EVENTS:
- 1893 – Women’s suffrage: Women in the U.S. state of Colorado are granted the right to vote, the second state to do so.
- 1900 – The People’s Party is founded in Cuba.
- 1907 – Delta Sigma Pi is founded at New York University.
- 1989 – Douglas Wilder wins the governor’s seat in Virginia, becoming the first elected African American governor in the United States.
- 1994 – WXYC, the student radio station of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, provides the world’s first internet radio broadcast.
- 2012 – An earthquake off the Pacific coast of Guatemala kills at least 52 people.
- 2017 – Shamshad TV is attacked by armed gunmen and suicide bombers. A security guard was killed and 20 people were wounded. ISIS claims responsibility for the attack.
- 2020 – Joe Biden is elected the 46th president of the United States, defeating incumbent Donald Trump.
- 2023 – António Costa resigns as Prime Minister of Portugal following news of an investigation in a corruption scandal implicating members of his cabinet.
BIRTHS:
- 1858 – Bipin Chandra Pal, Indian academic and activist (d. 1932)
- 1867 – Marie Curie, Polish chemist and physicist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1934)
- 1888 – C. V. Raman, Indian physicist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1970)
- 1903 – Konrad Lorenz, Austrian zoologist, ethologist, and ornithologist, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1989)
- 1913 – Albert Camus, French journalist, author, and philosopher, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1960)
- 1929 – Eric Kandel, Austrian-American neuroscientist and psychiatrist, Nobel Prize laureate
- 1954 – Kamal Haasan, Indian actor, singer, producer, and screenwriter
- 1965 – Steve Parkin, English former footballer and manager
- 1970 – Paul Ware, English footballer (d. 2013)
- 1971 – Trivikram Srinivas, Indian director and screenwriter
- 1972 – Marcus Stewart, English footballer and coach
- 1975 – Venkat Prabhu, Indian actor, singer, director, and screenwriter
- 1981 – Anushka Shetty, Indian actress
- 1990 – Daniel Ayala, Spanish footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Commemoration Day, the anniversary of Ben Ali’s succession. (Tunisia)
- National Day, after Treaty of the Pyrenees. (Northern Catalonia)
- National Revolution and Solidarity Day (Bangladesh)
- October Revolution Day (the Soviet Union (former, official), modern Russia (unofficial), Belarus, Kyrgyzstan)
