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619 – A qaghan of the Western Turkic Khaganate is assassinated in a Chinese palace by Eastern Turkic rivals after the approval of Tang emperor Gaozu.
1410 – The Peace of Bicêtre suspends hostilities in the Armagnac–Burgundian Civil War.
1675 – Plymouth Colony governor Josiah Winslow leads a colonial militia against the Narragansett during King Philip's War.
1783 – General George Washington says goodbye to his army after the American Revolutionary War.
1795 – The French Directory, a five-man revolutionary government, is created.
1824 – In the first popular presidential vote recorded Andrew Jackson beats John Quincy Adams.
1861 – Controversial Union General John C. Fremont was relieved of command in the Western Department and replaced by David Hunter.
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally.
1882 – Oulu, Finland is devastated by the Great Oulu Fire of 1882.
1889 – North and South Dakota are admitted as the 39th and 40th U.S. states.
1890 – Formal and official founding of the Uddevalla Suffrage Association.
1895 – The first gasoline-powered race in the United States; first prize is $2,000.
1898 – Cheerleading is started at the University of Minnesota with Johnny Campbell leading the crowd in cheering on the football team.
1899 – The Boers begin their 118-day siege of British-held Ladysmith during the Second Boer War.
1909 – Lambda Chi Alpha fraternity is founded at Boston University.
1912: The XIT Ranch of Texas, once among the largest ranches in the world, sold its last head of cattle.
1912: The steamer Okanogan accidentally sank during the night due to negligence on the part of the night watchman. The boat was raised in the morning with only nominal damage to the cargo.
1914 – World War I: The Russian Empire declares war on the Ottoman Empire and the Dardanelles are subsequently closed.
1917 – British Foreign Secretary Arthur James Balfour submitted a declaration of intent proclaiming British support for the "establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people" with the clear understanding "that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities".
1917 – The Military Revolutionary Committee of the Petrograd Soviet, in charge of preparation and carrying out the Russian Revolution, holds its first meeting.
1920 – In the United States, KDKA of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania starts broadcasting as the first commercial radio station. The first broadcast is the result of the United States presidential election, 1920.
1920 – Adam Martin Wyant became the first former professional American football player to be elected to the United States Congress.
1930 – Haile Selassie is crowned emperor of Ethiopia.
1936 – The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation is established.
1936 – The British Broadcasting Corporation initiates the BBC Television Service, the world's first regular, "high-definition" (then defined as at least 200 lines) service. Renamed BBC1 in 1964, the channel still runs to this day.
1940 – World War II: First day of Battle of Elaia–Kalamas between the Greeks and the Italians.
1942: General Montgomery broke through Rommel's defensive line at El Alamein, Egypt, forcing a retreat. It was the beginning of the end of the Axis occupation of North Africa.
1947 – Designer Howard Hughes piloted the Hughes H-4 Hercules, the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built (dubbed the “Spruce Goose” by detractors), on its only flight, which lasted about a minute over Long Beach Harbor in California.
1948: In on of the greatest upset in presidential election history, Democratic incumbent Harry S. Truman defeated his Republican challenger, Governor Thomas E. Dewey of New York, by just over two million popular votes.
1949 – The Dutch–Indonesian Round Table Conference ends with the Netherlands agreeing to transfer sovereignty of the Dutch East Indies to the United States of Indonesia.
1951 – Korean War: A small platoon of 28 Canadian soldiers defend a vital area against an entire battalion of 800 Chinese troops in the Battle of the Song-gok Spur. The engagement lasts into the early hours of November 3.
1953 – The Constituent Assembly of Pakistan names the country The Islamic Republic of Pakistan.
1957 – The Levelland UFO Case in Levelland, Texas, generates national publicity.
1959 – Quiz show scandals: Twenty One game show contestant Charles Van Doren admits to a Congressional committee that he had been given questions and answers in advance.
1959 – The first section of the M1 motorway, the first inter-urban motorway in the United Kingdom, is opened between the present junctions 5 and 18, along with the M10 motorway and M45 motorway.
1960 – Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the trial R v Penguin Books Ltd., the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.
1963 – South Vietnamese President Ngô Đình Diệm and his brother Ngô Đình Nhu are assassinated during a military coup by dissident generals of the South Vietnamese army.
1964 – King Saud of Saudi Arabia is deposed by a family coup, and replaced by his half-brother Faisal.
1965 – Norman Morrison, a 31-year-old Quaker, sets himself on fire in front of the river entrance to the Pentagon to protest the use of napalm in the Vietnam war.
1966 – The Cuban Adjustment Act comes into force, allowing 123,000 Cubans the opportunity to apply for permanent residence in the United States.
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.
1973 – The Communist Party of India (Marxist) and the Communist Party of India form a 'United Front' in the state of Tripura.
1974 – 78 die when the Time Go-Go Club in Seoul, South Korea burns down. Six of the victims jumped to their deaths from the seventh floor after a club official barred the doors after the fire started.
1977 – South Ockendon Windmill, a smock mill at South Ockendon, Essex, England collapsed.
1982 – Channel 4 is launched in the United Kingdom.
1983 – U.S. President Ronald Reagan signs a bill creating Martin Luther King, Jr. Day.
1984 – Capital punishment: Velma Barfield becomes the first woman executed in the United States since 1962.
1988 – The Morris worm, the first Internet-distributed computer worm to gain significant mainstream media attention, is launched from MIT.
1990 – British Satellite Broadcasting and Sky Television plc merge to form BSkyB as a result of massive losses.
2000 – The first resident crew to the ISS docked with their Soyuz TM-31 spacecraft.
2007 – 50,000–100,000 people demonstrate against the Georgian government in Tbilisi.
2014 – A suicide attack killed 60 at Wagah, India.
Saints' Days and Holy Days
Traditional Western
Within the Octave of All Saints.
Commemoration of all the Faithful Departed (All Souls Day)
Contemporary Western
All Souls' Day
Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil and Portugal)
El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)
Dia de Finados or Dia dos Fiéis Defuntos (Brazil and Portugal)
El Dia de los Muertos celebration (Mexico)
Anglican, Episcopal, Lutheran
All Souls' Day
Daniel Payne (Lutheran)
Daniel Payne (Lutheran)
Eastern Orthodox
November 2 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
The Holy Senators of Sebasteia, martyrs of senatorial rank,
martyred under Licinius, by fire (c. 315)
Martyrs Eudoxios, Agapios, and eight others with them,
soldiers from Sebasteia, martyred under Licinius (c. 315)
Women-Martyrs Kyriaki (Cyriaca), Domnina and Domna, by the sword
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus,
and those with them, of Persia (341)
Holy 7,000 Martyrs who suffered in Persia,
(along with Sts Acindynus, Pegasias, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus,
and Anempodistus), during the reign of King Sapor II (310-381)
St. Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk in Syria, confessor (c. 388)
Saint Justus of Trieste, sentenced to death by drowning (293)
Martyrs Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias, in North Africa
Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop of Pettau in Styria in Austria
and the earliest exegete in the West (304)
Saint Erc of Slane, Bishop of Slane, Ireland (512)
Saint Ambrose, abbot of the monastery of St. Moritz
in Agaunum in Switzerland (532 or 582)
Saint George of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul (c. 699)
Saints Baya (Bava) and Maura, Anchoresses in Scotland;
St Bava guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent (c. 10th century)
Saint Amicus, born near Camerino in Italy, he became a priest,
then a hermit and finally a monk at St Peter's in Fonte Avellana (c. 1045)
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th century)
Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgebadze), Confessor and Fool-for-Christ (1995)
New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorinus, and Priest Basil Luzgin of Glazomicha (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Ananias Aristov of Perm, and Constantine Organov, Priests (1918)
Ozerianka Icon of God of Shui-Smolensk (Shuiskaya-Smolensk) (1654-1655)
The Holy Senators of Sebasteia, martyrs of senatorial rank,
martyred under Licinius, by fire (c. 315)
Martyrs Eudoxios, Agapios, and eight others with them,
soldiers from Sebasteia, martyred under Licinius (c. 315)
Women-Martyrs Kyriaki (Cyriaca), Domnina and Domna, by the sword
Martyrs Acindynus, Pegasius, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus, Anempodistus,
and those with them, of Persia (341)
Holy 7,000 Martyrs who suffered in Persia,
(along with Sts Acindynus, Pegasias, Aphthonius, Elpidephorus,
and Anempodistus), during the reign of King Sapor II (310-381)
St. Marcian of Cyrrhus, monk in Syria, confessor (c. 388)
Saint Justus of Trieste, sentenced to death by drowning (293)
Martyrs Publius, Victor, Hermes and Papias, in North Africa
Saint Victorinus of Pettau, Bishop of Pettau in Styria in Austria
and the earliest exegete in the West (304)
Saint Erc of Slane, Bishop of Slane, Ireland (512)
Saint Ambrose, abbot of the monastery of St. Moritz
in Agaunum in Switzerland (532 or 582)
Saint George of Vienne, Bishop of Vienne in Gaul (c. 699)
Saints Baya (Bava) and Maura, Anchoresses in Scotland;
St Bava guided St Maura and the latter became abbess of a convent (c. 10th century)
Saint Amicus, born near Camerino in Italy, he became a priest,
then a hermit and finally a monk at St Peter's in Fonte Avellana (c. 1045)
Blessed Cyprian of Storozhev, former outlaw (Olonets) (16th century)
Archimandrite Gabriel (Urgebadze), Confessor and Fool-for-Christ (1995)
New Hieromartyrs Bishop Victorinus, and Priest Basil Luzgin of Glazomicha (1918)
New Hieromartyrs Ananias Aristov of Perm, and Constantine Organov, Priests (1918)
Ozerianka Icon of God of Shui-Smolensk (Shuiskaya-Smolensk) (1654-1655)
Coptic Orthodox
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