1867 – Pieter J Jong, Dutch Zouave, dies in battle
1931 – Rudolf Wilhelm Canne, Fries playwright (Peaske), dies at 60
1945 – James Frederick Wagner, father of Priscilla Presley, dies in a plane crash
1962 – Harlow Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at 69
1964 – John Henry Barbee, American blues guitarist and singer, dies of a heart attack at 58
1968 – Vern Stephens, American baseball shortstop (8 x MLB All Star; AL HR leader 1945; 3×AL RBI leader; St. Louis Browns, Boston Red Sox), dies of a heart attack at 48
1983 – Alfredo Antonini, Italian-American Emmy Award-winning conductor (CBS Symphony; Columbia Pan-American Orchestra), and composer (The Great City), dies during heart surgery at 82
1993 – Aidan Crawley, British journalist and politician (Labour MP 1945-51), dies at 85
2011 – Bob Forsch, American MLB baseball pitcher, 1974-1989 (St. Louis Cardinals, Houston Astros), dies of a thoracic aortic aneurysm at 61
2021 – Warren Powers, American football running back (Oakland Raiders) and coach (Washington State University 1977, University of Missouri 1978-84), dies from Alzheimers at 80
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Historical Events for 3rd November 2025
1783 – John Austin, a footpad turned murderer, is the last to be publicly hanged at London’s Tyburn gallows
1942 – 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1948 – 2nd NHL All-Star Game, Chicago Stadium, Chicago, IL: All-Stars beat Toronto Maple Leafs, 3-1; Gordie Howe’s first of 23 All-Star appearances
1954 – Max Born and Walter Bothe win Nobel Prize for Physics
1970 – Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile
1993 – Greg Maddux becomes first pitcher since Sandy Koufax to win the National League’s Cy Young Award in successive MLB seasons and the first in successive seasons with different teams; Cubs 1992, Braves 1993
1997 – Boston Red Sox shortstop Nomar Garciaparra becomes 6th player to be unanimous choice for American League Rookie of the Year; leads AL in hits (209), triples (11), multi-hit games (68); also sets AL rookie-record with 30-game hitting streak
2019 – Delhi reaches worst pollution levels of the year, over 900 AQI, with authorities declaring public health emergency
Today in History for 3rd November 2025
Historical Events
1991 – Ayrton Senna wins Australian Grand Prix in Adelaide; shortest F1 race ever run (14 laps) because of wet conditions; Senna retains his 3rd World Drivers Championship by 24 points from Nigel Mansell
1996 – San Francisco 49ers receiver Jerry Rice grabs 3 passes for 45 yards and a TD to become 1st player in NFL history to reach 1,000 career receptions in 24-17 win over New Orleans Saints; finishes career with 1,549
1997 – British TV comedy “I’m Alan Partridge” starring Steve Coogan premieres on BBC Two
2014 – New York’s 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks
2020 – Australia’s Melbourne Cup won by Twilight Payment
Famous Birthdays
1801 – Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma), born in Catania, Sicily (d. 1835)
1948 – Hugh Moffatt, American country music singer-songwriter (“Just in Case”), and opera composer (King of the Clouds), born in Fort Worth, Texas
1984 – Ryo Nishikido, Japanese Idol (member of the band NEWS ad Kanjani8), born in Kadoma, Japan
1988 – Angus McLaren, Australian actor known for “Packed to the Rafters”, born in Wonthaggi, Victoria, Australia
1994 – Kandy Muse [Kevin Candelario], American drag artist (RuPaul’s Drag Race), born in New York City
Famous Deaths
1914 – Georg Trakl, Austrian poet (Totentag), dies of a cocaine overdose at 27
1949 – Solomon R. Guggenheim, American businessman and art collector (Guggenheim Museum New York), dies at 88
1993 – William Lanteau, actor (On Golden Pond), dies at 70
2002 – Jonathan Harris [Charasuchin], American stage and screen character actor (The Bill Dana Show – “Mr. Phillips”; Lost In Space – “Dr Zachary Smith”), dies at 87
2019 – Louis Eppolito, American police officer, hitman for the Mafia and actor (Goodfellas, Lost Highway), dies at 71
Famous Deaths for 2nd November 2025
1944 – Thomas Midgley, American chemist and inventor (b. 1889)
1949 – Jerome F. Donovan, American lawyer, Democratic politician, and US Congress member (1918-21), dies at 77
1961 – James Thurber, American humorist, playwright, and cartoonist (Men, Women and Dogs; The Male Animal; The Secret Life of Walter Mitty), dies of pneumonia after brain surgery at 66
1968 – Ernst Hess, Swiss composer, dies at 56
1996 – Toni Stone, American baseball second baseman (first woman to play in men’s Negro League), dies at 75
2000 – Robert Cormier, American author known for “The Chocolate War” and “I Am the Cheese”, dies at 75
2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2019 – Walter Mercado, Puerto Rican astrologist and actor, dies at about 87
2020 – John Sessions, Scottish actor and comedian (Whose Line Is It Anyway), dies of a heart attack at 67
2021 – Mohamed Soukhane, Algerian soccer defender (6 caps; Le Havre AC), dies at 90
Historical Events for 2nd November 2025
1868 – Time zone: New Zealand officially adopts a standard time to be observed nationally
1898 – French government of Dupuy forms
1920 – Warren G. Harding is elected President of the United States, defeating Democrat candidate James M. Cox
1960 – New York Yankees outfielder Roger Maris beats teammate Mickey Mantle for American League MVP Award, 225-222; second-closest vote ever
1977 – Microbiologist Carl R. Woese and scientists from the University of Illinois announce the identification of methanogens, a form of microbial life dating back some 3.5 billion years, which they name Archaea
1992 – First test flight of Airbus A330
1995 – “Sacrilege” opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances
2023 – Apple Records release the last Beatles song “Now and Then” as a double A-sided single, backed with their first “From Me To You”; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology
Today in History for 2nd November 2025
Historical Events
1898 – Austro-Hungarian Jewish activist Theodor Herzl arrives in Jerusalem
1949 – The Netherlands recognizes its former colony Indonesia as a sovereign state at conclusion of the Round Table Conference at the Hague, Netherlands
1974 – USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1995 – Spanish Broadcasting System buys NY radio station WPAT-FM for $83.5M
2017 – Jerome Powell nominated by US President Donald Trump to be next Chair of the Federal Reserve
Famous Birthdays
1734 – Daniel Boone, American frontiersman and explorer (US Hall of Fame 1915), born in Reading, Pennsylvania (d. 1820)
1919 – Warren Stevens, American actor (Richard Boone Show), born in Clark’s Summit, Pennsylvania (d. 2012)
1932 – Romano Mazzoli, American politician (Rep-D-KY, 1971-95), born in Louisville, Kentucky (d. 2022)
1932 – Melvin Schwartz, American Physicist and Nobel Laureate (neutrinos – subatomic particles with no electric charge and virtually no mass), born in New York City (d. 2006)
1942 – (Roberta) “Bobbi” Gibb, American runner (unsanctioned era female winner of Boston Marathon, 1966-68), lawyer, writer, and sculptor, born in Cambridge, Massachusetts
Famous Deaths
1981 – Kenneth Oakley, English Anthropologist, paleontologist and geologist whose method for the relative dating of fossils using fluorine content was instrumental in exposing the Piltdown Man hoax, dies at 70
2000 – Robert Cormier, American author known for “The Chocolate War” and “I Am the Cheese”, dies at 75
2000 – Sue Ryder, Baroness Ryder of Warsaw and Cavendish, British volunteer with Special Operations Executive in the Second World War, dies at 76
2002 – Charles Sheffield, American author and physicist (b. 1935)
2004 – Gerrie Knetemann, Dutch road cyclist (World Road Race Champion 1978; Amstel Gold Race 1974, 85), dies from a heart attack at 53
Famous Deaths for 1st November 2025
955 – Henry I, Duke of Bavaria, dies from an illness at 34 or 36
1711 – Christian Demelius, German composer and kapellmeister, dies at 68
1975 – Norbert Rosseau, Belgian composer, dies at 67
1989 – Louis Barron, American composer and electronic music pioneer (with his wife Bebe – Forbidden Planet), dies at 69
1994 – Syd Dernley, British hangman (1949-54), dies at 73
1999 – Jean Coutu, French-Canadian actor (Panic, And Hope to Die), dies at 74
2000 – Bernard Erhard, American voice actor (b. 1934)
2011 – Dorothy Howell Rodham, Mother of US First Lady, Senator and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton, dies at 92
2012 – Pascual Pérez, Dominican baseball pitcher (MLB All Star 1983; Atlanta Braves), dies during apparent home robbery at 55
2023 – Erich Zakowski, German master mechanic-executive (founder, CEO Zakspeed racing team 1968-90), dies at 89
Historical Events for 1st November 2025
1870 – US Weather Bureau begins operations (24 locations)
1956 – Delhi becomes a union territory of India
1968 – MLB Detroit Tigers pitcher Denny McLain is named unanimous AL Cy Young Award winner after finishing MLB season, 31-6 for World Series winning Tigers
1970 – Fire at Club Cinq-Sept Discotheque in Saint-Laurent-du-Pont, France, kills 146, as all emergency exits were padlocked
1972 – 1st gay themed TV movie – “That Certain Summer”
1987 – New York City Marathon: Ibrahim Hussein of Kenya wins men’s race, 2:11:01; English runner Priscilla Welch women’s champion, 2:30:17
2012 – Acid is poured over a 15-year-old girl by her parents after being seen talking to a young man in an “honour killing” in Azad Kashmir, Pakistan
2018 – Google employees stage mass walkout to protest the company’s handling of sexual harassment
Today in History for 1st November 2025
Historical Events
1914 – Pope Benedictus Xv’s encyclical Ad beatissimi, against integrity
1914 – German-British naval battle at Coronel, Chile
1937 – Stalinists execute by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan’s Lutheran community (including three women).
1959 – WOV-AM in NYC changes call letters to WADO
2012 – Scientists detect evidence of light from the universe’s first stars, estimated to have formed 500 million years after the Big Bang
Famous Birthdays
1871 – Stephen Crane, American novelist (Red Badge of Courage), born in Newark, New Jersey (d. 1900)
1945 – Rick Grech, British rock musician (Blind Faith; Traffic), born in Bordeaux, France (d. 1990)
1967 – Tina Arena, Australian pop singer and songwriter (“Don’t Ask”), born in Melbourne, Australia
1971 – Harutyun Arzumanyan, Armenian orchestral and opera conductor, born in Yerevan, Armenian SSR
1975 – Scott “Skippy” Chapman, American musician (Code of Ethics), born in Memphis, Tennessee
Famous Deaths
1817 – Giovanni Zanotti, Italian composer, dies at 79
1835 – William Motherwell, Scottish poet and civil servant, dies at 38
1978 – Giuseppe Berto, Italian writer (Heaven Sees Red), dies at 63
2001 – Warren Amling, American College Football Hall of Fame guard (Ohio State), dies at 76
2003 – Joji “George” Kawaguchi Japanese jazz drummer and bandleader, dies at 76
Famous Deaths for 31st October 2025
1517 – Fra Bartolommeo, Italian artist, dies at 45
1913 – William Evans-Gordon, British politician (b. 1857)
1918 – [Stephen] István Tisza, Hungarian PM (1903-05, 1913-17), assassinated by soldiers at 57
1943 – Max Reinhardt [Goldmann], Austrian-American theatrical and film director (Oedipus Rex; A Midsummer’s Night Dream), and founder of the Salzburg Festival, dies of a stroke at 70
1994 – Lester Sill, American pioneer music publisher (Leiber and Stoller; Lee Hazlewood), and record label executive (Philles Records; Colpix; Colgems), dies at 76
2003 – Semmangudi Srinivasa Iyer, Indian Carnatic vocalist, dies at 95
2009 – Ron Gowans, Australian jazz saxophonist, dies of cancer at 83
2010 – Theodore Sorenson, American presidential advisor to JFK and author (Kennedy), dies at 82
2021 – Peter Philpott, Australian cricket spin bowler (8 Tests, 26 wickets, best 5/90; NSW CA), dies due to complications from a fall at 86
2021 – Joan Carlyle, Welsh operatic soprano (Covent Garden, 1955-76), dies at 90