Larry Flynt 1942
- 1765 - The British Parliament enacted The Stamp Act in the American colonies.
- 1848 - The first medical school for women, founded by Samuel Gregory, opened in Boston, MA. The Boston Female Medical School later merged with Boston University School of Medicine.
- 1870 - The U.S. Weather Bureau made its first meteorological observations using 24 locations that provided reports via telegraph.
- 1950 - Two Puerto Rican nationalists tried to assassinate U.S. President Harry Truman. One of the men was killed when they tried to force their way into Blair House in Washington, DC.
- 1979 - Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini urged all Iranians to demonstrate on November 4 and to expand their attacks against the U.S. and Israel. On November 4, Iranian militants seized the U.S. embassy in Tehran and took 63 Americans hostage.
- 1989 - Tens of thousands of refugees to fled to the West when East Germany reopened its border with Czechoslovakia.
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