1st » Puerto Rico known as Puerto Rican nationalists Griselio Torresola and Oscar Collazo Truman assassination attempt called attempt to assassinate US President Harry S. Truman at Blair House.
1st » Pope Pius XII claims papal infallibility when he formally dogmatic definition e.g defines the dogma of the Assumption of Mary.
8th » Korean War: United States Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown, while piloting an F-80 Shooting Star, shoots down two North Korean Mikoyan-Gurevich MiG-15 known as MiG-15s in the first jet aircraft-to-jet aircraft dogfight in history.
13th » General Carlos Delgado Chalbaud, President of Venezuela, is assassinated in Caracas.
17th » Lhamo Dondrub is officially named the 14th Dalai Lama.
19th » US General Dwight D. Eisenhower becomes Supreme Commander of NATO called NATO-Europe.
21st » Two Canadian National Railway trains collide in northeastern British Columbia in the Canoe River train crash; the death toll is 21, with 17 of them Canadian troops bound for Korea.
24th » The "Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950 named Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, takes shape on this date before paralyzing the northeastern United States and the Appalachians the next day, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperat
25th » The Great Appalachian Storm of November 1950, known at the time as the "Storm of the Century", strikes New England with hurricane force winds resulting in massive forest blow-downs and storm surge damage along the Northeast coast including New York City.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1950
1st » Mitch Kapor, American computer programmer and businessman, founded Lotus Software and Electronic Frontier Foundation
1st » Robert B. Laughlin, American physicist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physics called Nobel Prize laureate
1st » Dan Peek, American guitarist (America (band) e.g America) (d. 2011)
2nd » Alex Fagan, American police officer (d. 2010)
2nd » Erika Mann (politician) known as Erika Mann, German politician
3rd » Massimo Mongai, Italian journalist and author
9th » Parekura Horomia, New Zealand politician, 40th Minister of Māori Affairs (d. 2013)
10th » Debra Hill, American screenwriter and producer (d. 2005)
10th » Bob Orton, Jr., American wrestler
10th » Jack Scalia, American actor and producer
11th » Mircea Dinescu, Romanian journalist and poet
11th » Jim Peterik, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Survivor (band) or Survivor, Pride of Lions, and The Ides of March (band) e.g The Ides of March)
12th » Barbara Fairchild, American singer-songwriter
12th » Urmas Lõoke, Estonian architect
13th » Mary Lou Metzger, American singer and dancer
13th » Gilbert Perreault, Canadian ice hockey player and coach
14th » Sarah Radclyffe, English producer and production manager
15th » Egon Vaupel, German politician, 16th Mayor of Marburg
21st » Gary Pihl, American guitarist (Boston (band) e.g Boston)
22nd » Lyman Bostock, American baseball player (d. 1978)
22nd » Jim Jefferies (footballer) named Jim Jefferies, Scottish footballer and manager
22nd » Wayne Larkins, English cricketer and footballer
22nd » Art Sullivan, Belgian singer
22nd » Steven Van Zandt, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, producer, and actor (E Street Band, Steel Mill, and Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes)
22nd » Tina Weymouth, American singer-songwriter and bass player (Talking Heads and Tom Tom Club)
23rd » Nrisingha Prasad Bhaduri, Indian indologist, author, and academic
23rd » Carlos Eire, Cuban-born American author and academic
23rd » Chuck Schumer, American lawyer and politician