November 2: In Long Beach, California, the designer and airplane pilot Howard Hughes carries out the one and only flight of the Hughes H - 1 Hercules seaplane, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built and flown. This flight only lasted eight minutes. - An earthquake in the Chilean Andes kills 233 people.

November 6: The program Meet the Press makes its television debut on the NBC-TV network in the United States.

November 9: Junagadh is invaded by the Indian army.

November 10: The arrest of four steel workers in Marseille begins a French communist riot that also spreads to Paris.

November 15: International Telecommunication Union becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations. - Universal Postal Union (UPU) becomes a specialized agency of the United Nations (effective 1 July 1948).

November 16: In Brussels, 15,000 people demonstrate against the relatively short prison sentences of Belgian Nazi criminals. - Great Britain began withdrawing its troops from Palestine.

November 18: The Ballantyne's Department Store fire in Christchurch, New Zealand, kills 41 people.

November 20: The Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), the daughter of George VI, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London, United Kingdom. - Paul Ramadier resigns as the Prime Minister of France. He is succeeded by Robert Schuman, who calls 80,000 army reservists to quell rioting miners in France.

November 21: The United Nations Conference on Trade and Employment begins in Havana, Cuba. This conference ends in 1948, when its members finish the Havana Charter.

November 24: Red Scare: The U.S. House of Representatives votes 346 - 17 to approve citations of Contempt of Congress against the so-called Hollywood 10, after the ten men refuse to co-operate with the House Un-American Activities Committee concerning allegations of communist influences in the movie business. (The ten men are blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studios on the following day.)

November 25: The Parliament of New Zealand ratifies the Statute of Westminster, and thus becomes independent of legislative control by the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

November 27: In Paris, France, police occupy the editorial offices of the communist newspapers.

November 29: The United Nations General Assembly votes to partition Palestine between Arab and Jewish regions, which results in the creation of the State of Israel. (source: Wikipedia)