November 1, 1512: The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel is viewable to the public.
November 2, 1795: The French Directorate takes power in Paris. A five-man revolutionary government replaces the Committee of Public Safety after the Reign of Terror.
November 3, 1957: Laika, a stray dog from Moscow, becomes the first animal launched into space.
November 4, 1880: James and John Ritty invent the first cash register, naming it “Ritty’s Incorruptible Cashier.” The brothers saw a machine counting the revolutions of a ship’s propeller and applied the concept to keep track of sales.
November 5, 1872: Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time. The suffragist votes in her hometown of Rochester, New York.
November 6, 1860/61: Abraham Lincoln is elected the 16th Presidents of the United States/Jefferson Davis is elected as the first and only president of the Confederacy.
November 7, 1492: The Ensisheim meteorite crashes into a wheat field outside of the village of Ensisheim, Alsace, now France. It Is the oldest European meteorite with part of the meteorite still preserved.
November 8, 1935: John L. Lewis, leader of the United Mine Workers, announces the Committee for Industrial Organization. It was one of the first big unions that merged labor organizations from various industries into one group.
November 9, 1620: on the Mayflower, Pilgrims see land at Cape Cod. They spent the next few days sailing towards Virginia but was turned back around due to strong winds.
November 10, 1888: Jack the Ripper commits his last known murder.
November 11, 1921: President Harding dedicates the Tomb of the Unknown Solider. The Tomb, located at Arlington Cemetery, contains the remains of unidentified American soldiers who died in World War 1, World War 2, and the Korean War.
November 12, 1980: Voyager 1 passes Saturn with 77,000 miles. It was launched 3 years prior and sent pictures of Saturn’s rings back to Earth.
November 13, 1790: William Herschel, an astronomer, discovers a nebula, a massive cloud of interstellar dust and gas. This led him to propose a theory of nebulae as stars forming from gases condensing under the force of gravity.
November 14, 1552: Lady Jane Grey is arrested, she was the great-granddaughter of Henry VII and was the Queen of England for 9 days before being accused of high treason and beheaded by order of Mary Tudor.
November 15, 1315: The Battle of Morgarten. An army of peasants known as the Swiss Confederation springs an ambush on the Hapsburg army of Leopold I. This victory was the first in a struggle to establish the nation of Switzerland.
November 16, 1959: The Sound of Music, by Rodgers and Hammerstein, opens on Broadway.
November 17, 1837: Guiseppe Verdi’s first opera debuts in Milan. The artistic director of La Scala Theater was impressed by the composer’s opera called, Oberto, Conte de San Bonifacio.
November 18, 1865: Mark Twain publishes The Celebrated Jumping Frog of Calaveras County. It was his first short story published. 2 years later, he published a collection of stories under the same title.
November 19, 1794: The United States and Great Britain sign the Jay Treaty. It resolved lingering issues from the Revolutionary War.
November 20, 1998: The first module of the International Space Station is launched.
November 21, 1922: Rebecca Latimer Felton becomes the first female Senator. She campaigned for women’s suffrage and was appointed Senator by the governor of Georgia. Although the next day she was replaced by special election.
November 22, 1718: The pirate Blackbeard, Edward Teach, was killed in combat after the Governor of Virgina, Alexander Spotswood, sent a small group of sailors to attack Blackbeard.
November 23, 1765: Frederick County, Maryland, is the first in the American colonies to refuse to pay they British Stamp Act.
November 24, 1859: Charles Darwins’ On the Origin of Species is published. 1,250 copies were printed, and all copies were sold by the end of the day.
November 25, 1992: The parliament of Czechoslovakia voted to split the country into two separate republics of Czech and Slovak.
November 26, 1922: Archaeologist Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamen after being undisturbed for almost 3,000 years.
November 27, 1095: Pope Urban II calls for the first crusade at the Council of Clermont in France.
November 28, 1893: Women vote for the first time in New Zealand.
November 29, 1972: The first video game, Pong, is released by Atari.
November 30, 1959: The Antarctic Treaty is signed by 12 countries: Argentina, Australia, Belgium, Chile, France, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Africa, the Soviet Union, the United Kingdom, and the United States. This made the continent a demilitarized zone for scientific research.