November is the eleventh month of the year in the Julian and Gregorian Calendars and one of four months with the length of 30 days. November was the ninth month of the ancient Roman calendar. November retained its name (from the Latin novem meaning nine) when January and February were added to the Roman calendar. November is a month of spring in the Southern Hemisphere and autumn in the Northern Hemisphere. Therefore, November in the Southern Hemisphere is the seasonal equivalent of May in the Northern Hemisphere and vice versa.
November symbols: The birthstones of November are the topaz (particularly, yellow) which symbolizes friendship and the citrine. Its birth flower is the chrysanthemum. The zodiac signs for the month of November are Scorpio (until November 21) and Sagittarius (November 22 onwards).
Historical Events for November, 1970
Day of Week 1st » Club Cinq-Sept fire in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France kills 146 young people.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 5th » Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 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.
Day of Week 25th » In Japan, author Yukio Mishima and one compatriot commit ritualistic seppuku after an unsuccessful coup attempt.
Day of Week 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