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On October 27th
In 1964 – Ronald Reagan delivers a speech on behalf of Republican candidate for president, Barry Goldwater. The speech launched his political career and came to be known as "A Time for Choosing".
In 1992 – United States Navy radioman Allen R. Schindler, Jr. is brutally murdered by shipmates for being gay, precipitating first military, then national, debate about gays in the military that resulted in the United States "Don't ask, don't tell" military policy.
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In 1844 – Klas Pontus Arnoldson, Swedish writer and pacifist, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1858 – Theodore Roosevelt, 26th President of the United States, recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
In 1939 – John Cleese, British actor and writer
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On October 28th
In 1775 – American Revolutionary War: A British proclamation forbids residents from leaving Boston.
In 1864 – American Civil War: Second Battle of Fair Oaks ends – Union forces under General Ulysses S. Grant withdraw from Fair Oaks, Virginia, after failing to breach the Confederate defenses around Richmond, Virginia.
In 1886 – In New York Harbor, President Grover Cleveland dedicates the Statue of Liberty.
In 1929 – Black Monday, a day in the Wall Street Crash of 1929, which also saw major stock market upheaval.
In 1936 – US President Franklin D. Roosevelt rededicates the Statue of Liberty on its 50th anniversary.
In 1942 – The Alaska Highway (Alcan Highway) is completed through Canada to Fairbanks, Alaska.
In 1962 – Cuban Missile Crisis: Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev announces that he had ordered the removal of Soviet missile bases in Cuba.
In 1986 – The centenary of the dedication of the Statue of Liberty is celebrated in New York Harbor.
Notable Births
In 1955 – Bill Gates, American software executive
In 1963 – Lauren Holly, American actress
Notable Deaths
In 1818 – Abigail Adams, First Lady of the United States
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On October 29th
In 1787 – Mozart's opera Don Giovanni receives its first performance in Prague.
In 1929 – The New York Stock Exchange crashes in what will be called the Crash of '29 or "Black Tuesday", ending the Great Bull Market of the 1920s and beginning the Great Depression.
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On October 30th
In 1938 – Orson Welles broadcasts his radio play of H. G. Wells's The War of the Worlds, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
In 1944 – Anne Frank and sister Margot Frank are deported from Auschwitz to the Bergen-Belsen concentration camp.
In 1945 – Jackie Robinson of the Kansas City Monarchs signs a contract for the Brooklyn Dodgers to break the baseball color barrier.
In 1953 – Cold War: U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower formally approves the top secret document National Security Council Paper No. 162/2, which states that the United States' arsenal of nuclear weapons must be maintained and expanded to counter the communist threat.
In 1961 – Because of "violations of Lenin's precepts", it is decreed that Joseph Stalin's body be removed from its place of honour inside Lenin's tomb and buried near the Kremlin wall with a plain granite marker instead.
In 1985 – Space Shuttle Challenger lifts off for mission STS-61-A, its final successful mission.
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In 1980 – Sarah Carter, Canadian actress
In 1981 – Ivanka Trump, American model
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On Halloween, October 31st
In 1517 – Protestant Reformation: Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg.
In 1926 – Magician Harry Houdini dies of gangrene and peritonitis that developed after his appendix ruptured.
In 1940 – World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a German invasion.
In 1941 – After 14 years of work, drilling is completed on Mount Rushmore.
In 1984 – Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi is assassinated by two Sikh security guards. Riots soon break out in New Delhi and nearly 2,000 Sikhs are killed.
In 1997 – 19-year-old British au pair Louise Woodward, convicted by a Cambridge, Massachusetts, jury of second-degree murder the day before, is sentenced to life in prison. Nearly a year later a judge would reduce the charge to Involuntary Manslaughter and time served. She returned to England where she continued to say she didn't do anything wrong. In 2007 Dr Patrick Barnes a Key Witness for the Prosecution reversed his opinion, saying the boy may indeed have died of an old injury. Woodward is now a dance instructor in Chester, England.
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In 1926 – Harry Houdini, Hungarian-born magician
In 1987 – Joseph Campbell, American author and expert on mythology
In 1993 – River Phoenix, American actor
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On November 1
In 1512 – The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.
In 1604 – William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.
In 1611 – William Shakespeare's romantic comedy The Tempest is presented for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London
In 1765 – The British Parliament enacts the Stamp Act on the 13 colonies in order to help pay for British military operations in North America.
In 1800 – US President John Adams becomes the first President of the United States to live in the Executive Mansion (later renamed the White House).
In 1870 – In the United States, the Weather Bureau (later renamed the National Weather Service) makes its first official meteorological forecast.
In 1894 – Nicholas II becomes the new Tsar of Russia after his father, Alexander III, dies.
In 1941 – American photographer Ansel Adams takes a picture of a moonrise over the town of Hernandez, New Mexico that would become one of the most famous images in the history of photography.
In 1959 – Montreal Canadiens goaltender Jacques Plante was struck in the face by a puck shot by Andy Bathgate of the New York Rangers. He was taken to the dressing room to recieve stitches and refused to go back in the game unless he wore his mask. Habs' coach Hector "Toe" Blake had no substitute goalie and he reluctantly permitted Plante to go back in the game with his legendary mask for the first time in an NHL game.
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On November 2nd
In 1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States. First prize: $2,000
In 1947 – In California, designer Howard Hughes performs the maiden (and only) flight of the Spruce Goose; the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
In 1967 – 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.
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In 1865 – Warren G. Harding, 29th President of the United States
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On November 3rd
In 1817 – The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.
In 1903 – With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia. US President Theodore Roosevelt had wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal, but was not willing to pay what Colombia asked.
In 1905 – Czar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners.
Notable Births
In 1895 – Grand Duchess Olga Nikolaevna of Russia
Notable Deaths
In 1998 – Bob Kane, comic artist and Batman co-creator
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On November 4th
In 1429 – Joan of Arc liberated Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.
In 1783 – W.A. Mozart's Symphony No. 36 receives its première performance in Linz, Austria.
In 1922 – In Egypt, British archaeologist Howard Carter and his men find the entrance to King Tutankhamun's tomb in the Valley of the Kings.
In 1939 – World War II: U.S. President Franklin D. Roosevelt orders the United States Customs Service to implement the Neutrality Act of 1939, allowing cash-and-carry purchases of weapons by belligerents.
In 1979 – Iran hostage crisis begins: a group of Iranians, mostly students, invades the United States embassy in Tehran and takes 90 hostages (53 of whom are American).
In 1995 – Israeli prime minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated by an extremist Orthodox Israeli.
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In 1969 – Matthew McConaughey, American actor
In 1995 – Yitzhak Rabin, Israeli prime minister; recipient of the Nobel Peace Prize
In 2008 – Michael Crichton, American author
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On November 5th
In 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: A conspiracy 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 House of Lords.
In 1940 – Franklin D. Roosevelt is elected to a third term as President of the United States.
Notable Births
In 1911 – Roy Rogers, American actor
In 1941 – Art Garfunkel, American musician
In 1958 – Robert Patrick, American actor
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