Johnny Carson 1925, Pelé 1940, Michael Crichton 1942
Sam Raimi 1959, "Weird Al" Yankovic 1959, Doug Flutie 1962
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.
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.
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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