29 October, 1929 – Collapse of U.S. stock market prices

Just five days after nearly 13 million shares of U.S. stock were sold in one day in 1929, an additional 16 million shares were sold this day, called “Black Tuesday,” further fueling the crisis known as the Great Depression.

30 October, 1974 - Muhammad Ali regain World heavyweight boxing title

Muhammad Ali knocked out George Foreman in the “Rumble in the Jungle,” regaining the world heavy-weight boxing title.

31 October, 1517 - Luther's Ninety-five Theses posted

According to tradition, Martin Luther this day in 1517 posted on a church door in Wittenberg, Germany, his Ninety-five Theses, a manifesto that turned a protest about an indulgence scandal into the Protestant Reformation.

01 November, 1952 – First thermonuclear bomb tested by the United States

On this day in 1952 on an atoll of the Marshall Islands, Edward Teller and other American scientists tested the first thermonuclear bomb, its power resulting from an uncontrolled, self-sustaining nuclear chain reaction.

02 November, 1976 - Jimmy Carter elected 39th U.S. president

Jimmy Carter, recipient of the Nobel Prize for Peace in 2002 and Democratic former governor of Georgia, was elected 39th president of the United States this day in 1976, narrowly defeating Republican Gerald R. Ford.

03 November, 1998 - Another section of Great Wall of China discovered

Announced on this day in 1998 was the discovery in the Hui Autonomous Region of Ningxia of a previously unknown 15.5-mile (25-km) segment of the Great Wall of China, which runs a total of about 4,500 miles (7,300 km).

04 November, 2008- Barack Obama became the first African American US President

Democratic politician Barack Obama became the first African American to be elected president of the United States.