Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 30, 1941 | The Holocaust: The SS-Einsatzgruppen round up 11,000 Jews from the Riga Ghetto and kill them in the Rumbula massacre. |
| November 6, 2012 | Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate. |
| November 12, 1956 | Morocco, Sudan and Tunisia join the United Nations. |
| November 30, 2021 | Barbados becomes a republic. |
| November 3, 1930 | Getúlio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24. |
| November 21, 1964 | Second Vatican Council: The third session of the Roman Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. |
| November 24, 2013 | Iran signs an interim agreement with the P5+1 countries, limiting its nuclear program in exchange for reduced sanctions. |
| November 25, 1960 | The Mirabal sisters of the Dominican Republic are assassinated. |
| November 23, 1978 | The Geneva Frequency Plan of 1975 goes into effect, realigning many of Europe's longwave and mediumwave broadcasting frequencies. |
| November 26, 1852 | An earthquake as high as magnitude 8.8 rocks the Banda Sea, triggering a tsunami and killing at least 60 in the Dutch East Indies. |
| November 4, 1493 | Christopher Columbus reaches Leeward Island and Puerto Rico. |
| November 10, 2006 | Sri Lankan Tamil politician Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo. |
| November 9, 1862 | American Civil War: Union General Ambrose Burnside assumes command of the Army of the Potomac, after George B. McClellan is removed. |
| November 20, 1989 | Velvet Revolution: The number of protesters assembled in Prague, Czechoslovakia, swells from 200,000 the day before to an estimated half-million. |
| November 25, 2000 | The 2000 Baku earthquake, with a Richter magnitude of 7.0, leaves 26 people dead in Baku, Azerbaijan, and becomes the strongest earthquake in the region in 158 years. |
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