Events:
November 1, 2022 – Dia de los Muertos Celebration at the Plaza in Old Town, Albuquerque, New Mexico
November 4, 2022 – Fred Harvey History Weekend at the New Mexico History Museum
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November 25, 2022 – Santa Fe Plaza Holiday Tree Lighting
November 25-27, 2022 – New Mexico Artisan Market at Hotel Albuquerque
Historical Dates:
1978 November 10 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter creates the Continental Divide National Scenic Trail after signing the National Parks and Recreation Act of 1978.
1962 November 30 – Lieutenant Governor Tom Bolack assumes office as the twentieth Governor of the State of New Mexico upon the resignation of Governor Edwin L. Mechem.
1960 November 8 – The State of New Mexico amends its Constitution changing the name of New Mexico College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts to New Mexico State University.
1944 November 30 – Albert B. Fall, New Mexico Senator (Teapot Dome Scandal), dies at 83.
1941 November 1 -Ansel Adams snaps ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’, one of his most famous photographs.
1937 November 3 – The United States Department of Agriculture creates Kiowa National Grassland.
1909 November 1 – U.S. President William Howard Taft issues a proclamation creating Gran Quivira National Monument.
1907 November 16 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt creates Gila Cliff Dwellings National Monument via proclamation.
1906 November 7 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt creates the Taos Forest Reserve via proclamation.
1906 November 6 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt creates the Manzano Forest Reserve via proclamation.
1906 November 5 – U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt creates the Gallinas Forest Reserve (78,480 acres, transferred to the Lincoln National Forest on July 1, 1908), the Magdalena Forest Reserve (153,781 acres, name discontinued when combined with Datil on February 23, 1909, which was combined into Gila National Forest on December 24, 1931), the Peloncillo Forest Reserve (178,977 acres, name discontinued when combined with Chiricahua on July 1, 1908, which was combined with Coronado National Forest on July 1, 1917), and the San Mateo Forest Reserve (424,663 acres, name discontinued when added to Magdalena Forest Reserve July 1, 1908) via proclamation.
1880 November 12 Territorial Governor Lew Wallace publishes Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, the best-selling American novel of the 19th century.
1845 November 16 Manuel Armijo is appointed Gobernador de Santa Fe de Nuevo México for a third term.
1861 November 26 – Albert B. Fall, New Mexican Politician, New Mexico’s First Senator, Secretary of Department of Interior under President Harding, convicted of accepting bribes during the Teapot Dome Scandal, is born in Frankfort, Kentucky