Film & TV History
Nov 1 Andrew "Dice" Clay & George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment"
- Nov 1 Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
Appointment of Interest
Nov 1 MLB owners vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract; AL owners vote for Kuhn, 11-3, and NL, 7-5, 2 shy of 3/4 majority required for re-election; eventually replaced by Peter Ueberroth
- Nov 2 Fire in Salung tunnel, Afghanistan, 1,000+ Russians die
Baseball Record
Nov 3 Pitcher Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee Brewers' second consecutive American League Cy Young Award winner; edges Jim Palmer of the Baltimore Orioles; Vuckovich, 18-6 with 105 strikeouts and 3.34 ERA
Gone Troppo
Nov 5 George Harrison releases "Gone Troppo", his tenth solo album
Your Arms are Too Short to Box With God
Nov 7 Revival of Alex Bradford, Vinnette Carroll, and Micki Grant's "Your Arms are Too Short to Box With God", based on the Bible's Book of Matthew, and featuring Al Green and Patti LaBelle, closes at Alvin Theatre, NYC. after 69 performances
- Nov 7 Turkey adopts constitution
- Nov 9 Brewers' Robin Yount wins AL MVP unanimously
Leonard's First Retirement
Nov 9 Sugar Ray Leonard retires for 1st time
- Nov 10 IMF lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy
Film & TV History
Nov 11 "Foxfire" Susan Cooper and Hume Cronyn's stage drama with songs, starring Jessica Tandy, Keith Carradine, and Cronyn, opens at Ethel Barrymore Theatre, NYC; runs for 213 performances, wins Tandy a Tony Award
- Nov 11 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission: Columbia makes the first officially "operational" shuttle mission
- Nov 11 Gas explosion in Israeli army headquarters near Tyre; kills 60
Altobelli Succeeds Weaver
Nov 11 Joe Altobelli succeeds retiring Earl Weaver as Baltimore Orioles manager
- Nov 12 Aaron Pryor scores a 14th round KO of Alexis Argüello in Miami to retain his WBA super lightweight boxing title in the first of 2 meetings between the Hall of Famers; The Ring’s 'Fight of the Decade'
Yuri Andropov
Nov 12 KGB Chief Yuri Andropov succeeds Leonid Brezhnev as leader of the Soviet Union
- Nov 12 US performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
- Nov 12 Zaheer Abbas gets his 100th 100 in Test Cricket for Pakistan v India, goes to 215
- Nov 13 Vietnam Veterans Memorial opens in Washington, D.C., featuring the names of over 58,000 US soldiers killed or missing in the Vietnam War
Sports History
Nov 13 WBA lightweight champion Ray Mancini beats South Korean challenger Duk Koo Kim by TKO in 14th round in Las Vegas; Kim collapses, falls into a coma and dies 4 days later; as a result, WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA & WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
Wałęsa Freed
Nov 14 Polish Solidarity chairman Lech Wałęsa freed
- Nov 15 4th ACE Cable Awards: "Bernstein/Beethoven" by Horant H. Hohlfeld and Harry J. Kraut
Brezhnev's Funeral
Nov 15 Funeral service held in Moscow's Red Square for Soviet leader Leonid Brezhnev
- Nov 16 5th NASA Space Shuttle Mission Columbia lands at Edwards Air Force Base after 5 days in space, completing its 1st operational flight
- Nov 16 Agreement reached ending 57 day football strike
The Real Thing
Nov 16 Tom Stoppard's play "The Real Thing" premieres in London starring Felicity Kendal and Roger Rees
Murphy NL MVP
Nov 17 Dale Murphy wins NL MVP
- Nov 18 Mariasela Alvarez of Dominican Republic, crowned 32nd Miss World
- Nov 18 South Korean boxer Duk Koo Kim dies from injuries sustained during a 14-round beating by Ray Mancini in Las Vegas; WBC shortens title bouts to 12 rounds; WBA and WBO follow in 1988, and IBF in 1989
Drew Barrymore
Nov 20 Drew Barrymore at age 7 hosts "Saturday Night Live"
Waltrip Wins Sprint Cup
Nov 21 32nd NASCAR Sprint Cup: Darrell Waltrip wins
Ripken AL Rookie
Nov 24 Orioles Cal Ripken is named AL Rookie of Year
Howard Cossell
Nov 26 Howard Cossell calls his last fight after being disgusted by Larry Holmes-Tex Cobb mismatch
- Nov 27 47th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 23-22 in Birmingham, Auburn's first win in the series in 10 years
US Wins Davis Cup
Nov 27 Davis Cup, Grenoble, France: US takes unassailable, 3-0 lead over France as John McEnroe & Peter Flemming take the doubles 6-3, 6-4, 9-7 over Henri Leconte & Yannick Noah; tie ends 4-1
- Nov 27 Kepler Wessels scores century in 1st Test Cricket (162 v England)
- Nov 27 Yasuhiro Nakasone elected Prime Minister of Japan succeeding Zenko Suzuki
- Nov 28 "Pirates of Penzance" closes at Uris Theater NYC after 772 performances
- Nov 28 CFL Grey Cup, CNE Stadium, Toronto: Edmonton Eskimos' record 5th straight Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 32-16
Sylvia Hanika
Nov 28 Germany's Sylvia Hanika stages remarkable comeback to upset tennis icon Martina Navratilova 1–6, 6–3, 6–4 and win her only WTA Tour Championship in NYC
- Nov 29 USSR performs underground nuclear test
Gandhi
Nov 30 "Gandhi" directed by Richard Attenborough and starring Ben Kingsley and John Gielgud premieres in New Delhi (Best Picture 1983)
Thriller
Nov 30 "Thriller", 6th studio album by Michael Jackson is released (Grammy Award Album of the Year 1984, best-selling album of all time, Billboard Album of the Year 1983)
- Nov 30 Ottumwa, Iowa, declared "Video Game Capital of the World" by mayor Jerry Parker
- Nov 30 STS-6 vehicle moves to launch pad
- Nov 30 US submarine Thomas Edison collides with US Navy destroyer in South China Sea
- Nov 30 USSR performs nuclear test
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