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November 15 - The Polaris missile is test-launched.

November 22 - The United Nations supports the government of Joseph Kasavubu and Joseph Mobutu in Congo.

November 24 - Wilt Chamberlain makes 55 rebounds

November 28 - Mauritania becomes independent of France.

November 30 - Production of the DeSoto automobile brand ceases.

The DeSoto (sometimes De Soto) was a brand of automobile based in the United States, manufactured and marketed by the Chrysler Corporation from 1928 to 1961. The DeSoto logo featured a stylized image of Hernando de Soto.

less than 20 till epic milestone.

December 1 - Patrice Lumumba, the deposed premier of the Congo, is arrested by troops of Colonel Joseph Mobutu.

December 1 - A 5-ton Soviet spacecraft containing animals, insects and plants is launched into orbit; it burns up upon re-entry.

December 2 - The Archbishop of Canterbury, the Most Rev. Geoffrey Francis Fisher, talks with Pope John XXIII for about an hour in the Vatican. It is the first time in more than 500 years that a head of the Anglican Church had visited the Pope.