November 1: National Author's Day National Family Literacy Day -1512: Michelangelo's Sistine Chapel's ceiling was exhibited to the public for the first time. -1755: An earthquake and tsunami in Lisbon, Portugal, killed 60,000-90,000 people. -1960: Apple CEO Tim Cook was born. -1973: Bollywood actress and Miss World 1994 winner Aishwarya Rai Bachchan was born.
November 4 -1916: Journalist Walter Cronkite was born. -1924: Nellie Tauyoe Ross became the first woman elected governor in the United States. -1946: Former first lady Laura Bush was born. -1979: The Iran hostage crisis began. -2008: Barack Obama became the first African American elected United States president.
November 5 -1913: "Gone with the Wind" actress Vivien Leigh was born. -1930: The writer Sinclair Lewis was the first American to win the Nobel Prize for literature. --1940: Franklin D Roosevelt was the first and only United States president elected to a third term.
November 6 -1860: Abraham Lincoln was elected the 16th president of the United States -1861: Basketball inventor Dr. James Naismith was born
November 10: Young Reader's Day
November 11: Kurt Vonnegut's birthday Veteran's Day
November 12 -1815: American suffragist and civil rights activist Elizabeth Cady Stanton was born. -1927: Josef stalkn gained undisputed control of the Soviet Union. -1929: Actress adn Princess of Monaco Grace Kelly was born. -1980: Actor Ryan Gosling was born.
November 14 1840: Claude Monet born 1908: Albert Einstein first presents quantum theory of light 1915: Booker T. Washington dies 1954: Condoleezza Rice born
November 15 America Recycles Day Happy America Recycles Day!: https://www.educationworld.com/teachers/happy-america-recycles-day 1777: Articles of Confederation is adopted by Continental Congress 1887: Artist Georgia O'Keeffe is born 1978: Anthropologist Margaret Mead dies -2001: Microsoft released the firs Xbox gaming console. -2022: The world's population topped 8 billion.
November 16 -1873: Blues Musician WC Handy was born. -1945: UNESCO, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, was founded. -1988: Benazir Bhutto was elected prime minister of Pakistan becoming the first woman in modern history to lead a Muslim-majority country.
November 17 2018: According to Guinness World Records, Dimitri Paniera set the record for the most ice cream scoops balanced on a cone in Rome, Italy by balancing 125 scoops.
November 19 -1831: President James Garfield was born. -1863: President Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg Address. -1917: Indira Gandhi, the first and only female prime minister of India, was born. -1961: Actress Meg Ryan was born.
November 20 1925: United States Senator Robert F. Kennedy was born. 1942: Forer President Joe Biden was born. 1945: Nuremberg trials against 24 Nazi war criminals began. 1956: Actress Bo Derek was born. -1985: Microsoft Windows 1.0 was released.
November 22 1916: Author Jack London dies 1943: Tennis star and social activist Billie Jean King is born 1963: President John F Kennedy is assassinated 1963: Author C. S Lewis dies
November 25 1835: Andrew Carnegie born 1960: John F. Kennedy Jr. born 1968: Author Upton Sinclair dies 2016: Cuban leader Fidel Castro dies
November 26 1883: Abolitionist Sojourner Truth dies 1917: National Hockey League founded 1922: "Peanuts" creator Charles M. Schulz born 1939: singer and actress Tina Turner born
November 27 1895: The Nobel Prize is established 1942: Jimi Hendrix is born 1971: Mars 2, a Soviet space probe, is the first human-made object to reach Mars 1978: LGBTQ+ rights activist Harvey Milk is assassinated
November 29: Louisa May Alcott's birthday
November 30: International Digital Preservation Day: http://www.dpconline.org/events/international-digital-preservation-day Mark Twain's birthday 978: Holy Roman Emperor Otto II ends the siege of Paris 1782: Preliminary Treaty of Paris, ending the Revolutionary War, signed 1935: Woody Allen born 1936: London's Crystal Palace destroyed by fire 1955: Billy Idol born