| 593 | BC | Ezekiel had a vision, on banks of the River Chebar in the Land of the Chaldeans (Ez 2, 9-10) [Astron] |
| 30 | BC | Skirmish outside Alexandria: Antony wins a small victory over Octavian, in the last battle of the Roman Civil Wars, but afterwards his troops desert him |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Ignatius of Loyola, Founder of the Jesuits, Patron of Soldiers and much else beside |
| 0 | | Black Tot Day in the Royal Navy |
| 904 | | The Arabs sack Thessalonica |
| 1009 | | Consecration of Pietro "Bucca Porci" as Pope Sergius IV (1009-1012) |
| 1192 | | Richard I recaptures Jaffa from Saladin, who had it 17 days |
| 1291 | | Egyptian Mamlukes take Beirut, ending the Crusader presence in the Holy Land |
| 1498 | | Christopher Columbus lands at Trinidad, on his third voyage |
| 1667 | | Peace of Breda: Second Anglo-Dutch War ends |
| 1760 | | the British & Hanoverians defeated the French in the Battle of Warburg -- Learn More |
| 1777 | | The Marquis de Lafayette becomes a major-general in the Continental Army |
| 1813 | | British attack Plattsburgh, NY |
| 1815 | | Bey of Tunis agrees to compensate U.S. for seizure of ships |
| 1830 | | Charles X of France is forced to abdicate |
| 1845 | | French Army bands adopt the recently invented Saxophone |
| 1849 | | Battle of Segesvár: Russians defeat Hungarian nationalists |
| 1849 | | Wars of Italian Unification: Garibaldi & his companions gain refuge in San Marino after the fall of the Roman Republic |
| 1865 | | USN East India Squadron established, origins of Asiatic Fleet |
| 1874 | | USS 'Intrepid' becomes the first American warship armed with automotive torpedoes |
| 1898 | | US and Spanish troops skirmish outside Manila |
| 1917 | | Third Battle of Ypres (Passchendaele) begins (ends Nov. 10th), perhaps 500,000 die or are injured on both sides |
| 1922 | | General strike in Italy protests Fascist violence |
| 1925 | | Last Allied occupation forces leave the Rhineland |
| 1932 | | German Election; Nazis get 37.3% of the vote |
| 1938 | | Hitler decorates fellow anti-Semite Henry Ford with the "Grand Cross of the Supreme Order of the German Eagle" |
| 1942 | | Allied air attack forces Japanese Buna-bound convoy back to Rabaul |
| 1942 | | Australians at Deniki reinforced by another company |
| 1942 | | British Far Eastern Fleet returns to Colombo from East Africa. |
| 1942 | | USS 'Essex' (CV-9) is launched at Newport News, the first of a class of 26 |
| 1943 | | Japanese 17th Div begins moving to Rabaul from central China. |
| 1944 | | British help form an anti-Japanese Burmese government-in-exile. |
| 1970 | | Parliament abolished the Royal Navy's 330 year tradition of a daily issue of grog, replacing it with a daily can of beer -- Learn More |
| 1990 | | Bosnia-Hercegovina declares independence from Yugoslavia |
| 1991 | | George H.W. Bush and Mihail Gorbachev sign the Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty |
| 1997 | | NYC police captured three Islamist terrorists planning attacks on the subway |
| 1396 | | Philippe III "le bon", duc de Bourgogne & Brabant, Count of Limburg (1419-1467), d. 1467 |
| 1443 | | Duke Albrecht III of Saxony-Meisen, d. 1500 |
| 1527 | | Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor (1564-76) |
| 1803 | | John Ericsson, inventor, naval architect - USS 'Monitor', d. 1889 |
| 1815 | | Thomas Jackson Rodman, artilleryman, U.S., d. 1871 |
| 1816 | | George Henry "Pap" Thomas, Maj Gen, U.S., d. 1870 |
| 1817 | | Philip Cook Jr, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894 |
| 1825 | | Thomas Hart Taylor, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1901 |
| 1837 | | William Clarke Quantrill, pro-Confederate terrorist, d. 1865 |
| 1884 | | Karl F Goerdeler, German anti-Nazi politician, murdered 1944 |
| 1887 | | George Fleming Moore, later Maj. Gen., US, who held Bataan, d. 1949 -- Learn More |
| 54 | BC | Aurelia Cotta, 66, mother of G. Julius Caesar. |
| 1358 | | Étienne Marcel, mayor of Paris, slain attempting to prevent the Royal Army from entering the city |
| 1556 | | St Ignatius of Loyola, c. 66, sometime soldier, founder of the Jesuits |
| 1602 | | Charles de Gontaut, le duc de Biron, Marshal of France, beheaded for treason, at 40, in the Bastille |
| 1653 | | Dutch Adm. Martin van Tromp, kia off the Texel at 54-- Learn More |
| 1750 | | King João V the Magnanimous of Portugal (1706-1750), at 62 |
| 1837 | | Capt. Mark Wolfe Batman, 6th Infantry, U.S.A., c. 38 -- Learn More |
| 1849 | | Sándor Petofi, 26, Hungarian poet and revolutionary, kia |
| 1875 | | Andrew Johnson, accidental soldier and President (1865-1869), at 66 -- Learn More |
| 1914 | | Jean Jaures, 54, French socialist & pacifist, assassinated. |
| 1944 | | Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, 44, author ("The Little Prince"), aviator, resistance fighter, shot down over the Mediterranean, south of France |
| 1966 | | Alexander Ernst Alfred Hermann Freiherr von Falkenhausen, 85, German general |
| 1993 | | King Baudouin of the Belgians (1951-93), at 62 |
| 2012 | | Gore Vidal, author and playwright, who served in WW II, but didn't think much of it, at 86 |