Michael Crichton 1942 - Author, director, physician ("Jurassic Park")
- 1910 - Blanche S. Scott became the first woman to make a public solo airplane flight in the United States.
- 1929 - In the U.S., the Dow Jones Industrial Average plunged starting the stock-market crash that began the Great Depression.
- 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.
- 1989 - Hungary became an independent republic, after 33 years of Soviet rule.
- 1998 - Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Chairman Yasser Arafat reach a breakthrough in a land-for-peace West Bank accord.
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