November 2: Fiorello H. La Guardia easily wins re-election as Mayor of New York City.

November 6: Italy joins Germany and Japan in the Anti-Comintern Pact.

November 9: Ramsay MacDonald, British statesman and first Labour Party Prime Minister of the United Kingdom dies aged 71.

November 10 Germany announces that all men born between 1893 and 1900 will be called up for medical inspection to assess their suitability to be drafted for military service.

November 12: The memoir 'Out of Africa' by Karen Blixen is published.

November 16: British MPs vote to build air-raid shelters in most of Britain's towns and cities.

November 18: French authorities uncover a plot by La Cagoule to overthrow the government and restore the monarchy.

November 19: George Eyston brakes his own three-week-old land speed record, achieving 311.42 mph.

November 21: Lord Halifax ends his visit to Nazi Germany. He returns to London believing that Hitler can be bargained with, and this development marks the beginning of Neville Chamberlain's appeasement policy toward Germany.

November 28: Generalissimo Francisco Franco announces a total naval blockade of Republican ports and warns that any ship attempting to enter the ports will be attacked. He also tells the Republican government to surrender by December 12 or face a massive new offensive. (source: Wikipedia)