1333 - Flood of the Arno River, causing massive damage in Florence as recorded by the Florentine chronicler Giovanni Villani
1910 - Start of South Africa's 1st F-C game in Aust (v S Aust). It rained
1968 - WTOG TV channel 44 in St Petersburg-Tampa, FL (IND) 1st broadcast
2003 - "Shock'n Y'all" 8th studio album by Toby Keith is released (Billboard Album of the Year 2004)
2021 - WHO says Europe is again the Epicenter for COVID-19 after cases rise 50% in a month
1765 - Pierre-Simon Girard, French mathematician and engineer (fluid mechanics), born in Caen, France (d. 1836)
1818 - Alexander Lawton, Brigadier General in the Confederate Army, born in Beaufort District, South Carolina (d. 1896)
1904 - Walter Bauer, German Canadian writer, born in Merseburg (d. 1976)
1950 - Markie Post, American actress (Night Court, 1984-92 - "Christine"; There’s Something About Mary), born in Palo Alto, California (d. 2021)
1978 - John Grabow, American baseball player, born in Arcadia, California
1411 - Khalil Sultan, ruler of Transoxonia (b. 1384)
1847 - (Jacob Ludwig) Felix Mendelssohn [Bartholdy], German composer and pianist (Italian Symphony; Songs Without Words), dies after a series of strokes at 38
1869 - George Peabody, American-British entrepreneur and philanthropist who founded the Peabody Trust and the Peabody Institute, dies at 74
1987 - Raphael Soyer, Russian-born American artist (Depression scenes in NYC), dies at 87
2022 - Dow Finsterwald, American golfer (PGA Championship 1958; PGA Player of the Year 1958), dies at 93
On November 5, 1941, the Combined Japanese Fleet receive Top-Secret Order No. 1: In just over a month’s time, Pearl Harbor is to be bombed, along with Malaya (now known as Malaysia), the Dutch East Indies and the Philippines. Relations between the United States and Japan had been deteriorating quickly since Japan’s occupation of Indochina in 1940 […]