The bombardment of North Vietnam by US forces ended on November 1. Airplanes stopped flying attack missions, ships stopped firing shells, and ground units near the border halted artillery fire.
The Motion Picture Association of America’s new movie rating system — G, M, R, X — went into effect on November 1. “M” for mature later became PG (parental guidance advised).
As mentioned in a separate post, the elections on November 5 put Republican Richard Nixon in the White House. Because of the closeness of the popular vote, influenced by the presence of third-party candidate of George Wallace, Democrat Hubert Humphrey did not concede until the morning of November 6.
Yale University announced on November 14 that it would begin to admit women to the class to enter in fall 2019, the first time in its then 267-year history.
In what later became known as the “Heidi Game,” NBC abruptly ended its November 17 telecast of the Oakland Raiders – New York Jets football game to show its scheduled Sunday night movie, Heidi. The televised portion of the game ended with Oakland trailing 29-32 with 65 seconds left. (The Raiders went on to score two touchdowns to win 43-32.) Many complaints ensued. Heidi ended up the highest rated program of the week.
An explosion on November 20 and subsequent carbon monoxide poisoning in a Mannington, West Va., mine killed 78 miners.
The last open gesture of defiance to the Soviet occupation of Czechoslovakia ended on November 21, when tens of thousands of students in Prague ended a 76-hour sit-in. The new Soviet-sponsored leadership in the nation decided not to crack down on the sit-in, but to let it takes it course. Student leaders agreed to a deadline, at which time, according to the New York Times, students “slowly and sadly took down the signs proclaiming the ‘occupation strike’ from the facade and doors of Prague University’s Philosophy and Law buildings.”
The Beatles released what was unofficially called the “White album” on November 22. That same day’s telecast of Star Trek contained the first interracial kiss — between Captain James Kirk (William Shatner) and Lieutenant Uhuru (Nicole Nichols) — on American television. No special mention of it was made at the time in media.
Pan Am flight 281, from New York City to San Juan, Puerto Rico, was hijacked by four of its 78 passengers on November 24. It landed in Havana, Cuba, and later reached its destination.