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Shunzhi Emperor
Hernán Cortés
Hernán Cortés
James Murray Mason (Trent affair)
Christian II of Denmark
Wilhelm Conrad Röntgen
X-ray of the hand of W. Röntgen's wife
Bodleian Library
Engraving of the Stockholm Bloodbath
Decorated Venetian glass bowl
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Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church); | refimprove section |
| Remembrance Sunday in the Commonwealth (2015) | refimprove |
| International Day of Radiology | needs to be updated for 2020 |
| 1519 – Spanish conquistador Hernán Cortés entered Tenochtitlan where Aztec tlatoani Moctezuma II welcomed him with great pomp as would befit a returning god. | unreferenced section |
| 1576 – The provinces of the Habsburg Netherlands signed the Pacification of Ghent, to make peace with the rebelling provinces Holland and Zeeland, and also to form an alliance to drive the occupying Spanish out of the country. | refimprove section |
| 1602 – The Bodleian Library, one of Europe's oldest libraries, opened at the University of Oxford. | refimprove section |
| 1620 – Thirty Years' War: An army of 15,000 Bohemians and mercenaries were routed by 27,000 men of the combined armies of the Holy Roman Empire and of the Catholic League at the Battle of White Mountain near Prague. | refimprove section |
| 1837 – In South Hadley, Massachusetts, U.S., Mary Lyon founded a seminary for women that became Mount Holyoke College, the first of the Seven Sisters group of colleges. | refimprove section |
| 1892 – Despite racial divisions, black and white union members united in a general strike in New Orleans. | lots of CN tags (8) |
| 1895 – German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produced and detected electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range known today as X-ray. | refimprove section |
| 1923 – Adolf Hitler, Erich Ludendorff and other members of the Kampfbund started the Beer Hall Putsch, a failed attempt to seize power in Weimar Germany. | refimprove/unreferenced sections |
| 1939 – Georg Elser unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Adolf Hitler with a time bomb, but killed eight people and injured sixty-two others instead. | primary sources, page numbers needed |
| 1942 – The North African Campaign of the Second World War: Operation Torch began when American and British forces invaded French North Africa. | multiple issues |
| 1965 – The United Kingdom split the Chagos Archipelago from Mauritius and the islands of Aldabra, Farquhar and Desroches from the Seychelles to form the British Indian Ocean Territory. | refimprove section |
| 2002 – The United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 1441, giving Iraq an ultimatum to disarm or face "serious consequences". | refimprove section |
| 2013 – Typhoon Haiyan made landfall in the Visayas region of the Philippines, killing at least 6,300 people, making it the deadliest Philippine typhoon recorded in modern history. | unreferenced section |
| Sancha of León |d|1067 | date of death uncertain |
| James A. Doonan |b|1841 | TFA for 2021 |
Eligible
- 960 – Arab–Byzantine wars: Having been the target of many raids by the Emirate of Aleppo, Byzantine forces led by Leo Phokas the Younger ambushed the Hamdanids and annihilated their army.
- 1291 – A law was passed that confined most of Venice's glassmaking industry to nearby Murano.
- 1520 – Following a successful invasion of Sweden by Danish forces under Christian II, scores of Swedish leaders in Stockholm were imprisoned and later executed despite Christian's promise of general amnesty.
- 1644 – The Shunzhi Emperor, the third emperor of the Qing dynasty, was enthroned in Beijing after the collapse of the Ming dynasty as the first Qing emperor to rule over China.
- 1957 – En route from San Francisco to Honolulu, Pan Am Flight 7 crashed into the Pacific Ocean due to unknown causes, killing all 44 people on board.
- 1965 – Vietnam War: In the Battle of Gang Toi, one of the earliest battles between the two sides, Viet Cong forces repelled an Australian attack.
- 1966 – Former Massachusetts attorney general Edward Brooke became the first African American elected to the United States Senate since Reconstruction.
- 1972 – HBO, the oldest and longest continuously operating pay television service in the United States, began broadcasting to 325 subscribers.
- 1974 – British peer Lord Lucan disappeared without a trace, a day after allegedly murdering his children's nanny Sandra Rivett.
- 1987 – A Provisional Irish Republican Army bomb exploded during a Remembrance Sunday ceremony in Enniskillen, Northern Ireland, killing 12 people and injuring 63 others.
- 2006 – Israeli artillery shelled a row of houses in the Gaza Strip town of Beit Hanoun, killing at least 19 Palestinians and wounding more than 40 others.
- 2020 – Azerbaijani forces defeated the self-proclaimed Republic of Artsakh in the Battle of Shusha during the 2020 Nagorno-Karabakh war, reclaiming the town after 28 years.
- Born/died: | Baeda Maryam I |d|1478| Lettice Knollys |b|1543| Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy |d|1605| Friedrich Wilhelm von Seydlitz |d|1773| Thomas Bewick |d|1828| Dorothea Bate |b|1878| Hermann Rorschach |b|1884| Stylianos Pattakos |b|1912| Kamal Ranadive |b|1917| Dorothy Kilgallen |d|1965| Chika Kuroda |d|1968| Tom Anderson |b|1970
Notes
- Gunpowder plot appears on November 5, so Robert Catesby and Thomas Percy should not appear in the same year
November 8: Constitution Day in the Dominican Republic (2021)
The San Jacinto (right) stopping the Trent
- 1278 – Trần Thánh Tông, the second emperor of Vietnam's Trần dynasty, took up the title of retired emperor, but continued to co-rule with his son Nhân Tông for eleven more years.
- 1861 – American Civil War: USS San Jacinto stopped RMS Trent (depicted) and arrested two Confederate envoys en route to Europe, sparking a major diplomatic crisis between the United Kingdom and the United States.
- 1940 – The Italian invasion of Greece failed as outnumbered Greek units repulsed the Italians at the Battle of Elaia–Kalamas.
- 1971 – English rock group Led Zeppelin released their fourth album, which became one of the best-selling albums worldwide.
- 2016 – The Government of India announced the demonetisation of certain banknotes, causing prolonged cash shortages in the weeks that followed and significant disruption throughout the economy.
- Nyaungyan Min (b. 1555)
- Arnold Bax (b. 1883)
- Subroto Mukerjee (d. 1960)
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