1908 – First Gideon Bible put in a hotel room.
1911 – Andrew Carnegie forms Carnegie Corporation for scholarly and charitable works.
1918 – Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret message from Europe stating on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.
1933 – Black Blizzard snow storm-dust storm rages from South Dakota to the Atlantic.
1938 – Nobel Prize for literature awarded to Pearl Buck (Good Earth)
1940 – Pittsburgh Steelers & Philadelphia Eagles play one of only four penalty free games in NFL history. Steelers win 7-3 at Forbes Field, Pittsburgh.
1950 – Nobel Prize for literature awarded to William Faulkner “for his powerful and artistically unique contribution to the modern American novel.”
1951 – First long distance telephone call without operator assistance.
1954 – “Marine Corps War Memorial” unveiled in Arlington County, Virginia, dedicated to US Marine Corps who died in defense of the United States since 1775 (inspired by 1945 Iwo Jima photo of servicemen raising US flag)
1963 – Detroit right wing Gordie Howe surpasses Maurice Richard as leading National Hockey League all-time goal scorer with 545th career goal in a 3-0 Red Wings victory over Montreal Canadiens in Detroit.
1964 – Milwaukee Braves sign a 25-year lease to play in the new Atlanta stadium.
1969 – “Sesame Street” premieres on PBS TV.
1975 – Kansas City Royals release slugger Harmon Killebrew, ending his 22-year career.
1982 – International Monetary Fund lends Mexico $3.8 billion due to threatened bankruptcy.
1991 – Bernie Kosar ends the NFL record of 308 passes without an interception.
1996 – 46th NASCAR Sprint Cup: Terry Labonte wins.
2010 – Alan Menken, famous Disney composer, receives the 2,442nd star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
2012 – The final presidential election results are declared after Barack Obama wins Florida to defeat Mitt Romney 332-206 in Electoral College votes.
2019 – Iranian President Hassan Rouhani announces the discovery of a new oil field with an estimated 53 billion barrels of oil in Khuzestan province.
2022 – Hurricane Nicole makes landfall near Vero Beach, Florida as a category 1 hurricane, causing widespread destruction and at least two deaths.
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