2025 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 2025 November Days:
- 0th* • (Friday)
- (1st Sunday) NNN - HHH*
- (4th Thursday (since 1941)) NNN - It has been the 4th Thursday since 1941 (Set by Roosevelt) (includes 2025); prior to that, it was the last Thursday and set by Abraham Lincoln in 1863, although not considered a national holiday until reclamation was completed in the 1870s. Prior to that time, it varied by state, and probably some of those states even celebrated on the same as we do today.*
- (Day after Thanksgiving) (Nebraska State Employees Off) - HHH*
- (Day after Thanksgiving) NNN - HHH*
- (Tuesday after the 1st Monday) NNN - A Civic Holiday in Delaware, Hawaii, Kentucky, Montana, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, West Virginia, and the territory of Puerto Rico.*
- EEE NNN - HHH*
- EEE NNN - HHH*
- EEE NNN - HHH*
- EEE NNN - HHH*
- EEE NNN - HHH*
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- celebrates the fall of the Berlin Wall NNN - HHH*
- fourth Thursday (same as Thanksgiving) NNN - HHH*
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
Lyrics relating to November
Verses with November only.
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