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Today in History ~ November 3
Independence Day, celebrated in Panama.
Events1394 - Jews are expelled from France by Charles VI
1493 - Christopher Columbus discovers island of Dominica
1529 - London -- 1st sitting of the Reformation Parliament
1534 - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: with Henry VIII church leader
1620 - Great Patent granted to Plymouth Colony
1640 - English Long Parliament assembles
1679 - Great panic occurs in Europe over close approach of a comet
1716 - Pacification Treaty of Warsaw: Czar Peter the Great guarantees Saxon monarch August I's Polish kingdom
1752 - Georg Friedrich Handel undergoes (failed) eye surgery
1762 - Spain acquires Louisiana
1783 - Washington orders Continental Army disbanded from its cantonment at New Windsor, NY, where it had remained since defeating Cornwallis in 1781
1791 - Battle at Wabash: Indians assault Gen St Clair/killed 637 soldiers
1796 - John Adams elected president
1813 - US troops under Gen Coffee destroy Indian village at Talladega Ala
1839 - 1st opium war -- 2 British frigates engage several Chinese junks
1862 - Battle between gunboats at Bayou Teche, Louisiana
1862 - Dr Richard Gatling patents machine gun (Indianapolis) [H]
1868 - Ulysses Grant (R) wins presidential election over Horatio Seymour (D)
1871 - Henry M Stanley in Tanganyka says "Dr Livingstone, I presume?"
1883 - Race riots in Danville, Virginia (4 blacks killed)
1883 - US Supreme Court decides Indian Americans can't be Americans
1883 - Black Bart makes his last stagecoach robbery [H]
1885 - Tacoma vigilantes drive out Chinese, burn their homes & businesses
1888 - In London, Jack the Ripper murders his last victim, passing into folk lore and speculation that persists to the present time
1896 - J H Hunter patents portable weighing scales
1896 - William McKinley (R) defeats William Jennings Bryan (D) for president
1900 - First US National Automobile Show Held
1903 - Panama gains it's independence from Columbia.
1908 - William Howard Taft (R) elected 27th pres over William Jennings Bryan
1918 - Austro-Hungarian Empire disolves
1918 - Poland proclaims independence from Russia after WW I
1920 - "Emperor Jones" opens at Provincetown Theater
1927 - Rodgers' & Hart's musical "Connecticut Yankee," premieres in NYC
1928 - Mickey Mouse debuts [H]
1928 - Turkey switches from Arabic to Roman alphabet
1931 - 1st commercially produced synthetic rubber manufactured
1936 - President FDR (D) wins landslide victory over Alfred M Landon (R)
1939 - Clare Booth's "Margin for Error," premieres in NYC
1941 - Hirohito's accord on Yamamoto's attack plan on Pearl Harbor fails
1942 - 12th day of battle at El Alamein: Scottish assault
1944 - Pro-German government of Hungary flees
1946 - Emperor Hirohito proclaims new Japanese constitution
1948 - The Chicago Tribune printed the headline "Dewey defeats Truman." Later votes threw the election in the opposite direction. And later editions of other papers ran pictures showing Truman holding up the Tribune and grinning ear to ear.
1952 - Egypt protests German retribution payments to Israel
1954 - US Chemist Linus Pauling won the Nobel Chemistry Prize.
1955 - 1st virus crystallized (announced)
1955 - Alabama woman bruised by a meteor
1955 - Argentine ex-president Peron arrives in Nicaragua
1956 - "Wizard of Oz" 1st televised (CBS-TV)
1957 - The USSR launches the first animal, a dog named Laika, into space aboard the Sputnik 2.
1959 - Ben-Gurion's Mapai-party wins Israeli parliamentary election
1960 - Tammy Grimes' "Unsinkable Molly Brown," premieres in NYC
1964 - LBJ (D) soundly defeats Barry Goldwater (R) for President with a margin larger than in any previous presidential election
1964 - Phila voters approve $25 million to build a new sports stadium
1968 - Ex-premier Papandreou buried/300,000 demonstrate against fascist junta
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)
1974 - "Lorelei" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 320 performances
1976 - Former Democratic Gov. Jimmy Carter of Georgia was elected 39th president, defeating Republican incumbent Gerald Ford.
1978 - USSR & Vietnam sign peace & friendship treaty
1979 - 5 mortally wounded and 8 wounded during anti-Ku Klux Klan demonstration in NC. Named 'The Greensboro Massacre', the five marchers are shot to death in broad daylight by a group of Klansmen and neo-Nazis.
1979 - 63 Americans taken hostage at US Embassy (Teheran, Iran)
1980 - Lanford 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
1984 - Body of assassinated Indian PM Indira Gandhi cremated
1986 - Lebanese magazine Ash Shirra reveals secret US arms sales to Iran
1988 - Soviet Union agrees to allow teaching of Hebrew
1988 - Talk-show host Geraldo Rivera's nose is broken as Roy Innis brawls with skinheads at TV taping
1989 - A Lebanese magazine reports that the United States has been secretly selling arms to Iran
1992 - Bill Clinton (D) wins US presidential election over Pres Bush (R)
1994 - Susan Smith who claimed her 2 kids were carjacked arrested for murder [H]
1994 - Total solar eclipse in South America (4m23s)
1995 - Typhoon Angela killed more than 700 people in the northern Philippines.
1997 - California law ends affirmative-action
1997 - Opening statements were made in Denver in the Oklahoma City bombing trial of Terry Nichols, accused of collaborating with Timothy McVeigh in the bombing of the federal building which killed 168 people.
2001 - Osama bin Laden, in a taped message, called the U.S. led attack on Afghanistan a war against Islam.
2001 - Anthrax spores were confirmed in India and Pakistan and on additional postal equipment in the United States as the FBI continued its so far futile search of the area in New Jersey it believes may be the source, following up thousands of tips from citizens.
2002 - North Korea was reported ready to negotiate its newly disclosed nuclear weapons program with the United States, including the dismantling of its uranium-enrichment facilities.
Birthdays Today
0039 - Lucan, Cordova Spain, Latin poet (Bellum Civile)
1470 - Edward V, King of England (Apr 9-Jun 25 1483)
1587 - Samuel Scheidt, composer
1611 - Henry Ireton, English general/MP (Edgehill)
1718 - John Montague (4th Earl of Sandwich; inventor: the sandwich; England's 1st Lord of the Admiralty, Secretary of State of the Northern Dept., Postmaster General; Sandwich Islands [Hawaii] named after him)
1793 - Stephen Austin (principal founder of Texas; capital city, Austin, named after him; Texas Secretary of State)
1794 - William Cullen Bryant (poet: Thanatopsis, To a Waterfowl, A Forest Hymn, The Prairies; editor: NY Evening Post)
1801 - Karl Baedeker, Germany, published travel books
1801 - Vincenzo Bellini, Italian opera composer (La Sonnambula, Norma)
1815 - Adrien Louis Victor Boieldieu, composer
1816 - Jubal Anderson Early, Lt General (Confederate Army), died in 1891
1901 - Andre Malraux, [Berger], France, novelist/art historian (L'Espoir)
1903 - Walker Evans, US, photographer (Fortune Magazine)
1908 - Bronko (Bronislaw) Nagurski (Pro Football Hall of Famer: charter member: Chicago Bears: rushed for over 4,000 yards; world champion wrestler [1938]; College Football Hall of Famer: University of Minnesota)
1908 - Bronko Nagurski, NFL fullback (Chicago Bears)
1909 - James "Scotty" Barrett Reston, Clydebank Scotld, journalist (NY Times)
1909 - James Reston (journalist)
1912 - Alfredo Stroessner, dictator of Paraguay (1954-89)
1918 - Bob Feller (Baseball Hall of Famer: Cleveland Indians pitcher: won 266 games in 18 seasons: 3 no-hitters, 12 one-hitters; World Series [1948])
1921 - Charles Bronson (Buchinsky) (actor: Death Wish series, The Magnificent Seven, The Dirty Dozen, The Valachi Papers, Sandpiper, Raid on Entebbe, Miss Sadie Thompson, Battle of the Bulge, House of Wax, You're in
the Army Now; husband of actress, Jill Ireland)
1928 - Wanda Hendrix (actress, My Outlaw Brother, The Admiral was a Lady, Welcome Stranger)
1930 - Ken Berry (actor: Mayberry R.F.D., F Troop, Mama's Family, The Bob Newhart Show, The Ann Sothern Show, Herbie Rides Again; singer, dancer)
1931 - Peggy McCay (TV panelist: Who's the Boss?)
1933 - Michael Dukakis (politician: Governor of Massachusetts; U.S. Presidential nominee [1988])
1933 - Monica Vitti (Ceciarelli) (actress: Immortal Bachelor, Tigers in Lipstick, Am Almost Perfect Affair, Blonde in Black Leather, The Red Desert)
1934 - John Barry (Academy Award-winning composer: soundtracks: Born Free [1966]; The Lion in Winter [1968], Out of Africa [1985], Dances with Wolves [1990], The Cotton Club, The Day of the Locust, Eleanor & Franklin, Indecent Proposal, Midnight Cowboy, Peggy Sue Got Married, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Shampoo, Somewhere in Time, James Bond movies, The Persuaders theme)
1935 - Jeremy Brett, Berkswell England, actor (Adventures of Sherlock Holmes)
1939 - Terrence McNally, St Petersburg Fla, playwright (Bad Habits, Master Class)
1945 - Steve Landesberg (actor: Barney Miller, Paul Sand in Friends and Lovers, Dean Martin Presents, Sodbusters, Mission of the Shark, Final Notice, Leader of the Band)
1948 - Lulu (Marie Lawrie) (singer: To Sir with Love, Boom Bang-A-Bang, Oh Me Oh My [I'm a Fool for You Baby], I Could Never Miss You)
1948 - Tom Shales, TV critic (Washington Post)
1949 - Larry Holmes (boxer: heavyweight: WBC Champ [1978-1985])
1953 - Dennis Miller (Emmy Award-winning writer: Dennis Miller Live [1993-94, 1995-96]; producer-writer: HBO: Dennis Miller: Citizen Arcane [1995-96]; The Dennis Miller Show, Saturday Night Live, The Net, Disclosure, Madhouse)
1953 - Roseanne Barr (Arnold) (Emmy Award-winning actress: Roseanne [1992-93], Funny, She-Devil; co producer: The Jackie Thomas Show; author: My Life as a Woman, My Lives)
1954 - Adam Ant (Stuart Goddard) (singer: Goody Two Shoes, Prince Charming, Stand and Deliver, Apollo Nine)
1954 - Godzilla, Japanese monster (Godzilla)
1956 - Phil Simms (football: New York Giants quarterback: Super Bowl XXI)
1961 - Lee Montgomery (actor: Girls Just Want to Have Fun, Pete and Tillie, Ben)
Famous deaths
0361 - Flavius Julius Constantius II, 1st Byzantine Emperor, dies at 44
1639 - Martinus de Porres, Peru saint (patron of social justice), dies at 69
1711 - Ferdinand Tobias Richter, composer, dies at 60
1803 - Henri Moreau, composer, dies at 75
1891 - Louis L Bonaparte, English/French linguist/senator, dies at 78
1926 - Annie Oakley, US sharp shooting star, dies at 66
1949 - Solomon R Guggenheim, US art collector, dies at 88
1954 - Henri E B Matisse, French painter/sculptor (Dance II), dies at 84
1957 - Wilhelm Reich, Austria/US psychoanalyst (sexual), dies at 60
1990 - Mary Martin, actress (Peter Pan), dies of cancer at 76
1993 - Leon Theremin, electronic musical instruments inventor, dies at 97
1996 - Jean-Bedel Bokassa, dictator of Cent Africa Rep (1967-79), dies at 75
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