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Notable anniversaries in history for today: November 3
- 150th: 1874 - James Theodore Holly is elected bishop of Haiti.
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Adam Ant AKA Stuart Goddard; punk rocker ("If I Strip For You").
- 70th: 1954 - Birth of Kevin P Chilton in Los Angeles, California, USA; major US Air Force/astronaut (sk: STS-49).
- 70th: 1954 - Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize.
- 60th: 1964 - Residents of the District of Columbia (USA) cast their ballots in a presidential election for the first time.
- 60th: 1964 - Lyndon Johnson (Democrat) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (Republican) for US President.
- 15th: 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.
- 15th: 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.
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