Johnny Carson 1925 - Television host, comedian , Juan "Chi-Chi" Rodriguez 1935, Pelé 1940 - Soccer player
Michael Crichton 1942 - Author, director, physician ("Jurassic Park"), Sam Raimi 1959 - Director, actor, "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959 - Singer, musician
1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.
1915 - The first U.S. championship horseshoe tourney was held in Kellerton, IA.
1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
1942 - During World War II, the British began a major offensive against Axis forces at El Alamein, Egypt.
1944 - During World War II, the Battle of Leyte Gulf began.
1956 - Hungarian citizens began an uprising against Soviet occupation. On November 4, 1956 Soviet forces enter Hungary and eventually suppress the uprising.
1958 - Russian poet and novelist Boris Pasternak was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature. He was forced to refuse the honor due to negative Soviet reaction. Pasternak won the award for writing "Dr. Zhivago".
1971 - The U.N. General Assembly voted to expel Taiwan and seat Communist China.
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