Genie, a 13-year-old feral child is found in Los Angeles. She had been locked in her bedroom for most of her life.
Author: Staff
3 November 1982
During the Soviet occupation the The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills 2,000 people.
2 November 1947
Howard Hughes performs the maiden flight of the Spruce Goose which was the largest fixed-wing aircraft ever built.
1 November 1951
6,500 American soldiers are exposed to ‘Desert Rock’ atomic explosions for training in Nevada (Operation Buster-Jangle). Participation was compulsory
31 October 1998
Iraq announces it will no longer cooperate with the United Nations weapons inspectors.
30 October 1938
H. G. Wells’s The War of the Worlds is broadcast by Orson Welles, causing anxiety in some of the audience in the United States.
29 October 1998
The Gothenburg nightclub fire in Sweden results in the death of 63 people and injures to 200.
28 October 1776
British Army forces arrive at White Plains, attack and capture Chatterton Hill from the Americans. This was knowns as the Battle of White Plains.