F1 World Champion
Nov 1 Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet finishes 15th in the Japanese Grand Prix at Suzuka but clinches his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship
- Nov 1 New York City Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins men's race, 2:11:01; English runner Priscilla Welch women's champion, 2:30:17
- Nov 1 New York Jets retire Pro Football Hall of Fame wide receiver Don Maynard's jersey #13
- Nov 1 New Zealand All Blacks create a rugby union international world record score when they beat Japan, 106-4 at the National Stadium in Tokyo
- Nov 2 Entertainer Lola Falona is diagnosed with multiple schlerosis
Cloud 9
Nov 2 George Harrison releases album "Cloud 9" & Paul McCartney releases greatest hits album "All the Best"
Historic Invention
Nov 3 Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser, ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser
Sports History
Nov 3 New York Rangers' center Marcel Dionne becomes just the 2nd NHL player to register 1,700 career points, scoring a goal in 5-3 loss at Calgary
Baseball Record
Nov 3 Oakland A's first baseman Mark McGwire wins American League Rookie of the Year with 49 home runs, 118 RBI; second to win AL award unanimously; first Carlton Fisk 1972
- Nov 3 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56
- Nov 4 Benito Santiago, Padres catcher, wins NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 4 Lisa Steinberg, battered into coma by her adoptive father Joel
- Nov 4 NBA announces 4 new franchises; Charlotte & Miami for 1988 & Minneapolis & Orlando for 1989
- Nov 5 France performs nuclear test
- Nov 5 Iceberg twice size of Rhode Island sighted in Antarctic
- Nov 5 South Africa ANC-leader Govan Mbeki freed
Into the Woods
Nov 5 Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's fairytale musical "Into the Woods" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC; runs for 764 performances, wins 3 Tony Awards and 5 Drama Desk Awards
- Nov 5 US Supreme Court nominee Douglas H. Ginsburg admits using marijuana, later withdraws from consideration
- Nov 7 3rd College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 32-25 in South Bend
- Nov 7 Tunisian premier Zine al-Abidine fires President Habib Bourguiba
- Nov 8 11 are killed in an IRA bomb attack in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland
Cricket World Cup
Nov 8 Cricket World Cup, Eden Gardens, Kolkata, India: Player of the match David Boon scores 75 as Australia beats England by 7 runs for their first title
Clemens Wins Back-To-Back
Nov 11 Boston Red Sox starter Roger Clemens wins back-to-back AL Cy Young Awards; Philadelphia Phillies starter Steve Bedrosian takes NL Award
- Nov 11 Football striker Mark Hughes plays for Wales and Bayern Munich in 2 countries on same day; appears for Wales in 2-0 European Championship loss to Czechoslovakia in Prague, then jets to Munich for 3-2 Cup win over Borussia
Judge Kennedy Nominated
Nov 11 Judge Anthony Kennedy nominated to US Supreme Court by President Ronald Reagan
- Nov 11 Moscow party secretary Boris Jerusalem resigns
Sonny & Cher
Nov 13 Sonny & Cher perform together for the final time, singing "I Got You Babe" on 'Late Night with David Letterman' (NBC)
Nelson Piquet
Nov 15 Brazilian Williams driver Nelson Piquet retires from Australian Grand Prix at Adelaide with break trouble but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 12 points from Nigel Mansell
- Nov 15 Carla Beurskens runs Dutch female record marathon (2:26:34)
- Nov 15 Leile McBridge (Denver), crowned Miss Black America
- Nov 15 NY Giant Raul Allegre kicks 2, 50 or more yard field goals in a game
- Nov 15 USSR performs nuclear test at the Semipalatinsk Test Site in northeast Kazakhstan
Once Upon a Long Ago
Nov 16 Paul McCartney releases single "Once Upon a Long Ago"
- Nov 17 George Bell is 1st Blue Jay ever to win the AL MVP
- Nov 18 31 people die in a fire at King's Cross, London's busiest tube station
- Nov 18 Congressional committee reports on Iran-Contra affair
Dawson's MVP
Nov 18 Cubs Andre Dawson is 1st player from a last-place club to win an MVP
Earnhardt's NASCAR Win
Nov 22 37th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Dale Earnhardt wins
- Nov 22 Jack Sikma (Milwaukee) ends his NBA free throw streak of 51 games
- Nov 22 NFL New England Patriots shutout Indianapolis Colts 24-0 at Sullivan Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts
- Nov 22 Two Chicago television stations are hijacked by an unknown pirate dressed as Max Headroom.
Graf's First WTA
Nov 23 German tennis star Steffi Graf claims her first WTA Tour Championship with a 4-6, 6-4, 6-0, 6-4 win over Gabriela Sabatini of Argentina at Madison Square Garden, NYC
- Nov 24 "Make It Last Forever" debut album by Keith Sweat is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1988)
- Nov 24 Concert performance of Heitor Villa-Lobos' folk operetta "Magdalena" debuts at Alice Tully Hall in NYC's Lincoln Center
Event of Interest
Nov 24 Li Peng succeeds Zhao Ziyang as Premier of the People's Republic of China
- Nov 25 India all out for 75 v West Indies at Delhi, Patterson 5-24
Abdul Qadir
Nov 25 Pakistan cricket leg-spin bowler Abdul Qadir takes 9-56 against England in 1st Test at Lahore; best figures by a Pakistani, and by any bowler against England
- Nov 25 Supertyphoon Nina pummels the Philippines with category 5 winds of 165 mph and a surge that swallows entire villages. at least 1,036 deaths attributed to the storm.
- Nov 27 52nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 10-0 in Birmingham
- Nov 27 Young man survives 7 attempts at suicide in Somerset, England
- Nov 28 South African Airways Boeing 747 crashes into Indian Ocean, 159 die
- Nov 29 75th CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: Edmonton Eskimos 10th Championship; defeat Toronto Argonauts, 38-36 on Jerry Kauric's last second field-goal
- Nov 29 A Korean Air Boeing 707 explodes over the Thai-Burmese border, killing 115
- Nov 29 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Joe Montana
Nov 29 Joe Montana of SF 49ers completes NFL record of 22 consecutive passes
- Nov 29 New Orleans Saints win, assuring their 1st winning NFL season
- Nov 29 Ranger's Bob Frosse becomes 2nd goalie to score a goal (vs NY Islanders). It is later ruled that he should not be credited with goal.
- Nov 29 Revival of Henry Krieger and Tom Eyen's musical "Dreamgirls" closes at Ambassador Theater, NYC, after 177 performances
- Nov 30 Afghanistan's Constitution adopted
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