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  1. November 4 (10686 bytes)
    2: ...p year]]s) in the [[Gregorian Calendar]], with 57 days remaining.
    4: {{NovemberCalendar}}
    7: ... captures [[Antwerp (city)|Antwerp]] (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
    24: ...implement the [[Neutrality Acts|Neutrality Act of 1939]], allowing cash-and-carry purchases of [[weapon]...
    35: ...�tien]] takes office as [[Prime Minister of Canada]].
  2. List of people by name: Ab (7347 bytes)
    15: *[[Frank Abbandando|Abbandando, Frank]], (1910-1942), Mafia hitman
    34: *[[Dimebag Darrell|Abbott, Darrell]], (1966-2004), US musician
    101: *[[F. Murray Abraham|Abraham, F. Murray]], (born 1939), actor
    114: ...], (circa 1000 BC), Biblical figure, third son of David
    115: *[[Absalon]], (circa 1128-1201), Danish archbishop
  3. List of people by name: Aa (1020 bytes)
    4: *[[Andrew Aagesen|Aagesen, Andrew]], (1826-1879), Danish jurist
    5: *[[Jeppe Aakj沼Aakj沬 Jeppe]], (1866-1930), Danish writer
    13: ...hn, Sarah]], (1890-1917), head of [[Nili]], a [[Judaism|Jewish]] [[spy]]-ring
    16: *[[Evald Aav|Aav, Evald]], (1900-1939), Estonian composer and choir conductor
  4. Elizabeth I of England (34338 bytes)
    7: '''Elizabeth I''' ([[7 September]] [[1533]] – [[24 March]] [[1603]]) was [[List of British m...
    16: ...abeth, and she, along with her half-sister, Mary, daughter of [[Catherine of Aragon]], was reinstated ...
    18: ...rticularly since a fearful Anne had entrusted her daughter's spiritual welfare to Parker before her de...
    44: The Queen found a dangerous rival in her cousin, the Catholic Mary Stu...
    53: ... a Catholic, [[Henry Stuart, Lord Darnley]]. Lord Darnley was murdered in [[1567]] after the couple ha...
  5. Victoria of the United Kingdom (38571 bytes)
    7: ...h. Her reign lasted more than sixty-three years — longer than that of any other British monarch....
    12: ...future King George IV), did marry, but had only a daughter, [[Princess Charlotte Augusta of Wales]]. W...
    14: ...French]]. Her educator was the Reverend [[George Davys]] and her governess was [[Louise Lehzen]].
    20: ...f the United Kingdom|Queen Elizabeth II]]'s descendants a separate family surname, [[Mountbatten-Winds...
    25: ...ugustus I of Hanover|Duke of Cumberland and Teviotdale]], who became King Ernest Augustus of Hanover. ...
  6. Mary of Teck (14662 bytes)
    3: ...ne Claudine Agnes) ([[May 26|26 May]], [[1867]] – [[March 24|24 March]], [[1953]]) was the [[Que...
    9: ...e of Cambridge]], the third child and the younger daughter of [[HRH]] [[Prince Adolphus, Duke of Cambr...
    17: ...cess May's first cousin once removed; May was the daughter of HRH [[Princess Mary Adelaide of Cambridg...
    19: ...orge never took a mistress and wrote to May every day.
    27: ...arried [[Wallis Simpson]] ([[19 June]] [[1896]] – [[24 April]] [[1986]]); no issue.
  7. Gro Harlem Brundtland (3306 bytes)
    3: '''Gro Harlem Brundtland''' (born [[April 20]], [[1939]]) is a [[Norway|Norwegian]] politician and [[phy...
    7: ...mber of the Brundtland Commission - and for [[Agenda 21]].
    21: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1986–1989 | after=[[Jan P. Syse]]}}
    22: ...inisters|Prime Minister of Norway]] | years=1990–1996 | after=[[Thorbj?agland]]}}
  8. Eleanor Roosevelt (11183 bytes)
    3: ...a Eleanor Roosevelt''' ([[October 11]] [[1884]] – [[November 7]] [[1962]]) was an [[United State...
    9: ...oman, in an autocratic house. On [[St. Patrick's Day]], [[1905]] she married [[Franklin D. Roosevelt]...
    11: ...szen van Rosenvelt]] who emigrated to [[New Amsterdam]] ([[Manhattan]]) from [[Holland]] in the 1640s....
    13: ...es, Eleanor found herself at odds with his eldest daughter, [[Alice Roosevelt Longworth]] who was enra...
    15: ...ntually become the Mrs. Roosevelt?s column ''[[My Day]]''. After a few years away from Washington Hick...
  9. Margaret Sanger (12025 bytes)
    2: ...t Higgins Sanger''' ([[September 14]], [[1879]] – [[September 6]], [[1966]]) was an [[United Sta...
    5: ...ollowed in subsequent years by a second son and a daughter who died in childhood.
    7: ...on'', to poor women, Sanger repeatedly risked scandal and imprisonment by acting in defiance of the [[...
    13: With [[Lothrup Stoddard]], and [[C. C. Little]] Sanger founded the Amer...
    15: ...rol Review'' and ''The Birth Control News''. From 1939 to 1942, she was an honorary delegate of the Birt...
  10. Margaret Atwood (6318 bytes)
    2: ...is married to the novelist [[Graeme Gibson]]; her daughter, Jess Atwood Gibson, was born in [[1976]].
    4: ...o has a reputation for her deep interest in [[Canada]] and [[Canadian literature|Canadian fiction]], a...
    6: ...endolyn MacEwen]], [[Dennis Lee]] and [[Michael Ondaatje]].
    10: ...'', championed by former [[Prime Ministers of Canada|Prime Minister]] [[Kim Campbell]] in [[2002]] and...
    14: She was made an Officer of the [[Order of Canada]] in 1973 and was promoted to Companion in 1981.
  11. Isak Dinesen (2959 bytes)
    3: ...''. Blixen wrote works both in [[Danish language|Danish]] and in [[English language|English]]. She i...
    5: ... [[Croix de Guerre]] while serving with the [[Canada|Canadian]] army in the [[First World War]].
    9: ... was awarded the [[Tagea Brandt Rejselegat]] in [[1939]].
    15: * ''The Hermits'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
    16: * ''The Ploughman'' (1907, published in a Danish journal under the name Osceola)
  12. Zora Neale Hurston (4470 bytes)
    2: ...''Zora Neale Hurston''' ([[January 7]], [[1891]]–[[January 28]], [[1960]]) was an [[African-Amer...
    5: ...ulga, Alabama]] and grew up in [[Eatonville, Florida]]. She studied [[anthropology]] at [[Barnard Coll...
    11: ... you dare! Ah'll wash yo' tub uh 'gator guts and dat quick."
    13: ...l capture of the actual language and idiom of the day.
    22: ...1954), arguing in a letter to the [[Orlando, Florida|Orlando]] ''Sentinel'' that desegregation was pre...
  13. Mary Pickford (7523 bytes)
    3: '''Mary Pickford''' ([[April 8]], [[1892]] – [[May 29]], [[1979]]) was a [[film|motion pict...
    5: ...odramas and became a popular child actress in Canada.
    7: ...was also in the cast. The play was produced by [[David Belasco]], who insisted that she assume the st...
    11: ...antic relationship with [[Douglas Fairbanks (1883-1939)|Douglas Fairbanks]], an action-adventure film st...
    15: ...p in front of her new husband, Rogers, saying "My darling is gone." She was unable to attend his funer...
  14. Nathalie Sarraute (1197 bytes)
    4: ...her first book called "Tropismes", published in [[1939]] and applauded by [[Jean-Paul Sartre]] and [[Max...
    10: * ''Tropismes'', [[1939]]
  15. Marina Tsvetaeva (21885 bytes)
    3: ...ева) ([[October 9]], [[1892]] – [[August 31]], [[1941]]) was a [[Russia]]n [[p...
    10: ...ed of Marina's poetic inclination. She wished her daughter to become a [[pianist]] and thought her poe...
    20: ... for five years. During the [[famine]] one of her daughters died of starvation.
    22: ...the style of a [[diary]] or journal begins on the day of Tsar Nicholas II's abdication in March 1917, ...
    24: ...turn to, she had no way to support herself or her daughters. In [[1919]], she placed Irina in a state ...
  16. Jackie Cochran (7825 bytes)
    4: ... age 14 left her home in [[DeFuniak Springs, Florida]], working as a hairdresser until she wound up in...
    12: ...ished Service Medal (USA)|Distinguished Service Medal]].
    16: ... She is the only woman to ever receive the Gold Medal from the [[Federation Aeronautique International...
    18: ..., [[California]], Jacqueline Cochran flew a [[Canada|Canadian]] [[F-86 Sabre]] jet at an average speed...
    20: ...ity in support of an Eisenhower presidential candidacy. The rally was documented on film and Cochran p...
  17. Lise Meitner (3907 bytes)
    2: '''Lise Meitner''' ([[November 7]], [[1878]]–[[October 27]], [[1968]]) was an [[Austria]]n [...
    10: ... completely unexpected; it took some study of the data and creative thinking to free her mind from the...
    12: ...ess Club (USA) in 1946; received the Max Planck Medal of the German Physics Society, 1949.
    17: ..., Max von Laue on the Occasion of their 80th Birthday''. New York: Interscience.
    18: *Patricia Rife, ''Lise Meitner and the Dawn of the Nuclear Age'' Birkh䵳er, 1999
  18. Maria Goeppert-Mayer (4176 bytes)
    3: ...]], [[James Franck]] and [[Adolf Otto Reinhold Windaus]]. In [[1930]] G?rt married Dr. [[Joseph Edward...
    5: ...[[Baltimore, Maryland|Baltimore]] from [[1931]]-[[1939|39]], but since she was a woman she was not allow...
    9: ...nterclockwise. The same is true of those that are dancing around clockwise; some twirl clockwise, othe...
  19. Ella Fitzgerald (9400 bytes)
    2: '''Ella Fitzgerald''' ([[April 25]], [[1917]] – [[June 15]], [[1996]]), also known as '''[[Jaz...
    8: When Chick Webb died in [[1939]], the band continued touring under the new name,...
    14: ...ther with the "other voice" of jazz, [[Billie Holiday]] ([[1957]]).
    47: *1958 ''[[Ella in Rome: The Birthday Concert]]''
    90: *1970 ''[[Ella in Budapest, Hungary]]''
  20. Hannah Szenes (4490 bytes)
    11: Szenes graduated 1939 and decided to move to study in the Girls' Agricu...
    17: ... guilty. She kept diary entries up until her last day, November 7, 1944. Her remains were brought to [...
    68: :''In the dare game I stood on a number,''
    71: ::(*) (maybe danced, skipped or diddled?)

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