| 0 | | Royal Navy Day in Thailand |
| 0 | | Feast of St Edmund the Martyr, King of East Anglia, and that of St. Dasius of Durostorum, Soldier of Legio XI Claudiana, Martyr |
| 63 | | St. Paul was shipwrecked at Malta [By some calculations] |
| 284 | | Diocletian was proclaimed Roman Emperor (284-305), who retired to Dalmatia to grow cabbages, d. 313 -- Learn More |
| 869 | | Battle of Thetford/Hoxne: Danes defeat King Edmund of East Anglia |
| 1256 | | The Mongols under Hulugu Khan capture Maymum-Dis, mountain fortress of the Assassins |
| 1272 | | Edward I proclaimed King of England (1272-1307) |
| 1347 | | Battle of the Porta San Lorenzo: Cola di Rienzo's Roman Republic defeats a coup by the Roman barons |
| 1426 | | Brescia surrenders to the Venetians under Carmagnola |
| 1571 | | Battle of Crabstane: Clan Gordon defeats Clan Forbes |
| 1617 | | Naval Battle of Puglia: The Spanish and Venetian fleets clash indecisively |
| 1780 | | Britain declares war on Holland, which is supporting the rebellious Americans |
| 1805 | | Premiere of Beethoven's opera "Fidelio" in Vienna, with Napoleon sitting in the Hapsburg imperial box |
| 1820 | | The Natucket whaler 'Essex" was sunk by a large sperm whale in the South Pacific, c. 2,000 miles west of South America -- inspiring Melville's "Moby Dick". |
| 1829 | | The Jews are expelled from Nikolayev & Sevastopol, Russia |
| 1856 | | USN & RN complete reduction of Barrier Forts, Canton (begun Nov 16) |
| 1866 | | First national convention of the Grand Army of the Republic |
| 1910 | | Francisco Madero initiates a Revolution in Mexico against Porfirio Diaz |
| 1917 | | The first tank offensive: Cambrai - British tanks shatter the German lines on the Western Front, though gains are lost to counter-attacks over the next few days. |
| 1918 | | the first American unit reaches the Rhine, the 369th Infantry (Colored) Infantry -- https://strategypage.com/cic/reader.asp?target=CIC43&Prev=0&BeginCnt=61 [Rectum, S.C.] |
| 1920 | | Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Woodrow Wilson |
| 1942 | | British Eighth Army recaptures Benghazi, Lybia |
| 1943 | | Operation Galvanic began, as the 2nd Mar Div landed at Tarawa & the 27th Inf Div on Makin -- Learn More |
| 1943 | | a turret explosion in the USS 'Mississippi" (BB 41) killed 43 sailors -- Learn More |
| 1945 | | General of the Army George C. Marshall stepped down, after 2272 days as Chief-of-Staff -- Learn More |
| 1945 | | Judgement at Nuremberg: 24 Nazi leaders go on trial |
| 1947 | | Marriage of Princess Elizabeth of the UK to Lt. Philip Mountbatten, RN, at Westminster Abbey |
| 1953 | | Scott Crossfield breaks Mach 2 in a Douglas Skyrocket |
| 1956 | | the USS 'Hartford', Farragut's Civil War flagship, sank at dockside, Norfolk, Va, the nation being too cheap to preserve her |
| 1962 | | Cuban Missile Crisis: The Soviets agree to remove their missiles from Cuba, and US lifts naval quarantine of the island |
| 1979 | | Siege of the Grand Mosque at Mecca: 300 or more Islamist radicals seize the Mosque and Kaaba, initiating a two week siege before they are overcome by Saudi and Pakistani forces; c. 250 deaths, many wounded |
| 2015 | | Terrorist attack in Bamako, Mali: Islamists htake c. 200 hostages in a hotel, kill 19 before they are killed |
| 270 | | Gaius Valerius Galerius Maximinus Daia, Roman Emperor (308-314) |
| 1750 | | Sultan Fateh Ali Khan Shahab of Mysore (1782-1799), "the Tiger of Mysore", "Tipu Sultan", kia 1799 |
| 1761 | | Francesco Saverio Castiglioni, Pope Pius VIII (Mar. 31,1829-Nov. 30, 1830) |
| 1765 | | Thomas Francis Fremantle, British Vice-Adm. (Copenhagen, Trafalgar, etc.), d. 1819 |
| 1802 | | James Lawrence Lardner, Rear Adm, US, d. 1881 |
| 1830 | | Patrick Henry Jones, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1900 |
| 1836 | | John Thomas Croxton, Brig Gen, U.S., d. 1874 |
| 1862 | | The Confederate Army of Tennessee, commanded by Gen Braxton Bragg |
| 1872 | | Joseph Mason Reeves, later Adm, USN, "The Father of Carrier Aviation" -- Learn More |
| 1895 | | William V.S. Tubman, Liberian President (1943-1970), murdered 1970 |
| 1908 | | Alistair Cooke, British-born American journalist, war correspondent, author, television personality, d. 2004 |
| 1912 | | Otto von Habsburg, sometime Crown Prince of Austria, Hungary, etc., etc., Member of the European Parliamen, d. 2011 |
| 1932 | | Jacques Chirac, President of France (1995-2007) |
| 869 | | Edmund, c. 28, King of East Anglia (c. 855-869), killed by the Vikings, later canonized as St. Edmund the Martyr |
| 1347 | | Stefano Colonna (c. 60), Roman noble, patron of Petrarch, his sons Camillo (c. 25) & Giovanni(18), his cousins Giovanni & Pietro Colonna, Co-Lords of Capranica, and Cyno Caetani of Fondi, Lord Giordano Orsini of Marino, Petruccio Frangipani, and many of their followers, kia, Battle of the Porta San Lorenzo |
| 1416 | | King John I "the Posthumous" of France and Navarre (Nov 15-Nov 20, 1316), at five days, second shortest reign of any French monarch |
| 1662 | | Field Marshal Archduke Leopold Wilhelm of Austria, 48, Governor of the Austrian Netherlands |
| 1695 | | Zumbi, c. 49-50, leader of the Brazilian Maroon state of Quilombo dos Palmares (c. 1678-1695), beheaded by the Portuguese |
| 1735 | | Sir Edward Whitaker, Vice-Admiral of the White, c. 75 -- Learn More |
| 1750 | | Maurice de Saxe, Duke of Saxony, Marshal General of France, rake, at 54 -- Learn More |
| 1861 | | Henry Fry & Jacob M. Henshaw, lynched in Greeneville, Tn, on suspicion of being Union agents |
| 1924 | | Giacomo Puccini, composer ("Madama Butterfly"), 63 |
| 1936 | | José Antonio Primo de Rivera, founder of the Falange, murdered by Spanish Republicans at 33[see 1975] |
| 1936 | | Buenaventura Durruti, Spanish anarchist, kia at 40 outside Madrid, under suspicious circumstances |
| 1944 | | Lt, j.g., Sekio Nishina, in Ultihi Atoll, probably while sinking USS 'Mississinewa' (AO-59) with the kaiten weapon, which he co-invented |
| 1975 | | Francisco Franco y Bahamonde, "El Caudillo" of Spain (1936-1975), at 82 [see 1936] |
| 2008 | | Pierre Picault, at 109, the last French veteran of the Great War, and the oldest man in France -- Learn More |