Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner is elected as the first female president of Argentina (2007) - Oct. 29
Delhi bombings (three explosions that came only two days before Diwali) an act of terrorism that killed 62 and injured at least 210 others (2005) - Oct. 29
Francisco Duran fires 29 rounds from a rifle at the White House (1994) - Oct. 29
Ho Chi Minh City ITC Inferno (one of the deadliest peacetime disasters in Vietnam) was a fire in the ITC building that claimed 60 lives (2002) - 10/29
Hurricane Mitch (2nd deadliest Atlantic hurricane in history) made3 landfall in Honduras (1998) - 10/29
The Internet begins life as two nodes connected between UCLA and SRI International in Menlo Park (1969) - Oct. 29
M25 (orbital motorway encircling Greater London, one of the longest city bypasses in the world) is officially opened by Margaret Thatcher (1989) - Oct. 29
Orissa Cyclone (deadliest Indian Ocean tropical Cyclone since 1991 and deadliest Indian storm since 1971) hits Orissa, India (1999) - Oct. 29
Republic Day (Turkey) celebrates the formally declared dissolution of the Ottoman Empire (1923) - Oct. 29
Hermit Day - Oct. 29
Maria Anna Mozart (elder sister of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart) dies in Salzburg (1829) - Oct. 29
Sir Walter Raleigh (English courtier and explorer) imprisoned at the tower is beheaded at Whitehall (London), but not for the crime he was sentenced to death for (1618) - Oct. 29
October 30, 2017
Body Builders Day - 10/30
Bosphorous Bridge (Turkey) is completed (1973) - Oct. 30
National Candy Corn Day - Oct. 30
George I of Greece (a Danish prince who was elected King by the Greek National Assembly) is crowned King of Greece (1863) - Oct. 30
Henry VII (father of Henry VIII) is crowned King of England (1485) - Oct. 30
The War of the Worlds (Radio drama directed and narrated by Orson Welles) causes 1.7 million Americans to believe Mars invaded Earth (1938) - Oct. 30
October 31, 2017
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (by Arthur Conan Doyle) is first published (1892) - Oct. 31
American Eagle Flight 4184 crashed due to freezing rain conditions when it was cleared to descend to 8,000 feet killing all aboard (1994) - 10/31
Andrew Fastow (former Enron CFO) is indicted by a federal grand jury on 78 counts including fraud, money laundering and conspiracy (2002) - Oct. 31
EgyptAir Flight 990 (Los Angeles-New York-Cairo) crashes 60 miles south of Nantucket Island killing all 217 aboard (1999) - Oct. 31
Happy Halloween - Oct. 31
Harry Houdini dies at age 52 from peritonitis secondary to a ruptured appendix after being repeatedly punched in the stomach (1926) - Oct. 31
htJuliette Gordon Law (American founder of the U.S. Girl Scouts) is born in Savannah, GA (1860) - Oct. 31
Lee Harvey Oswald defects to the Soviet Union (1959) - Oct. 31
Louise Woodward (an English au pair) is convicted of involuntary manslaughter of 8-month-old Matthew Eappen (1997) - Oct. 31
Nevada is admitted as the 36th US State (1864) - Oct. 31
Samhain (festival held at the end of the harvest season as a festival of the dead) occurs - Oct. 31
Samhain (festival held at the end of the harvest season as a festival of the dead) occurs - Oct. 31
Stalin's body is moved from the Lenin Mausoleum to the Kremlin Wall Necropolis in a process of de-Stalinization (1961) - Oct. 31
TAM Transportes Aereos Regionais Flight 402 crashed shortly after take-off from Sao Paulo Intl Airport killing 99 people (1996) - Oct. 31
USS Reuben James (US Navy ship) is torpedoed by a German Submarine and sinks taking 115 lives with her (1941) - Oct. 31
November 1, 2017
All Saints Day - a solemnity commemorating all those who have attained the beatific vision in Heaven - 11/1
Authors' Day - Nov. 1
Operation Buster-Jangle "Dog" Test involved exposing American soldiers to an atomic explosion for training purposes in Desert Rock, NV (1951) - Nov. 01
Day of the Dead (a gathering of family and friends to pray for and remember friends and relatives who have died) is celebrated mainly in Mexico - 11/1
Operation Ivy "Mike" Test results in the first successful test of a multi-megaton thermonuclear device in the Enewetak atoll (1952) - 11/1
Great Lisbon Earthquake (followed by a tsunami and fire which caused near total destruction of Lisbon) had a death toll between 60-100,000 (1755) - Nov. 01
Malbone Street Train Wreck (Flatbush Brooklyn, NY) becomes the deadliest rapid-transit crash in the US with 100 deaths (1918) - Nov. 01
Ansel Adams (American photographer) takes his famous "Moonrise" photograph in Hernandez, NM (1941) - Nov. 01
Othello (Tragedy of The Moor of Venice by William Shakespeare) has its premiere performance at Whitehall Palace (1604) - Nov. 01
Reflections on the Revolution in France (an attack on the French Revolution by Edmund Burke) is first published (1790) - 11/1
Seabiscuit (thoroughbred racehorse son of Man O'War) is matched against War Admiral at Pimilico for the match of the century and wins (1938) - Nov. 01
Sistine Chapel ceiling (by Michelangelo) is exhibited to the public for the first time (1512) - Nov. 01
Straits of Magellan (a navigable seaway south of mainland Chile between the Atlantic and Pacific) is first navigated by Ferdinand Magellan (1520) - Nov. 01
The Tempest (comedy by William Shakespeare) has its premiere performance at Whitehall Palace (1611) - Nov. 01
United Airlines Flight 629 exploded from a dynamite bomb put in the checked luggage wrapped as a "Christmas Present" from son to mother (1955) - Nov. 01
November 2, 2017
All Souls' Day (Catholic observance of praying for the souls of the dead) commemorates the faithful departed - 11/2
Deviled Egg Day - 11/2
George Bernard Shaw (Irish Playwright) died from renal failure in Hertfordshire (1950) - Nov. 2
Penguin Books - publisher of Lady Chatterley's Lover (novel by D.H. Lawrence) in the UK, is found not guilty of obscenity (1960) - 11/2
Marie Antoinette (Queen of France) is born to Maria Theresa of Austria at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna as the Archduchess Maria Antonia (1755) - Nov. 2
Norman Morrison (a Quaker) set himself on fire in front of the Pentagon in protest of the Vietnam War (1965) - Nov. 2
North Dakota admitted to the union as the 39th state (1889) - Nov. 2
South Dakota admitted to the union as the 40th state (1889) - Nov. 2
Spruce Goose (H-4 Hercules airplane designed by Howard Hughes out of wood due to wartime restrictions) makes its first and only flight (1947) - Nov. 2
Piggy Bank Day - Nov. 2
Twenty-One Scandal (American TV Game Show fraud) is revealed when Charles Van Doren admits under the oath that he'd been given the answers (1958) - Nov. 2
Velma Barfield (serial murderer) was the first woman in the US to be executed since 1962 and the first to be executed by lethal injection (1984) - 11/2
November 3, 2017
Panama Independence from Colombia (1903) - Nov. 3
John Austin (an English highwayman) was the last person to be hanged at the Tyburn gallows (1783) - 11/3
Federated States of Micronesia becomes Independent from US administered UN Trusteeship (1986) - Nov. 3
NASA Mariner 10 is launched to explore Mercury (1973) - Nov. 3
Olympe de Gouges (a French playwright and activist who demanded the women's rights) was guillotined for attacking the regime of Robespierre (1793) - Nov. 3
Salang tunnel fire occurred in Afghanistan's only road tunnel during Soviet occupation with an estimated number of 2000 killed (1982) - Nov. 3
Sputnik 2 is launched with a female part-Samoyed terrier named Laika aboard as the first being to enter orbit around the earth (1957) - Nov. 3
Domenica (an island nation in the Caribbean Sea) gains its independence from the UK (1978) - Nov. 3
World Community Day - Nov. 3
November 4, 2017
Barack Obama becomes the first African-American to be elected President of the United States (2008) - Nov. 4
Candy Bar Day - Nov. 4
China Airlines Flight 605 overruns the runway during tropical storm IRA and lands in Victoria Harbor with no injuries or fatalities (1993) - Nov. 4
City and South London Railway (first deep level underground "tube" railway in the world) opens between King william St and Stockwell (1890) - Nov. 4
Use Your Common Sense Day - Nov. 4
Panama Flag Day - 11/4
Florence Flood submerged two-thirds of the city and became the worst flood in the city's history since 1557 (1966) - Nov. 4
King Tut's tomb (Tomb KV62 in Egypt's Valley of the Kings) is discovered by Howard Carter (1922) - Nov. 4
Nellie Tayloe Ross (American politician) becomes the first woman to serve as a governor of a U.S. state when she is elected by Wyoming (1924) - 11/4
NSA (National Security Agency a cryptologic intelligence agency of the USA) is created (1952) - Nov. 4
Solar flare (solar eruption) one of the most powerful flares observed by satellite instrumentation is recorded (2003) - 11/4
William III and Mary II of England marry (1677) - Nov. 4
Andy Rooney (American radio and television writer) dies of complications from an undisclosed surgery at age 92 (2011) - Nov. 4
November Full Moon - Beaver Moon
Qantas Flight 32 suffers uncontained engine failure over Indonesia shortly after takeoff but crew manages to safely return to Singapore Changi Airport saving all 469 aboard (2010) - 11/4
Guru Nanak's Birthday is celebrated (2017) - Nov. 4
November 5, 2017
Donut Day - Nov. 5
Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected for a third term (1940) - Nov. 5
Guy Fawkes Day celebrates a gunpowder plot to blow up the Houses of English Parliament that was uncovered and foiled (1605) - Nov. 5
Hither Green Rail Crash (accident on the British railway system) occurred during the evening crush killing 49 (1967) - Nov. 5
Ludwig III of Bavaria (Prince Regent) deposed his insane cousin King Otto, who was determined incapable of ruling, and became King himself (1913) - Nov. 5
Nat Turner (American Slave Leader) is tried, convicted and sentenced to death in Virgina (1831) - Nov. 5
Daylight Savings Ends - Turn clocks back first Sunday in November (2017) - 11/5
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