From 8.09pm (AEDT) – Total lunar eclipse begins around Oz

10.00pm (AEDT) – Polls open in the US midterm elections

ABS Data Release – Monthly Household Spending Indicator, September; Jobs in Australia

Company AGM – Bendigo and Adelaide Bank

International Day of Radiology

Click Frenzy retail sales begin (until 10 November)

Birthdays for author Kazuo Ishiguro (1954) and chef Gordon Ramsay (1966)

Anniversary of:
• the birthdays of Dracula inspirer Vlad the Impaler (1431), astronomer Edmond Halley (1656), Dracula author Bram Stoker (1847), Chinese revolutionary Qiu Jin (1875) and Gone with the Wind author Margaret Mitchell (1900)
• the first meeting of Aztec Emperor Moctezuma II and Spanish Conquistador Hernán Cortés in Tenochtitlan, Mexico (1519)
• the first distillation of Bourbon Whiskey from corn by Elijah Craig in Bourbon, Kentucky (1789)
• German physicist Wilhelm Röntgen producing and detecting X-rays for the first time (1895)
• the landmark Harvester Decision which became the basis of Australia’s national minimum wage system (1907)
• the premiere of soapie Days of Our Lives (1965)