- Nov 1 US Air Commerce Act passes
Oh Kay
Nov 8 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Oh, Kay" opens at the Imperial Theatre, NYC; runs for 256 performances
Communist Leader Arrested
Nov 9 Italian Communist leader Antonio Gramsci is arrested in Rome
- Nov 10 Guomindang-regring deallocates seat of Kanton to Wuhan (Hankou)
1st Canadian Minister to the US
Nov 10 Vincent Massey becomes 1st Canadian minister to USA
Eddie Collins Released
Nov 11 Future Baseball Hall of Fame second baseman Eddie Collins is released as Chicago White Sox player/manager; replaced by another future HOF'er catcher Ray Schalk
- Nov 11 U.S. Route 66 is established from Chicago, Illinois to Santa Monica, California 2,448 miles (3,940 km)
- Nov 12 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers
- Nov 13 Indonesian Communist Party (PKI) uprising in Bantam, West Java
- Nov 15 1st formal radio network, RCA takes over AT&T 25 station Network (NBC)
- Nov 15 AT&T sells WEAF radio to RCA (NYC)
- Nov 16 New York Rangers ice hockey club first game; beat Montreal Maroons, 1-0 at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Nov 17 NHL's Chicago Black Hawks play their 1st game, beat Tor St Pats 4-1
George Bernard Shaw
Nov 18 George Bernard Shaw accepts the Nobel Prize for Literature but refuses the prize money, saying "I can forgive Alfred Nobel for inventing dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize"
- Nov 19 British miners' strike ends after 28 weeks
Trotsky Expelled
Nov 19 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Politburo in the Soviet Union
- Nov 22 Imperial Conference ends, giving autonomy inside British Commonwealth
This Was a Man
Nov 23 Noël Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC
Miraculous Mandarin
Nov 27 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar
- Nov 27 Italian & Albania sign peace treaty
- Nov 27 KXL-AM in Portland OR begins radio transmissions
- Nov 27 Restoration of Williamsburg, Virginia, begins
Tris Speaker
Nov 29 Tris Speaker resigns as manager of the Cleveland Indians while facing game-fixing allegations
- Nov 29 W. Somerset Maughams comedic play "The Constant Wife" premieres in NYC
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