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, 1943
Day of Week 1st » World War II: In the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, United States Marine Corps e.g United States Marines, the 3rd Marine Division, land on Bougainville Island named Bougainville in the Solomon Islands.
1st » World War II: In support of the landings on Bougainville Island e.g Bougainville, U.S. aircraft carrier forces Attack on Rabaul (1943) known as attack the huge Japanese base at Rabaul.
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshafen harbor in Germany.
Day of Week 15th » The Holocaust: German Schutzstaffel SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Romani people Gypsies are to be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Internment Concentration camp concentration camps". (See Porajmos.)
Day of Week 16th » World War II: American bombers strike a hydro-electric power facility and heavy water factory in German-controlled Vemork, Norway.
Day of Week 18th » World War II: Battle of Berlin (air) e.g Battle of Berlin 440 Royal Air Force planes bomb Berlin causing only light damage and killing 131. The RAF loses nine aircraft and 53 air crew.
Day of Week 19th » Holocaust: Nazis liquidate Janowska known as Janowska concentration camp in Lemberg (Lviv), western Ukraine, murdering at least 6,000 Jews after a failed uprising and mass escape attempt.
Day of Week 20th » World War II: Battle of Tarawa (Operation Galvanic) begins United States Marines land on Tarawa Atoll in the Gilbert Islands and suffer heavy fire from Japanese shore guns and machine guns.
Day of Week 22nd » World War II: Cairo Conference U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, and Chinese Premier Chiang Kai-shek meet in Cairo, Egypt, to discuss ways to defeat Japan.
22nd » Lebanon gains independence from France.
Day of Week 23rd » World War II: The Deutsche Opernhaus on Bismarckstraße in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg is destroyed. It will eventually be rebuilt in 1961 and be called the Deutsche Oper Berlin.
23rd » World War II: Tarawa Atoll named Tarawa and Makin Atoll called Makin atolls fall to American forces.
Day of Week 24th » World War II: The USS called Liscome Bay is torpedoed near Tarawa Atoll called Tarawa and sinks, killing 650 men.
Day of Week 26th » World War II: HMT Rohna is sunk by the Luftwaffe in an air attack in the Mediterranean Sea or Mediterranean north of Béjaïa, Algeria.
Day of Week 28th » World War II: Tehran Conference U.S. President of the United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt, British Prime Minister of the United Kingdom Prime Minister Winston Churchill and Soviet Premier of the Soviet Union Premier Joseph Stalin meet in Tehran,
Day of Week 29th » World War II: The second session of the Anti-Fascist Council for the National Liberation of Yugoslavia (AVNOJ), held to determine the post-war ordering of the country, concludes in Jajce in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina.