- Nov 1 Baseball World Series: KC Royals win first title since 1985; rally in 9th and break away in 12th to beat NY Mets, 7-2 in Game 5 in NYC; MVP: Royals catcher Salvador Perez
Golf Tournament
Nov 1 Justin Thomas earns his first PGA Tour victory at the CIMB Classic in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
- Nov 1 New York City Marathon: Stanley Biwott of Kenya takes men's division in 2:10:34; compatriot and defending women's champion Mary Keitany wins easily in 2:24:25
- Nov 1 Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet's Davutoglus Justice and Development Party regains its parliamentary majority in a surprise result
Knighthood
Nov 2 Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull scraps Knights and Dames from Australia's honours system
- Nov 3 Game Maker Activision Blizzard (Call of Duty) buys King.com (Candy Crush) for $5.9 billion
- Nov 3 Melbourne Cup won by Prince of Penzance ridden by Michelle Payne; first female jockey to win the event
Event of Interest
Nov 4 Justin Trudeau sworn in as Canadian Prime Minister with a cabinet split equally between men and women
Music History
Nov 4 Katy Perry is the highest paid musician of the year, earning $135 million, according to Forbes Magazine
- Nov 4 Plane crashes after take-off from Juba international airport, South Sudan, killing 37, 1-year-old survives in father's arms
- Nov 4 Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta announces his resignation after protests over a Bucharest nightclub fire that killed 32
- Nov 5 Collins Dictionary name "binge-watch" the word of the year, followed by "transgender"
- Nov 5 Fundão dam in Brazil collapses, killing about 23, causing a second dam to fail, releasing a massive flood of mud down the Rio Dulce
- Nov 5 Japan's 1st officially recognized same-sex couple union - Koyuki Higashi and Hiroko Matsuhara in Tokyo
- Nov 7 Sierra Leone is declared free of Ebola by the World Health Organization (death toll 4,000)
Love Yourself
Nov 9 "Love Yourself" single released by Justin Bieber (Billboard Song of the Year 2016, Grammy Song of the Year)
- Nov 9 "Reclining Nude" by Italian artist Modigliani fetches 2nd highest auction price at $170.4m
- Nov 9 San Diego's SeaWorld announces it will overhaul its killer whale show after controversy over the whales treatment
- Nov 9 Tim Wolfe, President of the University of Missouri, resigns amid protests of endemic racism on campus
- Nov 9 World Anti-Doping Agency commission report recommends Russian Federation be banned from athletics competitions for running a "state-supported" doping programme
- Nov 10 Fourth Republican presidential candidates debate, sponsored by "The Wall Street Journal", held in Milwaukee, Wisconsin
- Nov 10 Portugal's minority government is toppled by left-wing opposition 2 weeks after coming to power
- Nov 11 Flawless 12 carat Blue Moon Diamond sells for $48.4 million at auction in Geneva
- Nov 11 Montreal begins a controversial dumping of raw sewage (2.1bn gallons) into the St Lawrence River
Obama 'Ally of the Year'
Nov 12 Out Magazine names Barack Obama 'Ally of the Year', Obama becomes 1st sitting US President to pose for cover of a gay magazine
- Nov 12 Suicide bombings in Lebanon kill 43, Isis claim responsibility
- Nov 13 Terror attacks in Paris at bars, restaurants, the national football stadium and Bataclan music venue leave 130 dead. Isis claim responsibility.
- Nov 14 Second Democratic presidential candidates debate, broadcast by CBS, held in Des Moines, Iowa
- Nov 15 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Prague, Czech Republic: Czech pair Karolína Plíšková & Barbora Strýcová beats Anastasia Pavlyuchenkova & Elena Vesnina of Russia 4-6, 6-3, 6-2 for a 3-2 win and 9th title for the home country
- Nov 15 France launches air strikes on Isis stronghold Raqqa in Syria in wake of terror attack on Paris
- Nov 15 Holly Holm defeats UFC Champion Ronda Rousey in an upset in Melbourne, Australia
Declaration Against ISIS
Nov 16 French President François Hollande declares the country at war with ISIS in an address to parliament
- Nov 16 Largest diamond discovered in more than a century, a 1,111 carat stone found in the Karowe mine, Botswana
- Nov 17 Ireland's 1st same-sex wedding takes place - Cormac Gollogly and Richard Dowling marry in Clonmel, County Tipperary
- Nov 17 Suicide bomber kills more than 30 in a market in Yola, north-eastern Nigeria, with Boko Haram blamed
Nov 18 "Kangaroo Dundee" wildlife TV series premieres featuring Brolga and Roger the ripped Kangaroo on BBC Two
- Nov 18 2 female suicide bombers aged 18 and 11 blow themselves up in Kano, Nigeria, killing 15 and injuring over 100
Willie Nelson
Nov 18 American singer-songwriter Willie Nelson receives Library of Congress Gershwin Prize at the Thomas Jefferson Building in Washington, D.C.
- Nov 18 French police raid terrorist cell in Saint Denis, killing 2 including the leader of the Paris terror attacks Abdelhamid Abaaoud
- Nov 20 More than half of all trees in Amazon forest at risk of extinction according to data published in journal "Sciences Advances"
25
Nov 20 XL/Columbia releases "25", 3rd studio album by Adele (Grammy Award for Album of the Year, 2017; 2016 Billboard Album of the Year); features the singles "Hello" and "Send My Love (To Your New Lover)"
- Nov 22 43rd American Music Awards: Ed Sheeran, Ariana Grande, One Direction & Luke Bryan win
- Nov 22 In Argentine elections Mauricio Macri (PRO) wins a narrow election victory over his left-wing opponent
Busch's First NASCAR Win
Nov 22 Kyle Busch driving for Joe Gibbs Racing, wins Ford EcoBoost 400 at Homestead-Miami Speedway, Florida to claim his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series
Đoković Wins ATP, Defeats Federer
Nov 22 Serbian tennis star Novak Đoković makes it 4 straight season-ending ATP World Tour Finals tennis titles beating Roger Federer 6-3, 6-4 in the final in London, England
Lydia Ko LPGA Player
Nov 23 Lydia Ko (18) of New Zealand wins women's LPGA Player of the Year and retains the Race to the CME Globe title worth $1 million
Gambia bans Khatna
Nov 23 President Yahya Jammeh of Gambia bans "Khatna", the Islamic ritual practice of genital mutilation of young girls [1]
- Nov 24 Chicago police officer Jason Van Dyke is charged with first-degree murder of 17-year-old African American Laquan McDonald in 2014
- Nov 24 Tunisia declares state of emergency after an attack on a bus in Tunis carrying presidential guards kills at least 12
- Nov 24 Turkey shots down a Russian fighter jet after claiming it had flown into Turkish airspace
- Nov 24 Venezuelan opposition leader Luis Díaz is shot and killed days before the country's general election
Pope Francis' African Visit
Nov 25 Pope Francis begins his trip to Africa, visiting Kenya, Uganda and the Central African Republic
- Nov 26 UK nonprofit Raspberry Pi releases its $5 Zero computer, sells out in a day
- Nov 27 "Holy grail" of shipwrecks the San Jose, sunk 1708, is confirmed found by an international team off the coast of Colombia
- Nov 27 Robert Lewis Dear (57) shots 3 dead and wounds 9 at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado
Fury vs. Klitschko
Nov 28 British boxer Tyson Fury beats Ukrainian Wladimir Klitschko by unanimous decision to win WBA, WBO, IBF, IBO, The Ring magazine and lineal heavyweight titles in Düsseldorf, Germany; ends Klitschko's 9 year reign as champion
Vardy's Record Score
Nov 28 Jamie Vardy scores for Leicester City in a 1-1 draw against Manchester United at the King Power Stadium; EPL record 11th consecutive game in which Vardy scores
- Nov 29 104th Davis Cup: Great Britain beats Belgium in Ghent 6-3, 7-5, 6-3, 1st win since 1936
Nov 29 British Mercedes driver Lewis Hamilton finishes 2nd in season-ending Abu Dhabi F1 Grand Prix to win his 3rd overall, and 2nd consecutive World Drivers Championship by 59 points from teammate Nico Rosberg
- Nov 29 CFL Grey Cup, Investors Group Field, Winnipeg: Edmonton Eskimos beat Ottawa Redblacks, 26-20 for their 14th Championship
- Nov 30 21st Conference of the Parties to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change or COP21 begins in Paris
Kobe Bryant Retires
Nov 30 NBA star Kobe Bryant (LA Lakers) announces his intention to retire at the end of the season
- Nov 30 Pope Francis urges peace while visiting controversial mosque in Bangui's PK5 district in Central African Republic
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