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1.11 November events

November 1 – Fire destroys Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont , France – 144 dead.
November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.
November 5 - Vietnam War: United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).
November 8 – Egypt, Sudan and Libya announce their intentions to form a federation.
November 9 – Charles de Gaulle dies – he is buried November 13.
November 9 – Soviet Union launches Luna 17.
November 9 - Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 to not hear a case by the state of Massachusetts asking to allow the state the ability to enforce its law granting Massachusetts residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
November 10 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - For the first time in five years, an entire week ended with no reports of American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
November 12 – Soviet author Andrei Amalrik sentenced for three years for anti-Soviet writings.
November 12 – Tornado in East Pakistan - 250.000 dead.
November 12 - The Oregon Highway Division (now known as the Oregon Department of Transportation) is given the task of removing a rotting beached Grey whale, leading to the now infamous exploding whale incident.
November 13 – Military coup in Syria – Hafez al-Assad takes the power.
November 13 - A 100-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh)s, killing an estimated 500,000 people (this is regarded as the 20th century's worst cyclone disaster).
November 14 - fatal airplane accident in Wayne County, West Virginia, claims the lives of the entire Marshall University football team.
November 17 - Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai massacre.
November 17 - Luna program: The Soviet Union lands Lunokhod 1 on Mare Imbrium (Sea of Rains) on the Moon. This is the first roving remote-controlled robot to land on another world and was released by the orbiting Luna 17 spacecraft.
November 18 - US President Richard Nixon asks the United States Congress for US$155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government (US$85 million was for military assistance in order to help prevent the overthrow of the government of Premier Lon Nol by the Khmer Rouge and North Vietnam).
November 18 – United Nations Security Council demands that no government should recognize Rhodesia.
November 19 – EEC prime minister meeting in Munich.
November 21 – Syrian Prime Minister Hafez al-Assad forms a new government but retains the post of defense minister.
November 21 – in Ethiopia, Eritrea Liberation Front kills an Ethiopian general.
November 21 - Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast - A joint Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American POWs thought to be held there (there were zero Americans killed, but the prisoners had already moved to another camp; All US POWs were moved to a handful of central prison complexes as a result of this raid).
November 22 – Guinean president Sekou Toure accuses Portugal of an attack when hundreds of mercenaries land near capital Conakry. Guinean army repels the landing attempts in November 23- 24. November 25- 29 UN delegation arrives to investigate the situation. In December 4 UN announces that Portuguese navy and army units are responsible.
November 25 - In Japan, world-famous author and Tatenokai militia leader Yukio Mishima and his followers take over Inchigaya HQ of the Japanese Self-Defense Force and take general Kanetoshi Mashita hostage. When Mishima's speech fails to sway public opinion towards his right-wing political beliefs, he commits seppuku.
November 26 – East Pakistan leader sheik Mujibur Rahman accuses central government of negligence in catastrophe relief.
November 26 – Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
November 27 – Philipino artist Benjamin Mendoza . tries to assassinate Paul VI during pope's visit in Manila

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