What important events happened in November?

5th November: Guy Fawkes Day.

From an attempt by a group of Catholic rebels to blow up King James I in 1605 by packing Westminster Palace cellars with explosives. The plot was discovered when one of the plotters tried to warn a friend - the friend got suspicious and the palace was searched. Guy Fawkes was not the leader of the rebellion, but was the man caught in the cellar guarding the powder. The plot was actually exposed on the 4th of November, but the news wasn't known about London until the following day - and it was this day that got marked.Remember, remember The 5th of November

Gunpowder treason and plot

I see no reason

Why gunpowder treason

Should ever be forgot.

November 2nd-8th: The Elections Day for U.S. Presidents. (2008 will be the 4th)

Novemeber 11th: Rememberance Day (United Kingdom) - marking the end of the First World War on 11th November, 1918. Also known as 'Armistice Day'. It is called 'Veterans Day' in the US.

November 1st: All Saints Day.

November 30th: St. Andrews Day (Scotland).

4th Thursday in November: Thanksgiving Day. (US)

Other items occurring in November:

• 22nd of November, 1963: The assassination of President John F Kennedy.
• 24th of November, 1963: The assassination of Lee Harvey Oswald.
• 9th Novemeber, 1938: Der Krystallnacht: Also known as Novemberpogrom. Following the assassination of a Nazi diplomat, Ernst von Rath, by Herschel Grynszpan, a Jew, in the German embassy in Paris, the Nazi government successfully orchestrated anti-jewish riots accross Germany. The event, which saw the destruction of synagogues and jewish-owned buisnesses or homes was so named Der Krystallnacht - "The night of broken glass." It became the prelude to the Holocaust.