1631 - Pierre Gassendi observes the transit of Mercury predicted by Kepler.
1775 - Lord Dunmore promises freedom to male slaves who join the British army.
1805 - Lewis & Clark first sight the Pacific Ocean.
1811 - At the Battle of Tippecanoe, Benjamin Harrison gets a presidential slogan ("Tippecanoe and Tyler too!").
1837 - Abolitionist Elijah Lovejoy is murdered by a mob in Alton, IL.
1865 - The
London Gazette, the oldest surviving journal, is founded.
1872 - The
Mary Celeste sails from NY bound for Genoa; it is found abandoned four weeks later.
1874 - The first cartoon depicting the elephant as the Republican Party symbol, by T. Nast, appears.
1875 - Verney Cameron becomes the first European to cross equatorial Africa.
1876 - Edward Bouchet becomes the first Black to receive a Ph.D. in a U.S. college (Yale); President Rutherford B. Hayes and Samuel J. Tilden both claim a presidential victory as the electoral college returns are disputed.
1885 - The Canadian Pacific Railway is completed at Craigellachie.
1916 - Jeannette Rankin (Rep-MT) becomes the first woman Representative; Woodrow Wilson is re-elected as President.
1917 - The British capture Gaza Palestine from the Turks; As the October Revolution (Oct. 26th, O.S.) continues in Russia, Lenin seizes power.
1918 - Goddard demonstrates tube-launched solid propellant rockets; The United Press erroneously reports that a WWI armistice had been signed.
1933 - Pennsylvania voters overturn a blue law, thereby permitting Sunday sports.
1934 - Arthur L. Mitchell becomes the first Black Democratic congressman (IL).
1940 - In Washington State, the Tacoma Narrows Bridge ("Galloping Gertie") collapses.
1942 - FDR becomes the first U.S. President to broadcast in a foreign language (French).
1943 - In the last scoreless tie in the NFL, the Detroit Lions and the NY Giants end their game with nothing on the board.
1944 - FDR wins a fourth term in office.
1951 - The Constitution of Jordan is passed.
1955 - The Baltimore Supreme Court bans segregation in public recreational areas.
1962 - Richard Nixon "quits" politics, stating "You won't have Nixon to kick around."
1966 - Lunar Orbiter-2 is launched by the U.S.
1967 - Carl B. Stokes becomes the first Black mayor of a major city (Cleveland, OH); LBJ signs a bill establishing the Corporation for Public Broadcasting.
1972 - President Nixon (back in politics), is re-elected.
1983 - A bomb explodes in the U.S. Capitol, causing heavy damage but no injuries.
1984 - The planned STS 51-A launch is scrubbed due to high shear winds.
1985 - Colombian troops end their 27-hour siege of Bogota's Palace of Justice.
1989 - Douglas Wilder becomes the first Black U.S. governor (VA); NYC elects it's first Black mayor (Dinkins), and first female comptroller (Holtzman).
1991 - Magic Johnson announces that he has the HIV virus, retiring from the Lakers.
Birthdays
0994 - Muhammad ibn Hazm, historian / jurist / writer of Islamic Spain
1096 - Herbert R. O'Connor, (Sen-MD) / TV narrator (Crime Syndicated)
1867 - Madame Marie Sklodowska Curie, discoverer of Radium, Nobel Prize winner (1903, 1911)
1876 - Culbert Olson, (Gov-CA)
1879 - Leon Trotsky, Russian Communist theorist, Bolshevik
1888 - Sir Chandrasekhara Raman India, physicist, Nobel Prize winner (1930)
1903 - Konrad Lorenz, zoologist / ethologist / writer, Nobel Prize winner (1973)
1930 - Rudy Boschwitz (Sen-MN)
Passings
1573 - Solomon Luria (Maharshal) talmudic author (Yam Shel Shelomo), dies
1837 - Elijah P. Lovejoy, publisher / abolitionist, murdered by proslavery mob
1962 - Eleanor Roosevelt, former First Lady
1980 - Steve McQueen , actor (The Great Escape, Bullitt, Papillon)
Reported Missing in Action1967
Diehl, William Calvin,
USAF (OK); F105 shot down, DIC, remains returned March, 1974
Ellis, Leon F.,
USAF (GA); F4C shot down (w/Fisher), released by DRV March, 1973 – retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
Fisher, Kenneth,
USAF (NY); F4C shot down (w/Ellis), released by DRV March, 1973 – retired as a Colonel - alive and well as of 1998
1972
Brown, Robert M.,
USAF (VA); F111A shot down (pilot, w/Morrissey)
Carroll, John L.,
USAF (GA); O1 shot down, KIA, body not recovered
Morrissey, Robert D.,
USAF (NM); F111A shot down (weapons systems officer, w/Brown)
Evansville, Ind. (Nov. 6, 2005) – U.S. Navy Reservist, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Amy Gorman of Evansville, Ind., assists with search and rescue efforts after a tornado damaged a mobile home park in Evansville. Petty Officer Gorman is assigned to Navy Reserve Operational Hospital Support Unit Great Lakes, Detachment 23. Naval Reservists assigned to Navy Reserve Center Evansville are assisting local authorities in search and rescue efforts after an F3 tornado cut a 15-mile path through the Eastern Indiana and Kentucky region. U.S. Navy photo by Photographer's Mate 2nd Class Joseph C. Garza
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