''¿Por qué no te callas?'' incident between King Juan Carlos of Spain and Venezuela's president Hugo Chávez.

Sri Lankan Tamil Parliamentarian Nadarajah Raviraj is assassinated in Colombo.

WorldCom and MCI Communications announce a $37 billion merger (the largest merger in US history at the time).

In Nigeria, playwright and environmental activist Ken Saro-Wiwa, along with eight others from the Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People (Mosop), are hanged by government forces.

Fall of the communist regime in Bulgaria.

A 106-car Canadian Pacific freight train carrying explosive and poisonous chemicals from Windsor, Ontario, Canada derails in Mississauga, Ontario, Canada just west of Toronto, Ontario, Canada, causing a massive explosion and the largest peacetime evacuation in Canadian history and one of the largest in North American history.

United Nations Resolution 3379: United Nations General Assembly approves a resolution equating Zionism with racism (the resolution is repealed in December 1991 by Resolution 4686).

The 729-foot-long freighter {{SS|Edmund Fitzgerald}} sinks during a storm on Lake Superior, killing all 29 crew on board.

Southern Airways Flight 49 from Birmingham, Alabama is hijacked and, at one point, is threatened with crashing into the nuclear installation at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory. After two days, the plane lands in Havana, Cuba, where the hijackers are jailed by Fidel Castro.

In Cambodia, Khmer Rouge forces attack the city of Phnom Penh and its airport, killing 44, wounding at least 30 and damaging nine aircraft.

The Soviet Lunar probe Lunokhod 1 is launched.

Vietnam War: Vietnamization

National Educational Television (the predecessor to the Public Broadcasting Service) in the United States debuts the children's television program ''Sesame Street''.

The Hope Diamond is donated to the Smithsonian Institution by New York diamond merchant Harry Winston.

U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower dedicates the USMC War Memorial (Iwo Jima memorial) in Arlington National Cemetery.

Direct-dial coast-to-coast telephone service begins in the United States.

Heavy fighting in Surabaya between Indonesian nationalists and returning colonialists after World War II, is celebrated as Heroes' Day (Hari Pahlawan).

The ammunition ship {{USS|Mount Hood|AE-11|6}} explodes at Seeadler Harbour, Manus, Admiralty Islands

World War II: Germany invades Vichy France following French Admiral François Darlan's agreement to an armistice with the Allies in North Africa.

The first national convention of the American Legion is held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, ending on November 12.

The Western Union Cable Office in North Sydney, Nova Scotia receives a top-secret coded message from Europe (that would be sent to Ottawa, Ontario and Washington, DC) that said on November 11, 1918 all fighting would cease on land, sea and in the air.

The date of Thomas A. Davis' opening of the San Diego Army and Navy Academy, though the official founding date is November 23, 1910.

Beginning of the Wilmington Insurrection of 1898, the only instance of a municipal government being overthrown in US history.

Henry Morton Stanley locates missing explorer and missionary, Dr. David Livingstone in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika, allegedly greeting him with the words, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume?".

Major Henry Wirz, the superintendent of a prison camp in Andersonville, Georgia, is hanged, becoming the only American Civil War soldier executed for war crimes.

The passenger ship ''Stephen Whitney'' is wrecked in thick fog off the southern coast of Ireland, killing 92 of the 110 on board. The disaster results in the construction the Fastnet Rock lighthouse.

Cry of Independence by Rufina Alfaro at La Villa de Los Santos, Panama setting into motion a revolt which lead to Panama's independence from Spain and to it immediately becoming part of Colombia

A Goddess of Reason is proclaimed by the French Convention at the suggestion of Chaumette.

The United States Marine Corps is founded at Tun Tavern in Philadelphia by Samuel Nicholas.

The last colonial governor of New Jersey, William Franklin, signs the charter of Queen's College (later renamed Rutgers University).

Anglo-Dutch War: As provided in the Treaty of Westminster, Netherlands cedes New Netherlands to England.

René Descartes has the dreams that inspire his ''Meditations on First Philosophy''.

Danish King Christian II executes dozens of people in the Stockholm Bloodbath after a successful invasion of Sweden.

Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka ''Ulaszlo I of Hungary'' and ''Wladyslaw III of Poland'') are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.