What Happened in November 2018

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• Nov 1 Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
• Nov 1 Ground assault mounted on Yemeni port city of Hudaydah by Saudi-backed government forces
• Nov 1 Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen and its chemicals which bleach coral reefs

• Nov 2 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 1 winners: Bulletin, Newspaperofrecord, Jaywalk, Line of Duty, Game Winner
• Nov 2 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India
• Nov 3 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Shamrock Rose, Stormy Liberal, City of Light, Sistercharlie, Roy H, Expert Eye, Monomoy Girl, Enable, Accelerate
• Nov 3 Truck loses control hitting 31 cars and killing at least 15 people near a tollbooth in Lanzhou, China

• Nov 4 Death toll from week-long storm in Italy rises to 29 with death of nine people in floods in Casteldaccia, Sicily
• Nov 4 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd fastest men's time in history; Kenya's Mary Keitany captures her 4th women's NYC crown in 2:22:48
• Nov 5 "Big Brother" reality show has its last episode in the UK on Channel 5, having run since 2000; series revived in 2023
• Nov 5 BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
• Nov 5 Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
• Nov 5 More than 80 students and teachers kidnapped from a boarding school in Bamenda, Cameroon

• Nov 5 Taskforce set up to identify and punish LGBT people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

• Nov 6 Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country's first openly male gay governor
• Nov 6 Colorado votes to abolish slavery as a form of punishment in state constitution

• Nov 6 Human longevity less than 10% dependent on genetics according to study published in journal "Genetics" based on 400 million people from Ancestry.com
• Nov 6 Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) are the first Muslim women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
• Nov 6 In US Midterm elections Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives after eight years, the Senate is held by Republicans
• Nov 6 More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report
• Nov 6 Record 19 black female judicial candidates all elected in Harris County, Texas, after campaigning together under "Black Girl Magic"
• Nov 6 Sharice Davids (Kansas) and Deb Haaland (New Mexico) are the first Native American women to be elected to the US House of Representatives

• Nov 7 Ex-marine opens fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, shooting 12, including a police officer, and himself
• Nov 7 For second straight year France wins Six Nations Rugby Championship on points difference from Ireland, with a final round 46-19 win over Scotland at Stade de France, Saint Denis; Ireland again takes Triple Crown

• Nov 7 World's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo
• Nov 8 Authorities report more than 150 people have been killed in week-long assault by government forces on port of Hudaydah in Yemen
• Nov 8 Azerbaijan woman who spent £16m in Harrods granted bail in UK after being arrested for suspested embezzlement under new laws
• Nov 8 China's state news agency is the first to introduce a virtual newsreader, developed by Chinese search engine Sogou [1]
• Nov 8 CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House clearance revoked after continuing to question President Donald Trump while an intern tried to wrestle the microphone off him
• Nov 8 Deadliest fire in Californian history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13,000 buildings and killing at least 88
• Nov 8 Mass grave of 200 people discovered on border of Somali and Oromia regions, Ethiopia, in investigation into atrocities by former regional president Abdi Mohammed
• Nov 8 Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day
• Nov 8 Woolsey Fire starts near Thousand Oaks, California with Malibu and Calabasas evacuated, kills three
• Nov 9 Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of "gross mismanagement", threatens to withhold funding
• Nov 9 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him

• Nov 9 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil kills 10
• Nov 9 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100

• Nov 11 Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths
• Nov 11 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Prague, Czech Republic: in a final denuded of both countries' top players Kateřina Siniaková beats American Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to clinch a 3-0 win for the home side

• Nov 12 Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander, igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza
• Nov 13 Amazon announces two new corporate outposts at Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia
• Nov 13 Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
• Nov 13 Kristine E. Guillaume is named the first black woman to head prestigious Harvard student newspaper "The Crimson"
• Nov 13 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks President Maithripala Sirisena from dissolving parliament

• Nov 14 Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War
• Nov 14 Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years away
• Nov 14 Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go.
• Nov 14 Edward Hopper's painting "Chop Suey" sells $92 million, a record for the artist at auction in New York

• Nov 14 Large impact crater, 31 km wide, from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
• Nov 14 New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history

• Nov 16 Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago
• Nov 16 The kilogram is refined by abstract constants replacing the Le Grand K, along with the ampere (electrical current) and kelvin (temperature) at a conference in Paris
• Nov 17 Ireland beats Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand, 16-9 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin; first victory over the All Blacks ever on home soil; flyhalf Johnny Sexton kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
• Nov 17 Missing Argentine naval submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board found on sea floor a year after it disappeared off coast of Argentina
• Nov 17 Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured

• Nov 18 American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal by one of world's most isolated tribe
• Nov 18 APEC Summit in Papa New Guinea fails to produce a joint agreement for first time in two decades after US and China clash on definition of trade

• Nov 19 Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn arrested in Japan for financial misconduct

• Nov 20 Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank

• Nov 20 Mississippi 15 week abortion ban overturned by US judge saying it violated women's constitutional rights
• Nov 20 More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
• Nov 20 Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains

• Nov 21 Former Guatemalan soldier Santos López Alonzo sentenced to 5,160 years for killing 171 people in Dos Erres during the civil war
• Nov 21 RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil
• Nov 22 Leaning Tower of Pisa's tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilise it
• Nov 23 Alabama police kill the wrong suspect after a gunman shoots 18-year-old man and 12-year-old girl at Riverchase Galleria Mall in Hoovermall
• Nov 23 Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana apologize for culturally insensitive video and media posts insulting Chinese culture, cancel Shanghai fashion show

• Nov 23 US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
• Nov 24 Copa Libertadores Final 2nd-leg between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate & Boca Juniors is postponed after Boca bus attacked by River fans; players suffer cuts & affects of police tear gas; River wins, 5-3 on aggregate when 2nd-leg played in Madrid, Spain (9 Dec)
• Nov 24 Cruise boat sinks on Lake Victoria near Kampala, Uganda, killing at least 29
• Nov 24 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Antigua: Ashleigh Gardner with 33 from 26 balls and 3 for 22 leads Australia (106/2) to 4th T20 WC; beat England (105)

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• Nov 14 Bollywood actors Deepika Padukone and Ranveer Singh marry at Lake Como, Italy in first of two ceremonies

• Nov 1 Amal Hussain, Yemeni famine victim who raised world's awareness, dies aged 7
• Nov 2 Glenn Schwartz, American rock guitarist (Pacific Gas & Electric -"Are You Ready?"), dies at 78
• Nov 2 Kitty O'Neil, American stuntwoman (The Bionic Woman) and racer (female land speed record), dies at 72
• Nov 2 Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer, popularized martial arts worldwide, dies at 91
• Nov 2 Roy Hargrove, American trumpeter, dies of kidney disease at 49
• Nov 2 Torben Jensen, Danish actor (Taxa; Hayfever; Watch Me Fly; Guldregn), dies at 74
• Nov 3 Sondra Locke, American actress (The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter; Willard), and director (Impulse), dies at 74 of a heart attack while suffering from breast and bone cancer
• Nov 4 Selma Engel [Saartje Wijnberg], Dutch born Jew, the first to tell of Nazi Sobibor extermination camp, dies at 96
• Nov 6 Hugh McDowell, British cellist (Electric Light Orchestra - "Strange Magic"; "Evil Woman"), dies of cancer at 65
• Nov 7 Francis Lai, French film music composer (Love Story), dies at 86
• Nov 7 Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, Irish pianist, composer and educator (University of Limerick), dies at 67
• Nov 7 Oskar Rabin, Russian painter and dissident during Soviet era, dies at 90
• Nov 9 Ken Howell, American baseball player (Los Angeles Dodgers, Philadelphia Phillies), dies at 57
• Nov 9 Paula Wayne [Watkins], American stage and Emmy Award-winning actress (Golden Boy; Everglade!), pop vocalist ("Everything's Great"), and civil rights activist, dies of cancer at 84
• Nov 9 Sisto Malaspina, Australian cafe owner (Pellegrini's) who started Melbourne coffee culture, dies in terror attack at 74

• Nov 12 Igor Mikhailovich Luchenok, Belarusian composer and teacher, dies at 80

• Nov 14 Katherine "Scottie" MacGregor, American actress (Little House On The Prairie - "Harriet Oleson"), dies at 93
• Nov 15 Roy Clark, American country singer and banjo player (Hee Haw, The Tonight Show), dies at 85
• Nov 16 Flemming Nielsen, Danish soccer midfielder (26 caps, Olympic silver 1960; Atalanta, Morton FC), dies at 84
• Nov 16 William Goldman, American screenwriter and author (Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid), dies at 87
• Nov 17 Mary Kay Stearns, American actress (Mary Kay & Johnny), dies at 93
• Nov 17 Richard Baker, English broadcaster (newsreader for BBC News, 1954-1982), dies at 93
• Nov 18 Jerry Frankel, American Broadway producer, dies at 88
• Nov 18 Larry Pickering, Australian political cartoonist and illustrator, dies of lung cancer at 76
• Nov 20 Aaron Klug, Lithuanian born British biochemist (Nobel prize for Chemistry 1982), dies at 92
• Nov 20 Harald Heilmann, German composer, dies at 94
• Nov 20 Levine Andrade, Indian-British violinist (Arditti Quartet, 1974-90), film score composer, and conductor, dies at 64
• Nov 21 Devin Lima [Harold Lima], American singer (LFO), dies of cancer at 41
• Nov 22 Carrie Saxon Perry, 1st African-American mayor of a major US city (Hartford), dies at 87
• Nov 22 Imrat Khan, Indian sitar and surbahar player and composer, dies of a stroke at 83
• Nov 22 Willie Naulls, American basketball small forward (NBA C'ship 1964, 65, 66 Boston Celtics; 4 × NBA All-Star; NY Knicks), dies from respiratory failure at 84
• Nov 23 Nicolas Roeg, English cinematographer and director (Aria, Eureka), dies of natural causes at 90
• Nov 24 Amanda Sequoyah Swimmer, American potter and preserver of Cherokee culture, dies at 97
• Nov 24 David Defiagbon, Nigerian-Canadian boxer (Olympic silver 1996), dies at 48
• Nov 24 Harold Farberman, American percussionist, conductor, and composer (Medea), dies at 89
• Nov 24 Ricky Jay [Richard Potash], American magician and actor (Deceptive Practice: The Mysteries and Mentors of Ricky Jay), dies at 72
• Nov 24 Sy Kattelson, American photographer of NY street life, dies at 95

• Nov 28 Robert Morris, American sculptor and painter, dies of pneumonia at 87
• Nov 28 Thomas J.J. Altizer, US Radical theologian (God is Dead), dies at 91
• Nov 29 Charles Harrison, American industrial designer (view finder), dies at 87
• Nov 29 Ruth Haring, American chess player and President of the US Chess Federation, dies at 63