1942 - Philip Barry's play "Without Love" premieres in NYC
1964 - Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium
1971 - US table tennis team arrived in China
1979 - Train detrailment in Mississauga, Ontario; a 106 car train derails causing the evacuation of 200,000 people
2019 - Death toll in demonstrations in Iraq reaches 319, with 15,000 injured since Oct 1 according to Iraqi human rights organization
1945 - Donna Fargo [Yvonne Vaughn], American country singer ("The Happiest Girl in Whole USA"), born in Mount Airy, North Carolina
1947 - Glen Buxton, American guitarist (Alice Cooper) and composer, born in Akron, Ohio (d. 1997)
1961 - Rudolf Grimm, Austrian physics professor (Bose–Einstein condensation of molecules), born in Mannheim, West Germany
1968 - Steve Brookstein, English singer who won the first series of The X Factor, born in Mitcham, England
1973 - Patrik Berger, Czech footballer, born in Prague, Czechoslovakia
2000 - Jacques Chaban-Delmas, French politician, Prime Minister of France (1969-72), and 3-time President of the National Assembly, dies at 85
2006 - Fokko du Cloux, mathematician (b. 1954)
2009 - Gheorghe Dinica, Romanian actor (b. 1934)
2015 - Pat Eddery, Irish jockey (11 x British flat racing Champion Jockey; 3 x Epsom Derby), dies from a heart attack at 63
2020 - Tony Waiters, British soccer goalkeeper (5 caps; Blackpool) and manager (Canada, Plymouth Argyle, Vancouver Whitecaps), dies at 83
During the American Revolution, the Continental Congress passes a resolution stating that “two Battalions of Marines be raised” for service as landing forces for the recently formed Continental Navy. The resolution, drafted by future U.S. president John Adams and adopted in Philadelphia on November 10, 1775, created the Continental Marines and is now observed as […]