# 30 November 1979 – Pink Floyd's rock opera, The Wall is released.
# 29 November 1947 – Partition Plan: The United Nations General Assembly approves a plan for the partition of Palestine.
# 28 November 1972 – Last executions in Paris: Claude Buffet and Roger Bontems are guillotined at La Santé Prison.
# 27 November 1895 – At the Swedish–Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.
# 26 November 2003 – The Concorde makes its final flight, over Bristol, England.
# 25 November 2016 – Fidel Castro, Communist leader of Cuba, and revolutionary (b. 1926)
# 24 November 1859 – Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.
# 23 November 1959 - French President Charles de Gaulle declares in a speech in Strasbourg his vision for "Europe, from the Atlantic to the Urals".
# 22 November 1963 – U.S. President John F. Kennedy is assassinated and Texas Governor John Connally is seriously wounded by Lee Harvey Oswald, who also killed Dallas Police officer J. D. Tippit after fleeing the scene. U.S Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson is sworn in as the 36th President of the United States afterwards.
# 21 November 1905 – Albert Einstein's paper that leads to the mass–energy equivalence formula, E = mc², is published in the journal Annalen der Physik.
# 20 November 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis ends: In response to the Soviet Union agreeing to remove its missiles from Cuba, U.S. President John F. Kennedy ends the quarantine of the Caribbean nation.
# 19 November 1863 – American Civil War: U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivers the Gettysburg Address at the dedication ceremony for the military cemetery at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
# 18 November 1978 – In Jonestown, Guyana, Jim Jones led his Peoples Temple to a mass murder–suicide that claimed 918 lives in all, 909 of them in Jonestown itself, including over 270 children. Congressman Leo Ryan is murdered by members of the Peoples Temple hours earlier.
# 17 November 1858 – Modified Julian Day zero.
# 16 November 1945 – UNESCO is founded.
# 1955年 11月15日 - 自由党と日本民主党が合併し、自由民主党が誕生。（保守合同）
# 14 Novembre 1831 : les croquades de Poires de Philipon deviennent le symbole de la lutte des Républicains contre le régime de la monarchie de Juillet de Louis-Philippe.
# 13 November 1970 - 평화시장의 재단사이자 노동운동가 전태일이 '근로기준법' 책을 불태우며 분신하였다. Jeon Tae-il (August 26, 1948 – November 13, 1970) was a South Korean worker and workers' rights activist who committed suicide by burning himself to death at the age of 22 in protest of the poor working conditions in South Korean factories. His death brought attention to the substandard labor conditions and helped the formation of labor union movement in South Korea.
# 12 November 2014 – The Philae lander, deployed from the European Space Agency's Rosetta probe, reaches the surface of Comet 67P/Churyumov–Gerasimenko.
# 11 November 1918 – World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car in the forest of Compiègne.
# 10 November 2007 - ¿Por qué no te callas? (Spanish pronunciation: [poɾˈke no te ˈkaʎas], English: "Why don't you shut up?") is a phrase that was uttered by King Juan Carlos I of Spain to VenezuelanPresident Hugo Chávez, at the 2007 Ibero-American Summit in Santiago, Chile, when Chávez was repeatedly interrupting Prime Minister of Spain José Luis Rodríguez Zapatero's speech. The phrase became an overnight sensation, gaining cult status as a mobile-phone ringtone; spawning a domain name; a contest; T-shirt sales; a television program; and YouTube videos.
# 09 November 1967 – The first issue of Rolling Stone magazine is published.
# 08 November 1895 – While experimenting with electricity, Wilhelm Röntgen discovers the X-ray.
# 07 November 2016 – Leonard Cohen, Canadian singer-songwriter and poet (b. 1934)
# 06 November 1917 – October Revolution: Troops loyal to the Russian Directorate clash with Bolshevik Red Guards over the control of several bridges in Petrograd.
# 05 November 2013 – India launches the Mars Orbiter Mission, its first interplanetary probe.
# 04 November 2008 – Barack Obama becomes the first person of biracial or African-American descent to be elected President of the United States.
# 03 November 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
# 02 November 1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
# 01 November 1955 – The Vietnam War begins.