What Happened in November 2011

Historical Events

Hotel Vendome

Nov 1 Danielle Steel’s novel “Hotel Vendome” is published

Sports History

Nov 2 Prodigious Portuguese striker Cristiano Ronaldo scores his 100th goal for Real Madrid in his 105th game for the club in a 2-0 Champions League win over Olympique Lyon

Nov 4 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 1 winners: Secret Circle, Stephanie's Kitten, Musical Romance, My Miss Aurelia, Perfect Shirl, Royal Delta
Nov 5 Breeders' Cup Horse Racing, Churchill Downs; Day 2 winners: Afleet Again, Wrote, Amazombie, Regally Ready, Caleb's Posse, St Nicholas Abbey, Hansen, Court Vision, Drosselmeyer
Nov 6 Federation Cup Women's Tennis, Moscow, Russia: Czech pair Lucie Hradecká & Květa Peschke beats Maria Kirilenko & Elena Vesnina of Russia to clinch a 3-2 win for the visitors in the final
Nov 8 The potentially hazardous asteroid 2005 YU55 passed 0.85 lunar distances from Earth (about 324,600 kilometres or 201,700 miles), the closest known approach by an asteroid of its brightness since 2010 XC15 in 1976.
Nov 9 45th Country Music Association Awards: Taylor Swift, Miranda Lambert & Blake Shelton win

Shakira Honored

Nov 9 Colombian pop singer-songwriter Shakira is honored as Latin Recording Academy Person of the Year

Nov 11 25th Soul Train Music Awards: Cee-Lo Green, Jill Scott win
Nov 12 Opera "Silent Night" by Kevin Puts opens at the Ordway Theater, St. Paul sung in English, German, French, Italian and Latin (winner 2012 Pulitzer Prize for Music) [1]

Berlusconi Resigns

Nov 12 Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis.

Media Tycoon and Prime Minister of Italy Silvio Berlusconi

Take Care

Nov 15 "Take Care" second studio album by Drake is released (Grammy Award Best Rap Album 2013)

Nov 15 Istana Negara, the new palace of the monarch of Malaysia with its 22 domes is inaugurated in Kuala Lumpur, replacing the old palace

One Direction

Nov 18 "The X Factor" group One Direction release their debut album "Up All Night" in Ireland and the UK

Macapagal-Arroyo Arrested

Nov 18 Former Filipino President Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo is arrested and held at Veterans Memorial Medical Center in Quezon City under charges of electoral sabotage

14th President of the Philippines Gloria Macapagal-Arroyo

Nov 18 Video game Minecraft is officially released by Mojang
Nov 19 21st College Football Holy War: Notre Dame beats Boston College 16-14 in South Bend

Adele, Mars, Swift Win

Nov 20 39th American Music Awards: Adele, Bruno Mars & Taylor Swift win

US Win

Nov 20 Presidents Cup Golf, Royal Melbourne GC: Jim Furyk wins all 5 of his matches as US beats International team, 19-15

Nov 23 Arab Spring: After 11 months of protests in Yemen, The Yemeni president Ali Abdullah Saleh Signs a deal to transfer power to the vice president, in exchange for legal immunity.
Nov 25 Sudden violent storms strike southern Sri Lanka, killing 27 people and drowning many fishermen caught by surprise. Thousands of homes lose their roofs and several more sustain damage. Landslides along with flooding was reported on the mainland.
Nov 26 76th Iron Bowl: Alabama beats Auburn 42-14 in Auburn
Nov 26 NATO forces in Afghanistan attack a Pakistani checkpoint in a friendly fire incident, killing 24 soldiers and wounding 13 others
Nov 27 CFL Grey Cup, BC Place, Vancouver: BC Lions beat Winnipeg Blue Bombers, 34-23 for their 6th Championship

Nov 27 German Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel finishes 2nd in season-ending Brazilian Grand Prix at Autódromo José Carlos Pace to retain his F1 World Drivers Championship; wins by 122 points from Jenson Button

Federer Wins ATP Finals

Nov 27 Roger Federer claims a record 6th ATP World Tour Finals tennis title with a 6–3, 6–7, 6–3 win over Frenchman Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in the final in London, England

Events in 2011

Famous Weddings

Nov 11 Actor and comedian Kenan Thompson (33) weds model Christina Evangeline at George Aquarium in Atlanta, Georgia
Nov 11 Sixteen-time Grammy Award-winning hit producer and songwriter David Foster (62) weds Dutch-American model Yolanda Hadid (47) in Beverly Hills; divorce in 2017
Nov 11 TV personality Kim Zolciak (33) weds Atlanta Falcons football player Kroy Biermann (26) in Roswell, Georgia
Nov 12 Actress Tiffany Thornton (26) weds Christopher Carney at Anthony Chapel in Hot Springs, Arkansas
Nov 26 "Sugarland" singer Jennifer Nettles (37) weds entrepreneur Justin Miller at a chapel nestled in the foothills of the Smoky Mountains of Tennessee

Famous Divorces

Kevin Hart

Nov 13 Torrei Hart divorces actor and comedian Kevin Hart (32) due to irreconcilable differences after 8 years of marriage

Nov 16 "American Idol" winning singer Rubben Studdard (33) divorces Surata Zuri McCants due to irreconcilable differences after 3 years of marriage
Nov 22 American singer-songwriter and actress Ashlee Simpson (27) divorces American "Fall Out Boy" bassist Pete Wentz (32) due to irreconcilable differences after two and a half year of marriage

Famous Deaths

Nov 1 André Hodeir, French classical and jazz violinist, and composer, dies at 90
Nov 1 Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of US First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, dies at 92
Nov 2 Sickan Carlsson, Swedish actress and singer (b. 1915)
Nov 2 Sid Melton [Sidney Meltzer], American actor (Green Acres, The Danny Thomas Show), dies from pneumonia at 94

Bob Forsch (1950-2011)

Nov 3 American MLB baseball pitcher, 1974-1989 (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros), dies of a thoracic aortic aneurysm at 61

Nov 3 Matty Alou, Dominican baseball outfielder (NL batting champion 1966; MLB All-Star 1968-69; Pittsburgh Pirates), dies of diabetes complications at 72
Nov 4 Andy Rooney, American radio and television writer (b. 1919)
Nov 5 Bhupen Hazarika, Indian singer, composer, lyricist, music director, and filmmaker, dies at 85
Nov 6 Mel Hancock, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from Missouri), dies at 82

Joe Frazier (1944-2011)

Nov 7 American boxer (Olympic gold heavyweight 1964; undisputed world heavyweight champion 1970-73), dies of liver cancer at 67

Nov 8 Bil Keane, American cartoonist (The Family Circus), dies at 89
Nov 8 Ed Macauley, American Basketball Hall of Fame center (7-time NBA All Star), dies of Alzheimer’s disease at 83
Nov 8 Heavy D [Dwight Errington Myers], Jamaican-American rap artist, dies at 44
Nov 8 Mumtaz Hamid Rao, Pakistani journalist, dies at 70
Nov 9 Har Gobind Khorana, Indian-American biochemist (Nobel 1968), dies at 89
Nov 9 Joel J. Tyler, judge who pronounced 'Deep Throat' obscene, dies of a heart attack at 90
Nov 9 Roger Christian, American ice hockey left wing (Olympic gold 1960; Christian Brother's Hockey Sticks), dies at 75
Nov 10 Ivan Martin Jirous, Czech poet (b. 1944)
Nov 10 Peter J. Biondi, American state legislator (New Jersey) and former mayor (b. 1942)
Nov 11 Georges Papy, Belgian mathematician (Numbers Game), dies at 91
Nov 12 Peter Roebuck, English cricketer and journalist, dies at 55
Nov 14 Franz Josef Degenhardt, German poet and author, dies at 79
Nov 15 Dulcie Gray, British singer, actress, author and lepidopterist (Mine Own Executioner), dies at 95
Nov 15 Mark "Moogy" Klingman, American rock musician and songwriter (Utopia), dies of bladder cancer at 61
Nov 15 Oba Chandler, American convicted murderer, dies at 65
Nov 17 Kurt Budke, American basketball coach (b. 1961)
Nov 17 Olin Branstetter, American businessman and politician (b. 1929)
Nov 18 David Langdon, English newspaper and magazine cartoonist (Sunday Mirror), dies at 97 [1]
Nov 18 Walt Hazzard, American basketball player (Olympic gold 1964), dies at 69
Nov 19 Basil D'Oliveira, English cricket all-rounder (44 Tests, 2,484 @ 40.06, 47 wickets), dies form Parkinson's disease at 80
Nov 19 John Neville, English theatre and film actor, dies at 86
Nov 19 Michael Hastings, British playwright, dies at 74

Anne McCaffrey (1926-2011)

Nov 21 American sci-fi author (Dragonflight, Dragondrums), dies at 85

Nov 22 Lana Peters [Svetlana Stalina], Stalin's daughter, dies at 85
Nov 22 Lynn Margulis, American biologist (serial endosymbiotic theory), dies at 73
Nov 22 Paul Motian, American jazz drummer (Bill Evans Trio; Keith Jarrett), composer, and bandleader (Electric Bebop Band), dies of bone marrow cancer at 80
Nov 22 Ray Flockton, Australian cricketer (prolific NSW batsman of 50's), dies at 81
Nov 23 Carlos Moorhead, American politician (Member of the U.S. House of Representatives from California), dies at 89
Nov 23 Jim Rathmann, American auto racer (Indianapolis 500, 1960; Race of Two Worlds at Monza, 1958), dies after a seizure at 83
Nov 23 Montserrat Figueras, Catalan soprano and early music advocate (Hespèrion), dies at 69
Nov 23 Oscar Griffin Jr, American journalist and 1963 Pulitzer Prize winner, dies at 78
Nov 24 Fjölnir Stefánsson, Icelandic composer, dies at 81
Nov 24 Tatyana Shchelkanova, Soviet long jumper (Olympic bronze 1964), dies at 74
Nov 25 (Henry) Lee "Shot" Williams, American blues singer ("I Like Your Style"), dies ar 73
Nov 25 Tom Wicker, American journalist and author, dies at 85
Nov 25 Vasiliy Alekseyev, Russian weightlifter (Olympic gold 1972, 76), dies at 69
Nov 27 Gary Speed, Welsh footballer and Wales national football team manager, dies at 42
Nov 27 Ken Russell, British film director (Tommy, Altered States, Gothic), dies at 84
Nov 27 Sultan Khan, Indian classical musician, dies at 71
Nov 28 Andrew Kazdin, classical record producer, dies at 77
Nov 28 Ante Markovic, last Premier of Yugoslavia, dies at 87
Nov 29 Patrice O'Neal, American stand-up comedian, dies from stroke complications at 41
Nov 30 J. Blackfoot [Colbert], American soul singer (The Soul Children"; solo -"Taxi"), dies of pancreatic cancer at 65
Nov 30 Leka, Crown Prince of Albania, referred to as King Leka I by Albanian monarchists (b. 1939)
Nov 30 William L. Waller, American politician and ex-Governor of Mississippi, dies at 85