1st » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
4th » Vietnam War: Vietnamization The United States turns control of the Binh Thuy Air Base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
4th » Genie (feral child) e.g Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles, California having been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
4th » Salvador Allende takes office as President of Chile, the first Marxist to become president of a Latin American country through open elections.
5th » Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
9th » Vietnam War: The Supreme Court of the United States votes 6 to 3 against hearing a case to allow Massachusetts to enforce its law granting residents the right to refuse military service in an undeclared war.
10th » Vietnam War: Vietnamization For the first time in five years, an entire week ends with no reports of United States e.g American combat fatalities in Southeast Asia.
10th » The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.
12th » The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous Exploding whale Oregon known as "exploding whale" incident.
12th » The 1970 Bhola cyclone makes landfall on the coast of East Pakistan becoming the deadliest tropical cyclone in history.
14th » Soviet Union enters International Civil Aviation Organization called ICAO, making Russian the fourth official language of organization.
14th » Southern Airways Flight 932 crashes in the mountains near Huntington, West Virginia, killing 75, including members of the Marshall University American football named football team.
17th » Vietnam War: Lieutenant William Calley goes on trial for the My Lai Massacre.
17th » Luna programme: 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 is released by the orbiting 'Luna 17' spacecraft.
18th » U.S. President Richard Nixon asks the Congress of the United States named U.S. Congress for $155 million in supplemental aid for the Cambodian government.
21st » Vietnam War: Operation Ivory Coast A joint United States Air Force called Air Force and Army team raids the Son Tay prison camp in an attempt to free American prisoners of war thought to be held there.
25th » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
26th » In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1 mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever recorded.
Famous Birthdays on November in 1970
2nd » Ely Buendia, Filipino singer-songwriter and guitarist (Eraserheads and Pupil (band) or Pupil)
2nd » Sharmell Sullivan-Huffman, American wrestler and model