Events in History
- Nov 1 82°F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov
Assassination Attempt
Nov 1 Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo attempt to assassinate US President Harry Truman at Blair House in Washington D.C.; attack thwarted by White House Police, including Officer Leslie Coffelt who was killed in the line of duty [1]
Historic Event
Nov 5 Philippines president Elpidio Quirino ends emergency crisis
- Nov 6 Chinese offensive halts at Chongchon River, North Korea
- Nov 6 King Tribhuvana of Nepal flees to India
- Nov 7 Carlo Terron's "Processo Agli Innocenti" premieres in Milan
- Nov 7 French women & children leaves Hanoi/Tonkin-delta
- Nov 8 A US aircraft shoots down a North Korean jet in the Korean War, the first jet-to-jet dogfight in history
- Nov 9 Boston Brave Sam Jethroe wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 10 Clifford Odet's "Country Girl" premieres in NYC
- Nov 10 Jacobo Árbenz elected President of Guatemala
Nobel Prize
Nov 10 Nobel for literature awarded to William Faulkner
- Nov 13 US win 1st world championship bridge contest
- Nov 13 General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas
- Nov 15 Arthur Dorrington, 1st black man in organized hockey is signed, by Atlantic City Seagulls of Eastern Amateur Hockey League
- Nov 16 Egyptian King Faruk demands departure of all British troops
- Nov 16 UN gets US government approval to issue postage stamps
- Nov 16 US President Harry Truman proclaims emergency crisis caused by communist threat
Historic Event
Nov 18 South Korean President Syngman Rhee forced to end mass executions
Historic Event
Nov 19 US General Eisenhower becomes supreme commander of NATO-Europe
- Nov 22 79 die in a train crash in Richmond Hills, NY
- Nov 24 UN troops begin an assault intending to end Korean War by Christmas
- Nov 24 US infantry division conquers Chonju Korea
- Nov 25 UN gives Eritrea to Ethiopia
- Nov 26 China enters Korean conflict, sends troops across Yalu River
- Nov 27 Trial against RC clergy "imperialistic conspiracy" begins in Prague
- Nov 29 National Council of Church of Christ in US forms
- Nov 30 US President Harry Truman threatens China with atom bomb
Birthdays in History
- Nov 1 Tony Hymphris, political activist
- Nov 3 Joe Queenan, American writer
- Nov 3 Massimo Mongai, Italian writer
- Nov 3 James Rothman, American Biochemist and Nobel Laureate (2013) for work on vesicle trafficking, born in Haverhill, Massachusetts
- Nov 4 Markie Post, American actress (Night Court, 1984-92 - "Christine"; There’s Something About Mary), born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2021)
- Nov 4 Charles Frazier, American novelist (Cold Mountain), born in Asheville, North Carolina
- Nov 7 Alexa Canady, 1st African-American female neurosurgeon and educator, born in Lansing, Michigan
- Nov 7 Augusto Gen'un Alcalde, 1st South American Zen teacher, born in Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Nov 11 Mircea Dinescu, Romanian poet, born in Slobozia, Romania
- Nov 16 Carl J. Meade, Major USAF and NASA astronaut (STS 38, STS 50, 64), born in Chanute Air Force Base, Illinois
- Nov 23 Charles "Chuck" Schumer, American politician (Rep-D-NY, 1981-1999, Sen-D-NY, 1999 -), born in NYC, New York
Weddings in History
Jack Kerouac
Nov 17 Writer Jack Kerouac (28) weds Joan Haverty
Deaths in History
George Bernard Shaw
Nov 2 George Bernard Shaw, Irish dramatist (Pygmalion, Nobel Prize for Literature 1925), dies at 94
- Nov 16 "Dr. Bob" Smith, American physician and co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, dies of colon cancer at 71
- Nov 18 Gerardus van de Lion, Dutch minister of Education, dies at 60
- Nov 25 Johannes V. Jensen, Danish novelist and poet (The Fall of the King; Nobel Prize for Literature, 1944), dies at 77
- Nov 25 Gustaf John Ramstedt, Finland-Swedish linguist and diplomat, dies at 77
- Nov 26 Hedwig Courts-Mahler, German author, dies at 83
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