| | 1530 - St. Felix's Flood destroys the city of Reimerswaal in the Netherlands |
| | 1556 - Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India. |
| | 1605 - Gunpowder Plot: A plot led by Robert Catesby to blow up the English Houses of Parliament is thwarted when Sir Thomas Knyvet, a justice of the peace, finds Guy Fawkes in a cellar below the Parliament building. |
| | 1688 - Glorious Revolution begins: William of Orange lands at Brixham. |
| | 1757 - Seven Years' War: Frederick the Great defeated the allied armies of France and the Holy Roman Empire in the Battle of Rossbach. |
| | 1780 - French-American force under Colonel LaBalme is defeated by Miami Chief Little Turtle. |
| | 1838 - The United States of Central America began to disintegrate when Nicaragua separated from the federation. |
| | 1854 - The Battle of Inkerman was fought during the Crimean War. |
| | 1862 - American Civil War: Abraham Lincoln removes George McClellan as commander of the Union Army for the second and final time. |
| | 1862 - Indian Wars: In Minnesota, more than 300 Santee Sioux are found guilty of rape and murder of white settlers and are sentenced to hang. |
| | 1872 - Women's suffrage: In defiance of the law, suffragist Susan B. Anthony votes for the first time, and is later fined $100. |
| | 1895 - George B. Selden is granted the first U.S. patent for an automobile. |
| | 1911 - After declaring war on the Ottoman Empire on September 29, 1911, Italy annexes Tripoli and Cyrenaica. |
| | 1912 - U.S. presidential election, 1912: Democratic challenger Woodrow Wilson wins a victory over the Progressive former President Theodore Roosevelt and Republican incumbent William Howard Taft. |
| | 1913 - The insane king Otto of Bavaria is deposed by his cousin, Prince Regent Ludwig, who assumed the title Ludwig III. |
| | 1913 - United Kingdom annexes Cyprus, and together with France declares war on the Ottoman Empire. |
| | 1916 - The Kingdom of Poland proclaimed by the November 5th Act of the emperors of Germany and Austria-Hungary. |
| | 1916 - The Everett Massacre takes place as political differences lead to a shoot-out between IWW organizers and local police |
| | 1917 - St. Tikhon of Moscow was elected the Patriarch of Moscow and of the Russian Orthodox Church. |
| | 1930 - Sinclair Lewis is awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. |
| | 1935 - Parker Brothers releases the board game Monopoly. |
| | 1937 - World War II: Adolf Hitler holds a secret meeting and states his plans for acquiring "living space" for the German people. |
| | 1940 - U.S. presidential election, 1940: Democrat incumbent Franklin D. Roosevelt defeats Republican challenger Wendell Willkie and becomes the United States' only third-term president. |
| | 1945 - Colombia joins the United Nations. |
| | 1951 - I Love Lucy airs for the first time. |
| | 1962 - A mining accident kills 21 miners at the government-owned Kings Bay Coal Company on Svalbard, leading the Norwegian government to close the mine. |
| | 1965 - State of Emergency declared in Rhodesia after collapse of negotiations with Great Britain over Rhodesian independence (UDI would follow six days later) |
| | 1968 - U.S. presidential election, 1968: Republican challenger Richard M. Nixon defeats Vice President Hubert Humphrey and American Independent Party candidate George C. Wallace. |
| | 1970 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in five years (24). |
| | 1979 - Ayatollah Khomeini declares the USA to be "the great Satan". |
| | 1983 - Byford Dolphin diving bell accident kills five and leaves one severely injured. |
| | 1985 - Reliquary of St Maurus from the 13th century discovered in a cache in the chapel of Becov Castle. |
| | 1986 - USS Rentz (FFG-46), USS Reeves (DLG-24) and USS Oldendorf (DD-972) visit Qingdao (Tsing Tao) China—the first US Naval visit to China since 1949. |
| | 1987 - Apartheid: In South Africa, Govan Mbeki is released from custody after serving 24 years in the Robben Island prison. He had been sentenced to life for treason against the white minority South Africa government. |
| | 1990 - Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the far-right Kach movement, is shot dead after a speech at a New York City hotel. |
| | 1994 - A letter by former U.S. President Ronald Reagan is released that announces he has Alzheimer's disease. |
| | 1994 - Forty-five year old George Foreman becomes boxing's oldest heavyweight champion when he knocks out Michael Moorer. |
| | 1995 - André Dallaire attempts to assassinate Jean Chrétien; he is thwarted when the Prime Minister's wife locks the door. |
| | 1996 - President of Pakistan Farooq Ahmed Khan Leghari dismissed the government of Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto and dissolved National Assembly of Pakistan. |
| | 2000 - Emperor Haile Selassie I given an Imperial funeral by the Ethiopian Orthodox church |
| | 2006 - Former Iraqi dictator Saddam Hussein sentenced to death by hanging for crimes against humanity. |