Historical Events in November, Month of November Events
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| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| November 23, 1944 | World War II: The Lotta Svärd Movement is disbanded under the terms of the armistice treaty in Finland after the Continuation War. |
| November 7, 1944 | Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States. |
| November 26, 1983 | Brink's-Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are stolen from the Brink's-Mat vault at Heathrow Airport. |
| November 25, 1981 | Pope John Paul II appoints Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger (the future Pope Benedict XVI) Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith. |
| November 1, 2000 | The Republic of Serbia and Montenegro joins the United Nations. |
| November 23, 1910 | Johan Alfred Ander becomes the last person to be executed in Sweden. |
| November 17, 1993 | In Nigeria, General Sani Abacha ousts the government of Ernest Shonekan in a military coup. |
| November 1, 1949 | All 55 people on board Eastern Air Lines Flight 537 are killed when the Douglas DC-4 operating the flight collides in mid-air with a Bolivian Air Force Lockheed P-38 Lightning aircraft over Alexandria, Virginia. |
| November 10, 1793 | A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Pierre Gaspard Chaumette. |
| November 30, 1707 | Queen Anne's War: The second Siege of Pensacola comes to end with the failure of the British Empire and their Creek allies to capture Pensacola, Spanish Florida. |
| November 8, 1965 | The British Indian Ocean Territory is created, consisting of Chagos Archipelago, Aldabra, Farquhar and Des Roches islands. |
| November 12, 1997 | Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of masterminding the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. |
| November 8, 1861 | American Civil War: The "Trent Affair": The USS San Jacinto stops the British mail ship Trent and arrests two Confederate envoys, sparking a diplomatic crisis between the UK and US. |
| November 13, 1990 | In Aramoana, New Zealand, David Gray shoots dead 13 people in a massacre before being tracked down and killed by police the next day. |
| November 7, 1811 | Tecumseh's War: The Battle of Tippecanoe is fought near present-day Battle Ground, Indiana, United States. |
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