On This Day

A peace agreement is signed between the Ethiopian government and the Tigray People's Liberation Front, ending the Tigray War.

In Vienna's Innere Stadt district, an ISIL sympathizer shoots and kills four people and injures 23 more, before being shot and killed by the police.

The Chicago Cubs defeat the Cleveland Indians in the World Series, ending the longest Major League Baseball championship drought at 108 years.

Lewis Hamilton secured his maiden Formula One Drivers' Championship Title by one point ahead of Felipe Massa at the Brazilian Grand Prix, after a pass for fifth place against the Toyota of Timo Glock on the final lap of the race.

Expedition 1 arrived at the International Space Station for the first long-duration stay onboard. From this day to present, a continuous human presence in space on the station remains uninterrupted.

Honolulu shootings: In the worst mass murder in the history of Hawaii, a gunman shoots at eight people in his workplace, killing seven.

Tropical Storm Linda makes landfall in the Mekong Delta in Vietnam, causing more than 3,000 deaths.

British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.

The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.

LOT Polish Airlines Flight 703 crashes in Białobrzegi, Podkarpackie Voivodeship, Poland, killing one person and injuring several more.

Lebanon hostage crisis: U.S. hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.

U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King Jr. Day.

Channel 4, the British free-to-air public broadcast television channel funded by its commercial activities, starts broadcasting.

Aeroflot Flight 19 is hijacked and diverted to Vnukovo International Airport, where the aircraft is stormed by authorities.

Vietnam War: US President Lyndon B. Johnson and "The Wise Men" conclude that the American people should be given more optimistic reports on the progress of the war.

The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.

Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.

King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.

South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm is assassinated following a military coup.

Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd, the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

Quiz show scandals: Twenty-One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.

The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.

Hungarian Revolution: Nikita Khrushchev meets with leaders of other Communist countries to seek their advice on the situation in Hungary, selecting János Kádár as the country's next leader on the advice of Josip Broz Tito.

Suez Crisis: Israel occupies the Gaza Strip.

Canada in the Korean War: A platoon of The Royal Canadian Regiment defends a vital area against a full battalion of Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours the next day.

The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.

In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Hughes H-4 Hercules (also known as the "Spruce Goose"), the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built until Scaled Composites rolled out their Stratolaunch in May 2017.

World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.

The BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service begins. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.

In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the 1920 United States presidential election.

The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".

The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.

World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles is subsequently closed.

Bulgaria defeats the Ottoman Empire in the Battle of Lule Burgas, the bloodiest battle of the First Balkan War, which opens her way to Constantinople.

The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.

North Dakota and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.

The great fire destroys a large part of Oulu's city center in Oulu Province, Finland.

Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.

The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.

Four British naval vessels run aground on the Isles of Scilly because of faulty navigation. In response, the first Longitude Act is enacted in 1714.

Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.

The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.

A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.

Moisés Caicedo, Ecuadorian footballer

Park Woo-jin, South Korean singer

Jordan Love, American football player

Filip Hronek, Czech ice hockey player

Davis Keillor-Dunn, English footballer

Hanna Öberg, Swedish biathlete

Shaq Coulthirst, English footballer

Jimmy Garoppolo, American football player

Christopher Dibon, Austrian footballer

Kendall Schmidt, American singer, songwriter, and actor

Tibor Pleiß, German basketball player

Natalie Pluskota, American tennis player

Luke Schenn, Canadian ice hockey player

Lisa Bowman, Irish netball player

Julia Görges, German tennis player

Danny Cipriani, English rugby player

Andy Rautins, American-Canadian basketball player

Danny Amendola, American football player

Ebonette Deigaeruk, Nauruan weightlifter

Darren Young, American wrestler

Yunel Escobar, Cuban-American baseball player

Charles Itandje, French footballer

Monica Iozzi, Brazilian actress

Katharine Isabelle, Canadian actress

Mitchell Johnson, Australian cricketer

Rafael Márquez Lugo, Mexican footballer

Miryo, South Korean rapper

Roddy White, American football player

Esha Deol is an Indian actress who appears in Hindi films.

Diego Lugano, Uruguayan footballer

Amos Roberts, Australian rugby player

Simone Puleo, Italian footballer

Carmen Cali, American baseball player

Rodney Buford, American basketball player

Konstantinos Economidis, Greek tennis player

Reshma Shetty, British-American actress

Leon Taylor, English diver and sportscaster

Matt Cullen, American ice hockey player

Thierry Omeyer, French handball goalkeeper

Sidney Ponson, Aruban baseball player

Danny Cooksey, American actor and musician

Stéphane Sarrazin, French race car driver

Chris Walla, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and producer

Orlando Cabrera, Colombian-American baseball player

Nelly, American rapper

Prodigy, American rapper (died 2017)

Ruslan Salei, Belarusian ice hockey player (died 2011)

Ben Graham, Australian footballer

Marisol Nichols, American actress

Marion Posch, Italian snowboarder

Darío Silva, Uruguayan footballer and coach

Vladimir Vorobiev, Russian ice hockey player and coach

Samantha Womack, British actress, singer and director

Meta Golding, Haitian-American actress

Reginald Arvizu, American rock musician

Neal Casal, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and photographer (died 2019)

Keith Jennings, American basketball player and coach

Kurt Elling, American singer-songwriter

Scott Walker, American politician, 45th Governor of Wisconsin

David Schwimmer, American actor

Janey Godley, Scottish actor, writer and comedian (born 1961)

Alan Rachins, American actor (born 1942)

Paul Stephenson, British civil rights activist (born 1937)

Humaira Himu, Bangladeshi actress (born 1985)

Atilio Stampone, Argentine pianist and composer (born 1926)

Neal Smith, American politician (born 1920)

Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican television personality, astrologer, actor, and dancer (born 1932)

Raymond Chow, Hong Kong film producer (born 1927)

Aboubacar Somparé, Guinean politician (born 1944)

Andrzej Ciechanowiecki, Polish painter, historian, and academic (born 1924)

Mike Davies, Welsh-American tennis player and businessman (born 1936)

Roy Dommett, English scientist and engineer (born 1933)

Tommy Overstreet, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1937)

Acker Bilk, English singer and clarinet player (born 1929)

Michael Coleman, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1956)

Veljko Kadijević, Croatian general and politician, 5th Federal Secretary of People's Defence (born 1925)

Herman Sarkowsky, German-American businessman and philanthropist, co-founded the Seattle Seahawks (born 1925)

Shabtai Teveth, Israeli historian and author (born 1925)

Walt Bellamy, American basketball player (born 1939)

Ghislaine Dupont, French journalist (born 1956)

Clifford Nass, American author and academic (born 1958)

Kjell Qvale, Norwegian-American businessman (born 1919)

Shreeram Shankar Abhyankar, Indian-American mathematician and academic (born 1930)

Robert Morton Duncan, American soldier and judge (born 1927)

Joe Ginsberg, American baseball player (born 1926)

Pino Rauti, Italian journalist and politician (born 1926)

Han Suyin, Chinese-Swiss physician and author (born 1916)

Kinjarapu Yerran Naidu, Indian politician (born 1957)

Boots Plata, Filipino director and screenwriter (born 1943)

Clyde King, American baseball player and manager (born 1924)

José Luis López Vázquez, Spanish actor, costume designer and assistant director (born 1922)

Nien Cheng, Chinese-American author (born 1915)

Madelyn Dunham, American banker and business executive (born 1922)

Charmaine Dragun, Australian journalist (born 1978)

Igor Moiseyev, Russian dancer and choreographer (born 1906)

The Fabulous Moolah, American wrestler (born 1923)

Ferruccio Valcareggi, Italian footballer and manager (born 1919)

Zayed bin Sultan Al Nahyan, the 1st president and founder of the UAE (born 1918)

Theo van Gogh, Dutch actor, director, and producer (born 1957)

Frank McCloskey, American sergeant, lawyer, and politician (born 1939)

Charles Sheffield, American physicist and author (born 1935)

Robert Cormier, American journalist and author (born 1925)

Vincent Winter, Scottish actor and production manager (born 1957)

Eva Cassidy, American singer (born 1963)

John G. Crommelin, American admiral and politician (born 1902)

Peter Matthew Hillsman Taylor, American novelist, short-story writer, and playwright (born 1917)

Robert Arneson, American sculptor and academic (born 1930)

Hal Roach, American actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1892)

Irwin Allen, American director, producer, and screenwriter (born 1916)

Mort Shuman, American singer-songwriter and pianist (born 1936)

Eliot Porter, American photographer, chemist, and academic (born 1901)

Lester Roloff, American preacher and radio host (born 1914)

Wally Wood, American author, illustrator, and publisher (born 1927)

Pier Paolo Pasolini, Italian actor, director, and screenwriter (born 1922)

Grigoriy Plaskov, Soviet artillery lieutenant (born 1898)

Robert Mensah, Ghanaian footballer (born 1939)

Richard Cushing, American cardinal (born 1895)

Pierre Veyron, French race car driver (born 1903)

Peter Debye, Dutch-American physicist and chemist, Nobel Prize laureate (born 1884)

Mississippi John Hurt, American singer-songwriter and guitarist (born 1892)

Christian feast day: Agapius and companions

Christian feast day: Domninus of Vienne

Christian feast day: Erc of Slane (Ireland)

Christian feast day: Justus of Trieste

Christian feast day: Victorinus of Pettau

Christian feast day: November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)

All Souls' Day (Roman Catholic Church and Anglican Communion)

Coronation of Haile Selassie (Rastafari)

Day of the Dead, the second day of Day of the Dead or El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)

Dziady (Belarus)

Arrival of Indentured Labourers (Mauritius)

International Day to End Impunity for Crimes Against Journalists (United Nations)

Statehood Day (North Dakota and South Dakota, United States)