On this day ......

[Pickwick]

October 31 1940 World War II: The Battle of Britain ends – the United Kingdom prevents a possible German invasion.

 

[MassRuss]

October 31, 1926 - Houdini dies

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harry_Houdini

 

[Pickwick]

November 01 1604 William Shakespeare's tragedy Othello is performed for the first time, at Whitehall Palace in London.

November 02 1755 Birth of Marie Antoinette, Austrian wife of Louis XVI of France.

 

[MassRuss]

November 3, 1901 - Birth of Leopold III of Belgium

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leopold_III_of_Belgium

 

[Pickwick]

November 03 1812 Napoleon's armies are defeated at the Battle of Vyazma.

November 04 1429 Joan of Arc liberates Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.

 

[MassRuss]

November 4, 1916 - Birth of Walter Cronkite

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Cronkite

 

[unloadonme]

4 November 1918 – Death of Wilfred Owen

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfred_Owen

 

[Pickwick]

November 05 1917 October Revolution: In Tallinn, Estonia, Communist leader Jaan Anvelt leads revolutionaries in overthrowing the Provisional Government (As Estonia and Russia are still using the Julian Calendar, subsequent period references show an October 23 date)

 

[unloadonme]

5 November 1605 – Gunpowder Plot: Guy Fawkes is arrested.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunpowder_Plot

 

[MassRuss]

November 5, 1885 - Birth of American author/historian Will Durant

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Will_Durant

He was my mom's paternal uncle. Unfortunately, I never met him.

 

[Pickwick]

November 06 1836 Death of Charles X of France.

 

[unloadonme]

6 November 1929 – Death of Prince Maximilian of Baden

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prince_Maximilian_of_Baden

 

[MassRuss]

November 6, 1406 - Death of Pope Innocent VII

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VII

 

[MassRuss]

November 7, 1916 - Jeannette Rankin elected to US House of Representatives, 1st female member.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeannette_Rankin

 

[Pickwick]

November 07 1728 Birth of James Cook, English navy officer, explorer, and cartographer.

 

[unloadonme]

7 November 1619 – Elizabeth Stuart is crowned Queen of Bohemia

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Stuart,_Queen_of_Bohemia

 

[Pickwick]

November 08 1942 World War II: Operation Torch – United States and United Kingdom forces land in French North Africa, French resistance coup in Algiers, in which 400 civilian French patriots neutralize Vichyist XIXth Army Corps after 15 hours of fighting, and arrest several Vichyst generals, allowing the immediate success of Operation Torch.

 

[MassRuss]

November 8, 160 - Robert Catesby, Gunpowder Plot leader, killed in Staffordshire

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Catesby

 

[unloadonme]

8 November 1831 – Birth of Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl of Lytton, Viceroy of India

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bulwer-Lytton,_1st_Earl_of_Lytton

 

[Pickwick]

November 9 1799 Napoleon Bonaparte leads the coup d'état of 18 Brumaire ending the Directory government, and becoming one of its three Consuls (Consulate Government).