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• 1576 - Eighty Years' War: In Belgium, Spain captures Antwerp (after three days the city was nearly destroyed).
• 1864 - American Civil War: Battle of Johnsonville - At Johnsonville, Tennessee, troops under the command of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest bombard a Union supply base with artillery and destroy millions of dollars in materiel.
• 1869 - The first issue of scientific journal Nature is published.
• 1884 - U.S. presidential election, 1884: Democrat Grover Cleveland defeats Republican James G. Blaine in a very close contest to win the first of his non-consecutive terms.
• 1889 - Menelek of Shoa obtains the allegiance of a large majority of the Ethiopian nobility, paving the way for him to be crowned emperor.
• 1918 - World War I: Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy
• 1921 - The Sturmabteilung or SA is formally formed by Adolf Hitler
• 1922 - In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamen's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
• 1924 - Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming elected as the first woman governor in the United States.
• 1928 - At Park Central Hotel in Manhattan, Arnold Rothstein, New York City's most notorious gambler, is shot to death over a poker game.
• 1939 - World War II: US President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
• 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein - Disobeying a direct order by Adolf Hitler, General Field Marshal Erwin Rommel leads his forces on a five-month retreat.
• 1956 - Soviet troops invade Hungary to crush the Hungarian revolution that started on October 23. Thousands are killed, more are wounded and nearly a quarter million leave the country.
• 1948 - T.S. Eliot wins the Nobel Prize in Literature.
• 1952 - U.S. presidential election, 1952: Republican Dwight D. Eisenhower defeats Democrat Adlai Stevenson.
• 1960 - Filming wraps on The Misfits, starring Marilyn Monroe and Clark Gable (this was the last film either performed in).
• 1970 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta over to South Vietnam.
• 1979 - Iran hostage crisis begins: Iranian radicals, mostly students, invade the United States embassy in Tehran and take 90 hostages (63 of whom are American). They demanded that the United States send the former shah back to Iran to stand trial.
• 1980 - U.S. presidential election, 1980: Republican challenger Ronald Reagan defeats incumbent Democrat Jimmy Carter by a wide margin.
• 1993 - Jean Chrétien takes office as Prime Minister of Canada.
• 1995 - After attending a peace rally in Tel Aviv's Kings Square, Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is mortally wounded by a right-wing Israeli gunman, and later dies.
• 2001 - Hurricane Michelle hits Cuba destroying crops and thousands of homes.
• 2001 - The Police Service of Northern Ireland is established.

• 1602 - Otto von Guericke, inventor of a vacuum pump (d. 1686)
• 1744 - Johann Bernoulli, III, Swiss mathematician
• 1765 - Pierre Girard, French mathematician (d. 1836)
• 1874 - Aleksandr Vasilevich Kolchak, Russian military commander (d. 1920)
• 1879 - Will Rogers, American humorist and entertainer (d. 1935)
• 1909 - Skeeter Webb, Professional Baseball Player (d. 1986)
• 1912 - Vadim Salmanov, composer (d. 1978)
• 1914 - Martin Balsam, actor (d. 1996)
• 1916 - Walter Cronkite, news broadcaster
• 1918 - Art Carney, actor (d. 2003)
• 1923 - Freddy Heineken, Dutch businessman (d. 2002)
• 1929 - Doris Roberts, actress
• 1932 - Thomas Klestil, president of Austria (d. 2004)
• 1937 - Loretta Swit, American actress
• 1944 - Scherrie Payne, singer; member of The Supremes
• 1946 - Robert Mapplethorpe, American photographer (d. 1989)
• 1946 - Laura Bush, First Lady of the United States
• 1955 - Matti Vanhanen, prime minister of Finland
• 1961 - Ralph Macchio, actor
• 1969 - Matthew McConaughey, American actor
• 1969 - P. Diddy, American rap musician
• 1972 - Luis Figo, Portuguese football star

• 1652 - Jean de La Faille, French mathematician
• 1698 - Rasmus Bartholin, Danish mathematician
• 1847 - Felix Mendelssohn, German composer
• 1870 - Comte de Lautreamont, poet, writer
• 1924 - Gabriel Fauré, French composer
• 1928 - Arnold Rothstein, gambler
• 1930 - Buddy Bolden, American jazz musician (b. 1877)
• 1955 - Cy Young, American baseball player
• 1956 - Art Tatum, American jazz musician
• 1980 - Elsie MacGill, aeronautical engineer, "Queen of the Hurricanes"
• 1986 - Kurt Hirsch, German mathematician
• 1995 - Yitzhak Rabin, Prime Minister of Israel
• 2000 - Ian Sneddon, British mathematician

• Italy - celebration of the victory on WWI, the day of the Armed Forces
• Bahá'í Faith - Feast of Qudrat (Power) - First day of the 13th month of the Bahá'í Calendar

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