Election of Interest
Nov 2 Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President Gerald Ford
Jimmy Carter
Gerald Ford
- Nov 5 Balt Jim Palmer wins AL Cy Young Award
- Nov 5 New AL franchises in Seattle & Toronto fill up their rosters
- Nov 5 Pirates trade Manny Sanguillen & $100,000 to A's for mgr Chuck Tanner
- Nov 5 USSR performs nuclear test
- Nov 6 Benjamin Hooks, succeeds Roy Wilkins as executive director of NAACP
- Nov 7 "Gone With the Wind" televised
- Nov 8 A series of earthquakes spreads panic in the Greek city of Thessaloniki, which is evacuated
- Nov 9 Oakland releases Billy Williams, ending his Hall of Fame career
- Nov 9 UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa
- Nov 10 Utah Supreme Court approves execution of convicted murderer Gary Gilmore
- Nov 14 War criminal Pieter Menten captured 1 day after fleeing
- Nov 15 Syrian army conquers Beirut
- Nov 16 René Levesque's Parti Québécois wins elections in Quebec
- Nov 17 China performs nuclear test at Lop Nor, PRC
- Nov 18 Spain's parliament establishes democracy after 37 yrs of dictatorship
- Nov 18 Yanks sign free agent Don Gullett
- Nov 19 Patty Hearst is freed on $15 million bail
- Nov 19 Jaime Ornelas Camacho takes office as the first President of the Regional Government of Madeira, Portugal.
- Nov 22 Algeria Constitution goes into effect
- Nov 22 Comic strip "Cathy" by Cathy Guisewite debuts
- Nov 23 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 23 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 23 Apneist Jacques Mayol is the first man to reach a depth of 100m undersea without breathing equipment.
- Nov 24 Reds Joe Morgan wins his 2nd straight NL MVP Award
- Nov 25 The Band's farewell concert at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom
- Nov 25 Viking 1 radio signals from Mars help prove the general theory of relativity
- Nov 25 NYPD officer Robert Torsney shoots unarmed youth Randolph Evans while answering response at youth's Brooklyn home
- Nov 26 Ringo releases "Hey Baby" single
Election of Interest
Nov 26 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is elected chairman of the Socialist International (1976-92)
Willy Brandt