Events that happened today in history, Nov 3rd!

Some of the great historical events that happened today in history, on November 3rd!

1493	Christopher Columbus arrives at the Caribbee Isles (Dominica) during his second expedition.
1507	Leonardo da Vinci is commissioned to paint Lisa Gherardini (“Mona Lisa”).
1529	The first parliament for five years opens in England and the Commons put forward bills against abuses amongst the clergy and in the church courts.
1794	Thomas Paine is released from a Parisian jail with help from the American ambassador James Monroe. He was arrested for having offended the Robespierre faction.
1813	American troops destroy the Indian village of Tallushatchee in the Mississippi Valley.
1839	The first Opium War between China and Britain broke out.
1868	Ulysses S. Grant elected the 18th president of the United States.
1883	A poorly trained Egyptian army, led by British General William Hicks, marches toward El Obeid in the Sudan–straight into a Mahdist ambush and massacre.
1883	The U.S. Supreme Court declares American Indians to be “dependent aliens.”
1892	First automatic telephone exchange goes into operation in La Porte, Indiana.
1896	William McKinley is elected 25th president of the United States.
1903	Panama proclaimed its independence from Colombia.
1908	Republican William Howard Taft was elected president, outpolling William Jennings Bryan.
1911	The Chevrolet Motor Car Co. was founded in Detroit by Louis Chevrolet and William C. Durant.
1912	The first all-metal plane flies near Issy, France, piloted by Ponche and Prinard.
1918	The German fleet at Kiel mutinies. This is the first act leading to Germany’s capitulation in World War I.
1921	Milk drivers on strike dump thousands of gallons of milk onto New York City’s streets.
1935	Left-wing groups in France form the Socialist and Republican Union.
1936	President Franklin D. Roosevelt was re-elected in a landslide over Republican Alfred M. “Alf” Landon.
1957	The Soviet Union launched into orbit Sputnik 2, the second manmade satellite; a dog on board named Laika was sacrificed in the experiment.
1964	Lyndon B. Johnson is elected the 36th president of the United States.
1964	Robert Kennedy, brother of the slain president, is elected as a senator from New York.
1970	Salvador Allende was inaugurated as president of Chile.
1983	Jesse Jackson announces his candidacy for the office of president of the United States.
1986	A Lebanese magazine broke the story of U.S. arms sales to Iran, a revelation that escalated into the Iran-Contra affair.
1992	Democrat Bill Clinton was elected the 42nd president of the United States, defeating President George H.W. Bush.
1992	Illinois Democrat Carol Moseley-Braun became the first African-American woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
1994	Susan Smith of Union, S.C., was arrested for drowning her two young sons, nine days after claiming the children had been abducted by a black man. (Smith is serving life in prison.)
2004	Hamid Karzai was declared the winner of Afghanistan’s first-ever presidential election.
2005	Vice President Dick Cheney’s former chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, pleaded not guilty to a five-count felony indictment in the CIA leak case. (Libby was convicted, but President George W. Bush commuted his 30-month prison sentence.)
2009	Maine residents narrowly voted down a same-sex marriage law.
2010	The Federal Reserve announced a plan to buy $600 billion in Treasury bonds over the next eight months in an attempt to boost lending and stimulate economy.

Today’s historical facts are from various sites including, but not limited too: the History Channel, The New York Times, WHG Historynet.com, HistoryOrb.com, and On This Day blogs from my blogroll.

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