Events in History on November 3

361 Roman Emperor Constantius II dies at Mopsucrene on route to put down his general and cousin Julian, whose troops had proclaimed him Augustus

1493 Christopher Columbus 'discovers' the island of Dominica, which was originally inhabited by the Kalinago

1534 English parliament passes the Act of Supremacy making Henry VIII and all subsequent monarchs the Head of the Church of England

1579 Francis Drake arrives at Ternate in the East Indies and makes a trade treaty with the Sultan of Ternate, buys a cargo of cloves [1]

1629 Prince Frederick Henry festival in The Hague

1716 Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Tsar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom

1783 George Washington orders Continental Army disbanded

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

1796 John Adams elected as 2nd president of the United States of America

1812 Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma

1860 Poet and critic Matthew Arnold begins his series of lectures "On Translating Home" as Oxford Professor of Poetry at Oxford University

1867 Battle at Mentana: French & Papal troops beat Giuseppe Garibaldi

1868 Ulysses S. Grant (R) wins US presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)

1889 Menelik II is crowned Emperor of Ethiopia at the Church of Mary on Mount Entoto

1896 William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) to be President of the United States

1905 Tsar Nicholas II of Russia signs a document of amnesty for the political prisoners

1908 William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th U.S. President over William Jennings Bryan (D)

1930 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America

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

1936 President Franklin D. Roosevelt wins a second term in office, defeating Republican candidate Alf Landon in the most lopsided election in American history in terms of electoral vote

1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution

1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas

1955 Argentine ex-president Juan Perón arrives in Nicaragua

1959 David Ben-Gurion's Mapai party wins Israeli parliamentary election

1961 UN General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant as acting Secretary-General after the death of Dag Hammarskjöld in a plane crash

1964 Lyndon B. Johnson is elected President of the United States in a landslide, with Hubert Humphrey as his vice president, defeating Republican candidate Barry Goldwater

1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon

1970 Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated

1987 Gordon Gould issued US patent US4704583 for the laser, ending his 30-year battle to be credited as the inventor of the laser

1988 President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill

1992 Democrat Bill Clinton is elected President of the United States, defeating incumbent President George H. W. Bush

2007 Pervez Musharraf declares emergency rule across Pakistan, suspends the Constitution, imposes a State of Emergency and fires the chief justice of the Supreme Court

2014 UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calls for global action on climate change after warning from scientists