Events in History in November 1976

Nov 2 Democrat candidate Jimmy Carter is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent Republican President 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 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 Starr releases "Hey Baby" single

Nov 26 Former West German Chancellor Willy Brandt is elected chairman of the Socialist International (1976-92)