- Nov 1 First animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed
- Nov 1 First jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry
- Nov 3 Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC
- Nov 4 First air conditioned automobile (Packard) exhibited, Chicago, Illinois
- Nov 4 US allows "cash & carry" arms sales during WW II
- Nov 6 WGY-TV (Schenectady, NY), 1st commercial TV station, begins service
- Nov 6 WRGB TV channel 6 in Schenectady-Alby-Troy, NY (CBS) 1st broadcast
- Nov 6 World War II: 'Sonderaktion Krakau' - a Nazi operation against academics, with 184 professors arrested in Krakow and deported
Assassination Attempt
Nov 8 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich
- Nov 8 H Lindsay & R Crouse's play "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
Film Premiere
Nov 9 Romantic comedy film "Ninotchka" directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Greta Garbo premieres
Music History
Nov 11 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"
Music History
Nov 17 Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May" premieres in NYC
- Nov 17 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection created
- Nov 18 Dutch KNSM passenger ship Simón Bolívar hits German mine, 86 die
- Nov 18 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus
- Nov 19 Don Lash wins 6th straight AAU cross-country 10K championship
- Nov 19 Comic superheroes Flash (as Jay Garrick) and Hawkman (Carter Hall) first appear in "Flash Comics No. 1" published by DC
Historic Siege
Nov 22 Bugsy Siegel, Whitey Krakower, Frankie Carbo and Albert Tannenbaum kill Harry "Big Greenie" Greenberg outside his apartment after Greenberg had threatened to become a police informant
Historic Event
Nov 23 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jewish Poles above the age of 11 years to wear a blue Star of David
- Nov 26 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
Theater Premiere
Nov 27 Maxwell Anderson's play "Key Largo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 28 Hans Frank, Nazi Governor-General of Poland, organizes Judenrat
- Nov 28 Soviet government revokes Russian-Finnish non-aggression treaty
- Nov 29 Cor Klint swims world record 200 m backstroke (2:38.8)
- Nov 29 USSR drops diplomatic relations with Finland
- Nov 30 Paul Osborn's "Mornings at 7" premieres in NYC
- Nov 30 USSR invades Finland, bombs Helsinki
Appointment of Interest
Nov 30 Carl Gustaf Emil Mannerheim appointed Commander-in-Chief of all Finnish armed services as Soviet forces invade