- Nov 2 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
- Nov 3 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
Historic Invention
Nov 3 Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser, ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser
Gordon Gould
- Nov 4 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
- Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
- Nov 5 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
- Nov 5 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
- Nov 5 US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, later withdraws from consideration
- Nov 7 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires president Habib Bourguiba
- Nov 8 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
Event of Interest
Nov 11 Judge Anthony Kennedy nominated to Supreme Court
Anthony Kennedy
- Nov 11 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
Vincent van Gogh
- Nov 12 Heavy snow closes schools from DC to Maine
- Nov 13 1st condom commercial on British TV
- Nov 14 Sam's Town National Bowling Pro-Am won by Debbie Bennett
- Nov 15 28 of 82 aboard Continental Airlines DC-9, die in crash at Denver
- Nov 15 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
- Nov 15 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
- Nov 15 USSR performs nuclear test at Eastern Kazakh/Semipalitinsk USSR
- Nov 18 31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
- Nov 18 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
- Nov 19 France performs nuclear test
- Nov 22 Patriots shutout Indianapolis 24-0
- Nov 24 Li Peng succeeds premier Zhao Ziyang for the People's Republic of China
- Nov 25 India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
- Nov 25 Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
- Nov 27 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
- Nov 28 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
- Nov 29 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
- Nov 29 A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
- Nov 30 Afghanistan Constitution adopted