295 – Origin of Era of Ascension
1493 – Bartolomeo Bandinelli, Italian sculptor (d. 1560) Born
1775 – General Washington forbids recruiting officers enlisting blacks
1793 – Jean Sylvain Bailly, the first Mayor of Paris, is guillotined.
1817 – Bahá’u’lláh, Persian spiritual leader, founded the Bahá’í Faith (d. 1892) was born.
1840 – Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, created The Thinker (d. 1917) was born.
1892 – Pudge Heffelfinger receives $500, becomes 1st pro football player
1893 – The treaty of the Durand Line delineating the border between present day Pakistan and Afghanistan is signed by Sir Mortimer Durand, a British diplomat in British India, and the Afghan Amir Abdur Rahman Khan; the Durand Line has gained international recognition as an international border between the two nations.
1905 – (November 12 & November 13) Norway holds a referendum in favor of monarchy over republic.
1910 – 1st Movie stunt: man jumps into Hudson river from a burning balloon
1911 – Buck Clayton, American jazz trumpet player (d. 1991) Born
1912 – The frozen bodies of Robert Scott and his men are found on the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. (Scott’s diary & body found )
1923 – In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to sieze power Nov 8
1925 – US & Italy sign peace accord about war debts
1927 – 1st underwater tunnel, Holland Tunnel connecting NY to NJ opens
1927 – Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, leaving Joseph Stalin in undisputed control of the Soviet Union.
1929 – Grace Kelly, American-Monacan actress and singer (d. 1982) was born.
1933 – Hugh Gray takes the first known photos alleged to be of the Loch Ness Monster.
1934 – Charles Manson, American cult leader and murderer was born.
1936 – Oakland Bay Bridge opens
1938 – Hermann Goering announces he wants Madagascar as a Jewish homeland
1941 – Abe “Kid Twist” Reles, NY gangster/police informer, killed
1944 – Booker T. Jones, American pianist, saxophonist, songwriter, and producer (Booker T. & the M.G.’s and The Mar-Keys) was born.
1945 – Neil Young, Canadian singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer (Buffalo Springfield, Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young, The Squires, The Mynah Birds, Northern Lights, and The Ducks) was born.
1947 – Buck Dharma, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Blue Öyster Cult) was born.
1948 – In Tokyo, an international war crimes tribunal sentences seven Japanese military and government officials, including General Hideki Tojo, to death for their roles in World War II.
1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, Palestinian refugees are shot dead in the village of Rafah by Israeli soldiers following the invasion of the Gaza Strip.
1960 – Coup against South Vietnam pres Ngo Dinh Diem fails
1960 – Mercury-Redstone 1 test launch fails at 10 cm altitude
1962 – Naomi Wolf, American author and activist was born.
1964 – David Ellefson, American bass player and songwriter (Megadeth, Avian, F5, Killing Machine) was born.
1969 – Vietnam War: My Lai Massacre – Independent investigative journalist Seymour Hersh breaks the My Lai story.
1969 – Author Alexander Solzhenitsyn expelled from Soviet Writers Union
1970 – The Oregon Highway Division attempts to destroy a rotting beached Sperm whale with explosives, leading to the now infamous “exploding whale” incident.
1970 – Cyclone Bhola makes landfall, deadliest tropical cyclone recorded kills up to 500,000 in East Pakistan (modern Bangladesh),
1971 – Vietnam War: As part of Vietnamization, US President Richard Nixon sets February 1, 1972 as the deadline for the removal of another 45,000 American troops from Vietnam.
1979 – Iran hostage crisis: In response to the hostage situation in Tehran, US President Jimmy Carter orders a halt to all petroleum imports into the United States from Iran.
1980 – The NASA space probe Voyager I makes its closest approach to Saturn and takes the first images of its rings.
1981 – Space Shuttle program: Mission STS-2, utilizing the Space Shuttle Columbia, marks the first time a manned spacecraft is launched into space twice.
1984 – Space shuttle astronauts snared a satellite 1st space salvage
1989 – Brazil holds 1st free presidential election in 29 years
1990 – Tim Berners-Lee publishes a formal proposal for the World Wide Web.
1990 – “The Body Bag Game”, in the days leading to the clash, Eagles head coach Buddy Ryan threatened a beating so severe that “they’ll have to be carted off in body bags”. Ryan’s words were prophetic, as the Eagles defense scored three touchdowns in a 28–14 win and knocked eight Redskins out of the game, including two quarterbacks
1991 – Indonesian army shoots on funeral possession: 270-520 die
1991 – Dili Massacre, Indonesian forces open fire on a crowd of student protesters in Dili, East Timor.
1997 – Ramzi Yousef is found guilty of “masterminding” the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. (Later it was diclosed that the FBI were the masterminds running the op)
1997 – Red Sox Pitcher Pedro Martinez wins NL Cy Young Award
1998 – Vice President of the United States Al Gore symbolically signs the Kyoto Protocol. (Global Warming laws)
2001 – In New York City, American Airlines Flight 587, an Airbus A300 en route to the Dominican Republic, crashes minutes after takeoff from John F. Kennedy International Airport, killing all 260 on board and five on the ground.
2001 – Attack on Afghanistan: Taliban forces abandon Kabul, Afghanistan, ahead of advancing Afghan Northern Alliance troops.
2003 – Iraq War: In Nasiriyah, Iraq, at least 23 people, among them the first Italian casualties of the 2003 invasion of Iraq, are killed in a suicide bomb attack on an Italian police base.
2006 – The former Soviet republic of South Ossetia holds a referendum on independence from Georgia.
2008 – Mitch Mitchell, English drummer (The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Band of Gypsies, The Riot Squad, The Dirty Mac, and Ramatam) (b. 1947) died.
2011 – Silvio Berlusconi resigns as Prime Minister of Italy due, in large part, to the European sovereign debt crisis. (And a massive sex / corruption scandal)