November 1869

Thursday 04:

The first issue of the scientific journal Nature is published.

Saturday 06:

In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers University defeats Princeton University, 6-4, in the first official intercollegiate American football game .

Tuesday 23:

In Dumbarton, Scotland, the clipper Cutty Sark is launched -- one of the last clippers ever to be built, and the only one still surviving to this day.