| 2006 | Donald Rumsfeld resigns as U.S. Secretary of Defense |
| 2004 | U.S. troops launch offensive on Falluja |
| 1998 | Japan Golf Classic |
| 1997 | Tampa Bay Devil Rays name their 1st manager Larry Rothschild |
| 1997 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Countess Diana, Elmhurst, Ajina, Spinning World, Favorite Trick, Chief Bearhart, Skip Away |
| 1994 | Cleveland Cavaliers 1st game at Gund Arena, lose to Hous Rockets, 100-98 |
| 1994 | Haitian government of Smarck Michel forms |
| 1992 | "Solitary Confinement" opens at Nederlander Theater New York City for 25 performances |
| 1992 | 300,000 demonstrators against racism in Berlin |
| 1992 | Betsy King wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1991 | Carol Burnette Show premieres on CBS-TV |
| 1991 | Paul Coffey sets NHL defensman soring mark with 311th goal |
| 1990 | "6 Degrees of Separation" opens at Vivian Beaumont New York City for 496 performances |
| 1990 | 100,000 additional U.S. troops are sent to Persian gulf |
| 1990 | Darryl Strawberry signs 5-year contract with Los Angeles Dodgers |
| 1990 | Gina Marie Tolleson of USA, 21, crowned 40th Miss World |
| 1990 | Saddam fires his army chief and threatens to destroy Arabian peninsula |
| 1989 | Cubs Jerome Walton wins the NL Rookie of Year |
| 1989 | David Dinkins elected 1st black mayor of New York City |
| 1989 | Douglas Wilder elected 1st U.S. black governor (Virginia) |
| 1988 | 900 die as earthquake hits China |
| 1988 | Arco Arena in Sacramento, California opens, Sac Kings lose to Seattle, 97-75 |
| 1988 | George Bush beats Mike Dukakis for presidency |
| 1988 | Rafael Fernandez Colon elected if President of Puerto Rico |
| 1987 | 11 die as a bomb planted by Irish Republican Army explodes |
| 1987 | Australia beat England by 7 runs to win cricket World Cup |
| 1987 | IRA-bomb attack in Enniskillen North Ireland, 11 killed |
| 1987 | Yuko Moriguchi wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1986 | "Song and Dance" closes at Royale Theater New York City after 474 performances |
| 1985 | Atlantis moves to Vandenberg AFB for mating of STS-61-B mission |
| 1984 | 1st-class cricket debut of Wasim Akram, 2 months before his 1st Test |
| 1984 | Anna Fisher becomes 1st "mom" to go into orbit |
| 1984 | STS-51-A mission; launch |
| 1983 | Martha Layne Collins (D) elected 1st female governor of Kentucky |
| 1983 | STS-9 vehicle again moves to launch pad |
| 1983 | W Wilson Goode (D) elected 1st black mayor of Philadelphia |
| 1981 | Christian Democrats looses Belgium parliamentary election |
| 1981 | Patty Sheehan wins LPGA Mazda Japan Golf Classic |
| 1980 | Voyager 1 space probe discovers 15th moon of Saturn |
| 1979 | Bernard Slade's "Romantic Comedy," premieres in New York City |
| 1979 | ABC broadcasts "Iran Crisis: American Held Hostage" with Frank Reynolds (forerunner to "Nightline") |
| 1978 | Tom Stoppard's "Night and Day," premieres in London |
| 1975 | Nick Bockwinkle beats Verne Gagne in St. Paul, to become NWA champ |
| 1974 | British Lord Lucan disappears |
| 1973 | Nevada approves pari-mutuel betting on Jai Alai |
| 1970 | Tom Dempsey of New Orleans Saints kicks NFL record 63 yard field goal |
| 1968 | Cynthia Lennon is granted a divorce from John |
| 1967 | 1st local British radio station begins broadcasting (Radio Leicester) |
| 1967 | Silver hits record $1.951 an ounce in London |
| 1967 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1966 | Edward Brooke, Representative-R-Massachusetts 1967 - 1979, becomes 1st African American elected to Senate |
| 1966 | Actor Ronald Reagan elected governor of California |
| 1966 | President Johnson signs anti-trust immunity to AFL-NFL merger |
| 1965 | "Days of Our Lives" premieres on TV |
| 1965 | British Indian Ocean Territory formed |
| 1964 | IMF grants Great Britain credit of $1 billion |
| 1964 | KUPK TV channel 13 in Garden City, KS (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1964 | Mickey Wright wins LPGA Tall City Golf Open |
| 1964 | Orioles Frank Robinson unanimous choice as AL MVP |
| 1962 | Canada government orders changing nickel back to round shape |
| 1961 | Whitey Ford is voted Cy Young Award winner over Warren Spahn |
| 1960 | John F. Kennedy, Senator-D-Massachusetts, beats Vice President Richard Nixon to become the 35th U.S. president |
| 1959 | KJTV (now KGET) TV channel 17 in Bakersfield, California (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1959 | Tunisian President Habib Bourguiba's Nes Destour party wins every chair |
| 1958 | "Maria Golovin" closes at Martin Beck Theater New York City after 5 performances |
| 1957 | Great Britain performs atmospheric nuclear test at Christmas Island |
| 1956 | U.N. demands U.S.S.R. leave Hungary |
| 1954 | AL approves Philadelphia A's move to Kansas City |
| 1953 | Salazars party wins all parliament seats in Portugal |
| 1951 | New York Yankee Catcher Yogi Berra wins 1st of his 3 MVP awards |
| 1950 | 1st jet-plane battle ever, in Korean War |
| 1950 | Boston Red Sox 1B Walt Dropo wins AL Rookie of Year |
| 1950 | In the Korean War, 1st jet battle takes place |
| 1950 | Walt Dropo of Boston Red Sox selected AL Rookie of Year |
| 1947 | Bradman scores his 99th 1st-class cricket century, 100 SA vs. Victoria |
| 1946 | Jean-Paul Sartre's "La Putain Respecteuse," premieres in Paris |
| 1945 | "Girl from Nantucket" opens at Adelphi Theater New York City for 12 performances |
| 1945 | Riverboat sinks off Hong Kong; kills 1,550 |
| 1944 | 25,000 Hungarian Jews are loaned to Nazis for forced labor |
| 1944 | Last German troops at Walcheren surrenders |
| 1942 | Allies under Eisenhower land in N-Africa (Casablanca) |
| 1942 | Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall |
| 1942 | Operation "Torch" began as U.S. and British forces land in French N Afr |
| 1942 | Vichy-France drops diplomatic relations with US |
| 1940 | RAF bombs Munich |
| 1939 | Failed assassination attempt on Hitler in Burgerbraukeller, Munich |
| 1939 | H Lindsay and R Crouse' "Life with Father," premieres in New York City |
| 1938 | 1st black woman legislator, Crystal Bird Fauset of Philadelphia |
| 1934 | Ford Frick, NL publicity director, is named league president |
| 1933 | Franklin D. Roosevelt creates Civil Works Administration |
| 1932 | "Make Mine Music," debuts |
| 1932 | Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected 32nd president for 1st time |
| 1930 | Friedrich Wolf's "Die Matrosen von Cattaro," premieres in Berlin |
| 1929 | Jean Giraudoux' "Amphitryon '38," premieres in Paris |
| 1929 | New York City Museum of Modern Art opens in Hecksher Building |
| 1928 | George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in New York City |
| 1926 | George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay," premieres in New York City |
| 1924 | Austria chancellor Ignaz Seipel, resigns after assassination attempt |
| 1924 | Fortune Theatre opens in London |
| 1923 | Hitler stages unsuccessful "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munchen (Munich) |
| 1920 | Actress Edna Lewis Thomas debuts at Putnam Theatre Brooklyn |
| 1920 | Baseball meeting to depose Ban Johnson is set for Nov 12th |
| 1918 | Pro-German supreme commander general Cutters lay-offs |
| 1917 | People's Commissars gives authority to Lenin, Trotsky and Stalin |
| 1917 | Telephone Co runs 1st ad for Army operators, gets 7,000 applicants |
| 1910 | 1st Washington State election in which women could vote |
| 1904 | President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D) |
| 1900 | Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published |
| 1895 | Wilhelm Roentgen (Germany) discovers X-rays |
| 1892 | Grover Cleveland (D) elected president |
| 1889 | Montana admitted as 41st state |
| 1884 | German government recognizes King Leopold II's Congo Free State |
| 1883 | English freighter Nisero stranded at Atjeh (crew taken hostage) |
| 1880 | Sarah Bernhardt, French actress, made U.S. debut at New York's Booth Theater |
| 1870 | Democratic governor elected in Tennessee |
| 1864 | Abraham Lincoln (R) elected to his 2nd term as president |
| 1861 | Battle of Mount Ivy, Kentucky |
| 1861 | U.S. removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent |
| 1842 | Belgium King Leopold I proclaims child labor laws (for 1889) |
| 1838 | Victor Hugo's "Ruy Blas," premieres in Paris |
| 1837 | Mount Holyoke Seminary in Mass-1st U.S. college founded for women |
| 1833 | Train derails at Hightstown NJ; 2 die |
| 1805 | Lewis and Clark reach Pacific Ocean |
| 1793 | Louvre in Paris, opens |
| 1789 | Bourbon Whiskey, 1st distilled from corn by Elijah Craig, Bourbon, Kentucky |
| 1734 | Cook Vincent la Chapelle forms Free Masons Lodge |
| 1731 | In Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin opens 1st U.S. library |
| 1701 | William Penn presents Charter of Priviliges |
| 1658 | Battle of Sont: Swedish fleet beats Dutch |
| 1638 | Anne Hutchinson banished from Massachusetts |
| 1627 | English fleet under George Villiers leaves Rhe |
| 1620 | Battle of White Mountain, Prague |
| 1598 | Spanish troops under of Bernardino de Mendoza conquer Doetinchem |
| 1576 | Pacificatie of Gent: 17 Dutch provinces signs anti-Spanish covenant |
| 1575 | French Roman Catholics and Huguenots signs treaty |
| 1519 | 1st meeting of Montezuma and Hernando Cortes in Mexico |
| 1494 | Uprising against Piero de' Medici in Florence Italy |
| 1322 | Pope John XXII names John van Diest, bishop of Utrecht |
| 911 | Duke Koenraad I chosen German king |
| 618 | St. Deusdedit I ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
| 392 | Emperor Theodosius declares christian religion, state religion |
