Historical Events
- Nov 1 US Air Commerce Act passes
Oh Kay
Nov 8 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Kay" opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 256 performances
Communist Leader Arrested
Nov 9 Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci is arrested in Rome
- Nov 10 Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1st Canadian Minister to the US
Nov 10 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
Eddie Collins Released
Nov 11 Future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins is released as Chicago White Sox player/manager; replaced by another future HOF'er catcher Ray Schalk
- Nov 11 U.S. Route 66 is established from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California 2,448 miles (3,940 km)
- Nov 12 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
- Nov 13 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam, West Java
- Nov 15 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
- Nov 15 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
- Nov 16 New York Rangers ice hockey club first game; beat Montreal Maroons, 1-0 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Nov 17 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1
George Bernard Shaw
Nov 18 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize"
- Nov 19 British miners' strike ends after 28 weeks
Trotsky Expelled
Nov 19 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union
- Nov 22 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
This Was a Man
Nov 23 Noël Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC
Miraculous Mandarin
Nov 27 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar
- Nov 27 Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
- Nov 27 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
- Nov 27 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
Tris Speaker
Nov 29 Tris Speaker resigns as manager of the Cleveland Indians while facing game-fixing allegations
- Nov 29 W. Somerset Maughams comedic play "The Constant Wife" premieres in NYC
Famous Birthdays
- Nov 1 Betsy Palmer [Patricia Betsy Hrunek], American actress (Mr Roberts, Friday the 13th), born in East Chicago, Indiana (d. 2015)
- Nov 2 Lou Donaldson, American bebop jazz saxophonist ("Blues Walk"), and bandleader, born in Badin, North Carolina
- Nov 2 Myer "Whitey" Skoog, American basketball guard (NBA C'ship 1952, 53, 54 Minneapolis Lakers), born in Duluth, Minnesota (d. 2019)
- Nov 3 Valdas Adamkus, Lithuanian-American bureaucrat (President of the Republic of Lithuania, 1998-2003, 2004-09), born in Kaunas, Lithuania
- Nov 5 John Berger, English art critic and author (Ways of Seeing), born in London (d. 2017)
- Nov 5 Leo Derksen, Dutch journalist (De Telegraaf), born in Nijmegen, Netherlands (d. 2002)
- Nov 6 Brian Abel-Smith, British economist and expert adviser, born in Kensington Court Gardens, London (d. 1996)
- Nov 7 Dame Joan Sutherland, Australian operatic soprano, known as 'La Stupenda' (Metropolitan Opera debut 1961), born in Sydney, New South Wales, Australia (d. 2010)
- Nov 7 Jimmie Haskell [Sheridan Pearlman], American arranger (Ricky Nelson, Chicago, Sheryl Crow), and film and television score composer, born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2016)
- Nov 9 Luis Miguel Dominguín, Spanish bullfighter, born in Madrid, Spain (d. 1996)
- Nov 10 Jacques Rozier, French film director (Adieu Philippine; Du côté d’Orouët), born in Paris France (d. 2023)
- Nov 11 Harry Lumley, Canadian ice hockey player, born in Owen Sound, Ontario (d. 1998)
- Nov 11 Maria Teresa de Filippis, Italian racing car driver (first woman to complete in Formula One), born in Naples, Italy (d. 2016)
- Nov 12 Jack Ryan, American inventor at Mattel (Barbie Doll, Hot Wheels, Chatty Cathy) (d. 1991)
- Nov 13 Don Gordon [Guadagno], American actor (Bullitt; Papillon), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2017)
- Nov 13 Harry Hughes, American politician (57th Governor of Maryland, 1979-87; Maryland State Senate, 1959-70), born in Easton, Maryland (d. 2019)
- Nov 13 Max Vernon Mathews, American composer, born in Columbus, Nebraska (d. 2011)
- Nov 16 Ton de Leeuw, Dutch composer, born in Rotterdam, Netherlands (d. 1996)
- Nov 17 [Robin] "Robert" Brown, American actor (Here Come the Brides - "Jason"; Primus), born in Trenton, New Jersey (d. 2022)
- Nov 18 Dorothy Collins [Marjorie Chandler], Canadian-American singer and actress (Your Hit Parade), born in Windsor, Ontario (d. 1994)
- Nov 18 Estanislao Basora, Spanish footballer (The Monster of Colombes, 22 caps for Spain, 301 matches for Barcelona), born in Barcelona, Catalonia (d. 2012)
- Nov 18 Kim Besly, Peace activist (Greenham Common) (d. 1996)
- Nov 19 Jeane Kirkpatrick (neé Jordan), American diplomat (US Ambassador to UN, 1981-85), and writer, born in Duncan, Oklahoma (d. 2006)
- Nov 20 Andrzej W. Schally, Polish-American endocrinologist (Nobel 1997), born in Wilno, Poland
- Nov 20 John Gardner, English spy and thriller novelist (Boysie Oakes novels; James Bond continuation novels), born in Seaton Delaval, Northumberland, England (d. 2007)
- Nov 20 Terry Hall, English ventriloquist, born in Chadderton, Lancashire, England (d. 2007)
- Nov 22 Lew Burdette, American baseball pitcher (MLB All-Star 1957, 59; World Series MVP 1957; no hitter 1960; Milwaukee Braves), born in Nitro, West Virginia (d. 2007)
- Nov 22 Zulfiqar Ahmed, Pakistani cricket pace bowler (9 Tests, 20 wickets; Punjab, Bahawalpur), born in Lahore, Pakistan (d. 2008)
- Nov 23 Christopher Logue, British poet (Cold Calls; War Music), playwright, actor, and pacifist, born in Portsmouth, England (d. 2011)
- Nov 23 R. L. Burnside, American blues musician (Deep Blues), born in Harmontown, Mississippi (d. 2005)
- Nov 23 Sathya Sai Baba, Indian guru and philosopher, born in Puttaparthi, British India (d. 2011)
- Nov 23 Vann Molyvann, Cambodian architect (New Khmer architecture), born in Ream, Cambodia (d. 2017)
- Nov 24 Tsung-Dao Lee, Chinese physicist (1957 Nobel Prize for work on parity laws), born in Shanghai, China
- Nov 25 Jeffrey Hunter, American actor (Star Trek Cage, The Searchers), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1969)
- Nov 25 Murray Schisgal, American playwright (Luv), and screenwriter (Tootsie), born in Brooklyn, NYC (d. 2020)
- Nov 25 Poul Anderson, American science-fiction and fantasy author, winner of 7 Hugo and 3 Nebula Awards (The Sharing of Flesh; Mirkheim; After Doomsday), born in Bristol, Pennsylvania (d. 2001)
- Nov 26 Mauro Bortolotti, Italian composer, born in Narni, Italy (d. 2007)
- Nov 26 Michael Butler, American theatrical producer (Hair; Lenny), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2022)
- Nov 27 Lucienne Schmidt-Couttet, French alpine skier (World C'ship gold Giant Slalom 1954), born in Chamonix-Mont-Blanc, France (d. 2022)
Beji Caid Essebsi (1926-2019)
Nov 29 Tunisia's 1st freely elected President (2014-2019), born in Sidi Bou Said, Tunisia
- Nov 30 Richard Crenna, American actor (Rambo, Summer Rental, Sand Pebbles), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2003)
Famous Weddings
- Nov 10 Belgium crown prince Leopold weds princess Astrid Bernadotte of Sweden
Famous Deaths
- Nov 1 Louis H Chrispijn, Dutch actor and director (Krates), dies at 72
- Nov 1 Wilfred Flowers, English cricket all-rounder (8 Tests; Nottinghamshire CCC), dies at 69
Annie Oakley (1860-1926)
Nov 3 American sharp shooter (Buffalo Bill's Wild West), dies of pernicious anemia at 66
- Nov 17 Carl Akeley, American taxidermist and naturalist who developed the animal mount process and other techniques for museums, dies at 62
- Nov 22 Darvish Khan, Iranian classical tar (Persian lute) player, dies in a vehicle accident at 54
- Nov 23 Frederic Ayers, American composer, dies at 50
- Nov 26 John M Browning, American weapons manufacturer, dies at 71
