Lutherans Executed
Nov 1 Stalinists execute by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).
- Nov 3 Frenchman Maurice Archambaud cycles world record for distance in one hour, 45.796 km in Vigorelli, Milan, Italy
- Nov 3 Howie Morenz Memorial Game, Montreal Forum: NHL All-Stars beat Montreal All Stars, 6-5
Hitler Plans for War
Nov 5 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intentions of going to war
Estado Novo
Nov 10 Brazilian President Getulio Vargas proclaims "Estado Novo" dictatorship in a radio address to the nation
- Nov 11 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)
- Nov 11 Nobel prize for physics awarded to American Clinton Joseph Davisson and Briton George Paget Thomson "for their experimental discovery of the diffraction of electrons by crystals"
- Nov 13 NBC forms first full-sized symphony orchestra exclusively for radio
- Nov 15 First US congressional session in air-conditioned chambers
- Nov 16 Several members of the Hesse-Darmstadt royal family die in a plane crash in Belgium while enroute to a family wedding in England; mother and brother of the groom among the dead as aircraft clipped a tall factory chimney
- Nov 17 Britain's Lord Halifax visits Germany, beginning of appeasement
Shostakovich's 5th Symphony
Nov 21 Dmitri Shostakovich's 5th Symphony premieres in Lenningrad, with the ovation lasting over an hour
- Nov 23 Clifford Odets' play "Golden Boy" premieres on Broadway in NYC
- Nov 23 Emile Janson becomes Belgian premier
Of Mice & Men
Nov 23 John Steinbeck's play "Of Mice & Men" premieres in NYC
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