0911 The German king Louis the Child dies in early November at age 18, and the son of Conrad, count of Lahngau, is chosen German king November 8 at Forchheim Lorraine transfers her allegiance to France
1333 The first two-day autumn fair at Kendal, England starts today.
1519 Cortez enters Tenochtitlan, the Aztec capital.
1725 The New York Gazette newspaper begins weekly publication.
1789 Bourbon Whiskey, first distilled from corn (by Elijah Craig, Bourbon KY)
1793 Louvre in Paris, opens
1793 The Louvre Museum opens in Paris.
1861 US removes Confederate officials from British steamer Trent
1864 Abraham Lincoln elected to his 2nd term as President
1870 Democratic governor elected in Tennessee
1885 The CP special train arrives in Port Moody at Pacific Tidewater, the first railway train ever to travel across Canada from sea to sea.
1889 Montana becomes the 41st state of the Union.
1892 Grover Cleveland (D) elected President
1895 Wilhelm Rontgen discovers x-rays
1900 Theodore Dreiser's novel "Sister Carrie" is published
1904 President Theodore Roosevelt (R) defeats Alton B Parker (D)
1910 First Washington State election in which women could vote
1910 Tolstoy, Russian novelist, dies.
1916 HMS Zulu, a Tribal Class Royal Navy destroyer. Disabled by a mine in the Dover Straits which destroyed the after part of the ship. The fore part of HMS Zulu and the aft part of HMS Nubian were salvaged and later joined together to form HMS Zubian. This ship went on to acquire battle honours, to be sold later in 1919.
1923 Adolf Hitler launches a failed coup in Munich, later known as the "Beer Hall Putsch".
1932 Franklin Delano Roosevelt (D) elected President for first time
1932 Incumbent Herbert Hoover is defeated at the polls for the U.S. presidency by New York Governor Franklin D. Roosevelt.
1933 FDR creates the Civil Works Administration
1933 President Roosevelt creates the Civil Works Administration to find work for 4 million unemployed Americans.
1942 Operation "Torch" began as US & British forces land in French N Africa
