Joseph Conrad 1857- Author
- 1931 - Alka Seltzer was sold for the first time.
- 1948 - The "Pumpkin Papers" came to public light. The House Un-American Activities Committee announced that former Communist spy Whittaker Chambers had produced microfilm of secret documents hidden inside a pumpkin on his Maryland farm.
- 1950 - Paul Harvey began his national radio broadcast.
- 1984 - In Bhopal, India, more than 2,000 people were killed after a cloud of poisonous gas escaped from a pesticide plant. The plant was operated by a Union Carbide subsidiary.
- 1992 - The UN Security Council unanimously approved a U.S.-led military mission to help starving Somalians.
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