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:

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  • (Day after Thanksgiving) (Nebraska State Employees Off) - HHH*
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  • (Tuesday after the 1st Monday of even numbered years) 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.*
  • (Tuesday after the 1st Monday, every four years) NNN - When year is divisible by 4, which is nearly the same as leap years.*
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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

•  “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)
•  “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)
•  “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)
•  “'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)
•  “When chill November's surly blast make fields and forest bare.” • Robert Burns, Man Was Made To Mourn: A Dirge (1784)
•  “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
•  “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
•  “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*
•  “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
•  “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)

Lyrics relating to November

Verses with November only.

•  “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
•  “There's a fire in this November sky - From November” • Sleeping With Sirens
•  “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
•  “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
•  “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
•  “Cause nothing lasts forever, even cold November Rain. - From Guns N' Roses, November Rain” • Loosely based on Del James's short story "Without You."
•  “Weather the storm and don't look back on last November When your banners were burning down - From ¡Viva la Gloria!” • Green Day
•  “Keep coolin' down like November
  I'm used to feelin' that fever
  I wanna dive in you deeper - From Heat” • Kelly Clarkson