1605 Catholic conspirator Guy Fawkes attempts to blow up King James I and the British Parliament in the Gunpowder Plot. The plot is discovered, and Guy Fawkes is caught, tortured, and later executed along with seven others. Celebrated ever since as Guy Fawkes Day, his effigy is traditionally burned on a bonfire, accompanied by fireworks.

1917 Gen Pershing & US troops see action on Western Front for 1st time.

1925 British secret agent Sidney Reilly ('Ace of Spies') is executed in a forest near Moscow by the OGPU, the secret police of the Soviet Union.

1937 Adolf Hitler informs his military leaders in a secret meeting of his intention to go to war.

1940 Allied convoy of 38 ships encounters German cruiser Admiral Scheer in the north Atlantic, its escort HMS Jervis Bay sacrifices itself with the loss of 190 lives, five other convoy ships sunk.

1941 Japanese naval staff officers Suzuki and Maejima leave Pearl Harbor.

1860 Republican Abraham Lincoln of Illinois is elected the 16th President of the United States of America.

1935 1st test flight of Hawker Hurricane fighter aircraft.

1945 The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down.

1956 Suez Crisis: British Royal Marines storm Port Said in Egypt amid growing domestic and international opposition to the Anglo-French-Israeli military operation.

1961 US government issues a stamp honoring the 100th birthday of James Naismith, who invented the game of basketball and is actually Canadian.

1999 Australians vote to keep the British monarch as their head of state in the Australian republic referendum.

1872 Cargo ship Mary Celeste sails from Staten Island for Genoa, mysteriously found abandoned four weeks later.

1917 British capture Gaza, Palestine, from Turks.

1918 United Press erroneously reports WWI armistice had been signed.

1944 Franklin D. Roosevelt is re-elected President of the United States for a record fourth term, defeating Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey.

2000 Controversial US presidential election between George W. Bush and Al Gore is inconclusive; the result in Bush's favor is eventually decided by the Supreme Court.

2020 Former Vice President Joe Biden is declared the winner of the US presidential race four days after the US election, defeating sitting President Donald Trump.

1861 USS San Jacinto commanded by Charles Wilkes captures two Confederate diplomats from the British mail steamer Trent, almost causing a war between the US and the UK

1895 German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen produces and detects electromagnetic radiation in a wavelength range today known as X-rays or Röntgen rays.

1900 British naval officer David Beatty takes part in the successful relief of the naval brigade at Tientsin during the Boxer Rebellion and is promoted to captain.

1923 Adolf Hitler and the Nazi party stage "Beer Hall Putsch" in Munich, Germany.

1939 Failed assassination attempt on Adolf Hitler at Bürgerbräukeller beer hall in Munich, Germany; timebomb planted by workman Georg Elser explodes 13 minutes after Hitler's departure kills 8

1940 RAF bombs Munich, Adolf Hitler promises "an attack on the capital of the Nazi movement would not go unpunished"

1942 Adolf Hitler proclaims fall of Stalingrad from Munich beer hall.

1966 Movie actor Ronald Reagan is elected Governor of California.

1974 British peer the Earl of Lucan disappears and is never seen again after his nanny is found murdered in London.

2016 Republican Donald Trump is elected 45th President of the United States, defeating Democrat Hillary Clinton with an Electoral College victory of 304-227; Clinton receives just under 2.9 million more popular votes.

On this day in 1989 crowds of CIA sponsored fascists in pay of Soros stormed the Berlin Wall to begin an illegal, and very gay, annexation of East Germany. https://x.com/DarthPutinKGB/status/1855163155321667980

1620 After a month of delays off the English coast and about two months at sea, the Mayflower spots land (Cape Cod)

1799 Napoleon Bonaparte pulls off a coup and becomes the dictator of France under the title of First Consul.

1888 Jack the Ripper's fifth and probably last victim, Mary Jane Kelly, is found on her bed.

1918 Emperor Wilhelm II abdicates after German defeat in World War I

1923 Beer Hall Putsch's second day in Munich; Nazis fail to overthrow government, 16 die and Adolf Hitler flees.

1961 The Beatles meet future manager Brian Epstein after a lunch time performance at The Cavern Club in Liverpool, England.

1989 East Berlin opens its borders at Checkpoint Charlie when thousands arrive after a bureaucratic error announces that restrictions on travel to the West have been lifted.

2020 Drugmakers BioNTech and Pfizer announce their COVID-19 vaccine is over 90% effective in a first look at the results from their phase 3 trial involving nearly 44,000 people.

1674 Dutch formally cede New Netherland (New York) to the English.

1905 Sailors join the rebellion at Kronstadt naval base in Russia.

1918 German Emperor Wilhelm II flees to Netherlands.

1918 Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia, receives a top-secret coded message from Europe stating that on November 11, 1918, all fighting will cease on land, sea, and in the air.

1923 German ex-crown prince flees Netherlands for Germany.

1928 Emperor Hirohito of Japan's possession of the Imperial Regalia is publicly confirmed.

1938 Second day of Kristallnacht: pogrom against the Jews in Germany and Austria after assassination of a German diplomat in Paris.

1940 Walt Disney begins serving as an informer for the Los Angeles office of the FBI; his job is to report back information on Hollywood subversives.

1960 Uncensored version of D. H. Lawrence's "Lady Chatterley’s Lover" finally goes on sale in the UK after a jury finds publisher Penguin Books not guilty in an obscenity trial.

1989 Germans begin demolishing the Berlin Wall.

1620 Mayflower Compact is signed by Pilgrims at Cape Cod, establishing the first framework of government in the territory that is now the USA

1880 Australian bushranger, gang leader and outlaw legend Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

1918 World War I Armistice signed by the Allies and Germany comes into effect, with hostilities ending at 11 a.m., "the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month"

1920 Great Britain's monument to her war dead, the Cenotaph in Whitehall, designed by Edwin Lutyens, unveiled.

1920 The burials of unknown soldiers take place simultaneously in Westminster Abbey, London, and at the Arc de Triomphe, Paris.

1921 US President Warren G. Harding dedicates Tomb of Unknown Soldier at Arlington Cemetery.

1923 Eternal flame lit for the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier under the Arc de Triomphe in Paris.

1925 City of Chicago, Illinois renames Municipal Grant Park Stadium, as Soldier Field, in honor of US soldiers killed in combat during World War I

1937 German aircraft Messerschmidt ME-109V13 flies a new world air speed record for landplanes with piston engines of 610.95 km/h (379.62 mph)

1940 British Fleet Air Arm attack destroys half of Italian fleet at Taranto.

2004 Yasser Arafat's death from unidentified causes is confirmed by the Palestine Liberation Organization, and Mahmoud Abbas is elected PLO chairman shortly after.

1912 British explorer Robert Falcon Scott's diary and body are found in Antarctica.

1923 In Germany, Adolf Hitler is arrested for attempt to seize power during "Beer Hall Putsch" coup.

1926 The first recorded aerial bombing on US soil took place in Williamson County, Illinois, during a feud between rival liquor gangs, the Sheltons and the Birgers.

1927 Leon Trotsky is expelled from the Soviet Communist Party, paving the way for Joseph Stalin to consolidate complete power.

1941 Germany's drive to take Moscow halted.

1942 The SS Robert E. Peary, a Liberty ship built in 4 days and 15.5 hours at Henry J. Kaiser's Richmond Shipyard #2, is launched, setting a new record.

1944 RAF sinks German battleship Tirpitz at Tromso Fjord, Norway.

1948 Japanese Prime Minister Hideki Tojo sentenced to death by war crimes tribunal.

1966 Buzz Aldrin takes the first 'space selfie', a photo of himself performing extravehicular activity in space during the Gemini program.

1969 US army announces investigating William Calley for alleged massacre of civilians at Vietnamese village of My Lai in March, 19

1990 The World Wide Web is first proposed by CERN computer scientists Tim Berners-Lee and Robert Cailliau.

1856 The Great Bell of Big Ben first chimes at the foot of the still-unfinished clock tower outside the Palace of Westminster.

1916 Prime Minister of Australia Billy Hughes is expelled from the Labor Party over his support for conscription.

1941 U-81 torpedoes British aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal near Gibraltar.

1942 Minimum draft age lowered from 21 to 18 in the US

2018 Trial of Mexican drug lord Joaquín "El Chapo" Guzmán begins in New York, he is charged with drug trafficking, money laundering, and murder.

1941 British aircraft carrier Ark Royal sank in Mediterranean, having been torpedoed by a German submarine the day before.

1942 Last Vichy-French troops in Algeria surrender.

1976 Dutch war criminal Pieter Menten captured one day after fleeing.

1991 American and British authorities announce indictments against two Libyan intelligence officials for the downing of Pan Am Flight 103

1994 First public trains run through the Channel Tunnel, linking England and France under the English Channel.

1492 Christopher Columbus notes in his journal the first recorded reference to tobacco.

1898 British naval officer David Beatty promoted to commander after Sudan Campaign.

1899 Morning Post reporter Winston Churchill captured by Boers in Natal.

1916 Canadian pilot William George Barker flying over Ancre River, spots concentration of German troops massing for counter-attack on Beaumont Hamel, sends emergency Zone Call to break up German infantry apart. Barker later receives Military Cross.

1942 First flight of the Heinkel He 219

1969 An estimated 2 million people take part in the Vietnam War Moratorium demonstration across the United States.

2017 Leonardo da Vinci's painting "Salvator Mundi" sells for $450.3 million at auction in New York, world record price for any artwork.

1776 British troops capture Fort Washington during the American Revolution.

1882 British gunboat HMS Flirt fires at and destroys villages of Abari and Asaba on the Forcado River in Niger, in retaliation for attack on British owned factory that left 5 Brits missing.

1961 US President JFK decides to increase military aid to South Vietnam without committing US combat troops.

1969 1968 Mỹ Lai massacre of between 347 and 504 unarmed South Vietnamese civilians by US soldiers is first reported.

1988 President Reagan and the First Lady participate in the official state arrival ceremony, meetings and a state dinner with Margaret Thatcher.

1993 Russian President Boris Yeltsin shuts Lenin museum.

1855 David Livingstone becomes the first European to see Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia and Zimbabwe.

1869 Suez Canal in Egypt opens, linking the Mediterranean and Red seas.

1922 The last sultan of the Ottoman Empire, Mehmed VI, is expelled to Malta on a British warship.

1951 Britain reports development of the world's first nuclear-powered heating system.

1970 Douglas Engelbart receives the patent for the first computer mouse.

1979 Ayatollah Khomeini frees most black & female US hostages.

1916 British General Douglas Haig finally calls off the First Battle of the Somme in World War I after more than 1 million soldiers are killed or wounded.

1939 The Irish Republican Army explodes three bombs in Piccadilly Circus.

1943 German submarine U-211 sunk east of the Azores in the Atlantic Ocean by British Wellington aircraft.

1949 The U.S. Air Force grounds B-29s after two crashes and 23 deaths in three days.

1955 Bell X-2 rocket plane taken up for 1st powered flight.

1961 JFK sends 18,000 military advisors to South Vietnam.

1971 A British soldier is shot dead by the Irish Republican Army (IRA) in Belfast.