On This Day - 6th November

1854 - John Philip Sousa born
1861 - James Naismith born
1887 - Walter Perry Johnson born
1931 - Mike Nichols born
1946 - Sally Field born
1948 - Glenn Frey born
1956 - British and French troops protecting allied interests in the Suez Canal battle with Egyptian soldiers in the Canal Zone.
1968 - After a day when the United States appeared to be on the brink of a constitutional crisis, Richard Nixon finally emerges as the country's next president.
1970 - Ethan Hawke born
1972 - The Conservative Government has frozen pay and prices in an attempt to halt spiralling inflation and actress Rebecca Romijn-Stamos born
1976 - Pat Tillman born
1986 - A Chinook helicopter carrying oil rig workers plunges into the North Sea off the coast of Scotland.

1996 - Bill Clinton is basking in a resounding victory over Republican Bob Dole and the prospect of four more years in the White House.
1999 - Australians reject a proposal to break ties with the British monarchy and become a republic.

On This Day - 5th November

1905 - Joel McCrea born
1911 - Roy Rogers born
1913 - Vivien Leigh born
1931 - Ike Turner born
1940 - Franklin D Roosevelt elected for the third time and Elke Sommer born
1941 - Art Garfunkel born
1943 - Sam Shepard born
1947 - Peter Noone born
1952 - General Dwight D Eisenhower has sweeps to victory in the American presidential elections with the largest number of popular votes ever recorded for a presidential candidate.
1959 - Bryan Adams born
1963 - Tatum O'Neal born
1967 - A rails crash at Hither Green, South West London kills 49 and injures 78.
1970 - Javy Lopez born
1978 - Iran's Prime Minister Jaffer Sharif-Emami resigns after two days of virtual mob rule.
1984 - Nicaragua's ruling Sandinista Front claims a decisive victory in the country's first elections since the revolution five years ago.

1991 - The body of the millionaire newspaper publisher, Robert Maxwell, has been found in the sea off the coast of Tenerife.

On This Day - 4th November

1879 - Will Rogers born
1916 - Walter Cronkite born
1918 - Art Carney born
1919 - Martin Balsam born
1930 - Doris Roberts born
1937 - Loretta Swit born
1942 - Rommel goes on the run at El Alamein. The German army in North Africa is in full retreat, after suffering a comprehensive defeat in Egypt at the hands of the 8th Army under General Bernard Montgomery.
1946 - Laura W. Bush born
1947 - Composer Felix Mendelssohn dies
1950 - Markie Post born
1956 - Soviet troops pour into the city of Budapest in a massive dawn offensive in repsonse to a national uprising led by Prime Minister Imre Nagy.
1962 - Jeff Probst and Ralph Macchio born
1969 - Matthew McConaughey born
1970 - Sean "P. Diddy" Combs born
1974 - Judith Ward is convicted of an army coach bombing in which 12 people died.
(Her conviction was quashed 18 years later)
1979 - Militant Islamic students in Iran storm the US embassy in Tehran taking 90 people hostage.
1980 - Former Hollywood actor and Republican Ronald Reagan wins the US presidential elections by a huge majority.
1987 - Land's End in Cornwall is sold for nearly £7m to the property tycoon, Peter de Savary.
1992 - Democrat Bill Clinton has won the presidential election to become the 42nd United States president and the first in US history born after World War II.
1995 - The Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, is assassinated at a peace rally in Tel Aviv.

On This Day - 3rd November

1921 - Charles Bronson born
1933 - Michael Dukakis and Ken Berry born
1936 - Franklin D Roosevelt wins second term as US President
1952 - Roseanne born
1953 - Dennis Miller and Kate Capshaw born
1954 - Adam Ant born
1957 - The Soviet Union sends the first ever living creature (Laika, a dog) into the cosmos aboard Sputnik II.
1959 - Dolph Lundgren born
1964 - Lyndon B Johnson, who took over after President Kennedy's assassination, wins the White House race.
1975 - The Queen formally begins the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline at a £500,000 ceremony in Scotland.
1976 - Jimmy Carter is confirmed as the next President of the United States after a closely-fought contest which gave him 51% of the popular vote.
1985 - Two French secret service agents change pleas to guilty over the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.
1997 - Thousands of lorries are at a standstill in France as striking drivers form roadblocks around the country.


2004 - George W Bush is elected president of the United States for the second time, beating his Democratic rival by a comfortable margin.

On This Day - 2nd November

1734 - U.S. Explorer Daniel Boone born
1755 - Marie Antoinette born
1795 - James K. Polk born
1865 - Warren G. Harding born
1901 - Paul Ford born
1913 - Burt Lancaster born
1914 - Ray Walston born
1938 - Pat Buchanan born
1942 - Stefanie Powers born
1951 - The final phase of the largest troop airlift since the war brings 6,000 reinforcements in to quell unrest in the Canal Zone in Egypt.
1961 - K.D. Lang born
1969 - Reginald "Fieldy" Arvizu born
1978 - Nelly born
1986 - David Jacobsen, an American held hostage in Beirut by Muslim fundamentalists, is released after 17 months in captivity.
1988 - The general election in Israel returns a hung parliament, prompting feverish negotiations between the right-wing Likud party and ultra-orthodox religious groups.
1995 - The former South African defence minister, General Magnus Malan, is arrested and charged with murder.
2000 - The controversial chief inspector of schools in England, Chris Woodhead, steps down, to the delight of teachers' unions.

On This Day - 1st November

1871 - Stephen Crane born
1935 - Gary Player born
1942 - Larry Flynt born
1951 - Dan Peek born
1957 - Lyle Lovett born
1960 - Fernando Valenzuela born
1966 - At least eight people are killed including an American officer when Viet Cong artillery shells the South Vietnamese capital Saigon.
1970 - A fire at a nightclub in France kills 142 people, most of them teenagers.
1972 - Jenny McCarthy born
1973 - Aishwarya Rai born
1981 - LaTavia Roberson born
1986 - A catastrophic fire at a chemicals factory near Basle, Switzerland, sends tons of toxic chemicals into the river Rhine, turning it red.
1984 - Rioting breaks out in parts of India following yesterday's assassination of Prime Minister Indira Gandhi.
1990 - The UK's deputy Prime Minister, Sir Geoffrey Howe resigns after disagreements over the government's Europe policy.

On This Day - 31st October

1632 - Jan Vermeer born
1795 - John Keats born
1860 - Juliette Low born
1887 - Chiang Kai-Shek born
1896 - Ethel Waters born
1912 - Dale Evans born
1922 - Barbara Bel Geddes born
1926 - Harry Houdini dies
1931 - Dan Rather born
1936 - Michael Landon born
1942 - David Ogden Stiers born
1947 - Deidre Hall born
1950 - John Candy and Jane Pauley born
1955 - Princess Margaret calls off her plans to marry divorced Group Captain Peter Townsend.
1961 - Peter Jackson and Larry Mullen born
1966 - Adam Horovitz born
1971 - A bomb explodes in the Post Office tower causing extensive damage but no injuries.
1984 - Indira Gandhi, the Prime Minister of India, is killed by two assassins believed to be her own bodyguards.
1997 - A Boston jury finds Louise Woodward, 19, guilty of second degree murder for killing the baby in her care.
2003 - Asia's longest-serving leader, the Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohammed, steps down after 22 years in power.