Events in History on November 3

Historic Discovery

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

Explorer of the New World Christopher Columbus — Explorer of the New World
Christopher Columbus

1527 Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament in London

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

King of England Henry VIII — King of England
Henry VIII

1620 Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony

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1629 Prince Frederick Henry festival in The Hague

Prince of Orange Frederick Henry — Prince of Orange
Frederick Henry

1640 English Long Parliament forms
1655 England & France sign military & economic treaties
1656 Treaty of Vilnius: Russia & Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed Kiprulu as Turkish grand vizier

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

Russian Tsar Peter the Great — Russian Tsar
Peter the Great

1760 Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 Britain & Spain sign Treaty of Paris

1762 Spain acquires Louisiana

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1783 George Washington orders Continental Army disbanded

First US President George Washington — First US President
George Washington

US General Nathanael Greene — US General
Nathanael Greene

1783 John Austin, a footpad turned murderer, is the last to be publicly hanged at London's Tyburn gallows
1791 Battle at Wabash: Indians assault general St Clair, 637 soldiers killed

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

Playwright and Revolutionary Olympe de Gouges — Playwright and Revolutionary
Olympe de Gouges

1794 French troops conquer Maastricht

Election of Interest

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

2nd US President John Adams — 2nd US President
John Adams

Victory in Battle

1812 Napoleonic armies defeated at Vyazma

French Emperor Napoléon Bonaparte — French Emperor
Napoléon Bonaparte

1813 US troops under General Coffee annihilate the Red Stick Creek Indian village at Tallasseehatchee, Alabama
1820 Cuenca (Santa Ana de los Ríos de Cuenca), Ecuador, declares independence
1838 The Times of India, world's largest circulated English language daily broadsheet newspaper founded as The Bombay Times and Journal of Commerce
1839 First Opium War - 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 Palace of Gulhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 Johan Thorbeckes revises the Constitution of the Netherlands
1856 A British fleet bombards Canton

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

Poet & Critic Matthew Arnold — Poet & Critic
Matthew Arnold

1861 Battle of Port Royal, fought in Port Royal Sound, South Carolina begins, Union victory (US Civil War)
1862 Battle until the 5th November between gunboats at Bayou Teche, a waterway in Louisiana
1863 Battle of Grand Coteau in Southwestern Louisiana in the American Civil War

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

Unifier of Italy Giuseppe Garibaldi — Unifier of Italy
Giuseppe Garibaldi

1868 John Willis Menard from Louisiana is elected the first black US Congressman (opposition to his election means he never sits in Congress)

Election of Interest

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

Union General and US President Ulysses S. Grant — Union General and US President
Ulysses S. Grant

1869 Canada's Hamilton Football Club forms
1874 James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 Race riots kill 4 blacks in Danville Virginia
1883 US Supreme Court decides federal courts have no jurisdiction over Native American tribal Council (Ex parte Crow Dog)
1883 American Old West: Self-described "Black Bart the poet" gets away with his last stagecoach robbery, but leaves an incriminating clue that eventually leads to his capture
1885 Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 Friars of Tilburg arrives on Curacao
1889 Chaplain Ariëns founds first Roman Catholic Workers group

Royal Coronation

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

Emperor of Ethiopia Menelik II — Emperor of Ethiopia
Menelik II

1896 J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female state senator in the US

Election of Interest

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

25th US President William McKinley — 25th US President
William McKinley

US Secretary of State William Jennings Bryan — US Secretary of State
William Jennings Bryan

1900 First US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 Colombia grants independence to Panama
1903 Giovanni Giolitti becomes Prime Minister of Italy; a progressive liberal, he will hold his post through most of the next decade and introduce social, agrarian and labor reforms

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

1906 International Radiotelegraph Conference in Berlin selects "SOS" (· · · – – – · · ·) distress signal as the worldwide standard for help

Election of Interest

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

27th US President William Howard Taft — 27th US President
William Howard Taft

Model T

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

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1913 1st modern elastic brassiere is patented by New York socialite Mary Phelps Jacob
1916 Treaty establishes British suzerainty over Qatar
1917 1st class US mail now costs 3 cents per ounce
1918 Austro-Hungarian Empire dissolves
1918 Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1918 Thousands of revolutionary German sailors with the fleet at Kiel mutiny, seize the city, and set up councils of workers and sailors
1922 Greek parliament bans Prince Andreas for life
1927 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley, Vermont
1928 Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 First vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens

Event of Interest

1930 Bank of Italy renamed Bank of America

Banker and Entrepreneur Amadeo Giannini — Banker and Entrepreneur
Amadeo Giannini

Coup d'état

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

President and Dictator of Brazil Getulio Vargas — President and Dictator of Brazil
Getulio Vargas

1931 First commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 George II returns to Greece after 12 years and regains monarchy

Election of Interest

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

32nd US President Franklin D. Roosevelt — 32nd US President
Franklin D. Roosevelt

1939 Clare Booth's "Margin for Error" premieres in NYC

Attack on Pearl Harbor

1941 Hirohito's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails

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*USS Arizona ablaze and sinking after the attack on Pearl Harbor*

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1942 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault

1942 William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North Holland
1944 Allied commandos land at Westkapelle, on the Dutch island of Walcheren
1944 German troops in Vlissingen surrender
1944 Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt Hurtgenwald

Event of Interest

1946 Emperor Hirohito proclaims a new Japanese constitution

Emperor of Japan Hirohito — Emperor of Japan
Hirohito

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1952 Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas

Inventor Clarence Birdseye — Inventor
Clarence Birdseye

1952 Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 First live color US coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe

Polio

1955 Scientists Carlton E. Schwerdt and Fred L. Schaffer announce they have crystallized the pure polio virus, meaning they can better determine the virus' chemical and biological properties

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Children with polio in a US hospital, inside an iron lung. In about 0.5% of cases, patients suffered from paralysis, sometimes resulting in the inability to breathe. More often, limbs would be paralyzed.

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1955 First virus crystallized (announced)

Event of Interest

1955 Argentine ex-president Juan Perón arrives in Nicaragua

General and President of Argentina Juan Perón — General and President of Argentina
Juan Perón

1955 Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 Suez Crisis: After several days of fighting, Israeli forces capture the Gaza Strip

Space Dog Laika Launched to her Death

1957 Soviet Union launches Sputnik 2 with space dog Laika aboard, a mostly-Siberian husky, the 1st animal in space

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*Laika in her space box, from which she was never to emerge*

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1958 USSR performs nuclear test

Election of Interest

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

1st Prime Minister of Israel David Ben-Gurion — 1st Prime Minister of Israel
David Ben-Gurion

1960 Ivory Coast adopts constitution

Election of Interest

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

Secretary-General of the United Nations Dag Hammarskjöld — Secretary-General of the United Nations
Dag Hammarskjöld

1962 USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR

Election of Interest

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

36th US President Lyndon B. Johnson — 36th US President
Lyndon B. Johnson

US Vice President Hubert Humphrey — US Vice President
Hubert Humphrey

1964 For 1st time since 1800, residents of Washington, D.C. permitted to vote
1967 Vietnam War: The Battle of Dak To begins, becoming one of the bloodiest battles of the war

Election of Interest

1968 Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon

US Senator Bob Packwood — US Senator
Bob Packwood

1968 Ex-Prime Minister of Greece Georgios Papandreou buried. 300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1969 Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium

Event of Interest

1970 US President Richard Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam

37th US President Richard Nixon — 37th US President
Richard Nixon

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1970 Marxist Salvador Allende inaugurated as President of Chile

Marxist and President of Chile Salvador Allende — Marxist and President of Chile
Salvador Allende

1971 "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1973 Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1975 U.S. advice columnist for "Good Housekeeping" Ann Landers asks parents in a mail-in survey "‘If you had it to do over again, would you have children?" 70% of participants say no
1978 Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 Five people mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 Moroccan offensive against Polisario Front
1980 Ianford Wilson's "5th of July" premieres in NYC
1983 Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)

1984 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India

Assassination

1984 Body of assassinated Indian Prime Minister Indira Gandhi cremated

4th Prime Minister of India Indira Gandhi — 4th Prime Minister of India
Indira Gandhi

1985 President Alfonsín's Radical Burgerunie wins in Argentine legislative elections
1986 Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Association with US
1986 Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1986 Northern Mariana Islands becomes a Commonwealth associated with US
1987 On Wall Street, after 5 consecutive gains, Dow Jones down 50.56

Historic Invention

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

Physicist Gordon Gould — Physicist
Gordon Gould

1988 Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane

Event of Interest

1988 President Reagan signs credit-card disclosure-bill

US President & Actor Ronald Reagan — US President & Actor
Ronald Reagan

1988 Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1989 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1990 Gro Harlem Brundtland is installed as Prime Minister of Norway
1990 MLB club owners agree to pay players $280 million in damages under a settlement to close aftermath of the owners' 3-year conspiracy case against free agents; largest owner-to-player payment ever made in sports

Election of Interest

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

42nd US President Bill Clinton — 42nd US President
Bill Clinton

41st US President George H. W. Bush — 41st US President
George H. W. Bush

1992 Carol Moseley-Braun elected first African-American woman in US Senate, representing Illinois
1994 Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 Susan Smith who claimed her two children were carjacked arrested for murder

1994 Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
1994 First PlayStation console released by Sony Interactive Entertainment in Japan
1997 California law ends affirmative action
2004 With no sign the lockout of its players will end in the near future, the National Hockey League cancels 2005 All-Star Game scheduled for February in Atlanta

Event of Interest

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

General and 10th President of Pakistan Pervez Musharraf — General and 10th President of Pakistan
Pervez Musharraf

2012 Syrian rebels launch a major assault on Taftanaz airbase
2013 8 people are killed and 10 are injured after a turboprop plane crashes in northern Bolivia
2013 6 people are killed after an overcrowded ferry sinks in Pattaya, Thailand

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

8th Secretary-General of the United Nations Ban Ki-moon — 8th Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon

9/11 Attack on New York's World Trade Towers

2014 New York's 104-storey One World Trade Center officially opens 13 years after the September 11 attacks

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*UA Flight 175 flies toward the South Tower of the World Trade Center while the North Tower burns*

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2015 Game Maker Activision Blizzard (Call of Duty) buys King.com (Candy Crush) for $5.9 billion
2017 Pakistani woman charged with poisoning 17 members of husband's family in attempt to escape forced marriage in Punjab Province
2018 Truck loses control hitting 31 cars and killing at least 15 people near a tollbooth in Lanzhou, China
2019 Delhi reaches worst pollution levels of the year, over 900 AQI, with authorities declaring public health emergency
2019 Saudi Arabia's state-owned oil producer Saudi Aramco, the world's most profitable company, announces its plans to go public
2020 Hurricane Eta makes landfall in Nicaragua as a Category Four storm with winds of 140 km, killing at least 235 people across Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico and Panama
2020 Australia's Melbourne Cup won by Twilight Payment