1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
0835 – All Saints Day made compulsory by Pope Gregory IV throughout Frankish Kingdom
1179 – Phillip II crowned King of France at age 14 in Reims, with his father Louis VII in ill health
1210 – King John of England begins imprisoning Jews
1348 – The Black Death reaches London on or about this date
1349 – Duke of Brabant orders execution of all Jews in Brussels, accusing them of poisoning the wells
1512 – Michelangelo’s paintings on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel were first exhibited to the public.
1590 – Army of Moroccan ruler Ahmad al-Mansur led by Spanish Eunuch Jawdar leaves Marrakesh to cross the Sahara to conquer the Songhai Empire
1604 – “Othello,” the tragedy by William Shakespeare, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1611 – “The Tempest,” Shakespeare’s romantic comedy, was first presented at Whitehall Palace in London.
1683 – The English crown colony of New York is subdivided into 12 counties.
1755 – At least 60,000 people were killed in Lisbon, Portugal by an earthquake, its aftershocks and the ensuing tsunami.
1765 – The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies. The act was repealed in March of 1766 on the same day that the Parliament passed the Declaratory Acts which asserted that the British government had free and total legislative power of the colonies.
1784 – Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette and his descendants
1800 – U.S. President John Adams became the first president to live in the White House when he moved in.
1848 – The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
1861 – Gen. George B. McClellan was made the general-in-chief of the American Union armies.
1864 – The U.S. Post Office started selling money orders. The money orders provided a safe way to payments by mail.
1870 – The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
1894 – Nicholas II became Tsar of Russia- The last Tsar of Russia took over the reign of the empire after his father, Alexander III died. Nicholas was forced to abdicate in 1917 and was executed a year later along with his family.
1902 – France and Italy sign an Entente under which Italy agrees to remain neutral if France is attacked; this is France’s attempt to neutralize the Triple Entente
1904 – The Army War College in Washington, DC, enrolled the first class.
1911 – Italy used planes to drop bombs on the Tanguira oasis in Libya. It was the first aerial bombing.
1913 – Less than a week after the US non-intervention promise, President Woodrow Wilson demands that Mexican dictator Huerta resigns
1921 – National Birth Control League & Voluntary Parenthood League merge as American Birth Control League
1936 – Benito Mussolini made a speech in Milan, Italy, in which he described the alliance between Italy and Nazi Germany as an “axis” running between Berlin and Rome.
1941 – Ansel Adams shoots ‘Moonrise, Hernandez, New Mexico’, one of his most famous photographs
1949 – In Washington, 55 people were killed when a fighter plane hit an airliner.
1950 – Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
1952 – The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
1955 – United Airlines Flight 629 blows up over Colorado
1959 – Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
1963 – The USSR launched Polyot I. It was the first satellite capable of maneuvering in all directions and able to change its orbit.
1968 – The movie rating system of G, M, R, X, followed by PG-13 and NC-17 went into effect.
1973 – Leon Jaworski was appointed the new Watergate special prosecutor in the Watergate case.
1977 – US President Jimmy Carter raises the minimum wage from $2.30 to $3.35 an hour, effective from 1st Jan 1981
1979 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
1982 – Honda becomes the first Asian automobile company to produce cars in the United States with the opening of their factory in Marysville, Ohio. The Honda Accord is the first car produced there.
1985 – In the village of Ignacio Aldama, 22 members of a Mexican anti-narcotics squad were killed by alleged drug traffickers.
1989 – Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.
1990 – Rhetoric escalates as George Bush likens Saddam Hussein to Adolf Hitler
1991 – Three faculty, and one staff member of the department of physics and astronomy, were killed, along with one administrator, when physics graduate student Gang Lu went on a shooting rampage at the University of Iowa.
1993 – Maastricht Treaty comes into force – The Maastricht Treaty that created a common currency, the Euro, for European Union countries came into force
1994 – The Amazon.com domain name was registered.
1995 – In Dayton, OH, the Bosnian peace talks opened with the leaders of Bosnia, Serbia and Croatia present.
1998 – Nicaraguan Vice President Enrique Bolanos announced that between 1,000 and 1,500 people were buried in a 32-square mile area below the slopes of the Casita volcano in northern Nicaragua by a mudslide caused by Hurricane Mitch.
2005 – First part of the Gomery Report, which discusses allegations of political money manipulation, is released in Canada.
2012 – 2 Iranian fighter jets fire on a US General Atomics MQ-1 Predator drone in international air space
2017 – Boiler explosion at a NTPC government-run coal-fired power plant in Rae Bareli, India, kills 29
2018 – Palau becomes the first country to ban sunscreen and its chemicals which bleach coral reefs
2020 – Gunmen kill at least 32 people, set fire to homes in Oromia state, Ethiopia, in attack blamed on rebel Oromo Liberation Army
2021 – Global death toll from COVID-19 passes 5 million according to Johns Hopkins, with estimates the true toll is at least twice as high
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
