the-french-artist/wikipedia_20220301.simple_sentence_split huggingface dataset:
2018 - Mid-term elections are held in the United States: The Democrats gain control of the House of Representatives and also gain some state governorships; the Republicans keep their majority in the Senate.
15 – Agrippina the Younger, Roman Empress (d. 59)
1391 - Edmund Mortimer, 5th Earl of March, English politician (d. 1425).
1479 – Queen Joanna of Castile (d. 1555)
1494 – Suleiman the Magnificent, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1566).
1550 - Karin Mansdotter, Queen of Sweden (d. 1612)
1617 - Leopoldo de' Medici, Italian cardinal (d. 1675)
1661 – King Charles II of Spain (d. 1700)
1692 – Louis Racine, French poet (d. 1763)
1753 - Mikhail Kozlovsky, Russian sculptor (d. 1802)
1753 - Jean-Baptiste Bréval, French composer (d. 1823)
1771 – Alois Senefelder, Austrian actor, playwright and inventor (d. 1834)
1794 – Konstantin Thon, Russian architect (d. 1881)
1814 – Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the Saxophone (d. 1894)
1825 – Charles Garnier, French architect (d. 1898)
1832 - Joseph Smith III, American religious leader (d. 1914)
1833 – Jonas Lie, Norwegian writer (d. 1908)
1835 - Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician (d. 1909)
1841 – Armand Fallières, President of France (d. 1931)
1841 - Nelson W. Aldrich, American politician (d. 1915)
1850 - Ernest von Koerber, Austrian politician (d. 1919)
1851 - Charles Dow, American journalist and economist (d. 1902)
1854 – John Philip Sousa, American composer (d. 1932)
1861 – James Naismith, Canadian inventor of basketball (d. 1939)
1861 - Thomas Watt Gregory, United States Attorney General (d. 1933)
1880 – Robert Musil, Austrian novelist (d. 1942)
1880 - George Poage, American athlete (d. 1962)
1882 - Thomas Harper Ince, American movie actor, director and producer (d. 1924)
1886 - Ida Barney, American astronomer (d. 1982)
1887 - Walter Johnson, American baseball player (d. 1946)
1891 - Galaktion Tabidze, Georgian poet (d. 1959)
1892 - Harold Ross, American editor (d. 1951)
1893 – Edsel Ford, American chief executive of the Ford Motor Company (d. 1943)
1903 - June Marlowe, American actress (d. 1984)
1908 - Teizo Takeuchi, Japanese footballer (d. 1946)
1914 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (d. 2002)
1916 – Ray Conniff, American musician (d. 2002)
1919 - Christoph Probst, German Resistance activist (White Rose) (d. 1943)
1921 – James Jones, American writer (d. 1977)
1925 - Michel Bouquet, French actor
1926 - Zig Ziglar, American author (d. 2012)
1931 – Mike Nichols, German-born American television, stage and movie director (d. 2014)
1931 - Peter Collins, British racing driver (d. 1958)
1932 - François Englert, Belgian theoretical physicist, joint-winner of the 2013 Nobel Prize in Physics
1932 - Stonewall Jackson, American country music singer
1932 - Eugene H. Peterson, American clergyman and biblical scholar (d. 2018)
1932 - Ron Saunders, English footballer and manager (d. 2019)
1938 - Seishiro Shimatani, Japanese footballer (d. 2001)
1939 - Michael Schwerner, American Civil Rights activist (d. 1964)
1941 - John Carter, American politician
1941 - Guy Clark, American singer-songwriter, guitarist and producer (d. 2016)
1943 - Roberto Telch, Argentine footballer (d. 2014)
1946 – Sally Field, American actress
1946 - Fred Penner, Canadian children’s entertainer
1946 - George Young, Scottish-Australian musician (d. 2017)
1947 - Carolyn Seymour, English actres
1947 - Larry James, American athlete (d. 2008)
1948 - Glenn Frey, American rock musician (d. 2016)
1949 – Arturo Sandoval, Cuban jazz musician
1949 - Brad Davis, American actor (d. 1991)
1950 - Marvin Goodfriend, American economist (d. 2019)
1951 - Nigel Havers, British actor
1952 - Michael Cunningham, American writer
1954 – Karin Fossum, Norwegian writer
1954 - Mango, Italian singer (d. 2014)
1955 – Maria Shriver, American journalist, was married to Arnold Schwarzenegger
1956 – Marc Dutroux, Belgian serial killer
1957 - Lori Singer, American actress
1958 - Trace Beaulieu, American actor, puppeteer, producer and screenwriter
1961 - Florent Pagny, French singer-songwriter and actor
1962 - Annette Zilinskas, American musician and singer
1964 – Arne Duncan, American politician
1965 - Valérie Benguigui, French actress (d. 2013)
1966 - Paul Gilbert, American guitarist and singer
1967 - Rebecca Schaeffer, American actress (d. 1989)
1968 - Jerry Yang, Taiwanese-American businessman, co-founder of Yahoo!
1968 - Kelly Rutherford, American actress
1970 – Ethan Hawke, American actor
1972 - Rebecca Romijn, American actress and model
1972 - Thandie Newton, English actress
1973 - Nell McAndrew, English model and runner
1973 – Sandy Robson, Canadian actor
1974 - Susan Calman, Scottish comedienne and television presenter
1974 – Frank Vandenbroucke, Belgian cyclist (d. 2009)
1976 - Jodi Martin, American singer-songwriter and guitarist
1976 - Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004)
1977 - Sienna West, American pornographic movie actress
1978 - Sandrine Blancke, Belgian actress
1978 - Taryn Manning, American singer-songwriter, actress and fashion designer
1979 - Brad Stuart, Canadian ice hockey player
1981 - Lee Dong Wook, South Korean actor
1981 - Cassie Bernall, American student (d. 1999)
1983 - Nicole Hosp, Austrian skier
1983 - Jon Hume, Australian singer
1984 - Ricky Romero, American baseball player
1986 - Craig Bryson, Scottish footballer
1986 - Katie Leclerc, American actress
1986 - Conor Sammon, Irish footballer
1987 – Ana Ivanovic, Serbian tennis player
1988 – Erik Lund, Swedish footballer
1988 - Conchita Wurst, Austrian singer and performer, winner of the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest
1988 – Emma Stone, American actress
1989 – Jozy Altidore, American footballer
1990 – André Schürrle, German footballer
1990 - Kris Wu, Chinese rapper, singer-songwriter and actor
1991 - Mike van Duinen, Dutch footballer
1991 - Doron Lamb, American basketball player
1992 - Kim Yura, South Korean singer
2002 - Mya-Lecia Naylor, English actress (d. 2019)
1231 – Emperor Tsuchimikado of Japan (b. 1196)
1406 - Pope Innocent VII
1492 - Antoine Busnois, French composer and poet (b. 1430)
1650 – William II, Prince of Orange (b. 1626)
1656 – King John IV of Portugal (b. 1604)
1656 - Jean-Baptiste Morin, French mathematician, astrologer and astronomer (b. 1583)
1672 – Heinrich Schütz, German composer (b. 1585)
1771 - John Bevis, English physician and astronomer (b. 1695)
1790 - James Bowdoin, Governor of Massachusetts (b. 1726)
1816 - Gouverneur Morris, American lawmaker and diplomat (b. 1752)
1822 – Claude-Louis Berthollet, French chemist (b. 1748)
1836 – King Charles X of France (b. 1757)
1846 – Karol Marcinkowski, Polish physician and activist (b. 1800)
1846 - Alexander Chavchavadze, Georgian poet and general (b. 1786)
1893 – Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer (b. 1840)
1905 - George Williams, English founder of the YMCA (b. 1821)
1910 - Giuseppe Cesare Abba, Italian patriot and writer (b. 1838)
1914 - Carl Hans Lody, German naval reserve officer (b. 1877)
1925 – Emperor Khai Dinh of Vietnam (b. 1885)
1929 – Prince Maximilian of Baden, Chancellor of Germany (b. 1867)
1933 - Andrei Lyapchev, Prime Minister of Bulgaria (b. 1866)
1935 - Henry Fairfield Osborn, American geologist and paleontologist (b. 1857)
1937 - Colin Campbell Cooper, American painter and academic (b. 1856)
1944 – Walter Guinness, 1st Baron Moyne, British politician (b. 1880)
1951 - Tom Kiely, Irish athlete (b. 1869)
1964 – Hans von Euler-Chelpin, German chemist (b. 1873)
1965 - Clarence Williams, American musician (b. 1898)
1970 – Agustin Lara, Mexican composer and poet (b. 1897)
1978 - Harry Bertoia, Italian artist and designer (b. 1915)
1982 - Shiro Teshima, Japanese footballer (b. 1907)
1985 – Sanjeev Kumar, Indian actor (b. 1938)
1987 - Ross Barnett, American politician, 52nd Governor of Mississippi (b. 1898)
1991 – Gene Tierney, American actress (b. 1920)
1997 – Anne-Stine Ingstad, Norwegian archaeologist (b. 1918)
1999 - Regina Ghazaryan, Armenian painter (b. 1915)
2000 - David Brower, American environmentalist (b. 1912)
2001 - Anthony Shaffer, British writer, screenwriter and playwright (b. 1926)
2002 - Sid Jackson, American board game designer (b. 1920)
2003 – Mike Lockwood, American professional wrestler (b. 1971)
2004 - Fred Dibnah, British television personality (b. 1938)
2005 - Minako Honda, Japanese singer and musical actress (b. 1967)
2006 - Fernando Fernandez Ochoa, Spanish skier (b. 1950)
2007 – Enzo Biagi, Italian journalist (b. 1920)
2007 – Hank Thompson, American musician (b. 1925)
2007 - George Osmond, American patriarch of the Osmond family (b. 1917)
2008 - Larry James, American athlete (b. 1947)
2010 - Siddhartha Shankar Roy, Indian politician, Chief Minister of West Bengal (b. 1920)
2011 - Margaret Field, American actress (b. 1922)
2012 - Maxim of Bulgaria, Patriarch of the Bulgarian Orthodox Church (b. 1914)
2012 - Clive Dunn, British actor, comedian and singer (b. 1920)
2013 - Ace Parker, American football and baseball player (b. 1912)
2014 - Rick Rosas, American musician (b. 1949)
2014 - Victor Kostetskiy, Russian actor (b. 1941)
2014 - Tommy Macpherson, Scottish army officer (b. 1920)
2014 - Alok Nembang, Nepalese movie director (b. 1973)
2015 - Yitzhak Navon, President of Israel (b. 1921)
2017 - Richard F. Gordon, Jr., American astronaut (b. 1929)
2017 - Karin Dor, German actress (b. 1938)
2017 - Abdul Aziz bin Fahd, Saudi prince (b. 1973)
2017 - Feliciano Rivilla, Spanish footballer (b. 1936)
2018 - Jonathan Cantwell, American racing cyclist (b. 1982)
2018 - Bernard Landry, Canadian politician, Premier of Quebec (b. 1937)
2019 - Lev Anninsky, Russian literary critic, journalist and screenwriter (b. 1934)
Constitution Day (Dominican Republic, Tajikistan, Tatarstan)
Finnish-Swedish Heritage Day (Finland)
Gustavus Adolphus Day (Sweden)
Green March (Morocco)
November 06
1138 - Ly Anh Tong becomes Emperor of Vietnam at the age of two years, starting a 37-year reign.
1530 - The St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands.
1605 – The Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Parliament fails.
Guy Fawkes and his fellow conspirators are arrested, ending the plot led by Robert Catesby.
1688 – Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham.
James II of England is prevented from meeting him in battle because many of his officers and men desert to the other side.
1743 - Coordinated scientific observations of the planet Mercury are organised by Joseph-Nicolas Delisle.
1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeats the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire at the Battle of Rossbach.
1811 - Priest José Matías Delgado begins El Salvador's 1811 independence campaign.
1831 - Nat Turner, American slave rebellion leader, is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virginia.
1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to dissolve when Nicaragua breaks away.
1844 - James K. Polk is elected President of the United States.
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman takes place.
1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George B. McClellan as commander of the Union army for the second, and final, time.
1872 – Susan B. Anthony defies the ban on female suffrage (voting), by voting in the United States Presidential election; In the election, Ulysses S. Grant is elected to a second term.
1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first US patent for an automobile.
1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, Italy takes control of Tripoli and Cyrenaica in present-day Libya.
1912 – Woodrow Wilson is elected President of the United States.
William Taft, in finishing third (behind Theodore Roosevelt running for the Progressive Party), scores the worst-ever result of a US President seeking re-election.
1913 - Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, the Prince-Regent, who becomes Ludwig III of Bavaria.
1914 - World War I: France and the British Empire declare war on the Ottoman Empire.
1916 – The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed.
1917 – The provisional government of Estonia is overthrown, in the run-up to the October Revolution in Russia, which is so named because of the Julian Calendar in use in Russia at the time.
1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to serve a record third term as President of the United States.
1942 – World War II: The United Kingdom wins the Second Battle of El Alamein in Egypt.
1943 - World War II: Bombing of the Vatican.
1945 – Colombia joins the UN.
1967 – A train crash at Hither Green, in Southeast London, kills 49 people.
1968 – Richard Nixon is elected President of the United States, over Hubert H. Humphrey.
1970 - Vietnam War: The US Military Assistance command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years, at 24.
1982 - The Itaipu Dam is opened on the border between Brazil and Paraguay.
São Paulo is among the places that it supplies electricity to.
1987 – Anti-Apartheid activist Govan Mbeki is released after 24 years in prison.
1990 – Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after giving a speech in a New York City hotel.
1994 – President Ronald Reagan announces that he has Alzheimer's disease in order to raise public awareness of the disease.
1994 - George Foreman wins the Heavyweight World Boxing Title, 20 years after his win in the Rumble in the Jungle in 1974.
1995 - André Dallaire attempts to kill Prime Minister of Canada Jean Chrétien.
1996 – Sardar Farooq Ahmad Khan Leghari dismisses Benazir Bhutto's government, and dissolves Pakistan's National Assembly.
1996 – Flooding is caused in thinly-inhabited parts of Iceland, after the volcano under the Grimsvotn ice cap erupts.
1996 – Bill Clinton is elected to serve a second term as President of the United States, defeating Senator Bob Dole.
2003 - Green River Killer Gary Ridgway pleaded guilty to 48 counts of murder.
2006 – Saddam Hussein is found guilty of crimes against humanity.
He is sentenced to death.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1, goes into orbit around the Moon.
2009 – United States Army Major Nidal Malik Hasan goes on a shooting rampage, killing 13, and wounding 30 people at Fort Hood, Texas.
It is the worst mass shooting ever to take place at a US military base.
2013 - The Indian Mars Orbiter Mission (Magalyaan) is successfully launched by the ISRO.
2013 - US Elections: Democrat Bill de Blasio is elected Mayor of New York City over Joseph Lhota; Democrat Terry McAuliffe is elected Governor of Virginia over Ken Cuccinelli; Republican Chris Christie is re-elected Governor of New Jersey over Barbara Buono.
2017 - Sutherland Springs church shooting: 26 people are killed in a shooting in at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs, Texas.
2017 - Paradise Papers: The Süddeutsche Zeitung publishes 13.4 million documents leaked from offshore firm Appleby, revealing business dealings (including controversial tax arrangements) of celebrities, politicians (and their close associates), major companies and business leaders.
The documents are shared with the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists.
1271 – Mahmud Ghazan, Mongol ruler (d. 1304)
1494 – Hans Sachs, German meistersinger (d. 1576)
1549 - Philippe de Mornay, French writer (d. 1623)
1592 - Charles Chauncy, English-born President of Harvard College (d. 1672)
1607 - Anna Maria von Schurman, Dutch-German polymath (d. 1678)
1613 - Isaac de Benserade, French poet (d. 1691)
1615 – Ibrahim I, Ottoman sultan (d. 1648)
1666 - Attilio Ariosti, Italian composer (d. 1729)
1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola, German painter (d. 1719)
1701 - Pietro Longhi, Venetian painter (d. 1785)
1705 - Louis-Gabriel Guillemain, French composer and violinist (d. 1770)
1739 - Hugh Montgomerie, 12th Earl of Eglington, Scottish peer, composer and politician (d. 1819)
1754 - Alejandro Malaspina, Italian-Spanish admiral and nobleman (d. 1809)
1779 - Washington Allston, American painter and writer (d. 1843)
1787 - John Richardson, Scottish naval surgeon, naturalist and Arctic explorer (d. 1865)
1810 - Alphonso Taft, United States Attorney General, father of William Howard Taft (d. 1891)
1818 - Benjamin Franklin Butler, 33rd Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1893)
1851 – Charles Dupuy, Prime Minister of France (d. 1923)
1854 – Paul Sabatier, French chemist (d. 1941)
1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort, French meteorologist (d. 1913)
1855 - Eugene V. Debs, American socialist leader (d. 1926)
1857 – Ida Tarbell, American journalist (d. 1944)
1864 - Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh, English-Scottish artist and designer (d. 1933)
1870 - Chittaranjan Das, Indian politician (d. 1925)
1873 - Edwin Flack, Australian tennis player (d. 1935)
1878 - Kuzma Petrov-Vadkin, Russian painter (d. 1939)
1885 – Will Durant, American historian (d. 1981)
1887 – Paul Wittgenstein, Austrian pianist (d. 1961)
1889 - Andrejs Kapmals, Latvian runner (d. 1994)
1890 - Jan Zrzavy, Czech painter (d. 1977)
1891 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (d. 1973)
1892 - John Alcock, British pilot (d. 1919)
1892 - J. B. S. Haldane, Scottish geneticist (d. 1964)
1893 - Raymond Loewy, French-American industrial designer (d. 1986)
1895 – Walter Gieseking, German pianist (d. 1956)
1900 - Martin Dies, Jr., American politician (d. 1972)
1904 - Alfredo Brilhante da Costa, Brazilian footballer (d. 1980)
1905 – John Whedon, American screenwriter (d. 1991)
1906 – Fred Whipple, American astronomer (d. 2004)
1911 - Marie Osborne, American actress (d. 2010)
1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor (d. 1998)
1913 – Vivien Leigh, English actress (d. 1967)
1914 - Emmanuel Nsubuga, Archbishop of Kampala (d. 1991)
1916 - Willoughby Gray, English actor (d. 1993)
1917 – Jacqueline Auriol, French pilot (d. 2000)
1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta, Indian politician, 4th Chief Minister of Haryana (d. 2007)
1920 – Douglass North, American economist (d. 2015)
1920 - John H. Land, American politician, Mayor of Apopka, Florida (d. 2014)
1921 - Georges Cziffra, Hungarian pianist (d. 2004)
1921 - Princess Fawzia Fuad of Egypt, Queen of Iran (d. 2013)
1922 - Cecil H. Underwood, 25th Governor of West Virginia (d. 2008)
1923 – Rudolf Augstein, German publisher (Der Spiegel magazine) (d. 2002)
1926 - John Berger, English art critic, novelist, painter and poet (d. 2017)
1929 - Lennart Johansson, Swedish football official, former UEFA President
1930 - Clifford Irving, American author (d. 2017)
1930 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (d. 2015)
1931 – Charles Taylor, Canadian philosopher
1931 – Ike Turner, American musician (d. 2007)
1931 - Geoffrey Bolton, Australian historian (d. 2015)
1934 - Victor Argo, American actor (d. 2004)
1935 – Lester Piggott, British jockey
1936 – Uwe Seeler, German footballer
1938 – Joe Dassin, American singer (d. 1980)
1938 – César Luis Menotti, Argentine footballer
1938 - Jim Steranko, American graphic artist
1939 - Lobsang Tenzin, 5th Prime Minister of the Tibetan government-in-exile
1940 – Anthony Rolfe Johnson, British tenor (d. 2010)
1940 – Elke Sommer, German actress
1940 – Ted Kulongoski, American politician and former Governor of Oregon
1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
1941 - Yoshiyuki Tomino, Japanese animator, director and screenwriter
1942 - Pierangelo Bertoli, Italian singer-songwriter (d. 2002)
1943 – Sam Shepard, American actor, writer and playwright (d. 2017)
1946 - Gram Parsons, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (d. 1973)
1947 - Peter Noone, British singer
1947 - Franco Trappoli, Italian politician
1948 – Bob Barr, American politician
1948 – William Daniel Phillips, American physicist
1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy, French writer
1950 – Thorbjorn Jagland, Norwegian politician
1951 - Tony Evers, American politician, elected 66th Governor of Wisconsin
1952 – Oleg Blokhin, Ukrainian footballer
1952 - Bill Walton, American basketball player
1953 - Joyce Maynard, American author
1954 - Alejandro Sabella, Argentine footballer and coach
1954 - Jeffrey Sachs, American economist
1955 - Bernard Chazelle, French computer scientist
1955 - Kris Jenner, American television personality
1957 - Kellen Winslow, American football player
1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum, American model and actor (d. 1984)
1958 - Don Falcone, American musician and producer
1958 - Mo Gaffney, American actress and comedienne
1958 - Robert Patrick, American actor
1959 – Bryan Adams, Canadian singer and songwriter
1960 – Tilda Swinton, British actress
1961 - Alan G. Poindexter, American astronaut (d. 2012)
1962 - Turid Birkeland, Norwegian politician (d. 2015)
1963 - Hans Gillhaus, Dutch footballer
1963 - Andrea McArdle, American actress
1963 – Jean-Pierre Papin, French footballer
1963 – Tatum O'Neal, American actress
1964 – Abedi Pele, Ghanaian footballer
1964 - Famke Janssen, Dutch actress, director, producer, screenwriter and model
1966 - Georgia Apostolou, Greek actress
1966 - Nayim, Spanish footballer
1967 - Judy Reyes, American actress
1968 - Sam Rockwell, American actor
1969 - Pat Kilbane, American actor and comedian
1970 – Tamzin Outhwaite, British actress
1970 - Shaun Murphy, Irish-Australian footballer
1971 - Chris Addison, English comedian
1971 - Jonny Greenwood, English musician (Radiohead)
1971 - Dana Jacobson, American sportscaster
1971 - Sergei Berezin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 – Alexei Yashin, Russian ice hockey player
1973 - Johnny Damon, American baseball player
1973 - Danniella Westbrook, British actress
1974 – Ryan Adams, American singer
1974 – Dado Prso, Croatian footballer
1974 - Chris Sununu, American politician, 82nd Governor of New Hampshire
1975 - Lisa Scott-Lee, Welsh singer-songwriter (Steps)
1976 - Claudia Llosa, Peruvian movie director
1977 - Yonas Kifle, Eritrean runner
1977 - Brittney Skye, American pornographic actress
1978 - Bubba Watson, American golfer
1978 - Xavier Tondo, Spanish cyclist (d. 2011)
1979 - Keith McLeod, American basketball player
1979 - David Suazo, Honduran footballer
1979 - Michalis Hatzigiannis, Greek-Cypriot songwriter and singer
1979 – Patrick Owomoyela, German footballer
1980 – Christoph Metzelder, German footballer
1980 - Eva González, Spanish model and beauty queen
1980 - Andrei Korobeinik, Estonian computer programmer, businessman and politician
1981 - Ksenia Sobchak, Russian television personality and politician
1982 - Rob Swire, Australian singer, musician and record producer
1983 - Alexa Chung, British television presenter and former fashion model
1983 – Mike Hanke, German footballer
1983 - Andrew Hayden-Smith, English actor
1984 - Nikolay Zherdev, Ukrainian-Russian ice hockey player
1986 – BoA, South Korean singer
1986 – Kasper Schmeichel, Danish footballer
1986 - Nodiko Tatishvili, Georgian singer
1986 - Ian Mahinmi, American basketball player
1987 - O. J. Mayo, American basketball player
1987 – Kevin Jonas, American musician (The Jonas Brothers)
1988 - Bailey Jay, American pornographic actress
1988 - Virat Kohli, Indian cricketer
1992 - Odell Beckham Jr., American football player
1992 - Marco Verratti, Italian footballer
1994 - AJ Pritchard, English dancer and choreographer
1370 – Casimir III the Great, King of Poland (b. 1310)
1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli, Italian painter (b. 1476)
1714 - Bernardino Ramazzani, Italian physician (b. 1633)
1758 – Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1807 – Angelica Kauffman, Swiss-Austrian painter (b. 1741)
1828 – Maria Fyodorovna of Russia (b. 1759)
1876 - Theodor von Heuglin, German explorer and ornithologist (b. 1824)
1879 – James Clerk Maxwell, Scottish physicist (b. 1831)
1930 – Christiaan Eijkman, Dutch physician and pathologist (b. 1858)
1933 - Texas Guinan, American saloon keeper, actress and musician (b. 1884)
1933 - Walther von Dyck, German mathematician (b. 1856)
1937 - Hadji Ali, vaudeville performance artist (b. between 1887 and 1892)
1942 - George M. Cohan, American musician, actor, writer and composer (b. 1878)
1944 – Alexis Carrel, French surgeon, won the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (b. 1873)
1955 – Maurice Utrillo, French artist (b. 1883)
1956 – Art Tatum, American jazz musician (b. 1909)
1960 – Johnny Horton, American country singer (b. 1925)
1975 - Annette Kellerman, Australian swimmer (b. 1887)
1975 – Edward Lawrie Tatum, American geneticist (b. 1909)
1977 – René Goscinny, French comic book writer (b. 1926)
1977 - Guy Lombardo, Canadian conductor (b. 1902)
1979 - Al Capp, American cartoonist (b. 1909)
1981 - Rangjung Rigpe Dorje, 16th Karmapa Lama, Tibetan religious figure (b. 1924)
1985 - Spencer W. Kimball, American religious figure (b. 1895)
1986 - Bobby Nunn, American singer (b. 1925)
1987 - Eamonn Andrews, Irish radio and TV host (b. 1922)
1989 – Vladimir Horowitz, Russian-born pianist (b. 1903)
1990 – Meir Kahane, rabbi (b. 1932)
1991 – Robert Maxwell, Slovakian-born media tycoon (b. 1923)
1991 - Fred MacMurray, American actor (b. 1908)
1992 - Adile Ayda, Turkish diplomat (b. 1912)
1997 – Isaiah Berlin, Latvian philosopher and educator (b. 1909)
2000 - Jimmie Davis, American country music singer and politician (b. 1899)
2001 - Gholam Reza Azhari, Prime Minister of Iran
2002 - Billy Guy, American singer (b. 1925)
2003 – Bob Hatfield, American singer (The Righteous Brothers) (b. 1940)
2006 – Bülent Ecevit, Turkish politician (b. 1925)
2006 – Pietro Rava, Italian footballer (b. 1916)
2007 – Nils Liedholm, Swedish footballer (b. 1922)
2010 – Jill Clayburgh, American actress (b. 1944)
2010 - Shirley Verrett, American opera singer (b. 1931)
2012 - Elliott Carter, American composer (b. 1908)
2014 - Manitas de Plata, French flamenco guitarist (b. 1921)
2014 - Lane Evans, American politician (b. 1951)
2014 - Alexei Devotchenko, Russian actor and activist (b. 1965)
2015 - Nora Brockstedt, Norwegian singer (b. 1923)
2015 - George Barris, American automobile designer (b. 1925)
2015 - Hans Mommsen, German historian (b. 1930)
2015 - Czeslaw Kiszczak, former Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1925)
2017 - Nancy Friday, American author (b. 1933)
2017 - Devin Patrick Kelley, American mass shooter (b. 1991)
2017 - Robert Knight, American singer (b. 1973)
2017 - Dionatan Teixeira, Brazilian footballer (b. 1992)
2017 - Mansour bin Muqrin, Saudi businessman and politician (b. 1973
2017 - Lothar Thoms, German track cyclist (b. 1956)
2018 - Keith Christiansen, Canadian-American ice hockey player (b. 1944)
2018 - Héctor Ferrer, Puerto Rican politician (b. 1970)
2019 - Omero Antonutti, Italian actor (b. 1935)
2019 - Ernest J. Gaines, American author (b. 1933)
Guy Fawkes Night in Britain, Canada and New Zealand
November 05
676 – Donus becomes Pope.
1502 - Christopher Columbus reaches present-day Panama.
1721 - Peter I of Russia declares himself Tsar of the Russian Empire.
1772 – American Revolutionary War: Samuel Adams and Joseph Warren form the first Committee of Correspondence.
1783 – In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1852 - Franklin Pierce is elected President of the United States.
1856 - French passenger steamer Lyonnais collides with a barge off Nantucket, Massachusetts, sinking the next day, killing 130 of the 146 people on board.
1861 – American Civil War: Western Department Union General John C. Fremont is relieved of command and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally, and is perhaps the first country to do so.
1880 - James A. Garfield is elected President of the United States.
1882 - Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Fire of 1882.
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1898 - Cheerleading starts in the United States; Johnny Campbell leads a crowd in cheering the University of Minnesota American football team.
1899 – The Boers started their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1914 - World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
1917 – Zionism: The Balfour Declaration proclaims support for Jewish settlement in Palestine.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station.
The first broadcast was the results of the U.S. presidential election, 1920.
1920 - Warren G. Harding, on his 55th birthday, is elected to become the 29th President of the United States.
It is also the first US Presidential Election in which women can vote.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1930 – Geologist Alfred Wegener departs for an expedition in Greenland, from which he does not return.
His remains are found in 1931.
1936 - BBC television transmissions begin.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome–Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (flight lasted only eight minutes).
1948 – U.S. presidential election, 1948: Harry S. Truman defeats Thomas E. Dewey for the US presidency.
Many had predicted Dewey would win, and the false Chicago Tribune headline Dewey defeats Truman has become famous.
1953 - Pakistan is officially named the "Islamic Republic of Pakistan".
1959 – Quiz show scandals: "Twenty-One" game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – Ice Hockey: After being struck in the face with a puck, goalkeeper Jacques Plante returns to play wearing a protective mask for the first time in professional play.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
1962 – The Cuban Missile Crisis ends as US President John F. Kennedy announces that Soviet nuclear missiles are to be withdrawn from Cuba.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngo Dinh Diem is assassinated following a military coup.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
1967 – Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson holds a secret meeting with a group of the nation's most prestigious leaders ("the Wise Men") and asks them to suggest ways to unite the American people behind the war effort.
They conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.
1974 – 78 die as the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down.
Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1976 – U.S. presidential election, 1976: Jimmy Carter defeats incumbent Gerald Ford to become the first candidate from the Deep South to win since the Civil War.
1982 - Channel 4 goes on transmission in the United Kingdom.
1983 – Martin Luther King Day: At the White House Rose Garden, US President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating a federal holiday on the third Monday of every January to honor American civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first internet distributed computer worms to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched from MIT.
1991 – Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople, the "first among equals" in the Eastern Orthodox Communion.
1991 – Jermaine Jackson's single Word to the Badd!,
which attacks his brother Michael, is leaked to radio station KPWR in Los Angeles.
1995 – The Hubble space telescope takes a picture of a gas plume 7000 light years away from Earth that appears to contain an image of Jesus of Nazareth to many people.
1997 - Typhoon Linda devastates areas around the Gulf of Thailand.
2000 – The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
2001 – Monsters, Inc. debuts with the best ticket sales ever for an animated movie and the 6th best of all time.
2004 – 2004 U.S. presidential election: George W. Bush defeats Senator John Kerry to win a second term as President of the United States.
2008 - Lewis Hamilton wins the Formula One championship.
At the time, he is the youngest driver to achieve this, until Sebastian Vettel becomes its youngest winner in 2010.
2014 - An suicide attack in Pakistan, near the Indian border, kills over 60 people.
2017 - The discovery of a previously-unknown orangutan species is announced, called the "Tapanuli".
2019 - South Africa wins the Rugby union World Cup for a third time, defeating England 32-12 in Tokyo, Japan.
2019 - The city of Dresden in eastern Germany declares a Nazi State of Emergency over the activities of the Far-right there.
1082 – Emperor Huizong of China (d. 1135)
1154 - Constance, Queen of Sicily (d. 1198)
1470 - King Edward V of England (d. 1483)
1475 - Anne of York, Lady Howard (d. 1511)
1534 - Archduchess Eleonor of Austria (d. 1594)
1549 - Anna of Austria, Queen of Spain (d. 1580)
1636 – Edward Colston, English merchant and philanthropist (died 1721)
1667 – James Sobieski, Crown Prince of Poland (died 1737)
1692 – Unico Wilhelm van Wassenaer, Dutch composer (died 1766)
1699 – Jean-Baptiste-Siméon-Chardin, French painter (died 1779)
1709 – Anne, Princess Royal, Princess of Orange (d. 1759)
1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman (died 1820)
1739 – Carl Ditters von Dittersdorf, Austrian composer (died 1799)
1741 – Joan van der Capellen tot den Pol, Dutch politician (died 1784)
1755 – Marie Antoinette, Queen of France (d. 1793)
1766 - Joseph Radetzky von Radetz, Austrian field marshal (d. 1858)
1767 – Prince Edward Augustus, Duke of Kent and Strathearn (d. 1820)
1777 - Princess Sophia of the United Kingdom (d. 1848)
1795 – James K. Polk, 11th President of the United States (d. 1849)
1799 - John Light Atlee, American physician and surgeon (d. 1885)
1799 - Titian Peale, American entomologist and photographer (d. 1885)
1808 – Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly, French writer (died 1889)
1815 – George Boole, English mathematician and philosopher (died 1864)
1821 - George Bowen, British colonial administrator, 1st Governor of Queensland (d. 1899)
1827 - Paul de Lagarde, German philosopher (d. 1891)
1840 - Victorino de la Plaza, President of Argentina (d. 1919)
1844 – Mehmed V, Ottoman Sultan (died 1918)
1847 - Georges Sorel, French philosopher (d. 1922)
1858 - Dimitar Petkov, 14th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1907)
1862 - Maironis, Lithuanian poet (d. 1932)
1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States (died 1923)
1877 – Joseph De Piro, Maltese founder of the Missionary Society of St. Paul (died 1933)
1877 - Agha Khan III (d. 1957)
1877 - Claire McDowell, American actress (d. 1966)
1878 - Okido Moriemon, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1930)
1879 - Marion Jones Farquhar, American tennis player (d. 1965)
1881 - Pencho Zlatev, 25th Prime Minister of Bulgaria (d. 1948)
1882 - Leo Perutz, Austrian writer (d. 1957)
1884 - Sigurd Savonius, Finnish architect and inventor (d. 1931)
1885 – Harlow Shapley, American astronomer (died 1972)
1888 - Scott Duncan, Scottish footballer (d. 1975)
1890 - Nishinoumi Kajiro III, Japanese sumo wrestler (d. 1933)
1892 – Paul Abraham, Hungarian composer (d. 1960)
1892 - Alice Brady, American actress (d. 1939)
1894 – Alexander Lippisch, German scientist (died 1976)
1897 – Vito Genovese, American gangster (died 1969)
1899 - Peter Aufschnaiter, Austrian mountaineer (d. 1973)
1902 - Santos Iriarte, Uruguayan footballer (d. 1938)
1904 – Louis Eugène Félix Néel, French physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (died 2000)
1906 – Daniil Andreev, Russian poet, writer, and mystic (died 1959)
1906 – Luchino Visconti, Italian director (d. 1976)
1908 – Fred Bakewell, English cricketer (died 1983)
1910 - Alfredo de Angelis, Argentine composer (d. 1992)
1911 - Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician, theorist and philosopher (d. 1995)
1911 – Odysseas Elytis, Greek writer (died 1996)
1913 – Burt Lancaster, American actor (died 1994)
1913 - Rafael Aburto, Spanish architect (d. 2014)
1913 - Carmen Amaya, Spanish Flamenco dancer, singer and actress (d. 1963)
1915 - Sidney Luft, American movie director (d. 2005)
1917 - Ann Rutherford, Canadian-born American actress (d. 2012)
1918 - Alexander Vraciu, American Navy fighter ace (d. 2015)
1921 - William Donald Schaefer, American politician, 58th Governor of Maryland (d. 2011)
1923 - Cesare Rubini, Italian basketball coach and water polo player (d. 2011)
1924 - Rudy Van Gelder, American recording engineer (d. 2016)
1924 - David Bauer, Canadian ice hockey player and priest (d. 1988)
1927 – Steve Ditko, American artist (d. 2018)
1928 - Vladimir Beara, Yugoslavian footballer (d. 2014)
1929 – Muhammad Rafiq Tarar, former President of Pakistan
1929 – Richard E. Taylor, American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 2018)
1929 - Amar Bose, American businessman (d. 2013)
1929 - Robert Gover, American journalist (d. 2015)
1929 - Rachel Ames, American actress
1931 - Phil Woods, American musician (d. 2015)
1932 - Melvin Schwartz, American physicist (d. 2006)
1934 - Ken Rosewall, Australian tennis player
1936 – Jack Starrett, American actor and director (died 1989)
1938 – Pat Buchanan, American journalist and politician
1938 – Queen Sofía of Spain
1939 – Richard Serra, American sculptor
1940 - Vincenzo Cerami, Italian writer (d. 2013)
1941 - Bruce Welch, English musician and songwriter
1942 – Shere Hite, American writer
1942 – Stefanie Powers, American actress
1944 - Patrice Chéreau, French actor, director and producer (d. 2013)
1944 - Keith Emerson, English musician (d. 2016)
1946 – Giuseppe Sinopoli, Italian conductor and composer (died 2001)
1949 - Lois McMaster Bujold, American writer
1953 - Tom Lyle, American comics artist and illustrator (d. 2019)
1954 – Pat Croce, American entrepreneur
1957 - Carter Beauford, American musician
1957 - Lucien Favre, Swiss footballer and manager
1958 – Willie McGee, American baseball player
1959 - Peter Mullan, Scottish actor and filmmaker
1960 - Andy Borg, Austrian Schlager singer and television presenter
1961 – k.d.
lang, Canadian singer
1962 - Ron McGovney, American musician
1963 - Borut Pahor, former Prime Minister, and current President, of Slovenia
1963 - Bobby Dall, American musician
1964 - Lynn Nottage, American playwright
1965 - Pawel Adamowicz, Polish politician, Mayor of Gdansk (d. 2019)
1965 – Shahrukh Khan, Indian actor
1966 – Tim Kirkman, American movie maker
1966 – David Schwimmer, American actor
1967 – Zvonimir Soldo, Croatian footballer
1967 - Scott Walker, American politician and former Governor of Wisconsin
1968 - Jaume Balaguero, Spanish director, screenwriter and producer
1969 – Reginald Arvizu, American bassist (KoЯn)
1969 - Lucy Hawking, English novelist, journalist, educator and philanthropist
1969 - Jenny Palmqvist, Swedish football referee
1972 - Samantha Womack, British actress and singer
1973 - Marisol Nichols, American actress
1974 - Ruslan Salei, Belarussian ice hockey player (d. 2011)
1974 – Nelly, American rapper
1974 - Sofia Polgar, Hungarian chess player
1974 - Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player
1974 - Prodigy, American rapper (d. 2017)
1975 - Chris Walla, American musician
1976 - Thierry Omeyer, French handball player
1977 - Emma Reynolds, English politician
1977 - Randy Harrison, American actor
1979 - Cliff Compton, American professional wrestler
1980 – Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer
1980 - Kim So-yeon, South Korean actress
1980 - Mustafa Ceceli, Turkish singer
1981 - Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress
1981 - Ai, Japanese-American singer
1982 – Charles Itandje, French-Cameroonian footballer
1986 – Lara Sacher, Australian actress
1986 - Yurizan Beltran, American pornographic actress (d. 2017)
1987 – Danny Cipriani, English rugby player
1988 - Julia Görges, German tennis player
1989 – Stevan Jovetic, Montenegrin footballer
1989 - Katelyn Tarver, American singer-songwriter and actress
1990 - Kendall Schmidt, American actor and singer
1992 - Kyoko Fukada, Japanese actress and singer
1998 - Nadav Guedj, Israeli singer
943 - Emma of France (b. 894)
1083 - Matilda of Flanders, Queen of William the Conqueror
1285 - King Peter III of Aragon (b. 1239)
1327 - King James II of Aragon (b. 1267)
1483 - Henry Stafford, 2nd Duke of Buckingham, English politician (b. 1454)
1610 - Richard Bancroft, Archbishop of Canterbury (b. 1544)
1618 – Archduke Maximilian III of Austria (b. 1568)
1807 - Louis Auguste Le Tonnelier de Breteuil, French politician (b. 1730)
1810 - Princess Amelia of the United Kingdom (b. 1783)
1846 - Esaias Tegnér, Swedish poet and bishop (b. 1782)
1852 - Pyotr Kotlyarevsky, Russian general (b. 1782)
1887 – Jenny Lind, Swedish soprano (b. 1820)
1905 - Horace Austin, Governor of Minnesota (b. 1831)
1930 - Viggo Jensen, Danish weightlifter, shooter, gymnast and athlete (b. 1874)
1941 - Bengt Djurberg, Swedish actor and singer (b. 1898)
1945 – Princess Thyra, daughter of Frederick VIII of Denmark (b. 1880)
1950 – George Bernard Shaw, Irish writer (b. 1856)
1958 - Jean Couzy, French mountaineer and engineer (b. 1923)
1959 - Michael Considine, Australian politician (b. 1885)
1960 - Dimitris Metropoulos, Greek conductor and composer (b. 1896)
1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, Vietnamese politician (b. 1901)
1966 – Peter Debye, Dutch chemist (b. 1884)
1966 – Mississippi John Hurt, American blues singer (b. 1892)
1970 - Richard Gosling, American cardinal and Archbishop of Boston, Massachusetts (b. 1895)
1973 - Greasy Neale, American football coach and baseball player (b. 1891)
1975 – Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian movie director (b. 1922)
1984 - Velma Barfield, American serial killer (b. 1932)
1991 - Irwin Allen, American director and producer (b. 1916)
1992 - Hal Roach, American director and producer (b. 1892)
1996 – Eva Cassidy, American singer (b. 1963)
2000 - Robert Cormier, French writer and journalist (b. 1925)
2002 - Charles Sheffield, American writer and physicist (b. 1935)
2003 - Frank McCloskey, American politician (b. 1939)
2004 – Theo van Gogh, Dutch movie maker (b. 1957)
2004 - Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates (b. 1918)
2005 – Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and coach (b. 1919)
2007 - Igor Moiseyev, Russian choreographer (b. 1906)
2007 - The Fabulous Moolah (Lillian Ellison), American professional wrestler (b. 1923)
2008 - Madelyn Lee Payne, grandmother of Barack Obama, died two days before he was elected President (b. 1922)
2009 - Amir Pnueli, Israeli computer scientist (b. 1941)
2010 - Rudolf Barshai, Russian conductor and violist (b. 1924)
2010 - Andy Irons, American professional surfer (b. 1978)
2012 - Milt Campbell, American decathlete (b. 1933)
2012 - Han Suyin, Chinese novelist (b. 1917)
2013 - Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (b. 1939)
2014 - Acker Bilk, English jazz musician (b. 1929)
2015 - Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish-British art historian (b. 1924)
2015 - Barbara Snelling, American politician (b. 1928)
2015 - Colin Welland, English actor (b. 1934)
2016 - Oleg Popov, Russian clown and circus performer (b. 1930)
2017 - Orval H. Hansen, American politician (b. 1926)
2017 - Yisrael Rosen, Israeli rabbi (b. 1941)
2017 - Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (b. 1944)
2017 - Dina Wadia, Indian political figure (b. 1919)
2018 - Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (b. 1927)
2018 - Roy Hargrove, American jazz trumpeter (b. 1969)
2018 - Maulana Sami-ul-Haq, Pakistani senator (b. 1937)
2018 - Roger Bootle-Wilbraham, 7th Baron Skelmersdale, British peer (b. 1945)
2018 - Merete Skavlan, Norwegian actress, director and writer (b. 1920)
2019 - Dick Dearden, American politician (b. 1938)
2019 - Norbert Eder, German footballer (b. 1955)
2019 - Sigvard Ericsson, Swedish speed skater (b. 1930)
2019 - Irwin Fridovich, American biochemist (b. 1929)
2019 - Leo Iorga, Romanian rock singer and guitarist (b. 1964)
2019 - Marie Laforet, French-Swiss singer and actress (b. 1939)
2019 - Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologer and television personality (b. 1932)
2019 - Dean Prentice, Canadian ice hockey player (b. 1932)
2019 - James I. Robertson Jr., American historian (b. 1930)
All Souls Day - Observed in Roman Catholicism and Anglicanism
Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota)
Third Day of the Day of the Dead (Mexico)
November 02
1333 - Flooding of the River Arno causes damage to the city of Florence, Italy.
1493 – Christopher Columbus lands on the island of Dominica.
1592 - The city of San Luis Potosí in present-day Mexico is founded.
1783 - The American Continental Army is dissolved.
1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1812 - Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
1838 - The Times of India, the world's best-selling broadsheet English language newspaper, is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Finance.
1848 - A revised Dutch constitution is announced, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, it makes the powers of parliament stronger, while strongly restricting the powers of the monarchy.
1867 - Giuseppe Garibaldi and his followers are defeated in the Battle of Mentana.
1868 – Ulysses S. Grant is elected President of the United States.
1883 - American Old West: Self-described Black Bart the Poet gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that will eventually lead to his capture.
1893 - The freight ship Cabo Machichaco explodes in the harbour of Santander, northern Spain.
Some of its load included dynamite, and the resulting fire kills 590 people.
1896 – William McKinley is elected President of the United States.
1903 – Panama becomes independent, separating from Colombia.
1908 – William Taft is elected President of the United States.
1911 - Chevrolet enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1918 – Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the Allies, dissolving the Habsburg-ruled Empire.
1918 – Poland declares independence from Russia.
1918 - The German Revolution of 1918-1919 begins  when 40,000 sailors take over the port city of Kiel.
1930 - Getulio Vargas becomes Head of the Provisional Government of Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.
1932 - Panagis Tsaldaris becomes the 142nd Prime Minister of Greece.
1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.
1936 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a second term as President of the United States.
1943 - World War II: 500 aircraft of the US 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven Harbor in Germany.
1946 - Constitution of Japan is officially created.
1954 - The first Godzilla movie is shown in Japan for the first time.
1956 - The Khan Yunis killings are committed by Israel's Defense Forces in Egyptian-controlled Gaza, resulting in the deaths of 215 male Arabs.
1957 – The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2, with Laika, the world's first space dog, on board.
Laika does not survive the mission.
1964 - Washington, DC residents are able to vote in a Presidential Election for the first time.
1964 – Lyndon B. Johnson is elected to continue as President of the United States.
1966 – A series of tropical storms over the Bay of Bengal kill over 1,000 people.
1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 probe towards the planet Mercury.
1975 - Four Bangladeshi politicians loyal to Sheikh Mujibur Rahman are murdered in Dhaka Central Jail.
1978 – Dominica receives independence from the United Kingdom.
1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five Communist Party members are shot dead and seven are injured by a group of Klansmen and Neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally in Greensboro, North Carolina.
1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
1986 - The Federated States of Micronesia become independent from the United States.
1986 - Iran-Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shirga reports that the United States has been secretly selling weapons to Iran in order to secure the release of seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries attempt to overthrow the government of the Maldives.
1991 - Ayrton Senna wins the Formula One world championship for the third time.
1992 – Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating George H. W. Bush.
1997 - The United States imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to human rights abuses and assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and East Africa.
2003 – Michael Howard becomes leader of the British Conservative Party.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule in Pakistan, and suspends the constitution.
2012 - The 2012 New York Marathon is cancelled late on, due to the clean-up after Hurricane Sandy.
2016 - Two boats carrying refugees sink in the Mediterranean Sea, killing over 200 people.