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https://www.onthisday.com/events/date/1971/november

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November 

November 1: The Eisenhower dollar is put into circulation in the US. 

November 5: The Los Angeles Lakers NBA team begin a 33-game consecutive win streak.

November 8: Led Zeppelin IV, the 4th studio album by Led Zeppelin, is released. The album goes on to sell 23 million copies in the US.  

November 9: American mass murderer John List kills his family at their home in New Jersey before disappearing and moving to Colorado. 

November 13: The Mariner 9 becomes the first space probe to orbit another planet by orbiting Mars.

November 15: The 4004-processor is advertised by Intel.

November 16: Air activity is increased by the United States when fighting got close to Phnom Penh, in order to support the Cambodian government during the war. 

November 18: Omar is granted independence from the United Kingdom.

November 19: Fort Wilderness at Walt Disney World opens.

November 22: The Cairngorm Plateau Disaster becomes the worst mountaineering tragedy in British history, when five children and one of their leaders are killed by exposure in the Scottish mountains. 

November 24: An unidentified man, going by the name of Dan Cooper as seen on his plane ticket, hijacked a Boeing 707 aircraft between Portland and Seattle. He extorts $200,000 ransom before parachuting out of the plane, disappearing for good and his fate unknown. The case remains the only unsolved skyjacking case as of March 2008.

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