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)
- 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
- “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) - “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)
- “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 - “When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.” • Robert Burns, Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge (1784)
- “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
- “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) - “In November days,
When vapours rolling down the valley made
A lonely scene more lonesome, among woods
At noon, and 'mid the calm of summer nights,
When, by the margin of the trembling lake,
Beneath the gloomy hills homeward I went
In solitude, such intercourse was mine;
Mine was it in the fields both day and night,
And by the waters, all the summer long.” • William Wadsworth, The Prelude (Book 1) - “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
- “... 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 - “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
- “Was it ever settled?
Was it ever over?
And is it still raining
Back in November? - From Did I Ever Love You” • Leonard Cohen - “Cause nothing lasts forever, even cold November Rain. - From Guns N' Roses, November Rain” • Loosely based on Del James's short story "Without You."
- “I know it's been some time
But there's something on my mind
You see
I haven't been the same
Since that cold November day
We said we needed space
But all we found was an empty place
And the only thing
I learned
Is that I need you desperately - From Where Do Broken Hearts Go” • Whitney Houston - “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 - “Yeah, she's dancing with the devil
In the cold November Rain
When she's Knocking On Heaven's Door, son
You can bet God'll call her name - From My Baby's Guns N' Roses” • Brantley Gilbert - “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 - “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 - “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
Verses with November only.
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