November is home to some important holidays, the birthdays of six U.S. Presidents, and much more. How much do you know about events that occur/occurred in the eleventh month of the year?
For this quiz, we have eleven questions about the month of November. We will list four events that may or may not have happened in November. Three events will be true, but one will not. It’s your job to determine which event did not happen in November.
Good luck!
Answers can be found in the last article of this issue, “Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life – December 2026. Keep reading your way through this issue, or you can use this link to jump to the answers,
Next Month in This Awful Awesome Life - December 2026 by Fran Joyce — This Awful-Awesome Life
1. November 1:
a. The first medical school for women opened in Boston on November 1, 1848.
b. The Battle of Gettysburg was fought November 1-3, 1863.
c. The European Union came into existence on November 1, 1993, as a result of the Maastricht Treaty.
d. All Hallow’s Eve, also known as All Saint’s Day, occurs on November 1 each year to commemorate all those who have no specific feast day.
2. November 3:
a. The Euro, a unified currency for European countries was introduced into public circulation on November 3, 2002.
b. On November 3, 1957, Soviet Russia launched Sputnik II, the world’s first inhabited space capsule which carried Laika, a dog.
c. King Henry VIII became Supreme Head of the Church of England after the passage of the Act of Supremacy by Parliament.
d. Following a revolt engineered by the United States, Panama declared itself independent of Colombia on November 3, 1903.
3. November 5:
a. On November 5, 1932, Walt Disney debuted the first American animated feature film, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs.
b. Guy Fawkes Day in Britain to remember the anniversary of the failed “Gunpowder Plot” in 1605 intended to blow up King James I and the House of Parliament.
c. American author and poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox, known for the famous lines “Laugh and the world laughs with you; weep and you weep alone,” in her poem “Solitude,” was born on November 5, 1850.
d. Italian physicist Guglielmo Marconi successfully transmitted radio waves across the Atlantic Ocean from Nova Scotia to England on November 5, 1911.
4. November 8:
a. Irish author Bram Stoker was born November 8, 1847, in Dublin.
b. On November 8, 1519, Cortes conquered Mexico after landing on the Yucatan Peninsula in April and advancing inward to the Aztec capital and capturing Aztec emperor Montezuma.
c. On November 8, 1900, inventor Fred Wolf patented the first refrigerator for the home.
d. Operation Torch, the Allied Landings in North Africa began on November 8, 1942, as 400,000 soldiers under the command of General Dwight D, Eisenhower landed in Algeria and Morrocco.
5. November 11:
a. The signing of the Armistice between Allied and Central powers took place in Marshal Foch’s railway car in the Forest of Compiegne put an end to World War I at 11 a.m. on the eleventh day of the eleventh month of 1918.
b. The Church of England voted to allow women to become priests on November 11, 1992.
c. On November 11, 1744, Abigail Smith was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts. After marrying John Adams in 1764, she became his closet advisor and the first Second Lady during his vice presidency and second First Lady during his presidency.
d. The ASPCA was formed in New York City on November 11, 1922, to advocate for better treatment of animals.
6. November 15:
a. On November 15, 1777, the Continental Congress adopted the Articles of Confederation.
b. Public outrage after the November 15, 1905, fire at the Triangle Shirtwaist Company factory in Chicago, Illinois, which claimed the lives of 145 workers, led to labor reforms and safety laws to protect vulnerable workers.
c. The largest anti-war rally in U.S. history took place in Washington D.C. on November 15, 1969, as 250,000 people protested the Vietnam War.
d. On November 15, 1980, Pope John Paul II visited West Germany during the first papal visit to Germany since 1780 (200 years).
7. November 17:
a. On November 17, 1972, five men broke into the Democratic National Committee headquarters at the Washington, D.C. Watergate Office Building.
b. On November 17, 1558, Queen Elizabeth I ascended the throne of England at the age of 25 following the death of her father, Henry VIII.
c. New York weekly Journal publisher John Peter Zenger was arrested and charged with libeling the governor of New York on November 17, 1734. During his trial, Zenger established that his words were true and could not be considered libel. This was an early step toward freedom of the press in America.
d. NAFTA, the North American Free Trade Agreement, was approved by the U.S. House of Representatives on November 17, 1993.
8. November 20:
a. On November 20, 1789, New Jersey became the first state to ratify the Bill of Rights.
b. The Nuremberg War Crime Trials began on November 20, 1945. Twenty-four former leaders of Nazi Germany were charged with crimes against humanity, war crimes, crimes against peace, and conspiracy to wage wars of aggression.
c. Operation Just Cause, the code name for the U.S. Invasion of Panama began on November 20, 1985.
d. On November 20, 1910, Francisco Madero launched a social revolution in Mexico calling for honest elections after calling out Mexico’s political dictatorship.
9. November 21:
a. On November 21, 1920, the IRA (Irish Republican Armey) shot and killed 14 British soldiers in Dublin on what became known as “Bloody Sunday.”
b. French author and philosopher, Voltaire, an advocate of human rights, was born in Paris on November 21, 1694.
c. American baseball legend, Stan Musial was born in Donora, Pennsylvania on November 21, 1920.
d. On November 21, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation.
10. November 25:
a. Ireland voted to legalize divorce by a margin of less than one percent on November 25, 1995.
b. The reign of British monarch, Queen Victoria, known as the Victorian Era, began on November 25, 1837, and lasted until her death on January 22, 1901.
c. On November 25, 1783, the last British troops left New York City after the end of the American Revolutionary War.
d. The Parliament in Czechoslovakia voted to divide the country into separate Czech and Slovak republics on November 25, 1992.
11. November 30:
a. The Tet Offensive, one of the largest military campaigns of the Vietnam War was launched on November 30, 1968.
b. In the Winter War, Finland was invaded by more than twenty Russian divisions on November 30, 1939.
c. On November 30, 1995, Bill Clinton became the first U.S. president to visit Northern Ireland.
d. Samuel Clemens (1835) and Winston Churchill (1874) were both born on November 30.