1923 -- Adolf Hitler was arrested for a failed attempt to seize power on November 8 in Germany's Beer Hall Putsch.

1927 -- The first automobile tunnel, the Holland Tunnel between New York City and Jersey City beneath the Hudson River, was opened. It was designed to take 1,900 cars every hour.

1970 -- A cyclone and tidal wave hit East Pakistan. At least 200,000 people died.

1974 -- South Africa was suspended from the UN General Assembly over its racial policies.

1996 -- A Saudi Arabian jumbo jet and a Kazakh airliner collided in mid-air over India, killing 349 people.

1999 -- An earthquake rocked Turkey's northwest, killing at least 749 people.

1999 -- Sir Vivian Fuchs, British explorer who made the first surface crossing of the Antarctic, died aged 91.

2001 -- An American Airlines Airbus-300 flight with 260 people on board crashed after taking off from John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York, hitting nearby homes. Everyone on the plane and five people on the ground were killed.

2002 -- A UN meeting on endangered species eases a 13-year-old ban on the ivory trade, allowing southern African nations to sell elephant tusks.

2004 -- A Boeing Co.-led team successfully fired for the first time "First Light," a powerful laser meant to fly aboard a modified 747 as part of a U.S. ballistic missile defense shield.