- Nov 1 UN trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, NZ & UK
Event of Interest
Nov 2 Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose", a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time
- Nov 20 UN General assembly begins debate on printing their own stamps
- Nov 23 French government of Schumann forms
Historic Publication
Nov 24 John Steinbeck's novella "The Pearl" published
- Nov 25 New Zealand accedes to Statute of Westminster, becomes a dominion
- Nov 29 Anti-Jewish riots in Aleppo erupt after UN votes to partition Palestine, with cost of 75 lives and the disappearance of medieval manuscript the Aleppo Codex
- Nov 29 UN General Assembly vote to allow the partition of Palestine between Arabs & Jews
- Nov 30 Day after UN decree for Israel, Jewish settlements attacked
- Dec 4 USSR joins International Amateur Athletic Union
Event of Interest
Dec 6 The Everglades National Park in Florida is dedicated by President Harry S. Truman
Nobel Prize
Dec 10 American physiologists Joseph Erlanger and Herbert Gasser presented with Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine in Stockholm (awarded 1944), for research into nerve function
Historic Invention
Dec 17 British industrial company BTH receives a patent for holography, invented by Dennis Gabor in their development lab
Historic Invention
Dec 23 Transistor invented by John Bardeen, Walter H. Brattain and William Shockley in Bell Labs
- Dec 25 Constitution of the Republic of China comes into effect
- Dec 25 Taiwan passes Human Rights laws (Day of Earth Law)
- Dec 26 British transfer Heard & McDonald Islands (Indian Ocean) to Australia
- Dec 26 Heavy snow blankets Northeast, buries NYC under 25.8" of snow in 16 hrs That same day, LA set a record high of 84°F
- Dec 29 Ship carrying Jewish immigrants driven away from Palestine
- Dec 30 King Michael of Romania, forced by Communists abdicates his throne, sending him into exlie
- Dec 30 Romanian republic proclaimed