| 2012 | In the U.S., over 60 people die in the Mid-Atlantic states as the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy leaves millions without electricity and cripples its mass transportation system |
| 2012 | The New York Stock Exchange is reopened after a two-day closure due to Hurricane Sandy; this was the market's first weather-related two-day closure since the late 19th century |
| 2011 | The exchange rate of the Japanese yen with the U.S. dollar is reduced by the Government of Japan after the yen reached record highs |
| 2011 | According to the U.N. Population Division, the world population has reached seven billion people |
| 2010 | American Alexandria Mills, age 18, wins the 60th Miss World pageant in China |
| 2010 | A substantially large oil field that is estimated to contain between 8 and 15 billion barrels, is discovered off the coast of Brazil |
| 2009 | Margarito Montes, a prominent union leader, is found among fifteen people killed on a ranch in northern Mexico |
| 2006 | Bob Barker, from The Price is Right, retires after 35 years as host |
| 2005 | Samuel Alito is nominated for the Supreme Court by George W. Bush |
| 1999 | EgyptAir flight 990 crashes 60m off coast of Nantucket, killing 217, likely cause was an Islamist suicide replacement pilot |
| 1997 | British au pair Louise Woodward, 19, sentenced to life in death of Matthew Eappen 8 months (judge changes to time served)00690901 |
| 1995 | NHL New Jersey Devils agree to stay in New Jersey |
| 1994 | American Eagle ATR-72 crash down at Gary, Indiana: 68 killed |
| 1993 | "Wonderful Tennessee" closes at Plymouth Theater New York City after 9 performances |
| 1993 | 25 people killed during Ghana-Ivory Coast soccer match |
| 1993 | Germany unemployment hits country record of 3.5 million |
| 1993 | Rapper Tupac Shakur charged with aggravated assault |
| 1993 | U.S. wins Nichirei International LPGA Golf Tournament |
| 1992 | Don Keller makes his 18,000th sky dive |
| 1992 | Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years |
| 1992 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: A P Indy, Fraise, Gilded Time, Liza, Lure, Paseana, Thirty Slews at Gulfstream Park |
| 1991 | Palestinians attend U.S. mideast peace talks in Madrid |
| 1990 | Pakistan make 3-0 drubbing of New Zealand, Waqar Younis 29 series wkts |
| 1989 | AR Gurney's "Love Letters," premieres in New York City |
| 1989 | France performs nuclear test at Muruora Island |
| 1989 | Turgat Ozal elected president of Turkey |
| 1989 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1988 | 19 degrees F lowest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Oct |
| 1988 | 1st Monday Night NFL game in Indianapolis, Colts beat Denver 55-23 |
| 1988 | Journalists demand greater press freedom in Yugoslavia |
| 1987 | 1st jockey to win 9 races in 1 day (Chris Antley at Belmont) |
| 1985 | Last day in Test cricket for Zaheer Abbas |
| 1984 | Howard Goodall/Melvyn Bragg's musical "Hired Man," premieres in London |
| 1984 | Puerto Rican tanker, San Francisco explodes spilling 2 million gallons of oil as ship caught fire |
| 1983 | Paul McCartney releases "Pipes of Peace" album |
| 1983 | Ron Grant completes a 217 day, 8,316 mile run around Australia |
| 1982 | "Rock 'n Roll!: The 1st..." closes at St. James New York City after 9 performances |
| 1982 | Pope John Paul II becomes 1st pontiff to visit Spain |
| 1981 | 1st live radio drama in 25 years (Halloween Story on NBC) |
| 1980 | Julian Nott sets world hot-air balloon altitude record (16,806 m) |
| 1980 | Polish government recognizes Solidarity |
| 1980 | Senegal routes troops to Gambia due to Libyan threat |
| 1979 | Mike Flanagan, wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1979 | U.S. DC-10 crashes at Mexico-City, 74 killed |
| 1978 | Iranian oil workers go on strike |
| 1978 | People's Democratic Republic of Yemen (South) adopts constitution |
| 1976 | Javed Miandad, 206 vs. New Zealand, age 19 years 141 days (29 fours 1 six) |
| 1975 | Bob Geldof 1st appearance with Boomtown Rats |
| 1973 | Tom Seaver wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1972 | Gaylord Perry wins AL Cy Young award |
| 1971 | "On the Town" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 65 performances |
| 1969 | George Harrison's "Something" is released in the United Kingdom |
| 1969 | Race riot in Jacksonville Florida |
| 1968 | Linda Eastman moves to U.K. permanently |
| 1968 | Milwaukee Bucks win their 1st game beating Detroit 138-118 (6th game) |
| 1968 | President Johnson orders a halt to all bombing of North Vietnam |
| 1968 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1967 | KIMO TV channel 13 in Anchorage, AK (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1967 | Nguyen Van Thieu took oath of office as 1st President of South Vietnam 2nd Rep |
| 1967 | SF's Mike McCormick wins NL Cy Young Award |
| 1964 | Barbra Streisand's "People," album goes #1 for 5 weeks |
| 1963 | Ed Sullivan witnesses Beatles and their fans at London Airport |
| 1963 | J. Edgar Hoover last meeting with president John F. Kennedy |
| 1963 | Leaking propane gas explodes, kills 64 at "Holiday on Ice" (Indiana) |
| 1961 | Hurricane Hattie, kills 400 in British Honduras |
| 1961 | Federal judge rules that Birmingham, Alabama, laws against integrated playing fields are illegal |
| 1960 | Cyclone hits coast of Gulf of Bengal; about 10,000 die |
| 1959 | Lee Harvey Oswald announces in Moscow he will never return to US |
| 1959 | U.S.S.R. and Egypt sign contracts for building Aswan Dam |
| 1957 | "Jamaica" opens at Imperial Theater New York City for 558 performances |
| 1956 | 1st American to land an airplane at South Pole - Rear Admiral G. J. Dufek |
| 1956 | Britain and France begin to bomb Egypt to reopen Suez Canal |
| 1956 | Brooklyn, New York ends streetcar service |
| 1954 | Algerian Revolution against French begins |
| 1954 | Betsy Rawls wins LPGA Texas Golf Open |
| 1954 | KREM TV channel 2 in Spokane, WA (CBS/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | TV broadcasting begins in Belgium |
| 1952 | 1st thermonuclear bomb detonated - Marshall Islands |
| 1951 | Second Chamber accept plan-Schuman |
| 1950 | Collazo and Torresola attempt to kill Truman in Washington, D.C. |
| 1949 | "Regina" opens at 46th St. Theater New York City for 86 performances |
| 1949 | Amsterdam Telegraph-director/SS'er Henri Holdert sentenced to 12 years |
| 1949 | WOC (now KWQC) TV channel 6 in Davenport, IA (NBC) 1st broadcast |
| 1944 | Chief of staff Kruls names De Quay chairman of Universal Commission |
| 1943 | Washington Redskin Sammy Baugh passes for 6 touchdowns vs Brooklyn (48-10) |
| 1942 | 94 U boats sunk this month (619,000 ton) |
| 1942 | 9th day in battle at El Alamein |
| 1941 | 13 U boats sunk this month (62,000 ton) |
| 1941 | Mount Rushmore is completed |
| 1941 | Prior to U.S. in WW II, Germany torpedoes U.S. destroyer Reuben James |
| 1940 | 63 U boats sunk this month (325,000 ton) |
| 1940 | Battle of Britain: Germany and Britair control of English Channel, ends |
| 1940 | Deadline for Warsaw Jews to move into Warsaw Ghetto |
| 1939 | 27 U boats sunk this month (135,000 ton) |
| 1937 | Spanish government moves from Valencia to Barcelona |
| 1932 | Greek government of Venizelos falls |
| 1925 | Cossack officer Reza Chan replaces sultan Ahmad Shah in Persia |
| 1922 | Benito Mussolini (Il Duce) becomes premier of Italy |
| 1922 | Karel and Josef Capek's "World We Live In," premieres in New York City |
| 1921 | Federation Sportive Feminine International forms (1st woman track and field association) |
| 1920 | Romania annexes Bessarabia |
| 1918 | Spanish flu-virus kills 21,000 in U.S. in 1 week |
| 1917 | Eugene O'Neill's "In the Zone," premieres in New York City |
| 1916 | Clare Kummer's "Good Gracious Annabelle," premieres in New York City |
| 1914 | Great Britain and France declare war on Turkey |
| 1908 | 4th Olympic games ends in London |
| 1907 | Calgary City Rugby Foot-ball Club's 1st game defeating Strathcona Rugby Foot-ball Club 15-0 at Calgary |
| 1906 | George Bernard Shaw's "Caesar and Cleopatra," premieres in New York City |
| 1905 | Great revolutionary demonstration for amnesty in St. Petersburg |
| 1900 | AL President Ban Johnson writes to NL President Nick Young seeking peace |
| 1888 | John Boyd Dunlop patents pneumatic bicycle tire |
| 1887 | Rimski-Korsakov's "Capricio Espagnol," premieres in St. Petersburg |
| 1881 | Metropolitan club plays its last game of its non-league season They win 80 of 151 games (18-43 versus NL teams) |
| 1876 | Cyclone hits Bengal, about 200,000 die |
| 1871 | Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum |
| 1868 | Standard uniform approved for postal carriers |
| 1864 | Nevada admitted as 36th state |
| 1846 | Donner party, unable to cross the Donner Pass, construct a winter camp |
| 1837 | Collision of river boat Monmouth and Trement on Miss; 300 die |
| 1815 | Sir Humphrey Davy of London patents miner's safety lamp |
| 1808 | Holland Brigade battle at Durango, Spain |
| 1794 | John Dalton 1st lecture to Manchester Literary/Philosophical Society |
| 1793 | Execution of Girondins at Paris, during Reign of Terror |
| 1759 | Earthquake in Safed Palestine kills hundred |
| 1714 | Georg Ludwig van Hannover crowned as English King George I |
| 1617 | Laurens Reael resigns as governor-general of East-Indies |
| 1596 | English/French/Dutch delegates sign anti-Spanish "Drievoudig Covenant" |
| 1552 | Emperor Karel and Markgraaf Albecht strike siege for Metz |
| 1541 | Michelangelo Buonarroti's paints "last judgement" in Sistine Chapel |
| 1517 | Luther posts 95 theses on Wittenberg church-Protestant Reformation |
| 834 | 1st All Hallows Eve (Halloween) observed to honor the saints |
| 802 | Empress Irene of Byzantium driven out |
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