Morn. Twilight: 6:08 A.M.
Sunrise: 6:37 A.M.
Sunset: 8:08 P.M.
Duration: 13h, 31m
Eve. Twilight: 8:37 A.M.
Visible Light: 14h, 28m
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 2021 November Days:
November Special 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.
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- 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
- “In November days,
When vapours rolling down the valley made
A lonely scene more lonesome, among woods
At noon, and 'mid the calm of summer nights,
When, by the margin of the trembling lake,
Beneath the gloomy hills homeward I went
In solitude, such intercourse was mine;
Mine was it in the fields both day and night,
And by the waters, all the summer long.”
• William Wadsworth, The Prelude (Book 1)
- “Thirty days hath September,
April, June, and November, etc.”
• Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Biographia Literaria (Ch. 13)
- “From thence he removed to Granville, Washington county, near a place known as Slyborough, where, for some years, he labored on the farm of Clark Northup, also a relative of his old master; from thence he removed to the Alden farm, at Moss Street, a short distance north of the village of Sandy Hill; and from thence to the farm now owned by Russel Pratt, situated on the road leading from Fort Edward to Argyle, where he continued to reside until his death, which took place on the 22d day of November, 1829. He left a widow and two children —myself, and Joseph, an elder brother. The latter is still living in the county of Oswego, near the city of that name; my mother died during the period of my captivity.”
• Solomon Northup, Twelve Years a Slave
- “Remember, remember!
The fifth of November,
The Gunpowder treason and plot;
I know of no reason
Why the Gunpowder treason
Should ever be forgot!”
• English Folk Verse, The Fifth of November (Guy Fawkes Night Poem)
- “THEY read the long afternoon through, while the cold November rain fell from the sky upon the quiet house. They sat in the hall because the parlor was so empty and grey-looking without its walls lit with orange and yellow confetti and sky-rockets and women in gold-mesh dresses and men in black velvet pulling one-hundred-pound rabbits from silver hats.”
• Ray Bradbury, The Sieve and the Sand
- “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
- “October filled him with hope which November raised to a sort of ecstatic triumph, and in this mood the fleeting brilliant impressions of the summer at Sherry Island were ready grist to his mill.”
• F. Scott Fitzgerald, Winter Dreams
- “Give me the end of the year an' its fun
When most of the plannin' an' toilin' is done;
Bring all the wanderers home to the nest,
Let me sit down with the ones I love best,
Hear the old voices still ringin' with song,
See the old faces unblemished by wrong,
See the old table with all of its chairs
An' I'll put soul in my Thanksgivin' prayers.”
• Edgar A. Guest, Thanksgiving
- “... The taste of a fruit, the taste of water,
That face given back to us by a dream,
The first jasmine of November, ...”
• Jorge Luis Borges, Shinto
Lyrics relating to November
Verses with November only.
- “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
- “When it's November and my soul is dark
You are my June
June in my Johnny Cash heart - From Johnny Cash Heart”
• Caleb Lee Hutchinson
- “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
- “Weather the storm and don't look back on last November
When your banners were burning down - From ¡Viva la Gloria!”
• Green Day
- “The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy.
That good ship and true was a bone to be chewed
When the "Gales of November" came early
And the iron boats go as the mariners all know
With the Gales of November remembered
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
When the gales of November come early!" - From The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”
• Gordon Lightfoot
- “Keep coolin' down like November
I'm used to feelin' that fever
I wanna dive in you deeper - From Heat”
• Kelly Clarkson
- “Remember, the Fifth of November - From Remember”
• John Lennon*
