Cool Hand Luke
Nov 1 "Cool Hand Luke", starring Paul Newman, George Kennedy, and Strother Martin, is released
- Nov 3 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war
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Nov 4 Pink Floyd make US live debut, sharing bill with Big Brother & The Holding Company, and singer-songwriter Richie Havens, at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California
- Nov 5 ATS-3 launched by US to take first pictures of full Earth disc
- Nov 5 New Orleans Saints 1st NFL victory, beat Philadelphia Eagles 31-24
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Nov 5 The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people; survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb
- Nov 5 US troops conquer Loc Ninh South Vietnam
- Nov 5 Yemen president Sallal flees
- Nov 6 Bridge at Annabaai crashes on Willemstad, Curacao, kills 15
- Nov 6 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9
- Nov 7 Carl Stokes elected first African American mayor of a major US city - Cleveland, Ohio
- Nov 7 MLB St Louis Cardinals infielder Orlando Cepeda is 1st unanimous NL MVP
- Nov 7 Richard G Hatcher elected 1st African-American mayor of Gary, Indiana, served 1968-88
- Nov 7 Surveyor 6 launched for soft landing on Moon
- Nov 8 Radio Leicester begins broadcasting on VHF, the 1st of 8 local British radio stations (now 40)
- Nov 8 Silver hits a record $1.951 an ounce in London
- Nov 8 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 9 Surveyor 6 soft lands on Moon
- Nov 9 The 1st unmanned Saturn V rocket is launched on its first successful test flight into Earth orbit
- Nov 10 KXNE TV channel 19 in Norfolk, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting
- Nov 12 Packers' Travis Williams returns 2 kickoffs for TDs against Browns, setting largest margin of Browns defeat (48), winning 55-7
- Nov 13 Carl Stokes sworn-in as 1st major city black mayor (Cleveland, Ohio)
- Nov 13 NL owners OK AL expansion to Seattle & Kansas City
- Nov 14 Orchestre de Paris, France's 1st full-time salaried orchestra, debuts, conducted by its founder Charles Münch
- Nov 14 The Congress of Colombia in commemoration of the 150 years of the death of Policarpa Salavarrieta, declares this day as "Day of the Colombian Woman"
Yastrzemski AL MVP
Nov 15 Boston Red Sox outfielder Carl Yastrzemski wins AL MVP
- Nov 15 The only fatality of the X-15 program occurs during the 191st flight when Air Force test pilot Michael J. Adams loses control of his aircraft descending from 81km, causing its mid air destruction over the Mojave Desert
- Nov 15 WLTV TV channel 23 in Miami, FL (IND) begins broadcasting
- Nov 17 Beatles Ltd & Apple Music Ltd swap names
Monkee Opens Boutique
Nov 17 Davy Jones of the Monkees opens a boutique, Zilch I, in Greenwich Village, New York
- Nov 17 French author Régis Debray sentenced to 30 years in Bolivia
- Nov 17 Surveyor 6 becomes 1st man-made object to lift off Moon
- Nov 18 British government devalues pound from US equivalent of $2.80 to $2.40
- Nov 19 The establishment of TVB, the first wireless commercial television station in Hong Kong
- Nov 20 At 11 AM, Census Clock at Department of Commerce ticks past 200 million
Seaver Rookie of the Year
Nov 20 Mets pitcher Tom Seaver (16-12) is named NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 21 Phillip & Jay Kunz fly a kite a record 28,000 feet
I am Absolutely Certain..
Nov 21 Vietnam War: American General William Westmoreland tells news reporters: "I am absolutely certain that whereas in 1965 the enemy was winning, today he is certainly losing."
- Nov 22 BBC unofficially bans "I Am the Walrus" by Beatles, due to the suggestive lyric “Boy, you've been a naughty girl you let your knickers down."
The Producers
Nov 22 Mel Brooks' first film, "The Producers" starring Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder has a disastrous premiere and is almost shelved - later goes on to win an Oscar and achieve cult status
- Nov 22 Silver hits a record $2.17 an ounce in New York
- Nov 22 UN Security council passes resolution 242; Israel must give back occupied land
- Nov 22 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
- Nov 25 "Apple Tree" closes at Shubert Theater NYC after 463 performances
- Nov 25 Puerto Rico placed on Atlantic Standard Time
- Nov 26 Browns' Carl Ward sets club record with a 104-yd kickoff return
- Nov 26 Cloud burst over Lisbon kills about 450
De Gaulle's Non!
Nov 27 French President Charles de Gaulle said 'Non!' to British entry to the European Common Market for the second time
- Nov 27 Gold pool nations pledge support of $35 per ounce gold price
Jimi Hendrix in Ireland
Nov 27 Jimi Hendrix headlines bill (including The Move and Pink Floyd) for 2 shows at Whitla Hall, Queens College, in Belfast - his only concerts in Ireland
- Nov 27 The Beatles release their album "Magical Mystery Tour" in US; issued as an EP in UK in December
Radio Pulsars
Nov 28 1st radio pulsars detected by British postgraduate Jocelyn Bell Burnell and her supervisor Antony Hewish at Cambridge University
- Nov 28 33rd Heisman Trophy Award: Gary Beban, UCLA (QB)
- Nov 29 British troops withdraw from Aden and South Yemen
Robert McNamara
Nov 29 Robert McNamara elected president of the World Bank
- Nov 30 British troops leave Aden and the rest of the Federation of South Arabia (FSA) ending British colonial rule; National Liberation Front (NLF) assumes power and renames the state as the People's Republic of South Yemen
- Nov 30 Julie Nixon (daughter of former Vice-President Richard Nixon) and David Eisenhower (grandson of former President Dwight D, Eisenhower), announce their engagement
- Nov 30 Kuria Muria Islands ceded by Britain to Oman
Eugene McCarthy
Nov 30 Senator Eugene McCarthy (D-Minnesota) announces he will run for the US presidency on an anti-Vietnam war platform
- Nov 30 The Pakistan Peoples Party is founded by Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto who becomes its first Chairman later as the Head of state and Head of government after the 1971 Civil War
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