Baseball Record
Nov 3 Boston Red Sox outfielder Ted Williams wins American League Triple Crown (.356 average, 36 HRs, 137 RBI); but NY Yankees pitcher Joe Gordon is AL MVP
Ted Williams
Historic Communication
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Event of Interest
Nov 8 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall
Adolf Hitler
Event of Interest
Nov 8 Operation Torch; began as US and British forces under Eisenhower land in French North Africa
Dwight D. Eisenhower
- Nov 8 Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US
- Nov 9 German occupiers install Erik Scavenius as Danish premier
- Nov 9 Transport number 44 departs with French Jews to nazi-Germany
- Nov 10 Philip Barry's "Without Love" premieres in NYC
- Nov 10 US troops occupy airport of Port-Lyautey, Morocco
- Nov 10 US-British troops occupies Oran, Algeria
- Nov 11 -12] last German offensive in Stalingrad
- Nov 11 745 French Jews deported to Auschwitz
- Nov 11 During WW II Germany completes the occupation of France
- Nov 11 Jews in Free Zone of France ordered to wear yellow star of David
- Nov 11 Lt-general Kumakashi Harada becomes Japanese commander on Java
- Nov 11 Transport #45 departs with French Jews to Nazi-Germany
- Nov 12 Naval Battle of Guadalcanal begins between Allied and Japanese forces in Solomon Islands (WWII)
- Nov 13 Chaotic "sea battle of Friday the 13th" at Guadalcanal
- Nov 13 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US
- Nov 14 -Nov 15th) Japanese/US sea battle at Savo-Island in Guadalcanal
- Nov 14 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender
- Nov 15 World War II: First flight of the Heinkel He 219.
- Nov 16 Assault of US B-17 Flying Fortresses on airport at Sidi Ahmed
- Nov 18 Thornton Wilders "Skin of our Teeth" premieres in NYC
Event of Interest
Nov 19 Joseph Goebbels visits "German Theatre in the Netherlands"
Joseph Goebbels
- Nov 19 Russia launches winter offensive against Germans along Don front
- Nov 19 Operation Uranus: Soviet offensive begins during Battle of Stalingrad, 1 million Soviet soldiers encircle the German Sixth Army
- Nov 20 26th Soviet Armoured Corps recaptures Perelazovski
- Nov 20 British 8th Army recaptures Benghazi, Libya
- Nov 20 NHL abolishes regular season OT until WW II is over
- Nov 21 Adolf Hitler names field marshal Erich von Manstein commander of the newly-created Army Group Don (Heeresgruppe Don)
- Nov 22 General-major Rodins 26th Pantser corp recaptures Ostrov
Event of Interest
Nov 22 Adolf Hitler orders Rommel's Africa Korps to fight to the last man
Erwin Rommel
Adolf Hitler
Poon Lim's 133 Day South Atlantic Odyssey
Nov 23 Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor
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Film Premier
Nov 26 "Casablanca" directed by Michael Curtiz and starring Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman premieres at Hollywood Theater, NYC (Academy Awards Best Picture 1943)
Ingrid Bergman
Humphrey Bogart
- Nov 26 Anti-fascist Council for National Liberation (AVNOJ) forms
- Nov 27 Bobby Managoff beats Yvon Robert in Houston, to become wrestling champ
- Nov 27 French navy at Toulon scuttles ships & subs so Nazis cannot seize them
- Nov 27 Tito appoints Anti-fascist Liberation board in Yugoslavia
- Nov 28 492 die in a fire that destroyed Cocoanut Grove nightclub in Boston
- Nov 29 US Office of Price Administration rations coffee for everyone, 10 pound a year
- Nov 30 U-boats sink and damage 142 allied ships this month (877,774 tons)
- Nov 30 -Dec 1st: Sea battle at Tassafaronga, Guadalcanal
- Nov 30 30th CFL Grey Cup: Toronto Hurricanes defeats Winnipeg Bombers, 8-5
- Nov 30 Bill Terry resigns as supervisor of NY Giants minor league system
- Nov 30 German supply vessel Uckermark (formerly called the Altmark) explodes & sinks off Yokohama