- Nov 1 Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company's handling of sexual harassment
- Nov 1 Ground assault mounted on Yemeni port city of Hudaydah by Saudi-backed government forces
- Nov 1 Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen and its chemicals which bleach coral reefs
She Remembers Everything
Nov 2 Blue Note Records releases "She Remembers Everything", the fourteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, produced by Tucker Martine and Cash's husband John Leventhal
- Nov 2 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 1 winners: Bulletin, Newspaperofrecord, Jaywalk, Line of Duty, Game Winner
- Nov 2 Tiger thought to have killed 13 people shot dead after month-long hunt near Pandharkawada, central India
- Nov 3 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Shamrock Rose, Stormy Liberal, City of Light, Sistercharlie, Roy H, Expert Eye, Monomoy Girl, Enable, Accelerate
- Nov 3 Truck loses control hitting 31 cars and killing at least 15 people near a tollbooth in Lanzhou, China
Music Awards
Nov 4 Camila Cabello wins four awards at the MTV Europe Music Awards in Bilbao, Janet Jackson accepts the Global Icon award
- Nov 4 Death toll from week-long storm in Italy rises to 29 with death of nine people in floods in Casteldaccia, Sicily
- Nov 4 New York City Marathon: Lelisa Desisa of Ethiopia runs 2:05:59, 2nd fastest men's time in history; Kenya's Mary Keitany captures her 4th women's NYC crown in 2:22:48
- Nov 5 "Big Brother" reality show has its last episode in the UK on Channel 5, having run since 2000; series revived in 2023
- Nov 5 BBC opens its largest news bureau outside the UK in Nairobi, Kenya with 300 journalists
- Nov 5 Child suicide rate in Japan at 30-year high with 250 taking their lives 2016/17 according to Government Ministry
- Nov 5 More than 80 students and teachers kidnapped from a boarding school in Bamenda, Cameroon
Voyager 2 Spacecraft
Nov 5 NASA's Voyager 2 probe leaves the solar system, becoming the second human-made object to reach interstellar space
Music History
Nov 5 Spice Girls announce a new tour, without "Posh Spice" Victoria Beckham
- Nov 5 Taskforce set up to identify and punish LGBT people in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez
Nov 6 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (New York) is the youngest person ever elected to the US House of representatives at 29 years
Idris Elba
Nov 6 British actor Idris Elba named "People" magazine's Sexiest Man Alive
- Nov 6 Colorado elects Jared Polis, the country's first openly male gay governor
- Nov 6 Colorado votes to abolish slavery as a form of punishment in state constitution
Prince Charles on Slavery
Nov 6 Great Britain's Prince Charles calls slavery "an indelible stain" but stops short of an apology in a speech in Accra, Ghana
- Nov 6 Human longevity less than 10% dependent on genetics according to study published in journal "Genetics" based on 400 million people from Ancestry.com
- Nov 6 Ilhan Omar (Minnesota) and Rashida Tlaib (Michigan) are the first Muslim women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
- Nov 6 In US Midterm elections Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives after eight years, the Senate is held by Republicans
- Nov 6 More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report
- Nov 6 Record 19 black female judicial candidates all elected in Harris County, Texas, after campaigning together under "Black Girl Magic"
- Nov 6 Sharice Davids (Kansas) and Deb Haaland (New Mexico) are the first Native American women to be elected to the US House of Representatives
Emma Thompson
Nov 7 Actress Emma Thompson is made a Dame of the British Empire by Prince William at Buckingham Palace, London
- Nov 7 Ex-marine opens fire at a bar in Thousand Oaks, California, shooting 12, including a police officer, and himself
- Nov 7 For second straight year France wins Six Nations Rugby Championship on points difference from Ireland, with a final round 46-19 win over Scotland at Stade de France, Saint Denis; Ireland again takes Triple Crown
Political History
Nov 7 US President Donald Trump fires Attorney General Jeff Sessions and appoints Matthew Whitaker in his place as acting Attorney General
- Nov 7 World's oldest figurative painting of a beast at least 40,000 years old identified in Lubang Jeriji Saléh cave, Indonesian Borneo
- Nov 8 Authorities report more than 150 people have been killed in week-long assault by government forces on port of Hudaydah in Yemen
- Nov 8 Azerbaijan woman who spent £16m in Harrods granted bail in UK after being arrested for suspested embezzlement under new laws
- Nov 8 China's state news agency is the first to introduce a virtual newsreader, developed by Chinese search engine Sogou [1]
- Nov 8 CNN correspondent Jim Acosta's White House clearance revoked after continuing to question President Donald Trump while an intern tried to wrestle the microphone off him
- Nov 8 Deadliest fire in Californian history, the Camp Fire starts at Plumas National Forest spreads in Butte County destroying town of Paradise, more than 13,000 buildings and killing at least 88
- Nov 8 Mass grave of 200 people discovered on border of Somali and Oromia regions, Ethiopia, in investigation into atrocities by former regional president Abdi Mohammed
- Nov 8 Qatar delivers $15 million in cash to pay civil servants in Gaza after earlier sending fuel to increase electricity from 4 to 8 hours a day
- Nov 8 Woolsey Fire starts near Thousand Oaks, California with Malibu and Calabasas evacuated, kills three
- Nov 9 Amid Californian forest fires US President Donald Trump accuses state forest management of "gross mismanagement", threatens to withhold funding
- Nov 9 Attacker stabs three, killing one in Melbourne, Australia, with homeless man hailed as hero for using shopping trolley to stop him
- Nov 9 Mudslide after heavy rain in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil kills 10
- Nov 9 Three car bombs explode in Mogadishu, Somalia, killing 52 people and injuring 100
- Nov 11 Democratic Republic of Congo announces its worst-ever outbreak of Ebola with 198 deaths
- Nov 11 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Prague, Czech Republic: in a final denuded of both countries' top players Kateřina Siniaková beats American Sofia Kenin 7-5, 5-7, 7-5 to clinch a 3-0 win for the home side
End of World War I
Nov 11 On centenary of WWI Armistice Day French President Macron urges world to reject Nationalism in speech to under Arc de Triomphe in Paris
Becoming
Nov 12 Former US First lady Michelle Obama publishes her memoir "Becoming"
- Nov 12 Israeli secret operation in Gaza kills eight including one Israeli and an Hamas Commander, igniting tensions with retaliatory rocket attack from Gaza
- Nov 13 Amazon announces two new corporate outposts at Queens, New York and Arlington, Virginia
- Nov 13 Four members of a family arrested for the Rhoden family massacre where eight people were shot, south of Columbus, Ohio in 2016
- Nov 13 Kristine E. Guillaume is named the first black woman to head prestigious Harvard student newspaper "The Crimson"
- Nov 13 Sri Lanka’s Supreme Court blocks President Maithripala Sirisena from dissolving parliament
El Chapo Trial
Nov 13 Trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán begins in New York, he is charged with drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder
Country Music Association Awards
Nov 14 52nd Country Music Association Awards: Keith Urban, Kacey Musgraves, & Carrie Underwood win
- Nov 14 Archaeologists announce discovery of ancient Greek city of Tenea near Corinth, supposedly founded by captives from Trojan War
- Nov 14 Astronomers announce discovery of Super-Earth planet (3.2x bigger than Earth) orbiting red dwarf Barnard's star, 6 light years away
- Nov 14 Attempt to move 720,000 Rohingya back to Myanmar from Bangladesh refugee camps amid international criticism. They refuse to go.
- Nov 14 Edward Hopper's painting "Chop Suey" sells $92 million, a record for the artist at auction in New York
Marie Antoinette
Nov 14 Jewellery that belonged to French Queen Marie Antoinette is auctioned off in Geneva, after not being seen for 200 years
- Nov 14 Large impact crater, 31 km wide, from iron meteorite identified under Hiawatha Glacier in Greenland
- Nov 14 New York Mets pitcher Jacob deGrom wins NL Cy Young Award; his 10 wins fewest ever by a Cy Young winner in a non-strike-shortened season; MLB-leading 1.70 ERA; 29 consecutive start streak longest in MLB history
Brexit Plan Approved
Nov 14 UK Prime Minister Theresa May’s cabinet approves draft plan for country's exit from the European Union (Brexit)
Military and Police Deaths
Nov 15 Afghan President Ashraf Ghani confirms more than 28,000 of the country's military and police have been killed since 2015
Africa's Fastest Train
Nov 15 Africa's fastest train between Casablanca and Tangier in Morocco at 320km (198 miles) inaugurated by King Mohammed VI and French President Emmanuel Macron
Michelangelo's Bronzes
Nov 15 Art experts in England authenticate two bronzes of men riding panthers as Michelangelo's only surviving bronze works
Hockney Record Price
Nov 15 David Hockney's "Portrait of an Artist (Pool with Two Figures)" sells for $90.3 million in New York, record for a living artist
LeBron James
Nov 15 LeBron James passes Wilt Chamberlain for 5th on the NBA's career scoring list with 44 points for the LA Lakers in 126-117 victory over Portland Trail Blazers at the Staples Center, Los Angeles
CIA on Jamal Khashoggi
Nov 16 CIA concludes Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman ordered the killing of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
- Nov 16 Elevator falls down 84 floors when hoist rope breaks, all six people survive unharmed at John Hancock Center, Chicago
- Nov 16 The kilogram is refined by abstract constants replacing the Le Grand K, along with the ampere (electrical current) and kelvin (temperature) at a conference in Paris
- Nov 17 Ireland beats Rugby World Cup champions New Zealand, 16-9 at Aviva Stadium, Dublin; first victory over the All Blacks ever on home soil; flyhalf Johnny Sexton kicks 3 penalties and a conversion
- Nov 17 Missing Argentine naval submarine ARA San Juan with 44 on board found on sea floor a year after it disappeared off coast of Argentina
- Nov 17 Protests across France against rising fuel prices leave 400 injured
Zverev's Upset Win
Nov 18 21-year-old German Alexander Zverev breaks through for a maiden season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6-4, 6-3 upset win in London over 5-time champion Novak Đoković
- Nov 18 American missionary John Allen Chau killed on forbidden North Sentinel Island, Bay of Bengal by one of world's most isolated tribe
- Nov 18 APEC Summit in Papa New Guinea fails to produce a joint agreement for first time in two decades after US and China clash on definition of trade
Ivanka's Emails
Nov 19 Ivanka Trump sent "hundreds" of emails from her personal account about government business, according to Washington Post report
- Nov 19 Nissan chairman Carlos Ghosn arrested in Japan for financial misconduct
Record Rams Kansas City Game
Nov 19 Rams beat Kansas City Chiefs, 54-51 at Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum; 3rd-highest scoring game in NFL history; first time 2 teams score 50 points in same game; Patrick Mahomes' 6 TD passes for KC most in "Monday Night Football" history
- Nov 20 Airbnb bans listings in Israeli settlements in the West Bank
Amitabh Bachchan
Nov 20 Indian actor Amitabh Bachchan confirms he has paid off the debts of 1,398 farmers worth $560,000, amid Indian agricultural crisis
- Nov 20 Mississippi 15 week abortion ban overturned by US judge saying it violated women's constitutional rights
- Nov 20 More than 40 religious scholars killed, at event to mark birth of prophet Mohammed, by a suicide bomber near the airport in Kabul, Afghanistan
- Nov 20 Sell-off in technology stocks leads stock market losses wiping out all 2018 market gains
Gary Player
Nov 20 South African golfer Gary Player receives PGA recognition for his 3 Senior British Open wins (1988, 90, 97) from before event recognised as a major title (2003); takes him to 9 Senior majors
- Nov 21 Former Guatemalan soldier Santos López Alonzo sentenced to 5,160 years for killing 171 people in Dos Erres during the civil war
- Nov 21 RIBA’s best building in the world biennial international prize awarded to Canuanã school in Brazil
- Nov 22 Leaning Tower of Pisa's tilt reduced by 4 cm in 20 year project to stabilise it
- Nov 23 Alabama police kill the wrong suspect after a gunman shoots 18-year-old man and 12-year-old girl at Riverchase Galleria Mall in Hoovermall
- Nov 23 Italian designers Domenico Dolce and Stefano Gabbana apologize for culturally insensitive video and media posts insulting Chinese culture, cancel Shanghai fashion show
Michelson vs. Woods
Nov 23 Phil Mickelson claims $9m winner-takes-all prize in dramatic matchplay golf duel with Tiger Woods, finishing under floodlights in Las Vegas; match goes to 22nd hole before Mickelson sinks 4-foot putt for rich victory
- Nov 23 US Federal Climate report estimates climate change will reduce economy by 10% by 2100 with $141 billion cost from heat-related deaths, $118 billion from sea level rise
- Nov 24 Copa Libertadores Final 2nd-leg between Buenos Aires rivals River Plate & Boca Juniors is postponed after Boca bus attacked by River fans; players suffer cuts & affects of police tear gas; River wins, 5-3 on aggregate when 2nd-leg played in Madrid, Spain (9 Dec)
- Nov 24 Cruise boat sinks on Lake Victoria near Kampala, Uganda, killing at least 29
- Nov 24 ICC Women's Cricket T20 World Cup, Antigua: Ashleigh Gardner with 33 from 26 balls and 3 for 22 leads Australia (106/2) to 4th T20 WC; beat England (105)
- Nov 24 Taiwanese voters vote against referendums to legalise same-sex marriage
- Nov 25 6.3-magnitude earthquake strikes Iran's Kermanshah province injuring at least 700
Hamilton's Fifth Victory
Nov 25 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton wins season-ending Abu Dhabi Grand Prix to claim his 5th Formula 1 World Drivers Championship by 88 points from Sebastian Vettel; Mercedes' 5th straight Constructors title
- Nov 25 CFL Grey Cup, Commonwealth Stadium, Edmonton, Alberta: Calgary Stampeders beat Ottawa RedBlacks, 27-16; in Calgary's 8th Cup win Terry Williams scores a record 97-yard punt-return touchdown
- Nov 25 Davis Cup Tennis, Lille: Marin Čilić beats Frenchman Lucas Pouille 7-6, 6-3, 6-3 to wrap up the final for Croatia, 3-1
- Nov 25 EU leaders approve an agreement for Britain to leave the EU (Brexit)
- Nov 25 Historic north Californian Camp Fire declared 100% contained with 85 dead, 249 missing, covering 153,000 acres with 14,000 homes burnt
- Nov 25 LA Chargers quarterback Philip Rivers sets NFL single-game record, completing 25-straight passes in 45-10 win v Arizona Cardinals; Mark Brunell & David Carr previously share record (22); also sets NFL record for best single-game completion % (96.6)
- Nov 26 Australian surfer Stephanie Gilmore is handed her record equalling 7th world title as American contender Lakey Peterson is a shock 2nd round elimination at the season-ending Maui Pro in Hawaii
- Nov 26 Chinese scientist He Jiankui claims to have made the first genetically edited baby
Aquaman
Nov 26 DC superhero film "Aquaman" directed by James Wan starring Jason Momoa and Amber Heard premieres in London
- Nov 26 First multidrug randomized control trial to treat Ebola started in Democratic Republic of Congo announced by the WHO
- Nov 26 General Motors announces it will close five factories in North America, cutting 14,000 jobs
- Nov 26 NASA's InSight mission lands on Mars after a 7 month voyage
- Nov 26 Third of a species begin dying (23,000) over a two day period, the spectacled flying foxes, unable to survive heatwave of 42 degrees in northern Queensland, Australia
- Nov 26 Ukraine declares martial law in areas bordering Russia after Russia seizes three of its naval vessels
- Nov 27 Convicted US murderer Samuel Little confirmed connected to 90 more murders of women after confessing details
- Nov 27 Explosion near chemical company in Hebei Province, Northern China kills at least 23, injuring 22
Rosario Murillo Sanctioned
Nov 27 US accuses Nicaragua's Vice-President Rosario Murillo, wife of President Daniel Ortega of human rights abuses and imposes sanctions
- Nov 28 Australian state Queensland raises its fire warning to "catastrophic" for the first time as 130 fires burn
- Nov 28 French director Luc Besson accused of sexual harassment by five more women, adding to four already made public
- Nov 29 Opera "Prism" composed by Ellen Reid with lyrics by Roxie Perkin premieres at REDCAT in Los Angeles (2019 Pulitzer Prize for Music)
- Nov 29 Tens of thousands Indian farmers protest the agrarian crisis at parliament in Delhi
- Nov 30 7.0 magnitude earthquake near Anchorage, Alaska
- Nov 30 Marriot Hotels reveal massive data breach - 500 million guests affected in one of largest-ever company hacks
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