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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 

1968 Guillaume Landre, composer, dies at 63 

1969 Augustin Lara, composer, dies at 69. 

1972 Billy Murcia, rocker (New York Dolls), chokes to death at 21 

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

1978 Shah of Iran places Iran under military rule 

1978 Flora Campbell, actress (Faraway Hill, Date With Judy), dies at 67. 

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

1980 Mary Michael, actress (Biridie-Wonderful John Acton), dies at 77. 

1983 Discovery transported to Vandenberg AFB, California. 

1983 Robert Gross, composer, dies at 69. 

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. 

1985 Joel Crothers, actor (Edge of Night), dies of a heart attack at 44. 

1986 Reagan signs landmark immigration reform bill. 

1987 Ross R Barnett, lawyer/(Gov-D-Miss), dies at 89. 

1990 Will Kuluva, actor (To Trap a Spy, Go Naked in World), dies at 73. 

1991 Andre Vandernoot, Flemish fluitist/conductor, dies at 64. 

1995 Norman Waterhouse Lees, jazz fan, dies at 90 

1996 Mario Savio, activist, dies of heart attack at 53. 

1997 Phillipo Seed, social work academic, dies at 67 

2005 Azerbaijan parliamentary election. 

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

2007 A suicide bomber results in the deaths of 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. 

2012 5 people are shot at a poultry processing plant in Fresno, California. 

2013 8 people are killed and 50 are injured by a suicide bombing in Damascus, Syria 

2018 More than 200 mass graves containing thousands of victims of ISIS discovered in former ISIS held areas according to UN report. 

2018 British actor Idris Elba named "People" magazine's Sexiest Man Alive. 

2018 Great Britain's Prince Charles calls slavery "an indelible stain" but formally ends short of an apology in a speech in Accra, Ghana. 

2018 In US Midterm elections Democrats retake control of the House of Representatives after eight years, the Senate is held by Republicans 

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