November 30

Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1718	Swedish king Charles XII dies during a siege of the fortress Fredriksten in Norway.	Lee Hazlewood	No Train to Stockholm	Cowboy in Sweden
1786	Peter Leopold Joseph of Habsburg-Lorraine, Grand Duke of Tuscany, promulgates a penal reform making his country the first state to abolish the death penalty. Consequently, November 30 is commemorated by 300 cities around the world as Cities for Life Day.	The Byrds	Life in Prison	Sweetheart of the Rodeo
1804	The Democratic-Republican-controlled United States Senate begins an impeachment trial against Federalist-partisan Supreme Court of the United States Justice Samuel Chase.	Reach the Sky	The Chase Is On	So Far From Home
1902	American Old West: Second-in-command of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch gang, Kid Curry Logan, is sentenced to 20 years imprisonment with hard labor.	Logan's Loss	Rites of Spring	Rites of Spring
1934	The steam locomotive Flying Scotsman becomes the first to officially exceed 100mph.	My Morning Jacket	Steam Engine	It Still Moves
1954	In Sylacauga, Alabama, United States, the Hodges Meteorite crashes through a roof and hits a woman taking an afternoon nap in the only documented case of ahuman being hit by a rock from space.	The Gerbils	Meteoroid From the Sun Strikes a Dead Wierdo	The Battle of Electricity
2004	Longtime Jeopardy! champion Ken Jennings of Salt Lake City, Utah finally loses, leaving him with US$2,520,700, television's biggest game show winnings.	The Descendents	I'm Not a Loser	Milo Goes to College

(Historical facts about November 30 are from Wikipedia.)

November 29

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1777	San Jose, California, is founded as el Pueblo de San José de Guadalupe. It is the first civilian settlement, or pueblo, in Alta California.	Dionne Warwick	Do You Know the Way to San Jose?	I Say a Little Prayer
2.	1910	The first US patent for inventing the traffic lights system is issued to Ernest E. Sirrine.	The Snobs	Red Light, Green Light	Control
3.	1929	U.S. Admiral Richard Byrd becomes the first person to fly over the South Pole.	Piebald	South of Heaven (Slayer)	Barely Legal / All Ages
4.	1961	Project Mercury: Mercury-Atlas 5 Mission – Enos, a chimpanzee, is launched into space. The spacecraft orbited the Earth twice and splashed-down off the coast ofPuerto Rico.	The Pixies	Monkey Gone to Heaven	Doolittle
5.	1972	Nolan Bushnell (co-founder of Atari) releases Pong (the first commercially successful video game) in Andy Capp's Tavern in Sunnyvale, California.	UNKLE	Back and Forth	Never Neverland
6.	N/A	Republic Day (Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia)	New Order	Times Change	Republic

(Historical facts about November 29 are from Wikipedia.)

November 28

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1582	In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence.	The Dixie Cups	Chapel of Love	Chapel of Love
2.	1814	The Times in London is for the first time printed by automatic, steam powered presses built by the German inventorsFriedrich Koenig and Andreas Friedrich Bauer, signaling the beginning of the availability of newspapers to a mass audience.	Red House Painters	Make Like Paper	Songs for a Blue Guitar
3.	1895	The first American automobile race takes place over the 54 miles from Chicago's Jackson Park to Evanston, Illinois.Frank Duryea wins in approximately 10 hours.	The Beach Boys	Don't Worry Baby	Don't Worry Baby
4.	1907	In Haverhill, Massachusetts, scrap-metal dealer Louis B. Mayer opens his first movie theater.	Belle & Sebastian	It Could Have Been a Brilliant Career	Boy with the Arab Strap
5.	1929	Ernie Nevers of the then Chicago Cardinals scores all of the Cardinals' points in this game as the Cardinals defeat theChicago Bears 40-6.	Sick of It All	Clobberin' Time / Pay the Price	Blood, Sweat, and No Tears
6.	1975	As the World Turns and The Edge of Night, the final two American soap operas that had resisted going to pre-taped broadcasts, air their last live episodes.	Doves	Last Broadcast	Last Broadcast
7.	1994	In Portage, Wisconsin, convicted serial killer Jeffrey Dahmer is clubbed to death by an inmate in the Columbia Correctional Institution gymnasium	Cro-Mags	Street Justice	In an Age of Quarrel

(Historical facts about November 28 are from Wikipedia.)

November 27

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1095	Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.	Morning Dew	Crusader's Smile	Morning Dew
2.	1830	St. Catherine Laboure experienced a vision of the Blessed Virgin standing on a globe, crushing a serpent with her feet, and emanating rays of light from her hands.	Elf Power	Let the Serpent Sleep	Creatures
3.	1839	In Boston, Massachusetts, the American Statistical Association is founded.	Statistics	A Number, Not a Name	Leave Your Name
4.	1886	German judge Emil Hartwich sustains fatal injuries in a duel, which would become the background for "Effi Briest", a classic work of German literature.	Mates of State	A Duel Will Settle This	Our Constant Concern
5.	1895	At the Swedish-Norwegian Club in Paris, Alfred Nobel signs his last will and testament, setting aside his estate to establish the Nobel Prize after he dies.	Beat Happening	Fortune Cookie Prize	Dreamy
6.	1924	In New York City, the first Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade is held.	The Magnetic Fields	Parades Go By	69 Love Songs, Vol. 1
7.	1934	Bank robber Baby Face Nelson dies in a shoot-out with the FBI.	The Apricots	Baby Face	My Summer Love
8.	1971	The Soviet space program's Mars 2 orbiter releases a descent module. It malfunctions and crashes, but it is the first man-made object to reach the surface of Mars.	Swing Kids	Situation On Mars	Situation On Mars
9.	1978	In San Francisco, California, city mayor George Moscone and openly gay city supervisor Harvey Milk are assassinatedby former supervisor Dan White.	Herman's Hermits	No Milk Today	Retrospective
10.	2005	The first partial human face transplant is completed in Amiens, France.	Comeback Kid	Changing Face	Turn It Around

(Historical facts about November 27 are from Wikipedia.)

November 26

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1476	Vlad III Dracula defeats Basarab Laiota with the help of Stephen the Great andStephen V Bathory and becomes the ruler of Wallachia for the third time.	New Order	Dracula's Castle	Waiting for the Siren's Call
2.	1789	A national Thanksgiving Day is observed in the United States as recommended byPresident George Washington and approved by Congress.	The Microphones	Thanksgiving	Live in Japan, February 19th
3.	1842	The University of Notre Dame is founded.	Essex Green	Our Lady in Havana	The Long Goodbye
4.	1917	The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.	Slapshot	Back on the Map	Back on the Map
5.	1922	Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.	The Tammys	Egyptian Shumba	One Kiss Can Lead to Another
6.	1922	Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).	Haymarket Riot	Technicolor Bombs	Bloodshot Eyes
7.	1977	'Vrillon', claiming to be the representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for six minutes at 5:12 PM.	Bad Brains	The Big Takeover	Rock for Light

(Historical facts about November 26 are from Wikipedia.)

November 25

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1120	The White Ship sinks in the English Channel, drowning William Adelin, son of Henry I of England.	William & Versey Smith	When the Great Ship Went Down	Anthology of American Folk Music
2.	1703	The Great Storm of 1703, the greatest windstorm ever recorded in the southern part of Great Britain, reaches its peak intensity which it maintains through November 27. Winds gust up to 120 mph, and 9,000 people die.	Classics IV	Stormy	Stormy
3.	1758	French and Indian War: British forces capture Fort Duquesne from French control. Fort Pitt is built nearby and it grows into modern Pittsburgh.	Sufjan Stevens	Pittsfield	The Avalanche
4.	1783	American Revolutionary War: The last British troops leave New York City three months after the signing of the Treaty of Paris.	La Buena Vida	¡Adiós muchachos!	Soidemersol
5.	1864	American Civil War: A group of Confederate operatives calling themselves the Confederate Army of Manhattan starts fires in more than 20 locations in an unsuccessful attempt to burn down New York City.	Yuka Honda	Driving Down by the Hudson River, We Saw the Blood Red Burning Sky	Memories Are My Only Witness
6.	1874	The United States Greenback Party is established as a political party consisting primarily of farmers affected by thePanic of 1873.	The Kingston Trio	Greenback Dollar	Capitol Collector's Series
7.	1926	The deadliest November tornado outbreak in U.S. history strikes on Thanksgiving day. 27 twisters of great strength are reported in the Midwest, including the strongest November tornado, an estimated F4, that devastates Heber Springs, Arkansas. There are 51 deaths in Arkansas alone, 76 deaths and over 400 injuries in all.	Damien Jurado	Tornado	Rehearsals for Departure
8.	N/A	Thanksgiving Day	Sam & Dave	I Thank You	I Thank You

(Historical facts about November 25 are from Wikipedia.)

November 24

Track	Year	Event	Artist	Song	Album
1.	1429	Joan of Arc unsuccessfully besieges La Charité.	Joan of Arc	Mean To March	So Much Staying Alive and Lovelessness
2.	1835	The Texas Provincial Government authorizes the creation of a horse-mounted police force called the Texas Rangers (which is now the Texas Ranger Division of the Texas Department of Public Safety.	The Rangers	Let's Go Rangers	GS I Love You
3.	1859	Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species.	The Stills	Changes are No Good	Logic Will Break Your Heart
4.	1922	Author and Irish Republican Army member Robert Erskine Childers is executed by an Irish Free State firing squad for illegally carrying a revolver.	The Pixies	There Goes My Gun	Doolittle
5.	1932	In Washington, D.C., the FBI Scientific Crime Detection Laboratory (better known as the FBI Crime Lab) officially opens.	The Magnetic Fields	It's a Crime	69 Love Songs, Vol. 3
6.	1950	The "Storm of the Century", a violent snowstorm, paralyzes the northeastern United States and the Appalachians, bringing winds up to 100 mph and sub-zero temperatures. Pickens, West Virginia, records 57 inches of snow. 323 people die as a result of the storm.	Julie Doiron	Snowfalls in November	Goodnight Nobody
7.	1963	Lee Harvey Oswald is murdered by Jack Ruby in the basement of Dallas police department headquarters. The shooting happens to be broadcast live on television.	Silver Apples	Ruby	Ruby
8.	1971	During a severe thunderstorm over Washington state, a hijacker calling himself Dan Cooper (AKA D. B. Cooper) parachutes from a Northwest Orient Airlines plane with $200,000 in ransom money. He has never been found.	Stars	The Vanishing	Heart
9.	1973	A national speed limit is imposed on the Autobahn in Germany because of the 1973 oil crisis. The speed limit lasted only four months.	Nada Surf	Hi Speed Soul	Let Go
10.	1974	Donald Johanson and Tom Gray discover the 40% complete Australopithecus afarensis skeleton, nicknamed "Lucy" (after The Beatles song "Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds"), in the Awash Valley of Ethiopia's Afar Depression.	The Beatles	Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds	Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

(Historical facts about November 24 are from Wikipedia.)