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Dwight D. Eisenhower in 1959
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Lorrin A. Thurston
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E. C. Segar
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One of the hydrogen bombs recovered from the 1966 Palomares B-52 crash
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Raoul Wallenberg
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Pope Gregory XI
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Patrice Lumumba
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United Nations Security Council chamber
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| National Day in Menorca (1287) | refimprove sections |
| 1524 – Italian explorer Giovanni da Verrazzano set sail westward from Madeira to find a sea route to the Pacific Ocean. | refimprove section |
| 1781 – American Revolutionary War: American forces won a surprising victory over the British at the Battle of Cowpens, one of the most pivotal battles of the war. | lots of CN tags (8), especially in one section |
| 1885 – Mahdist War: British troops defeated Mahdist Sudanese forces at the Battle of Abu Klea in Khartoum, Sudan. | needs more footnotes |
| 1899 – The United States took possession of Wake Island in the Pacific Ocean. | Copyedit needed banner |
| 1904 – Russian playwright Anton Chekhov's last play, The Cherry Orchard, premiered at the Moscow Art Theatre. | cleanup list |
| 1915 – World War I: During the Caucasus Campaign's Battle of Sarikamish, Russian troops defeated Ottoman forces who were ill-prepared for winter conditions. | refimprove section |
| 1917 – Denmark sold their portion of the Virgin Islands archipelago to the United States for Template:Nowrap | Too much uncited |
| 1929 – American cartoonist [[E. C. Segar|Template:Nowrap Segar]]'s character Popeye first appeared in his newspaper comic strip Thimble Theater. | refimprove section |
| 1946 – The United Nations Security Council, the organ of the United Nations charged with the maintenance of international peace and security, held its first meeting at Church House, Westminster. | Orange "update needed" banner |
| 1955 – USS Nautilus, the first nuclear-powered submarine, put to sea for the first time from Groton, Connecticut, with the message, "Underway on nuclear power." | lots of CN tags (17) |
| 1977 – Convicted murderer Gary Gilmore was executed by firing squad in Utah, ending a four-year moratorium on the death penalty in the United States. | trivial pop culture references |
| 1981 – President of the Philippines Ferdinand Marcos lifted martial law, eight years and five months after declaring it. | multiple issues |
| 1991 – Harald V, the current King of Norway, succeeded to the throne upon the death of his father [[Olav V of Norway|Template:Nowrap]]. | refimprove section |
| 1994 – A Template:Nowrap earthquake killed 72 people, injured more than 9,000 others, and caused an estimated Template:Nowrap in damage in the San Fernando Valley area of Los Angeles. | unreferenced sections |
| 1995 – The Great Hanshin earthquake struck near Kobe, Japan, killing over 6,000 people and causing over ¥10 trillion (Template:Nowrap) worth of damage. | refimprove |
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- 1562 – Representatives of Catherine de' Medici, the regent of France, drew up the Edict of Saint-Germain, providing limited tolerance to the Protestant Huguenots.
- 1773 – On James Cook's second voyage, his vessel Template:HMS became the first vessel to cross the Antarctic Circle.
- 1912 – Robert Falcon Scott's ill-fated Terra Nova Expedition reached the South Pole, only to find that Roald Amundsen's team had beaten them by 33 days.
- 1920 – The Volstead Act went into effect, beginning the prohibition of alcohol in the United States.
- 1945 – Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg, who had saved thousands of Jews from the Holocaust, was taken into Soviet custody during the Siege of Budapest and was never seen in public again.
- 1961 – Patrice Lumumba (pictured), a former prime minister of Congo-Léopoldville, was murdered in circumstances suggesting the support and complicity of the Belgian and US governments.
- 1961 – Three days before leaving office, U.S. president Dwight D. Eisenhower delivered a farewell speech to the nation, in which he warned about the dangers of the military–industrial complex.
- 1966 – A U.S. Air Force B-52 Stratofortress collided with a KC-135 Stratotanker during aerial refueling over the Mediterranean Sea, dropping three hydrogen bombs on land near Palomares, Spain, and a fourth one into the sea.
- 1989 – Patrick Purdy opened fire in an elementary school in Stockton, California, killing 5 and wounding 32 others.
- 1998 – The Drudge Report became the first news source to break the Clinton–Lewinsky scandal to the public.
- 2002 – Mount Nyiragongo, a volcano in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, began an eruption that killed hundreds and left about 120,000 people homeless in the nearby town of Goma.
- 2010 – The first spate of violence between Muslims and Christians began in Jos, Nigeria, and would end in more than 200 deaths.
- Born/died: | Henry of Asti |d|1345| Martino Zaccaria |d|1345| William Backhouse |b|1593| Thomas Fairfax |b|1612| Thomas Linley the elder |b|1733| Anne Brontë |b|1820| Alva Belmont |b|1853| David Beatty, 1st Earl Beatty |b|1871| Big Bear |d|1888| Abram Lincoln Harris |b|1899| Gauhar Jaan |d|1930| Mateiu Caragiale |d|1936| Oscar Pereira da Silva |d|1939| Thomas Jaggar |d|1953| Susanna Hoffs |b|1959| Maksim Chmerkovskiy |b|1980| Paula Carrasco |b|1994| Barbara Jordan |d|1996| Jake Paul |b|1997| Zhao Ziyang |d|2005|
Notes
- Volstead Act appears on October 28, so Prohibition should not appear soon after
- Amundsen's South Pole expedition appears on December 14 and Nimrod Expedition appears on January 9, so Terra Nova should not appear soon after
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- 1377 – Gregory XI, the last Avignon pope, entered Rome after a four-month journey from Avignon, returning the papacy to its original city.
- 1893 – Lorrin A. Thurston and the Citizens' Committee of Public Safety led the overthrow of the Hawaiian Kingdom and the government of Queen Liliʻuokalani (pictured).
- 1945 – World War II: Australian troops advanced along the northern part of Bougainville Island (in present-day Papua New Guinea) and began fighting Japanese forces in the Battle of Tsimba Ridge.
- 1948 – Indonesian National Revolution: The Renville Agreement between the Netherlands and Indonesian republicans was ratified, in an ultimately unsuccessful attempt to resolve disputes arising from the Linggadjati Agreement of 1946.
- 1999 – In Little Saigon, California, a series of protests began when the owner of a video rental store displayed an image of Ho Chi Minh.