November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning nine) when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
November symbols: The birthstones of November are the topaz (particularly, yellow) which symbolizes friendship and the citrine. Its birth flower is the chrysanthemum. The zodiac signs for the month of November are Scorpio (until November 21) and Sagittarius (November 22 onwards).
Historical Events for November, 1874
Day of Week 25th » The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by the Panic of 1873.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1874
9th » Albert Francis Blakeslee, American botanist and academic (d. 1954)
10th » Idabelle Smith Firestone, American composer and songwriter (d. 1954)
27th » Charles A. Beard, American historian, author, and educator, co-founded The New School (d. 1948)
27th » František Erben, Czech-Bohemian gymnast (d. 1942)
27th » Chaim Weizmann, Belarusian-Israeli chemist and politician, 1st President of Israel (d. 1952)
29th » Francis Dodd (artist) or Francis Dodd, Welsh-English painter and academic (d. 1949)
29th » Egas Moniz, Portuguese physician and neurologist, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine named Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1955)
30th » Winston Churchill, English colonel, journalist, and politician, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, Nobel Prize in Literature or Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1965)
30th » Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian author (d. 1942)