362 – The temple of Apollo at Daphne, outside Antioch, is destroyed in a mysterious fire.
1633 – Battle of southern Fujian sea: The Ming dynasty defeats the Dutch East India Company.
1721 – Czar Peter the Great becomes “All-Russian Imperator”
1734 – Daniel Boone, American hunter and explorer (d. 1820) was born.
1746 – The College of New Jersey (later renamed Princeton University) receives its charter.
1777 – American Revolutionary War: American defenders of Fort Mercer on the Delaware River repulse repeated Hessian attacks in the Battle of Red Bank.
1790 – Warriors of the Miami tribe under Chief Little Turtle defeat United States troops under General Josiah Harmar at the site of present-day Fort Wayne, Indiana, in the Northwest Indian War.
1836 – Sam Houston is inaugurated as the first President of the Republic of Texas.
1844 – Louis Riel, Canadian politician (d. 1885) was born. he was founder of the province of Manitoba, and a political and spiritual leader of the Métis people of the Canadian prairies. He led two resistance movements against the Canadian government and its first post-Confederation prime minister, Sir John A. Macdonald. Riel sought to preserve Métis rights and culture as their homelands in the Northwest came progressively under the Canadian sphere of influence. He is regarded by many today as a Canadian folk hero. Louis Riel was hanged for treason on 16 November 1885.
1879 – Using a filament of carbonized thread, Thomas Edison tests the first practical electric incandescent light bulb (it lasted 13½ hours before burning out).
1906 – Paul Cézanne, French Post-Impressionist painter (b. 1839) Dies
1907 – Panic of 1907: A run on the stock of the Knickerbocker Trust Company sets events in motion that will lead to a depression.
1910 – Dr. Crippen is convicted at the Old Bailey of poisoning his wife and is subsequently hanged at Pentonville Prison in London.
1914 – Congress pass the Revenue Act mandating the first tax on incomes over $3,000. .
1926 – J. Gordon Whitehead sucker punches magician Harry Houdini in the stomach in Montreal, precipitating his death.
1927 – Nikola Tesla introduces six new inventions including a motor with onephase electricity
1934 – Pretty Boy Floyd, American gangster (b. 1904) died. Floyd was shot in a corn field behind a house on Sprucevale Road between Beaver Creek State Park and East Liverpool, Ohio near Clarkson, while being pursued by local law officers and FBI agents led by Melvin Purvis. Varying accounts exist as to who shot him and the manner in which he was killed. He was carried out of the field by FBI agents and died under an apple tree.
1938 – Christopher Lloyd, American actor was born.
1948 – Lynette Fromme, American attempted assassin of Gerald Ford was born.
1949 – Stiv Bators, American musician (The Dead Boys) (d. 1990) Born
1957 – Vietnam War: First United States casualties in Vietnam.
1960 – Darryl Jenifer, American bassist (Bad Brains) Born
1962 – Cuban missile crisis: US President John F. Kennedy, after internal counsel from Dwight D. Eisenhower, announces that American reconnaissance planes have discovered Soviet nuclear weapons in Cuba, and that he has ordered a naval “quarantine” of the Communist nation.
1964 – Canada: A Multi-Party Parliamentary Committee selects the design which becomes the new official flag of Canada.
1964 – French philosopher/author Jean-Paul Sartre refuses Nobel prize
1965 – John Wesley Harding, American musician, Born
1966 – Ice hockey legend Bobby Orr scores his first career goal (vs Montreal Canadiens)
1967 – Thousands of youthful antiwar demonstrators stormed the Pentagon today but were hurled back by armed soldiers and club swinging US Marshalls
1968 – Shaggy, Jamaican-American rapper was born.
1969 – Spike Jonze, American director and film producer, Born
1972 – Vietnam War: In Saigon, Henry Kissinger and South Vietnamese President Nguyễn Văn Thiệu meet to discuss a proposed cease-fire that had been worked out between Americans and North Vietnamese in Paris.
1973 – Following President Nixon firing special prosecutor Archibold Cox and abolishing the Watergate Prosecution Force . Also the resignation of the Attorney General Elliot L Richardson and the firing of all his deputies the call for Impeachment of President Nixon is growing including members of both sides of the house and the first formal steps are expected to come on Tuesday when congress returns from the long weekend including veterans day.
1976 – Red Dye No. 4 is banned by the US Food and Drug Administration after it is discovered that it causes tumors in the bladders of dogs. The dye is still used in Canada.
1978 – Papal inauguration of Pope John Paul II.
1981 – The United States Federal Labor Relations Authority votes to decertify the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization for its strike the previous August.
1983 – Two correctional officers are killed by inmates at the United States Penitentiary in Marion, Illinois. The incident inspires the Supermax model of prisons.
1993 – Fred C Shapiro, US journalist (Tiananmen-square 1989), dies at 62
1997 – Compaq testifies Microsoft threaten to break Windows 95 agreement if they showcased a Netscape icon
2002 – Richard Helms, American intelligence agent and diplomat, 8th Director of Central Intelligence (b. 1913) died
2006 – A Panama Canal expansion proposal is approved by 77.8% of voters in a National referendum held in Panama.
2008 – India launches its first unmanned lunar mission Chandrayaan-1.
2009 – Soupy Sales, American comedian and television personality (b. 1926) Dies
2012 – 6 Italian scientists are convicted of manslaughter for their failure to predict the 2009 L’Aquila earthquake
2012 – Hurricane Sandy forms in the Western Caribbean Sea
2012 – Russell Means, Native American activist, dies from esophageal cancer at 72
2013 – 37 Boko Harem Islamist militants are killed by air and ground strikes in Nigeria