Portal:Tennessee/Selected anniversaries/November

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• November 4, 1943 - The X-10 Graphite Reactor, the world's first nuclear reactor designed and built for continuous operation, achieves criticality in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
• November 23-25, 1863 - In the Battle of Chattanooga, the Union Army under Major General Ulysses S. Grant defeats the Confederate forces of General Braxton Bragg, eliminating the last Confederate control of Tennessee and opening the door to an invasion of the Deep South that led to the Atlanta Campaign of 1864.
• November 26, 1939 - Singer Tina Turner was born Anna Mae Bullock in Nutbush, Tennessee.
• November 29, 1863 - In the Battle of Fort Sanders, considered the decisive battle of the Knoxville Campaign, Union forces commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Burnside turned back an attack by Confederate forces under Lt. Gen. James Longstreet.