| November 7, 1917 | November 7, 1940 |
| • Russia's Bolshevik Revolution took place as forces led by Vladimir Lenin over-threw the provisional government of Alexander Kerensky. | • Only 4 months after its completion, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge, also known as "Galloping Gertie" for its tendancy to undulate in the wind, suffers a spectacular collapse. Due to the vertical dipping and weaving, tourists had treated the bridge as a roller coaster ride. |
| November 8, 1793 | November 8, 1950 |
| • The Louvre in Paris opened its doors to the public for the first time. | • During the Korean War, the first Jet plane battle took place as U.S. Air Force Lt. Russell J. Brown shot down a North Korean MiG-15. |
| November 9, 1965 | November 9, 1989 |
| • At Dusk, the biggest power failure in U.S. history occurs as all of New York state, portions of seven neighboring states and parts of eastern Canada are plunged into darkness. The Great Northeast Blackout was caused by the tripping of a 230-kilovolt transmission line near Ontario, Canada. | • Communist East Germany threw open its borders, allowing citizens to travel freely to the West. Joyous Germans danced atop the Berlin Wall. |
| November 10, 1775 | November 10, 1975 |
| • The Continental Congress passes a resolution that creates the Continental Marines. The date in now observed as the birth date of the United States Marine Corps. | • During a severe storm, the giant ore freighter SS Edmund Fitzgerald sinks 17 miles from the entrance to Whitefish Bay on Lake Superior, taking all 29 crewmembers with her. |
| November 11, 1620 | November 11, 1918 |
| • Forty-one Pilgrims signed a compact aboard the Mayflower , which was anchored off the Massachusetts coast. The compact called for a "body politick" to enact "just and equal laws". | • At the 11th hour on the 11th day of the 11th month, World War I ends. The "War to End all Wars" left 9 million soldiers dead and 21 million wounded. At least 5 million civilians died from disease, starvation or exposure. |
| November 12, 1927 | November 12, 1954 |
| • Josef Stalin became the undisputed ruler of the Soviet Union as Leon Trotsky was expelled from the the Communist Party. | • Ellis Island, the immigration station in New York Harbor, closed after processing more than 20 million immigrants since its opening in 1892. |
| November 13, 1969 | November 13, 1982 |
| • In a speech in Des Moines, Iowa, Vice President Spiro T. Agnew accused network television news departments of bias and distortion, and he urged viewers to lodge complaints. | • The Vietnam Veterans Memorial, the long awaited V-shaped black granite wall inscribed with the names of the 57,939 Americans who died in the Vietnam war, is dedicated in Washington. It soon became one of the most visited memorials in the nation's capital. |