Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
Here is a list of some historical events in November. You can learn What major event happened in November?
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 27, 1918 | The Makhnovshchina is established. |
| November 22, 845 | The first duke of Brittany, Nominoe, defeats the Frankish king Charles the Bald at the Battle of Ballon near Redon. |
| November 8, 1901 | Gospel riots: Bloody clashes take place in Athens following the translation of the Gospels into demotic Greek. |
| November 2, 1940 | World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians. |
| November 14, 1938 | The Lions Gate Bridge, connecting Vancouver to the North Shore region, opens to traffic. |
| November 1, 1897 | The first Library of Congress building opens its doors to the public; the library had previously been housed in the Congressional Reading Room in the U.S. Capitol. |
| November 8, 2004 | Iraq War: More than 10,000 U.S. troops and a small number of Iraqi army units participate in a siege on the insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. |
| November 28, 1920 | FIDAC (The Interallied Federation of War Veterans Organisations), the first international organization of war veterans is established in Paris, France. |
| November 19, 1942 | World War II: Battle of Stalingrad: Soviet Union forces under General Georgy Zhukov launch the Operation Uranus counterattacks at Stalingrad, turning the tide of the battle in the USSR's favor. |
| November 21, 1905 | Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik. |
| November 22, 1967 | UN Security Council Resolution 242 is adopted, establishing a set of the principles aimed at guiding negotiations for an Arab–Israeli peace settlement. |
| November 16, 1973 | U.S. President Richard Nixon signs the Trans-Alaska Pipeline Authorization Act into law, authorizing the construction of the Alaska Pipeline. |
| November 13, 1941 | World War II: The aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal is torpedoed by U-81, sinking the following day. |
| November 2, 1947 | In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017. |
| November 27, 1997 | Twenty-five people are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria. |
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