November 1953

The following events occurred in November 1953:

November 1, 1953 (Sunday)

 * Born: Darrell Issa, American politician, U.S. Representative from California, in Cleveland, Ohio

November 13, 1953 (Friday)

 * Born: Andrés Manuel López Obrador, President of Mexico since 2018, in Tepetitán, Tabasco, Mexico

November 16, 1953 (Monday)

 * Born: Griff Rhys Jones, Welsh comedian, in Cardiff

November 18, 1953 (Wednesday)

 * Born: Kevin Nealon, American actor and comedian, in St. Louis, Missouri

November 20, 1953 (Friday)

 * The Douglas D-558-2 Skyrocket, piloted by Scott Crossfield, became the first piloted aircraft to reach Mach 2.
 * Authorities at the Natural History Museum, London announced that the skull of Piltdown Man (allegedly an early human discovered in 1912) was a hoax.

November 21, 1953 (Saturday)

 * Puerto Williams was founded in Chile as the southernmost settlement of the world.

November 22, 1953 (Sunday)

 * Operation Castor: French paratroopers took Điện Biên Phủ.

November 25, 1953 (Wednesday)

 * "Match of the Century": England lost 6–3 to Hungary at Wembley Stadium, their first ever loss to a continental team at home.

November 30, 1953 (Monday)

 * Kabaka crisis: Edward Mutesa II, the kabaka (king) of Buganda, was deposed and exiled to London by Sir Andrew Benjamin Cohen, Governor of Uganda.