1731 -Beijing hit by Earthquake; about 100,000 die
1894 - Македонскиот револуционер Гоце Делчев, лично од Даме Груев, примен е за член на ВМРО.
1954 - 1st meteorite known to strike a woman (Liz Hodges-Sylacauga Ala), Sylacauga, Alabama.
1966 - Barbados, one of the Lesser Antilles islands, which 300 years ago was a British colony, declared independence.
2014 - Australia experiences its hottest spring and second-hottest November recorded

526 - Antioch in modern day Syria struck by Earthquake, about 250,000 die
1918 - Serbia annexes Montenegro
1921 - Coldest day in November in Netherlands -14.0°C
1926 – In Tetovo is put into regular production HPP "Foam", the first and oldest hydropower facility in Macedonia (until then they were all coal).
1975 - Kilauea Volcano erupts in Hawaii
2007 - A 7.4 magnitude earthquake occurs off the northern coast of Martinique. This affected the Eastern Caribbean as far north as Puerto Rico and as south as Trinidad.

1520 - Strait of Magellan: After navigating through a strait at the southern end of South America, connecting the Pacific - Atlantic Oceans, three ships under the command of Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan reach the Pacific Ocean, becoming the first Europeans to sail from the Atlantic Ocean to the Pacific.
1821 - Panama declares independence from Spain
1833 - Charles Darwin rides through Las Pietras, returning to Montevideo
1843 - Ka Lahui: Hawaiian Independence Day - The Kingdom of Hawaii is officially recognized by the United Kingdom and France as an independent nation.
1958 - Congo & Mauritania become autonomous members of French Community
1960 - Mauritania gains independence from France (Natl Day)

1701 - Anders Celsius, Uppsala, Sweden, astronomer (proposed the Celsius temperature scale)
1885 - Earliest photograph of a meteor shower taken
1971 - Soviet Mars 2 becomes 1st spacecraft to crash land on Mars
1980 - Soyuz T-3 carries 3 cosmonauts to Salyut 6 space station, launched
2001 - A hydrogen atmosphere is discovered on the extrasolar planet Osiris by the Hubble Space Telescope, the first atmosphere detected on an extrasolar planet.

1703 - Great storm of 1703 hits Southern England (NS 7 Dec) - thousands killed, Royal Navy losses 13 ships and around 1,500 seamen
1778 - Captain Cook discovers Maui in the Sandwich Islands (now Hawaii)
1793 - Republican calendar replaces Gregorian calendar in France
1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
1861 - West Virginia created as a result of dispute over slavery with Virginia
1885 - 1st meteor photograph
1922 - English archaeologist Howard Carter opens Tutankhamun's virtually intact tomb in Egypt