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    October 31 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, thus sparking the Protestant Reformation.
    1917: In the last large-scale cavalry charge, Australian and New Zealand horsemen attacks Ottoman forces at Beersheba in modern-day Israel.
    1956: French and British forces attacks Egypt, officially to protect the Suez Canal from the ongoing Israeli-Egypt war.
    2011: The human population reaches 7 000 000 000.
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    October 31 1517: Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, thus sparking the Protestant Reformation.
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    November 1, 1755: An earthquake with an estimated magnitude in the range 8.5–9.0, followed by tsunamis and widespread fires, destroys Lisbon and kills tens of thousands of people. The event triggers an important evolution in Enlightement philosophy debates, causes major political upheaval in Portugal, and prompts a systematic inquiry which will eventually lay the foundations of seismology.

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    November 1 1688: William III, Stadthholder of the Dutch Republic, sets out to win the thrones of England, Scotland and Ireland from his father-in-law, James II/VII.

    1815: The opening of the Congress of Vienna, where the European Great Powers convened reverse the effects of French Revolution, prevent similar upheavals to occur and establish a balance of power. The "system" put in place were to hold for 99 years.

    1963: Elements of the South Vietnamese army, supported by the CIA, topples the sitting government.
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    2 NOVEMBER

    1570 - A tidal wave in the North Sea devastates the coast from Holland to Jutland, killing more than 1,000 people.

    1755 - Marie Antoinette is born in Vienna, later to become the wife of King Louis XVI of France.

    1902 - Engineer Andrew Riker delivers the first commercial car with a four-cylinder, gas-powered internal combustion engine to a buyer in New York City.

    1917 - The Balfour Declaration proclaims British support for a Jewish state in Palestine, while specifically maintaining that "nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities."

    1948 - Incumbent Harry S. Truman defeats challenger Thomas E. Dewey in the US presidential race, much to the surprise of the Chicago Tribune, which famously printed an early edition of the newspaper with a banner headline announcing the opposite.

    1983 - Martin Luther King, Jr. Day is declared a federal holiday in the United States. It is the only US national holiday honoring a single individual.

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    Nov 2nd 1986: American hostage David Jacobsen is released in Beirut after 17 months in captivity.

    1947: the giant Spruce Goose seaplane makes its maiden, and only, flight. It will spend the next 30 years kept in flight-ready condition in a giant climate-controlled hangar.

    1960: the obscenity trial brought against Penguin Books for publishing an unexpurgated version of Lady Chatterley's Lover comes to an end with them being acquitted on all charges.

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    November 2 1965: In a protest against the use of napalm against civilian targets in Vietnam, the Quaker Norman Morrison sets himself on fire outside the Pentagon.
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    November 3, 1957: the first dog in space. Laika, aboard Sputnik 2.

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    November 3, 1990: Germany is reunited. East and West Berlin are merged into one city-state, joining the Federal Republic of Germany, along with the five states of the former German Democratic Republic.

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    November 3rd, 1954. The character Godzilla first appears on the silver screen, selling 9.6 million tickets in Japan alone.
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    November 4th, 1429 – Joan of Arc leads the final assault of the siege of Saint-Pierre-le-Moûtier.

    November 4th, 1918 – (WWI) Austria-Hungary surrenders to Italy, after the decisive battle of Vittorio Veneto.
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    November 4, 1576: In Antwerp, Spanish soldiers, having failed to receive their pay, decide to get compensation by sacking the city. The event, known as the Spanish Fury, costs their lives to 7000 civilians and unites the provinces of the Netherlands against Spanish King Philip II's rule, reigniting the revolt that will eventually result in the Netherlands's independence. It also precipitates a major decline in the cloth trade Antwerp was famous for. The city will never completely recover its commercial dominance.

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    November 4 1942: Erwin Rommel orders the retreat of his German-Italian forces during the battle of El-Alamein, effectively turning the African front in favor of the British.

    1956: Warsaw-pact forces invade Hungary, ending opposition to Soviet rule in eastern Europe.

    1979: In the aftermath of the Iranian revolution the American embassy in Theran is overrun by a mob. Most of the embassy personal is taken hostage.

    1994: Israeli prime minister Yitzhak*Rabin is assassinated by a Jewish fundamentalist and Israeli ultra-nationalist.
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    5th November

    1603 - Guy Fawkes is arrested, and the Gunpowder Plot foiled.

    1688 - William II of Orange makes landfall in Brixham at the invitation of the English Parliament, commencing his invasion of England and the start of the Glorious Revolution. I have read that the date was chosen deliberately, but it seems unlikely.

    1959 - Bryan Adams is born, later to unleash his music on the world.

    1971 - Birth of Chris Addison, best known for his role as Ollie in The Thick of It and for the pact he struck with some dark power to retain his youthful looks.
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    November 5, 1912: Woodrow Wilson is elected president of the United States.

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    5 NOVEMBER

    1872 - Susan B. Anthony leads a group of women to cast ballots in the US presidential election, in order to test their enfranchisement under the Fourteenth Amendment to the constitution. She is arrested and fined $100, which she refuses to pay.

    1974 - Ella T. Grasso is the first woman elected a state governor in the USA without having succeeded her husband in that office.

    1989 - Russian piano virtuoso Vladimir Horowitz dies at the age of 85.
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    1603 - Guy Fawkes is arrested, and the Gunpowder Plot foiled.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Killer Angel View Post
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    No, Guy Fawkes was born on 13th April 1570.

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    November 6, 1928: Arnold Rothstein, famous for his rigging of the White Sox game in 1919, was shot and mortally wounded on November 4, and died on November 6. He was dragged out of a casino and shot in an alleyway by George "Hump" McManus after failing to pay a gambling debt.

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    Rutgers and Princeton played the first game of intercollegiate football on Nov. 6, 1869 in New Brunswick, N.J.

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    November 7, 1917 (25 October 1917 by the Julian calendar) - the October Revolution in Russia, arguably the most important single event in the last century.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Galen View Post
    November 7, 1917 (25 October 1917 by the Julian calendar) - the October Revolution in Russia, arguably the most important single event in the last century.
    I'd quibble with you about that. Gavrilo Princip shooting the Archduke of Austria-Hungary - without it, no WWI, without WWI, no Russian revolution. At least not then and there.
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    Well, that's why I added 'arguably'. It's almost as if I <gasp> expected someone to argue

    Also, the tensions that set up the Russian Revolution were brewing long before WWI, since about 1905. For sure, WWI accelerated the discontent.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Asta Kask View Post
    I'd quibble with you about that. Gavrilo Princip shooting the Archduke of Austria-Hungary - without it, no WWI, without WWI, no Russian revolution. At least not then and there.
    Arguably, WWI would have occurred even without the shooting. Another equally minor event could have triggered it, because a whole lot of more important underlying factors were at play.

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    It might, but you never know. There were earlier incidents that (obviously) didn't lead to WWI. And that alternative WWI might take a different trajectory. Anyway, this is not the thread for speculation.
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    Arguably, WWI would have occurred even without the shooting. Another equally minor event could have triggered it, because a whole lot of more important underlying factors were at play.
    It is kind of funny that this is coming up, because I had listened to something on NPR just recently where they were talking about just that hypothetical situations.
    They actually said it was very likely to have not happened if not for the assassination. I don't remember the specifics any more, but they said a lot of things were actually getting better and the assassination started a lot of problems that weren't there before.

    Granted there obviously would have been some conflicts between some of the key players of the war anyway, but probably not in the way that it played out.

    Quote Originally Posted by Asta Kask
    I'd quibble with you about that. Gavrilo Princip shooting the Archduke of Austria-Hungary - without it, no WWI, without WWI, no Russian revolution. At least not then and there.
    I think a lot more important than the Russian revolution, the biggest impact of WWI was WWII, without WWI Hitler never would have had the situation necessary to rise to power. And it is hard to say exactly how WWII affected Russia, but there is no question that WWII had a lot of influence on everything.


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    Could be some drug reaction. When the munchies go horribly wrong.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Erloas View Post
    They actually said it was very likely to have not happened if not for the assassination. I don't remember the specifics any more, but they said a lot of things were actually getting better and the assassination started a lot of problems that weren't there before.
    Indeed this is not the intent of the thread to do a debate on this, but if you're interested in the matter, I'll point you to this excellent book. It doesn't propose a definitive answer, but it convincingly explains how better leadership could have avoided a conflict even after the assassination, while describing how the events since ~1900 had made a war much more likely in the first place.

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