November 1: Nuclear testing: Operation Ivy: The United States successfully detonates the first hydrogen bomb, codenamed "Mike", at Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands in the central Pacific Ocean, with a yield of 10.4 megatons.

November 4: Kamchatka earthquake: An 8.25 Richter scale (9.0 moment magnitude scale) earthquake hits the Kamchatka Peninsula of the Soviet Union, equal only to the 2011 Japanese earthquake. - United States presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson (correctly predicted by the UNIVAC computer). - The U.S. National Security Agency is founded. - The Pace-Finletter MOU 1952: Memorandum of understanding is signed between "...Air Force Secretary Finletter and Army Secretary Pace that established a fixed wing weight limit (for the Army) of five thousand pounds empty, but weight restrictions on helicopters were eliminated..."(Pushing the Envelope, p. 196)

November 18: Jomo Kenyatta is arrested in Kenya for an alleged connection to the Mau Mau uprising.

November 20: Slansky trials: A series of Stalinist and largely anti-Semitic show trials are held in Czechoslovakia. - A fireball crashes in a backyard in Havelock North, New Zealand. - The first official passenger flight over the North Pole is made from Los Angeles to Copenhagen.

November 21: A show trial in Czechoslovakia sentences 11 ex-communist officials (all of them Jews) to death.

November 25: Agatha Christie's murder-mystery play The Mousetrap opens at the Ambassadors Theatre in London; as of 2007, it continues next door at the St. Martin's Theatre, and remains the longest continuously running production of a play in history.

November 29: Korean War: U.S. President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower fulfills a political campaign promise, by traveling to Korea to find out what can be done to end the conflict. (source: Wikipedia)