All Saints' Day (Western Christianity)
Samhain and Beltane in the Northern and Southern Hemispheres, respectively
Rajyotsava (Formation Day) in Karnataka, India (1956)
1503 – Giuliano della Rovere was elected pope, taking the name Julius II in emulation of Julius Caesar.
1611 – The first recorded performance of Shakespeare's play The Tempest was held at the Palace of Whitehall in London, exactly seven years after the first certainly known performance of his tragedy Othello, held in the same building.
1944 – World War II: An American F-13 Superfortress made the first flight by an Allied aircraft over Tokyo since the Doolittle Raid in April 1942.
1959 – After being struck in the face with a hockey puck, Jacques Plante played the rest of the game wearing a face mask (pictured), now mandatory equipment for goaltenders in ice hockey.
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