1960 The aircraft carrier Antietam left British Honduras for Pensacola after 4 days of relief operations following hurricane Hattie.

1960 The last steam locomotive to operate officially on Canadian Pacific pulls a special train to St. Lin from Montreal. Locomotive is class A-l-e no. 29, 4-4-0 built in 1887.

1961 US government issues a stamp honoring 100th birthday of James Naismith

1962 Edward M Kennedy first elected (Sen-D-MA)

1967 Helicopter from USS Coral Sea (CVA-43) rescues 37-man crew of Liberian freighter Royal Fortunes aground on reef in Tonkin Gulf

1967 US launches Surveyor 6; makes soft landing on Moon Nov 9

1977 39 killed in an earthen dam burst at Toccoa Falls Bible College, Ga

1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule

1980 USS Ranger and accompanying ships of her task group relieved the Midway in the northern Arabian Sea.

1983 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California

1984 President Reagan (R) landslide (won 49 states) re-election over Mondale (D)

1985 22nd Space Shuttle Mission (61A) -Challenger 9- lands at Edwards AFB

1985 Exploratory well at Ranger TX, explodes spilling 6.3 m gallons of oil

1985 General Jaruzelski elected Poland's head of state

1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill

1429 Henry VI crowned King of England

1869 Diamonds discovered at Kimberley, South Africa

1928 In America, Herbert Hoover becomes the 31st President

1814 The birth of Adolphe Sax, Belgian inventor of the saxophone

1854 The birth of John Philip Sousa, American composer and conductor

2005 Evansville Tornado of November 205: A tornado hits western Kentucky and southwestern Indiana, killing at least 22.

2005 Death of Minako Honda, Japanese singer and actress (b. 1967)

2005 Azerbaijan parliamentary election.

2007 A suicide bomber kills at least 50 people in Mazari Sharif, Afghanistan. Among the dead are 6 members of the National Assembly.

2007 Legislative elections are held in the U.S. states of Kentucky, Mississippi, New Jersey, and Virginia; Kentucky and Mississippi also hold gubernatorial elections.

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