1st November
1886 Ananda College, a leading Buddhist school in Sri Lanka was established with 37 students.
1894 Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr. Roux of Paris
2nd November
1886 Dhirendranath Datta, Bangladeshi politician, born in Ramrail, Tipperah, Bengal Presidency, British India (d. 1971)
1947 Howard Hughes flies “Spruce Goose”, a huge wooden airplane for the first and last time
3rd November
1954 Henri Matisse, French painter, and sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
4th November
1922 Howard Carter discovers the tomb of Tutankhamun in Egypt
1972 Bangladesh adopts the constitution
5th November
1556 Battle at Panipat: Mogollegers beat Hindu leader Hemu
1940 American author and journalist “The Old Man and the Sea” Ernest Hemingway marries journalist Martha Gellhorn
6th November
1746 Absalom Jones, African-American abolitionist and clergyman, born into slavery in Delaware (d. 1818)
1979 Ayatollah Khomeini takes over in Iran
7th November
1907 Delta Sigma Pi, a professional fraternity organized to foster the study of business in universities is founded at New York University.
1951 Entertainer Frank Sinatra (34) marries 2nd wife film star Ava Gardner (26)
8th November
1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays
1938 1st African American woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia
1960 Subroto Mukherjee died while having dinner in Tokyo, where he had gone with Air India International Airlines which made its first inaugural flight to the city of Tokyo, Japan.
