- 43 BC -The Second Triumvirate alliance of Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus ("Octavian", later "Caesar Augustus"), Marcus Aemilius Lepidus, and Mark Antony is formed.
- 0399 - Pope Siricius dies.
- 0597 - Pelagius II succeeded Benedict I as pope.
- 0666 - Yeon Gaesomun dictator of Goguryeo (other sources indicate death date as 664 or 665)
- 0783 - The Asturian queen Adosinda is put up in a monastery to prevent her kin from retaking the throne from Mauregatus.
- 1252 - Blanche of Castile dies (b. 1188). Queen of Louis VIII of France.
- 1288 - Emperor Go-Daigo of Japan was born (d. 1339).
- 1326 - Hugh the younger Despenser dies (b. 1286). English knight.
- 1436 - Princess Catherine of Portugal was born (d. 1463). Writer.
- 1504 - Isabella I of Castile (Queen of Castille and Aragon (1474-1504), patron of Columbus died, in Medina del Campo.
- 1607 - John Harvard was born (d. 1638). English-born clergyman.
- 1609 - Henry Dunster was born (d. 1659). English president of Harvard College.
- 1621 - Radulph Agas dies. English surveyor.
- 1639 - John Spottiswoode dies (b. 1565). Scottish historian.
- 1651 - Henry Ireton dies (b. 1611). English Civil War general.
- 1657 - William Derham was born (d. 1735). English minister and writer.
- 1678 - Jean Jacques d'Ortous de Mairan was born (d. 1771). French geophysicist.
- 1688 - Louis XIV declared war on the Netherland.
- 1688 - Philippe Quinault dies (b. 1635). French writer.
- 1689 - Marquard Gude dies (b. 1635). German archaeologist.
- 1703 - Theophilus Cibber was born (d. 1758). English actor and writer.
- 1717 - Daniel Purcell dies (b. 1664). British composer.
- 1719 - John Hudson dies (b. 1662). British classical scholar.
- 1731 - William Cowper was born (d. 1800). English poet.
- 1764 - A Companhia de Jesus (Jesuítas) is forbidden in França.
- 1780 - Sir James Denham Steuart, 4th Baronet dies (b. 1712). British economist.
- 1789 - George Washington proclaimed on Oct 3 that Nov 26 be a National Thanksgiving Day in honor of the new Constitution. He made it clear that the day should be one of prayer and giving thanks to God, to be celebrated by all the religious denominations. In 1863 Pres. Lincoln designated the last Thursday of November as Thanksgiving Day.
- 1792 - Sarah Grimke was born (d. 1873) .American abolitionist and feminist.
- 1805 - Official opening of Thomas Telford's Pontcysyllte Aqueduct.
- 1809 - José Estêvão was born. Portuguese parlamentar orator.
- 1825 - At Union College in Schenectady, New York a group of college students form Kappa Alpha Society, the first college social fraternity.
- 1827 - Ellen G. White was born (d. 1915). American religious leader.
- 1828 - René Goblet was born (d. 1905). French politician.
- 1832 - Karl Rudolf König was born (d. 1901). German physicist.
- 1832 - Mary Edwards Walker was born (d. 1919). American feminist physician.
- 1836 - John MacAdam dies (b. 1756). British road builder.
- 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.
- 1847 - Maria Fyodorovna was born (d. 1928). Princess of Denmark and Empress of Russia.
- 1851 - Nicolas Jean de Dieu Soult dies (b. 1769). French marshal.
- 1853 - Bat Masterson was born (d. 1921). American Old West figure.
- 1855 - Adam Mickiewicz dies (b. 1798). Polish poet.
- 1857 - Ferdinand de Saussure was born (d. 1913). Swiss linguist.
- 1857 - Joseph von Eichendorff dies (b. 1788). German poet.
- 1862 - Charles Dodgson (AKA Lewis Carroll) sends the handwritten manuscript of Alice's Adventures Underground to 10-year-old Alice Liddell.
- 1863 - American Civil War: Mine Run - Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.
- 1864 - Edward Higgins was born (d. 1947). the 3rd General of The Salvation Army.
- 1865 - Battle of Papudo: The Spanish navy engages a combined Peruvian-Chilean fleet north of Valparaiso, Chile.
- 1869 - Maud, Queen of Norway was born (d. 1938).
- 1876 - Willis Carrier was born (d. 1950). American engineer and inventor.
- 1876 - Karl Ernst von Baer dies (b. 1792). German biologist.
- 1877 - Alfred Cortot was born (d. 1962). Swiss pianist.
- 1878 - Marshall Taylor was born (d. 1932). American cyclist.
- 1879 - Belle da Costa Greene was born (d. 1950). American librarian.
- 1883 - Sojourner Truth dies. African American evangelist and reformer who applied her religious fervour to the abolitionist and women's rights movements.
- 1885 - Heinrich Brüning was born (d. 1970). Chancellor of Germany.
- 1885 - Thomas Andrews dies (b. 1813). Irish chemist.
- 1889 - Albert Dieudonné was born (d. 1976). French actor, screenwriter and novelist.
- 1892 - Charles Lavigerie dies (b. 1825). French catholic cardinal.
- 1894 - Nicholas II the last tsar of Russia, married Alexandra.
- 1894 - Norbert Wiener was born (d. 1964). American mathematician and founder of Cybernetics.
- 1894 - James Charles McGuigan was born (d. 1974). Catholic cardinal archbishop of Toronto.
- 1895 - Bill Wilson was born (d. 1971). Co-founder of the Alcoholics Anonymous.
- 1896 - Emil du Bois-Reymond dies (b. 1818). German physician.
- 1896 - Coventry Patmore dies (b. 1823). British poet.
- 1897 - Las colonias españolas de Cuba y de Puerto Rico consiguen la autonomía.
- 1898 - Karl Ziegler was born (d. 1973). German chemist, Nobel Prize laureate.
- 1899 - Bruno Hauptmann was born (d. 1936). German kidnapper of Charles Lindbergh III
- 1904 - Armand Frappier was born (d. 1991). French Canadian physician and microbiologist.
- 1905 - Bob Johnson was born (d. 1982). American baseball player.
- 1905 - Emlyn Williams was born in Pen-y-ffordd, Flintshire, NE Wales, UK (d.1987). Actor, playwright and director, best known for his play 'Night Must Fall'.
- 1907 - Ruth Patrick was born. American botanist.
- 1908 - Charles Forte was born (d. 2007). Scottish hotelier.
- 1908 - Lefty Gomez was born (d. 1989). American baseball player.
- 1909 - Sigma Alpha Mu is founded in the City College of New York by 8 Jewish young men.
- 1909 - Eugène Ionesco born (d. 1994), Romanian-born French playwright, one of the chief exponents of the movement known as theater of the absurd.
- 1909 - Frances Dee was born (d. 2004). American actress.
- 1910 - Cyril Cusack was born (d. 1993). Irish actor.
- 1911 - Mário Lago was born (d. 2002). Brazilian actor, composer and poet.
- 1912 - Eric Sevareid was born (d. 1992). American journalist.
- 1913 - Phi Sigma Sigma is founded at Hunter College in New York City.
- 1915 - O Club de Regatas Vasco da Gama and Lusitânia F.C. make a fusion and Vasco da Gama gets a football team.
- 1915 - Augusto Correia Pinto Filho was born in Obidos, Pará (d. 1978). Brazilian poet, journalist and essayst.
- 1915 - Earl Wild was born. American pianist.
- 1917 - The National Hockey League is formed, with the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal Wanderers, Ottawa Senators, Quebec Bulldogs, and Toronto Arenas as its first teams.
- 1919 - Frederik Pohl was born. American science fiction writer.
- 1920 - Daniel Petrie was born (d. 2004). Canadian-born television and movie director.
- 1922 - Howard Carter and Lord Carnarvon become the first people to enter the tomb of Egyptian King Tutankhamun in over 3000 years.
- 1922 - Toll of the Sea debuts as the first general release film to use two-tone Technicolor (The Gulf Between was the first film to do so but it was not widely distributed).
- 1922 - Charles M. Schulz was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA (d.2000). Strip cartoonist, creator of 'Peanuts'.
- 1923 - Pat Phoenix was born in Portnum, County Galway, Ireland (d.1986). British actress best known as Elsie Tanner in the television soap 'Coronation Street'.
- 1924 - George Segal was born (d. 2000). American Pop Sculptor.
- 1925 - Eugene Istomin was born (d. 2003). American pianist.
- 1927 - Ernie Coombs was born (d. 2001). American children's entertainer.
- 1930 - Berthold Leibinger was born. German Entrepreneur and Philanthropist.
- 1931 - Adolfo Pérez Esquivel was born. Argentine activist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize in 1980.
- 1931 - Adrianus Johannes Simonis was born. Cardinal Archbishop of Utrecht.
- 1933 - Robert Goulet was born. American singer and actor.
- 1933 - Álvaro Pacheco was born in Piauí. Brazilian poet.
- 1934 - Mykhailo Hrushevsky dies (b. 1866).Ukrainian historian and statesman.
- 1937 - Boris Yegorov was born. Soviet cosmonaut.
- 1938 - Porter J. Goss was born. American politician and Central Intelligence Agency director.
- 1938 - Rodney Jory was born. Australian physicist.
- 1938 - Rich Little was born. Canadian comedian and actor.
- 1939 - Shelling of Mainila: The Soviet Army orchestrates the incident which is used to justify the start of the Winter War with Finland four days later.
- 1939 - Abdullah Ahmad Badawi was born. Malaysian politician.
- 1939 - Tina Turner was born. American singer and actress.
- 1939 - Wayland Flowers was born (d. 1988). American Puppeteer.
- 1941 - US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signs a bill establishing the fourth Thursday in November as Thanksgiving Day in the United States.
- 1941 - World War II: Attack on Pearl Harbor - A fleet of six aircraft carriers commanded by Japanese Vice Admiral Chuichi Nagumo leaves Hitokapu Bay for Pearl Harbor under strict radio silence.
- 1941 - Lebanon gains independence from France.
- 1941 - World War II: The Hull note ultimatum is delivered to Japan by the United States.
- 1941 - Susanne Marsee was born. American mezzo-soprano.
- 1941 - Niels Hansen Jacobsen dies (b. 1861). Danish sculptor and ceramist.
- 1941 - Ernest Lapointe dies (b. 1876). French Canadian politician.
- 1942 - World War II: Yugoslav Partisans convene the first meeting of the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia at Bihać in northwestern Bosnia.
- 1942 - Premiere of the motion picture Casablanca, directed by Michael Curtiz, and starring Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman, and Paul Henreid, at the Hollywood Theater in New York City. Casablanca became one of Hollywood's most revered films.
- 1942 - Michael Devlin was born. American bass-baritone.
- 1942 - Olivia Cole was born. American actress.
- 1943 - Bruce Paltrow was born (d. 2002). American producer and director.
- 1943 - Marilynne Robinson was born. American writer.
- 1943 - Edward O'Hare dies (b. 1914). American ace pilot.
- 1944 - Jean Terrell was born. American singer (The Supremes).
- 1945 - Björn von Sydow was born. Swedish politician.
- 1945 - Daniel Davis was born. American actor.
- 1945 - John McVie was born. British musician (Fleetwood Mac).
- 1946 - Art Shell was born. American football player and coach.
- 1947 - Roger Wehrli was born. American football player.
- 1947 - Susanne Zenor was born. American actress.
- 1948 - Claes Elfsberg was born. Swedish television presenter.
- 1948 - Fausto was born. Portuguese singer.
- 1948 - Krešimir Ćosić was born (d. 1995). Croatian basketball player.
- 1948 - Marianne Muellerleile was born. American actress.
- 1948 - Shlomo Artzi was born. Israeli singer.
- 1949 - India became a sovereign democratic republic. India adopted a constitution as a federal republic. Pandit Nehru became Prime Minister.
- 1949 - Juanin Clay was born (d. 1995). American actress.
- 1949 - Martin Lee was born. British singer and member of pop group Brotherhood of Man
- 1949 - Shlomo Artzi was born. Israeli singer.
- 1949 - Vincent A. Mahler was born. American educator.
- 1950 - Korean War: Troops from the People's Republic of China move into North Korea and launch a massive counterattack against South Korean and American forces (Battle of Chosin Reservoir), ending any hopes of a quick end to the conflict.
- 1951 - Cicciolina [Ilona Staler] was born. Italian actress and politician.
- 1952 - Sven Hedin dies (b. 1865). Swedish explorer.
- 1953 - Harry Carson was born. American football player.
- 1953 - Hilary Benn was born. British politician.
- 1954 - Roz Chast was born. American cartoonist.
- 1954 - Velupillai Prabakharan was born. Leader of the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (L.T.T.E).
- 1954 - Bill Doak dies (b. 1891). Baseball player.
- 1956 - Dale Jarrett was born. American race car driver.
- 1956 - Don Lake was born. Canadian television writer.
- 1956 - Tommy Dorsey dies (b. 1905). American bandleader.
- 1959 - Albert Ketèlbey dies (b. 1875). British composer.
- 1960 - Chuck Eddy was born. American music journalist.
- 1960 - Harold Reynolds was born. American baseball player.
- 1961 - Lisa Moretti was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1962 - Chuck Finley was born. American baseball pitcher.
- 1962 - Fernando Bandeirinha was born. Portuguese ex-footballer.
- 1962 - Albert Sarraut dies (b. 1872). French politician.
- 1963 - Adam Gaynor was born. American musician (Matchbox Twenty).
- 1963 - Mario Elie was born. American basketball player.
- 1963 - Amelita Galli-Curci dies (b. 1882). Italian soprano.
- 1964 - Vreni Schneider was born. Swiss alpine skier who won three Olympic gold medals and was the dominant female skier of her era and one of the greatest skiers in the history of the slalom and giant slalom events.
- 1966 - Garcelle Beauvais was born. Haitian actress and model.
- 1967 - Ridley Jacobs was born. West Indian cricketer.
- 1968 - Vietnam War: United States Air Force helicopter pilot James P. Fleming rescues an Army Special Forces unit pinned down by Viet Cong fire and is later awarded the Medal of Honor.
- 1968 - British rock band Cream play their farewell concert at the Royal Albert Hall.
- 1968 - Edna Campbell was born. Professional women's basketball player, retired 2006.
- 1968 - Arnold Zweig dies. German writer.
- 1969 - Kara Walker was born. American artist.
- 1969 - Shawn Kemp was born. American basketball player.
- 1970 - In Basse-Terre, Guadeloupe, 1.5 inches (38.1mm) of rain fall in a minute, the heaviest rainfall ever on record.
- 1970 - Alex Taylor was born. Latin porn star.
- 1970 - Dave Hughes was born. Australian comedian.
- 1970 - Delilah Cotto was born. Puerto Rican actress, dancer and model.
- 1970 - John Amaechi was born. American basketball player.
- 1971 - Ronald "Winky" Wright was born. American boxer.
- 1972 - Arjun Rampal was born. Indian actor.
- 1972 - Chris Osgood was born. Canadian hockey player (Detroit Red Wings).
- 1972 - Francisco Nascimento was born. Portuguese actor.
- 1973 - Peter Facinelli was born. American actor.
- 1974 - Cyril Connolly dies (b. 10 Sep 1903). English intellectual.
- 1974 - Tammy Lynn Michaels was born. American actress.
- 1975 - Patrice Lauzon was born. French Canadian figure skater.
- 1976 - The Band play their final concert, dubbed The Last Waltz. One of the guest performers is Eric Clapton, whose band Cream also played their farewell concert on November 26, 8 years earlier.
- 1976 - Brian Schneider was born. American baseball player.
- 1976 - Maven Huffman was born. American professional wrestler.
- 1977 - 'Vrillon', representative of the 'Ashtar Galactic Command', takes over Britain's Southern Television for five minutes at 5:12 PM.
- 1977 - Ivan Basso was born. Italian professional road bicycle racer.
- 1977 - Forrest Griffin was born. American MMA-fighter.
- 1977 - John Parrish was born. American baseball player.
- 1977 - Paris Lenon was born. American football player.
- 1978 - Matthew Taylor was born. Bassist for Motion City Soundtrack.
- 1979 - B.J. Averell was born. American online tutor and reality television contestant.
- 1979 - Deborah Secco was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1980 - Satoshi Ohno was born. Japanese singer and actor.
- 1981 - Aurora Snow was born. American pornographic actress.
- 1981 - Natalie Gauci was born. Australian Idol 2007 winner.
- 1981 - Stephan Andersen was born. Danish international football player.
- 1981 - Natasha Bedingfield was born. British singer.
- 1981 - Gina Kingsbury was born. Gold medalist ice hockey player.
- 1981 - Max Euwe dies (b. 1901). Dutch chess player.
- 1983 - Brinks Mat robbery: In London, 6,800 gold bars worth nearly £26 million are taken from the Brinks Mat vault at Heathrow Airport.
- 1983 - Chris Hughes was born. American businessman, co-founder of Facebook.
- 1983 - Sheron Menezes was born. Brazilian actress.
- 1984 - Antonio Puerta was born (d. 2007). Spanish footballer.
- 1985 - US President Ronald Reagan signs over rights to his autobiography to Random House for a record US$3 million.
- 1985 - Lil' Fizz was born. American singer.
- 1986 - Iran-Contra scandal: US President Ronald Reagan announces the members of what will become known as the Tower Commission.
- 1986 - Trevor Morgan was born. American actor.
- 1986 - Konstadinos Filippidis was born. Greek pole vaulter.
- 1987 - Thomas G. Lanphier dies (b. 1915). American WW II aviator.
- 1988 - PLO leader refused entry into the US. Yasser Arafat, founder of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), is denied a request for a visa so that he could travel to New York City and address a United Nations session.
- 1988 - Yumi Kobayashi was born. Japanese fashion model.
- 1990 - Vergílio Ferreira, Portuguese writer wins, in Paris, the Fémina Prize for foreigner literature with "Manhã Submersa".
- 1990 - The Delta II rocket makes its maiden flight.
- 1991 - Bob Johnson dies (b. 19321). American hockey coach.
- 1991 - Ed Heinemann dies (b. 1908). American aircraft designer (Douglas Aircraft).
- 1994 - David Bache dies (b. 1925). British car designer.
- 1994 - Joey Stefano dies (b. 1968). American actor.
- 1996 - Michael Bentine dies (b. 1922). British comedian.
- 1996 - Paul Rand dies (b. 1914). American graphic designer.
- 1997 - In Indonesia a recent visitor reported that some 40,000 Indonesian troops were stationed in East Timor among a population of 800,000.
- 1998 - Tony Blair becomes the first Prime Minister of the United Kingdom to address the Republic of Ireland's parliament.
- 1998 - Jonathan Kwitny dies (b. 1941).American investigative reporter.
- 1999 - In India, at least 211 people died when two trains collided in the northern state of Punjab.
- 2000 - By a huge margin Haiti's presidential election returns former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide to power.
- 2000 - Florida Secretary of State Katherine Harris, a Republican, certifies Republican George W. Bush the winner over Democrat Al Gore in the state's presidential balloting by a 537-vote margin.
- 2001 - Nils-Aslak Valkeapää dies (b. 1943). Finnish writer.
- 2002 - Verne Winchell dies (b. 1915). American doughnut entrepreneur.
- 2002 - Polo Montañez dies (b. 1955). Cuban singer and songwriter.
- 2002 - Verne Winchell dies. American doughnut entrepreneur.
- 2003 - Soulja Slim dies shot (b. 1978). American rapper.
- 2003 - Stefan Wul dies (b. 1922). French writer.
- 2004 - Ruzhou School massacre: a man stabs and kills eight people and seriously wounds another four in a school dormitory in Ruzhou, China.
- 2004 – Male Po'ouli (Black-faced honeycreeper) dies of Avian malaria in the Maui Bird Conservation Center in Olinda, Hawaii before it could breed, making the species in all probability extinct.
- 2004 - Philippe de Broca dies (b. 1933). French film director.
- 2005 - Stan Berenstain dies (b. 1923). Children's author.
- 2006 - Dave Cockrum dies (b. 1943). American comic book artist.
- 2006 - Casey Coleman dies (b. 1951). American television personality.
- 2006 - Isaac Gálvez dies (b. 1975). Spanish procyclist.
- 2006 - Mário Cesariny dies (b. 1923). Portuguese painter and writer.
- 2006 - Raúl Velasco dies (b. 1933). Mexican television host.
- 2006 - Stephen Heywood dies (b. 1969). American builder.
- 2007 - Silvestre Herrera dies (b. 1917). Mexican-born American soldier, Medal of Honor recipient.
- 2007 - Mel Tolkin dies (b. 1913). Television comedy writer.
- 2007 - Sean Taylor dies (b. 1983). American football player.
- 2008 – De'Angelo Wilson dies (b. 1979). American actor.
- 2008 – Edna Parker dies (b. 1893). American supercentenarian.
- R.C. saints - Pope Siricius; Sylvester Gozzolini; John Berchmans; celebration of the excellence of Saint Genevieve in Paris.
- Bahá'í Faith: Day of the Covenant.
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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