1605 - The Gunpowder plot - The arrest of Guy Fawkes, found during a search of the Palace of Westminster, foils Robert Catesby's plot to destroy the House of Lords and kill King James I and his Protestant supporters
1780 - French-American forces under Colonel LaBalme are defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle.
1838 - The Federal Republic of Central America begins to disintegrate when Nicaragua separates from the Federation.
1854 - Crimean War: The Battle of Inkerman.
1872 -Women's suffrage in the United States: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100.
1916 - The Kingdom of Poland is proclaimed by the Act of November 5th of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary.
1917 - October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date).
1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow is elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church.
1937 - Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people.
1943 - Bombing of the Vatican by a Fascist Italian aircraft, departing from Viterbo,
1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations.
1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel.
2006 - Saddam Hussein, former president of Iraq, and his co-defendants Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti and Awad Hamed al-Bandar are sentenced to death in the al-Dujail trial for the role in the massacre of the 148 Shi'as in 1982.
2007 - China's first lunar satellite, Chang'e 1 goes into orbit around the Moon.
Famous Birthdays:
1615 - Ibrahim I, Ottoman Sultan
1715 - John Brown, writer
1851 - Charles Dupuy, 60th Prime Minister of France
1905 - Joel McCrea, actor
1921 - Queen (also Princess) Fawzia of Egypt and Iran, the first consort of Mohammad Reza Pahlavi the Shah of Persia (last monarch of Iran)
1940 - Elke Sommer, actress
1959 - Bryan Adams, musician
1965 - HRH Prince Kubrat of Panagyurishte, Duke of Saxony, the third son of the exiled Tsar Simeon II of Bulgaria
1971 - Corin Nemec, actor
1985 - Michel Butter, long-distance runner
1987 - Kevin Jonas, singer, guitarist, and actor
1992 - Marco Verratti, footballer
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