- Nov 1 Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia
Attack on Pearl Harbor
Nov 1 Japanese naval staff offiicers Suzuki & Maejima arrive at Pearl Harbor
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Event of Interest
Nov 1 Ansel Adams shoots 'Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico', one of his most famous photographs
Ansel Adams
- Nov 3 Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
- Nov 5 Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki and Maejima leave Pearl Harbor
- Nov 6 Einsatz Gruppe kills 15,000 Jews of Rovno Ukraine
- Nov 6 Japanese fleet readies assault on Pearl Harbor
- Nov 6 USA lends Soviet Union $1 million
- Nov 7 British air attacks on Berlin, Mannheim & Ruhrgebied
- Nov 8 The Albanian Communist Party is founded.
Adolf Hitler
- Nov 11 Czech premier General Eliasj arrested by Nazis
- Nov 12 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted
- Nov 12 WOV-AM & WNEW-AM in NYC swaps call letters
- Nov 12 Alma Heflin, the first American female test pilot for commercial aircraft, made her first test flight for the Piper Aircraft Corporation, Lock Haven, Pennsylvania
- Nov 13 German Abweht consults with Chetnikleider Draza Mihailovic
- Nov 14 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before
- Nov 14 Governr-General Wouters of Dutch Antilles refuses Jews refuge
- Nov 15 Cow Palace opens in San Francisco
- Nov 15 Yugoslav government in exile names Draza Mihailovic premier
- Nov 16 German troops conquer Kertsh (probably)
- Nov 17 Virgil Thomson's 2nd Symphony, premieres
- Nov 18 British troops open attack on Tobruk, North Africa
- Nov 18 Jerome Chodorov/Joseph Fields' "Junior Miss" premieres in NYC
Benito Mussolini
- Nov 20 Adm Nomura & Kurusu hands over Japanese last diplomatic note
- Nov 20 German "auxiliary cruiser" (armed merchant raider) Kormoran sinks near Australia
- Nov 21 German troops occupy Rostov-on-Don, Southern Russia
- Nov 22 British cruiser Devonshire sinks German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis
- Nov 22 NZ troops conquer Ft Capuzzo Libya
- Nov 23 German troops conquer Klin, at NW of Moscow
- Nov 24 "Life Certificates" issued to some Jews of Vilna, the rest are exterminated
- Nov 24 Indian infantry attacks German tanks at Sidi Omar
- Nov 24 US troops land on Suriname to protect bauxite mine
- Nov 25 German Jews in Netherlands declared stateless (lose of nationality)
- Nov 25 Lou Boudreau, 24, becomes Cleveland Indians player manager
- Nov 25 Finland joined the Anti-Komintern Pact.
Event of Interest
Nov 26 Amateur tennis champ Bobby Riggs turns pro
Bobby Riggs
- Nov 26 General Alan Cunningham relieved of command of British 8th Army in North Africa
- Nov 26 British troops conquer Belhamed, Sidi Rezegh & El Duda
- Nov 26 Japanese naval carrier force left its base & moves east toward Pearl Harbor
- Nov 26 Lebanon independence first proclaimed by France
- Nov 27 British 13th Army Corps reaches Tobruk
Event of Interest
Nov 27 Joe DiMaggio is named AL MVP
Joe DiMaggio
- Nov 27 USSR begins a counter offensive, causes Germany to retreat
- Nov 28 German troops vacate Rostov
- Nov 29 29th CFL Grey Cup: Winn Blue Bombers defeat Ottawa Rough Riders, 18-16
- Nov 29 Passenger ship Lurline sends radio signal of sighting Japanese war fleet
- Nov 30 101 year old Nyack-Tarrytown (NY) ferry makes its last run
