| 264 | BC | Triumph of Consul M. Fulvius Flaccus, for defeating the Volsinii -- Learn More |
| 82 | BC | Lucius Cornelius Sulla defeated the Samnites outside Rome's Colline Gate, ending the Social War [Alt] -- Learn More |
| 0 | | All Saints' Day |
| 0 | | Self-Defense Forces Commemoration Day in Japan |
| 0 | | Feast of Pomona, Roman Goddess of the Harvest |
| 0 | | Dia de los muertos in Mexico |
| 36 | | Major fire devastates part of Rome |
| 630 | | Mohammed captures Mecca |
| 866 | | Battle of York: Danish raiders defeat the Yorkists |
| 1210 | | King John of England begins imprisoning Jews |
| 1592 | | Battle of Busan: Korean ironclad "turtle boats" defeat the Japanese fleet |
| 1755 | | The Great Lisbon Earthquake -- possibly 100,000 die |
| 1765 | | Stamp Act goes into effect in British colonies, which object not over having to pay a tax, but over being denied the rights to have a say in legislation |
| 1784 | | Maryland grants citizenship to Lafayette & his descendants |
| 1806 | | Fra Diavolo taken at Baronissi by French Col Sigisbert Hugo (Victor's father) |
| 1821 | | Greeks capture Missolonghi from the Turks |
| 1835 | | Texians besiege of San Antonio (it falls Dec 4) |
| 1860 | | Neapolitan 3rd Div occupies defensive positions at Itri, to resist the Italo-Piedmontese invasion |
| 1861 | | Bvt Lt Gen Winfield Scott retires and George McClellan is named General-in-Chief of the US Army |
| 1869 | | Red River Rebellion: Louis Riel seizes Fort Garry, Winnipeg |
| 1904 | | Army War College opens, with Capt. John J. Pershing in the first class |
| 1911 | | Flying an Etrich monoplane, Italian Lt. Garetti drops a hand-held bomb from 600 feet on the Tanguira Oasis, Libya, initiating a 20th century custom |
| 1914 | | Von Spee's German Pacific Squadron annihilated a weaker British force off Chile in the Battle of Coronel -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | Paul von Hindenburg is named commander-in-chief of German forces on the Eastern Front |
| 1914 | | Pope Benedict XV calls for an end to 'the suicide of Europe' and is promptly lambasted by all sides |
| 1915 | | American pediatrician and poet Helen Mackay watched troops boarding trains in London -- Learn More |
| 1916 | | the German Army ordered a survey of the number of Jews in military service -- Learn More |
| 1916 | | Ninth Battle of the Isonzo begins (to Nov 4) |
| 1918 | | Italian naval special operations forces sink the Austrian battleship 'Viribus Unitis', which is in Yugoslav hands |
| 1922 | | Ottoman Empire abolished |
| 1928 | | 'Graf Zeppelin' sets an airship distance record, 6384 km |
| 1932 | | Wernher von Braun named head of German liquid-fuel rocket program |
| 1933 | | German Army creates its first panzer unit, |
| 1936 | | Mussolini coins the phrase "The Axis" |
| 1937 | | Battle for the Sihang Warehouse, Shanghai: under siege for six days, the Chinese 524th Regiment retreats; Chinese casualties, 10 k, 37 wounded, Japanese 200+ killed, an unknown number woundeds |
| 1939 | | Maiden flight of the Heinkel He 178, the first jet |
| 1940 | | Fleetwood, Pa.: 1st US air raid shelter opens |
| 1940 | | The Netherlands: Nazis establish a 2400-0400 curfew |
| 1941 | | Japanese Navy changes call signs for all ships |
| 1942 | | Guadalcanal: Marines attack across the Matanikau River |
| 1943 | | Bougainville: 3rd Marine Div lands at Cape Torokina, Empress Augusta Bay |
| 1943 | | 'U-405' is engaged, rammed, & sunk off the Azores by USS 'Borie' (DD-215), which sinks the following day due to severe battle damage |
| 1943 | | USN raids Japanese installations at Buin and Buka. |
| 1948 | | Chinese Communists capture Mukden, Manchuria |
| 1950 | | Puerto Rican nationalists attempt to kill Pres. Truman at Blair House |
| 1951 | | First atomic explosion with troops present, NM |
| 1952 | | First hydrogen device exploded, Eniwetok Atoll |
| 1954 | | Algeria begins rebellion against France |
| 1954 | | General Fulgencio Batista elects himself president of Cuba for the second time (1940-1944, 1952-1959) |
| 1955 | | Bomb destroys a UAL DC-6 above Longmont, Colorado, 44 die |
| 1956 | | The Imre Nagy government of Hungary withdraws from the Warsaw Pact |
| 1959 | | Revolutionary Nationalist Patrice Lumumba arrested in Belgian Congo |
| 1960 | | Benelux Treaty goes into effect |
| 1963 | | South Vietnam: Coup against the Ngo Dinhm Diem gov't |
| 1966 | | William Dana reaches 93 km altitude in the X-15 |
| 846 | | King Louis II "the Stutter" of France (877-79) |
| 1757 | | Antonio Canova, sculptor ("Pauline Bonaparte"), d. 1822 -- Learn More |
| 1764 | | Stephen Van Rensselaer, patroon, soldier, humanitarian, d. 1839 -- Learn More |
| 1776 | | King Gustav IV Adolf of Sweden (1792-1809), deposed, d. 1837 |
| 1815 | | Douglas Hancock Cooper, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1879 |
| 1825 | | Joseph Benjamin Palmer, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1890 |
| 1835 | | Godfrey Weitzel, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1884 |
| 1853 | | Jose Santos Zelaya, President/Dictator of Nicaragua (1893-1910), d. 1919 |
| 1871 | | Stephen Crane, novelist ("The Red Badge of Courage"), d. 1900 |
| 1878 | | Carlos Saavedra Lamas, 1936 Peace Nobelist, d. 1959 |
| 1889 | | Philip John Noel-Baker, 1959 Peace Nobelist, d. 1982 |
| 1902 | | Nordahl Grieg, Norwegian leftist author, journalist, and poet, kia 1943 |
| 1391 | | Amedeo VII "the Red Count" of Savoy (1383-1391), 31 |
| 1700 | | King Charles II of Spain (1665-1700), at 38, setting off the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1714) -- Learn More |
| 1734 | | Louisa de Kérouaille, Duchess of Portsmouth, 84, sometime numbered among the mistresses of Charles II |
| 1793 | | Lord George Gordon, 42, English anti-Catholic agitator ("Gordon Riots" of 1780) |
| 1903 | | Christian Matthias Theodor Mommsen, historian, Literature Nobelist, at 85 |
| 1912 | | Homer Lea, American soldier of fortune, Chinese general, 35 -- Learn More |
| 1950 | | Leslie William Coffelt, 39, White House Police, killed by Puerto Rican nationalists attempting to assassinate Pres Truman |
| 1963 | | Ngo Dinh Diem, 62, South Vietnamese strongman, in a coup |
| 1972 | | Ezra Pound, Fascist collaborator, poet ("Cantos"), at 87 |
| 2007 | | Brig Gen Paul W. Tibbets Jr., who commanded the 'Enola Gay', at 92 |