- Nov 1 German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires
MVPs Named
Nov 1 NL batting champion Ernie Lombardi of the Cincinnati Reds is named National League MVP; first catcher to win award; Boston Red Sox 1st baseman Jimmie Foxx takes AL award
- Nov 1 Seabiscuit, with George Woolf aboard, beats 1937 Triple Crown winner War Admiral by 3 lengths in Pimlico track record time to win $15,000 in what is regarded as one of the greatest match races in horse racing history
- Nov 2 Boston Red Sox first baseman Jimmie Foxx is voted Most Valuable Player of the American League for the third time
- Nov 5 Ottawa Roughriders score on 5-man, 4-lateral, 65-yard punt return
- Nov 5 Rugers beats Princeton 1st time in 60 yrs as Rutgers Stad dedicated
- Nov 6 3 DiMaggio brothers play together for 1st time, in a charity all-star game
- Nov 8 1st African American woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
- Nov 9 Al Capp, cartoonist of Li'l Abner, creates Sadie Hawkins Day
- Nov 9 Kristallnacht begins: pogrom against Jews in Germany and Austria - first large-scale physical act of anti-Jewish violence, begins
- Nov 10 8.3 earthquake shakes East of Shumagin Islands, Alaska
- Nov 10 Nobel for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
- Nov 10 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris
- Nov 11 German & Austrian Jewish suffer 1 billion Mark damage in nazi
Madagascar A Jewish Homeland
Nov 12 Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
LSD
Nov 16 LSD (Lysergic acid diethylamide) is first synthesized by Swiss chemist Dr. Albert Hofmann at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel, Switzerland
- Nov 17 Italy passes its own version of anti-Jewish Nuremberg laws
- Nov 18 Trade union members elect John L. Lewis as the first president of the Congress of Industrial Organizations.
- Nov 20 1st documented anti-semitic remarks over US radio (by Father Coughlin)
- Nov 21 Belgian king Leopold III, King of the Belgians begins 3-day visit to Netherlands
- Nov 21 Nazi forces occupy western Czechoslovakia and declare inhabitants to be German citizens
- Nov 24 Clifford Odets' "Rocket to the Moon" premieres in NYC
- Nov 24 National Semi-Pro Basketball Congress authorizes yellow basketball
Police Head Yezhov Executed
Nov 25 Lavrentiy Beria succeeds Nikolai Yezhov as the head of the Soviet secret police, NKVD, after Yezhov was executed on Joseph Stalin's orders
Frank Sinatra Arrested
Nov 27 Bergen County (New Jersey) sheriff's department arrests American singer Frank Sinatra (23) on charge of "seduction", later withdrawn and amended to adultery, and shortly thereafter case dismissed
- Nov 28 4th Heisman Trophy Award: Davey O'Brien, Texas Christian (QB)
Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2
Nov 28 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 2 premieres in Moscow, USSR
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