- 1271 - Mahmud Ghazan was born (d. 1304). Persian ruler
- 1370 - Casimir III the Great king of Poland dies.
- 1414 - Council of Constance (16th ecumenical council) opens.
- 1494 - Hans Sachs was born (d. 1576). German mastersinger.
- 1499 - Publication of the Catholicon in Treguier (Brittany). This Breton-French-Latin dictionary had been written in 1464 by Jehan Lagadeuc. It's the first Breton dictionary as well as the first French dictionary in world History.
- 1515 - Mariotto Albertinelli dies (b. 1474). Italian painter.
- 1522 - Andrés Amaral dies. Caballero portugués y canciller de la orden de San Juan de Jerusalén.
- 1549 - Philippe de Mornay was born (d. 1623). French writer
- 1559 - Kano Motonobu dies (b. 1476). Japanese painter.
- 1592 - Charles Chauncy was born (d. 1672). English-born president of Harvard College
- 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot by Guy Fawkes to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is foiled when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building
- 1613 - Isaac de Benserade was born (d. 1691), French poet
- 1615 - Ibrahim I was born (d. 1648). Ottoman Sultan
- 1660 - Lucy Hay, Countess of Carlisle dies (d. 1599). English socialite.
- 1660 - Alexandre de Rhodes dies (b. 1591). French Jesuit missionay.
- 1667 - Christoph Ludwig Agricola was born (d. 1719). German painter.
- 1701 - Pietro Longhi was born (d. 1785). Venetian painter.
- 1701 - Charles Gerard, 2nd Earl of Macclesfield dies. French-born English politician.
- 1714 - Bernardino Ramazzini dies (b. 1633). Italian physician.
- 1715 - John Brown was born (d. 1766). English writer.
- 1722 - William Byron, 5th Baron Byron was born (d. 1798). English duelist.
- 1742 - Richard Cosway was born (d. 1821). English artist.
- 1752 - Carl Andreas Duker dies (b. 1670). German classical scholar.
- 1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeated the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Battle of Rossbach.
- 1758 - Hans Egede dies (b. 1686). Lutheran missionary.
- 1768 - Treaty of Fort Stanwix - The purpose of the conference was to adjust the boundary line between Indian lands and white settlements set forth in the Proclamation of 1763 in the Thirteen Colonies.
- 1780 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
- 1807 - Angelica Catharina Maria Anna Kauffman dies (b. 30 Oct 1740). Swiss Neoclassical painter and etcher
- 1815 - Luís Carlos Martins Pena was born in Rio de Janeiro (d. in Lisbon on 7 Dec 1848). Brazilian writer and diplomat.
- 1815 - Martins Pena was born (d. 1848). Brazilian dramatist and diplomat.
- 1828 - Maria Fyodorovna of Russia dies (b. 1759). Second wife of Tsar Paul I of Russia.
- 1831 - Nat Turner, American slave leader, is tried, convicted, and sentenced to death.
- 1835 - Moritz Szeps was born (d. 1902). Austrian journalist.
- 1836 - Karel Hynek Mácha dies (b. 1810). Czech poet.
- 1838 - The United States of Central America began to disintegrate when Honduras separated from the federation.
- 1839 - Rev. William Stainton Moses was born (d. 1892). English clergyman and spiritualist.
- 1846 - Duncan Gordon Boyes was born (d. 1869). English recipient of the Victoria Cross.
- 1849 - Ruy Barbosa de Oliveira was born (d. 1923). Brazilian statesman and writer.
- 1850 - Ella Wheeler Wilcox was born (d. 1919). American author and poet.
- 1851 - Charles Dupuy was born (d. 1923). French prime minister.
- 1854 - The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War / Batalha de Inkerman, durante a Guerra da Crimeia. A vitória das forças britânicas sobre as russas, permitiu a realização do cerco a Sebastopol.
- 1854 - Alphonse Desjardins was born (d. 1920). Québécois founder of the Caisses populaires Desjardins.
- 1854 - Paul Sabatier was born (d. 1941). French chemist, Nobel Prize laureate in 1912.
- 1855 - Eugene V. Debs was born (d. 1926). American socialist leader.
- 1855 - Léon Teisserenc de Bort was born (d. 1913). French meteorologist.
- 1857 - Ida Tarbell was born (d. 1944). American journalist.
- 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time.
- 1862 - Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang.
- 1867 - Date of baptism of Eugénio Tavares. He was born in Ilha Brava, Cape Vert on 18 Oct 1867 (d. 1 Jul 1930). Cape Verdian poet.
- 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
- 1873 - Howard Carter was born († 1939) . British archeologist.
- 1873 - Teddy Flack was born (d. 1935). Australian athlete, double Olympic gold medallist in 1896.
- 1879 - James Clerk Maxwell dies (b. 1831). Scottish physicist.
- 1881 - Robert Mallet dies (b. 3 Jun 1810). Irish engineer and geologist
- 1885 - Will Durant was born (d. 1981). American historian.
- 1890 - Jan Zrzavý was born (d. 1977). Czech painter.
- 1891 - António de Almeida was born (d. 9 Oct 1968). Portuguese engineer. See Engineer Antonio de Almeida Foundation
- 1892 - J. B. S. Haldane was born (d. 1964). Scottish geneticist.
- 1893 - Sobral Pinto (Heráclito Fontoura Sobral Pinto) was born in Barbacena- MG (d. 1991). Brazilian jurist
- 1894 - Djalma Guimarães was born. Brazilian geologist.
- 1895 - Walter Gieseking was born (d. 1956). French conductor.
- 1895 - Charles MacArthur was born (d. 1956). American author.
- 1897 - Brasil: Presidente Prudente de Morais sofre atentado
- 1898 - Pio Giannotti (Frei Damião) was born in Bozanno (d. 31 Mai 1997). Italian religious
- 1900 - Martin Dies, Jr. was born (d. 1972). American politician.
- 1900 - Natalie Schafer was born (d. 1991). American actress.
- 1904 - Cooney Weiland was born (d. 1985). Canadian hockey player.
- 1905 - Joel McCrea was born (d. 1990). American actor.
- 1906 - Fred Lawrence Whipple was born (d. 2004). American astronomer.
- 1906 - Endre Kabos was born (d. 1944). Hungarian Olympic champion fencer.
- 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica.
- 1911 - Roy Rogers was born (d. 1998). American actor.
- 1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a landslide victory over Republican incumbent William Howard Taft.
- 1913 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III.
- 1913 - Vivien Leigh was born (d. 1967). American actress ( Gone With Wind, Frankly my dear, I don't give a damn )
- 1914 - Alton Tobey was born (d. 2005). American artist.
- 1914 - August Weismann dies (b. 1834). German biologist.
- 1916 - Madeleine Robinson was born (d. 1 Aug 2004). French actress.
- 1916 - The Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
- 1916 - The Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police
- 1917 - O Comando do Corpo Expedicionário Português assumiu a responsabilidade da defesa do Sector Português na frente ocidental durante a Primeira Guerra Mundial. Estava subordinado ao 1.º Exército britânico, comandado pelo general Horne.
- 1917 - October Revolution: In Tallinn, Esthonia, Communist leader Jaan Anwelt lead revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Esthonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
- 1917 - Filinto Ramalho was born in Vouzela (d. 2001). Prior of Sacavém (Portugal)
- 1917 - Jacqueline Auriol was born (d. 2000). French aviatrix.
- 1917 - Banarsi Das Gupta was born (d. 2007). Indian former Chief Minister of Haryana.
- 1919 - Hasan Askari was born (d. 1978). Pakistani philosopher
- 1919 - Myron Floren was born (d. 2005). American accordianist The Lawrence Welk Show.
- 1920 - Douglass North was born. American economist, Nobel Prize laureate .
- 1921 - Georges Cziffra was born (d. 1994). Hungarian pianist.
- 1921 - Fawzia of Egypt was born. Queen of Iran.
- 1923 - Jacques d'Adelswärd-Fersen dies (b. 1880). French novelist.
- 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature “for his vigorous and graphic art of description and his ability to create, with wit and humor, new types of characters.”
- 1930 - Christiaan Eijkman dies (b. 1858). Dutch physician. Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1929.
- 1931 - Ike Turner was born. American musician.
- 1933 - Paulo César Saraceni was born in Rio de Janeiro. Brazilian actor and director.
- 1933 - Texas Guinan dies (b. 1884). American saloon keeper, actress, and musician.
- 1934 - Victor Argo was born (d. 2004)., American actor.
- 1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly.
- 1935 - Lester Piggott was born. British jockey.
- 1936 - Michael Dertouzos was born. Greek internet pioneer, Professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Director of the M.I.T. Laboratory for Computer Science (d. 2001)
- 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
- 1937 - Harris Yulin was born. American actor.
- 1937 - Rui Claumann was born (d. 1987). Brazilian actor.
- 1938 - César Luis Menotti was born. Argentine footballer.
- 1938 - Enéas Carneiro was born. Brazilian politician.
- 1938 - Joe Dassin was born (d. 20 Aug 1980). French singer.
- 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' first third-term president.
- 1940 - Elke Sommer was born. German actress.
- 1941 - Art Garfunkel was born. American musician.
- 1941 - Elke Sommer was born. German actress.
- 1941 - Arndt Pekurinen dies (b. 1905). Finnish pacifist.
- 1942 - George M. Cohan dies (b. 1878). American musician, actor, writer, and composer.
- 1943 - Sam Shepard was born. American playwright and actor .
- 1944 - British official Lord Moyne was assassinated in Cairo, Egypt, by the Zionist Stern gang.
- 1944 - Alexis Carrel dies (b. 1873). French surgeon and biologist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
- 1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
- 1945 - Peter Pace was born. Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
- 1946 - United States: Republicans captured control of both the Senate and the House in midterm elections.
- 1946 - Herman Brood was born. Dutch musician and artist.
- 1946 - Gram Parsons was born (d. 1973). American musician.
- 1947 - Peter Noone was born. English musician and actor.
- 1948 - Hridayananda dasa Goswami was born. ISKCON guru
- 1948 - Mel Ab-Owain was born. Welsh politician
- 1948 - Bernard-Henri Lévy was born. French public intellectual
- 1948 - Peter Hammill was born. English rock musician and singer. Founder of Van der Graaf Generator
- 1948 - William Daniel Phillips was born. American physicist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1949 - Armin Shimerman was born. American actor.
- 1949 - Jimmie Spheeris was born (d. 1984). American singer-songwriter.
- 1950 - Thorbjørn Jagland was born. Former Norwegian prime minister
- 1951 - I Love Lucy airs for the first time.
- 1951 - Reggie Walker dies (b. 1889). South African athlete.
- 1952 - Bill Walton was born. American basketball player and commentator.
- 1952 - Oleg Blokhin was born. Ukrainian footballer.
- 1953 - Nobel prize for physics awarded on Frederik Zernicke
- 1953 - Dimite en Israel el primer ministro, David Ben Gurión.
- 1953 - Joyce Maynard was born. American writer
- 1953 - Renato Piau was born in Teresina, Piauí. Brazilian musician.
- 1955 - Karan Thapar was born. Foremost Indian Journalist, Political Analyst & Commentator
- 1955 - Nestor Serrano was born. American actor
- 1955 - Bernard Chazelle was born. French-born computer scientist.
- 1955 - Maurice Utrillo dies (b. 1883). French artist.
- 1956 - Art Tatum dies (b. 1909). American musician.
- 1957 - Jon-Erik Hexum was born (d. 1984). American actor.
- 1958 - Robert Patrick was born. American actor.
- 1959 - Bryan Adams was born. Canadian musician.
- 1960 - Tilda Swinton was born. American actress.
- 1960 - Johnny Horton dies (b. 1925). Country music singer.
- 1960 - Mack Sennett dies (b. 1880). Canadian producer and director.
- 1960 - Ward Bond dies (b. 1903). American actor.
- 1961 - Gina Mastrogiacomo was born (d. 2001). American actress
- 1961 - David Bryson was born. American guitarist and vocalist (Counting Crows)
- 1962 - A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on Svalbard, leading the Norweigian government to close the mine.
- 1962 - Abédi Pelé was born. Ghanaian footballer.
- 1963 - Maria Goeppert-Mayer receives The Nobel Prize for Physics
- 1963 - Andrea McArdle was born. American actress.
- 1963 - Tatum O'Neal was born. American actress.
- 1963 - Jean-Pierre Papin was born. French football player.
- 1964 - Lansdale Sasscer dies (b. 1893). U.S. Congressman for Maryland's 5th District
- 1964 - Buddy Cole dies (b. 1916). American jazz pianist and orchestra leader.
- 1965 - State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later)
- 1965 - Famke Janssen was born. Danish model and actress.
- 1965 - Kubrat, Prince of Panagiurishte was born. Titular Bulgarian royal family
- 1967 - The Hither Green rail crash in the United Kingdom kills 49 people. The survivors include Bee Gee Robin Gibb.
- 1967 - Un golpe de Estado militar en Yemen derroca al mariscal 'Abd Allah as-Sallal.
- 1968 - The first black woman representative to serve in Congress, Shirley Chisholm, was elected.
- 1968 - Sam Rockwell was born. American film actor
- 1968 - Judy Reyes was born. Dominican American actress
- 1968 - Aitana Sánchez-Gijón was born. Spanish actress.
- 1968 - Sosígenes Costa dies (b. 11 Nov 1901). Brazilian poet.
- 1969 - In Chicago, Illinois, Bobby Seale [22 Oct 1936~], the founder of the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, is sentenced to four years in prison on sixteen counts of contempt of court
- 1970 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24).
- 1970 - Javy Lopez was born. Baseball player
- 1971 - Dana Jacobson was born. ESPN's First Take hostess
- 1971 - Jonny Greenwood was born. Guitarist (Radiohead)
- 1971 - Sergei Berezin was born. National Hockey League player
- 1971 - Edmond Leung was born. Hong Kong singer
- 1971 - Corin Nemec was born. American actor.
- 1971 - Sam Jones dies (b. 1925). Baseball player.
- 1973 - Alexei Yashin was born. Russian ice hockey player.
- 1973 - Johnny Damon was born. Baseball player.
- 1974 - Angela Gossow was born. German vocalist (Arch Enemy)
- 1974 - Dado Pršo was born. Croatian footballer.
- 1974 - Jerry Stackhouse was born. American basketball player.
- 1974 - Ryan Adams was born. American musician.
- 1974 - Stafford Repp dies (b. 1918). American actor.
- 1975 - Sao Tome and Principe adopts constitution
- 1975 - The Travis Walton abduction happens.
- 1975 - Lionel Trilling dies (b. 1905). American critic and writer.
- 1975 - Edward Lawrie Tatum dies (b. 1909). American microbiologist.
- 1975 - Angela Gossow was born. German singer (Arch Enemy).
- 1977 - Brittney Skye was born. American porn star
- 1977 - Richard Wright was born. English football player.
- 1977 - René Goscinny dies (b. 1926). French comic book writer.
- 1977 - Guy Lombardo dies (b. 1902). Canadian conductor.
- 1977 - Jodi Webb was born. Miss Utah Teen USA 1996
- 1978 - Iranian PM Jaafar Sharif-Emami resigns to Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
- 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan".
- 1979 - Franz Black was born. Underground Rapper (NYC)-(Brothers East).
- 1979 - The radio news program Morning Edition premieres on National Public Radio.
- 1979 - Al Capp dies (b. 1909). American cartoonist.
- 1980 - Christoph Metzelder was born. German football player.
- 1980 - Jaime Camara was born. Brazilian racing driver.
- 1981 - Javier Pereira was born. Spanish writer.
- 1982 - E. H. Carr dies (b. 1892). British historian.
- 1982 - Jacques Tati dies (b. 1908). French actor and director.
- 1983 - Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured.
- 1983 - Mike Hanke was born. German footballer.
- 1985 - Kate DeAraugo was born. Australian Idol 2005
- 1985 - Tanaka Koki was born. Japanese idol (member of KAT-TUN)
- 1985 - Arnold Chikobava dies (b. 1898). Georgian linguist.
- 1985 - Spencer W. Kimball dies (b. 1895). President of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
- 1985 - Humberto Mauro dies (b. 1897). Brazilian film director
- 1985 - Reliquary of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of Bečov Castle.
- 1986 - BoA was born. Korean singer.
- 1986 - USS Rentz (FFG-46), USS Reeves (DLG-24) and USS Oldendorf (DD-972) visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China—the first US Naval visit to China since 1949.
- 1986 - Claude Jutra dies (b. 1930). Québécois actor and film director.
- 1986 - Bobby Nunn dies (b. 1925). American singer (The Coasters).
- 1987 - Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government.
- 1989 - 19th New York City Women's Marathon won by Ingrid Kristiansen in 2:25:30
- 1989 - 20th New York City Marathon won by Juma Ikangaa in 2:08:01
- 1989 - Vladimir Horowitz dies (b. 1903). Russian pianist.
- 1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane (b. 1932), founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
- 1990 - Meir Kahane dies (b. 1932). Israeli rabbi and activist.
- 1991 - Kiichi Miyazawa elected premier of Japan.
- 1991 - Robert Maxwell dies at 68. Slovakian-born billionaire publisher (New York Daily News). His body is found floating in the Atlantic Ocean off the Canary Islands
- 1991 - Fred MacMurray dies (b. 1908). American actor.
- 1992 - La poetisa cubana Dulce María Loynaz es galardonada con el Premio Miguel de Cervantes de Literatura
- 1992 - Bobby Fisher beats Boris Spassky to win Chess title in Belgrade
- 1992 - In Detroit, Michigan, black motorist Malice Green is beaten to death by policemen Larry Nevers and Walter Budzyn during a struggle.
- 1992 - Arpad Elo dies (b. 1903). American physicist and chess player.
- 1994 - El ciclista suizo Tony Rominger bate el récord de la hora, con 55,291 km.
- 1994 - A letter by former US President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease.
- 1994 - Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer.
- 1994 - At 45, George Foreman, became the oldest heavyweight champion when he knocked out Michael Moorer in the 10th round of their WBA fight in Las Vegas.
- 1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door.
- 1995 - Ernest Gellner dies (b. 1925). Antropologist, sociologist and philosopher
- 1995 - An endless procession of Israelis filed past the simple wooden coffin of Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, who'd been assassinated the night before.
- 1996 - U.S. presidential election, 1996: Democrat incumbent Bill Clinton defeats Republican challenger Bob Dole to win his second term.
- 1996 - President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved National Assembly of Pakistan.
- 1996 - Eddie Harris dies b. 1934. American saxophonist.
- 1997 - Epic Soundtracks dies (b. 1959). English musician (Swell Maps, Crime and the City Solution, These Immortal Souls).
- 1997 - James Robert Baker dies (b. 1946). American novelist, screenwriter.
- 1997 - Isaiah Berlin dies (b. 1909). Latvian-born historian of ideas.
- 1998 - Lewinsky scandal: As part of the impeachment inquiry, House Judiciary Committee chairman Henry Hyde sends a list of 81 questions to US President Bill Clinton.
- 1998 - The journal Nature publishes a genetic study showing compelling evidence that Thomas Jefferson fathered a son, Eston Hemings Jefferson, by his slave Sally Hemings.
- 1998 - Fernando Brochado Coelho dies. Portuguese politician, founder of PPD (Patido Popular Democrático).
- 1999 - United States v. Microsoft: US District Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issues a preliminary ruling that software maker Microsoft had "monopoly power".
- 2000 - Abdelkhader El Mouaziz won the New York City Marathon, finishing in 2:10:09 and becoming the first Moroccan champion. Ludmila Petrova became the first Russian champion, winning the women's division in 2:25:45.
- 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church
- 2000 - Bibi Titi Mohammed dies (b. 19216). Tanzanian politician.
- 2000 - Jimmie Davis dies (b. 1899). Singer and politician.
- 2000 - Victor Grinich dies (b. 1924). American businessman.
- 2001 - Barry Horne dies. British animal liberation activist.
- 2001 - Roy Boulting dies (b. 1913). English film director and producer
- 2001 - Jeannette Thorez-Vermeersch dies (b. 26 Nov 1910). French politician
- 2002 - Israeli Prime Minister, Ariel Sharon [27 Feb 1928 – 2007] announces early general elections. They will be held on 28 January 2003.
- 2002 - Billy Guy dies (b. 1936). American singer (The Coasters).
- 2003 - Bobby Hatfield dies (b. 1940), American singer (Righteous Brothers).
- 2003 - The final installment of the Matrix Trilogy (The Matrix Revolutions) is released in theatres simultaneously around the world at 2:00 pm (GMT).
- 2005 - Rod Donald dies (b. 1957). New Zealand environmentalist
- 2005 - John Fowles dies (b. 1926). English writer.
- 2005 - Virginia MacWatters dies (b. 1912). American soprano.
- 2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity.
- 2006 - Bülent Ecevit dies (b. 1925). Turkish Prime Minister.
- R.C. Saints - November 5th is the feast day of the following Roman Catholic Saints: St. Domninus, St. Galation, St. Magnus, St. Sylvia, Pope Zachary.
- New Zealand, South Africa, United Kingdom and the province of Newfoundland & Labrador (Canada): Guy Fawkes night (also called Bonfire night; or Fireworks night): Failure of the Gunpowder Plot to blow up Parliament in 1605 is celebrated with bonfires and fireworks.
- Dia do Cinema Brasileiro
Amor, morte, poesia, política, actualidade, futebol, efemérides, solidão, paz, humor, musica...tudo e nada; Here we talk about life, love, death,
On this day in History, poetry, politics, football (soccer), solitude, peace, humour, music ... nothing and all.
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