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Pervez Musharraf
Ineligible
| Blurb | Reason |
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| Independence Day in Dominica (1978), the Federated States of Micronesia, and Panama (1903)(1986) | Dominica: refimprove section, expansion; Micronesia: refimprove; Panama: multiple issues |
| 644 – Umar, the second Caliph in Sunni Islam after Muhammad's death, was fatally stabbed by Piruz Nahavandi, a Persian slave. | refimprove section |
| 1793 – French playwright, journalist and outspoken feminist Olympe de Gouges was guillotined for her revolutionary ideas. | refimprove section |
| 1887 – The Coimbra Academic Association, Portugal's oldest students' union, was founded at the University of Coimbra. | refimprove, refimprove section |
| 1898 – After several months of military stalemate between French and British forces in Fashoda (now in South Sudan), the French withdrew, ending the Fashoda Incident. | refimprove section |
| 1918 – The German Revolution began when forty thousand sailors took over the port of Kiel. | Revolution needs more footnotes; Kiel mutiny needs more refs |
| 1967 – Vietnam War: A series of major engagements that were some of the hardest-fought and bloodiest battles of the war began at Đắk Tô in the Central Highlands of Vietnam. | needs more footnotes |
| 1971 – The Unix Programmer's Manual was first published. | refimprove |
| 1979 – Five members of the U.S. Communist Workers' Party were shot and killed by members of the Ku Klux Klan and the American Nazi Party while in a protest in Greensboro, North Carolina. | refimprove section |
| 1991 – The Peruvian paramilitary death squad Grupo Colina massacred at least fifteen people in the Barrios Altos neighborhood of Lima. | needs more footnotes |
| 2007 – Pakistani President and Chief of Army Staff Pervez Musharraf declared a state of emergency across Pakistan, suspending the Pakistani Constitution. | refimprove section |
Eligible
- 1534 – The English Parliament passed the first Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the Anglican Church, supplanting the pope and the Roman Catholic Church.
- 1812 – French invasion of Russia: As Napoleon's Grande Armée began its retreat, its rear guard was defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.
- 1848 – A new constitution drafted by Johan Rudolph Thorbecke was proclaimed, severely limiting the powers of the monarchy.
- 1935 – Almost 98% of the reported votes in a Greek plebiscite supported the restoration of George II as King of the Hellenes.
- 1948 – The Chicago Tribune published the erroneous headline "Dewey Defeats Truman" in its early morning edition shortly after incumbent U.S. President Harry S. Truman officially upset the heavily favored Governor of New York Thomas Dewey in the presidential election.
- 1954 – The first film featuring the giant monster known as Godzilla was released.
- 1956 – In the midst of the Suez Crisis, during an invasion of the Gaza Strip, Israeli soldiers shot dead hundreds of Palestinian refugees and local inhabitants in Khan Yunis.
- 1996 – Abdullah Çatlı, a leader of the ultra-nationalist Grey Wolves, was killed in a car crash near Susurluk, Balıkesir Province, Turkey, sparking the Susurluk scandal which exposed the depth of the state's complicity in organized crime.
- Born/died this day: Dawn Marie Psaltis (b. 1970)
Notes
- George I of Greece appears on October 30, so George II should not appear in the same year
November 3: Culture Day in Japan
- 1838 – The Times of India, the world's highest-circulation English-language daily broadsheet newspaper, was founded as the The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.
- 1881 – Indigenous Mapuches rebelled against Chile's occupation of Araucanía.
- 1942 – World War II: U.S. Marines and U.S. Army forces began an attempt to encircle and destroy a regiment of Imperial Japanese Army troops on Guadalcanal.
- 1957 – The Soviet Union launched the Sputnik 2 spacecraft, carrying Laika (pictured on stamp) the Russian space dog as the first living creature from Earth to enter orbit.
- 1969 – U.S. President Richard Nixon made a plea to the "silent majority", referring to those Americans who did not join in the large demonstrations against the Vietnam War at the time.
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