| 1429 | | Henry VI is crowned King of England. |
| 1812 | | The first winter snow falls on the French Army as Napoleon Bonaparte retreats form Moscow. |
| 1860 | | Abraham Lincoln is elected 16th president of the United States. |
| 1861 | | Jefferson Davis is elected to a six-year term as president of the Confederacy. |
| 1863 | | A Union force surrounds and scatters defending Confederates at the Battle of Droop Mountain, in West Virginia. |
| 1891 | | Comanche, the only 7th Cavalry horse to survive George Armstrong Custer's "Last Stand" at the Little Bighorn, dies at Fort Riley, Kansas. |
| 1911 | | Maine becomes a dry state. |
| 1917 | | The Bolshevik "October Revolution" (October 25 on the old Russian calendar), led by Vladimir Lenin and Leon Trotsky, seizes power in Petrograd. |
| 1923 | | As European inflation soars, one loaf of bread in Berlin is reported to be worth about 140 billion German marks. |
| 1945 | | The first landing of a jet on a carrier takes place on USS Wake Island when an FR-1 Fireball touches down. |
| 1973 | | Coleman Young becomes the first African-American mayor of Detroit, Michigan. |
| 1985 | | Guerrillas of the leftist 19th of April Movement seize Colombia's Palace of Justice in Bogata; during the two-day siege and the military assault to retake the building over 100 people are killed, including 11 of the 25 Supreme Court justices. |
| 1986 | | A British International Helicopters Boeing 234LRR Chinook crashes 2.5 miles east of Sumburgh Airport; 45 people are killed, the deadliest civilian helicopter crash to date (2013). |
| 1986 | | The Iran arms-for-hostages deal is revealed, damaging the Reagan administration. |
| 1995 | | The Rova of Antananarivo, home of Madagascar's sovereigns from the 16th to the 19th centuries, is destroyed by fire. |
| 1999 | | Australia's voters reject a referendum to make the country a republic with a president appointed by Parliament. |
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