- Nov 2 Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
- Nov 5 STS 73 (Columbia 18), lands
Assassination Attempt
Nov 5 André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Canadian Prime Minister Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the PM's wife locks the door.
Jean Chretien
Assassination
Nov 6 Israel buries Yitzhak Rabin, assassinated by Jewish extremist Yigal Amir who opposed peace with Palestinians
Yitzhak Rabin
- Nov 7 Howard Stern Radio Show premieres in Pittsburgh PA on WXDX 105.9 FM
- Nov 10 In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop) are hanged by government forces
- Nov 12 NY MTA raises subway & bus fares from $1.25 to $1.50
- Nov 12 STS 74 (Atlantis 15), launches into orbit
- Nov 15 Space shuttle Atlantis docks with orbiting Russian space station Mir
- Nov 16 US Attorney General Janet Reno announces she has Parkinson's disease
Event of Interest
Nov 16 Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother undergoes hip surgery
Queen Elizabeth, the Queen Mother
Event of Interest
Nov 20 Princess Diana admits she cheated on Prince Charles in a TV interview
Diana Spencer
Prince Charles
- Nov 20 NASA Space Shuttle STS 74 (Atlantis 15), lands back at Kennedy Space Center
- Nov 21 Dow Jones closes above 5,000 for 1st time
- Nov 21 Israel grants jailed US spy Jonathan Pollard citizenship
- Nov 22 Rosemary West found guilty in England of killing 10 women
- Nov 22 OPEC states that it will roll over its current oil production quota of 25.42 million barrels per day
- Nov 24 Ireland votes to end 58-year-old amendment on divorce (50.28% to 49.72%)
- Nov 26 New Zealand score 8-348 in 49 overs v India in Nagpur ODI
- Nov 28 James Brady, former white house press secretary, suffers a heart attack
Event of Interest
Nov 29 US President Bill Clinton lifts ban on exports of oil from the Alaskan North Slope; the ban was imposed after the oil embargo by Arab oil producers in 1973
Bill Clinton
- Nov 30 Official end of Operation Desert Storm