| November 1 | 1956 Premium Bonds first went on sale |
| November 2 | 1954 Hancock's Half Hour was first broadcast |
November 3
 | 1968 Graham Hill won the Mexico Grand Prix to become world motor racing champion 1957 The USSR launched a dog into space 1843 The bottom half of Lord Nelson's statue was hoisted to the top of his column in Trafalgar Square - the top half followed the next day |
| November 4 | 1982 The French film director and creator of Monsieur Hulot, Jaques Tati, died 1963 The Beatles appeared in a Royal Command variety performance 1879 James Ritty, a saloon owner in Ohio, patented the first cash register 1862 Richard Gatling patented his gun 1530 Cardinal Wolsey was arrested as a traitor |
| November 5 | 1605 Guy Fawkes was arrested while attempting to blow up the Houses of Parliament |
| November 6 | 1942 The Church of England ended its rule obliging women to wear hats in church |
| November 7 | 1988 Sugar Ray Leonard became the first boxer to win five world championship titles 1967 Henry Cooper won his third Lonsdale belt when he beat Billy Walker 1872 The Marie Celeste set sail from New York bound for Genoa 1783 The last public hanging took place at Tyburn although the last in England was 1868 |
| November 8 | 1978 John Merrill completed his 10 month 6,824 mile walk around the British coast 1974 Covent Garden market moved to Nine Elms 1967 The first UK local radio station, Radio Leicester, went on air 1958 The first British album chart was published in the Melody Maker 1953 Three mountaineers on the slopes of Mount Everest discovered and photographed footprints of the supposed Yeti 1895 The German physicist Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen discovered X rays |
| November 9 | 1990 Mary Robinson, a lawyer, was confirmed as The Republic of Ireland's first woman President 1967 The first issue of the rock magazine Rolling Stone appeared 1925 The Shutzstaffel (Protection Squad) or SS was founded 1922 The Metropolitan Police Commissioner Brigadier General Sir William Horwood was poisoned by arsenic filled chocolates but survived 1859 Flogging was abolished in the British army |
| November 10 | 1989 East Germans moved freely between East and West Berlin for the first time since the Berlin Wall was constructed 28 years earlier 1931 Over 30 people were injured when four elephants stampeded at the Lord Mayor's Show in London |
| November 11 | 1977 Morecambe's West Pier was swept away in gales 1921 The British Legion held its first Poppy Day 1918 At 11am on the 11th day of the 11th month the armistice to end the First World War was signed |
| November 12 | 1981 The General Synod of the Church of England voted in favour of ordaining woman as deacons 1927 The first London to Brighton veteran car run took place 1847 Chloroform was first used in Britain during an operation 1660 John Bunyan was arrested for preaching illegally 1035 King Canute died |
| November 13 | 1946 For the first time a natural cloud was seeded with 3lbs of dry ice to promote precipitation |
| November 14 | 1952 The first British singles chart appeared in the New Musical Express |
| November 15 | 1837 Isaac Pitman's shorthand system was published |
November 16
|  1969 The Clangers first shown on tv
1960 Gilbert Harding collapsed and died outside Broadcasting House 1932 The Prince of Wales opened Stormont, Northern Ireland's new parliament building |
| November 17 | 1879 The Suez Canal opened |
| November 18 |  1928 Mickey Mouse made his screen debut in Walt Disney's 'Steamboat Willie'
1919 The Prince of Wales made his first visit to the USA and was given the first ever ticker tape welcome |
| November 19 |  1969 The Benny Hill Show was first shown on tv and then ran for nearly twenty years
1863 Abraham Lincoln delivered the Gettysburg address 1703 The Man in the Iron Mask died in the Bastille after 24 years imprisonment |
| November 20 | 1970 The Bank of England ten-shilling note went out of circulation in preparation for decimalisation |
| November 21 | 1913 Prince Keika Tokugawa, the fifteenth and last Shogun of Japan, died |
| November 22 | 1946 The Biro pen first went on sale |
| November 23 | 1852 The pillar box first came into use |
| November 24 |  1927 Sir Harry Lauder was given the freedom of Edinburgh
1859 Charles Darwin's "The Origin of Species" was first published 1642 Dutch navigator Abel Tasmin discovered Van Diemen's Land, later renamed Tasmania |
| November 25 | 1963 President John F Kennedy was buried in Arlington National Cemetery |
| November 26 |  1968 Cream made their farewell performance at the Albert Hall
1966 The world's first major tidal power station opened on the Rance estuary in Brittany, France |
| November 27 | 1582 Anne Hathaway married William Shakespeare |
| November 28 | 1983 The European Space Agency's Spacelab was launched  1968 Children's writer Enid Blyton died
1919 Nancy Astor became Britain's first woman MP 1893 New Zealand women became the first women in the world to vote in a General Election 1660 The Royal Society was founded |
| November 29 | 1929 Bernt Balchen and Richard Byrd made the first flight over the South Pole |
| November 30 | 1931 Columbia and HMV merged to form Electrical and Musical Industries (EMI) |
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