1983 – Beirut Barracks Bombing, Two bombs exploded in front of American and French barracks during the Lebanese Civil War, killing about 300 French and American military personnel. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the bombings.
42 BC – Roman Republican civil wars: Second Battle of Philippi – Brutus’s army is decisively defeated by Mark Antony and Octavian. Brutus commits suicide.
425 – Valentinian III is elevated to Roman Emperor, at the age of 6
1091 – Tornado (possible T8/F4) strikes the heart of London killing two and demolishing the wooden London Bridge
1157 – The Battle of Grathe Heath ends the civil war in Denmark. King Sweyn III is killed and Valdemar I restores the country.
1668 – Jews of Barbados forbidden to engage in retail trade
1679 – Meal Tub Plot against James Duke of York (future James II of England) https://www.britannica.com/biography/Thomas-Dangerfield
1690 – Revolt in Haarlem after public ban on smoking
1694 – Siege of Spanish-held city of Ceuta on the north African coast begun by Moroccan forces – will be the longest siege in history lasting 26 years
1760 – First Jewish prayer books printed in North America
1790 – Slaves revolt in Haiti (later suppressed)
1813 – The Pacific Fur Company trading post in Astoria, Oregon is turned over to the rival British North West Company (the fur trade in the Pacific Northwest was dominated for the next three decades by the United Kingdom).
1814 – One of the first modern plastic surgeries in the west performed by Joseph Carpue on a soldier’s nose in England using Indian techniques
1867 – 72 Senators are summoned by Royal Proclamation to serve as the first members of the Canadian Senate
1915 – Approximately 25,000 women demanded the right to vote with a march in New York City, NY.
1920 – Chicago grand jury indicts Abe Attell, Hal Chase, & Bill Burns as go-betweens in “Black Sox” 1919 World Series Baseball scandal
1933 – John Dillinger and his gang rob Central National Bank, in Greencastle, Indiana. They take $75, 000.
1935 – Dutch Schultz, Abe Landau, Otto Berman, and Bernard “Lulu” Rosencrantz are fatally shot at a saloon in Newark, New Jersey in what becomes known as The Chophouse Massacre.
1941 – Walt Disney’s animated film “Dumbo” released
1942 – During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.
1943 – First Jewish transport out of Rome reaches extermination camp Birkenau
1944 – During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began, Vice Admiral Takeo Kurita’s flagship the heavy cruiser Atago sinks during battle
1954 – Britain, France & US agree to end occupation of Germany
1956 – Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising.
1958 – The Smurfs first appear in the story “Johan and Pirlouit” by Belgium cartoonist Peyo
1958 – The Springhill Mine Bump – underground earthquake traps 174 miners in No. 2 colliery at Springhill, Nova Scotia, deepest coal mine in North America. By 1st November rescuers had dug out 100 victims, with death toll at 74.
1962 – During the Cuban Missile Crisis, the U.S. naval “quarantine” of Cuba was approved by the Council of the Organization of American States (OAS).
1962 – The U.S. Navy reconnaissance squadron VFP-62 began overflights of Cuba under the code name “Blue Moon.”
1970 – Charles Haughey and two others are found not guilty of illegal arms importation by a Dublin jury; the ‘Arms Trial’ began on 28 May 1970
1971 – Three Catholic civilians are shot dead by the British Army during an attempted robbery in Newry, County Down
1971 – The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
1973 – U.S. President Richard M. Nixon agreed to turn over the subpoenaed tapes concerning the Watergate affair.
1975 – Women take the day off in Iceland to commemorate “International Women’s Year”, shutting the country down for a day
1978 – China and Japan formally ended four decades of hostility when they exchanged treaty ratifications.
1981 – US national debt hits $1 trillion
1983 – Beirut Barracks Bombing, Two bombs exploded in front of American and French barracks during the Lebanese Civil War, killing about 300 French and American military personnel. Islamic Jihad took responsibility for the bombings.
1984 – “NBC Nightly News” aired footage of the severe drought in Ethiopia.
1988 – Robert Bork’s supreme court nomination rejected by US Senate
1989 – Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.
1992 – Japanese Emperor Akihito became the first Japanese emperor to stand on Chinese soil.
1995 – Russian President Boris Yeltsin and U.S. President Bill Clinton agree to a joint peacekeeping effort in the war-torn Bosnia.
1998 – Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.
1998 – Japan nationalized its first bank since World War II.
2001 – NASA’s Mars Odyssey spacecraft began orbiting Mars. In 2010, it became the longest-operating spacecraft ever sent to Mars.
2002 – About 50 Chechen rebels led by Movsar Barayev took over the Dubrovka Theater in Moscow during the performance of Nord-Ost, a musical. The rebels took about 850 hostages and demanded the withdrawal of Russian troops from Chechnya. The siege lasted for about 3 days and ended after Russian security forces released a chemical gas in the theater. All of the rebels and about 170 hostages died during the siege.
2004 – A powerful earthquake and its aftershocks hit Niigata prefecture, northern Japan, killing 35 people, injuring 2,200, and leaving 85,000 homeless or evacuated.
2018 – Megyn Kelly is criticized after making comments supporting blackface on her NBC show
2018 – Microplastics found in human stools for the first time by Austrian scientists
2019 – Google research lab claims it has achieved Quantum Supremacy, performing calculation in 3 mins that would take a supercomputer 10,000 years
2019 – Lorry containing 39 bodies of Vietnamese nationals found in Essex, England, man arrested for people smuggling and murder
REFERENCE: history.net, onthisday.com, thepeopleshistory.com, timeanddate.com, scopesys.com, on-this-day.com
