November 1: The FLN attacks representative and public buildings of the French colonial power.

November 2: The dock workers' strike in England ends.

November 3: The first Godzilla film premieres in Tokyo.

November 5: Japan and Burma sign a peace treaty in Rangoon, to end their long-extinct state of war.

November 10: President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) at the Arlington National Cemetery.

November 12: The main immigration port-of-entry in New York Harbor at Ellis Island closes permanently.

November 14: Egyptian president Mohammed Naguib is deposed, and Gamal Abdel Nasser replaces him.

November 22: The U.S. Supreme Court decides the landmark case Berman v. Parker (348 U.S. 26), upholding the federal slum clearance and urban renewal programs.

November 23: The Dow Jones Industrial Average rises 3.27 points, or 0.86 percent, closing at an all-time high of 382.74. More significantly, this is the first time the Dow has surpassed its peak level reached just before the Wall Street Crash of 1929.

November 30: In Sylacauga, Alabama, a four-kilogram piece of the Hodges Meteorite crashes through the roof of a house and badly bruises a napping woman, in the first documented case of an object from outer space hitting a person. (source: Wikipedia)