- Nov 2 Belmont Stakes: Fred Taral aboard Preakness winner Belmar wins in 2:11½; race run in November as NY Jockey Club closed out its affairs
- Nov 2 First organised auto race in the United States is run in Chicago; 6 cars race over 52-mile lakefront course; 2 finish because of blizzard conditions
- Nov 5 1st US patent granted for auto (George B Selden) for gasoline driven car
- Nov 5 Edward, Prince of Wales, says "We are all Socialists nowadays"
- Nov 5 US state Utah accepts female suffrage
X-rays
Nov 8 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
- Nov 11 Bechuanaland becomes part of Cape Colony
- Nov 19 American inventor Frederick E. Blaisdell of Philadelphia patents the "self-sharpening" paper sheathed pencil, commonly known as a china marker
- Nov 23 4th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 48-0 in Tuscaloosa
- Nov 26 Hawaiian Sugar Planters Association forms
Nobel Prizes Established
Nov 27 Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel's will establishes the Nobel Prize
1st Car Race in America
Nov 28 America's 1st auto race organised by the "Chicago Times-Herald" - Chicago to Evanston and back; 6 cars, 55 miles, Frank Duryea wins averaging 7 MPH
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