November 3......

November 3 is the 307th day of the year (308th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. There are 58 days remaining in the year on this date.

EVENTS

● 1493 - Christopher Columbus first sights the island of Dominica in the Caribbean Sea.

● 1783 - John Austin, a highwayman, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows.

● 1783 - The Continental Army is disbanded.

● 1793 - French playwright, journalist and feminist Olympe de Gouges is guillotined.

● 1817 - The Bank of Montreal, Canada's oldest chartered bank, opens in Montreal, Quebec.

● 1838 - The Times of India, the world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper is founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce.

● 1839 - The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.

● 1844 - Debut of Giuseppe Verdi's I due Foscari, at Teatro Argentina, Rome.

● 1848 - A greatly revised constitution, drafted by Johan Rudolf Thorbecke, severely limiting the powers of the Dutch monarchy, and strengthening the powers of the parliament and the ministers, is proclaimed. This constitution is still in effect today.

● 1868 - U.S. presidential election: Republican Ulysses S. Grant is elected to the first of his two terms in a victory over Democrat Horatio Seymour.

● 1883 - American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the Po-8" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture.

● 1896 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William McKinley is elected over Democrat William Jennings Bryan.

● 1903 - With the encouragement of the United States, Panama proclaims itself independent from Colombia. US President Theodore Roosevelt had wanted the United States to build the Panama Canal, but was not willing to pay what Colombia asked.

● 1908 - U.S. presidential election: Republican William Howard Taft defeats William Jennings Bryan, Democratic candidate in his third and final nomination.

● 1911 - Chevrolet officially enters the automobile market in competition with the Ford Model T.

● 1913 - The USA introduces an income tax.

● 1918 - Austria-Hungary enters an armistice with the World War I Allies, and the Habsburg-ruled empire dissolves.

● 1918 - Poland declares its independence from Russia.

● 1930 - Getúlio Dornelles Vargas became Head of the Provisional Government in Brazil after a bloodless coup on October 24.

● 1935 - George II of Greece regains his throne.

● 1936 - U.S. presidential election, 1936: Franklin D. Roosevelt is reelected to a second term in a landslide victory over Republican challenger Alfred M. “Alf” Landon.

● 1942 - World War II: Second Battle of El Alamein ends - German forces under Erwin Rommel are forced to retreat during the night.

● 1944 - World War II: Two supreme commanders of the Slovak National Uprising, Generals Ján Golian and Rudolf Viest are captured, tortured and later executed by German forces.

● 1954 - The first in the Godzilla series of films is released in Japan.

● 1957 - Sputnik program: The Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2. On board is the first animal to enter orbit: a dog named Laika was sacrificed in the experiment.

● 1964 - U.S. presidential election, 1964: Incumbent US President Lyndon B. Johnson defeats Republican challenger Barry Goldwater, Sr with over 60 percent of the popular vote to win a White House term in his own right.

● 1967 - Vietnam War: Battle of Dak To begins.

● 1969 - Vietnam War: U.S. President Richard M. Nixon addresses the nation on television and radio, asking the "silent majority" to join him in solidarity on the Vietnam War effort and to support his policies.

● 1970 - Salvador Allende is inaugurated as president of Chile.

● 1973 - Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 10 toward Mercury, on March 29, 1974 becoming the first space probe to reach that planet.

● 1975 - North Sea oil begins to flow; The Queen has formally begun the operation of the UK's first oil pipeline at a £500,000 ceremony in Scotland.

● 1975 - An independent audit of Mattel, one of the United States's largest toy manufacturers, reveals that company officials fabricated press releases and financial information to "maintain the appearance of continued corporate growth."

● 1978 - Dominica gains its independence from the United Kingdom.

● 1979 - Greensboro massacre: Five members of the Communist Workers Party are shot dead and seven are wounded by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis during a "Death to the Klan" rally.

● 1982 - The Salang tunnel fire in Afghanistan kills up to 2,000+ people.

● 1984 - Indira Gandhi was cremated at Shakti Sthal.

● 1985 - Agents plead guilty in Rainbow Warrior trial; Two French secret service agents dramatically change their pleas on charges relating to the bombing of the Rainbow Warrior.

● 1986 - Iran-Contra Affair: 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 seven American hostages held by pro-Iranian groups in Lebanon.

● 1988 - Sri Lankan Tamil mercenaries try to overthrow the Maldivian government. At President Maumoon Abdul Gayoom's request, the Indian military suppresses the coup attempt within 24 hours.

● 1991 - Fifteen people are killed in the Barrios Altos massacre in Lima, Peru.

● 1992 - U.S. presidential election: Democratic challenger Bill Clinton defeats incumbent Republican George H.W. Bush and independent candidate Ross Perot.

● 1992 - Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first black woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

● 1994 - Susan Smith of Union, SC, was arrested for drowning her two young sons, nine days after claiming the children had been abducted by a black man.

● 1995 - Typhoon Angela ripped through the Philippines, killing more than 880 people.

● 1997 - Attorney General Janet Reno said there was no evidence that President Bill Clinton broke the law with White House coffees and overnight stays for big contributors.

● 1997 - The Supreme Court let stand California's groundbreaking Proposition 209, a ban on race and gender preference in hiring and school admission.

● 1997 - Angry truckers blockade French ports; Thousands of lorries are at a standstill in France as striking drivers form roadblocks around the country.

● 1998 - Former professional wrestler Jesse Ventura is elected Governor of the U.S. state of Minnesota.

● 1999 - Aaron McKinney was convicted of murder in the beating of gay Wyoming college student Matthew Shepard.

● 2002 - A C.I.A. Predator drone fired a missile at a car in Yemen, killing al-Qaida's top operative in that country, Qaed Salim Sinan al-Harethi.

● 2004 - Hamid Karzai was officially declared the winner of Afghanistan's first-ever presidential election after a three-week probe into vote fraud found no grounds to invalidate his triumph.

BIRTHS

● 39 - Lucan, Roman poet (d. 65)

● 1500 - Benvenuto Cellini, Italian artist (d. 1571)

● 1558 - Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy (d. 1594)

● 1560 - Annibale Carracci, Italian painter (d. 1609)

● 1587 - Samuel Scheidt, German composer (d. 1654)

● 1604 - Osman II, Ottoman Sultan (d. 1622)

● 1618 - Aurangzeb, Mughal Emperor of India (d. 1707)

● 1633 - Bernardino Ramazzini, Italian physician (d. 1714)

● 1718 - John Montagu, 4th Earl of Sandwich, English statesman (d. 1792)

● 1793 - Stephen F. Austin, American pioneer and founder of Republic of Texas (d. 1836)

● 1794 - William Cullen Bryant, American poet and journalist (d. 1878)

● 1801 - Karl Baedeker, German author and publisher (d. 1859)

● 1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian composer (d. 1835)

● 1816 - Jubal Early, American Confederate general (d. 1894)

● 1816 - Calvin Fairbank, American abolitionist minister (d. 1898)

● 1845 - Edward Douglass White, 9th Chief Justice of the United States (d. 1921)

● 1852 - Meiji Emperor, Japanese emperor (d. 1912)

● 1856 - Jim McCormick, Baseball player (d. 1918)

● 1856 - Marcelino Menendez, Spanish historian (d. 1912)

● 1857 - Mikhail Alekseev, Russian general (d. 1918)

● 1874 - Lucy Maud Montgomery, Canadian novelist (d. 1942)

● 1876 - Stephen Peter Alencastre, Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1940)

● 1884 - Joseph Martin, American politician (d. 1968)

● 1887 - Samuil Marshak, Russian poet (d. 1964)

● 1893 - Edward Adelbert Doisy, American biochemist, recipient of the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (d. 1986)

● 1895 - Grand Duchess Olga Nicolaievna Romanova (d. 1918)

● 1899 - Gleb Wataghin, Ukrainian-Italian physicist (d. 1986)

● 1900 - Adolf Dassler, founder of Adidas (d. 1978)

● 1901 - Léopold III of Belgium (d. 1983)

● 1901 - André Malraux, French writer (d. 1976)

● 1903 - Walker Evans, American photographer best known for his portrayal of America during the Great Depression (d. 1975)

● 1908 - Bronko Nagurski, American football player (d. 1990)

● 1909 - James Reston, American journalist (d. 1995)

● 1910 - Richard Hurndall, British actor (d. 1984)

● 1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, President of Paraguay (d. 2006)

● 1918 - Bob Feller, baseball player and Hall of Fame member

● 1918 - Russell B. Long, U.S. Senator from Louisiana (d. 2003)

● 1919 - Jesús Blasco, Spanish comic book author (d. 1995)

● 1920 - Oodgeroo Noonuccal, Australian writer (d. 1993)

● 1921 - Charles Bronson, American actor (d. 2003)

● 1923 - Tomás Cardinal Ó Fiaich, Northern Irish clergyman (d. 1990)

● 1924 - Samuel Ruiz García, Mexican Roman Catholic bishop

● 1930 - Lois Smith, Actress

● 1930 - Brian Robinson, British cyclist

● 1931 - Yon Hyong-muk, North Korean politician (d. 2005)

● 1933 - Ken Berry, American actor

● 1933 - Jeremy Brett, English actor (d. 1995)

● 1933 - Michael Dukakis, American politician, Former Massachusetts governor and Democratic nominee for president (1988)

● 1933 - Amartya Sen, Indian economist, Nobel Prize laureate

● 1934(33? NYT) - John Barry, English composer

● 1936 - Roy Emerson, Australian tennis champion and Hall of Fame member

● 1938 - Martin Dunwoody, British mathematician

● 1946 - Tom Savini, American actor

● 1946 - Shadoe Stevens, Actor

● 1948 - Tom Shales, TV critic

● 1948 - Lulu, British actress and singer

● 1949 - Larry Holmes, American boxer

● 1949 - Mike Evans, Actor

● 1950 - Joe Queenan, American writer

● 1952 - Roseanne, American actress and comedienne (''Roseanne'')

● 1952 - Jim Cummings, American voice actor

● 1952 - David Ho, Taiwanese-American AIDS researcher

● 1953 - Kathy Kinney, Actress (''The Drew Carey Show'')

● 1953 - Kate Capshaw, American actress

● 1953 - Dennis Miller, American comedian and talk show host

● 1953 - Larry Herndon, baseball player

● 1954 - Adam Ant, English singer

● 1954 - Brigitte Lin, Taiwanese actress

● 1955 - Phil Simms, American football player

● 1956 - Kevin Murphy, American actor and puppeteer

● 1957 - Dolph Lundgren, Swedish actor

● 1960 - Karch Kiraly, American volleyball player

● 1962 - Marilyn, British musician

● 1963 - Ian Wright, English footballer

● 1967 - Steven Wilson, English musician and producer (Porcupine Tree)

● 1969 - Luciana Gimenez, Brazilian model and hostess

● 1970 - Dawn Marie Psaltis, American professional wrestler

● 1971 - Dwight Yorke, Trinidadian footballer

● 1971 - Dylan Moran, Irish comedian

● 1971 - Matt Lawton, Baseball player

● 1972 - Ugo Ehiogu, English footballer

● 1973 - Nemone, Athlete and broadcaster

● 1973 - Mick Thompson, American guitarist (Slipknot)

● 1974 - Tariq Abdul-Wahad, French basketball player

● 1977 - Aria Giovanni, American model

● 1979 - Pablo Aimar, Argentine footballer

● 1981 - Jackie Gayda, American professional wrestler

● 1982 - Evgeny Plushenko, Russian figure skater

● 1982 - Travis Richter, American guitarist From First To Last

● 1986 - Jasmine Trias, American singer

● 1987 - Gemma Ward, Australian model

DEATHS

● 361 - Constantius II, Roman Emperor (b. 317)

● 1254 - John III Ducas Vatatzes, Byzantine Emperor (b. 1193)

● 1428 - Thomas Montacute, 4th Earl of Salisbury, English military leader (mortally wounded in battle) (b. 1388)

● 1580 - Jeronimo Zurita y Castro, Spanish historian (b. 1512)

● 1600 - Richard Hooker, English theologian (b. 1554)

● 1643 - John Bainbridge, English astronomer (b. 1582)

● 1643 - Paul Guldin, Swiss astronomer and mathematician (b. 1577)

● 1711 - John Ernest Grabe, German-born Anglican theologian (b. 1666)

● 1787 - Robert Lowth, British bishop and grammarian (b. 1710)

● 1793 - Olympe de Gouges, French feminist and revolutionary (b. 1748)

● 1794 - François-Joachim de Pierre de Bernis, French cardinal and statesman (b. 1715)

● 1890 - Ulrich Ochsenbein, Swiss Federal Councilor (b. 1811)

● 1891 - Louis Lucien Bonaparte, French politician and linguist (b. 1813)

● 1918 - Aleksandr Mikhailovich Lyapunov, Russian scientist (b. 1857)

● 1926 - Annie Oakley, American sharp-shooter (b. 1860)

● 1929 - Olav Aukrust, Norwegian poet (b. 1883)

● 1933 - Emile Roux, French scientist (b. 1853)

● 1939 - Charles Tournemire, French composer and organist (b. 1870)

● 1954 - Henri Matisse, French artist (b. 1869)

● 1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austrian psychotherapist (b. 1897)

● 1964 - John Henry Barbee, American guitarist and singer (b. 1905)

● 1970 - Peter II of Yugoslavia (b. 1923)

● 1990 - Mary Martin, American actress (b. 1913)

● 1993 - Leon Theremin, Russian inventor (b. 1895)

● 1995 - Gordon S. Fahrni, physician and president of the Canadian Medical Association (b. 1887)

● 1996 - Abdullah Çatlı, a Turkish nationalist and neofascist activist (b. 1956)

● 1996 - Jean-Bédel Bokassa, President of the Central African Republic (b. 1921)

● 1998 - Bob Kane, comic artist & Batman co creator (b. 1915)

● 1999 - Ian Bannen, Scottish actor (b. 1928)

● 2001 - Ernst Gombrich, Austrian art historian (b. 1909)

● 2002 - Lonnie Donegan, Scottish musician (b. 1931)

● 2002 - Jonathan Harris, American actor (b. 1914)

● 2003 - Rasul Gamzatov, Russian poet (b. 1923)

● 2004 - Sergei Zholtok, Latvian hockey player (b. 1972)

HOLIDAYS AND OBSERVANCES

● Roman Catholic Saints:
● St. Acepsimas
● St. Cristiolus
● St. Domnus of Vienne
● St. Elerius
● St. Englatius
● St. Florus
● St. Germanus
● St. Guenhael
● St. Hermengaudis
● St. Hubert
● St. Malachy O' More
● St. Peter Francis Neron
● St. Papulus
● St. Pirmin
● St. Martin de Porres
● St. Quaratus
● St. Valentinian
● St. Valentine & Hilary
● St. Vulganius
● St. Winifred

● Also see Eastern Orthodox liturgics:
● Saints:
● St. Achepsima
● Joseph the Bishop
● St. Aitala

● Independence Day in Panama (1903, from Colombia), Dominica (1978, from Britain) and Federated States of Micronesia (1986, from France)

● Japan - Culture Day (post 1946), Emperors Birthday (pre 1946)


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Additional facts taken from:

On this day in the New York Times

The BBC’s Take on the day

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