November 16, 534: Second and final revision of the Codex Justinianus published.  The Codex consists of twelve books: book 1 concerns ecclesiastical law, sources of law, and the duties of higher offices; books 2-8 cover private law; book 9 deals with crimes; and books 10-12 contain administrative law. The Codex is still studied by Law students in many countries.

November 17, 1970: Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse 

November 18, 1872: Suffragette Susan B. Anthony  is arrested by a U.S. Deputy Marshal and charged with illegally voting. 

November 19, 1863: US President Abraham Lincoln delivers his Gettysburg address. 

November 20, 2008: After critical failures in the US financial system began to build up after mid-September, the Dow Jones Industrial Average reaches its lowest level since 1997. 

November 21, 164 BC: During Maccabbean revolt Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jersusalem and rededicates the Second Temple, commemorated since as Jewish festival Hanukkah 

November 22, 1963: American President John F. Kennedy assassinated by Lee Harvey Oswald in Dallas, Texas.

November 23 1942: Chinese steward Poon Lim begins 133 days adrift after British ship SS Benlomond torpedoed by german U-boat and he is the sole survivor.

November 24, 1859: English naturalist Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species" radically changing the view of evolution and laying the foundation for evolutionary biology 

November 25, 1867: Swedish chemist Alfred Nobel patents dynamite. 

November 26, 1948: First polaroid  camera sold for $89.75 in Boston at the Jordan Marsh department store. The Land Camera model 95 becomes prototype for all Polaroid Land cameras for the next 15 years. 

November 27, 1973:US President Richard Nixon signs the Emergency Petroleum Allocation Act, authorizing petroleum price, production, allocation and marketing controls. 

November 28 1717:Known Pirate Blackbeard attacks a French merchant vessel called "La Concorde", which he would capture and rename as the "Queen Anne's Revenge". 

November 29, 526: Antioch earthquake in present-day Syria (then the Byzantine Empire) killed 200,000 people 

November 30, 1487:  The German Beer Purity Law (Reinheitsgebot), is promulgated by Albert IV, Duke of Bavaria stating beer should be brewed from only three ingredients – water, malt and hops.