Kinky (Richard) Friedman 1944.
- 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.
- 1952 - The United States exploded the first hydrogen bomb on Eniwetok Atoll in the Marshall Islands.
- 1959 - Jacques Plante, of the Montreal Canadiens, became the first goalie in the NHL to wear a mask.
- 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.
