1534 – Thomas Cromwell is appointed Chief Secretary to King Henry VIII of England
1850 – City of San Francisco incorporated
1900 – Exposition Universelle (World’s Fair) in Paris opens (till 12th Nov)
1925 – NHL’s NY Americans (formerly Hamilton Tigers) 1st game, lose 3-1
1937 – Stanley Cup Final, Olympia Stadium, Detroit, MI: Detroit Red Wings beat New York Rangers, 3-0 for a 3-2 series win; back-to-back titles for Red Wings
1945 – Pope Pius XII publishes encyclical Communium interpretes dolorum
1948 – 1st Jewish-Arab military battle, arabs defeated
1951 – Michael Gorsira is 1st person in charge of Curacao
1957 – KTVI TV channel 2 in Saint Louis, MO (ABC) begins broadcasting
1992 – William Shatner, Leonard Nimoy and DeForest Kelley inducted into National Association of Broadcasters Hall of Fame