Bengali, Assamese, Marathi, Pali and Prakrit are accorded the Classical language status by the Government of India
Wab Kinew is elected to be the first First Nations Premier of a Canadian province in the 2023 Manitoba general election
Svante Pääbo is awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
The Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008 for the U.S. financial system is signed by President George W. Bush.
Nadine Gordimer is announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature.
Korean War: The First Battle of Maryang San pits Commonwealth troops against communist Chinese troops.
WERD, the first black-owned radio station in the United States, opens in Atlanta.
World War II: German forces murder 92 civilians in Lingiades, Greece.
The Kingdom of Iraq gains independence from the United Kingdom.
Cincinnati Reds pitcher Adolfo Luque becomes the first Latin American player to appear in a World Series.
The last Thursday in November is declared as Thanksgiving Day by U.S. President Abraham Lincoln.
The Treaty of Niš is signed by the Ottoman Empire and Russia ending the Russian–Turkish War.
Roman Emperor Theodosius I concludes a peace treaty with the Goths and settles them in the Balkans.
Liberators' civil war: Triumvirs Mark Antony and Octavian fight to a draw Caesar's assassins Brutus and Cassius in the first part of the Battle of Philippi, where Cassius commits suicide believing the battle is lost.