- Was one of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956.
- He was elected to a four-year term in parliament in the first post-communist elections in 1990 in Hungary.
- Taught military history at Brooklyn College of City University of New York.
- Became a US citizen in 1965.
- One of the military leaders of Hungary's short-lived anti-Soviet revolution in 1956.
- He wrote several books in Hungarian and English, mostly on Hungarian history and the 1956 Revolution.
- In 1989, Kiraly was rehabilitated by Hungary's communist government. He gave a speech at that year's re-interment of former prime minister Imre Nagy, which was attended by around 100,000 people and marked Hungary's return to democracy.
- He earned a doctorate in history at Columbia University.
- He was sentenced to death in 1952 on trumped-up charges of conspiracy by Hungary's Stalinist regime. The sentence was eventually commuted to life in prison. He was freed a few weeks before the October 1956 Revolution.
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