Murder in the Cathedral
Nov 1 T. S. Eliot's play "Murder in the Cathedral" premieres in London
- Nov 3 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy
- Nov 3 Korean runner Sohn Kee-chung sets new men's marathon world record, 2:26:42 in Tokyo, Japan
- Nov 3 Philadelphia Eagles beat Boston Redskins, 7-6 at Fenway Park; respective quarterbacks combine to throw an NFL record 11 interceptions
- Nov 5 Maryland Court of Appeals orders University of Maryland to admit Donald Murray, a black man
- Nov 5 Parker Brothers launches the board game Monopoly
- Nov 6 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft
Joseph Stalin Proclaims
Nov 7 Addressing a meeting of Stakhanovites, Joseph Stalin utters his famous phrase "life has become better"
Mutiny on the Bounty
Nov 8 "Mutiny on the Bounty" directed by Frank Lloyd and starring Charles Laughton and Clark Gable premieres in New York (Best Production/Picture 1936)
- Nov 9 Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO) labor union forms
- Nov 11 Explorer 2 balloon sets altitude record of 72,000 feet over South Dakota
- Nov 12 Egas Moniz performs the first modern brain surgery on the frontal lobes to treat mental disorders, at Santa Marta Hospital in Lisbon, Portugal
- Nov 13 Anti-British riots in Egypt
- Nov 14 Nazis deprive German Jews of their citizenship
- Nov 15 "A Night at the Opera", comedy film directed by Sam Wood, starring the Marx Brothers, is released
- Nov 15 Commonwealth of Philippines inaugurated
Anything Goes
Nov 16 Cole Porter's musical "Anything Goes" closes at 46th Street Theatre, NYC, after 420 performances
Jumbo
Nov 16 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Jumbo" premieres in NYC
- Nov 21 Jean Giraudoux' "La Guerre de Troie n'Aura" premieres in Paris
- Nov 22 Flying boat "China Clipper" takes off from Alameda, California, carrying 100,000 pieces of mail on 1st trans-Pacific airmail flight
- Nov 24 The Senegalese Socialist Party holds its second congress.
- Nov 25 International Institute for Social History (IISG) forms in Amsterdam
Michael Joseph Savage
Nov 29 Michael Joseph Savage becomes the first Labour party Prime Minister of New Zealand
Schrödinger's cat
Nov 29 Physicist Erwin Schrödinger publishes his famous thought experiment "Schrödinger's cat", a paradox that illustrates the problem of the Copenhagen interpretation of quantum mechanics
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