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Æthelred II of England
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Trafalgar Square
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Trafalgar Square
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Destruction of Armero, Colombia
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Nevado del Ruiz
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Vietnam Veterans Memorial
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Prince Hans-Adam II of Liechtenstein
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James Braid
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The eastbound trip of the Holland Tunnel
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| 1841 – Scottish surgeon James Braid (pictured) observed a demonstration of animal magnetism, which inspired him to study the subject he eventually called hypnotism. | Overreliance on quotes |
| 1954 – Great Britain defeated France at the Parc des Princes in Paris to win the first Rugby League World Cup. | refimprove section |
| 1965 – The steamship SS Yarmouth Castle burned and sank about 60 miles (100 km) northwest of Nassau, Bahamas, killing about 90 people. | refimprove |
| 1982 – The Vietnam Veterans Memorial was dedicated in Constitution Gardens in Washington, D.C. | refimprove |
| 1989 – Hans-Adam II, reigning Prince of Liechtenstein, took the throne upon the death of his father. | unreferenced section |
| 1990 – A man began shooting people indiscriminately in Aramoana, New Zealand, killing thirteen people in the country's deadliest criminal shooting. | unreferenced section, CN tags |
| 1993 – China Northern Airlines Flight 6901 crashed upon its approach to Ürümqi Airport, killing twelve people. | stub |
| 2000 – Joseph Estrada became the first president of the Philippines to be impeached after he was accused of taking a sum of Template:Nowrap pesos in bribes from illegal gambling sources. | refimprove section |
| 2007 – An explosion hit the Batasang Pambansa Complex in Quezon City, Philippines, killing Congressman Wahab Akbar and five others. | missing citations |
| Joan Beaufort, Countess of Westmorland |d|1440 | page numbers needed |
| Robert Louis Stevenson |b|1850 | refimprove section |
| Malcolm III of Scotland |d|1093| | Refimprove sectopm |
| Amory Lovins |b|1947| | primary sources, refimprove section |
| Jimmy Kimmel|b|1967| | Four CN tags |
| Lori Berenson |b|1969| | Lots of cn in BLP |
| Iskander Mirza|bd|1899; 1969| | Four CN tags |
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- 1002 – King Æthelred II (pictured) ordered the massacre of all Danes in England.
- 1914 – Zaian War: Zaian Berber tribesmen routed French forces at the Battle of El Herri in Morocco.
- 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opened, connecting Manhattan with Jersey City under the Hudson River.
- 1963 – A man wielding a dagger was subdued as he was about to attack Sanzō Nosaka, the chairman of the Japanese Communist Party.
- 1966 – Arab–Israeli conflict: In response to a Fatah landmine incident, the Israeli military conducted a large cross-border assault on the Jordanian-controlled West Bank village of Samu.
- 1974 – Ronald DeFeo Jr. killed six members of his family in Amityville, New York, events that later inspired the book The Amityville Horror and a subsequent media franchise.
- 1982 – South Korean boxer Kim Duk-koo suffered fatal brain injuries during a match with American Ray Mancini in Las Vegas, leading to significant rule changes in the sport.
- 1992 – The High Court of Australia ruled in Dietrich v The Queen that, although there is no absolute right to have publicly funded counsel, a judge should grant any request for an adjournment or stay in most circumstances in which an accused is unrepresented.
- Born/died this day: | Theophilus Holmes |b|1804| Petar II Petrović-Njegoš |b|1813| Gioachino Rossini |d|1868| Anne Dallas Dudley |b|1876| Arthur Nebe |b|1894| Amelia Bence |b|1914| Gerry Adams |b|1948| Yella Hertzka |d|1948| Whoopi Goldberg |b|1955| Greg Abbott |b|1957| Teodora Ungureanu |b|1960| Huang Xiaoming |b|1977| Paul-Émile Léger |d|1991| Maria Vladimirovna Mironova |d|1997| Emma Raducanu |b|2002| Sydney Agudong |b|2000|
Notes
- SS Vestris appears on November 12, so SS Yarmouth Castle should not appear in the same year.
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- 1642 – First English Civil War: Royalist forces engaged the much larger Parliamentarian army at the Battle of Turnham Green near Turnham Green, Middlesex.
- 1775 – American Revolutionary War: American forces captured Montreal without significant opposition as part of the Invasion of Quebec.
- 1940 – Walt Disney's Fantasia, the first commercial film shown with stereophonic sound, premiered at the Broadway Theatre in New York City.
- 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz (pictured) erupted, causing a volcanic mudslide that buried the town of Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- 2015 – Coordinated terrorist attacks in Paris perpetrated by the Islamic State killed 130 people and injured 413 others.