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Sunrise: 6:00 A.M.
Sunset: 8:40 P.M.
Duration: 14h, 40m
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Visible Light: 15h, 44m
2024 November Trivia and History
Name History
Latin: November. From the word novem, nine (it was the 9th month in the old Roman calendar).
November is:
Special 2024 November Days:
November Historical Dates:
- 1963 - 22nd - President John F. Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas, Texas.
- 1997 - 20th - Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh celebrate 50 years of marriage. “He has quite simply been my strength and stay all these years. I and his whole family, and this and many other countries owe him a debt greater than he would ever claim, or we shall ever know.” • Queen Elizabeth on Prince Philip for their 50th Anniversary.
- 1620 - 11th - The Mayflower Compact was signed on November 11, 1620 by 41 of the ship's 101 passengers, while the Mayflower was anchored in what is now Provincetown Harbor within the hook at the northern tip of Cape Cod.
Quotes relating to November
• “The real 1960s began on the afternoon of November 22, 1963. It came to seem that Kennedy's murder opened some malign trap door in American culture, and the wild bats flapped out.”
• Lance Morrow
Literature relating to November
- “One of the guard went to find him, and I waited at the barrack gate, before that huge ship of stone, booming with the November wind, out of which, every moment, for it was now six o’clock, men were emerging in pairs into the street, staggering as if they were coming ashore in some foreign port in which they found themselves temporarily anchored.”
• Marcel Proust, Names of People (Chapter 1)
- “It was the Dover road that lay, on a Friday night late in November, before the first of the persons with whom this history has business.”
• Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 1.2)
- “To enter out into that silence that was the city at eight o'clock of a misty evening in November, to put your feet upon that buckling concrete walk, to step over grassy seams and make your way, hands in pockets, through the silences, that was what Mr Leonard Mead most dearly loved to do”
• Ray Bradbury, The Pedestrian
- “Folds of scarlet drapery shut in my view to the right hand;
to the left were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but not separating me from the drear November day.”
• Charlotte Brontö, Jane Eyre (Chap. 1)
- “... whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul;”
• Herman Melville, Moby Dick (Chapter 1: Loomings)
- “But I was touched to find that these chrysanthemums appeared less ephemeral than, one might almost say, lasting, when I compared them with the tones, as pink, as coppery, which the setting sun so gorgeously displays amid the mists of a November afternoon, and which, after seeing them, before I had entered the house, fade from the sky, I found again inside, prolonged, transposed on to the flaming palette of the flowers.”
• Marcel Proust, Madame Swann at Home (Chapter 1)
- “Such was our situation and condition at Fort Lee on the morning of the 20th of November, when an officer arrived with information that the enemy with 200 boats had landed about seven miles above; Major General [Nathaniel] Green, who commanded the garrison, immediately ordered them under arms, and sent express to General Washington at the town of Hackensack, distant by the way of the ferry = six miles.”
• Thomas Paine, The Crisis
- “On a certain Friday night in November one thousand seven hundred and seventy-five, did business occasion you to travel between London and Dover by the mail?”
• Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities (Chap 2.3)
- “November came, with raging south-west winds. Building had to stop because it was now too wet to mix the cement.”
• George Orwell, Animal Farm: Chapter 6
- “Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November, etc.”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (Ch. 13)
Lyrics relating to November
Verses with November only.
- “It wasn't raining yet
But it was definitely a little misty on
That warm November night - From The Roof”
• Mariah Carey
- “Yeah, she's dancing with the devil
In the cold November Rain
When she's Knocking On Heaven's Door, son
You can bet God'll call her name - From My Baby's Guns N' Roses”
• Brantley Gilbert
- “Remember, the Fifth of November - From Remember”
• John Lennon*
- “[Ed note: the word November is not in the lyrics, only the title] ... - From Yardwork in November”
• - The Actual Tigers (2001 album, Gravelled & Green)
- “I know it's been some time
But there's something on my mind
You see
I haven't been the same
Since that cold November day
We said we needed space
But all we found was an empty place
And the only thing
I learned
Is that I need you desperately - From Where Do Broken Hearts Go”
• Whitney Houston
- “I recall late November
Holding my breath, slowly, I said
"You don't need to save me
But would you run away with me?"
Yes (Would you run away?) - From Call It What You Want”
• Taylor Swift
- “There's a fire in this November sky - From November”
• Sleeping With Sirens
- “After the service, when you’re walking slowly to the car
And the silver in her hair shines in the cold November air
You hear the tolling bell
And touch the silk in your lapel - From The Gunner's Dream”
• Pink Floyd
