Portal:Oregon/Selected anniversaries/November
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- November 2, 2004, Oregon voters pass Oregon Ballot Measure 36 which outlawed same-sex marriage in the state.
- November 12, 1970, figure skater Tonya Harding is born in Portland.
- November 12, 1986, Oregon native Minoru Yasui, namesake for U.S. Supreme Court case Yasui v. United States, dies at the age of 70.
- November 12, 2004, several state and federal owned sites in Oregon become part of the Lewis and Clark National and State Historical Parks.
- November 15, 1973, the Fremont Bridge in Portland opens.
- November 19, 1983, Oregon State University and the University of Oregon tie 0-0 in the annual Civil War football game.
- November 24, 1971, skyjacker D. B. Cooper hijacks a Northwest Airlines flight after take-off from Portland International Airport.
- November 29, 1847, fifteen missionaries and workers at the Whitman Mission are killed in the Whitman massacre by Native Americans, sparking the Cayuse War.