Every day of November and what happened on it, in any year, with the month’s most significant events.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
The 1970 Bhola cyclone, also known as the Great Cyclone of 1970 or simply the Bhola Cyclone, was the deadliest tropical cyclone on record, as well as one of the deadliest humanitarian disasters ever recorded. It struck East Pakistan and India's West Bengal on 12 November 1970.
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Hurricanes and tropical storms
On 25 November 1839, the port city of Coringa in present-day Andhra Pradesh on the southeastern coast of British India was battered by a tropical cyclone that destroyed the harbour. Known as the 1839 Coringa cyclone and sometimes also referred to as the 1839 India cyclone and 1839 Andhra Pradesh cyclone, its storm surge caused widespread damage.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 6.9 earthquake struck Avellino, Potenza, Caserta, Naples, Italy. It killed 4,689 people, injured 7,700 and did $20 billion in damage.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck Aleppo, Syria. It killed 130,000 people.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
Hurricane Eta crossed the coast near Puerto Cabezas, North Caribbean Coast, Nicaragua as a category 4 hurricane, 120 kt (140 mph), central pressure 940 mb. It killed 172 people in all, by the National Hurricane Center’s count. Hurricane Eta was a deadly and erratic tropical cyclone that devastated parts of Central America in early November 2020. The record-tying twenty-eighth named storm, thirteenth hurricane, and sixth major hurricane of the extremely active 2020 Atlantic hurricane season, Eta originated from a vigorous tropical wave in the eastern Caribbean Sea on October 31.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal. It killed 50,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 8.5 earthquake struck Lisbon, Portugal, with a maximum water height of 18.3 meters. It killed 50,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.6 earthquake struck Tabriz, Iran. It killed 50,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Earthquakes
An earthquake struck Tabriz, Iran. It killed 77,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
Earthquakes
A magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Damascus, Antioch, Baalbec, Syria, Lebanon-Syria. It killed 30,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage. It caused a tsunami.
Tsunamis
A tsunami caused by a magnitude 7.4 earthquake struck Israel and Lebanon Coasts. It killed 30,000 people and did severe (about $5 to $25 million) damage.
Hurricanes and tropical storms
Hurricane Angela reached its peak of 155 kt (180 mph) with a central pressure of 930 mb, a category 5 storm.
Floods
The All Saints' Flood of 1570 occurred on November 1–2, 1570 in the Spanish Netherlands, and is considered the worst North Sea flood disaster before the 20th century. It flooded the entire coast of the Netherlands and East Frisia.
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Floods
The St. Elizabeth's flood of 1421 was a flooding of the Grote Hollandse Waard, an area in what is now the Netherlands.
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Earthquakes
A magnitude 6.8 earthquake struck Saimareh, Iran. It killed 20,000 people and did extreme (about $25 million or more) damage.
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