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2024 November Trivia and History
Name History
Latin: November. From the word novem, nine (it was the 9th month in the old Roman calendar).
November is:
Special 2024 November Days:
November Historical Dates:
- 1963 - 22nd - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
- 1997 - 20th - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh celebrate 50 years of marriage. “He has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. I and his whole family, and this and many other countries owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.” • Queen Elizabeth on Prince Philip for their 50th Anniversary.
- 1620 - 11th - The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship's 101 passengers, while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.
Quotes relating to November
• “The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
• Lance Morrow
Literature relating to November
- “There once was a country… I left it as a child
but my memory of it is sunlight-clear
for it seems I never saw it in that November
which, I am told, comes to the mildest city.”
• Carol Rumens, Émigrée*
- “Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!”
• English Folk Verse, The Fifth of November (Guy Fawkes Night Poem)
- “Such was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November, when an officer arrived with information that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about seven miles above; Major General [Nathaniel] Green, who commanded the garrison, immediately ordered them under arms, and sent express to General Washington at the town of Hackensack, distant by the way of the ferry = six miles.”
• Thomas Paine, The Crisis
- “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand;
to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.”
• Charlotte Brontö, Jane Eyre (Chap. 1)
- “THEY read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house. They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and grey-looking without its walls lit with orange and yellow confetti and sky-rockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.”
• Ray Bradbury, The Sieve and the Sand
- “... The taste of a fruit, the taste of water,
That face given back to us by a dream,
The first jasmine of November, ...”
• Jorge Luis Borges, Shinto
- “It was on a dreary night of November that I beheld the accomplishment of my toils. With an anxiety that almost amounted to agony, I collected the instruments of life around me, that I might infuse a spark of being into the lifeless thing that lay at my feet.”
• Mary Shelley, Frankenstein, or the Modern Prometheus (Chapter 5)
- “When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.”
• Robert Burns, Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge (1784)
- “November came, with raging south-west winds. Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement.”
• George Orwell, Animal Farm: Chapter 6
- “From thence he removed to Granville, Washington county, near a place known as Slyborough, where, for some years, he labored on the farm of Clark Northup, also a relative of his old master; from thence he removed to the Alden farm, at Moss Street, a short distance north of the village of Sandy Hill; and from thence to the farm now owned by Russel Pratt, situated on the road leading from Fort Edward to Argyle, where he continued to reside until his death, which took place on the 22d day of November, 1829. He left a widow and two children —myself, and Joseph, an elder brother. The latter is still living in the county of Oswego, near the city of that name; my mother died during the period of my captivity.”
• Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
Lyrics relating to November
Verses with November only.
- “Underneath the cold November sky
I’ll wait for You
As the pages of my life roll by
I’ll wait for You - From Without You”
• Ashes Remain
- “Weather the storm and don't look back on last November
When your banners were burning down - From ¡Viva la Gloria!”
• Green Day
- “I always used to love November
But now, it always floods with rain
Oh, how can I forgive?
Those words will stain forever - From November”
• Gabrielle Aplin
- “I recall late November
Holding my breath, slowly, I said
"You don't need to save me
But would you run away with me?"
Yes (Would you run away?) - From Call It What You Want”
• Taylor Swift
- “After the service, when you’re walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel - From The Gunner's Dream”
• Pink Floyd
- “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the "Gales of November" came early
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!" - From The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
• Gordon Lightfoot
- “Remember, the Fifth of November - From Remember”
• John Lennon*
- “When it's November and my soul is dark
You are my June
June in my Johnny Cash heart - From Johnny Cash Heart”
• Caleb Lee Hutchinson