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Nagy relocates his office from the party building to the parliament in a symbolic gesture. Additionally, on this day Israel launches its attack on Egypt and with it the Suez…

Military leaders plan a massive attack on the group fighting at Corvin Lane but Imre Nagy overrides them in favor of a political solution. In the late afternoon during a…

Imre Nagy announces a new government consisting of communists less tainted by the Rákosi era. His government also includes the Smallholder politicians Zoltán Tildy and Béla Kovács.

Armed clashes continue throughout Budapest and around the country. The party leadership refuses to acknowledge the revolution as a popular uprising.

After a crowd of Hungarians are seen fraternizing with Soviet troops in front of the parliament building at Kossuth Square, on party orders the secret police fire into the crowd…

András Hegedüs is made to resign as prime minister and Imre Nagy is installed in his place. Nagy refuses to sign a backdated request for Soviet intervention. (Photo source: Fortepan)

Student marches in solidarity with the events occurring in Poland leave from the Budapest University of Technology and Economics and Eötvös Loránd University, which eventually meet at József Bem Square,…

Students at the Budapest University of Technology and Economics (Budapesti Műszaki és Gazdaságtudományi Egyetem – BME) vote to join MEFESZ. Spurred by developments in Poland, they draft a list of…