644 – Umar ibn al-Khattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
1394 – Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1493 – Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.
1762 – Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 – John Austin, a highwayman, is the last person to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows.
1783 – Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1791 – Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1793 – French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.
1793 – Stephen F. Austin, American businessman and politician, Founder of Texas (d. 1836) was born.
1796 – John Adams elected president of the United States of America
1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada’s oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal.
1838 – The Times of India, the world’s largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
1839 – 1st opium war – 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1868 – John Willis Menard was the first African American elected to the United States Congress. Because of an electoral challenge, he was never seated.
1868 – Ulysses Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1883 – American Old West: Self-described “Black Bart the poet” gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves a clue that eventually leads to his capture.
1885 – Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1896 – William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama separates from Colombia.
1905 – Csar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
1908 – William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1911 – Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.
1913 – The USA introduces an income tax. The first American citizens receive information over the new national income tax. A married man living with his wife, who is in receipt of an income of $5,000 pays $10 a year and if his income is $10,000 he pays $60 per year.
1920 – A girl was bit by a dog that was suspected to be “mad”. Usually this meant that a dog had a disease such as rabies. However, in this case the girl had become unaffected by a certain treatment given to her, and no mention of rabies (or treatment of rabies) was mentioned in the news record of this incident. This girl was affected severely, in that the dog bites had caused a nervous condition-at least temporarily.
1921 – Charles Bronson, American actor (Magnificent Seven, Death Wish, Dirty Dozen, The Mechanic), (d. 2003) was born.
1926 – Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1930 – Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1936 – President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1940 – Sonny Rhodes, American singer and guitarist was born.
1943 – World War II: 500 aircraft of the U.S. 8th Air Force devastate Wilhelmshaven harbor in Germany.
1944 – World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.
1949 – Larry Holmes, Cuthbert Georgia, heavyweight boxing champ (1978-85) Born
1952 – Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1952 – Roseanne Barr, American comedian, actress, Activist and producer was born
1952 – Jim Cummings, American voice actor and singer was born.
1953 – Dennis Miller, Pitts Pa, comedian/TV host (SNL, Dennis Miller Show) Born
1953 – Prisoners of war (POWs) in Korea became very outspoken as communists (Reds) tried to get the POWs to see things “their way.” During interviews that were held between the prisoners and Reds, cursing attacks, taunting, singing, and other actions took place. Only 17 of the 483 prisoners interviewed had been scheduled to return to North Korea. The rest of the prisoners stayed put. More talks were scheduled the next day-some including Chinese citizens.
1953 – Helios Creed, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Chrome) was born
1954 – Adam Ant, [Stuart Goddard], London, English punk rocker (If I Strip For You) Born
1954 – Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1954 – The first Godzilla film is released and marks the first appearance of the character of the same name.
1955 – First virus crystallized (announced)
1955 – Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1957 – Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit, a dog named Laika.
1957 – Laika, Russian dog (b. 1954) died.
1960 – The land that would become the Great Swamp National Wildlife Refuge was established by an Act of Congress after a year-long legal battle that pitted local residents against Port Authority of New York and New Jersey officials wishing to turn the Great Swamp into a major regional airport for jet aircraft.
1964 – Washington D.C. residents are able to vote in a presidential election for the first time.
1964 – LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) to become the 36th President of the United States. He has been the President since last year when President Kennedy was assassinated and as the vice president was sworn in as President
1967 – Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins.
1969 – Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the “silent majority” to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.
1969 – PBS is founded on November 3, 1969, on it’s foundation it takes over its predecessor, National Educational Television (NET). PBS is made up of 354 member TV stations who collectively own PBS. PBS has no central program production arm or news department all content is created by or produced under contract with other outside parties including individual member stations. A good example is “The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer” produced by MacNeil/Lehrer Productions, which is 65% owned by Liberty Media. Corporation for Public Broadcasting ( partially funded by the United States Federal Government to promote public broadcasting ) funds goes to public television and radio stations that are members of PBS and NPR.
1970 – Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1971 – “Play Misty For Me” premieres
1973 – Mick Thomson, American guitarist (# 7 – Slipknot) was born.
1976 – Democrat Jimmy Carter won the US presidential election, defeating President Ford with his “trust me” slogan.
1978 – Tim McIlrath, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (Rise Against, Baxter, Arma Angelus, and The Killing Tree) was born.
1979 – Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a “Death to the Klan” rally in Greensboro, North Carolina, United States.
1986 – John Lennon “Menlove Avenue” album released posthumously
1986 – Iran–Contra affair: The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa 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.
1987 – Elizabeth A. Smart, American abductee and activist – Born
1988 – Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera’s nose is broken as Roy Innis Starts a brawl with skinheads at TV taping
1990 – A decision made the day before was announced in papers dated this date in 1990. Industrialized countries of the world such as Great Britain, France, Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States agreed not to dump waste into the sea. A 20-year agreement was signed, which made this pollution ban official.
1992 – Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over President Bush (R)
1992 – Carol Moseley Brown elected first black woman in US Senate
1993 – Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1994 – Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder
1997 – The United States of America imposes economic sanctions against Sudan in response to its human rights abuses of its own citizens and its material and political assistance to Islamic extremist groups across the Middle East and Eastern Africa.
1998 – Bob Kane, American author and illustrator, co-created Batman (b. 1915) died.
2004 – George W Bush is Selected president of the United States for a second term of office .
2005 – Civil unrest continued in Paris suburbs after Nicolas Sarkozy, interior minister declares a “zero tolerance” policy towards urban violence, and announced that riot police (C.R.S.) and mobile police squadrons would be stationed in contentious Paris neighborhoods. The unrest is driven by youths who feel that racial and social discrimination against them because of their dark skin, Arabic or African sounding names is increasing as they set fire to buildings, cars, and buses and shoot at police and firefighters. November 8th President Jacques Chirac announced a national state of emergency, and offers an invitation to open dialogue and discuss their grievances.
2007 – Pervez Musharraf declared emergency rule across Pakistan. He suspended the Constitution, imposed State of Emergency, and fired the chief justice of the Supreme Court.
2009 – Francisco Ayala, Spanish novelist (b. 1906) Dies
2010 – Jim Clench, Canadian bass player (April Wine and Bachman–Turner Overdrive) (b. 1949) died.
2013 – Bobby Orr’s autobiography “Orr: My Story” debuts at the #8 position on The New York Times best seller list for nonfiction
2013 – A solar eclipse sweeps across Africa, Europe and the Eastern United States.