- Nov 1 Despite 107 from Desmond Haynes, Saleem Malik with 71 leads Pakistan to 4 wicket win v West Indies in cricket's Nehru Cup Final in Kolkata, India
- Nov 1 Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights
Television Finale
Nov 2 "Blackadder Goes Forth" final episode "Goodbyeee" airs on BBC-TV starring Rowan Atkinson and Tony Robinson, written by Richard Curtis and Ben Elton
- Nov 2 Musical "Meet Me In St Louis", based on the 1944 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 253 performances
- Nov 3 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
- Nov 3 NBA expansion Minnesota Timberwolves make NBA debut; lose 106-94 against SuperSonics at Seattle Center Coliseum; Tyrone Corbin T-Wolves top scorer with 20 points
- Nov 3 Šarūnas Marčiulionis and Alexander Volkov become first Russians to play in a regular season NBA game; Marciulionis scores 19 as Golden State lose 136-106 to Phoenix; Volkov held scoreless in Atlanta's 126-103 defeat by Indiana
Fall of the Berlin Wall
Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Nov 4 Alexanderplatz demonstrations for political reforms draw over half a million people in East Berlin, significant event that led to the fall of the Berlin Wall
- Nov 4 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Gulfstream Park; winners: Bayakoa, Dancing Spree, Go for Wand, Prized, Rhythm, Steinlen, Sunday Silence
- Nov 4 First NBA game at Orlando Arena, Orlando Magic loses to NJ Nets, 111-106
- Nov 4 Rene Muawad elected president of Lebanon
- Nov 4 The congress of the Solidarity Party is inaugurated in Sweden. The congress decides, contrary to the proposal of the central committee, not to disband the party.
NYC Women's Marathon
Nov 5 19th NYC Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen of Norway in 2:25:30
- Nov 5 20th NYC Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
- Nov 5 Browns' Bernie Kosar sets club record of 16 cons pass completions
F1 World Champion
Nov 5 French McLaren driver Alain Prost withdraws early in wet Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide but wins his 3rd Formula 1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 16 points from teammate Ayrton Senna
Music History
Nov 5 Revival of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil's "Threepenny Opera" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater, NYC; runs for 65 performances
NYC Firsts
Nov 7 NYC elects it's 1st African American mayor (David Dinkins) & 1st female comptroller (Elizabeth Holtzman)
- Nov 8 "Byker Grove" begins broadcasting on the BBC
- Nov 8 Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year
- Nov 8 Douglas Wilder wins election for Governor of Virginia, 1st African-American elected to the office in any state
- Nov 8 Hong Kong's MTR Lam Tin Station comes into service
- Nov 9 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie after thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces restrictions on travel to the West had lifted
- Nov 10 Bulgarian Communist party president Todor Zhikov (78) resigns
- Nov 10 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall
- Nov 10 Word Perfect 5.1 is shipped
- Nov 11 Don Sebesky and Gloria Nissenson's musical "Prince of Central Park", starring Jo Anne Worley, closes at Belasco Theater, NYC, after 4 performances
- Nov 11 Romanian students protest in Bucharest before the Communist Party congress, shouting "we want reforms", in a sign of the revolution to come
- Nov 12 Brazil holds its 1st free presidential election in 29 years
- Nov 12 George Forrest's musical "Grand Hotel" opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 1018 performances and wins 5 Tony Awards
Figure of 8
Nov 13 Paul McCartney releases single "Figure of 8" & "Ou Est Le Soleil"
- Nov 14 Padres reliever Mark Davis wins NL Cy Young Award
- Nov 15 "Batman" film is released on video tape
- Nov 15 "Few Good Men" opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 497 performances
- Nov 15 Bret Saberhagen wins AL Cy Young Award
- Nov 15 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Younis and Tendulkar
Nov 15 Test Cricket debut of Waqar Younis & Sachin Tendulkar at Karachi
- Nov 15 Walter Davis (Denver) begins NBA free throw streak of 53 games
Music Premiere
Nov 16 Revival of Jules Styne and Stephen Sondheim's musical "Gypsy" starring Tyne Daly, opens at St James Theater, NYC; runs for 476 performances, winning 2 Tony Awards
- Nov 16 Six Jesuit priests including Ignacio Ellacuría and two others are assassinated killed by Salvadoran army - one of the most notorious acts of the Salvadoran civil war
Separate Amenities Act
Nov 16 South African President F. W. de Klerk announces scrapping of Separate Amenities Act
- Nov 16 UNESCO adopts the Seville Statement on Violence at the twenty-fifth session of its General Conference.
- Nov 17 Bret Saberhagen signs record $2,966,667 per year KC Royal contract
- Nov 17 Student demonstration in Prague put down by riot police, leading to an uprising (the Velvet Revolution) that will topple the communist government on Dec. 29
- Nov 18 Pennsylvania is first to restrict abortions after US Supreme Court gave states the right to do so
- Nov 19 39th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Rusty Wallace wins
Graf Regains WTA
Nov 19 German tennis No. 1 Steffi Graf regains the WTA Tour Championship in NYC; beats Martina Navratilova 6–4, 7–5, 2–6, 6–2
- Nov 19 US beats Trinidad, 1-0 qualifing for 1990 world soccer cup finals it was US' 1st qualification since 1950
- Nov 20 Milwaukee Brewers center fielder Robin Yount wins AL MVP
Smoking Banned
Nov 21 Law banning smoking on most domestic flights signed by US President George H. W. Bush
- Nov 21 TV cameras permitted in British House of Commons
- Nov 22 Aneta Kreglicka of Poland, 24, crowned 39th Miss World
- Nov 22 Conjunction of Venus, Mars, Uranus, Neptune, Saturn, and the Moon
- Nov 22 Eastern Airlines pilots and flight attendants end their strike, but most are not rehired
Puckett's $3M Contract
Nov 22 MLB center fielder Kirby Puckett signs record $3,000,000 per year contract with Minnesota Twins
- Nov 22 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) launches into orbit
- Nov 23 Pilots Union give up sympathy strike against Eastern Airlines
The Bounty Bowl
Nov 23 The "Bounty Bowl": Philadelphia Eagles defeat Dallas Cowboys 27-0 at Thanksgiving in an ill-tempered game, after which Cowboys coach Jimmy Johnson accuses Eagles coach Buddy Ryan of placing bounties on players
- Nov 23 Xenophon Zolotas is sworn in as premier of Greece
- Nov 24 Communist Party resigns in Czechoslovakia
- Nov 24 Elias Hrawi elected president of Lebanon
- Nov 24 Sachin Tendulkar scores a Test Cricket fifty aged 16 years 214 days, a record
David Boon
Nov 25 David Boon scores 200 v NZ at cricket WACA
- Nov 26 CFL Grey Cup, SkyDome, Toronto: Saskatchewan Roughriders defeat Hamilton Tiger-Cats, 43-40 on Dave Ridgway's field goal winner was known as 'The Kick'
- Nov 26 Comores coup under Bob Benard
V. P. Singh
Nov 26 India's Congress Party led by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi loses the general election to an opposition front led by V. P. Singh
- Nov 26 Luis Alberto Lacalle wins Uruguayan presidential election
- Nov 26 Rafael Callejas installed as president of Honduras
- Nov 27 Colombian jetliner bombed killing 107
- Nov 27 France performs nuclear test at Mururoa atoll
Cheer Down
Nov 27 George Harrison releases music singles "Cheer Down" and "Poor Little Girl"
- Nov 27 US 63rd manned space mission STS 33 (Discovery 9) returns from space
All Hail the Queen
Nov 28 Queen Latifah releases her debut hip hop album "All Hail the Queen" featuring single "Ladies First"
Henderson's Record Contract
Nov 28 Rickey Henderson signs record $3,000,000 contract per year with baseball's Oakland Athletics
- Nov 29 8th Largest wrestling crowd UFW U-Cosmos (60,000-Tokyo Dome)
- Nov 29 Rajiv Gandhi resigns as Prime Minister of India after losing national elections
- Nov 30 Deutsche Bank board member Alfred Herrhausen is killed by a Red Army Faction terrorist bomb
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