| 1620 | The Pilgrims sign the Mayflower Compact. |
| 1783 | In Paris, Frenchmen Jean François Pilâtre de Rozier and Marquis François Laurent d'Arlandes make the first successful balloon ascent. |
| 1789 | North Carolina entered the Union as the 12th of the 13 original states. |
| 1964 | The Verrazano-Narrows Bridge, at the time the world's longest suspension bridge, opens in New York. |
| 1995 | After talks outside Dayton, OH, the warring parties in Bosnia and Herzegovina reach agreement to end their conflict. |
| The Dow Jones industrial average passes 5,000 for the first time. | |
| 2001 | An elderly Connecticut woman mysteriously dies of inhalation anthrax, the fifth fatality in an outbreak that began in early October. |
| 2005 | Israeli Prime Min. Ariel Sharon quits the Likud Party and forms a new political party, National Responsibility. |
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