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What happened in history on this day: November 3?
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- 39 - Birth of Lucan Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile).
- 664 - Muslin caliph Umar dies of assassin's wound three days earlier.
- 1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI.
- 1536 - Royal Spanish decree approves the Santo Domingo Mint.
- 1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony.
- 1640 - English Parliament meets, on summon by King Charles.
- 1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over the close approach of a comet.
- 1706 - In Italy, a violent earthquake killed 15,000 inhabitants.
- 1718 - Birth of John Montague fourth Earl of Sandwich, inventor (sandwich).
- 1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana.
- 1783 - Washington orders the Continental Army disbanded.
- 1793 - Birth of Stephen Fuller Austin; colonized Texas.
- 1794 - Birth of William Cullen Bryant; poet (Thanatopsis).
- 1812 - Battle of Vyazma, Russian forces attack an opening in Napoleon's force, setting a full retreat in motion.
- 1817 - The Montreal Bank opens for business (first bank in Canada).
- 1820 - Cuenca, Ecuador declares independence.
- 1839 - First opium war: two British frigates engage several Chinese junks.
- 1848 - A greatly revised Dutch constitution is proclaimed.
- 1864 - Antonio Gonsalves Dias, Brazilian national poet, dies at sea.
- 1868 - Ulysses Grant (Republican) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (Democrat).
- 1874 - James Theodore Holly is elected bishop of Haiti.
- 1880 - Birth of Edmond Barrett; heavyweight wrestler (Olympic-bronze-1908).
- 1883 - Race riots in Danville, Virginia (four blacks killed).
- 1885 - Tacoma (Washington, USA) vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes and businesses.
- 1888 - Jack the Ripper kills last victim.
- 1896 - William McKinley (Republican) defeats William Jennings Bryan (Democrat) for US President.
- 1899 - Jim Jeffries retains heavyweight boxing title over Sailor Tom Sharkey.
- 1900 - First US national automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (New York City).
- 1901 - Birth of Andreé Malraux in France; novelist/art historian (L'Espoir).
- 1903 - Birth of Walker Evans; US photographer (Fortune Magazine).
- 1903 - Colombia grants Panama independence.
- 1908 - Birth of Bronko Nagurski; NFL fullback (Chicago Bears).
- 1908 - William Howard Taft (Republican) elected 27th President over William Jennings Bryan.
- 1909 - Birth of James Reston; columnist (New York Times).
- 1911 - Birth of Vladimir Ussachevsky in Hailar, Manchuria; composer (Creation).
- 1912 - Birth of Alfredo Stroessner; dictator of Paraguay (1954-1989).
- 1912 - First pilot shot down: Bulgarian pilot while making reconnaissance flight over Adrianople.
- 1916 - Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar.
- 1918 - Austrians surrender to Allies; Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves.
- 1918 - Birth of Bob Feller; pitcher (Cleveland Indians, three no-hitters).
- 1918 - Birth of Russell B Long; American politician (Democrat-Senator-Louisiana).
- 1918 - At Kiel naval base, German sailors mutiny and refuse to put to sea to go to battle.
- 1919 - Birth of Bert Freed in New York City, New York, USA; actor (Rufe - Shane).
- 1921 - Birth of Charles Bronson AKA Charles Buchinsky in Ehrenfeld, Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Travels of Jaimie McPheeters, Empire, Family of Cops I, II, & III).
- 1922 - Birth of Charles Bronson in Pennsylvania, USA; actor (Death Wish, Dirty Dozen).
- 1923 - Swedish Crown Prince Gustav Adolf marries Lady Louise Mountbatten in the Chapel Royal at St. James' Palace in England, hosted by King George V.
- 1923 - Birth of Leonard Stone; actor (Camp Runamuck, Jean Arthur Show, LA Law).
- 1927 - Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vermont, USA).
- 1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet.
- 1930 - First US vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-to-Windsor, Canada) opens.
- 1930 - Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America.
- 1930 - Birth of Peggy McCay in New York City, New York, USA; actress (Love of Life, General Hospital, Gibbsville, Lazarus Syndrome, Lou Grant, Days of Our Lives).
- 1930 - Birth of Lois Smith in Topeka, Kansas, USA; actress (Reckless, Reuben Reuben, All My Children, One Life to Live, Edge of Night, Another World).
- 1930 - Birth of William H Dana; pilot (X-15).
- 1931 - First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured.
- 1931 - Birth of Monica Vitti in Rome, Italy; actress (Tigers in Lipstick).
- 1933 - Birth of Aneta Corsaut in Jutchinson, Kansas, USA; actress (Helen Crump - Andy Griffith Show, Judge - Matlock).
- 1933 - Birth of Ken Berry; actor/dancer/TV personality (F Troop, Mayberry RFD, Mama's Family).
- 1933 - Birth of Louis W Sullivan; US Secretary of Health and Human Services (1989-).
- 1933 - Birth of Michael S Dukakis; American politician (Democrat-Governor-Massachusetts) (1988 Presidentidential Candidate).
- 1935 - Birth of Jeremy Brett in Warwickshire, England; actor (Sherlock Holmes - Adventures of Sherlock Holmes films for UK and US TV).
- 1935 - George II returns to Greece and regains monarchy.
- 1936 - Birth of Roy Emerson in Australia; tennis player (Wimbledon 1964, 1965).
- 1936 - US President Franklin Roosevelt wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (Republican).
- 1939 - Birth of Terrence McNally in Saint Petersburg, Florida, USA; playwright (Bad Habits).
- 1943 - Birth of Ken Holtzman; Chicago Cubs/Baltimore Orioles/New York Yankees pitcher (two no-hitters).
- 1946 - Birth of Shadoe Stevens; announcer-actor (Dave's World, Hollywood Squares).
- 1948 - Birth of Lulu in Glasgow, Scotland; singer/actress (To Sir With Love).
- 1948 - Birth of Tom Shales; TV Critic (Washington Post).
- 1949 - Birth of Larry Holmes; heavyweight boxing champion (1978).
- 1949 - Birth of Michael Evans in Salisbury, North Carolina, USA; actor (Lionel - All in the Family, The Jeffersons).
- 1949 - Birth of Roswitha Krause in the USSR; 4 X 100m swimmer (Olympic-silver-1968).
- 1950 - Air India flight 245 Lockheed Constellation Malabar Princess crashes near the summit of the Alps on its approach to Geneva airport, killing all 48 passengers and crew.
- 1952 - Birth of Roseanne Barr in Salt Lake City, Utah, USA; comedienne/TV star (Roseanne).
- 1953 - "Sacrifice fly" reactivated in baseball (dropped in 1939).
- 1953 - First live color coast-to-coast telecast, from Colonial Theatre in New York City broadcast to Burbank, California, via WNBT.
- 1953 - Birth of Dennis Miller in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA; comedian/TV host (Saturday Night Live, The Dennis Miller Show).
- 1953 - Birth of Kate Capshaw; actress (Black Tie Affair, Edge of Night).
- 1953 - Birth of Kathy Kinney; actress (Drew Carey Show).
- 1954 - Birth of Adam Ant AKA Stuart Goddard; punk rocker ("If I Strip For You").
- 1954 - Birth of Kevin P Chilton in Los Angeles, California, USA; major US Air Force/astronaut (sk: STS-49).
- 1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize.
- 1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor.
- 1955 - Australia takes control of the Cocos Islands.
- 1955 - Birth of Phil Simms; NFL quarterback (New York Giants, Superbowl 1986).
- 1956 - The Wizard of Oz film first televised (CBS-TV).
- 1957 - CBS premieres The Seven Lively Arts 60-minute anthology drama TV show.
- 1957 - USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), first animal in orbit.
- 1959 - Birth of Dolph Lundgren; actor (Rocky IV).
- 1959 - Birth of Timothy Patrick Murphy in Hartford, Connecticut, USA; actor (Dallas, Glitter).
- 1961 - Birth of Karch Kiraly; American volleyball player (Olympics-gold-1988).
- 1961 - Birth of Kari Michaelsen in New York City, USA; actress (Katie - Gimme a Break).
- 1961 - Birth of Lee Montgomery in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada; actor (Dallas, Adam 12, Marcus Welby).
- 1962 - Birth of Marilyn; rocker ("You Don't Love Me").
- 1962 - Harlow H Curtice, President of General Motors (1953-58), dies at age 69.
- 1962 - Wilt Chamberlain of NBA San Francisco Warriors scores 72 points vs Los Angeles Lakers.
- 1964 - Residents of the District of Columbia (USA) cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time.
- 1964 - Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (Republican) for US President.
- 1965 - In an unanimous vote, Dodger southpaw Sandy Koufax (26-8, 2.04, 382) is named the Cy Young Award winner.
- 1968 - Birth of Debbie Rochon in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada; actress (hostess Hypothermia of Troma Theatre, Troma's Edge TV, Tromaville Cafe).
- 1968 - New York Jets' Jim Turner kicks six field goals to beat Buffalo Bills 25-21.
- 1970 - Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile.
- 1970 - Death of former King Peter II of Yugoslavia in the USA, at age 47.
- 1972 - Birth of C.J. Pierce; rock musician (Drowning Pool).
- 1973 - Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman and Nancy Dussault as hosts).
- 1973 - Mariner 10 launched; will make first Venus pictures, first mission to Mercury.
- 1975 - ABC-TV first broadcasts morning TV show Good Morning America, with hosts David Hartman and Nancy Dussault.
- 1977 - Birth of Philip J Amelio II in Connecticut, Ohio, USA; actor (Kevin Life With Lucy, Scott - All My Children).
- 1978 - Equatorial Guinea recognizes the Sahrawi Arab Democratic Republic (SADR).
- 1978 - Mickey Mouse is given a gold star on Hollywood Boulevard's Walk of Fame, the first cartoon character to be so honored.
- 1978 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.
- 1978 - NBC TV airs the first episode of the sitcom Diff'rent Strokes.
- 1979 - In Greensboro, North Carolina, five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot to death and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis, during a "Death to the Klan" rally.
- 1979 - Birth of Tim McIlrath, American rock singer, songwriter (Rise Against).
- 1982 - Detroit Pistons block 20 Cleveland Cavalier shots tying NBA regulation game record.
- 1982 - The Dow Jones Industrial Average surges 43.41 points, or 4.25 prercent, to close at 1,065.49, its first all-time high in more than nine years.
- 1982 - A gasoline tanker explodes in the Salang Tunnel in Afghanistan, killing at least 2,000 people.
- 1983 - Death of Alfredo Antonini at age 82; American conductor (Jane Froman Canteen) and composer (born 1901).
- 1983 - Reverend Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the 1984 Democratic Party US presidential nomination.
- 1983 - The Nashville Network (TNN) debuts on US cable TV.
- 1986 - The Lebanese magazine Ash-Shiraa reports that the United States has been selling weapons to Iran in secret in order to secure the release of 7 American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.
- 1986 - The Compact of Free Association between the USA and the Federated States of Micronesia takes effect.
- 1986 - President Machel killed in air crash in Mozambique.
- 1988 - Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane.
- 1988 - US President Ronald Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill.
- 1988 - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew.
- 1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping.
- 1988 - (to November 5) Thousands of South Korean students demonstrate against former president Chun Doo Hwan.
- 1989 - Minnesota Timberwolves' first NBA game, lose to Seattle SuperSonics, 106-94.
- 1990 - Death of Mary Martin at age 76 from cancer; singer, actress (Peter Pan - three TV shows, The Skin of Our Teeth, Annie Get Your Gun, Valentine, Born Yesterday).
- 1990 - Death of Valerie French at age 58 of leukemia; actress (The Edge of Night TV show, Nurses TV show, All My Children TV show, One Life to Live TV show).
- 1991 - New York City Marathon winners are Salvador Garcia (Mexico) and Liz McColgan (Scotland).
- 1992 - U.S. presidential election: Bill Clinton defeats incumbent U.S. President George H.W. Bush and businessman H. Ross Perot.
- 1993 - In Geneva, Switzerland, David Feldman sells at auction:
- Mauritius 1847 1-penny "Post Office" stamp and 1847 2-pence "Post Office" stamp on an 1848 cover for US$3,829,500, a world record for a philatelic item;
- Mauritius 1847 2-pence "Post Office" stamp for US$1,148,850.
- 1993 - Death of Leon Theremin, Russian inventor and creator of the theremin.
- 1993 - CBS airs the first episode of TV show The Nanny.
- 1995 - At Arlington National Cemetery, U.S. President Bill Clinton dedicates a memorial to the victims of the Pan Am Flight 103 bombing.
- 1996 - Death of Jean-Bédel Bokassa of Central African Republic/Empire (born 1921).
- 1997 - In France, striking truck drivers blockade ports during a pay dispute.
- 1997 - Death of Wally Bruner at age 66 of liver cancer; newsman & TV host (What's My Line).
- 1998 - Jesse Ventura, former professional wrestler, is elected Governor of Minnesota.
- 1998 - Edmonton, Canada, and Wonju, South Korea are declared sister cities.
- 2000 - Widespread flooding occurs throughout England and Wales after days of heavy rain.
- 2002 - Death of Lonnie Donegan from a heart attack at age 71; Scottish skiffle musician ("Does Your Chewing Gum Lose Its Flavour" (1959), "My Old Man's A Dustman", "Rock Island Line").
- 2002 - Death of Jonathan Harris at age 87; actor (Dr. Zachary Smith - Lost in Space).
- 2002 - In Central Alaska, a magnitude 7.9 earthquake occurs, the world's largest earthquake in 2002. No deaths, few injuries, but extensive damage to roads. Felt as far away as Seattle, Washington.
- 2005 - (to November 4) A severe aftershock measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale hits affected areas of Northern Pakistan.
- 2006 - Iran successfully test-fires three new models of sea missiles in a show of force to assert its military capacities in the Gulf.
- 2006 - Major League Baseball officials announce an office will be opened in China to help promote the game.
- 2007 - President Pervez Musharraf declares state of emergency in Pakistan, suspends the constitution, the Supreme Court, and provincial high courts.
- 2007 - In California, the Urban Challenge is held, a competition sponsored by the Defence Advanced Research Projects Agency to design a robot car capable of negotiating urban streets and normal traffic. The US$2 million first prize is won by engineers from Carnegie Mellon University for a pilotless Chevrolet Tahoe.
- 2008 - In Brazil, Itaú and Unibanco banks announce a merger, making it the largest bank in Latin America, with assets worth 575 billion reais (US$263 billion).
- 2008 - U.S. electronics retailer Circuit City Stores begins liquidation sales at 155 of its stores, to leave it with 566 U.S. stores.
- 2009 - The president of the Czech Republic, Vaclav Klaus, signs the European Union's Lisbon Treaty, the final step in the charter's ratification. The treaty creates new post of President of European Council, and allows more decisions to be made by majority vote rather than unanimity.
- 2009 - The Prime Minister of Belgium, Herman Van Rompuy, is designated the first permanent President of the European Council, a position he takes up on 2009 December 1.
- 2010 - Death of Viktor Chernomyrdin, 31st Prime Minister of Russia (1992-98) (born 1938).
- 2010 - Valdis Dombrovskis takes office for a second term as Prime Minister of Latvia.
- 2010 - Death of Purushottama Lal at age 81, publisher (Writers Workshop) and poet of Calcutta, India.
- 2017 - Both Deir ez-Zor in Syria and Al-Qa'im in Iraq are declared liberated from Daesh.
- 2017 - Death of Abdur Rahman Biswas, 11th President of Bangladesh (born 1926).
- 2020 - Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua as category 4 strength, killing over 100 people in Central America.
- 2020 - Joe Biden is elected as the 46th President of the United States.
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