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- 0676 Donus begins his reign as Catholic Pope
- 1048 All Soul's Day declared. A Christian day dedicated to all departed souls of the faithful, especially those in purgatory
- 1570 A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.
- 1648 12,000 Jews massacred by Chmielnicki hordes in Narol, Podlia
- 1675 A combined attack by the Plymouth, Rhode Island, Massachusetts Bay and Connecticut colonies attacks the Great Swamp Fort, owned by the Narragansetts during King Philip's War.
- 1755 Marie Antoinette, the wife of French King Louis XVI is born in Vienna
- 1772 Boston patriot Samuel Adams, 50, and local physician Joseph Warren, 31, organize a Committee of Correspondence, similar committees spring up throughout the colonies, relaying the anti-British polemics of Adams and others.
- 1783 Gen Washington bids farewell to his army
- 1783 In Rocky Hill, New Jersey, US General George Washington gives his "Farewell Address to the Army".
- 1795 The French Directory succeeds the French National Convention as the government of Revolutionary France.
- 1835 2nd Seminole War begins in Osceola
- 1841 Akbar Khan successfully revolts against Shah Shuja in Afghanistan
- 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
- 1879 In a 6-day footrace a Mr Weston loses to a horse, 900 to 885 km
- 1880 James A Garfield (R) elected President
- 1885 The first Canadian Pacific Railway train leaves Montreal Quebec for Vancouver British Columbia
- 1889 North Dakota becomes 39th and South Dakota becomes the 40th state
- 1889 North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
- 1895 The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
- 1898 Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
- 1899 The Boers begin their 118 day siege of British held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
- 1904 British newspaper, "The Daily Mirror" begins publishing
- 1909 Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
- 1914 Russia declares war on the Ottoman Empire.
- 1917 Balfour Declaration proclaims support for a Jewish state in Palestine
- 1917 Lansing-Ishii Agreement; US recognizes Japan's privileges in China
- 1917 The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
- 1917 The first American soldiers die in combat in WW I
- 1920 QANTAS makes it's first commercial passenger flight, in Queensland, Australia. Qantas is now the second-oldest airline operationg today.
- 1920 Warren G Harding elected President
- 1930 Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
- 1930 Ras Tafari crowned Haile Selassie I, 225th emperor of Solmonic Dynasty
- 1936 Italian dictator Benito Mussolini proclaims the Rome-Berlin Axis, establishing the alliance of the Axis Powers.
- 1942 Montgomery (Br) defeats Rommel (Ger) in battle of Alamein (WW II)
- 1943 In a few days, 50,000 Jews in the Lublin region are deported and shot in ditches behind the Majdanek gas chambers.
- 1947 Howard Hughes'"Spruce Goose" flies for only time
- 1947 In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
- 1948 Truman beats Dewey, confounding pollsters and newspapers
- 1954 Charles C Diggs Jr elected Michigan's first black congressman
- 1956 Hungary appeals for UN assistance against Soviet invasion
- 1956 Israel captures Gaza and Sheham
- 1957 The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity, and remains one of the most impressive UFO cases in American history.
- 1959 Charles Van Doren confesses, TV quiz show-"21" was fixed
- 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.
- 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.
- 1960 Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case
- 1962 JFK announces Cuban missile bases were being dismantled
- 1963 South Vietnamese President Ng nh Dim is assassinated following a military coup.
- 1964 King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother King Faisal.
- 1965 Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
- 1966 The Cuban Adjustment Act enters force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
- 1971 Visitor posting - Tracey was born in Summit, NJ
- 1974 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
- 1975 Visitor posting - Martin Fox was born in Cambridge, United Kingdom
- 1976 Former Georgia Gov Jimmy Carter (D) defeats incumbent Gerald R Ford (R) in race for Presidency
- 1976 Visitor posting - Angela Irene Dixon was born in Ogden, Utah - USA
- 1978 Crew of Soyuz 29 returns to Earth aboard Soyuz 31
- 1978 Visitor posting - LillyAnn Santiago born - USA
- 1980 Visitor posting - Aleksandar Furtula was born - USA
- 1982 Channel 4 begins transmission in the UK
- 1982 Visitor posting - Glenda A. was born to a wonderful family - USA
- 1983 President Reagan signs a bill establishing Martin L King day
- 1983 Visitor posting - Amanda Hayes was born in Cheyenne Wyoming
- 1984 Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
- 1986 Visitor posting - Aundrea R Head was born
- 1986 Visitor posting - Rebecca Ann Farrell is born in Manchester, England - United Kingdom
- 1988 Computer virus strikes Pentagon, SDI research lab and 6 universities
- 1988 Shamir Likud wins election in Israel
- 1988 The Morris worm, the first internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
- 1988 Visitor posting - tahir was born (Gujrat Pakistan)
- 1989 Visitor posting - Bradley M. Witherspoon came into this world on this day - USA
- 1990 Visitor posting - Damian Dixon was born in Fort Myers, Flordia. - USA
- 1991 Bartholomew I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
- 1991 Visitor posting - Danielle Nicole Miller was born in Scottsdale, AZ - USA
- 1993 Visitor posting - Teressa Malcolm was born on Nov 2 - USA
- 1994 Visitor posting - Allison Nicole DeGroat Was Bornn - USA
- 1995 Former South African defence minister General Magnus Malan and 10 other former senior military officers are arrested and charged with murdering 13 black people in 1987, (all the accused are later acquitted).
- 1996 Ontario L'Orignal Railway (RailTex) commences operation over the former CN line between Glen Robertson, Hawkesbury and L'Orignal, Ont.
- 1996 Visitor posting - Caleb Binggeli Born - USA
- 1998 Quebec Gatineau Railway commences operation over the CN Montfort Spur between Mirabel and Saint-Jerome, QC. Access to the CN network is continued through an interchange agreement between CN, OGRY and St.L&H.
- 1999 "Saving Private Ryan" becomse the first major Spielberg movie to be released on DVD
- 1999 Visitor posting - Marcus Jordan was Born in Belfast Northern Ireland
- 2000 The first crew arrives at the International Space Station.
- 2002 Visitor posting - Owen Gabriel Gromyko is born
- 2006 Visitor posting - Preston Robert is born at 3:39 a.m
- 2008 Visitor posting - Jaston Taylor Cruz was born, 8lbs 7.4 oz
- 2008 Visitor posting - Nov 2 2008 Amber Yen Vi Misako Holland was born, daughter to William & Phuong Holland
- 2009 16 people are killed in a fire that destroyed 58 houses in the Philippine city of Bacolod.
- 2009 A large blast occurs in Rawalpindi, Pakistan, killing at least 35.
- 2009 At least 15 Tamil asylum seekers are feared dead while being rescued in seas off the coast of Australia.
- 2009 Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadžic is to attend his war crimes trial on Tuesday, after boycotting previous sittings.
- 2009 Four people are sentenced to death by hanging in Tanzania for the killing of an Albino man last year.
- 2009 Large parts of Venezuela begin rationing water after unseasonably dry weather.
- 2009 North Korea requests direct talks with the United States regarding the former's nuclear program, warning that it will "go its own way" if its demands are not met.
- 2009 Simon Mann, a British mercenary who had been serving a 34-year prison sentence in Equatorial Guinea for his role in a failed coup d'etat, is given a presidential pardon.
- 2009 The Royal Bank of Scotland announces cuts of 3,700 staff in the United Kingdom.
- 2009 The United Nations announces it will suspend military assistance to an army brigade in eastern Democratic Republic of the Congo, after it was implicated in the killing of 62 people.
- 2009 Two people are charged with "spreading false information" about the health of Thailand's King Bhumibol Adulyadej. ()
- 2009 United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon makes a surprise visit to Afghanistan ahead of the 7 November second round of the presidential election.
- 2009 Visitor posting - Andrew Smith was born in Glasgow, Scotland - United Kingdom
- 2010 Visitor posting - The Great James E. Andrews Jr. was born (a true child of the creator of all things) at 1:27am and has been changed above measures due to the Creators grace and mercy. His first pet's name was REX symbolizing strength - USA
- 2010 Voters in one California district elect a candidate who died two weeks before
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