- 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

Adolf Hitler
- Nov 8 H Lindsay & R Crouse' "Life with Father" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Nov 9 "Ninotchka" with Greta Garbo premieres

Greta Garbo
Event of Interest
Nov 11 Kate Smith first sings Irving Berlin's "God Bless America"

Irving Berlin

Franklin D. Roosevelt
Event of Interest
Nov 17 Jerome Kern/Hammerstein II's "Very Warm for May" premieres in NYC

Jerome Kern
- Nov 17 The Rome-Rio de Janeiro air connection is 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
Event of Interest
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

Bugsy Siegel
Event of Interest
Nov 23 Nazi Governor of Poland Hans Frank requires Jewish Poles above the age of 11 years to wear a blue Star of David

Hans Frank
- Nov 26 4 soviet soldiers killed on Finnish-Russian border
Theater Premiere
Nov 27 Maxwell Anderson's play "Key Largo" premieres in NYC

Maxwell Anderson
- 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