| 63 | BC | Catiline fled Rome, his conspiracy against the Republic having been revealed. |
| 0 | | Feast of St. Theodore of Amasea, Roman Soldier and Martyr, Patron of Soldiers |
| 0 | | World Freedom Day |
| 694 | | Edict of Toledo: King Egica of the Visigoths sentences all Jews to slavery. |
| 1282 | | Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon. |
| 1313 | | Battle of Gamelsdorf: Louis the Bavarian defeats his cousin Frederick I of Austria |
| 1330 | | Battle of Posada: Voievode Basarab I of Wallachia ambushes the Hungarian army |
| 1492 | | Peace of Etaples between Henry VII of England and Charles VIII of France |
| 1519 | | Cortez imprisoned Aztec Emperor Motecuhzoma II Xocoyotzin in his own palace in Tenochtitlan |
| 1526 | | Maria of Hapsburg expels the Jews from Pressburg |
| 1720 | | Muslim rioters in Jerusalem burn down the Yehudah he-Hasid synagogue and expel the Jews from the city |
| 1729 | | Treaty of Seville: Spain makes peace with England & France |
| 1799 | | "Coup de 18 de Brumaire" - Bonaparte seizes power |
| 1813 | | Battle of Taladega: Tennessee militiamen under Andrew Jackson defeat Creek Red Stick warriors |
| 1835 | | Battle of Lipantitlan: Texians defeat the Mexicans |
| 1860 | | Piedmontese Army invests Gaeta, held by the Neapolitan Royalists |
| 1861 | | Action at Gauley Bridge, WVa |
| 1861 | | Combat at Piketown/Fry Mountain, Ky |
| 1872 | | Great Fire of Boston; 13 die, over 776 buildings burn, for damages of $75 million |
| 1895 | | The liner 'Etruria' docks in NY, and Winston Churchill begins his first visit to the US |
| 1912 | | West Point Cadet Dwight D. Eisenhower botched a tackle of Jim Thorpe, who went on to score a touchdown, which helped the Carlisle Indian School thump the Military Academy, 26-6. |
| 1914 | | HMAS 'Sydney' destroys the German raiding cruiser SMS 'Emden' in the Cocos Is. |
| 1916 | | Munitions disaster at Bakaritsa, near Arkhangel, Russia -- 30,000 tons explode, thousands die |
| 1917 | | Battle of Caporetto [12th Isonzo] ends (from Oct 24) |
| 1918 | | Bavarian radicals proclaim a socialist republic |
| 1918 | | Kaiser Wilhelm II of Germany abdicated -- Learn More |
| 1921 | | Mussolini forms the Partito Nazionalista Fascista |
| 1921 | | The Unknown Soldier arrives at Washington aboard USS 'Olympia' |
| 1925 | | Hitler forms the SS within the Brown Shirts |
| 1937 | | The Japanese capture Shanghai |
| 1938 | | the Nazis began two nights of anti-Semitic rioting across Germany, “Crystal Night” |
| 1939 | | Germans capture two British officers at Venlo, violating Netherlands neutrality |
| 1944 | | Red Cross wins Nobel peace prize |
| 1950 | | First jet air combat victory, Navy LCDR William T. Amen, in a 'Grumman F9F-2B Panther, downed Mikhail Fedorovich Grachev's, MiG-15 |
| 1961 | | USAF Major Robert White takes X-15 to 30,970 m |
| 1979 | | NORAD goes on full alert, when a computer glitch indicates a massive wave of incoming Soviet missiles |
| 1984 | | "Three Servicemen" Statue added to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial |
| 1989 | | The Berlin Wall comes down |
| 1414 | | Prince-Elector Albrecht III Achilles, Margrave of Brandenburg (1471-1486) |
| 1455 | | Johann V of Nassau-Vianden-Dietz, Count of Nassau, Vianden, and Diez (1475-1516), Lord of Breda (1504-1516) |
| 1683 | | Prince George Augustus of Hannover, soldier-king of Hanover, and later George II of the United Kingdom (1727-1760) -- Learn More |
| 1802 | | Elijah Parish Lovejoy, abolitionist journalist, murdered in Alton, Illinois, by a pro-slavery mob, 1837, two days before his 35th birthday |
| 1823 | | William Henry Forney, Brig Gen, C.S.A., d. 1894 |
| 1825 | | Ambrose P Hill, Lt Gen, C.S.A., kia 1865 |
| 1841 | | Prince Albert Edward of Saxe-Coburg and Gotha, later King Edward VII of the UK (1901-10) -- Learn More |
| 1853 | | Stanford White, American architect (Washington Square Arch, etc.), murdered, 1906, by his former lover's husband June 25, 1906) |
| 1925 | | Alistair Horne, MI6 operative, historian ("The Fall of Paris", "A Savage War of Peace", etc), d. 2017 |
| 959 | | Byzantine Emperor Constantine VII Porphyrogenitus (908-959), 54 |
| 1312 | | Duke Otto III of Lower Bavaria (1290-1312), 51, King of Hungary and Croatia (1305-1307). |
| 1456 | | Prince Ulrich II of Celje/Celjski/Cilli assassinated in Belgrade. |
| 1516 | | King Ferdinand II "The Catholic" of Aragon (1479-1516), and of Sicily, Naples, Valencia, Sardinia, and Navarre, King-Consort to Isabel I of Castile (1474-1504), Regent of Castile (1508-1516) |
| 1641 | | Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Spain and Austira, 31 or 32, Hapsburg general, Governor of the Spanish Netherlands, Archduke of Austria, Archbishop of Toledo (1619-41) |
| 1699 | | Hortense Mancini, c. 53, sometime mistress of Charles II |
| 1806 | | Michele “Fra Diavolo”, Neapolitan patriot and guerrilla warrior, hanged by the French at 35 at Naples |
| 1836 | | King Charles X of France (1824-1830), 79. brother of Louis XVI & XVII; deposed 1830 |
| 1888 | | Mary Jane Kelly, 25, Jack the Ripper's fifth and last knnown victim |
| 1929 | | Carl B. Eielson, American aviator and polar explorer, at 31 -- Learn More |
| 1938 | | Marshal of the Soviet Union Vasily Konstantinovich Blyukher, 48, executed by Stalin for 'espionage' |
| 1940 | | Arthur Neville Chamberlain, 71, Prime Minister of the UK (1937-1940), "Appeaser", or maybe smarter than he seemed |
| 1952 | | Chaim Weizmann, first President of Israel (1948-1952), at 57 |
| 1953 | | Abdul-Aziz ibn Sa'ud, c. 73, founder and first King of Saudi Arabia (1932-1953) |