- 1 and 2 November - Day of the Dead tradition (pictured) among Mexican people
- 15 November 1982 - Chinese Society Halls on Maui placed on the National Register of Historic Places
- 17 November 1989 - IEEE Computational Intelligence Society was formed as the IEEE Neural Networks Council
- 26 November 1825 - Foundation of the Kappa Alpha Society, the progenitor of the modern fraternity system in North America