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:

• Academic Writing Month
• Alzheimer's Disease Awareness Month
• American Diabetes Month
• COPD Awareness Month
• Lung Cancer Awareness Month
• National Homeless Youth Awareness Month
• National Novel Writing Month
• Native American Heritage Month (in some places)
• Movember*

Special 2024 November Days:

•  3rd* • (Sunday)  Daylight Savings Time Ends (1st Sunday)
•  5th* • (Tuesday)
  •  Democracy Day (United States) (Tuesday after the 1st Monday of even numbered years)
  •  Election Day (United States) (Tuesday after the 1st Monday, every four years)*
  •  Election Day (Tuesday after the 1st Monday)*
•  9th* • (Saturday)  World Freedom Day celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall
• 10th* • (Sunday)  Winter Weather Awareness Day
• 11th* • (Monday)
  •  Armistice Day
  •  Remembrance Day
  •  Veteran's Day
• 14th* • (Thursday)  World Diabetes Day
• 15th* • (Friday)  America Recycles Day
• 21st* (Today) • (Thursday)  Beaujolais Nouveau Day
• 28th* • (Thursday)
  •  National Day of Mourning (Native American Protest) fourth Thursday (same as Thanksgiving)
  •  Thanksgiving Day (4th Thursday (since 1941))*
• 29th* • (Friday)
  •  Black Friday (Day after Thanksgiving) - (Nebraska State Employees Off)
  •  Native American Heritage Day (Day after Thanksgiving)

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

•  “BOOK:” • Robert Burns, Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge (1784)
•  “BOOK:” • Ray Bradbury, The Sieve and the Sand
•  “BOOK:” • Edgar A. Guest, Thanksgiving
•  “BOOK:” • Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 2.3)
•  “BOOK:” • Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 1.2)
•  “BOOK:” • Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (Ch. 13)
•  “BOOK:” • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 17)
•  “BOOK:” • Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Chapter 1: Loomings)
•  “BOOK:” • Marcel Proust, Names of People (Chapter 1)
•  “BOOK:” • English Folk Verse, The Fifth of November (Guy Fawkes Night Poem)

Lyrics relating to November

Verses with November only.

•  “BOOK: - From All the Critics Love U in New York” • Prince
•  “BOOK: - From My Baby's Guns N' Roses” • Brantley Gilbert
•  “BOOK: - From Long Live The King” • Sabaton
•  “BOOK: - From Where Do Broken Hearts Go” • Whitney Houston
•  “BOOK: - From The Gunner's Dream” • Pink Floyd
•  “BOOK: - From Call It What You Want” • Taylor Swift
•  “BOOK: - From Without You” • Ashes Remain
•  “BOOK: - From Remember” • John Lennon*