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October 28 - A cholera outbreak in eastern Slovakia causes Hungary to close its border with Czechoslovakia.

October 28 - Gary Gabelich drives the rocket-powered Blue Flame to an official world land speed record of 622.287 mph (1,001.452863 km/h) on the dry lake bed of the Bonneville Salt Flats in Utah. The record, the first above 1,000 km/h, stands for nearly 13 years.

October 30 - In Vietnam, the worst monsoon to hit the area in 6 years causes large floods, kills 293, leaves 200,000 homeless and virtually halts the Vietnam War.

November 1 - Fire destroys the Le Cinq Sept dance hall in St. Laurent Du Pont, France; 144 dead.

November 3 - Democrats sweep the U.S. Congressional midterm elections; Ronald Reagan is reelected governor of California; Jimmy Carter is elected governor of Georgia.

November 4 - Vietnam War: Vietnamization - The United States turns control of the air base in the Mekong Delta to South Vietnam.

November 4 - Social workers in Los Angeles, California take custody of Genie, a girl who had been kept in solitary confinement since her birth.

# November 5 - Vietnam War: The United States Military Assistance Command in Vietnam reports the lowest weekly American soldier death toll in 5 years (24 soldiers died that week, which was the fifth consecutive week the death toll was below 50; 431 were reported wounded that week, however).

November 8 - Egypt, Libya and Sudan announce their intentions to form a federation.

November 9 - The Soviet Union launches Luna 17.