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355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador มlvar N๚๑ez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.
1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 64, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 Arnold Rothstein, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.
1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype.
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie.
1939 World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
1941 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1948 Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
1962 Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1975 Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotแ, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1986 Sumburgh disaster A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1991 The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished.
1995 The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.
Events:C/P.
355 Roman Emperor Constantius II promotes his cousin Julian to the rank of Caesar, entrusting him with the government of the Prefecture of the Gauls.
1528 Shipwrecked Spanish conquistador มlvar N๚๑ez Cabeza de Vaca becomes the first known European to set foot in the area that would become Texas.
1789 Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.
1844 The first constitution of the Dominican Republic is adopted.
1856 Scenes of Clerical Life, the first work of fiction by the author later known as George Eliot, is submitted for publication.
1861 American Civil War: Jefferson Davis is elected president of the Confederate States of America.
1865 American Civil War: CSS Shenandoah is the last Confederate combat unit to surrender after circumnavigating the globe on a cruise on which it sank or captured 37 unarmed merchant vessels.
1869 In New Brunswick, New Jersey, Rutgers College defeats Princeton University (then known as the College of New Jersey), 64, in the first official intercollegiate American football game.
1913 Mohandas Gandhi is arrested while leading a march of Indian miners in South Africa.
1917 World War I: Third Battle of Ypres ends: After three months of fierce fighting, Canadian forces take Passchendaele in Belgium.
1918 The Second Polish Republic is proclaimed.
1928 Arnold Rothstein, the head of the Jewish mob in New York, was shot and mortally wounded on the 4 Nov., and died on 6 Nov.; He was assassinated by George "Hump" McManus, for failing to pay a large gambling debt.
1934 Memphis, Tennessee becomes the first major city to join the Tennessee Valley Authority.
1935 Edwin Armstrong presents his paper "A Method of Reducing Disturbances in Radio Signaling by a System of Frequency Modulation" to the New York section of the Institute of Radio Engineers.
1935 First flight of the Hawker Hurricane, with its K5083 first prototype.
1935 Parker Brothers acquires the forerunner patents for Monopoly from Elizabeth Magie.
1939 World War II: Sonderaktion Krakau takes place.
1941 World War II: Soviet leader Joseph Stalin addresses the Soviet Union for only the second time during his 27-year rule. He falsely states that even though 350,000 troops were killed in German attacks so far, the Germans had lost 4.5 million soldiers and that Soviet victory was near.
1942 World War II: Carlson's patrol during the Guadalcanal Campaign begins.
1943 World War II: the Soviet Red Army recaptures Kiev. Before withdrawing, the Germans destroy most of the city's ancient buildings.
1944 Plutonium is first produced at the Hanford Atomic Facility and subsequently used in the Fat Man atomic bomb dropped on Nagasaki, Japan.
1947 Meet the Press makes its television debut (the show went to a weekly schedule on September 12, 1948).
1948 Deputy commander-in-chief of the Eastern China Field Army General Su Yu launches a massive offensive toward Xuzhou, defended by seven different armies under the Suppression General Headquarter of Xuzhou Garrison, the Huaihai Campaign. The largest operational campaign of the Chinese Civil War begins.
1962 Apartheid: The United Nations General Assembly passes a resolution condemning South Africa's racist apartheid policies and calls for all UN member states to cease military and economic relations with the nation.
1963 Vietnam War: Following the November 1 coup and execution of President Ngo Dinh Diem, coup leader General Dương Văn Minh takes over leadership of South Vietnam.
1965 Cuba and the United States formally agree to begin an airlift for Cubans who want to go to the United States. By 1971, 250,000 Cubans had made use of this program.
1971 The United States Atomic Energy Commission tests the largest U.S. underground hydrogen bomb, code-named Cannikin, on Amchitka Island in the Aleutians.
1975 Green March begins: 300,000 unarmed Moroccans converge on the southern city of Tarfaya and wait for a signal from King Hassan II of Morocco to cross into Western Sahara.
1977 The Kelly Barnes Dam, located above Toccoa Falls Bible College near Toccoa, Georgia, fails, killing 39.
1985 In Colombia, leftist guerrillas of the 19th of April Movement seize control of the Palace of Justice in Bogotแ, eventually killing 115 people, 11 of them Supreme Court justices.
1986 Sumburgh disaster A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LR Chinook crashes 21⁄2 miles east of Sumburgh Airport killing 45 people. It is the deadliest civilian helicopter crash on record.
1991 The last Kuwaiti oil field fire is extinguished.
1995 The Rova of Antananarivo, home of the sovereigns of Madagascar from the 16th to 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire.
1995 Cleveland Browns relocation controversy: Art Modell announces that he signed a deal that would relocate the Cleveland Browns to Baltimore to become the Baltimore Ravens, the first time the city had a football team since 1983 when they were the Baltimore Colts.
1999 Australians vote to keep the Head of the Commonwealth as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.
2004 An express train collides with a stationary car near the village of Ufton Nervet, England, killing seven and injuring 150.
2012 Tammy Baldwin becomes the first openly gay politician to be elected to the United States Senate.