November 6: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his three-decade rule (the first time was earlier this year on July 2). He states that even though 350,000 troops have been killed in German attacks so far, that the Germans have lost 4.5 million soldiers (a gross exaggeration) and that Soviet victory is near.

November 7: The Soviet hospital ship Armenia is sunk by German aircraft while evacuating refugees, wounded military and the staff of several Crimean hospitals. It is estimated that over 5,000 people die in the sinking.

November 10: In a speech at the Mansion House, London, Winston Churchill promises "should the United States become involved in war with Japan, the British declaration will follow within the hour."

November 12: As the Battle of Moscow begins, temperatures around Moscow drop to -12ºC, and the Soviet Union launches ski troops for the first time against the freezing German forces near the city.

November 14: The British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal sinks after being torpedoed by U-81. - In Slonim (Byelorussian SSR), German forces engaged in Operation Barbarossa murder 9000 Jews this day.

November 17: Attack on Pearl Harbor: Joseph Grew, the United States ambassador to Japan, cables to Washington, D.C., a warning that Japan may strike suddenly and unexpectedly.

November 18: Operation Crusader, a British Eighth Army operation to relieve the Siege of Tobruk in North Africa, begins.

November 19: Both commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Kormoran and Australian cruiser HMAS Sydney sink following a battle off the coast of Western Australia. There are no survivors from the 645 Australian sailors aboard Sydney.

November 21: The radio program King Biscuit Time is broadcast for the first time (it later becomes the longest running daily radio broadcast in history and the most famous live blues radio program).

November 22: HMS Devonshire sinks commerce raiding German auxiliary cruiser Atlantis, ending the longest warship cruise of the war (622 days without in-port replenishment or repair).

November 26: Attack on Pearl Harbor: A fleet of 6 aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chu-ichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence

November 27: Germans reach their closest approach to Moscow. They are subsequently frozen by cold weather and attacks by the Soviets. - A group of young men stop traffic on U.S. Highway 99 south of Yreka, California, handing out fliers proclaiming the establishment of the State of Jefferson. (source: Wikipedia)