November 8

Astronomer Edmond Halley born (1656); X-rays are discovered (1895); Teddy Roosevelt embarks on 17-day trip to Panama and Puerto Rico, becoming first president to make diplomatic tour outside continental US (1906); Edward Brooke becomes first African American since Reconstruction elected to US Senate (1966); "Jeopardy!" host Alex Trebek dies (2020).

November 7

Nobel Prize-winning physicist and chemist Marie Curie born (1867); Jeannette Rankin becomes first woman elected to US Congress (1916); Evangelist Billy Graham born (1918); Former first lady Anna Eleanor Roosevelt dies (1962); Earvin "Magic" Johnson announces HIV-positive diagnosis (1991).

November 6

Abraham Lincoln elected 16th president of the US (1860); Basketball inventor Dr. James Naismith born (1861); The UN formally condemns apartheid in South Africa (1962); Hollywood great Gene Tierney dies (1991).

November 5

"Gone with the Wind" actress Vivien Leigh born (1913); Author and playwright Sinclair Lewis is first American to win Nobel Prize in literature (1930); Franklin D. Roosevelt is first and only US president elected to third term (1940); Saddam Hussein is sentenced to death (2006); Google unveils Android (2007). 

November 4

Journalist Walter Cronkite born (1916); Nellie Tayloe Ross becomes first woman elected governor in the US (1924); Former first lady Laura Bush born (1946); Iran hostage crisis begins (1979); Barack Obama becomes first African American elected US president (2008).

November 3

American sharpshooter Annie Oakley dies (1926); Journalist and fashion icon Dame Anna Wintour born (1949); The Soviet Union launches first animal into Earth orbit (1957); Covert US arms sales to Iran revealed (1986); One World Trade Center officially opens (2014).

November 2

Marie Antoinette born (1755); Nobel Prize-winning playwright George Bernard Shaw dies (1950); First president of South Vietnam Ngô Đình Diệm assassinated (1963); Indian actor and "King of Bollywood" Shah Rukh Khan born (1965); President Ronald Reagan signs legislation establishing Martin Luther King Jr. Day as a federal holiday (1983).