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Insignia of the International Space Station
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An emu killed by Australian soldiers
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King Saud of Saudi Arabia
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The Spruce Goose wooden flying boat was bigger than a Boeing 747.
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D. H. Lawrence
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Ngo Dinh Diem
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Arthur Balfour
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Theo van Gogh
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Police during the 2007 Georgian demonstrations
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Lewis Hamilton
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| Blurb | Reason |
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| Day of the Dead in Mexico | refimprove section |
| All Souls' Day (Western Christianity) | Additional citations orange tag |
| 1795 – French Revolution: Under the terms of a new constitution that was ratified during the aftermath of the Reign of Terror and the subsequent Thermidorian Reaction, the Directory succeeded the National Convention as the new executive government. | refimprove |
| 1889 – The Dakota Territory, an organized incorporated territory of the United States, was split and became the states of North and South Dakota. | North Dakota: refimprove section |
| 1898 – Organized cheerleading was born at the University of Minnesota when student Johnny Campbell directed a crowd attending an American college football game to cheer on their team. | needs more footnotes |
| 1936 – The BBC Television Service launched as the world's first regular, public all-electronic "high-definition" television service. | refimprove section |
| 1947 – Industrialist and aviator Howard Hughes flew the "Spruce Goose", the largest flying boat ever built, on its maiden flight from the coast of Long Beach, California. | unreferenced section |
| 1959 – The M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway to be completed in the United Kingdom, opened between Watford and Crick/Rugby. | unreferenced sections |
| 1959 – American intellectual Charles Van Doren caused a national scandal when he admitted that he had foreknowledge of the questions and answers when he appeared on the television quiz show Twenty-One. | Unref section |
| 1960 – In the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, publisher Penguin Books was acquitted of obscenity for the publication of Lady Chatterley's Lover by D. H. Lawrence. | Too much uncited |
| 1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia was deposed by his half-brother Faisal over concerns of the former's profligacy and his inability to deal with the socialism of Egypt's Gamal Abdel Nasser. | neutrality issues |
| 1965 – American Quaker Norman Morrison set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon to protest the United States' involvement in the Vietnam War. | refimprove section |
| 1988 – The Morris worm, the first computer worm distributed via the Internet to gain significant mainstream media attention, was launched by university student Robert Tappan Morris. | Too much uncited |
| 1990 – Sky Television and British Satellite Broadcasting merged to form BSkyB, currently the largest pay-TV broadcaster in Europe. | Update needed orange banner |
| 1995 – Former South African minister of defence Magnus Malan and 19 others were arrested and charged with 13 murders in the KwaMakhutha massacre of 1987, for which they were all acquitted. | sourcing issues |
| 2004 – Dutch film director Theo van Gogh (pictured), whose film Submission was critical of the treatment of women in Islam, was assassinated by Mohammed Bouyeri. | unreferenced section (Ancestry) |
| 2016 – The Chicago Cubs defeated the Cleveland Indians in the 2016 World Series, ending the longest championship drought in Major League Baseball history. | Too much uncited |
| Alfred Domett |d|1887| | Too much uncited |
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- 619 – Emperor Gaozu of Tang allowed the assassination of a khagan of the Western Turkic Khaganate by Eastern Turkic rivals, one of the earliest events in the Tang campaigns against the Western Turks.
- 1917 – The British government issued the Balfour Declaration in support of a Jewish homeland in Palestine, then an Ottoman region with a small Jewish minority.
- 1943 – World War II: A U.S. Navy task force turned away an Imperial Japanese Navy formation at the Battle of Empress Augusta Bay, thus protecting the landings at Cape Torokina.
- 1957 – A large number of people witnessed a fiery object in the sky near Levelland, Texas, which the United States Air Force said was ball lightning.
- 1963 – President Ngô Đình Diệm of South Vietnam was assassinated, marking the culmination of a coup d'état led by Dương Văn Minh.
- 1984 – The serial killer Velma Barfield became the first woman to be executed in the United States since 1962.
- 1997 – Tropical Storm Linda made landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.
- 2008 – Lewis Hamilton (pictured) overtook Timo Glock in the final corners of the Brazilian Grand Prix to win the Formula One championship by one point.
- Born/died this day: | Matilda of Flanders |d|1083| Bettisia Gozzadini |d|1261|Jean-Baptiste-Siméon Chardin |b|1699| Anne, Princess Royal and Princess of Orange |b|1709| Daniel Boone |b|1734| Edward Mitchell Bannister |b|1828| James Dunn |b|1901| Travis Jackson |b|1903| Bill Mosienko |b|1921| Patrice Chéreau |b|1944|Hélène de Pourtalès |d|1945|Grace Y. Sam |b|1949| Mahonri Young |d|1957|Harriet Bosse |d|1961| Maajid Nawaz |b|1977| The Fabulous Moolah |d|2007| Charmaine Dragun |d|2007|
Notes
- 1955 State of Vietnam referendum featured on October 26, Lê Quang Tung/1963 South Vietnamese coup on November 1, Nguyễn Ngọc Thơ on November 6, and 1960 South Vietnamese coup attempt on November 11; including Ngo Dinh Diem assassination, ideally only one of these should be used per year to avoid topic fatigue.
- M25 motorway appears on October 29, so M1 should not appear in the same year
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- 1880 – James A. Garfield was elected as president of the United States; the election is the closest to date by popular vote margin.
- 1932 – The Australian military began a "war against emus", flightless native birds blamed for widespread damage to crops in Western Australia.
- 1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ended with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
- 1994 – A lightning strike ruptured three oil tanks near Dronka, Egypt, causing a flood that killed 469 people.
- 2000 – As members of Expedition 1, American astronaut William Shepherd and Russian cosmonauts Sergei Krikalev and Yuri Gidzenko (all pictured) became the first resident crew to arrive at the International Space Station.