Historical Events and Current Affairs on November 3

1394 : Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1493 : Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1527 : Ferdinand of Austria/Bohemia chosen as king of Hungary
1529 : London] 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 : English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1620 : Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1629 : Prince Frederik Hendrik festival in The Hague
1640 : English Long Parliament forms
1655 : England & France sign miltary & economic treaties
1656 : Treaty of Vilnius Russia/Poland sign anti-Swedish covenant [NS]
1676 : Kara Mustafa succeeds Ahmed K?pr?l? as Turkish grand vizier
1679 : Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1716 : Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees
1716 : Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1752 : Georg Friedrich H?ndel undergoes (failed) eye operation
1760 : Battle at Torgau, Saxony: Prussia beats Austria
1762 : England & Spain signs Treaty of Paris
1762 : Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 : Washington orders Continental Army disbanded
1791 : Battle at Wabash: indians assault general St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1794 : French troops conquer Maastricht
1796 : John Adams elected president
1813 : US troops under gen Coffee destroy indian village at Talladega Ala
1820 : Cuenca Ecuador declares independence
1839 : 1st opium war-2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1839 : Palace of G?lhane Turkey, freedom of religion proclaimed
1848 : Johan Thorbeckes revises Great Force
1862 : Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
1862 : Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis)
1863 : Battle of Grand Coteau, GA
1867 : Battle at Mentana: French/pontifical troops beat Garibaldi
1868 : 1st black elected to Congress (John W Menard, Louisiana)
1868 : Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1869 : Canada's Hamilton Foot Ball Club forms
1871 : Henry M Stanley in Tanganyka say "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
1874 : James Theodore Holly, elected bishop of Haiti
1883 : Race riots in Danville Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 : US Supreme Court decides Native Americans can't be Americans
1885 : Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1886 : Friars of Tilburg arrives on Cura?ao
1888 : Amsterdam: 1st concerto of Concert worker, under Willem Kes
1888 : In London, Jack the Ripper murdered his last victim
1889 : Chaplain Ari?ns founds 1st roman catholic workers group
1896 : J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 : Martha Hughes Cannon of Utah elected 1st female senator
1896 : William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1900 : 1st US automobile show opens at Madison Square Garden (NYC)
1903 : Colombia grants Panama independence
1908 : William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1916 : Treaty establishes British suzerainity over Qatar
1917 : 1st class mail now costs 3? per ounce
1918 : Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 : Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 : "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1922 : Greek parliament bans prince Andreas for life
1926 : 15th party congress CPSU ends/5 year plan begins
1926 : Ty Cobb resigns as Detroit Tigers manager
1927 : 22.3 cm rainfall at Somerset, Vermont (state record)
1927 : Rodgers & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC
1927 : Tropical storm flooding kills 84 in Winooski River Valley (Vt)
1928 : Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1930 : 1st vehicular tunnel to a foreign country (Detroit-Windsor) opens
1930 : Bank of Italy becomes Bank of America
1931 : 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1935 : George II returns to Greece & regains monarchy
1936 : President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1939 : Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC
1941 : Hirohiti's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 : 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1942 : William L Dawson elected to Congress from Chicago
1943 : Dmitri Sjostakovitch's 8th Symphony premieres in Moscow
1943 : P-47D Thunderbolt shot down above North-Holland
1944 : Allied commando's lands at Westkapelle Walcheren
1944 : German troops in Vlissingen surrenders
1944 : Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1944 : US 28th Infantry division occupies Schmidt H?rtgenwald
1946 : Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 : Chicago Tribune reports: "Dewey beats Truman"
1952 : Clarence Birdseye markets frozen peas
1952 : Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1953 : 1939 sacrifice fly rule restored: no time at bat for sac fly
1953 : 1st live color coast-to-coast telecast (NYC)
1954 : Linus Pauling wins Nobel Chemistry Prize
1954 : Nobel for physics awarded to Max Born & Walter Bothe
1955 : 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 : Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 : Argentine ex-president Per?n arrives in Nicaragua
1955 : Australia takes control of Cocos Islands
1955 : Bernardus J Alfrink installed as archbishop of Utrecht
1956 : "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 : USSR launches Sputnik 2 with a dog (Laika), 1st animal in orbit
1958 : USSR performs nuclear test
1959 : Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election)
1960 : "Unsinkable Molly Brown" opens at Winter Garden NYC for 532 perfs
1960 : Ivory Coast adopts constitution
1960 : Pittsburgh Pirates' Vern Law wins Cy Young Award
1960 : Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in NYC
1961 : General Assembly unanimously elects U Thant acting secretary general
1962 : USSR performs nuclear test at Novaya Zemlya USSR
1964 : LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for pres
1964 : Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1965 : Sandy Koufax wins NL Cy Young Award unanimously
1967 : Boston's Jim Lonborg wins AL Cy Young
1968 : Bob Packwood is elected senator of Oregon
1968 : Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
1969 : Congo president Mobutu visits Belgium
1970 : "President's Daughter" opens at Billy Rose Theater NYC for 72 perfs
1970 : Bob Gibson wins NL Cy Young Award
1970 : Pres Nixon promises gradual troop removal of Vietnam
1970 : Salvador Allende inaugurated as president of Chile
1971 : "Play Misty For Me" premieres
1973 : Good Morning America premieres on ABC (David Hartman & Nancy Dussault)
1973 : Mariner 10 launched-1st Venus pics, 1st mission to Mercury
1974 : "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
1978 : 1st broadcast of "Diff'rent strokes" on NBC TV
1978 : Dominica gains independence from UK & adopts constitution
1978 : USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 : 5 mortally wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC
1979 : 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1979 : Marocco offensive against Polisario
1980 : Ianford Wilsons "5th of July," premieres in NYC
1980 : Walter Hass Jr becomes CEO of Oakland A's
1981 : Brewers reliever Rollie Fingers wins AL Cy Young Award
1982 : Pete Vuckovich becomes Milwaukee's 2nd consecutive AL Cy Young
1983 : Jesse Jackson launches his 1st campaign for presidency (D)
1983 : Nashville Network begins on cable TV
1984 : 3,000 die in 3 day anti-Sikh riot in India
1984 : Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 : Federated States of Micronesia signs Compact of Free Assn with US
1986 : Joaquim Chissano elected president Mozambique
1986 : John Lennon releases "Menlove Avenue" album
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
1988 : Pakistan claims it downed Afghan warplane
1988 : 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
1988 : with skinheads at TV taping
1989 : 100s of Bulgarian demonstrate in Sofia for democratic rights
1989 : Lou Piniella is named manager of the Reds, replacing banned Pete Rose
1990 : Gro Harlem Brundtland installed as premier of Norway
1992 : Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over Pres Bush (R)
1992 : Carol Moseley Brown elected 1st black female in US Senate
1993 : Ken Daneyko sets NJ Devil 'Ironman' record by playing 322nd cons game
1994 : Atlantis 13 launched
1994 : Dutch & British astronomers find spiral nebula Dwingeloo 1
1994 : Space shuttle STS-66 (Atlantis 13), launches
1994 : Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder
1994 : Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
1994 : Y Shimizu & T Urata discover asteroid #7032
1996 : "It's a Slippery Slope," opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC
1997 : Boston shortstop Nomar Garciaparra is 6th unanimous AL Rookie of Year
1997 : Calif law ends affirmative-action
1997 : Phillies 3rd baseman Scott Rolen selected unanimous Rookie of Year

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