EVENTS:
- 1864 – The new Constitution of Greece is adopted.
- 1901 – The 1901 Caister Lifeboat Disaster.
- 1927 – The Holland Tunnel opens to traffic as the first Hudson River vehicle tunnel linking New Jersey to New York City.
- 1970 – Bhola cyclone: A 150-mph tropical cyclone hits the densely populated Ganges Delta region of East Pakistan (now Bangladesh), killing an estimated 500,000 people in one night. This is regarded as the 20th century’s worst natural disaster.
- 1985 – The volcano Nevado del Ruiz erupts and melts a glacier, causing a lahar (volcanic mudslide) that buries Armero, Colombia, killing approximately 23,000 people.
- 2012 – A total solar eclipse occurred in parts of Australia and the South Pacific.
- 2015 – WT1190F, a temporary satellite of Earth, impacts just southeast of Sri Lanka.
BIRTHS:
- 1893 – Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist and academic, Nobel Prize laureate (d. 1986)
- 1939 – Karel Brückner, Czech footballer and manager
- 1943 – Roberto Boninsegna, Italian footballer
- 1943 – Howard Wilkinson, English footballer and manager
- 1954 – Scott McNealy, American businessman, co-founded Sun Microsystems
- 1963 – Vinny Testaverde, American football player
- 1967 – Juhi Chawla, Indian actress, singer, and producer, Miss India 1984
- 1992 – Maksim Podholjuzin, Estonian footballer
HOLIDAYS and OBSERVANCES:
- Earliest day on which National Day of Mourning or Volkstrauertag can fall, observed two Sundays before the first of Advent. (Germany)
- Feast of Feronia, celebrated on the Ides of November (Roman Empire)
- World Kindness Day
