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Johan Rudolf Thorbecke
Olympe de Gouges
George II of Greece
Battle of Vyazma monument
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| Independence Day in Dominica (1978), the Federated States of Micronesia (1986) and Panama (1903); | Dominica: expansion; Micronesia: refimprove; Panama: neutrality problems |
| 1793 – French playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined for her revolutionary ideas. | unreferenced section |
| 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the Monarchy of the Netherlands. | Constitution: no footnotes, needs expert attention; Thorbecke has no footnotes |
| 1887 – The Coimbra Academic Association, Portugal's oldest students' union, was founded at the University of Coimbra in Coimbra. | refimprove section |
| 1918 – The German Revolution began when forty thousand sailors took over the port of Kiel. | Revolution needs more footnotes; Kiel mutiny needs more refs |
| 1971 – The Unix Programmer's Manual was first published. | refimprove |
| 1991 – The paramilitary death squad Grupo Colina massacred at least fifteen people in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima, Peru. | needs more footnotes |
Eligible
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal.
- 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla, was released.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
- 1967 – Vietnam War: A series of major engagements that were some of the hardest-fought and bloodiest battles of the war began at Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands of Vietnam.
- 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon made a plea to the "silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a drug trafficker, a contract killer, and a leader of the ultra-nationalist Nationalist Movement Party, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking the Susurluk scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
- 2007 – Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution.
Notes
- George I of Greece appears on October 30, so George II should not appear in the same year
November 3: Diwali (Hinduism, Sikhism and Jainism, 2013); Culture Day in Japan
- 644 – Umar, the second Muslim Caliph after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Pirouz Nahavandi, a Persian slave.
- 1838 – The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1948 – The Chicago Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman (pictured) officially upset the heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the U.S. presidential election.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina.
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