- Nov 1 The current Cape Lookout, North Carolina, lighthouse was lit for the first time. Its first-order Fresnel lens can be seen for about 19 miles (30 kilometers), in good conditions.
John Brown Guilty of Murder
Nov 2 American abolitionist John Brown found guilty of murder, inciting slaves to revolt, and treason against the Virginia Territory during his raid of Harpers Ferry Armory, and sentenced to hang
- Nov 12 Jules Leotard performs 1st Flying Trapeze circus act (Paris) He also designed garment that bears his name
Groza
Nov 16 Aleksandr Ostrovsky's play "Groza" (The Storm) premieres in Moscow
On the Origin of Species
Nov 24 English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology
A Tale Of Two Cities
Nov 26 Last weekly installment of Charles Dickens' "A Tale of Two Cities" is published in literary periodical "All the Year Round"
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