1835 – Cesare Lombroso, Italian criminologist and physician, founded the Italian school of criminology (d. 1909) was born.
1861 – American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1892 – Harold Ross, American journalist, co-founded The New Yorker (d. 1951) was born.
1913 – Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1920 – U.S. President Woodrow Wilson was criticized by London journalists. He was thought of as one of the “greatest failures in history” by certain English citizens. This was not necessarily the vie
1928 – Arnold Rothstein, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George “Hump” McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.
1935 – Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie.
1941 – World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1943 – World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city’s ancient buildings.
1944 – Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 – Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1948 – Glenn Frey, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and actor (Eagles) was born.
1950 – Action was taken to control pro-Italian rioting that occurred-again. American and British forces moved in to restore order in this area. However, four police had taken the lives of four people with guns. This was one day of several demonstrations that had taken place in different cities throughout Italy. It was the first time that American troops had been called to move in on this area.
1962 – Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa’s racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 – Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1964 – Greg Graffin, American singer-songwriter and producer (Bad Religion) was born.
1965 – Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
1968 – Richard Nixon wins in a close contest for president over Mr Humphrey and will become the 37th president of the United States .
1971 – The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1973 – Henry A. Kissinger, the U.S. Secretary of State during this time in history, hosted a peace-keeping talk in Tunisia. He also spoke in Egypt during a very crucial time-when Israelis and Egyptian conflicts were escalating.
1976 – Pat Tillman, American football player and soldier (d. 2004) was born.
1977 – The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 – In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotá, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1985 – American newspapers reveal that US President Ronald Reagan had authorized the shipment of arms to Iran as part of the Iran Contra affair to release American hostages.
1986 – Sumburgh disaster – A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1995 – Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
1996 – Bill Clinton wins a resounding victory over Republican Bob Dole and will be the President of the United States for four more years in the White House.
2002 – New U.S.-Iraq resolutions were made. Concern arose about whether or not new negotiations between these two countries would upset Saddam Hussein, which would lead to war.
2008 – World leaders send congratulations to Barack Obama on his presidential win, including the Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad. This is the first ever official message of goodwill that has been presented to an American leader by Iran. Mr Obama has offered unconditional dialogue with Iran about its nuclear programme, and Mr Ahmadinejad called for the US president to implement a foreign policy of “non-interference”
2012 – Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
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