1497 – Portuguese navigator Vasco da Gama rounds Cape of Good Hope on way to first voyage from Europe to reach India
1842 – Mount St Helens in Washington erupts
1862 – Opera “La Forza del Destino” by Giuseppe Verdi debuts at Bolshoi Theatre in St. Petersburg, Russia [Nov 10 O.S.]
1906 – Peter Stolypin, Prime Minister of Russia, introduces agrarian reforms allowing peasants to withdraw from the communes and take their share of land for private ownership
1922 – British Labour party elects Ramsay MacDonald as leader
1930 – Elijah Muhammad forms Nation of Islam in Detroit
1930 – 1st US football game broadcast to England (Harvard 13, Yale 0)
1944 – Duke of Cornwall’s Light Infantry occupies Hoven at Geilenkirchen
1992 – Washington Post reports Oregon Senator Bob Packwood sexually harassed 10 women
2003 – 68th Iron Bowl: Auburn beats Alabama 28-23 in Auburn