Events in History
- Nov 1 Netherlands decides definitive sites for cruise missiles
- Nov 3 President AlfonsÃn's Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
- Nov 6 22nd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-A): Challenger 9 lands at Edwards AFB
- Nov 6 M-19 guerrillas occupy Palace of Justice Bogota Colombia
- Nov 6 Space shuttle Challenger lands at Edwards Air Force Base, California
- Nov 6 Exploratory well in Ranger, Texas, blows out, spilling 150,000 bbl (24,000 m3) of crude oil
- Nov 7 Colombian troops end 27-hr siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice
- Nov 8 Atlantis moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 61-B mission
- Nov 9 Surprise attack on Belgium supermarket in Aalst, 8 killed
- Nov 11 Challenger flies back to Kennedy Space Center via Davis-Monthan Air Force Base
- Nov 11 Yonkers is found guilty of segregating schools & housing
- Nov 12 STS 61-B vehicle moves to launch pad
- Nov 12 Secretary in Ann Arbor Mich wounded by package bomb
- Nov 13 Nevado del Ruiz volcano erupts in Colombia, killing 25,000 in the town of Armero
- Nov 14 Volcano Nevado del Ruiz Colombia erupts, 1000s killed
- Nov 15 A research assistant is injured when a package from the Unabomber addressed to a University of Michigan professor explodes
Summit of Interest
Nov 16 President Reagan arrives in Geneva for a summit with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev
- Nov 17 Howard Stern begins broadcasting on 92.3 WXRK FM New York, N.Y.
- Nov 18 Enterprise (OV-101) flies from Kennedy Space Center to Dulles Airport
- Nov 18 Howard Stern radio show returns to NYC (WXRK 92.3 FM-afternoons)
- Nov 19 Herb Gardner's "I'm Not Rappaport" premieres in NYC
- Nov 19 US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev meet for the first time
- Nov 19 In the largest civil verdict in US history, Pennzoil wins $10.53 billion judgement against Texaco
- Nov 20 Microsoft Windows 1.0 is released
- Nov 22 Columbia moves to Vehicle Assembly Building at Kennedy Space Center (Florida) for mating of STS 61-C
- Nov 22 Largest swearing-in ceremony, 38,648 immigrants become US citizens
- Nov 22 PNP/MAN win Antilian parliamentary election
- Nov 23 58 die as Egyptian commandos storm hijacked Egyptair jet in Malta
- Nov 23 Retired CIA analyst Larry Wu-tai Chin, arrested of spying for China
- Nov 24 Egyptian commandos storm captured Boeing in Malta, 60 killed
- Nov 26 23rd NASA Space Shuttle Mission (61-B): Atlantis 2 launches
- Nov 26 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Historic Event
Nov 26 Random House buys Richard Nixons memoires for $3,000,000
Birthdays in History
- Nov 16 Sanna Marin, Finnish politician, youngest-ever Prime Minister of Finland (2019-), born in Helsinki, Finland
- Nov 18 Christian Siriano, American fashion designer and Project Runway winner (season 4), born in Annapolis, Maryland
- Nov 24 Tony Hunt, National Football League player
- Nov 29 Taguchi Junnosuke, Japanese idol (KAT-TUN), born in Sagamihara, Kanagawa Prefecture, Japan
Weddings in History
Ken Follett
Nov 8 Author Ken Follett (36) weds politician Barbara Hubbard (42)
Deaths in History
- Nov 5 Arnold Chikobava, Georgian linguist (b. 1898)
- Nov 9 Helen Rose, costume designer, dies at 81
- Nov 13 George Robert Vincent, American sound recording pioneer (b. 1898)
- Nov 15 Spencer W. Kimball, American 12th President of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (1973-1985), dies at 90
- Nov 16 John Sparkman, American politician (Sen-D-Alabama 1946-79, Rep-D-Alabama 1937-46), dies at 85
- Nov 16 Stuart Chase, American writer and economist (The Tragedy of Waste), dies at 97
- Nov 24 Cees Buddingh', Dutch poet/writer/interpreter/translator, dies at 67
- Nov 25 Franz Hildebrandt, German Theologian(b. 1909)
- Nov 25 Elsa Morante, Italian writer, dies at 73
- Nov 28 Fernand Braudel, French historian (Civilization & Capitalism), dies at 83
- Nov 29 Rik Jacobs, Flemish stage manager, dies at 71
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