All Saints' Day observed by Christians.
Crawford W. Long, American physician who first used ether as an anesthetic in surgery, born 1815.

All Souls' Day observed by Christians and celebrated as Dia de los muertos in Mexico.
Daniel Boone, American frontiersman, born 1734.
Marie Antoinette, French queen, born 1755.
Benvenuto Cellini, Italian goldsmith, born 1500.
Stephen Austin, colonizer of Texas, born 1793.
Vilhjalmur Stefansson, Canadian explorer, born 1879.
Erie Canal formally opened at New York, 1825.
Will Rogers, American humorist, born 1879.
Iranian revolutionaries took over U.S. Embassy in Tehran and seized U.S. citizens as hostages, 1979.
Guy Fawkes Day in the United Kingdom; Gunpowder Plot to blow up the English Houses of Parliament failed, 1605. 
Eugene V. Debs, American labor leader, born 1855.
Will Durant, American historian, born 1885.
John Philip Sousa, American bandmaster, born 1854.
First intercollegiate football game in the United States, Rutgers v. College of New Jersey (Princeton), at Rutgers, 1869.
General William Henry Harrison defeated American Indians in the Battle of Tippecanoe, 1811.
Marie Curie, French physicist, born 1867.
Albert Camus, French author, born 1913.
Edmond Halley, British astronomer, born 1656.
Mount Holyoke Female Seminary (today Mount Holyoke College) opened for women, 1837.
Montana became the 41st U.S. state, 1889.
Ivan Turgenev, Russian novelist, born 1818.
Edward VII of the United Kingdom, born 1841.
Kaiser Wilhelm II abdicated German throne, 1918.
Martin Luther, German religious leader, born 1483.
William Hogarth, English painter, born 1697.
Friedrich Schiller, German playwright and poet, born 1759.
Remembrance Day, Canada.
Fyodor M. Dostoevsky, Russian novelist, born 1821.
Ned Kelly, Australian bushranger, hanged in 1880.
Elizabeth Cady Stanton, American reformer, born 1815.
Baha'u'llah, Baha'i prophet, born 1817.
Auguste Rodin, French sculptor, born 1840.
Robert Louis Stevenson, Scottish novelist, born 1850.
Louis D. Brandeis, American jurist, born 1856.
Holland Tunnel opened in New York City, 1927.
Robert Fulton, American inventor, born 1765.
Claude Monet, French painter, born 1840.
Jawaharlal Nehru, Indian statesman, born 1889.
Shichi-Go-San (3-5-7) festival, Japan.
William Pitt the Elder, British statesman, born 1708.
William Herschel, British astronomer, born 1738.
Paul Hindemith, German American composer, born 1895.
Oklahoma became the 46th U.S. state, 1907.

U.S. Congress first met in Washington, D.C., 1800.
Suez Canal opened, 1869.

Louis Jacques Daguerre, French painter and inventor of the daguerreotype, born 1787.
Asa Gray, American botanist, born 1810.
Sir William S. Gilbert, English dramatist who worked with composer Sir Arthur Sullivan, born 1836.
George R. Clark, American frontiersman, born 1752.
Ferdinand de Lesseps, French promoter of the Suez Canal, born 1805.
James A. Garfield, 20th U.S. president, born 1831.
Sir Wilfrid Laurier, Canadian statesman, born 1841.
Selma Lagerlof, Swedish novelist, born 1858.
Kenesaw Mountain Landis, first commissioner of professional baseball, born 1866.
Voltaire, French author and philosopher, born 1694.
North Carolina ratified the U.S. Constitution, 1789.

Independence Day, Lebanon.
George Eliot, English novelist, born 1819.
Charles de Gaulle, French statesman, born 1890.
Franklin Pierce, 14th U.S. president, born 1804.


Baruch Spinoza, Dutch philosopher, born 1632.
Father Junipero Serra, Franciscan missionary, born 1713.
Laurence Sterne, British novelist, born 1713.
Lope de Vega, Spanish playwright, born 1562.
Andrew Carnegie, American industrialist, born 1835.
Pope John XXIII, born 1881.

First national Thanksgiving Day in the United States proclaimed by President George Washington, 1789.


Charles A. Beard, American historian, born 1874.


William Blake, English poet and artist, born 1757.
Stefan Zweig, Austrian biographer, born 1881.
Mauritania became independent, 1960.
Louisa M. Alcott, American author, born 1832.
American Commander Richard E. Byrd and crew of three became first to fly over South Pole, 1929.

Jonathan Swift, English author, born 1667.
Mark Twain, American author, born 1835.
Sir Winston Churchill, British statesman, born 1874.
