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, 1922
Day of Week 1st » Abolition of the Ottoman Sultanate: The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, abdicates.
Day of Week 14th » The British Broadcasting Company or BBC begins radio service in the United Kingdom.
Day of Week 15th » Over 1,000 are Anarchism in Ecuador The general strike of November 15.2C 1922 and the decline named massacred during a general strike in Guayaquil, Ecuador.
Day of Week 17th » Former List of sultans of the Ottoman Empire e.g Ottoman sultan Mehmed VI goes into exile in Italy.
Day of Week 21st » Rebecca Latimer Felton of Georgia (U.S. state) e.g Georgia takes the oath of office, becoming the first female United States Senate or United States Senator.
Day of Week 24th » Nine Irish Republican Army members are Executions during the Irish Civil War The first executions and reprisals known as executed by an Irish Free State firing squad. Among them is author Robert Erskine Childers, who had been arrested for illegally carryi
Day of Week 26th » Howard Carter (archaeologist) or Howard Carter and George Herbert, 5th Earl of Carnarvon called Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
26th » 'Toll of the Sea' debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor. ('The Gulf Between' was the first film to do so, but it was not widely distributed.)
15th » David Sidney Feingold, American biochemist and academic
16th » Gene Amdahl, American computer scientist, founded the Amdahl Corporation
16th » José Saramago, Portuguese-Spanish author, Nobel Prize in Literature called Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2010)
17th » Stanley Cohen (biochemist) called Stanley Cohen, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine called Nobel Prize laureate
18th » Luis Somoza Debayle, Nicaraguan politician, 70th President of Nicaragua (d. 1967)
19th » Salil Chowdhury, Indian director, playwright, and composer (d. 1995)
19th » Yuri Knorozov, Ukrainian-Russian linguist, epigrapher, and ethnographer (d. 1999)
19th » Rajko Mitic, Serbian footballer and coach (d. 2008)
21st » María Casares, Spanish-French actress (d. 1996)
21st » Abe Lemons, American basketball player and coach (d. 2002)
22nd » Fikret Amirov, Azerbaijani composer (d. 1984)
22nd » Wiyogo Atmodarminto, Indonesian general and politician, 10th List of Governors of Jakarta e.g Governor of Jakarta (d. 2012)
22nd » Eugene Stoner, American weapons designers, designed the AR-15 known as AR-15 rifle (d. 1997)
23rd » Manuel Fraga Iribarne, Spanish politician, 3rd President of the Xunta of Galicia (d. 2012)
23rd » Võ Văn Kiệt, Vietnamese politician, 6th Prime Minister of Vietnam (d. 2008)
24th » Claus Moser, Baron Moser, German-English statistician and academic
24th » Martin Poll, American film and television producer (d. 2012)