NovemberNovember 1: Launch of Operation
Sealords, a seaborne and riverine drive to isolate and eliminate Viet Cong forces around the Mekong River along the Cambodian border involving USMC, USN and US Army forces in conjunction with South Vietnamese and French troops moving up from the secured Mekong Delta zone. It is a preliminary action prior to Operation
Hydra, the invasion of Cambodia scheduled for early 1969
November 2: First operational deployment of RAF drone combat aircraft over Katanga, along with field testing by the Army of new active camouflage colour-shifting battle capes.
November 3: The Ministry of Space issues a report on interstellar travel, finding that the continuing construction of an Imperial starship represents a significant but worthwhile expense whilst new propulsion technologies are developed. Many space journalists seize upon the report as evidence of wasteful government spending, whilst a very few others observe that the conclusions of the report indicate that something unsaid in the report is driving its confidence.
November 4: Raymond Leslie Morris is arrested after the attempted abduction of a 10 year old girl in Walsall, Staffordshire. A subsequent search of his house uncovers suspicious material leading to him being charged with the Cannock Chase murders of 1965-67; he will be tried, sentenced to death and hanged on January 7th 1969 at Stafford Prison before a crowd of 15,000.
November 5: President John F. Kennedy becomes the first US President since Franklin D. Roosevelt to win a third term in power, winning 432 electoral votes to 126 of Nelson Rockefeller, with Whig candidate Eugene McCarthy winning 17 and Conservative Strom Thurmond winning 20. November 6: Signing of an Arab-Egyptian Friendship and Cooperation Pact in Cairo.
November 7: Opening of an integrated steelworks and heavy mechanical engineering factory at Stratford, East Ham.
November 8:
Pravda features an extensive front page article setting out a new doctrine promulgated by General Secretary Sergeyev, whereby the Soviet Union should lead the world in all the great indices of power - national wealth, industrial goods, steel, coal, oil, electricity, technology, nuclear weapons, ships, warplanes, tanks, robots and missiles.
November 9: An earthquake registering 5.4 on the Richter Scale with an epicentre in Hamilton, Illinois, is felt across much of the Midwest of the United States, but miraculously causes no fatalities.
November 10: 118 US Redstone missiles are launched from bases in Thailand to strike air defence targets in North Vietnam in a night of exceptionally heavy bombardment. In contrast to previous rocket attacks have been, their mass use here is intended to identify new North Vietnamese radar systems and communication nets as well as damage fighter bases and SAM sites.
November 11: Establishment of the International Liberation Front of Central America, an alliance of anti-government revolutionary groups in El Salvador, Nicaragua, Honduras, Costa Rica, Panama, Los Altos and Yucatan.
November 12: Italy conducts its largest underground nuclear test to date in Libya.
November 13: The first reactor at the experimental British nuclear fusion plant at Darkmoor achieves criticality and is projected as producing 2500 MW, with a further three reactors to be constructed.
November 14: Yale University admits its female students, leading to notable alumnus and donor C. Montgomery Burns withdrawing his financial support.
November 15: Indian Army forces in Burma are reinforced by two full corps as part of a build up for a strategic offensive against communist backed insurgents in the Shan States, having pacified the Chinese supported rebels in Kachin over the last three years.
November 16: A top secret message from the commander of the Soviet Group of Forces in North Vietnam to Moscow reports that the Ho Chi Minh Trail has been decisively severed.
November 17: The Crown Prince of Egypt shoots and kills Prime Minister Hassan in the Abdeen Palace amid ongoing nationalist riots in Cairo. The Prince was heard loudly berating the Prime Minister for allegedly wishing to engineer another 1956-like crisis with Britain, evoking the potentially disastrous results and declaring that he had no wish to have his final sight be that of a battlecruiser falling on the Royal Palace. He is discreetly removed to Ceylon later that afternoon by British advisors seeking to deescalate the mounting civil unrest.
November 18: Sergeants Talaiasi Labalaba and William Bodie, Captain Michael Jackson and Lieutenants Peter Skellen and Aidan Dempsey are awared the Victoria Cross for valour in action in South Vietnam in a ceremony at Buckingham Palace.
November 19: A bloodless coup d'etat overthrows the Premier of Mali; French forces in Timbuktu remain assiduously aloof.
November 20: Seventy-eight coal miners are trapped underground after an explosion in Farmington, West Virginia, but are saved through the intervention of a caped superhero who excavates them.
November 21: Commissioning of the Royal Navy's newest and fastest patrol boat, HMS
Speedy, first in its class of a new interceptor craft equipped with light strike missiles, rapid fire guns and other advanced weapons systems.
November 22: Tragedy is averted as JAL Flight 2, a recently delivered DC-10, crashes towards San Francisco Bay where the skilled captain is able to perform a perfect water landing, saving all 280 passengers and crew onboard.
November 23: Princess Victoria of Ruritania arrives in Britain for an extended private visit to the Royal Family.
November 24: Toronto makes an official bid for the 1976 Summer Olympics, joining Moscow, Bombay and New York City as contenders.
November 25: Persia signs an extensive agreement with Britain for the supply of almost 1200 million worth of arms. The prosperity of the Shah's empire has seen a marked increase over the 1960s with increases oil revenues from the renegotiated royalty agreement with British Petroleum and a diversifying modernising economy.
November 26:
Dreadnought arrives in the Saturnine system, creating the brief situation of all three Earthly spaceships being in orbit around Titan.
November 27: Beginning of talks between Japan and the United States regarding the future status of Okinawa.
November 28: Reverend Elvis Presley is knighted by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II for his valour in the Tower Bridge Incident.
November 29: Romanian General Secretary Mihai Florescu goes missing from his luxury apartment in Bucharest, leaving no signs of a struggle save for drops of blood on his pillow.
November 30: First reported outbreak of the Venusian flu in East Africa.