Carl Sagan 1934
- 1911 - George Claude of Paris, France, applied for a patent on neon advertising signs.
- 1923 - In Munich, the Beer Hall Putsch was crushed by German troops that were loyal to the democratic government. The event began the evening before when Adolf Hitler took control of a beer hall full of Bavarian government leaders at gunpoint.
- 1938 - Nazi troops and sympathizers destroyed and looted 7,500 Jewish businesses, burned 267 synagogues, killed 91 Jews, and rounded up over 25,000 Jewish men in an event that became known as Kristallnacht or "Night of Broken Glass."
- 1961 - Major Robert White flew an X-15 rocket plane at a world record speed of 4,093 mph.
- 1979 - The United Nations Security Council unanimously called upon Iran to release all American hostages "without delay." (the request was laughed at) Militants, mostly students had taken 63 Americans hostage at the U.S. embassy in Tehran, Iran, on November 4.
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