| 2012 | Half of the population of New York City, and millions of others in the Northeastern United States continue to deal with power outages, gas shortages and limited public transportation after Hurricane Sandy struck; the death toll rises to 90 |
| 2012 | Light from the first stars in the universe is detected by astronomers studying high-energy radiation data; the data suggests these stars existed as early as 500 million years after the 'big bang' |
| 2011 | At the 2011 Melbourne Cup, the French-trained horse Dunaden wins the closest finish in the race's history |
| 2011 | Four states and 1.5 million people in the Eastern U.S. still have no power after a 2011 Halloween nor-easter hit the area with unusually early snowfall |
| 2010 | The People's Republic of China announces it is taking its first census in ten years |
| 2010 | Dmitry Medvedev, President of Russia, visits the Kuril Islands, the subject of a dispute with Japan |
| 2009 | U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urges Israeli-Palestinian peace talks to resume as soon as possible |
| 1998 | Nichirei Golf International |
| 1995 | "Tempest" opens at Broadhurst Theater New York City for 71 performances |
| 1994 | Moslem fundamentalists in Mostaganem Algeria murder 5 children |
| 1993 | Atlantic Radio (20 radio stations) becomes American Radio Systems |
| 1993 | Last day in 1st-class cricket for Mike Whitney, NSW vs. New Zealand |
| 1993 | STS-58 (Columbia) lands |
| 1992 | 22nd New York City Women's Marathon won by Lisa Ondieki in 2:24:40 |
| 1992 | 23rd New York City Marathon won by Willie Mtolo in 2:09:29 |
| 1992 | New York Jet Al Toon becomes 10th NFL to catch a pass in 100 straight games |
| 1992 | Space Shuttle STS-52 (Columbia 13) lands (scheduled) |
| 1991 | New Dutch Regulations Traffic rules and Traffic signs enforced |
| 1990 | "Oh, Kay!" opens at Richard Rodgers Theater New York City for 77 performances |
| 1990 | Last of Margaret Thatcher's original government resigns, Deputy Prime Minister Howe |
| 1990 | Sandra Miller awarded $100 for Mike Tyson fondling her breasts |
| 1989 | "Les Miserables," opens at Curran Theatre, San Francisco |
| 1989 | Pakistan beat West Indies by 4 wickets to win Cricket's Nehru Cup |
| 1989 | Scandinavian Airlines System bans smoking on many flights |
| 1988 | Actor Jeff Goldblum and actress Gena Davis wed in Las Vegas |
| 1988 | Chris Sabo, wins NL Rookie of Year award |
| 1988 | Staten Island ferry gets 1st pay phones |
| 1987 | 17th New York City Women's Marathon won by Priscilla Welch in 2:30:17 |
| 1987 | 18th New York City Marathon won by Ibrahim Hussein in 2:11:01 |
| 1987 | 22,000 run in New York City Marathon (won by Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya 2:11:01) |
| 1987 | Fukumi Tani wins Nichirei Ladies Cup US-Japan Team Golf Championship |
| 1987 | New York Jets retire Don Maynards #13 |
| 1987 | New Orleans Saints shutout Atlanta Falcons 38-0 |
| 1986 | Fire in Sandoz-factory Basel, 30 tons of chemicals in the Rhine |
| 1986 | Horse Racing Breeders' Cup Champs: Brave Raj, Capote, Lady's Secret, Last Tycoon, Manila, Skywalker, Smile at Santa Anita |
| 1985 | Netherlands decides definative sites for cruise missiles |
| 1985 | Nostalgia Television begins on cable |
| 1984 | 1st NBA game at LA Memorial Sports Arena - Clipper beat Knick, 107-105 |
| 1984 | Larry Shues "Foreigner," premieres in New York City |
| 1984 | Willem de Kooning's "Two Women" sells for $1,980,000 |
| 1984 | Despite Mike Bossy 4 goals Islanders lose 5-6 to Canadians making Islander record when scoring a hat trick-77-3-4 |
| 1982 | Andrew "Dice" Clay and George Wendt appear in "Trick or Treatment" |
| 1982 | Major leagues vote not to renew Commissioner Bowie Kuhn's contract |
| 1981 | 1st Class Mail raised from 18 cents to 20 cents |
| 1981 | 3rd meeting of Giants-Jets, Jets up 2-1 with 26-7 win |
| 1981 | Antigua and Barbuda gains independence from Britain (National Day) |
| 1981 | Chako Higuchi wins LPGA Pioneer Cup Golf Tournament |
| 1980 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1979 | A. L. Webber musical "Joseph and Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat," premieres |
| 1979 | Bolivia military coup under General Busch, President Guevara flees |
| 1979 | Edward Bennett Williams buys Orioles from Hoffberger for $12.3 million |
| 1979 | Federal government makes a $1.5 billion loan to Chrysler |
| 1979 | Tanker Burmah Agate off Galveston Bay, Texas, spills 10.7 m gallons of oil, in US's worst oil spill disaster |
| 1978 | New York Yankee Ron Guidry unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1977 | Islander Goran Hogosta's only shut-out Flames 9-0-Trottier 4 goals |
| 1977 | President Carter raises minimum wages of $2.30 to $3.35 for Jan 1 1981 |
| 1977 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1976 | "Don't Step on My Olive Branch" opens at Playhouse New York City for 16 performances |
| 1976 | Britain gives Gilbert Island (Kiribati) self rule |
| 1976 | West German Gens Krupinski/Franke admit to being Nazis |
| 1974 | Fire kills 189 in less than 25 minutes (Sao Paulo Brazil) |
| 1974 | U.N. affirms independence of Cyprus |
| 1973 | "Molly" opens at Alvin Theater New York City for 68 performances |
| 1972 | 1st gay theme TV movie - "That Certain Summer" |
| 1972 | Germaoin Gagnon scores 1st Islander hat trick |
| 1971 | Eisenhower dollar put into circulation |
| 1970 | 1st regular season Giants-Jets game, Giants win 22-10 at Shea |
| 1970 | Discotheque in Grenoble France burns, all exits padlocked and 142 die |
| 1970 | Fire on Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, 144 die |
| 1970 | KGTF TV channel 12 in Agana, GU (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1969 | Beatles' "Abbey Road," album goes #1 and stays #1 for 11 weeks |
| 1968 | "Noel Coward's Sweet Potato" opens at Booth Theater New York City for 36 performances |
| 1968 | Detroit Tiger Denny McLain unanimously wins AL Cy Young Award |
| 1968 | Motion Picture Association of America introduces rating system (G, M, R, X) |
| 1968 | U.S. pro soccer 14 teams merged into 1 all star team |
| 1968 | University of Suriname opens |
| 1966 | Indian Haryana state created from Punjab; Chandigarh terr created |
| 1966 | NFL awards New Orleans its 16th franchise (All Saints Day) |
| 1966 | Sandy Koufax becomes 1st 3-time Cy Young Award winner |
| 1966 | William Dana in X-15 reaches 93 km |
| 1965 | 1st concert at Fillmore Auditorium, San Francisco |
| 1965 | Ernie Terrel beats George Chuvalo in 15 for heavyweight boxing |
| 1965 | Trackless trolley plunged into Nile River drowning 74 (Cairo Egypt) |
| 1964 | George Blanda of Houston throws NFL-record 37 passes in 68 attempts |
| 1964 | Kansas City Chief Len Dawson passes for 6 touchdowns vs Denver (49-39) |
| 1964 | Sandra Haynie wins LPGA Las Cruces Ladies' Golf Open |
| 1964 | Vietcong-assault on airport Bien Hoa at Saigon |
| 1962 | Cuban missile crisis ends, John F. Kennedy says U.S.S.R. is dismantling missile bases |
| 1962 | Greece enters European Common Market |
| 1962 | KYVE TV channel 47 in Yakima, WA (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | U.S. performs atmospheric nuclear test at Johnston Island |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. launches Mars 1; radio contact lost before arrival at Mars |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test at Semipalitinsk, Eastern Kazakhstan U.S.S.R. |
| 1962 | WNYC TV channel 31 in New York, New York (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1962 | WZZM TV channel 13 in Grand Rapids, MI (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1960 | Balitmore Oriole shortstop Ron Hansen voted AL Rookie of Year |
| 1960 | Benelux treaty goes into effect |
| 1959 | 1st NHL goalie to wear a hockey mask (Jacques Plante) |
| 1959 | Jim Brown scores 5 TDs in Cleveland Browns 38-31 win over Balt |
| 1959 | Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
| 1959 | WOV-AM in New York City changes call letters to WADO |
| 1958 | U.S.S.R. performs nuclear test |
| 1957 | KVII TV channel 7 in Amarillo, Texas (ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | KXGN TV channel 5 in Glendive, Montana (CBS/NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | WICZ TV channel 40 in Binghamton, New York (NBC) begins broadcasting |
| 1957 | World longest suspension bridge opens in Mackinac Straits, Michigan |
| 1956 | Delhi becomes a territory of Indian union |
| 1956 | Indian state of Madhya Pradesh forms |
| 1956 | Indian states of Punjab, Patiala and PEPSU merge as Punjab protection |
| 1956 | Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from Warsaw Pact |
| 1956 | Nobel for physics awarded to Shockley, Brattain and Bardeen |
| 1956 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Laetamur admodum |
| 1955 | Time bomb aboard United DC-6 kills 44 above Longmont Colorado |
| 1954 | Algeria begins rebellion against French rule |
| 1954 | General Fulgencio Batista elected President of Cuba |
| 1954 | India takes over administration of 4 French Indian settlements |
| 1954 | KUON TV channel 12 in Lincoln, NB (PBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1954 | U.S. Senate admonishes Joseph Mccarthy because of slander campaign |
| 1953 | Emile Zatopek runs world record 10K (29:01.6) and 6 mile (28:08.4) |
| 1953 | KCEN TV channel 6 in Temple-Waco, Texas (NBC/ABC) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | KMGH TV channel 7 in Denver, CO (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1953 | WHEC TV channel 10 in Rochester, New York (CBS) begins broadcasting |
| 1952 | 1st hydrogen device exploded at Eniwetok Atoll in Pacific |
| 1951 | "Top Banana" opens at Winter Garden Theater New York City for 356 performances |
| 1951 | 1st atomic explosion witnessed by troops, New Mexico |
| 1951 | Brooklyn Dodger catcher Roy Campanella wins 1st of his 3 NL MVP |
| 1951 | Brooklyn catcher Roy Campanella wins NL MVP |
| 1951 | Jet magazine founded by John H. Johnson |
| 1951 | Johnny Mercers "Top Banana," premieres in New York City |
| 1951 | U.S. performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site |
| 1950 | 82 degrees F highest temperature ever recorded in Cleveland in Nov |
| 1950 | Puerto Rican nationalists try to kill President Truman at Blair House |
| 1948 | Mao's Red army conquerors Mukden, Manchuria |
| 1948 | President Truman re-elected in an upset over Republican Thomas Dewey |
| 1947 | "Medium and The Telephone" closes at Barrymore New York City after 211 performances |
| 1947 | 1st Aloha Week Parade held in Hawaii |
| 1947 | Howard Hughes flies "Spruce Goose," a large wooden airplane |
| 1947 | U.N. trusteeship for Nauru granted to Australia, New Zealand and UK |
| 1946 | Charles S. Johnson becomes 1st black president of Fisk University |
| 1946 | Cleveland Indians owner Bill Veeck's right foot is amputated |
| 1946 | German "Country" Nedersaksen forms |
| 1946 | Marken soccer team forms |
| 1946 | New York Knicks 1st basketball game beat Toronto Huskies 68-66 |
| 1946 | WABC becomes WCBS radio in New York City |
| 1946 | WEAF radio changes call letters to WNBC (New York City) |
| 1946 | West German state of Niedersachsen formed |
| 1945 | 1st issue of Ebony magazine published by John H. Johnson |
| 1944 | Mary Coyle Chase' "Harvey," premieres in New York City |
| 1944 | Zeeuws and Flanders freed |
| 1943 | Dim-out ban lifted in San Francisco Bay area |
| 1943 | U.S. troops land on Bougainville Island on Solomon Island |
| 1942 | 10th day of battle at El Alamein |
| 1942 | Vice-Admiral Cunningham becomes British commander-in-chief |
| 1941 | Chetniks attacks Tito's partizans in Uzice Yugoslavia |
| 1941 | Japanese marine staff officiers Suzuki/Maejima arrive in Pearl Harbor |
| 1940 | 1st U.S. air raid shelter, Fleetwood, Pa |
| 1940 | Dutch "Curfew" forms (12 AM - 4 AM) |
| 1939 | 1st animal conceived by artificial insemination (rabbit) displayed |
| 1939 | 1st jet plane, Heinkel He 178, demonstrated to German Air Ministry |
| 1939 | Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Sertum laetitiae |
| 1938 | German colonel-general Gerd von Runstedt retires |
| 1938 | NL batting champ Ernie Lombardi is named MVP |
| 1938 | Seabiscuit beats War Admiral in a match race at Pimlico |
| 1936 | Mussolini describes alliance between Italy and Germany as an "axis" |
| 1936 | Rodeo Cowboy's Association founded |
| 1935 | T. S. Eliot's "Murder in the Cathedral," premieres in London |
| 1932 | Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
| 1931 | Dupont introduces synthetic rubber |
| 1929 | Lundy, part of British Isles, issue their own stamps |
| 1928 | 1st celebration of Author's Day |
| 1928 | Bradman scores a century each innings (131 and 133*), NSW vs. Qld |
| 1928 | Graf Zeppelin sets airship distance record of 6384 km |
| 1926 | Air Commerce Act passes |
| 1925 | VARA, Vereniging van Workers Radio Amateurs forms in Amsterdam |
| 1924 | 1st U.S. NHL franchise, Boston Bruins founded |
| 1924 | Forest Peters of Montana State University hits 17 of 22 attempted field goals |
| 1923 | Bruno E. Lucander forms Aero E/Y (Finnair) |
| 1922 | Ottoman Empire abolished |
| 1922 | Queen Wilhelmina opens Dutch Historical Maritime museum in Amsterdam |
| 1921 | National Birth Control League and Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League |
| 1920 | Eugene O'Neill's "Emperor Jones," premieres in New York City |
| 1920 | Warren Harding elected 29th president |
| 1918 | 102 die in a New York City BMT subway derailment at Malbone Street Brooklyn |
| 1918 | Yugoslav battleship Viribus Unitis sunk by Italians |
| 1917 | In WW I, the 1st U.S. soldiers are killed in combat |
| 1914 | Connie Mack asks waivers on Jack Coombs, Eddie Plank and Chief Colby |
| 1914 | German-British fleet battle at Coronel, Chile |
| 1914 | Pope Benedictus Xv's encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity |
| 1914 | Von Hindenburg named marshal of Eastern front |
| 1913 | Notre Dame upsets Army 35-13, 1st to use forward pass effectively |
| 1910 | 1st issue of "Crisis" published by editor W E B Du Bois |
| 1904 | George Bernard Shaws "John Bull's Other Island," premieres in London |
| 1896 | 1st bare women breast (Zulu) to appear in National Geographic Mag |
| 1894 | Vaccine for diphtheria announced by Dr. Roux of Paris |
| 1889 | North and South Dakota entered the union as the 39th and 40th states |
| 1885 | Pope Leo XIII publishes encyclical Immortale Dei |
| 1878 | Edward Scripps and John Sweeney found Penny Press (Cleveland Press) |
| 1877 | Dutch government of Heemskerk-Van Lynden resigns |
| 1876 | King Willem III opens North Sea Canal (Amsterdam-IJmuiden) |
| 1870 | U.S. Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations) |
| 1869 | Deli Me forms T B V tobacco in Sumatra |
| 1867 | "Harpers Bazaar" publishes |
| 1866 | 1st Civil Rights Bill passes |
| 1865 | Zutphen-Fishing Dutch railway opens |
| 1863 | Averell's Raid (on)to Lewisburg, West Virginia |
| 1863 | Fortifications built on Angel Island (SF Bay) by troops |
| 1861 | General George B. McClellan made general in chief of Union armies |
| 1849 | Dutch government of Thorbecke forms |
| 1848 | 1st U.S. woman's medical school opens (Boston) |
| 1834 | 1st published reference to poker (as Mississippi riverboat game) |
| 1787 | 1st free school in New York City (African Free School) opens |
| 1784 | Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendents |
| 1783 | Continental Army dissolved; George Washington's "Farewell Address" |
| 1776 | Mission San Juan Capistrano founded in California |
| 1765 | Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies |
| 1755 | Lisbon earthquake kills more than 50,000 |
| 1721 | Prince Eugenius of Savoye unveals statue of himself |
| 1671 | French King Louis XIV and RC German emperor Leopold I sign secret anti-Dutch treaty |
| 1628 | French king Louis XIII occupies La Rochelle |
| 1623 | Fire at Plymouth, Massachusetts destroys several buildings |
| 1611 | Shakespeare's romantic comedy "Tempest" 1st presented |
| 1604 | William Shakespeare's tragedy "Othello" 1st presented |
| 1570 | Netherlands hit by flood disaster, 1,000s killed |
| 1512 | Michelangelo's paintings on ceiling of Sistine Chapel, 1st exhibited |
| 1462 | Arch duke Albrecht VI van Habsburg occupies Vienna |
| 1349 | Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells |
| 1248 | Earl Willem II of Holland crowned as RC German emperor |
| 1210 | King John of England begins imprisoning Jews |
| 996 | 1st use of name "Austria" for Ostarrichi/in oorkonde |
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