Titanic
Nov 1 "Titanic" directed by James Cameron, starring Leonardo DiCaprio and Kate Winslet premieres at the Tokyo International Film Festival (Academy Awards Best Picture 1998)
Sports History
Nov 1 Expanded Negro Leagues Museum and the new American Jazz Museum open in Kansas City's historic 18th and Vine district
- Nov 1 Louisiana State University running back Kevin Faulk rushes for 212 yards and a school record 5 touchdowns in a 63-28 win at Kentucky's Commonwealth Stadium, Lexington
- Nov 1 Nebraska head football coach Tom Osborne records his 250th NCAA career victory with a 67-7 drubbing of Oklahoma; Osborne, in his 25th season, reaches milestone faster than anyone (301 games)
- Nov 1 North Carolina State University wide receiver Torry Holt catches 5 touchdown passes in a 48-35 loss to Florida State at Doak Campbell Stadium, Tallahassee
- Nov 2 "Barrymore" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances
- Nov 2 New York City Marathon: John Kagwe of Kenya wins men's race in 2:08:12; Franziska Rochat-Moser of Switzerland women's champion in 2:28:43
- Nov 2 NFL San Diego Chargers Eric Metcalf returns punts for touchdowns of 85 & 67 yards in 38-31 loss at Cincinnati; joins Hall of Famer Jack Christiansen as only players in NFL history to return punts for TDs twice in a game
Cinderella
Nov 2 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, and Bernadette Peters premieres on ABC-TV
- Nov 2 Typhoon Linda kills at least 208 in southern Vietnam
Sports History
Nov 3 American racing legend Bill Shoemaker retires from thoroughbred training with a 90 winners from 713 start record; rode record 8,833 winners as a jockey, before becoming a trainer in 1990
- Nov 3 Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra becomes 6th player to be unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year; leads AL in hits (209), triples (11), multi-hit games (68); also sets AL rookie-record with 30-game hitting streak
- Nov 3 British TV comedy "I'm Alan Partridge" starring Steve Coogan premieres on BBC Two
- Nov 3 California law ends affirmative action
Come On Over
Nov 4 Mercury Nashville Records releases "Come On Over", the 3rd studio album by Shania Twain (Billboard Album of the Year, 1999)
- Nov 5 2 hours after Davey Johnson resigns he is named AL Manager of Year
Film & TV History
Nov 5 French court orders producer Jacques Charrier, ex-husband of Brigitte Bardot, to pay the former screen star $8,300 in damages
- Nov 6 "Proposals" opens at Broadhurst Theater NYC for 76 performances
- Nov 6 SF Giants manager Dusty Baker named NL Manager of the Year
Bean
Nov 7 "Bean" film directed by Mel Smith and starring Rowan Atkinson as Mr. Bean opens in the US
- Nov 7 Two surgeons who performed plastic surgery on Amado Carrillo Fuentes are found dead, encased in concrete drums showing signs of torture
- Nov 8 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Hollywood Park; winners: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away
- Nov 8 Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild
- Nov 9 "The Scarlet Pimpernel" opens at Minskoff Theater NYC
- Nov 9 Revival of Anton Chekov's stage drama "The Cherry Orchard" closes at Martin Beck Theater, NYC, after limited run of 12 performances
- Nov 10 "Jackie - An American Life" opens at Belasco Theater NYC
Murder of Interest
Nov 10 Nanny Louise Woodward murder conviction downgraded to manslaughter
Canadians win Cy Young
Nov 11 Canadian based players win Cy Young Awards for best MLB pitcher; Toronto Blue Jays' Roger Clemens wins his 4th AL Award; Pedro Martinez of Montreal Expos takes NL Award
Rather Renews
Nov 11 CBS News anchor Dan Rather renews his contract to 2002
- Nov 11 NHL’s new Columbus franchise (scheduled to begin play in 2000) announce team’s name would be “Blue Jackets” after soldiers in the Union army during the American Civil War
- Nov 11 WNBA announces franchises in Detroit (Shock) and Washington D.C. (Mystics) would join the League as expansion teams for the 1998 season
- Nov 12 Dick Vitale signs with ESPN through year 2004
- Nov 13 "Lion King" opens at New Amersterdam Theater NYC
Griffey AL MVP
Nov 13 Ken Griffey Jr. unanimously wins AL MVP
Sports History
Nov 16 47th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Jeff Gordon wins
- Nov 16 After nearly 18 years of incarceration, the People's Republic of China releases Wei Jingsheng, a pro-democracy dissident, from jail for medical reasons.
Pete Sampras
Nov 16 American tennis great Pete Sampras wins back-to-back ATP Tour World Championship titles with a 6–3, 6–2, 6–2 over Russian Yevgeny Kafelnikov in Hanover, Germany
- Nov 16 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton: heavily favoured defending champion Toronto Argonauts beat Saskatchewan Roughriders, 47-23
- Nov 16 Revival of Sherman Edwards' historical musical "1776", featuring Brent Spiner, closes at the Criterion Theater to transfer to the George Gershwin Theatre, NYC
- Nov 17 In Luxor, Egypt, 62 people are killed by 6 Islamic militants outside the Temple of Hatshepsut, known as Luxor massacre (The police then kill the assailants).
Mario Lemieux
Nov 17 Mario Lemieux enters NHL Hall of Fame
- Nov 18 "Titanic: Music from the Motion Picture" album is released by Sony Music Soundtrax
Glitter Arrested
Nov 18 70s glam-rock star Gary Glitter (real name Paul Gadd) arrested by British police in child porn probe
- Nov 18 Arizona Diamondbacks & Tampa Bay Devil Rays expansion draft
- Nov 18 FBI says no evidence of foul play in 1996 TWA 800 crash
- Nov 18 Mavericks' A. C. Green ties Randy Smith's NBA record of 906 cons games
- Nov 18 Rare black pearl necklace auctioned for record $902,000
- Nov 18 Warner Bros. releases "Songs from The Capeman", ninth solo studio album by American singer-songwriter Paul Simon; it contains Simon's own performances of songs from his Broadway musical flop
- Nov 18 Willem de Kooning painting "Two Standing Women" sold for $4,182,500
- Nov 19 "Eugene Onegin" opens at Martin Beck Theater NYC
- Nov 19 "Old Neighborhood" opens at Booth Theater NYC
- Nov 19 McCaughey septuplets (all 7 of them!) born to Bobbi and Kenny McCaughey in Des Moines, Iowa. First set of septuplets to survive infancy.
- Nov 19 STS 87 (Columbia 24) launches into orbit
- Nov 20 Iraq's Revolution Command Council formally endorses an agreement, arranged by Russia, that enables UN weapons inspection teams to resume operations in Iraq
- Nov 20 Last original Florida Marlin, Jeff Conine, traded to KC Royals
- Nov 20 Mavericks' A C Green sets NBA record of 907 consecutive games played
- Nov 20 NY Islanders lose, beginning a 10 game losing streak
Eric Lindros Bites
Nov 20 Philadelphia Flyers Eric Lindros tries to bite San Jose Sharks defenseman Marty McSorley
Ivanov
Nov 20 Revival of Anton Chekov's stage drama "Ivanov", starring Kevin Kline, opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 51 performances
- Nov 20 Yohannes Haile-Selassie discovers the partial skull of a 2.5 million year old human ancestor, confirming and establishing the new species Australopithecus garhi, in Bouri, Middle Awash, Ethiopia
- Nov 22 62nd Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 18-17 in Auburn
Novotná Wins WTA
Nov 23 Czech tennis No. 1 Jana Novotná wins WTA Tour Championship at Madison Square Garden, NYC; beats Mary Pierce of France 7–6, 6–2, 6–3
- Nov 24 "Street Corner Symphony" opens at Brooks Atkinson Theatre, NYC; runs for 79 performances
Sevens
Nov 25 "Sevens" 7th studio album by Garth Brooks is released (Grammy Award Best Country Collaboration with Vocals 1998, Billboard Album of the Year 1998)
- Nov 25 US telephone technician Richard Bliss arrested for spying in Russia
- Nov 26 Wash Capitals final game at USAir Arena, retire Rod Langway's #5
- Nov 27 Lions' Barry Sanders becomes NFL's 2nd all-time rusher
- Nov 27 Twenty-five are killed in the second Souhane massacre in Algeria.
- Nov 28 Final episode of "Beavis & Butt-head" on MTV
- Nov 28 First public appearance of the Kosovo Liberation Army (KLA), an ethnic Albanian guerrilla group that fought for the independence of Kosovo from Serbia.
- Nov 29 OPEC agrees to an increase in its production ceiling. OPEC has raised the ceiling to 27.5 million barrels per day for the first half of 1998
- Nov 29 USAir Arena closes, hosting Wash Wizards
- Nov 30 "Eugene Onegin" closes at Martin Beck Theater NYC
- Nov 30 86th Davis Cup: Sweden sweeps US in Gothenburg (5-0)
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