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* • (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

•  “We haven't met for many years,“ said Daisy, her voice as matter-of-fact as it could ever be.”
  “Five years next November.” • F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby (Chapter V)
•  “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
•  “Give me the end of the year an' its fun
  When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
  Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
  Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
  Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
  See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
  See the old table with all of its chairs
  An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.” • Edgar A. Guest, Thanksgiving
•  “It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.” • Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 1.2)
•  “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)
•  “But I was touched to find that these chrysanthemums appeared less ephemeral than, one might almost say, lasting, when I compared them with the tones, as pink, as coppery, which the setting sun so gorgeously displays amid the mists of a November afternoon, and which, after seeing them, before I had entered the house, fade from the sky, I found again inside, prolonged, transposed on to the flaming palette of the flowers.” • Marcel Proust, Madame Swann at Home (Chapter 1)
•  “'Twas in November, but I'm not so sure
  About the day—the era's more obscure.
  
  'Twas in November, when fine days are few,
  And the far mountains wax a little hoary,
  And clap a white cape on their mantles blue;
  And the sea dashes round the promontory,
  And the loud breaker boils against the rock,
  And sober suns must set at five o'clock.” • Lord Byron, Don Juan (Canto 1)
•  “Well, the night of November twenty-one I was comin' in from the
  woods with a load o'kindlin' and just as I got to the fence I heard
  Mayella screamin' like a stuck hog inside the house-” • Harper Lee, To Kill a Mockingbird (Chapter 17)
•  “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
•  “To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do” • Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian

Lyrics relating to November

Verses with November only.

•  “Keep coolin' down like November
  I'm used to feelin' that fever
  I wanna dive in you deeper - From Heat” • Kelly Clarkson
•  “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
•  “It wasn't raining yet
  But it was definitely a little misty on
  That warm November night - From The Roof” • Mariah Carey
•  “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
•  “There's a fire in this November sky - From November” • Sleeping With Sirens
•  “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
•  “Cause nothing lasts forever, even cold November Rain. - From Guns N' Roses, November Rain” • Loosely based on Del James's short story "Without You."
•  “It's time for a new direction
  It's time for jazz to die
  Fourth day of November
  We need a purple high
  Don't give up - I'll still love you - From All the Critics Love U in New York” • Prince