The {{RMS|Queen Elizabeth 2}} (QE2) sets sail on her final voyage to Dubai.

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II unveils the New Zealand War Memorial in London, United Kingdom, commemorating the loss of soldiers from the New Zealand Army and the British Army.

The Palestine Liberation Organization confirms the death of Yasser Arafat from unidentified causes. Mahmoud Abbas is elected chairman of the PLO minutes later.

New Zealand Tomb of the Unknown Warrior is dedicated at the National War Memorial, Wellington.

Journalists Pierre Billaud, Johanne Sutton and Volker Handloik are killed in Afghanistan during an attack on the convoy they are traveling in.

In Kaprun, Austria, 155 skiers and snowboarders die when a cable car catches fire in an alpine tunnel.

The House of Lords Act is given Royal Assent, restricting membership of the British House of Lords by virtue of a hereditary peerage.

The General Synod of the Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.

Antigua and Barbuda joins the United Nations.

Australian constitutional crisis of 1975: Australian Governor-General Sir John Kerr dismisses the government of Gough Whitlam, appoints Malcolm Fraser as caretaker Prime Minister and announces a general election to be held in early December.

Vietnam War: Vietnamization

Vietnam War: Operation Commando Hunt initiated. The goal is to interdict men and supplies on the Ho Chi Minh Trail, through Laos into South Vietnam.

A second republic is declared in the Maldives.

Vietnam War: In a propaganda ceremony in Phnom Penh, Cambodia, three American prisoners of war are released by the Viet Cong and turned over to "new left" antiwar activist Tom Hayden.

NASA launches Gemini 12.

In Rhodesia (modern-day Zimbabwe), the white-minority government of Ian Smith unilaterally declares independence.

Kuwait's National Assembly ratifies the Constitution of Kuwait.

A military coup against President Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam is crushed.

Dr. jur. Erich Göstl, a member of the Waffen SS, was awarded the Knight's Cross of the Iron Cross, was awarded to recognise extreme battlefield bravery, after losing his face and eyes during the Battle of Normandy.

World War II: Nazi Germany completes its occupation of France.

Armistice Day Blizzard: An unexpected blizzard kills 144 in the U.S. Midwest.

The German cruiser ''Atlantis'' captures top secret British mail, and sends it to Japan.

World War II: Battle of Taranto

The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne, Australia is opened.

Patent number US1781541 is awarded to Albert Einstein and Leó Szilárd for their invention, the Einstein refrigerator.

U.S. Route 66 is established.

Prime Minister Alexandros Papanastasiou proclaims the first recognized Greek Republic.

The Tomb of the Unknowns is dedicated by US President Warren G. Harding at Arlington National Cemetery.

Lāčplēša day – Latvian forces defeat the Freikorps at Riga in the Latvian War of Independence.

The Centralia Massacre in Centralia, Washington results the deaths of four members of the American Legion and the lynching of a local leader of the Industrial Workers of the World.

Emperor Charles I of Austria relinquishes power.

Józef Piłsudski comes to Warsaw and assumes supreme military power in Poland. Poland regains its independence, celebrated each year on this day.

World War I: Germany signs an armistice agreement with the Allies in a railroad car outside Compiègne in France. The war officially ends at 11:00 (The eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month) and this is annually honoured with a two-minute silence.

Many cities in the Midwestern United States break their record highs and lows on the same day as a strong cold front rolls through.

Washington is admitted as the 42nd U.S. state.

Construction of the Manchester Ship Canal begins at Eastham.

Anarchist Haymarket Martyrs August Spies, Albert Parsons, Adolph Fischer and George Engel are executed.

Australian bushranger Ned Kelly is hanged at Melbourne Gaol.

The Victorian Aboriginal Protection Act is enacted in Australia, giving the government control of indigenous people's wages, their terms of employment, where they could live, and of their children, effectively leading to the Stolen Generations.

Treaty of Sinchula is signed by which Bhutan cedes the areas east of the Teesta River to the British East India Company.

American Civil War: Sherman's March to the Sea

The Virginia Military Institute is founded in {{city-state|Lexington|Virginia}}.

In {{city-state|Jerusalem|Virginia}}, Nat Turner is hanged after inciting a violent slave uprising.

War of 1812: Battle of Crysler's Farm

Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Dürenstein

Cherry Valley Massacre: Loyalists and Seneca Indian forces attack a fort and village in eastern New York during the American Revolutionary War, killing more than forty civilians and soldiers.

The F.H.C. Society, also known as the Flat Hat Club, is formed at Raleigh Tavern, {{city-state|Williamsburg| Virginia}}. It is the first college fraternity.

Joseph Blake, alias Blueskin, a highwayman known for attacking "Thief-Taker General" (and thief) Jonathan Wild at the Old Bailey, is hanged in London.

Gottfried Leibniz demonstrates integral calculus for the first time to find the area under the graph of ''y'' = ''ƒ''(''x'').

Second Battle of Khotyn in Ukraine: Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth forces under the command of Jan Sobieski defeat the Ottoman army. In this battle, rockets made by Kazimierz Siemienowicz are successfully used.

Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes ''An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery''.

The Mayflower Compact is signed in what is now Provincetown Harbor near Cape Cod.

Treaty of Granada (1500)|Treaty of Granada

The Fourth Lateran Council meets, defining the doctrine of transubstantiation, the process by which bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.

At Carnuntum, Emperor ''emeritus'' Diocletian confers with Galerius, ''Augustus'' of the East, and Maximianus, the recently returned former ''Augustus'' of the West, in an attempt to restore order to the Roman Empire.