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, 1944
Day of Week 1st » World War II: Units of the British Army land at Walcheren in the Netherlands.
Day of Week 3rd » World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
Day of Week 6th » Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Site e.g Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the 'Fat Man' atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
Day of Week 7th » A Rail transport in Puerto Rico Tragedy on election day in 1944 named passenger train derails in Aguadilla, Puerto Rico from excessive speed when descending a hill. 16 people are killed and 50 are injured.
7th » Soviet spy Richard Sorge, a half-Russian, half-German World War I veteran, is hanged by his Japanese captors along with 34 of his ring.
7th » Franklin D. Roosevelt elected for a record fourth term as President of the United States of America.
Day of Week 10th » The ammunition ship USS Mount Hood AE-11 6 explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus Island Manus, Admiralty Islands, killing at least 432 and wounding 371.
Day of Week 12th » World War II: The Royal Air Force launches 29 Avro Lancaster bombers, which sink the German battleship 'German battleship Tirpitz named Tirpitz', with 12,000 lb Tallboy bombs off Tromsø, Norway.
Day of Week 16th » World War II: Operation Queen, the costly Allied thrust to the Rur, is launched.
16th » World War II: Dueren, Germany, is destroyed by Allies of World War II known as Allied bombers.
Day of Week 18th » The Popular Socialist Youth is founded in Cuba.
Day of Week 19th » World War II: President of the United States e.g U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt announces the 6th War Loan Drive, aimed at selling United States dollar known as US$14 billion in war bonds to help pay for the war effort.
19th » World War II: Thirty members of the German occupation of Luxembourg in World War II The Resistance named Luxembourgish resistance defend the town of Vianden against a larger Waffen-SS attack in the Battle of Vianden.
Day of Week 24th » World War II: Bombing of Tokyo in World War II called Bombing of Tokyo The first bombing raid against the Japanese capital from the east and by land is carried out by 88 American aircraft.
Day of Week 26th » World War II: Nazi Germany Germany begins V-1 (flying bomb) V-1 and V-2 rocket V-2 attacks on Antwerp, Belgium.
Day of Week 27th » World War II: RAF Fauld explosion An explosion at a Royal Air Force ammunition dump in Staffordshire kills seventy people.
Day of Week 29th » The first surgery (on a human) to correct Blue Baby Syndrome e.g blue baby syndrome is performed by Alfred Blalock and Vivien Thomas.
29th » World War II: Liberation Day (Albania) called Albania is liberated by Albanian resistance during World War II named partisan forces.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1944
1st » Kinky Friedman, American singer-songwriter and author
1st » Bobby Heenan, American wrestling manager and sportscaster
1st » Oscar Temaru, French-Polynesian politician, President of French Polynesia
28th » Rita Mae Brown, American author, poet, and screenwriter
28th » R. B. Greaves, Guyanese-American singer-songwriter (d. 2012)
28th » Timothy Krajcir, American serial killer
29th » Twink (musician) Twink, English singer-songwriter, drummer, and actor (The Pretty Things, Pink Fairies, Tomorrow (band) Tomorrow and Stars (British band) Stars)
30th » George Graham (footballer) known as George Graham, Scottish footballer and manager
30th » Dian Parkinson, American model, Miss District of Columbia USA called Miss District of Columbia USA 1965
Famous Deaths for November 1944
2nd » Thomas Midgley, Jr., American chemist and engineer (b. 1889)
7th » Richard Sorge, Azerbaijani-German journalist and spy (b. 1895)
7th » Hannah Szenes, Hungarian-Israeli soldier and poet (b. 1921)
8th » Walter Nowotny, Austrian-German soldier and pilot (b. 1920)
9th » Frank Marshall (chess player) or Frank Marshall, American chess player (b. 1877)
14th » Carl Flesch, Hungarian violinist and educator (b. 1873)
14th » Trafford Leigh-Mallory, English air marshal (b. 1892)
22nd » Arthur Eddington, English astrophysicist and astronomer (b. 1882)
25th » Kenesaw Mountain Landis, American lawyer and judge (b. 1866)
27th » Leonid Mandelstam, Russian physicist (b. 1879)
30th » Paul Masson (cyclist) called Paul Masson, French cyclist (b. 1876)