Events in History
- Nov 2 60 people were killed and 110 injured by a suicide bombing in Lahore, Pakistan
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Nov 3 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists
Ban Ki-moon
9/11 Attack on New York's World Trade Towers
Nov 3 New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
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- Nov 4 The US votes in mid-term elections: Republicans retain the house & regain the Senate
- Nov 4 Ukraine President Petro Poroshenko orders army reinforcements to key southern and eastern cities to combat potential rebel offensive
- Nov 4 The body of the last missing victim is found on board the wrecked Costa Concordia, during its dismantling in Genoa
- Nov 4 Tim Scott becomes the first African-American Senator in the south since the Reconstruction
- Nov 4 Protectionist wins the 2014 Melbourne Cup
- Nov 8 Protests across New Zealand against the secretive Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations
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Nov 8 Mikhail Gorbachev warns that tensions between America and Russia over Ukraine have put the world on the brink of a new Cold War
Mikhail Gorbachev
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Nov 8 US President Obama authorises deployment of 1,500 additional troops to help train and advise Iraqi and Kurdish forces fighting Islamic State militants
Barack Obama
- Nov 9 United States lead air strikes in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul against Islamic State (IS)
- Nov 9 Celebrations held in Germany to mark the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall; white balloons marking a stretch of the wall symbolize its disappearance
- Nov 9 Top African business leaders establish an emergency fund to help countries hit by the Ebola outbreak
- Nov 9 Asia-Pacific countries, including China and the United States, announce plans to co-operate more closely in the fight against corruption
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Nov 10 Ethel Kennedy is awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom
Ethel Kennedy
- Nov 11 The captain of the South Korean ferry which sank in April is found guilty of gross negligence and sentenced to 36 years in prison
- Nov 11 An Italian appeals court overturns a manslaughter conviction against 6 scientists for failing to give adequate warning of a deadly earthquake
- Nov 11 The leaders of China and Japan meet for formal talks after more than two years of severe tension over a territorial dispute
- Nov 11 The people of Catalonia in north-eastern Spain vote in a disputed and non-binding poll on independence
- Nov 11 58 people are killed in a bus crash in the Sukkur District, Pakistan
- Nov 12 European Space Agency's Rosetta lands the Philae probe on the comet 67P/Churyumov-Gerasimenko
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Nov 15 Vladimir Putin's press secretary says media reports that the Russian president plans to leave the G20 Summit in Brisbane early are nonsense
Vladimir Putin
- Nov 15 World leaders gather in Brisbane for G20 Summit, which will focus on economic growth
- Nov 15 The parents of 43 Mexican students who disappeared start a nationwide bus tour in protest at the government's handling of the case
- Nov 15 A 7.3 magnitude earthquake strikes under the Molucca Sea in eastern Indonesia, triggering a tsunami warning
- Nov 16 Klaus Iohannis wins the Romanian Presidential election
- Nov 17 The Church of England adopts legislation enabling the appointment of female bishops
- Nov 18 Jamaica win the 2014 Caribbean Cup in football
- Nov 20 Nearly 5 million illegal migrants in the US have the threat of deportation deferred, after President Barack Obama announces sweeping immigration changes
- Nov 22 Tamir Rice, a 12-year-old boy, is shot dead by police in Cleveland, after brandishing what turned out to be a fake gun in a playground
- Nov 23 An adviser to the Kenyan president says the slaughter of 28 people on a bus by the Somali militant Islamist group al-Shabab is intended to create a religious war in the country
- Nov 23 A magnitude 6.7 earthquake strikes central Japan
- Nov 23 Republicans condemn US President Obama's use of executive powers to force through immigration reform
- Nov 23 Mass protests in Mexico by relatives of 43 missing Mexican students, who the authorities say were murdered by a drugs gang
- Nov 25 US Defence Secretary Chuck Hagel resigns, ending nearly two years in the Pentagon's top job
- Nov 25 Switzerland's Bern Art Museum agrees to accept artworks looted from their Jewish owners by the Nazis
- Nov 25 Protest erupt across US after a decision by Missouri grand jury not to bring charges against a white policeman who shot dead a black teenager
- Nov 25 Missouri Governor Jay Nixon orders hundreds more US National Guard troops to the town of Ferguson to prevent a second night of rioting and looting
- Nov 30 Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded
- Nov 30 Tabaré Vázquez is re-elected President of Uruguay
Weddings in History
- Nov 1 Counting star Jessa Duggar weds Ben Seewald at the First Baptist Church in Bentonville, Ark
Deaths in History
- Nov 12 Marge Roukema, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from New Jersey), dies at 85
- Nov 14 Jane Byrne, American politician and 50th Mayor of Chicago, dies at 81
- Nov 26 Frankie Fraser, English gangster who spent 42 years in jail, dies of complications related to surgery at 90
- Nov 27 P. D. James [Phyllis Dorothy], Baroness James of Holland Park, English crime and mystery writer (Cover Her Face, Death in Holy Orders), dies at 94
- Nov 29 Mark Strand, American poet, editor and translator (Another Republic), dies at 80
- Nov 30 Fred Catherwood, British politician, Vice President of the European Parliament (1989-1992), dies at 89
- Nov 30 Go Seigen [Wu Qingyuan], Chinese-born Japanese Go master considered the greatest Go player in the 20th century, dies of natural causes at 100