple Crown after hitting .363 with 49 HRs and 165 RBI; but Philadelphia A's catcher Mickey Cochrane (.320, 2 HRs, 76 RBI) is named AL MVP
Lou Gehrig
- Nov 4 After posting 7 straight shutouts to start the NFL season, Detroit Lions beat Pittsburgh, 40-7 at University of Detroit Stadium; scored upon for the first time of the season; rush for NFL single game record 426 yards
- Nov 6 NFL Philadelphia Eagles beat Cincinnati Reds 64-0
- Nov 7 Arthur L. Mitchell, becomes first African American Democratic US congressman (Illinois)
- Nov 8 Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president
- Nov 11 1st penalty shot vs Toronto Maple Leafs, Mondou (Mont) unsuccessful
- Nov 11 WOC-AM in Davenport Iowa splits from WHO-WOC & becomes KICK-AM
- Nov 15 Nobel for chemistry awarded to Harold C Urey (deuterium)
- Nov 20 Eiji Sawamura, 17, gives up 1 hit, Lou Gehrig's HR, US beats Japan 1-0
- Nov 20 Lillian Hellman's "Children's Hour" premieres in NYC
- Nov 20 New Belgian government of Theunis, Francqui & Gutt (3 bankers)
- Nov 20 Toronto Maple Leaf Harvey Jackson is 1st to score 4 goals in a period
- Nov 21 "Uiver" returns from Schiphol in London-Melbourne air race
Event of Interest
Nov 21 NY Yankees buy Joe DiMaggio from SF Seals (Pacific Coast League)
Joe DiMaggio
- Nov 22 "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town" 1st heard on Eddie Cantor's show
- Nov 23 An Anglo-Ethiopian boundary commission in the Ogaden discovers an Italian garrison at Walwal, which lay well within Ethiopian territory. This leads to the Abyssinia Crisis.
- Nov 24 CFL Grey Cup: Sarnia Imperials win their first Championship with a 20-12 win over Regina Roughriders
- Nov 24 SN Behrman's "Rain from Heaven" premieres in NYC
- Nov 26 German theologist Karl Barth surrenders to Nazis
- Nov 26 Turkish regiment decrees importing family names
- Nov 27 Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.
Event of Interest
Nov 28 Winston Churchill tells British Prime Minister Stanley Baldwin not to under estimate German air power
Winston Churchill
Stanley Baldwin
- Nov 29 Chicago Bears beat Detroit (19-16) in 1st NFL game broadcast nationally