The Thread of Random Internetz

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October 24 - A rocket explodes in the Baikonur Space Center during fueling, killing 91.

October 26 - Robert F. Kennedy calls Coretta Scott King, wife of Dr. Martin Luther King, and secures his release from jail on a traffic violation in Atlanta, Georgia.

October 29 - In Louisville, Kentucky, Cassius Clay (later Muhammad Ali) wins his first professional fight.

October 30 - Michael Woodruff performs the first successful kidney transplant in the United Kingdom, at the Edinburgh Royal Infirmary.

November 2 - Penguin Books is found not guilty of obscenity in the Lady Chatterley's Lover case.

November 8 - United States presidential election, 1960: In a close race, John F. Kennedy is elected over Richard M. Nixon, becoming the youngest (43) man elected to that office.

November 13 - Sammy Davis, Jr. marries Swedish actress May Britt.

November 14 - Belgium threatens to leave the United Nations over criticism of its Congo policy.

# November 14 - A collision between two trains in Pardubice, Czechoslovakia kills 117 people.